The Trade skill, bartering, and exchanging settlements. The goal, other than amassing gold in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, is to increase your Trade skill. It’s even got perks that can boost 無名氏7588 Nov 23, 2021 @ 11:35pm. I think it will be good to have multiple ways to change a settlement's culture when the game comes out, like burning the whole place to the ground and start from zero, or slowly change it through migration and assimulation, and like kaeladran said, having quests that speed it up. #12. Keep the villages raided. Most settlement food production comes from the villages and a starving settlement takes a substantial malus to loyalty, not to mention the malus from low security. This works better than buying all the food, but they will hate you, which is a problem if you want to take over the town. The biggest source of construction is either prosperity or dumping money into the storage that drains over time to add construction. I think the governor only speeds up the construction by a percentage, but doesn't add any so it won't improve if it's 0 construction. Check your loyalty and security of the castle. So I suggest to get your first castle or city I'd join a faction, and help an army in a siege. Usually (but not always) that faction will give you the first location you help take in a siege battle as your first fief. Otherwise if you're going it alone, you want to out number the enemy defendants at least 2-1, And if you're having issues with I don't think it's in the game yet. You can fight the thugs in the flagged areas, after you kill them you can wait to fight reinforcements, afterwards you get some loot and typically a fancy type of steel which sells for about 1k. There isn't any option to take over the spot and often they'll instantly reoccupy it. Spend some time in town. Knock back some beers. Refresh the missus. Visit the brothel. Smith some weapons. And your people will heal. (Just kidding about the brothel. That was in Blood and Gold: Caribbean, which used the Warband engine. We need brothels in Bannerlord.) Try giving food to the nearest village and see if they transfer it to the castle. You can also go to manage castle and change the daily activity to irrigation for +1 food production. I also think there are stuff you can build to increase this. Some castles are buggy in that they actually have the map of cities. Having that fief and being boss. But you don't get to be boss without putting in the work. It's hard to put in the work when the garrison can be 3x larger than your own army and you can't call your companion's armies to come support you until you're ALREADY a lord. Also a castle shouldn't be considered a "settlement". That's very confusing. To get a settlement in Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord, you’re going to have to fight for it. You can approach the process in two ways. The first one is more direct, and is probably the way you should go. First, you have to go into a war with a faction. You do that by raiding their villages (in the Take a hostile action sub-menu) until they XpK4zJW.