Drawing burgage plots: four points, two plots, snap to roads

About this game

Developer: Slavic Magic · Publisher: Hooded Horse · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

Manor Lords has no grid, and this frame is the system that replaces it. A burgage plot is drawn by dropping four points on the grass: the dashed outline bends around the road and the neighbours' fences, and the readout prices the gesture the moment it closes, Plot points 4/4, Burgage plots 2, Construction cost 4 timber. Inside the hatched outline the game pre-answers the two questions every plot raises: house glyphs show where the dwellings will stand along the road frontage, and house-plus glyphs reserve the extension slots behind them, so the backyard economy of gardens and workshops is planned in the same stroke as the houses. Around the drawing sit the mode's working tools, a hint bar that names every click (PLACE_AREA_POINT, Road connection point, HOUSE_POSITION, EXTENSION_SLOT), a SNAP TO ROADS toggle for players who want the organic shape disciplined, the building-card palette below, and at the right edge the OVERLAY list (Underground Water, Emmer/Flax/Barley/Rye Fertility) ready to recolour this same ground. Frame at about 0:32 in the Launch Trailer video (Steam), manually extracted at 31.5s: the scene-change pass emitted no frame inside the plot-drawing segment (its neighbours are the road spline at 28.0s and a street scene at 37.1s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

terrain-tool top-bar data-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Toolbar Grid List Portrait Resource bar Progress bar Slots Toggle

Screen inventory

• a freeform burgage plot being drawn on open grass beside the road in ZWEIAU: a dashed white outline with large circular plot-point nodes at its corners, its shape bent around the road and the existing houses, no grid anywhere
• the floating readout card at the plot's lower corner: 'Plot points: 4/4', 'Burgage plots: 2', 'Construction cost:' 4 timber, the drawn shape is priced and counted the moment it closes
• inside the hatched plot interior, two white house-position glyphs and two house-plus extension-slot glyphs mark where the houses will stand and where backyard extensions are reserved
• a road-connection line being drawn along the plot's top edge, with its own smaller circular nodes, tying the new plots to the street
• the hint bar under the scene naming every verb of the mode: PLACE_AREA_POINT, CANCEL, Road connection point, HOUSE_POSITION, EXTENSION_SLOT, with the SNAP TO ROADS checkbox ticked below it
• the OVERLAY list down the right edge: NO OVERLAY (selected), UNDERGROUND WATER, EMMER FERTILITY, FLAX FERTILITY, BARLEY FERTILITY, RYE FERTILITY, SMELL (WORK IN PROGRESS), FIRE HAZARD (WORK IN PROGRESS)
• the building-card palette at the foot (house, church and workshop cards over a category icon row) above the circular main toolbar, and GAME PAUSED under three alert chips below the top bar
• top bar in game state for ZWEIAU: unassigned families 1, housing 4, burgage plots 3 (+1), population 13, approval 41%, marketplace coverage 100%, 150, horses 1, and regional goods 116 / 135 / 110 / 0 / 82 / 70 / 100; the lord's portrait at top right with 333+0

Top 3 colors

#151612 23%#464226 19%#5c5733 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Slavic Magic / Hooded Horse, Manor Lords screenshot: Launch Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Hooded Horse.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: frame manually extracted at 31.5s from the pipeline-downloaded Launch Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); genuine in-game plot-drawing mode confirmed settled and legible (plot-points card, both glyph types, hint bar, overlay list and top-bar figures all readable; a probe at 32.5s shows the same mode a second later starting the next plot at 0/4, and the road-drawing shot at 30.0s precedes the segment); no trailer typography overlays the frame, the only text in the corner is the game's own EARLY ACCESS (0.6.97) version mark

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