Best Developments to Unlock

Unlock the best developments in manor lords, including Bakeries for food, Fertilization for crops, and Trade Logistics for cheaper routes.

Developments to Unlock:

• Bakeries
• Trade Logistics
• Better Deals
• Fertilization
• Ox Plowing

Details:

Bakeries is a highly effective end-game development that allows for the Bakery extension on burgage plots. It is twice as efficient as a communal oven, producing more bread from flour. This means two families in a burgage plot can become bakers, efficiently feeding your population with as little as 200-300 wheat grown annually. Bakeries are essential for settlements aiming for over 300 population and mega-cities of 1000 population. Excess food can be sent to new settlements or sold for profit. This development is located deep within the farming research tree.

Farming Developments:

• Fertilization: This development allows you to pasture sheep on fallow fields, costing a few planks per field upgrade. Fallow fields regenerate fertilization slowly otherwise. Improving fertilization is crucial for sustaining large, self-sufficient towns with homegrown crops.
• Ox Plowing: One of the earliest farming technologies. When a farmhouse is built, you can assign an Ox from your livestock list in the advanced tab to exclusively aid with plowing and harvesting crops. This increases crop yields and speeds up supply.

Trade Developments:

• Trade Logistics: Reduces all trade route costs to 25 Regional Wealth. This is highly beneficial, especially for large towns where trade routes can otherwise cost 300-600 Regional Wealth.
• Better Deals: Unlocked after Trade Logistics, this development reduces the price of all items at trading hubs by 10. For example, crops costing 12 will cost 2, and luxury items costing 16/18 will cost 6/8. This makes acquiring commodities for approval ratings more affordable and provides an excellent method for making money by buying base materials and processing them.

Situationally Good Developments:

• Forest Management: Doubles the yield of wild berries in a region. Useful for supplying distant settlements, producing herbs for healing, and making dyes, especially if a region has rich berry deposits. The Herb upgrade at forager huts is particularly beneficial for keeping large towns healthy.
• Deep Mines: Doubles raw resources from limited deposits, recommended for iron-rich regions with high yields for tool, weapon, and armor smithing. It can also be useful for clay deposits for roof tiles in very large Level 3 burgage plot towns.
• Armour Smithing (all tiers): Beneficial in iron-heavy regions, allowing the creation of better body armor for armies, leading to improved combat effectiveness with access to mail and plate armor.