Mandate Order Laborers Guide – Workers, Assignments and Production
Quick answer
Understand laborers and workers in Mandate Order: assignments, building priority, storage distance, production efficiency, and why workers stop working.
How Laborers Work
Laborers connect buildings to the tasks that make a settlement function. They gather, haul, construct, farm, process, and support logistics. Assigning every person to a fixed production job can leave no one available for construction or transport.
Worker Assignment
When a building is idle, check the chain in this order:
| Check | Question |
|---|---|
| Assignment | Is a worker available for this task? |
| Access | Can the worker reach the building? |
| Input | Is the required resource available? |
| Storage | Is the route short and is capacity available? |
| Priority | Is another order consuming workers or goods first? |
How to Get More Laborers
Grow housing and food capacity together. Increasing population without reliable food creates a shortage, while building more workplaces without population leaves the production chain idle. Keep a small unassigned labor reserve for hauling and urgent construction.
Building Priority and Efficiency
Prioritize food, timber, storage, and critical construction before optional expansion. If production efficiency falls, reduce a low-priority assignment temporarily and see whether the main chain recovers before adding more buildings.
Why Workers Aren't Working
The cause is usually not the worker itself. Inspect access, distance, input availability, storage capacity, and competing priorities. A worker cannot solve a route that has no destination or a building that is missing its input.
FAQ
How many laborers do I need?
Keep enough unassigned capacity to support construction and hauling. The right number changes with settlement size, farm season, and military activity.
Why are my workers idle?
Check whether the task is reachable, has inputs, has storage capacity, and is still the highest-priority available job.
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