In Manor Lords, providing food and fuel is essential for the survival and prosperity of your villagers. Once these basic needs are met, you can focus on producing other goods such as clothing and ale. This guide will walk you through the process of producing ale, a crucial resource for upgrading burgage plots. To start, you need to grow barley.
Navigate to the construction menu and select the farming tab, then choose the ‘Field’ option to place a barley field on the best soil. It’s important to have a farmhouse placed as well. Once the barley field is set, villagers will undertake the farming process of plowing, sowing, harvesting, and storing the barley. Next, you’ll need to turn barley into malt using a malthouse, which can be found in the Industry tab of the construction menu.
The malthouse requires four timber to build and has two worker slots. To convert the malt into ale, you need to add the brewery extension to a level two burgage plot. This requires fulfilling specific requirements and adding the extension. Burgage plots with the brewery extension will automatically produce ale, which is then delivered to the tavern.
While you can buy ale from the trading post, it is quite expensive at 18 coins per unit. It is advisable to produce ale internally rather than relying solely on purchasing it. If you end up with a surplus of ale, you can sell it through established trade routes at a base price of 144 coins. Manor Lords is currently in Early Access on Steam, and the content is subject to change.
It is important to stay updated, as the information provided here may require adjustments.
