How To Make Ale In Manor Lords

Supplies are always important items in Manor Lords, making Ale a valuable commodity you'll want to make often to upgrade other locations and generate money. This city-building experience asks you to create everything in your community from the ground up, with Ale being no exception. Those who want this material will have to cultivate it from raw materials grown on the land they've chosen to settle.

One of the many features of Manor Lords is that you can't produce supplies without carefully considering every aspect of how an item is made. For example, Ale will not be produced if you just invest money in the construction of a Tavern. You have to cultivate the fields around your settlement to produce crops that can be transformed into another substance, which in turn gets refined into Ale elsewhere.

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How To Farm Barley

Grow Plants From The Right Areas

Barley is the ingredient that makes Ale, but you can only farm this crop from areas whose soil boasts a high fertility rate in Manor Lords. A harvest's yield is much larger when you farm in a spot with the potential for growing specific plants. Usually, areas displayed in green have the strongest soil, with sections that display three plus signs being the absolute best places for you to start cultivating Barley.

If you are struggling to find a space where you can grow Barley yourself, you can always restart your game for a region better suited to grow the crop or spend your community's funds to import the plant from another settlement.

Once you have Barley, you need to build a Farmhouse next to the crop field and assign families from your city to the building to start harvesting the crop. The more people you have working, the higher your yield will be every time Barley is grown. However, keep in mind that you may need groups in your civilization for other tasks, so don't devote everyone to the collection of even the most important materials.

How To Produce Ale

Build Establishments To Refine Crops

The medieval life of Manor Lords revolves around the organization of different places in your community, including the Malthouse and Brewery you'll need to transform Barley into Ale. Start with the Malthouse so you can have a building that refines all the Barley you've collected into Malt. This resource can be fermented further into Ale, but only when you store it within a Brewery made in your community.

Barley is not always harvested in large numbers right away. It may take you multiple years to establish a farm good enough to produce enough Barley to refine into Malt and Ale.

You can only make a Brewery from a Level 2 Burgage Plot using 5 Regional Wealth and 5 Planks in Manor Lords, making it an expensive endeavor for any young settlement. Breweries are an extension to a Burgage Plot, but the Ale you produce from Malt in these spaces can't be distributed from these locations directly. Ale can only be sold through a Tavern, another location you must establish.

Try to put your Tavern near the center of your city so that ordinary people have easy access to the Ale you've made. Ale becomes a commodity at this point, giving you an important ingredient used in upgrading your Burgage Plots to Level 3. Out of the many things Manor Lords does, the constant emphasis on maintaining your production flow of important materials makes each step just as vital as the last.

Any Ale can be sold for extra Regional Wealth for you to spend on other projects in your town. Supply and demand may cause the cost of Ale to fluctuate, but this product is normally an item with a consistent value. Managing to make Ale in Manor Lords gives you a great resource for enhancing locations in your settlement, allowing you to start thinking about continued expansion and growth.