Manor Lords Rich Deposit Guide, How to Use Every Rich Deposit

As players get rolling in Early Access, one of the most critical impacts on each new game in Manor Lords is the Rich Deposits you'll have access to. While Manor Lords has a fixed world map at this point, your Rich Deposits on each new game can vary widely.

With factors like the global economy to consider while trying to build up your own settlement and rake in Regional Wealth, knowing the best Rich Deposits in Manor Lords can help you decide to get rolling or restart with a new configuration. We've got details on every Rich Deposit in Manor Lords below so you can strategize from the start.

Best Rich Deposit in Manor Lords

Every resource in Manor Lords has a purpose, but two definitely stand above the rest as the ideal options to set your settlement up for success. The overall layout and geography of Manor Lords stays the same, but every single new game you create will have a different distrubition of standard and Rich Deposits of resources.

If you want the best shot at getting rolling quickly, you want an Iron and Berry Rich Deposit. Berries are a critical early food source, as you can gather them immediately and won't have to wait for the setup and harvesting required for crops.

On the other hand, a Rich Iron Deposit is extremely valuable. You'll have an endless supply of iron ore which can then be turned into Iron Slabs, Tools, Sidearms, Spears, and Polearms. You'll be able to regularly keep your own army supplied with weapons, and all the excess provides a variety of trade options to boost your Regional Wealth.

In total, there are five different resources that can have a Rich Deposit in Manor Lords. Below, we'll go over each one and how you can make the most of them.

Rich Berry Deposit

If you've got a Rich Berry Deposit, one of your earliest buildings should be a Forager Hut. While you can definitely offset with other food sources and use a different path, the Forest Management development perk will help you net a huge influx of berries every season.

Once you have that perk, it's good to build a second Forager Hut. When berries regrow each spring, you can fill up the huts with workers to mass harvest and then allow them to keep growing and get a second chunk right before winter arrives.

Just be very careful not to strip away the trees around your berry deposit, as it can be destroyed by deforestation. Setup your logging industry a good distance away, or be specific about using Limit Work Area to ensure no one is chopping trees too close to the berries.

Rich Iron Deposit

The next best option, as mentioned above, because of the versatility and value in outfitting your army. Build a Bloomery nearby to cut down on travel time for workers making Iron Slabs, and then build a Smithy or the Blacksmith's Workshop for a burgage plot's backyard extension. The latter is more versatile and key for army building, but wait until you can spare the artisans and resources to actually use it.

The Deep Mining development perk can be useful for a long-term game, but you don't need it right away. You can net six Development Points as you upgrade from a Settler's Camp all the way to a Large Town, and you'll need two of those to get Charcoal and Deep Mining. However, it takes a long time to deplete a Rich Iron Deposit, so you may prefer to go without the perk or save it for when your settlement is larger and the deposit is actually close to being depleted.

Rich Wild Animals Deposit

One of your early builds should be a Hunting Camp no matter what, as you'll want the meat and hides netted from a Wild Animals deposit. Make sure to build a Tannery nearby, as this is one of the easiest ways to get a regular supply of clothing in your marketplace early on.

You need to be careful not to strip away the woods around them with a logging industry, but you can also just simply force them to migrate if the deposit's position isn't ideal. If you start to build literally anything overlapping with their position, the Wild Animals deposit will immediately migrate and move to a different spot on the map. You don't even have to build anything, just place it and then demolish before it's built and the deposit will move. You can repeat this until it's where you want it.

Finally, you can amplify your Wild Animals Rich Deposit with the Trapping, Advanced Skinning, and Pelt Extraction development upgrades. However you utilize the deposit, keep the population from ever dwindling too far past a minimum of eight. If the deposit needs time to breed, move your workers elsewhere in the interim. Once you've built a Manor, you can also enact the Hunting Grounds policy to help them breed faster, but it'll temporarily impact your crop yields while active.

Rich Clay Deposit

Also one that can be utilized with the Deep Mining upgrade if desired, having a Rich Clay Deposit in Manor Lords is going to be helpful particularly in ensuring you have a regular and easily accessible supply of Rooftiles or Clay Tiles. These are required for a handful of building upgrades, including uprading a Wooden Church into a Small Stone Church and leveling up your Burgage Plots.

Unfortunately, as of now the Manor Lords Early Access build doesn't have much other use for clay. You can export clay or Rooftiles with a Trading Post, which is a good income source if you've got a Rich Clay Deposit, but anyone with a standard deposit should be careful not to run out and be forced to import rooftiles or clay at high prices.

Rich Stone Deposit

Lastly, the least valuable option in the Manor Lords Early Access build is a Rich Stone Deposit. While you do need Stone for a handful of buildings, there's not much value so far. The Trading Post does indicate that Blocks are a tradeable construction material, so a building that allows workers to process Stone into Blocks may show up in a future update.

As a result, you'll mostly just be ensured Stone for building and can net a small amount of money exporting Stone early on that you gathered with a Stonecutter Camp. It's not the most efficient or useful path, but as of now it's the best way to utilize a Rich Stone Deposit in Manor Lords.