Getting Weapons & Armor

Learn how to craft all weapons and armor in Manor Lords. Discover material requirements, workshop extensions, and strategies for arming your units effectively.

Weapons and armor in Manor Lords are primarily crafted through specific burgage plot extensions and industry buildings. You can also purchase them from the trading post. Crafting requires various resources like iron slabs and planks, which are produced in specialized buildings such as the Bloomery and Sawmill.

Getting Weapons

The following weapons can be crafted:

To produce planks, assign a worker to a Sawmill and ensure a hitching post is available for log transport. Planks are then used by Joiner’s Workshops for shields and bows. Iron Slabs, made in the Bloomery from iron ore, are necessary for melee weapons like swords, spears, and polearms, as well as for armor.

Once a unit is created under the army tree, soldiers will automatically acquire the necessary weapons and armor, storing them in their burgage plot's armament detail.

Getting Armor

Your army requires protection. Armor can be obtained as follows:

Basic army units will use helmets and gambesons, which are easy to craft without requiring specific technologies. Gambesons are made in a Tailor’s Workshop using linen, produced by a Weaver’s Workshop from flax. Metal armor, including mail armor and plate armor, requires iron slabs from the Bloomery. Advanced armors like mail and plate armor are locked behind development technologies, requiring either trading for them or investing development points to unlock their crafting.