Beginner's Guide

To enact Policies, you need to raise your Administration Level by building administrative buildings, like the Manor.

Supplies

In Manor Lords, families need Food and Fuel and roof above their heads to survive. Every Burgage Plot consumes 1 Food and 1 Fuel per month. Fuel consumption in the Winter is doubled. Additionally, some workplaces consume 1 Fuel per month as well.

Supplies in the region panel above shows how many months are left until supplies run out.

Development

After you reach the next Settlement Level, you will be granted a Development Point to spend. Unlock Development Branches to make your region more efficient.

Development is divided into 4 Development Branches, each one with 10 or 11 unlocks.

Agriculture
Orchardry New upgrade: Apple orchard Produces Apples. Apple harvest happens around September every year. Until the trees are fully grown, which takes around 3 years, the orchards produce only a fraction of the yield.	Sheepbreeding Sheep grazing on the pastures slowly multiply.	Heavy Plow New upgrade: Add a plowing station Enables employing Oxen at the Farmhouse for significantly faster plowing of large fields, as well as bringing crops back to storage more efficiently.
Rye Cultivation Unlocks Rye crop for Fields. Similar to Wheat, Rye can be processed into Flour, but it's more resilient and therefore can be grown in places with lower fertility.
Irrigation Dramatically lowers the amount of damage caused by Droughts.	Fertilization New upgrade: Fence up Allows to use a Fallow field as a Pasture, which rapidly restores lost Fertility.	Bakeries New upgrade: Bakery extension Produced Bread from Flour with twice the efficiency of the communal oven. Converts all inhabitants to Artisans, locking them from being assigned to other jobs.