If you stream Manor Lords, you already know the problem. Your population is growing, your lumber is running low, your approval is dropping. The only way to show viewers any of that is to stop what you are doing, open a menu, and pan the camera away from whatever was actually interesting.
Most streamers either ignore it or build a fragile workaround that breaks constantly.
The manual approach and why it fails
The standard approach is to duplicate your game capture in OBS and crop each stat individually. One clone for population, one for lumber, one for food, one for worker status. It works until the game UI shifts slightly and your carefully positioned crops are showing the wrong thing or nothing at all.
Manor Lords makes this worse than most games because the UI changes constantly depending on what you are doing. Open the construction menu and the resource panel shifts. Enter a settlement view and the layout changes. Every UI state change means manually toggling sources on and off in real time while you are trying to stream, play, and talk to chat simultaneously.
Most streamers who try this approach give up within a few sessions. The maintenance cost is simply too high.
What you actually want to show
Before thinking about the technical solution it helps to think about what information actually adds value for viewers watching a Manor Lords stream.
Population and family count tells the story of your settlement growth. Viewers get emotionally invested in watching numbers go up.
Worker status shows whether your settlement is functioning or struggling. Unassigned families are a visible signal that something needs attention.
Resource levels create tension. Lumber running low while you are mid-construction is exactly the kind of information that keeps viewers engaged.
Regional stats like approval, treasury, and influence give context to your decisions. Viewers understand why you are doing what you are doing.
All of this information exists on your screen already. The challenge is getting it into your overlay cleanly.
A cleaner solution
Huudy reads your Manor Lords screen directly using computer vision. It finds your resource values, population counts, and worker status wherever they appear on screen and serves them as live data to a browser source in OBS or Meld Studio.
Setup takes under five minutes:
- Download Huudy free at huudy.app and install it
- Open Huudy and select Manor Lords
- Start your game. Huudy will begin reading the screen immediately.
- Click Copy URL in the Huudy app
- Add a browser source in OBS or Meld Studio and paste the URL
Your overlay is now live. Population, workers, lumber, food, construction materials, and everything else updates automatically as values change in game. No manual toggling, nothing to rebuild when the game updates.
Free to try, one-time to unlock
The Huudy app is free to download and run indefinitely. The free tier displays the first category of stats with a small watermark. That is enough to see whether it works for your setup before spending anything.
The Manor Lords plugin is a one-time purchase of $5 with no subscription. Purchasing removes the watermark and unlocks the full stat set.
What it captures
The Manor Lords plugin currently reads the following data live from your screen:
Population and family counts, worker status including assigned and unassigned families, and resource stocks covering lumber, food, fuel, crafting materials, commodities, construction materials, and other goods.
Regional status including treasury, annual royal tax, influence, and approval is also captured.
The result on stream
Your viewers see a clean overlay with live settlement data updating in real time. You keep the cinematic view. The construction menu opening and closing does not break anything. Game updates do not require you to rebuild your layout.
Download Huudy free at huudy.app. The Manor Lords plugin is $5, one-time, no subscription. Setup takes less time than reading this post.