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How can I get a manor built on my land?
1 of 9: After you travel to your new patch of land, look around for a set of house-building tools. (Note that there's a beginner's guide on the carpenter's workbench that you can read through if you want an overview of the house-building process.)
2 of 9: Start by using the drafting table to create a small house layout, then use the carpenter's workbench to create your house's foundation and wall framing. You'll need several sawn logs, some quarried stone, and a few nails for that. Fortunately, you already have several sawn logs handy, and there's some quarried stone in the chest.
3 of 9: After you finish the house's foundation and wall framing, a new "walls" item will come up. You'll need to make another batch of nails for it, plus get some clay out of the chest.
4 of 9: The next two items are the floor and the roof framing. Neither one requires any new materials, so you'll be able to make them quickly. The same goes for the roof itself. The door requires hinges, iron fittings, and a lock, but you can easily make all of those at your anvil using the last of the ingots from the chest.
5 of 9: Finishing the door will bring up several new outdoor items that you can make. Go into your newly constructed mini-manor to find an empty chest to store stuff in, plus a small workbench that can be used to create new indoor items. (Note that you might want to wait on making indoor items until after you finish the main hall, if you plan to build it soon.)
6 of 9: You can now use the drafting table to start work on your manor's main hall (and to remove the workbench from inside the house if you're done with it). You'll build the main hall in stages, just like you did with the starting house. No new types of materials are needed, so you'll already be familiar with how to get everything you need.
7 of 9: After you finish everything, you can enter the main hall through the new door that's in the back of the starting house. Look around to find that there are three separate workbenches (one on the upper floor) that you can use to make furniture and other things. There's another workbench in the cellar (if you built it), which is entered through the trap door that's near the NE corner of the main hall's ground floor.
8 of 9: Either before or after you finish building all the indoor items you want, check the drafting table to see that it has a whole bunch of new options. To start with, check the bottom option about remodeling the house as an entryway. If you do that, some of the items you may have made for it earlier will disappear, and others will be relocated into the main hall. Also, the workbench will be back, and it'll have some new options.
9 of 9: Most of the other new drafting table options have to do with adding on an east wing, a west wing, and a north wing. As the book on the carpenter's workbench explains, you have three options for each wing, and can use only one of them. For instance, the east wing can be an armory, a kitchen, or a library -- you'll have to choose which. Once you make a selection for a wing, use the carpenter's workbench as before to build it section by section.
