All Food Types & How to Get Them

May 6, 2024

There are seven types of food in Manor Lords, each with its own method of production and procurement.

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All Food Sources in Manor Lords

How to Build a Backyard Extension

One of the very first issues that regularly comes up at the start of a campaign in Manor Lords is the lack of food for settlers. And as burgage plot levels progress, simply having enough food to survive is no longer enough. Providing more than two food types to an evergrowing population becomes a persistent issue.

Knowing all possible food types and how to make them locally is hugely helpful, especially when trying to build a self-sustaining community. Here, players can shore up their knowledge about all things food-related.

Manor Lords without a Manor in your settlement is incomplete. Find out how to build this structure with the help of this guide.

All Food Sources in Manor Lords

There are 7 types of food in the game.

Food Type	Building	Cost	Development Node	Description
Meat	Hunting Camps	Free Construction	Trapping (Optional) Advanced Skinning (Optional)	Placing a Hunting Camp near wooded areas inhabited by wild animals provides a steady supply of hides and meat. Removing the trees near naturally occurring animal habitats will trigger a migration. The Trapping development point allows hunters to set up traps in the forest, providing a passive meat yield. Advanced Skinning directly doubles the meat yield for each hunted animal.
Vegetables	Vegetable Garden (Backyard Extension)	25 Regional Wealth	None	Vegetable Gardens are the quickest way to provide settlers with additional food sources. They start production quickly, allowing the family to take the goods to market within a year. The amount of vegetables harvested depends on the unit size of the backyard extension.
Berries	Forager Hut	1 Timber	Forest Management (Optional)	Berries are seasonal resources that regrow in the spring. Make sure to reassign the family working the Forager Hut during spring, as there are no berries to harvest then.
Bread	Bakery (Backyard Extension)	5 Regional Wealth, 5 Planks	Bakeries (Required)	Bakeries convert flour into bread. To get flour, players will first need to farm Wheat or Rye, thresh it into Grain at a Farmhouse, and convert Grain into Flour using a Windmill. Bakers are considered artisans and cannot do any job other than baking.
Apples	Apple Orchard (Backyard Extension)	50 Regional Wealth	Orchardry (Required)	Like Vegetable Gardens, the size of an Apple Orchard has a direct impact on final yield. Apple Orchards take three years to fully mature, yielding only a small fraction of the total harvest during the growth stage.
Eggs	Chicken Coop (Backyard Extension)	25 Regional Wealth	None	Chicken Coops are the only way to get eggs (except imports) in Manor Lords. The size of the backyard extension does not affect yield.
Honey	Apiary	2 Planks	Beekeeping (Required)	Apiaries can be built anywhere; the exact placement doesn’t matter. Just ensure the building has road access and you don’t build more than two in one region.

All food types can be imported via the Trading Post, but this method is prohibitively expensive if used for a long time.

How to Build a Backyard Extension

Four of the seven possible food types in Manor Lords require knowing how to create a backyard extension on burgage plots. To do so, use the burgage plot placement tool from the construction menu and extend the borders beyond the minimum requirement. A small house icon with a hammer will appear behind the main building. This is a backyard extension.

Making the backyard extension bigger only benefits the Apple Orchard and the Vegetable Garden extensions, as their final yield is a direct result of the size of the plot.

To make a larger-than-normal extension, players can use the burgage plot tool to cover a large area. This will automatically divide the area into multiple burgage plots. Press the minus icon next to the construction hammer to reduce the number of houses and increase the size of the backyard extension per plot. This way, players can create a massive backyard extension, equivalent to an entire farm, in a single burgage plot.