Manor Lords GuideTHE COUNCIL COMPANION
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Manor Lords Guide: Rule well.
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Everything a lord needs on the second screen: 218 field-tested tips, a live settlement planner, and the building atlas — drawn from the game's own data, current to Beta 0.8.097.

Ask the council

The six questions every lord asks

How much food before winter?Six months banked by October — the planner sizes it for your family count. What is the best opening build order?Hitching post → ox → logging camp → granary → storehouse → first plot. Why won't my burgage plots upgrade?Unmet needs — church, market supply, fuel. Four tips explain the ladder. How do I actually earn influence?Bandit camps, church upgrades and settlement levels — roughly 350 a camp. What do I need to make this good?The Craftsman's Calculator solves any chain to buildings, families and inputs. What changed in the new Beta?Cows, cheese, oats, Construction Yard and Active Recipes — 20 tips.
Chapter I — The Tips

Organized by the decision, not the timestamp

First winter. First regiment. First trade route. Every tip sits under the choice you're actually facing, in fifteen chapters from the opening build order to the traps that end runs. Search, read one line, get back to the game.

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A Manor Lords village seen from above
A settlement worth defending. Layout and plots are covered in chapters III and VIII.
Farmland and burgage plots in autumn
0.5–0.7 morgen per field. The planner sizes your farmhouses, oxen and fields.
Chapter II — The Arithmetic

The math that kills villages, solved

How much food before October? How many tier-3 plots for a full regiment? What does a 10% tax actually raise? The Settlement Planner answers all of it at once, and nine quick tools answer one question each.

Open the planner

Chapter III — The Ledger

Every building and chain, from the game's own data

Costs, workplaces and production — pulled from the official wiki and refreshed each patch, with the game's own icons.

Building Atlas

Construction costs, workplaces and output for every catalogued building.

30 entries

Production Chains

Pick a good, get the full chain of buildings, families and raw inputs.

48 recipes

Beginner Guide

Families, the interface, plots and your first year — the fundamentals.

Start here

New in the Beta

Cows, cheese, oats, Construction Yard, Active Recipes.

43 tips · 0.8.097
Chapter IV — The Field Guides

Go deep on one system at a time

The whole field book is searchable in one place, but when you're solving a single problem — a failing harvest, an empty treasury, a militia that keeps losing — these pull the essentials for that system into one short read.

Farming & Fields

Field size, crop rotation, fertility pools and farmhouse staffing.

Food & Winter

The six-month stockpile deadline and why variety gates your upgrades.

Sheep & Livestock

Wool income, cows, winter feed and the Beta pasture changes.

Trade & Wealth

What to sell, why route costs climb, and when to barter instead.

Militia & Warfare

The cheap spear army, armour tiers and winning without losses.
Rule one

Winter is a deadline, not a season

Six months of food and fuel banked by October — everything else is negotiable. The guide exists so you never learn this the hard way twice.

Calculate your stockpile