Production Chains

Every good is a chain of bottlenecks, not a single building

Almost nothing in Manor Lords comes from one building. Bread needs a farmhouse to grow grain, a windmill to mill flour, and a bakery to bake it. Three separate buildings, each staffed by its own families, each capped at its own output rate. Ale needs barley grown, malted, then brewed. Even a single spear traces back through a mining pit, a bloomery and a smithy before it reaches a militiaman's hands. The Craftsman's Calculator above walks that whole tree for you. Pick a good and a target quantity. It resolves every upstream building, the monthly throughput each stage has to carry, and what raw resources (grain, ore, clay, wool) the chain consumes.

The number that matters is chain depth: how many production stages sit between your raw resource and the finished good. A shallow chain (firewood, planks) is forgiving. One bottlenecked building slows that one good and nothing else. A deep chain (mail armor: ore → slabs → tools/parts → armor) means one understaffed link stalls everything above it. Building the top of a chain before the bottom is the most common way new players end up with a bakery that never bakes.

Every chain, drawn

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Every producer

Hover or tab to a building name for its cost, worker slots and inputs. Rows marked no atlas entry yet are buildings the game has and the wiki has never catalogued, so they carry staffing and recipe but no build cost.

BloomeryCost1 Timber6 PlanksSlots2 maxStores50 genericNeedsIron Ore→Iron Slabs

Charcoal KilnCost2 timberSlots3 maxStores50 genericNeedsFirewood→Charcoal

Clay FurnaceCost1 Timber6 Planks8 Rubble StoneSlots5 maxStores250 genericNeedsClay→Rooftiles

FarmhouseCost3 timberSlots8 maxNeedsWheat · Rye→Crops

FieldStoresVariable→Crops

Fishermans HutCost2 TimberSlots3 maxStores50 pantry→CarpsEel

Forager hutCost1 TimberSlots4 maxStores50 pantry→BerriesHerbs (with upgrade)

Hunting campSlots3 max→MeatHides

Logging campSlots3 max→Timber

MalthouseCost2 Timber6 Planks12 Rubble StoneSlots2 maxStores12 generic · 100 pantryNeedsBarley→Malt

Mining pitCost4 PlanksSlots4 maxStores50 generic→Iron oreClaySalt

PastureStoresVariable→Wool

SawpitCost2 TimberSlots1 maxStores50 generic · 5 log storageNeedsTimber→Planks

Sheep farmCost2 Timber6 PlanksSlots3 maxStores50 generic · 5 livestock→Wool

Small tavernCost3 timber4 planksSlots1 max→Entertainment

SmithyCost1 Timber4 PlanksSlots2 maxStores50 generic storageNeedsIron Slab→Tools

Stonecutter CampCost1 Timber4 PlanksSlots4 maxStores50 generic→Stone

TanneryCost2 Timber6 PlanksSlots3 maxStores50 genericNeedsHides→Leather

Trading PostCost4 timberSlots4 maxStores500 generic · 500 pantry→Trade

Weavers WorkshopCost4 TimberSlots3 maxStores50 genericNeedsFlax · Wool→YarnLinen

Woodcutter's lodgeSlots3 maxStores50→Firewood

Wooden churchCost2 timber20 planks10 stoneSlots1 max→Faith

Animal penWikino atlas entry yetPorkraw resource, no inputs→Pork

ArmoryWikino atlas entry yetHelmets2 Iron Slab → 1 HelmetsMail Armor3 Iron Slab → 1 Mail ArmorPlate Armor6 Iron Slab → 1 Plate Armor→HelmetsMail ArmorPlate Armor

Blacksmith's workshopWikino atlas entry yetIron Parts1 Iron Slab → 1 Iron PartsPolearms1 Iron Slab → 1 PolearmsSidearms1 slab → 2 sidearmsSpears1 Iron Slab → 1 Spears→Iron PartsPolearmsSidearmsSpears

BreweryWikino atlas entry yetAle1 malt → 2 ale→Ale

Butcher's workshopWikino atlas entry yetSausages1 pork + 1 salt → 2 sausages→Sausages

CheesemongerWikino atlas entry yetCheese1 milk + 1 salt → 2 cheese→Cheese

Cobbler's workshopWikino atlas entry yetShoes1 Leather → 1 Shoes→Shoes

Communal ovenWikino atlas entry yetRye Bread1 rye flour → 1 rye breadWheat Bread1 flour → 2 bread (4 at an advanced bakery)→Rye BreadWheat Bread

Joiner's workshopWikino atlas entry yetLarge Shields2 Planks → 1 Large ShieldsSmall Shields2 Planks → 1 Small ShieldsWooden Parts2 Planks → 1 Wooden Parts→Large ShieldsSmall ShieldsWooden Parts

Livestock farmWikino atlas entry yetMilkraw resource, no inputsWoolraw resource, no inputs→MilkWool

Stonemason's stationWikino atlas entry yetDressed Stone1 Rough Stone → 1 Dressed Stone→Dressed Stone

Tailor's workshopWikino atlas entry yetCloaks1 Yarn → 1 CloaksClothes (Linen)1 Linen → 1 Clothes (Linen)Clothes (Woolen)1 Yarn → 1 Clothes (Woolen)Gambesons1 linen → 2 gambesons→CloaksClothes (Linen)Clothes (Woolen)Gambesons

WindmillWikino atlas entry yetRye Flour1 Rye Grain → 1 Rye FlourWheat Flour1 Wheat Grain → 1 Wheat Flour→Rye FlourWheat Flour

No producer matches.

A chain is a staffing decision

Every stage above is families you are not spending elsewhere. Before you commit a workshop, check what the building itself costs, whether the good is worth exporting, and what the workers were doing instead.

Building Atlas

Construction cost, workplaces and output for every catalogued building.

30 entries

Trade & Wealth

Which goods are worth selling processed, and why route costs climb.

Field guide

Calculators

Weigh the chain against your own food, fuel and families.

17 tools

Production & Artisans

The artisan traps: conversions you can't undo, and workshops that never pay back.

11 tips