Manor Lords lets you create some scenic-looking little farming settlements with vast fields spanning across the lands. But looking good is only partly the reason why farming is so good in this game. The other reason is the fact that the process is very realistic and even takes a lot of time to get your yields just like in real life.
After many attempts and experimentations, I have finally figured it out and this Manor Lords Farming Guide will help you get there as well in no time.
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How to Farm Efficiently in Manor Lords
There are several steps you will need to take to farm efficiently in Manor Lords and get the best yield possible. here is what you need to do:
Selecting the Perfect Place
The first thing you need to do to start farming in Manor Lords is check the fertility of the lands in your region. When you go into the farming build menu, you will get filters on the right side of the screen to check the fertility of the lands.
What you are looking for is an area that has good fertility (indicated by the color green) for at least 2 if not 3 types of crops. This is because you will need to rotate your crops on a given field, more on that later.
Once you have found a big enough land with good fertility rates, assign an area as a Field. When doing so, you need to look at the size of it. For starting fields, you should make it the size of 1.0 Morgen. You can consider making bigger fields later on.
After you place your first field, you will now need to look for another place to make yet another field. This is because having only one field will lower its fertility if you farm only a single type of crop on it. So if you need something like Wheat every single year, you will need multiple fields.
Managing the Farmhouse
Farming is realistic in Manor Lords, which means there specific times in a year when your farmers will flow, sow, and harvest. So your next step is to place your Farmhouse near your fields and start assigning families as farmers to get this process started.
Farmers will start the farming process with plowing and sowing during spring in the month of March. This is when you need to have as many families assigned to the Farmhouse as possible so that you can get the process done fast and give enough time for the crop to grow throughout the summer.
Once the sowing process is done, you can unassign families as they won’t have any work until the crops are ready to harvest. Now you wait until September and then start assigning families back to the farmhouse since this is the time when the crops will be ready to harvest.
Related: How to Make Bread in Manor Lords
Remember that the Farmhouse is also responsible for threshing Wheat into Grain, you can also set the priority of it in the advanced tab of the Farmhouse. So, don’t unassign families after harvesting Wheat or Rye. Also, make sure you have a Granary near your Farmhouse to store your harvest.
Getting the Heavy Flow upgrade from the development tree will also help make the plowing process faster and even make the transporting between the Farmhouse and Granary faster.
Rotate Your Fields
Once you have everything set up, you will need to decide which fields will be used to harvest which crops. Earlier in this guide, I had mentioned looking for land that is fertile for multiple crops, because that is your best-case scenario for most yield every year.
Any given crop can only be farmed on a single Field for 2 to 3 years at max depending on its initial fertility. After that, the fertility will drop significantly to the point where it just won’t be worth the effort to do the entire process for a whole year.
So if you need Wheat every single year, you will have to ensure it being farmed on different fields each year until the field it started on is back to its original fertility. If you can’t manage to have multiple fields, your best option is to let it be a fallow field for a year.
If you get the Fertilization upgrade from the development tree, you can use a fallow field as pasture for your livestock which brings up its lost fertility very quickly.
