Cloths are necessary for any peasant with modesty in Manor Lords, and it’s up to you to provide it to them. Using fleece from sheep is one such source for garb, and here’s how you can gain and keep sheep.
To farm sheep, you need only two things:
- A Sheep Farm
- A Livestock Trading Post
A pasture can be important too, but the farm itself is capable of holding 5 sheep. Not a lot, but it’s a start.
Once you have these established and have at least one family assigned to each one, click on your Livestock Trading Post, click the trading tab, and you can then set the number of sheep you want. Remember to select Import from the drop-down menu or Full Trade if you want to maintain a consistent population.
At that point, it’s a matter of waiting. Eventually, a sheep will arrive at your post. The family in charge of the Sheep Farm will come and obtain it and take it back to the farm or an available pasture.
How to use sheep in Manor Lords
To make yarn, you first need to wait until your sheep have been sheered by the families working at the Sheep Farm. This will create wool.
To turn the wool into yarn, you need a Weaver’s Workshop and a family working there. If you have the workshop, wool will be brought to it and the working family will turn it into yarn.
You can then either export the yarn or use it along with dye (made from berries at a Dyer’s Workshop) to create cloaks. These are made at a Tailor, which are built as extensions to burgages. The cloaks will then be sold at markets, satisfying nearby citizen’s need for clothes.
Note that your citizens don’t eat sheep. They are never turned into food.
How to fertilize fields with sheep
The best way to keep fields fertile is by allowing sheep to pasture on fallowing fields. To do this, you need to spend two development points on unlocking fertilizer in the development window.
Once you unlock fertilizer, your fields will have the “Fence Up option.” Use this, and it will turn the field into a pasture for your sheep whenever they are set to the fallow state.
Most importantly here, however, is that if you have a dedicate pasture for them built already, the sheep won’t be moved to the field. If you run into the problem where your field is fenced up and set to fallow but not sheep are grazing there, then demolish your pasture. The sheep will then be led to the field to graze and fertilize it.
