Manor Lords: My Best Burgage Plot Designs for Veggies & Orchards (Historical vs. Optimal)

What are the best burgage plot layouts for vegetables and orchards in Manor Lords? I tested historical-style burgage plots against my favorite optimized designs to find out which shapes actually deliver the best harvests. In this video, we build and compare multiple vegetable garden and orchard layouts, measuring planting costs, harvest yields, and the time families spend traveling between their homes and crops. I'll also demonstrate how to recreate these layouts using corpse pits and roads, including a modified orchard design inspired by Strat Gaming's earlier work. Subscribe to Tacticat Gaming for more Manor Lords experiments, city-building strategies, and in-depth gameplay. #ManorLords #CityBuilding #ManorLordsGuide CHAPTERS 00:00 Best Vegetable and Orchard Plots: Results First 01:50 Historical vs. Optimized Burgage Plot Designs 02:28 Strat Gaming's Original Orchard Design 03:28 Why Huge Orchards Underperform: September Harvesting 05:35 Building Historical Orchard Plots 09:24 Building Historical Vegetable Gardens 11:06 Building the Optimized Bender Plot 12:01 Expanding the Design and Improving Travel Routes 15:13 Comparing Orchard Planting Costs 17:35 Testing Larger Orchard Designs 20:09 Building the 4x3 Orchard Experiment 21:56 First Orchard Harvest Results 23:37 Vegetable Yield Comparison: 241 vs. 208 25:05 Retesting Harvests Across Different Years 26:24 Comparing Tree Counts and Harvesting Distances 27:42 Watching the September Orchard Harvest 28:56 Final Harvest Results and Best Layouts