Many new players of Manor Lords claim that farming is bad since it defies logic and the game does a poor job of teaching it. However, after you pick up a few tricks, you’ll be reaping enormous rewards.
Useful Tips to Farming
Seasons
- September is the official “harvest season” when villagers will automatically harvest any grown crops over 15%.
- In October/November you’re meant to sow new crops before winter.
- If crops aren’t fully sown before winter, the fields get nuked.
- However, you can actually plough, sow, and harvest any time outside September and winter with no penalty.
- It’s better to sow earlier in the year to get more time farming.
Field Setup
- Make rectangular fields – this shape is most efficient for oxen ploughing.
- Medium 1-3 morgen fields are ideal – not too big to be inefficient.
- Fertility doesn’t impact yield as long as it doesn’t hit 0 while crops grow.
Ploughing
- Always upgrade to the heavy plow and assign oxen. Hand ploughing is very slow.
- You can “pre-plough” many fields with oxen before sowing.
Sowing
- Set different field priorities to avoid villager indecision between multiple fields.
- Plan an efficient sowing route to minimize villager travel time.
Harvesting
- Also prioritize harvest fields to avoid indecision.
- Use “force early harvest” if harvesting outside September.
- Deselect fields after full harvest so oxen retrieve the yield instead of villagers.
Crop Storage
- Harvested crops go to the farmhouse storage initially.
- Build housing near farmhouses that use the respective crop types.
Timing
- Sowing earlier gives more total farming time but risks winter killing immature crops.
- Later harvests let you pre-plough many fields first while still harvesting summer crops.
With some micromanagement and good field layouts, you can get over 1500+ harvest yields per year, even with just 8 farming families. Farming is quite viable if done properly.
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