Quick Links
Burgage Plots offer more than just family homes inManor Lords. If you make them long enough, a Burgage Plot can support a backyard upgrade, and these upgrades allow a plot to create new goods. In fact, a backyard upgrade is the only way to create many important goods and resources.
However, not every Burgage Plot upgrade inManor Lordsworks the same way. Some of them you must unlock with development points, and a few of them are more or less effective based on the size of the backyard. That’s why it helps to know exactly how each Burgage Plot upgrade works, and which ones are more or less useful than others.
Basic Upgrades
The first four Burgage Plot upgrades are available for any home, including level one homes. However, the apple orchard is only available if you buy the orchardry upgrade in the development menu. These upgrades are:
Each of these upgrades provides a steady goods income without a resource cost: the garden provides vegetables, the coop provides eggs, the shed provides hides, and the orchard provides apples. However, there are a few quirks that affect how these upgrades work:
Artisan Upgrades
Once a Burgage Plot reaches level two or higher, you can upgrade it to an artisan home. Here are your options:
The cost in Regional Wealth is always much lower, but you’ll need access to planks to build any of them. Still, the biggest cost of an artisan upgrade is the fact that the residents become artisans and leave the regular workforce. If you then upgrade a plot to level three, the new families who can move in will also become artisans. Every artisan upgrade also requires raw materials, and artisans who can’t get these materials won’t work.
Something else to note is that you’re able to convert a Burgage Plot with a basic backyard upgrade into an artisan house, but doing so doesn’t refund the Regional Wealth you paid, and you can’t convert an artisan home into anything else, including another kind of artisan. The only way to get rid of an artisan you no longer need is to demolish their Burgage Plot.
Every artisan plot produces something useful and valuable, but some products are more useful than others. Many artisans can craft one of several items, and you’ll need to tell them which ones to make by selecting the “General” tab in their building menu and choosing a Production Focus.
