How do i make a workshop successful

[ethancool2005]

I am a 200 level smithy, so i tried doing a smithy workshop, i would sell iron to the town my workshop was in so i could give my work shop more resources but my income keep fluctuating between 0 to 100, is there a way i have to input the resources directly into my workshop instead of through trade? i mean there at war so you think that being the only smithy in town would be profitable. And the town is next to were they are at war to and the settlement is not besieged.

[Action Man]

I recommend the search function. There's a lot of information in this forum alone.

[myperfectvictory]

Workshop mechanics are a broken mess. They aren't worth the time and stress.

[CoffeeBro]

Originally posted by Mr. A:

Workshop mechanics are a broken mess. They aren't worth the time and stress.

I agree. Personally, if I have to leave the game and research the topic. That's not fun.
I love X4 Foundations. Lots to understand. But once you get the mechanics of the economy, it just works. Not so in this game I find.

BTW I do understand that war effects workshops and caravans. Same in X4. But in Bannerlord, war happens and changes so fast, your workshops don't have a chance to grow.

Personally I think there needs to be fewer wars at one time. Plus there should be 3 states of diplomacy.
1) peace.
2) aggressive enemies but not all out war (no sieges, workshops and caravans are safe)
3) War. What we have now.

This way we can have our battles, have time to build incomes and later siege castles and cities. I think this would greatly help the economy.

cheers all

[ethancool2005]

Originally posted by Mr. A:

Workshop mechanics are a broken mess. They aren't worth the time and stress.

Well is there another way to have an income, selling weapons gives me a lot of denars but i lose most of that money from besieging settlements and not being at war at all

[Action Man]

Active Income > Passive Income.

Battle loot is how you're going to make the big bucks. Workshops, if you build smart, can bring in ~500 denars a day. Have 7 successful workshops, and that's 3500 income. By the time you can do this much, you can probably make a bunch more through proper fief management and winning battles. It's a nice bonus, but it probably won't be your main source of income.

Main things to look at for workshops: Have them utilize whatever materials the trade bound settlements make. If there are other workshops that make the same thing, your profits will suffer. Higher prosperity generally gives better returns. Don't set up shop in war torn areas.

Workshops are only stressful if you don't factor in what's going on around your workshop. Plan it right and you recoup your investment in ~50-75 in game days, and then it's all (albeit not a lot) free money.

[ethancool2005]

Originally posted by Action Man:

Active Income > Passive Income.

Battle loot is how you're going to make the big bucks. Workshops, if you build smart, can bring in ~500 denars a day. Have 7 successful workshops, and that's 3500 income. By the time you can do this much, you can probably make a bunch more through proper fief management and winning battles. It's a nice bonus, but it probably won't be your main source of income.

Main things to look at for workshops: Have them utilize whatever materials the trade bound settlements make. If there are other workshops that make the same thing, your profits will suffer. Higher prosperity generally gives better returns. Don't set up shop in war torn areas.

Workshops are only stressful if you don't factor in what's going on around your workshop. Plan it right and you recoup your investment in ~50-75 in game days, and then it's all (albeit not a lot) free money.

hmm ok thank you ill try to put my workshops in more prosperous areas

[ethancool2005]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

Originally posted by ethancool2005:

Well is there another way to have an income, selling weapons gives me a lot of denars but i lose most of that money from besieging settlements and not being at war at all

Sell horses

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951888980

Oh cool i did not know that, dang and i already have the perks to do this, if my companions had the perk to increase horse breeding chance would that increase my chances of getting a free horse?

[asdf]

Those are how workshops are "supposed" to work. It sometimes works like that, most of the time, it doesn't.
In reality, there always is "favored" workshop for each patch. You build that and it works just fine.

Sad news is, currently workshops are bugged. They don't make much money no matter how
hard you try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q642iEXl4eg

[ShadowFox]

Luxury goods, they don't fluctuate as much with war

[Catteus Of Mars]

grumble in the olden days workshops had box you could stuff with materials.... was too easy to use i quess :/

[BenShinobi]

Originally posted by asdf:

Those are how workshops are "supposed" to work. It sometimes works like that, most of the time, it doesn't.
In reality, there always is "favored" workshop for each patch. You build that and it works just fine.

Sad news is, currently workshops are bugged. They don't make much money no matter how
hard you try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q642iEXl4eg

I was wondering wtf was with Vlandia in my Sturgian campaign today...Makes a lot of sense about the lack of lord defections. They've literally got 12,000 troops and every other faction has no more than 5000. not even Sturgia, Battania (not much left of them), Western Empire & even Aserai are enough now to beat them back as we keep also declaring war on each other.

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by ethancool2005:

Oh cool i did not know that, dang and i already have the perks to do this, if my companions had the perk to increase horse breeding chance would that increase my chances of getting a free horse?

No, Breeder only works for the party leader.