On this page, we will detail which workshops are the best choice for each town, how to set up workshops, and which resources are the best for your towns.
Best workshops in Bannerlord for each town
The best way to optimise your gold income and resource output in Bannerlord is to ensure that you have the right type(s) of workshop in each settlement. On the table below, you’ll find the resource that each town produces the most of, the workshop you need to construct to take advantage of this, and how many villages feed the resource into the town.
What are workshops in Bannerlord?
Each town can produce certain resources better than others depending on the villages that are linked to that settlement. To take advantage of these resources, you can construct workshops to refine them into more valuable goods.You can learn more about settlements, and how to get your own in our settlements guide. If you need to make a new workshop in a town, head to the market areas. Look around and you’ll find an NPC labelled as a “shop owner”. You can buy the shop from them and assign it to be one of several types. Once you have developed some workshops, go into the trade menu in the settlement to see what is being produced. Here is a list of what each raw ingredient can be turned into:
Grain: Brewery > Beer Grapes: Wine press > Wine Olives: Olive press > Oil Cotton: Velvet weavery > Velvet clothing Flax: Linen weavery > Clothing Wool: Wool weavery > Clothing Clay: Pottery shop > Pottery Rawhide: Tannery > Light armour/Leather Hardwood: Wood Workshop > Bows/Arrows/Shields Iron Ore: Smithy > Weapons/Armour/Tools Silver: Silversmith > Jewellery
The idea is that there are certain villages that increase the production of resources in that town quicker than other resources. So if your villages specialise in producing grain for example, you should prioritise creating a brewery in that town to maximise its production of beer.
Whatever you produce a lot of can be traded between towns with caravans, and more information about trade can be found in our trade guide. Your Bannerlord settlements should now be producing a lot more resources to sell to other towns, and you’ll soon be sitting on a tidy fortune! If you want more Bannerlord guidance, be sure to check out our guides to Bannerlord sieges and Bannerlord quests before you go.
