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For its Early Access release, Manor Lords has 11 trophies and achievements to unlock. These cover the usual spread of requirements and goals you’d expect from a city-building game, including completing certain scenarios, growing your settlement, and a few quirky oddities.
We’ll walk you through all the Manor Lords achievements along with a few quick tips to unlock them. Overall, the process isn’t too testing but will require quite a few hours of gameplay given Manor Lords is generally a slower paced experience.
Manor Lords trophies and achievements list
Here’s the full Manor Lords trophy and achievements list along with their descriptions:
| Trophy | Description |
|---|---|
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Change the church bell sound. |
| Defeat Hildbolt | Defeat the baron in the Restoring the Peace scenario. |
| Full Retinue | Employ 24 retainers. |
| Cheerful Metropolis | Reach 100% approval in a Large Town. |
| Survive the First Year | Face the winter and have your settlers not abandon you. |
| Challenge Accepted | Beat Restoring the Peace on Challenging difficulty preset. |
| Mercenary Captain | Beat Restoring the Peace with Mercenary units only. |
| Restore the Peace | Finish the Restoring the Peace scenario. |
| Start the Game | Big success! |
| The Merchant | Get to a Small Town Settlement Level without hunting or gathering berries. |
| The Vigilantes | Destroy a squad of brigands with a squad of militia in a non battle game mode. |
Manor Lords trophies and achievements guide
Below, you’ll find a few pointers to help you tick off each of the Manor Lords trophies and achievements.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
This one is as easy as pie. Start a new game or load up an existing save, then build a church. Any level will do. Click on the church and tap on the button to change the church bell sound to trigger the trophy.
Defeat Hildbolt
Fire up the Restoring the Peace scenario on any of the three difficulty levels. To get the trophy, you’ll need to claim one of Hildbolt’s territories (though not his main one as this will call up a larger army), which are outlined in yellow on the global map. He’ll declare war. Meet him on the battlefield and defeat him. We recommend enlisting the maximum of 5 army units plus a full retainer unit to make the fight easier.
Open up the Army menu at the bottom of the screen. Captured by VideoGamer.
Click on the Retinue unit then on the paintbrush icon for Retinue Customization. Captured by VideoGamer.
Tap the Recruit Men-At-Arms button to hire more Retinue. Captured by VideoGamer.
Full Retinue
Start up a new game or load up a save then build a Manor (available once you hit Small Village Settlement Level). Once the manner is built, you’ll have a small Retinue, a kind of private guard loyal to you, though you only get 6 to start. To employ 24 retainers, click on the Army menu at the button of your screen, select the Retinue unit and click the paintbrush Retinue Customization icon. This will open up a new menu. To hire a new retainer, click on the Recruit Men-At-Arms button on the left-hand side of the screen. Each retainer costs 50 Treasury (not Regional Wealth). Repeat until you’ve maxed out the unit to 24 retainers.
Cheerful Metropolis
Start a new game (set the difficulty to Relaxing to make it easier) or load up a save then grow your town to the Large Town Settlement Level, which requires 30 burgage plots level 1 or higher, 20 burgage plots level 2 or higher, and 15 burgage plots level 3 or higher. To reach 100% approval, make sure all your burgage plots have all the food and commodities they need, like Ale, Herbs, and Clothes, keep Manor taxes low, and make sure you have no homeless citizens.
Survive the first year
Start a new game on Relaxing difficulty. Establish a steady source of fuel and food, then wait out a year to get the trophy.
Challenge Accepted
This one will take some luck and determination as you manage unpredictable weather events, demanding residential requirements, approval penalties, and frequent raids from bandits. It’s arguably the toughest of the Manor Lords trophies and achievements. To complete the scenario, you’ll need to defeat Hildbolt von Bereneute in battle and claim all the territories as your own.
Mercenary Captain
Similar to the previous achievement except you can only hire Mercenaries to fight your battles. To hire a Mercenary, click on the Army menu at the bottom of the screen, tap the + sign on the right, and then the Hire Mercenaries button above represented by a hand dropping some coins. On the next screen, you’ll be able to hire any available mercenary groups.
Restore the Peace
To beat the Restore the Peace scenario, you’ll need to claim all the territories on the global map. This entails meeting Hildbolt out on the battlefield so make sure you have a steady armour and weapon production chain along with a full army with good morale before engaging.
Start the Game
Simply start a fresh game to unlock this one. We had some issues getting this to pop for us so there might be a bug here. Expect an update from Slavic Magic in the near future if that’s the case for lots of players.
The Merchant
What it says on the tin: reach Small Town Settlement Level without hunting or gathering berries. You’ll need to focus on farming wheat to produce bread or, alternatively, import all your food. Either option works here. The requirements for Small Town Settlement Level are 10 burgage plots level 1 or higher, 7 burgage plots level 2 or higher, and 3 burgage plots level 3 or higher.
The Vigilantes
For this one, you’ll want to load up a scenario with no enemies or battles, then treat your citizens terribly by having insufficient housing, a poor food supply, high taxes – anything to lower your approval. After a while, citizens will turn to thieving for survival and set up bandit camps out in the wild. Draft in a unit of Militia Footmen then attack a bandit camp to unlock the achievement.
