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Construction materials in Manor Lords are required to build or upgrade structures in a settlement. These can be raw materials mined directly from the ground or processed goods for advanced construction.
Often, the only bottleneck to a settlement’s growth is the lack of materials needed for construction. If the mismanagement is severe enough, this shortage can spell doom for a campaign.
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How to Get All Construction Materials in Manor Lords
There are seven construction materials in Manor Lords:
Construction Material | Building | Cost to Build | How to Get | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Timber | Logging Camp | 2 Timber | Place a Logging Camp near a copse of trees, and workers will chop down wood to convert it into Timber. | Primary material for all basic buildings. |
Sawpit | 2 Timber | Assign a worker to a Sawpit, preferably near a Logging Camp, to transport Timber and make Planks. | Advanced buildings, Wooden Parts. | |
Stone | Stonecutter Camp | 2 Timber | Build a Stonecutter atop a Stone deposit. | Upgrading buildings, Advanced buildings. |
Wooden Parts | Joiner’s Workshop (Backyard Extension) | 4 Planks | Build a Joiner’s Workshop in a level 2 Burgage plot's backyard extension. Assign workers to create Wooden Parts (2 Planks = 1 Wooden Part). | Advanced buildings |
Smithy; Blacksmith’s Workshop (Backyard Extension) | 2 Timber; 5 Regional Wealth, 5 Planks | A Smithy converts Iron Slabs (created by processing Iron Ore at a Bloomery) into Tools. The Blacksmith’s Workshop also crafts tools but is more expensive. | ||
Clay Furnace | 2 Timber, 5 Stone | Build a Mining Pit on a Clay Deposit to obtain Clay. Convert Clay into Rooftiles at the Clay Furnace. | ||
Blocks | TBA | TBA | Can be imported for 16 Regional Wealth. | TBA |
Rooftiles, Tools, and Blocks require a major trade route to be purchased before they can be traded via the Trading Post . However, since players have no way of making or using Tools and Blocks in the current version, there is no reason to trade them.
How to Use Construction Materials in Manor Lords
While these materials are mainly used for construction, they also have other uses.
Construction Material | Uses |
|---|---|
Timber | Basic Buildings |
Planks | Backyard Extensions, Advanced Buildings (Church, Manor, etc.), Wooden Parts, Weapons |
Stone | Upgrading Buildings, Advanced Buildings |
Tools | TBA |
Wooden Parts | TBA |
Rooftiles | Upgrading to level 3 Burgage Plot, Upgrading to level 2 Church |
Blocks | TBA |
Timber can only be obtained by building a Logging Camp , which itself requires Timber to be built in the first place. The only way players will be able to build a Logging Camp to start Timber production is by using the Timber given to them at the start of the campaign in the unsheltered supplies . If no Logging Camp is built and all Timber is spent on the production of Burgage Plots or other buildings, players can get back the Timber (and other resources) spent for their construction by using the demolish function from the context menu. No settlement can work without a Logging Camp.
Manor Lords
- Platform(s)
- PC , Xbox One , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S
- Released
- April 26, 2024
- Developer(s)
- Slavic Magic
- Genre(s)
- Strategy , City Builder
