Forester's Hut - How to Build and Use

The Forester's Hut is one of the Gathering buildings available in Manor Lords. Learn what the Forester's Hut does, how to build and upgrade the Forester's Hut, and tips on how to use the Forester's Hut effectively here!

How to Use Forester's Hut

Plant Trees in Open Areas

When you assign a Family to the Forester's Hut, they will plant Trees in Open Areas within your settlement. This replenishes your Trees, allowing you to gather Lumber and Firewood without having to worry about running out of Trees.

Planted Trees become fully grown after about a year. It takes some time, but it ensures that your settlement remains self sustaining.

Trees: How to Get and How to Use

Stops Planting During Winter

Like Berries and Fields, Trees also stop growing during winter. During this season, the Family assigned to a Forester's Hut will act as an unassigned Family, guiding Oxes and Praying during their free time.

If you lack manpower in certain buildings, you can reassign the Family during Winter, just remember to reassign them to the Forester's Hut by March of the next year!

All Seasons and Weather Effects

Limit Workspace to Only Plant in One Area

Once your Forester's Hut is built and has a Family assigned to it, limit the Workspace to make sure they only plant trees in a specific area.

This ensures that they work immediately and not wander around looking for empty areas, as well as making sure that they do not plant trees on areas you want to build on.

How to Limit Work Area

Place Forester's Hut, Woodcutter's Lodge, and Logging Camp Close Together

Placing your Forester's Hut, Woodcutter's Lodge and Logging Camp in close proximity allows you to limit their workspace in the same area, ensuring that they do not chop down trees in other Areas.

Having all three buildings close together and having the same workspace also ensures that the travel time for the workers are roughly the same, making the delivery of supplies much more efficient.

Planting Trees Does Not Replenish Berries

Another reason why you should limit your Woodcutter and Logger's workspaces is because chopping down trees near Berry Deposits reduces the supply.

Attempting to manually re-plant trees around Berry Sources do not replenish Berry Deposits, essentially reducing one primary food source for your settlement.

Berry Deposits: How to Get and How to Use

How to Fix Forester's Hut Not Planting

Check the Current Season

One possible reason why Foresters are not planting Trees could be because of the Season. Foresters will stop planting Trees during Winter, and will resume planting by the start of Spring.

Change Limited Workspace Area

Another possible reason why Foresters are not planting Trees is because they cannot identify their Workspace. A quick fix for this is to simply set a limited Workspace, and they should immediately start planting Trees.

If they randomly stop working with an assigned Workspace, the area might be populated with Trees already, so consider changing the area, or assign Woodcutters to make room for new Trees.

Forester's Hut Description and Details

Forester's Hut
Type	Gathering
Can Be Moved?	Yes
Worker Slots	2
Description and Effects
Workers plant new trees in the specified zones.

How to Build the Forester's Hut

The resources and materials listed above are needed to construct the Forester's Hut. Make sure you have enough of them when building.

How to Upgrade the Forester's Hut

This building has no available upgrades in the current Early Access build of Manor Lords. Look out for any improvements in future updates!

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