In Manor Lords, the most important thing in a medieval village is missing: beer. But you first need to produce it. MeinMMO explains how you can brew beer.
Why is beer so important in the village? You need beer in Manor Lords to satisfy your citizens from a certain level onwards. You can only upgrade houses to level 3 if they have access to a tavern that provides them with beer.
But how do you produce beer in Manor Lords and what buildings are necessary for it? We will show you a guide.
From barley to beer – Overview of all buildings and resources
What do I need for beer? To produce beer, you need a production chain that works together. It’s not enough to just build a tavern and a brewery; you also need the basic resources and workshops that handle the intermediate steps of production. The following buildings and resources are needed:
- Fields with barley – The basic product is produced on barley fields that you need to sow
- Farmhouses – Without farmers, fields will not be tended
- Malthouse – A workshop where barley is converted into malt
- Brewery or estate with a brewery – A workshop where your malt is brewed into beer
- Tavern – The place where your delicious beer is served
Ideally, you should also have warehouses and storage facilities with workers nearby, as well as a stable or hitching post with an ox to improve transport. Usually, the residential and working areas are further away from fertile land.
Producing beer – A step-by-step guide
We will now show you step by step how you can get to your beer and what you need to do for it.
Growing barley
To produce beer, you first need to sow barley fields and build a farm that takes care of the fields. To build a farm, you need 3 construction wood. Ensure that enough families work on the farms to optimally tend the land.
It’s important to pay attention to the soil quality to guarantee the best possible yield. For each grain, there is an option in the overlay where you can check the fertility of the surrounding area.
If the soil at your selection is green, you have found perfect soil; if the color is yellow or red, they are conditionally suitable for planting barley. When the time is ripe, you can harvest your barley and move on to the next step.
Tip: Choose a place that is suitable for several crops and use the crop rotation
function. This increases fertility. Ideally, you have 3 fields with 2 crops each and a fallow land, so you produce in alternating years, but consistently.
Produce malt in the malthouse
Once you have harvested barley, you need to build a new workshop – the malthouse. With the malthouse, barley is transformed into the important malt needed to brew your beer. To build the malthouse, you need 4 construction wood.
It is also important that you need families again who take care of production. Firewood is also an important resource for the malthouse that is required for production. You need to replenish your supply of firewood monthly.
Build brewery and produce beer
Once you have produced malt, it becomes exciting because you now need the brewery. You can open this when you upgrade an estate to level 2. After that, you can develop the brewery so that the family from the estate can engage in their new activity.
Important: There should not be another cultivation at the house, such as a carrot field, a chicken coop, or another workshop. A house that has become a workshop no longer provides free farmer families that could be deployed elsewhere. All residents then become craftsmen.
Build tavern and serve beer
Finally, you just need a tavern to serve the beer to the people. With 5 construction wood, you can have the tavern built.
However, to create a proper beer cycle, you should pay attention to short delivery routes. Thus, build all workshops and production facilities nearby and connect them with roads.
Once you have achieved this, you must finally send families to the tavern so they can operate it. If your cycle is correct and production does not stall, the satisfaction of your village will increase.
My barley isn’t growing – What can I do?
If your area lacks fertility for barley, you can buy any raw material or beer directly at the trading post. Although this costs money, usually your region has other advantages – like a large iron deposit, clay, or game.
Use what your region has to offer and process it as far as possible. If you then sell the end product, you can cover your costs for beer.
Alternatively, you can supply yourself from other regions, but this is rather complicated because you need beer already for upgrading the first place. Moreover, you must also trade here in fact, thus paying for transport.
That was all the important information on how to brew beer and establish a tavern. Have you already found the perfect cycle for your medieval beer parties? Let us know in the comments!
