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Manor Lordsis a game centered around managing resources to make sure that a player’s settlement not only survives but alsothrivesin the harsh medieval reality the game is set in. The main way to do so is by taking up the mantle of a town planner, building structures, assigning families, and trading with the neighbors.
Most buildings in the game are fairly self-explanatory.Storehouses store supplies; logging camps cut down trees; stableshouse Livestock; and so on. The Pack Station, however, is a bit harder to figure out. Although players can build it right from the start of the game, learning how to use it is not so simple.
How to Use Packstations in Manor Lords
Here are the steps a player needs to take to get a Pack Station to work as intended:
Once all the prerequisites are met, players canassign a family to the Pack Station, choose which materials to send and receive, and let the game handle the rest.Only one Pack Station isneededfor this to work, but building two — one in each settlement — will make things go faster and allow the opportunity to set up multiple trades.
Make sure there is astraight roadconnecting the two settlements to ensure the workers travel as quickly as possible.
Players cannot specify the quantity of goods being bartered at a Pack Station. The trade happens in batches of however much the worker or the pack animal (mule) is able to carry in one trip.
Pack Stations typically transfer resources faster than they are produced in the parent region. Keep a close eye on total stock to avoid mishaps.
How to Assign a Mule
Players will be able toassign Livestock to a Pack Stationto allow the assigned workers to move more goods between regions. To do so, open the Pack Station, go to Livestock, and assign a Permanent Livestock animal to the Pack Station.
If a free pack animal is available in the settlement, it will be assigned to the Pack Station, and workers can make use of it. If none are available, players can order a Mule directly from the Pack Station menu.Mules can carry 20 goods per tripbut don’t walk any faster than the average worker, so while employing a mule increases the cargo per trip, it does not reduce the travel time.
High Value goods like commodities and Military goods cannot be bartered without a Mule.
What is a Barter Partner?
When players first build a Pack Station, they’ll notice a drop-down in the General tab where they can select a ‘Barter Partner.’ By default, this drop-down will only show ‘No Barter.'
A Barter Partner can only be another settlement built by the player in another region. After you conquer a region and settle there, the drop-down will be updated with the name of that settlement, allowing players to set it up as the Barter Partner.
Other Lords cannot be set as Barter Partners.
What is the Barter Value?
The barter value represents the ratio of goods being transferred according to their market value. If, for example, you send a regionsome Cloaksand ask for Wool in return, a one-to-one trade wouldn’t be fair. A single piece of Wool sells for 2 while a single cloak sells for 8. That’s a 4x difference, and the Barter value shows that.
To further the example, the region that is sending one Cloak will receive 4 Wool per Cloak to keep things fair. The Barter value multiplier not only serves as a means of fairness but lets players estimate how much stuff they’ll be sending vs. receiving once a barter route is up and running.
Players cannot send items from one settlement to another without receiving something in return.
