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Manor Lords tavern - Peasants walking through town

Working out how thetavernfunctions inManor Lordsis an important step in caring for yourfamilies. Tavern supply is one of the listed amenities alongside church access and water supply, so it’s a necessary provision if you want to upgrade your burgage plots to level three. This will let you collect more regional wealth from them per month, but more importantly, is a condition for becoming a large town.

That said, this isn’t your bog standard city builder where you can just build a thing and it’ll function perfectly. In order for your tavern to provide access to your subjects, you’ll also need to procure thealethat gets served there. Here I’ll explain how the tavern functions, plus the different ways you can get ale and provide access.

How to use the tavern and make ale

Image1of4Build a farmhouse and plant some fields to grow barley(Image credit: Slavic Magic)Turn the barley into malt at the malthouse(Image credit: Slavic Magic)Build a brewery extension in a level two burgage plot to turn malt into ale(Image credit: Slavic Magic)You can purchase barley or ale for regional wealth through the trading post(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Image1of4Build a farmhouse and plant some fields to grow barley(Image credit: Slavic Magic)Turn the barley into malt at the malthouse(Image credit: Slavic Magic)Build a brewery extension in a level two burgage plot to turn malt into ale(Image credit: Slavic Magic)You can purchase barley or ale for regional wealth through the trading post(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

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Build a farmhouse and plant some fields to grow barley(Image credit: Slavic Magic)Turn the barley into malt at the malthouse(Image credit: Slavic Magic)Build a brewery extension in a level two burgage plot to turn malt into ale(Image credit: Slavic Magic)You can purchase barley or ale for regional wealth through the trading post(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Build a farmhouse and plant some fields to grow barley(Image credit: Slavic Magic)Turn the barley into malt at the malthouse(Image credit: Slavic Magic)Build a brewery extension in a level two burgage plot to turn malt into ale(Image credit: Slavic Magic)You can purchase barley or ale for regional wealth through the trading post(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Build a farmhouse and plant some fields to grow barley(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Build a farmhouse and plant some fields to grow barley(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Build a farmhouse and plant some fields to grow barley(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Build a farmhouse and plant some fields to grow barley(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Build a farmhouse and plant some fields to grow barley(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Manor Lords tavern - Barley

Turn the barley into malt at the malthouse(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Turn the barley into malt at the malthouse(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Turn the barley into malt at the malthouse(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Turn the barley into malt at the malthouse(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Turn the barley into malt at the malthouse(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Manor Lords tavern - Malthouse

Build a brewery extension in a level two burgage plot to turn malt into ale(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Build a brewery extension in a level two burgage plot to turn malt into ale(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Build a brewery extension in a level two burgage plot to turn malt into ale(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Build a brewery extension in a level two burgage plot to turn malt into ale(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Build a brewery extension in a level two burgage plot to turn malt into ale(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Manor Lords tavern - Brewery extension

You can purchase barley or ale for regional wealth through the trading post(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

You can purchase barley or ale for regional wealth through the trading post(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

You can purchase barley or ale for regional wealth through the trading post(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

You can purchase barley or ale for regional wealth through the trading post(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

You can purchase barley or ale for regional wealth through the trading post(Image credit: Slavic Magic)

Manor Lords tavern - Trading for ale

The first is to make it yourself:

That’s for sure the most complicated method. If you have surplusregional wealththrough trade, you can use the cheap and nasty solution:

It’s worth noting that you can import barley and malt, too, and these are cheaper than directly buying ale, so you might choose just to skip a couple of steps in the process. Since you only need tavern supply at the point of upgrading your burgage plots to level three, I’d suggest having the resources ready to upgrade all of them before you import your ale, then you don’t need to worry about constantly supplying your tavern while you accumulate the rest.

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