How to trade and sell resources in Manor Lords

Doing business in Manor Lords is necessary to grow your town and influence. If you're ready to expand your home, here's how to buy, sell and trade resources in Manor Lords.

How to build a Trading Post in Manor Lords

To enter the global marketplace in Manor Lords, you must create a Trading Post. To do this, click on the build button at the bottom of your screen.

Next, select the “Trade” tab in the construction menu.

There will be two Trading Post options here. The first is the regular Business Mail, where most of your buying and selling will take place.

The second is the Livestock Trading Post, where you can buy and sell animals.

I recommend building both, especially since you can buy Livestock from the Livestock Trading Post for the regular Trading Post.

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How to trade in Manor Lords

The three most important are General, People, Advanced and Business. Start with the General, which allows you to assign workers to the Trade Post. Assign at least one family to start a Business.

The advanced section will allow you to do the same with bulls. If you only have one, I would recommend leaving it in town to build.

The Business Tab is where the real business happens. The business sections are divided by resource types, but each specific business consists of 5 elements.

• Business Type – The type of business is shown in the white box on the left. It allows you to choose between no trading, full trading, importing or exporting an item.
• Resource Name – The information in the red box shows you the name of the item that will be traded and its image.
• Premium Amount – The numbers in the blue box show how much of the item you currently own and how much you want to have after importing or exporting the resource.
• Import and Export Price – The green box shows how much a commodity will be sold for (export price) followed by how much it can be bought for (import price).
• Business Route Price – The yellow box is where players can unlock the trade route for a resource.

Types of Business in Manor Lords

The first trade type is “No Trade”, which means you will not buy or sell that item. Selecting “import” means you will buy that item from others while “export” means you will only sell that item. The last trade type is “Full Trade”, which means you will buy and sell the item in question. The amount of an item you will buy and sell is determined by the Maximum Amount you record for it.

Business Surplus

The Maximum Amount is the amount of resource you want to own. If you're selling an item but want to keep 30 of it in your storage, turn the Overage Quantity to 30. If you're buying an animal like a sheep, change the overage amount to the number of sheep you want to raise.

Change the Super Amount by pressing the (-) and (+) indicators or by directly typing the number into the Super Number field.

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Trade Routes in Manor Lords

Every resource in the game has the potential to unlock a Trade Route. Unlocking the Trade Route costs Regional Wealth, which can be obtained by doing things like upgrading the housing in your region. Unlocking a Trade Route makes a Traveling Trade visit every month to trade with you for the specific resource you unlocked the route for.

There are two types of businesses, the first being Small Businesses and the second being Major Businesses. I found that Major Businesses have much higher export than import prices at the cost of a lot of Regional Wealth. To combat this, I recommend using one of your Development Points for the Business Logistics development perk.

Now even Major Trades will only have a maximum Regional Wealth cost of 25. This gives you access to Trade Routes in the game that normally cost 60 Regional Wealth or even more. You will be able to craft and sell these expensive materials much earlier in the game than you would without the perk.

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