How do I make my village more wealthy?

[Ronincat]

I'm still early game and I am a vassal to Kingdom of Rhodoks and only have 2 fiefs. I was wondering how to make decrease their poverty

[Greythorn]

In general villages are black holes you throw money into. Just not worth it.
I usually decline being awarded villages to increase my chances on getting a town (probably captured by myself).

[TNDKing]

Just Do Quests For Them And Buld Things My Village I get 3K From! :)!

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

Improvments + Make sure they're not looted... even if I find that impossible myself on a long run, unless you commit yourself to stick around, which you barely ever can do...

[lionhart]

Originally posted by Greythorn:

In general villages are black holes you throw money into. Just not worth it.
I usually decline being awarded villages to increase my chances on getting a town (probably captured by myself).

This is the correct answer.

[Reno Story]

The thing about villages, sadly, is no matter how hard you try, any attempts to make village life dandy for the village folk is wasted due to the nature of the AI lords in the game, who are more than willing to burn down even their own people's villages if the village in question suddenly found itself under ownership of another kingdom.

At first, it really sucks to watch your personal village get burned down, but in due time it jumps back up and gets working as it had before. It may not make a lot of money, but that's what villages are: just a pinch of extra cash to pay the bills with. You can't expect to get rich unless you have a town of some sort.

I still remember how protective I was with my first village, often setting up camp nearby to watch over it, and feeling disppointed when it got blazed behind my back. But after awhile, you just kinda stop caring that much, because it's just gonna happen no matter what. Cycle of life, I suppose.

[Raveneye]

Yeah, like everyone else said, it sucks to be peasants in Calderia. If you have a ton of money to waste and refuse to abandon the town, I'd suggest building a mill in it. It increases the prosperity of the town meaning it will recover slightly faster after the inevitable raids on it. Also build a watch tower and messenger post so you can drop whatever you were doing and rush back to hopefully save it.

[Jim Lahey]

Villages are nothing more than troop factories. Screw those peasants. They don't like it then they can go somewhere else! "Oh wait..."

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

i hope villages are not so suseptable to looting in bannerlord
in real life there would be no one left in calradia if things went like they do

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

'forgot to mention but in some mods, like Gekokujo, you're allowed to give up fiefs you don't want anymore. Or even better, exchange it for a better located one.

[the smoking mค็็็็็n]

in PoP i have noticed that atleast they practise "rolling thunder" in that your faction villages only seem to get looted from thier border in if not stopped/defended,nice touch

[› Fae Viking Princess]

Originally posted by Greythorn:

In general villages are black holes you throw money into. Just not worth it.
I usually decline being awarded villages to increase my chances on getting a town (probably captured by myself).

I treat villages as a quick means to replenish troops and get early warnings of where enemy lords are. They start to raid it and I get a message saying such so I know which region of the map a particular lord is at the time. All I get is money from them as you don't pay anything for garrisons at them theres no point in not accepting them.


As marshall I've been able to protect large amounts of my own villages because. When I have 1 or two villages I can protect them alone myself. I use them to lure lords in so I can fight without having to venture into enemy territory where I am more likely to be ganged up on. Once I have defeated a few lords then I start moving into their territory looking for more fights while gathering up an army and getting the other lords in my faction to join me on and siege towns. Enemy AI seem to hate when you siege towns and will abandon raids to go after you.

[Miiiiiiiiiiiiike]

Villages typically are pretty hard to get anything good out from them.

But saying that all my villages, 7 or so of them are usually at around average prosperity, which is a decent 700 denar (I think). And when they are attached to my castles/towns, then it increases the prosperity of those aswell.

The way how I increase is by... Building a mill. Build a watchtower and messenger post meaning that you can respond to attacks quicker and village has more time before it is classed as looted.

Keep the area free of bandits. Make sure the farmers can get to the associated town.

Do quests for the villages.

So depensing on your village positions, and the factions strenght villages are a hit and miss. If the faction you are with is weak and loosing battles, investing time/money into villages is probably not worth it. If your faction is going well, it is probably worthwhile.