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- Leather is made using Hides at a Tannery
- Hides are gathered from Wild Animals via a Hunting Camp, imported, or as a passive yield from Goat Shed extensions
- Hides are also generated passively by burgage plots with Goat Shed extensions
In Manor Lords, Leather satisfies the first type of Clothing Stall Supply requirement and is used to produce Shoes at Cobbler’s Workshop. Unlike Yarn and Linen, which have a more involved and expensive production chain that includes the Weaver Workshop, Leather is quite easy to produce in vast quantities early on once you have your settlement up and running, giving you a surplus to trade.
Like many resources and commodities like ale, herbs, clothes, dye, and cloaks, actually producing Leather in Manor Lords requires several production buildings and steps. We’ll walk you through how to make Leather in Manor Lords.
How to craft Leather in Manor Lords
To make Leather in Manor Lords, you’ll need a Tannery. Hides are turned into Leather at a Tannery, which you can build by navigating to the Industry tab of the build menu at the bottom of the screen and requires x4 Timber. For x1 Hides, a Tannery will produce x1 Leather. The crafted product is then stored in your Storehouse(s) before being shipped off to the marketplace to be distributed to your burgage plots.
We recommend building a Tannery fairly close to your main Storehouse, your burgage plots raising goats, and a Hunting Camp to speed up transportation and improve overall Leather production efficiency. Having an extra Oxen is also recommended to speed up construction.
How to get Hides in Manor Lords
There are three ways to get Hides in Manor Lords:
- Hunting Camp
- Goat Shed Burgage Plot extensions
- Trade
The first way to do this is to build and staff a Hunting Camp. Workers will gather Hides alongside meat from Wild Animals. Though sometimes tricky, try to build the Hunting Camp as close to the Wild Animals spot as possible to cut down on transportation time. It’s worth investing Development Points in the tech tree to unlock Trapping and Pelt Extraction to get a passive income of Meat and Hides from Hunting Camps and Goat Sheds.
Tap a burgage plot then select construct a backyard extension. Captured by VideoGamer.
Tap the goat icon to construct a Goat Shed. Captured by VideoGamer.
Second, you can get Hides by constructing Goat Shed burgage plot extensions. Goat Sheds are available at level 1 burgage plots so you can set them up as soon as you’ve built your first batch of houses. Tap the burgage plot you want to upgrade, click the hammer icon to Construct a Backyard Extension, and then on the goat icon to build a Goat Shed for x25 Regional Wealth. The Goat Shed extension will passively generate a yield of Hides. Repeat for several burgage plots as needed.
The final way to get Hides in Manor Lords is to import them at a Trading Post. It’s the most costly option of the three as you’ll need a decent amount of Regional Wealth to sustain it so avoid importing Hides if possible.
Trading Leather
As we mentioned above, Leather in Manor Lords is an optimal resource to trade in exchange for Regional Wealth as it’s fairly easy to produce in large quantities, even early on. You can do this by constructing a Trading Post, selecting Trade, establishing a trade route, then changing Leather to Export and setting a Desired Surplus (essentially the minimum amount of Leather you want in your Storehouses for consumption by your citizens). Merchant will then visit regularly to take any excess Leather off your hands.
What is Leather used for in Manor Lords
Manor Lords is used in two ways in Manor Lords. Firstly, it’s the raw resource required by Cobbler’s Workshops, one of the artisan workshops you can build from at level 2 Burgage Plots, to produce Shoes. Secondly, Leather is also distributed to Burgage Plots by Clothing Stalls at the marketplace to satisfy the first Clothing Stall Supply requirement. It meets the Clothing requirement to upgrade from level 1 to level 2, hence why it’s so important to get early on.
