When your coffers run dry in Manor Lords, your town’s future hangs in the balance. Regional Wealth isn’t just a number-it’s the lifeblood of your settlement, fueling everything from bustling markets to grand expansions. Whether you dream of thriving trade empires or simply want to keep your villagers prosperous, mastering the art of generating Regional Wealth is the key to turning your humble village into a flourishing medieval powerhouse.
What is Regional Wealth in Manor Lords?
Regional Wealth in Manor Lords represents the collective money held by your entire settlement, distinct from your personal Treasury as the ruler. This pooled currency is generated primarily by your region’s civilian population through upgraded Burgage Plots and by exporting surplus goods via Trading Posts. Regional Wealth is essential for your town’s development, as it is used to build workshops and gardens, pay taxes, import goods, and expand your infrastructure. Unlike the Treasury, which is your personal fund for actions like hiring mercenaries or settling new regions, Regional Wealth is the economic backbone that enables your settlement to grow and prosper.
Regional Wealth is basically a measure of how much cash your town collectively has. This has nothing to do with individual families selling stuff in the marketplace. Instead, it’s a more conceptual and larger-scale sort of cash used for paying taxes, importing goods, and attaining certain upgrades. (Regional Wealth is also different from your town’s Treasury – which is where the taxes are paid into, and is used for things like settling new regions or hiring mercenaries.)
By default, you’ll start a game of Manor Lords with 50 Regional Wealth – enough for an extra oxen and a couple vegetable gardens. Once you spend that, earning more takes a bit of work – it’s only generated by upgraded burgage plots and trade.
How to get Regional Wealth through upgraded burgage plots
Upgrading your burgage plots is one of the most reliable ways to steadily generate Regional Wealth in Manor Lords. When you upgrade a burgage plot to Level 2, it produces 1 Regional Wealth per family living there each month. Advancing further to Level 3 doubles this output, providing 2 Regional Wealth per family per month. Expanding the living space within these upgraded plots allows more families to reside there, further boosting your monthly income-for example, a Level 3 burgage plot with living space expansions can house up to four families, yielding up to 8 Regional Wealth per month from a single plot. This passive income accumulates automatically, making upgraded burgage plots a foundational strategy for growing your region’s wealth and unlocking new development opportunities in your settlement.
Wealth is more than just cash, so the first place you’ll start to generate Regional Wealth is by upgrading burgage plots in your town. Burgage plots (Level 2) generate 1 Regional Wealth per family per month. Upgrading again to a burgage plot (Level 3) gets you 2 Regional Wealth per family per month.
How to earn Regional Wealth by exporting goods
Exporting goods is one of the fastest and most reliable ways to earn Regional Wealth in Manor Lords. Once you’ve built a Trading Post, you can begin exporting any surplus resources your settlement produces, such as planks, hides, or berries. To do this, set a desired surplus in the trade menu-only goods above this amount will be sold, ensuring your town’s needs are met first. Exporting processed goods, like leather or shoes, yields even more Regional Wealth compared to raw materials, so focus on upgrading your production chains as your town grows. Establishing regular trade routes further boosts your income, providing a steady stream of Regional Wealth that can be reinvested into expanding your settlement.
Once you’ve got your town humming along and start to have a surplus of goods, you can begin earning more Regional Wealth through trade.
A trading post (which costs 4 timber) allows you to set up an import-export business. With one built, click on the Trade tab. There, you can click through the various kinds of goods – construction, crops, food, materials, commodities, and military. Next to each item, you can decide to import (pay out Regional Wealth to gain goods), export (send out goods to earn Regional Wealth), or full trade (either import or export to maintain your supply at the desired surplus). You’ll also have the option to establish a trade route – this just means that a travelling merchant will visit your town on a schedule as opposed to randomly.
Setting up a trading post – and, more importantly, earning Regional Wealth from it – requires you to have a healthy surplus of goods. Getting to that point means you’re going to have to build up your town’s infrastructure to the point where you’ll almost definitely have met the requirements for upgrading your burgage plots, so it’s better to start there.
What’s the fastest way to boost regional wealth early in Manor Lords
The fastest way to boost regional wealth early in Manor Lords is to build a Trading Post and export surplus resources you can easily produce, such as firewood, planks, or berries. Firewood and planks are particularly effective because they are simple to produce in large quantities with basic buildings, and selling them can quickly generate a steady stream of regional wealth before your settlement grows. Focus on keeping your population small at first to maximize surplus, and sell off excess resources through your Trading Post for rapid early gains.
How quickly can trading posts boost my regional wealth in Manor Lords
Trading posts can boost your regional wealth very quickly in Manor Lords, especially in the early game. By exporting surplus resources such as planks, firewood, or berries through a trading post, you can generate a steady income stream. For example, converting logs into planks and selling them can yield about 10 regional wealth per log, allowing you to accumulate 200-300 wealth in just 3-4 months if you focus your workforce on production and trading. The speed of wealth generation depends on how efficiently you produce surplus goods and keep your trading post stocked, but with active management, you can see significant gains within the first few months of gameplay.
