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Manor Lordsis acity-builder strategy gamefeaturing several complex gameplay mechanics. New players to the genre can feel overwhelmed atManor Lords’confusing building systems. One such mechanic is the construction feature that allows players tobuild houses, mine resources, and eventually run sophisticated industries.
The Sawpit construction item is a technology players must build to produce planks. However, using the Sawpit effectively entails following a sequential set of steps. Fortunately, players struggling to figure out the Sawpit inManor Lordsshould find this guide helpful.
How To Build A Sawpit In Manor Lords
The Sawpit is the third ‘Gathering’ structure under the ‘Construction’ menu. Building the Sawpit is as easy as clicking on the structure’s icon and placing it at a specific location on the field.
Building a Sawpit requires two timber, acquired by setting up aLogging Campor importing the resource atTrade Posts.
Trading is expensive in the early game, so it’s best for players to skip it. Instead, building a Logging Camp and assigning a worker ensures aconsistent flow of timber.
How To Obtain Planks From A Sawpit
The Sawpit turns one timber into five planks, but it only stores one timber at a time in its storage. To speed this process up, build aStorehousethat stores a large inventory of resources.
Players should also doublecheck their Sawpits to ensure at leastone active worker is assignedto the structure. Since the game doesn’t notify workers' absence from structures, it becomes even more important to actively verifyworker assignments.
Meeting the criteria mentioned above, players can ensure consistent production of planks.
Why Sawpits Appear Bugged?
Players might sometimes notice that despite ensuring resource supply and assigning workers to Sawpits, the structure fails to produce planks. This typically occurs when the entire settlement uses one ox to haul wooden logs.
Since the game prioritizes construction over production, players might notice a halt in plank production when an active construction project is underway.
Should players desire plank production over construction, they can effectivelypause the construction. When all constructions are paused or completed, the ox focuses on transporting the wooden logs to the Sawpit.
How To Stop Ongoing Construction
Players can also assign priorities to structures under construction manually. A structure assigned the highest priority gets all resources and workforce concentrated, accelerating its construction.
The limitation to priority assignment is its unavailability on production structures like Sawpits.
