Manor Lords latest patch notes confirms the recent beta build is now on the main branch. The core focus is stability and foundational improvements ahead of future content launches, rather than a sweeping content drop. It also make massive changes to pathing bugs known for the last few builds.
Also, it targets major balance changes to Ale, which should affect how many pops you upgrade. It may be a decent fix to address the Ale balancing issues that wrecks economies so much.
What’s in the latest Manor Lord patch notes?
Slavic Magic describe the major changes as background milestone updates. Pathfinding has received a substantial rework. There’s a new ‘island system’ that quickly rejects invalid paths between enclosed zones like Manor Castles or riversides without bridges. There’s also improved unit pathfinding when citizens are moving as one, alongside other optimisation and work prioritisation changes. Hopefully it fixes citizens all getting tracked in your Large Storehouse as we’ve seen recently.
But the standout change for most players will be the Ale economic overhaul. Ale is no longer consumed by Level 1 families, and Ale crafting output has been reduced from two to one. It will make major changes to how you make Ale in Manor Lords.
The Ale consumption change is a drastic shift from what Manor Lords players have been used to across two years of Early Access. The Ale wall was a genuine progression blocker. It effectively locked many players out of Tier 3 housing if they didn’t have fertile Barley lands to fund the alcoholic needs of their people. Throw in Ale being a requirement to progress from Tier 2 to Tier 3 buildings, many saves simply stalled. We basically stopped trying to get to Tier 3 buildings. We needed the tax over level 3 burgage plot bonuses, and you probably noticed that too. We’d rather fund new armor and weapons to fight new battles against AI settlements and the baron, over other effects.
With Level 1 families no longer needing Ale, there’s now a strong incentive to think more carefully about how many families you actually promote to Tier 2. You can then budget around their monthly Ale satisfaction requirement. It makes getting certain houses to Tier 3 much more achievable, which brings real benefits, including units in those families being able to wear mail armour for combat and progression to Tier 4 buildings unlocking.
If you do have fertile lands, Barley production was less of an issue anyway. This change mainly helps those who had no choice but to trade for it. If you did trade for it, you were bottlenecking your entire trading economy just keeping a population’s needs satisfied.
Interestingly, Slavic Magic are now looking toward content updates with some key backend and system balance changes now in the game. There is an active poll discussing how often trade caravans visit towns and updating those intervals. Again it is tying into managing economies and trading more effectively. That will pair nicely with the now adjusted ale changes.
Manor Lords might start making some sizeable progress now that these key systems are in a better place. It comes has there’s been several small patches, wit the new Tier 4 houses, then finally adding some level of AI Settlements on the map, even if they do cheat to play against you.
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