The team behind the critically acclaimed medieval city builder Manor Lords continues to add new features to help players grow their kingdoms further, and one such feature is fishing. If you’re wondering how it works, here’s our handy Manor Lords fishing guide to get you started.
How to unlock Fishing feature in Manor Lords
fishing is a gameplay feature that is currently available through the experimental Beta Patch 0.7.987 for computer gamers. Anyone who has Manor Lords purchased and downloaded on Steam can participate. Unfortunately, this experimental patch is not currently available for those playing on Xbox consoles (Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S).
Also, it is highly recommended that you remove any mods of your game to avoid “interfering” with these beta features.
To participate in the beta patch test, follow these steps:
- Open Steam
- Right click on Manor Lords in your library
- Select ‘Properties’
- Go to the BETAS tab
- Enter the following password: veryNiceBasket
- Select “pre_release” from the “Beta participation” drop-down list.
- Wait for the game to update the files (if nothing happens, restart the Steam client)
- Launch the game
This will allow you to try out the game’s fishing feature among other new additions such as salt nodules and food spoilagealong with updates to graphics, lighting and sounds.
How to fish in Manor Lords
fishing it is a feature in Manor Lords that works similarly to hunting and berry picking. Depending on where you start a new save file, a Fishing knot will appear in a random region on the world map. If you want to access it right away, just restart a new save file until the node appears in your starting region.
The node itself is a large pond, typically in a wooded area of the region, and represented by a blue fish icon (seen above). To use it, you will need to build a Fisherman’s Hutwhich you can find in the ‘Meeting’ tab between the Forager’s Hut and the Apiary.
This type of development is available from the very beginning of a new save and only requires 2 x logs to be built so you can have one up and running in no time. As you should, as fishing knots are a great supplemental source of food for your settlement. It can help fill in the gaps when your hunting nodes (wild animals) get weak, or if you find yourself in wild berries or your farm fields need healing.
Be sure to hire at least one family at your Fisherman’s Hut, build proper roads and have granary and/or a Marketplace in relative walking distance, so you can use your fish ponds to feed your residents. Also, since food spoilage it’s a challenge to remember, make sure upgrade your Granariesso spoilage occurs less often, allowing your food to stay as high as possible.
If you want to keep your fish all year round, you will need to unlock Winter Fishing on the left side of your Development wheel (as seen above). This allows your fishermen to cut holes in the frozen pond and continue to collect fish from under the ice. You can use the very first Development Point you get to do this if you want.
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