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Popular city-building game Manor Lords has been updated with two new maps and tons of changes

Slavic Magic and Hooded Horse have released a new Lords of the Manor update, adding several maps, the ability to build bridges, and a host of smaller features to the already-powerful medieval city builder.

This update combines two beta patches into one massive changelog. New maps released last November were High Peaks and Winding River. The latter is obviously where the bridge construction machinist (an extension of existing road tools) shines.

I imagine some tweaks to the game’s cliff geography would also help with bridge construction. Lead developer Greg Stycze wrote in a Steam post that it should be clearer which areas are buildable or traversable due to the zigzag pattern that appears during build mode. He also adjusted pathfinding around cliffs and fixed an issue where gaps would appear between landscape components and cliffs when zoomed out.

Other significant changes include stall worker limits. As of this patch, only warehouse construction workers can set up market stalls because “there’s too much confusion about who owns what and works where, and it’s hard for players to understand that, for example, a gravedigger can own food stalls,” the developer Shang continued. Sorry, gravediggers, but you have to whip up your homegrown produce some other way. The amount of goods a market can supply is now also limited by the number of stalls (and therefore allocated storage buildings), with capacity shown on the market panel.

Stitches also introduced a stone well upgrade to the well and a secondary tavern, while changing the way ale and water were dispensed from the well and tavern.

This is just a small taste of the spicy compost in the update. Be sure to click on that Steam link to fill your horrified eyes with the gist. Sometimes when I read a changelog that’s too long, I feel like… Record changes in sequence. My brain began to feel like a country market, crowded with noisy cattle and sad gravediggers, desperately offering handfuls of turnips to anyone willing to accept them.

“Lord of the Manor” was launched in April last year, and the early access period is expected to last about a year. Using my remaining brain cells, which aren’t entirely focused on talking about archers, heist plots, and carnage right now, I’ve deduced that it will probably be out of early access in April 2025. Horse manages their Early Access program, check out our interview with one of the company’s founders.



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