Manor Lords: How To Get And Use Herbs

In Manor Lords, you task your people with building and growing a community that welcomes more people. If your settlement has plenty of burgages, food, clothing, a church, and maybe a tavern to drink at night, more people would want to live there.

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However, food is a critical resource that must be stocked in surplus. If not, your community will slack off from tasks, catch a disease, and die. Even if you have less food to feed families, you can cure them of diseases via herbs. This guide explains how to get herbs and keep your community healthy.

How To Get Herbs

You need to build Forager Hut to get a continuous supply of herbs in the game. The construction requires only one timber resource, so it can be built very early.

Once you have built the Forager Hut, hover the cursor over the building to find the Herb Garden upgrade. This upgrade costs 25 Regional Wealth and two planks and establishes a dedicated zone where the families can plant, grow, and gather herbs.

Herb production is not passive, and therefore, you must assign at least one family that can actively work on the Herb Garden. Families first gather berries and make herbs. This method is the cheapest to produce herbs for your settlement in the game.

If you set up Forager Hut very early in the game, they will grow and supply herbs to the marketplace, which people can access.

How To Get Herbs From Trade Post

If you have a wealthy income from exporting various resources from the region, you can also import the herbs from the Trade Post. This method is taxing on your overall Regional Wealth as you first invest in unlocking the trade route so that a trader can visit your settlement and import herbs for you regularly.

However, the benefit of this method is that it frees up the slot of a family being assigned to a Forager Hut. You can assign a particular family to work on any other important task instead of making herbs.

How To Use Herbs

The use of herbs is a passive process, and your community only starts taking them when they catch a disease. Running out of firewood or food during the winter is the primary reason your people can catch a disease.

If left untreated, various workplaces will experience reduced productivity, and in the worst cases, there will be deaths. Prevention is better than cure, and the same logic applies here as well. If you keep a variety of food in surplus for your community, people will never catch a disease and need herbs.

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