Pig Region Check
The answer
Formula
Pig yield scales directly with forest coverage via Pannage and is no longer capped at +30%. Cycle length 73 days at no pannage, divided by forest cover; 2 pork a cycle, community-tested. The verdict bands are ours.
Pigs divide opinion in Manor Lords for a simple reason. Both camps are right, about different regions. In an ordinary region pigs are the weakest livestock extension you can build. In a heavily forested one they are among the strongest.
Why forest coverage decides it
Pig yield scales with a region's woodland through the Pannage mechanic. The bonus used to cap at +30%. It no longer caps. A heavily forested region pushes pig output higher and keeps climbing as coverage rises.
Nothing else about pigs improves. Read the tool's verdict as a question about your land, not about the animal.
What pigs do not give you
Pigs produce meat. Full stop. No milk and no hides. Goats give chevon and milk. Cattle give beef, milk and hides. Chickens give eggs and meat and were made 15% faster in the current Beta.
Hides matter more than the list suggests. Hunting camps stopped yielding hides, so goats, sheep and cattle through a butcher are the only sources left. Leather is what shoes are made of. A region running pigs alone will be short of shoes.
Why not the capital
Your capital almost certainly has meadow, and meadow is the most contested land in the game. Fields want it. Orchards want it. Vegetable plots and apiaries want it. Pigs want forest, which is the land your capital has least of and can least afford to keep.
Run pigs as a dedicated secondary region and trade the meat home. A mostly reforested second region costs you nothing you were using and turns woodland into food.
One perk to watch
Smiths of Passau takes 20% off pigs, goats and chickens. Crops are spared, so the perk is less crippling than it first looks. On a pig region it is still a direct tax on your main output. Toggle it in the tool if you took it.
The output figure, and where it came from
For a month this tool printed a verdict and refused to give a rate, because no honest number existed. Somebody has since measured one. A pigsty runs a cycle of about 73 days at no forest cover and returns 2 pork a cycle, and Pannage divides the cycle length rather than raising the litter. At 75% forest that is a 42-day cycle and roughly 18 pork a year.
The measurements are Chuckw44's, taken in game and published with his own tools. They are not ours, and the card says community-tested rather than pretending otherwise. Two figures are printed: the average across the year, and the total counting only cycles that finish inside it, which is the safer number to build a plan on.
The verdict bands are still our own reading. We could have invented a rate at any point in the last month and printed it confidently. We did that once, in the Craftsman's Calculator, and a flaired r/ManorLords reader screenshotted the result on a post with 12,000 views. Where these measurements came from.
