Manor Lords Beta Hotfix 0.8.111 Cleans Up Farming Bugs and Crashes

The beta build also restores road-following behavior for ox carts and adds new interface styling.

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Official Manor Lords artwork showing a mounted lord overlooking a medieval village and surrounding fields

Manor Lords beta hotfix 0.8.111 focuses on the farming interface and several field-state bugs, while also addressing two crash sources. Slavic Magic detailed the changes in its official Steam announcement.

Field timeline tasks will now fade partially after they are completed and show a completed status when hovered. The hotfix also fixes cases where late-sown or large fields could not be harvested, field statuses stayed stuck between farming phases, and workers failed to resume after a field was burned and reset.

Other changes restore the high road-following preference for oxen pulling carts and have the AI buy the Herb Garden upgrade. New styling also reaches the Seasonal Assignment, Maintenance, Fuel, Yield, and Family interface elements.

The hotfix follows the 0.8.110 farming overhaul, which added the field timeline and made Crop Rotation mandatory in the beta. Version 0.8.111 continues that cleanup by making field information more accurate during sowing, growing, and harvesting.

Patch Notes for Manor Lords 0.8.111

The changelog covers farming status displays, AI behavior, ox cart pathfinding, interface presentation, crash fixes, and several problems affecting fields and hunting bonuses.

Minor changes

Field timeline tasks will partially fade out if they are completed already, and show as “completed” on hover. (beta)

AI

Will now buy the Herb Garden upgrade.

Balance

Added back that oxen with carts still have a high preference for following roads. (beta)

UI & Text

New styling for the Seasonal Assignment tab.
Adjusted styling of Maintenance, Fuel and Yield tabs.
Improved styling of the Family icon.

Crashfixes

Fixed crash from worker killed when Deep Mine collapsed. (beta)
Fixed potential crashes caused by texture soft reference garbage collection.

Bugfixes

Fixed Hunting Hound not giving bonus yield when getting back to Hunting Camp.
Fixed Winter crops showing “No Current Task” during Spring instead of “Growing”. (beta)
Fixed late-sown fields or large fields, not allowing harvest because they hadn’t grown enough. (beta)
Fixed fields newly built and sown in autumn showing “Harvesting” while they’re being sown. (beta)
Fixed opening a field during harvest while the game is paused showing “days til harvest”. (beta)
Fixed the “predicted yield” and “days until harvest” appearing at various months instead of when a crop was sown. (beta)
Fixed the field status not switching from Plowing to Sowing, and from Sowing to Growing, until certain dates instead of on task completion. (beta)
Fixed workers not resuming work if a field was “burned” and reset. (beta)

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Manor Lords is a strategy game that allows you to experience the life of a medieval lord. Grow your starting village into a bustling city, manage resources and production chains, and expand your lands through conquest.

Inspired by the art and architecture of late 14th century Franconia, Manor Lords prioritizes historical accuracy wherever possible, using it to inform gameplay mechanics and visuals alike. Common medieval tropes are avoided in favor of historical accuracy, in order to make the world feel more authentic, colorful, and believable.