Manor Lords: The Best Items To Export & Trade

Manor Lords

By Joe Grantham

Published May 5, 2024

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Manor Lords

Highlights

Focus on exporting shoes, tools, and warbows for high profits in Manor Lords.
Utilize trade routes and assign families to manage inventory efficiently.
Make surplus bread in fertile regions and utilize deep mines for unlimited resources.

Once players have got their village up and running in Manor Lords, it won't be long till they can start exporting surplus goods to generate Regional Wealth. To start trading, players need to build a Trading Post and assign at least one family who will travel to trade destinations and manage the inventory. Hiring and assigning a horse to the Trading Post will also help speed up the entire process.

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Practically any food, resource, or goods can be traded, and to do so, players need to select the export option on the left-hand side and then set a minimum surplus value, so that the item in question is sold until the number is reached. Some items require trade routes to be set up, which costs an upfront amount of Regional Wealth, but even when this isn't necessary, it can be a good idea for goods that will be exported a lot, as a dedicated merchant from outside the village will transport them. In terms of the best items to export in Manor Lords, players should focus on goods that fetch a high price and are easy to produce.

1 Shoes

The Only Product Made Using Leather, So Players Will Have A Surplus

Export Price: 8
Trade Route Cost: 48
Produced: At the Cobbler's Workshop using Leather

It's likely that players will acquire lots of Hides even if they don't mean to, as hunters will produce them as a bonus to more desirable Meat. Hides are then turned into Leather at the Tannery, but the only current use for Leather is making them into Shoes at the Cobbler's Workshop.

Therefore, players will eventually end up with lots of Shoes, which will easily satisfy the requirements of higher-level villagers, helping the player maintain a high Approval Rating. Beyond what is needed, players can export the rest and fetch quite a high price.

2 Tools

No Current Use Other Than Trade

Export Price: 6
Trade Route Cost: 36
Produced: At the Smithy and Blacksmith's Workshop using Iron Slabs

As Manor Lords is in Early Access, many features are a work in progress, and thus some items currently serve no purpose other than as an export product. Tools are a good example of this, and as the only product made at the Smithy, players can manufacture lots of them to sell.

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Tools are also produced at a Blacksmith's Workshop, a Backyard Extension in Manor Lords. While players will often want to make weapons here for their militia, the fact that Tools only require Iron Slabs and nothing else means players will want to manually assign them to be made, when supplies are missing for Planks. Naturally, Tools are best made in a region with a rich Iron deposit.

3 Warbows

The Only Product Of The Fletcher's Workshop & Sell For A Good Price

Export Price: 5
Trade Route Cost: 30
Produced: By Fletcher's from 4 Planks

Once players have figured out how to run the Sawpit efficiently in Manor Lords, they will be able to churn out lots of Planks. These Planks have plenty of uses, especially in construction, but they can also be used to produce Warbows at the Fletcher's Workshop. This workshop is a Backyard Extension and like other workshops, it requires the Burgage Plot to be at least level 2.

If players have a militia unit of archers, they will naturally want to provide them with enough bows, but beyond that, all Warbows can be exported at the Trading Post for a good price. As with any commodity though, players will want to watch out for the market becoming oversupplied with specific items, as the export price goes down. Therefore, sometimes it can be a good idea to hit the pause button on the Fletcher's Workshop.

4 Bread

If The Region Has Good Fertility, Players Can Make Lots Of Surplus Bread

Export Price: 4
Trade Route Cost: 24
Produced: From Flour in Communal Ovens or Bakery Extensions, after Wheat has been threshed into Grain

Not every region is good for farming in Manor Lords, but when players spawn in a location with high fertility for Wheat, they can eventually produce an exceptional amount of bread, the surplus of which can be exported for a solid price.

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To produce Bread from Wheat, players will first need their farm workers to thresh the Wheat into Grain, and this Grain can then be taken to the Windmill to be turned into Flour. In terms of cooking the bread, most players will use the Communal Ovens, but dipping into the Bakeries Development Point unlocks new Backyard Extensions that are capable of cooking Bread much faster. For players interested in exporting Bread, this is definitely an upgrade they should aim for, especially as it requires the Heavy Plow to be unlocked first, which is crucial for farming large fields.

5 Any Resource From A Rich Deposit With A Deep Mine

A Deep Mine Ensures Unlimited Supply Of A Resource

In some ways, the best items to trade in Manor Lords depend on the region players spawn in and what resources are available to them. For example, a region that has a rich Iron deposit, paired with the Deep Mining Development Point, can produce infinite Iron Ore, which can be processed into Iron Slabs at the Bloomeries, and then made into all manner of items.

Players could export the Iron Slabs without any further processing, or to keep the market more balanced, they could export all the Iron products. While Stone can't currently be made into anything, and Clay can only be made into Roof Tiles, these are nonetheless good resources to trade when the player has an unlimited supply.