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Securing alternative sources of food for settlers inManor Lordsis paramount to making sure theApproval Rating never dipsbelow acceptable levels. Feeding off the land quickly becomes untenable as settlement levels progress, the population increases, and thevillagers demand more than one type of food.
One of the better food sources in the early game areApple Orchards, allowing villagers to grow their own supply of apples that can be later sold in the Marketplace. Setting up an Apple Orchard is surprisingly simple. Here’s what you need to do.
How to Make an Apple Orchard in Manor Lords
Players can build an Apple Orchard onany burgage plot with a backyard extensionfor 50Regional Wealthafter unlocking theOrchardry Development node. To build a burgage plot with a backyard extension, extend the borders of the plot until you see a small house symbol with a hammer in addition to the larger house symbol.
The large house symbol is where the residential part of the burgage plot will be built, and the hammer is where the backyard extension will appear. By default, the backyard will remain empty until the player decides what should be built there. One of thepossible backyard extensionsplayers can build here is an Apple Orchard.
Like Vegetable Gardens, the size of the burgage plot extension directly influences the amount of yield produced and the number of trees planted.
How to Use Apple Orchards in Manor Lords
Apple Orchards take at least three yearsbefore they start full production, thoughsomeapples will be produced well before that. Apple trees take a while to grow and there is no fertilizer that can speed up the process. This means that buildingan Apple Orchard will not solve any immediate food problems. For faster results, considerplanting Vegetable Gardensor changing the settlement policy to enforce fasting.
On the flip side, Apple Orchards don’t require nearly as much care as Vegetable Gardens since they’re fairly low maintenance. The family responsible for maintaining the orchard will only have to pay occasional attention to it, leaving them free to take up labor-intensive tasks. Just make sure they are not assigned to work ata Pack Station, as that will force them to spend a lot of time traveling between settlements, leaving the orchard completely unattended.
Once production is in full swing,considerbuilding a Granarynear the Apple Orchardto make sure that the house pantry is regularly being emptied to avoid storage bottlenecks. This measure is only needed for burgage plots with massive backyard extensions that are closer toa farmthan a regular house.
