How to level up Burgage Plots in Manor Lords
Raise the capacities of your houses with more market stalls.
Want to know how to level up your Burgage Plots in Manor Lords? If you ever want to progress past the point of being a small village in Manor Lords, you need to know how to level up Burgage Plots. These are the homes where your citizens live and, eventually, work, and if you want to increase your population and bring in more workers to keep your economy alive, then building and upgrading these Burgage Plots is essential.
Levelling up your Burgage Plots is also a vital part of knowing how to raise your settlement level in Manor Lords, which you'll need to rise through the village ranks, eventually become a town and build a Manor. Upgraded Burgage Plots also allow for various Backyard Extensions as well, including converting houses into breweries to make Ale, chicken coops, vegetable gardens, and more - including workshops to make weapons.
Here's the lowdown on how to level up Burgage Plots in Manor Lords.
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How to upgrade Burgage Plots in Manor Lords
To level up a Burgage Plot, you must ensure all its requirements are met. You can check this by clicking on the Burgage Plot, then looking under the Residential tab.
These requirements are split into two main sections. Amenities just require your settlement to have the specified building in the region, while Market Supply means the Burgage Plot must be near a Marketplace with the resource in question.
Here are all the requirements for levelling up your Burgage Plots:
Upgrade from Level 1 to 2:
- Water Access: A well in the region
- Church Level: Wooden Church
- Fuel Stall x1 (Firewood or Charcoal)
- Food Stall x2 (Berries, Meat, Bread, Eggs, Vegetables, Apples or Honey)
- Clothing Stall x1 (Linen, Leather, or Yarn)
Upgrade from Level 2 to 3
- Water Access: A well in the region
- Church Level: Small Stone Church
- Tavern Supply: Steady supply of ale
- Fuel Stall x1 (Firewood or Charcoal)
- Food Stall x3 (Berries, Meat, Bread, Eggs, Vegetables, Apples or Honey)
- Clothing Stall x2 (one Linen, Leather or Yarn, and one Shoes, Clothes, or Cloaks)
Satisfying the Marketplace's Fuel Stall is one of the easiest things you can do. All you need to do is build a Woodcutter's Lodge or Charcoal Kiln, and make sure there's a family assigned to it to keep the flow of goods coming.
Food Stalls are a little tricker. You'll need buildings that produce Berries, Meat, Bread, Eggs, Vegetables, Apples or Honey. The easiest way to fulfil this requirement early on in Manor Lords is to build the Forager's Hut for Berries and Hunting Camp for Meat, and make sure they're staffed with families.
To get a third type of Food Stall going, another simple method is to convert a Level 1 Burgage Plot Backyard Extension into a Vegetable Patch or Chicken Coop to acquire Eggs and Vegetables. Be warned, though: these cost Regional Wealth and are more expensive to obtain by comparison. The passive income they produce also isn't huge, so you'll have better luck getting food by other means, such as farming to make bread.
Clothing Stalls, meanwhile, can be satisfied early on by building a Hunting Camp to obtain Hides, and then a Tannery to convert them into Leather. When it comes to reaching a Level 3 Burgage Plot, though, you'll also need a building that can produce Shoes, Clothes or Cloaks. To find out how to make these, read our dedicated guide on how to make clothing in Manor Lords.
Alongside being the main requirement to increase your settlement level, upgrading your Burgage Plots also comes with additional benefits. At Level 2, a Burgage Plot will generate one Regional Family wealth per month, which adds more money to your coffers. This is increased to two at Level 3, along with an additional living space for a new family, making them worthwhile investments when it comes to upgrading your town.
Backyard Extensions explained
When building a Burgage Plot, you can also add Backyard Extensions to them to bring additional benefits and resources to your town. You can tell if a Burgage Plot will have room for a Backyard Extension if a second icon behind the house appears when plotting the location ahead of construction. These all cost varying amounts of regional wealth to build, but are vital for growth.
With a Level 1 Burgage Plot, you can acquire a passive income of vegetables, eggs and apples to help bulk up your food supplies.
At Level 2, Backyard Extensions can convert all of its inhabitants into Artisans, which lets you make specific resources and items more efficiently. Be warned, though: by converting families into Artisans, this means they cannot change to another profession, or be used for other jobs around your town. However, you can have them making Ale for the Tavern, making clothes for the Marketplace, making weapons and armor for your armies, and they can make bread at twice the efficiency of the Communal Oven.
One thing to bear in mind is that for your Burgage Plots to be of use, you need new families to move in… and for that, you must increase your approval rating.
Need more help getting started in Manor Lords? Find out what to do first in our beginner's tips and tricks guide, as well as the best development points to unlock first, and our best advice on how to get food and farm, as well as how to trade goods and animals to bolster your town further.