Thanks for visiting my channel and watching this tutorial! How do you like these tips and tricks for building walls and towers? Do you think these are helpful? Will they help you build your own walls and towers around your base or your village?
I think this is quite helpful, I really like how you went into the history of each design and spoke upon the customs of what soldiers would do, you’ve really done your research and it shows
Super helpful, excited for the next one! How are you moving on diagonals when flying?in creative you can only move back and forth on the same plane parallel to the floor. But when you move back while flying and looking down, you also move up it looks like
@@dhirom1789 Thanks! I, um, don’t know actually. 😅 I thought I could always move diagonally in Creative but if that’s not the case, I’m using the Axiom mod and it adds the building tools you see me use and also changes flying speed, so that’s be my guess.
It’s pretty cool that you can go through the logical thought process of how you would deal with mobs in Minecraft and come up with the same design people used in real life to deal with enemy armies. Really helps put into context why people designed things the way they did.
Whoa. The fact that you designed the wall based off the threats you were defending against, and not based off of threats humans were defending against 500-1000 years ago, makes this so much cooler...
@dudieboy I love these tutorials! How do the walls stand up to Phantoms? I usually get busy mining, and often return to the Keep, only to get ambushed by the giant scarey birds.
@@eric.c.bullock I wouldn't think the player would do well on the top of the wall against phantoms if you just have battlements. However, if you add a parapet roof, (I think the name is if I remember correctly) that's like the wooden roof some towers would have but atop the main wall would function to limit the angle of attack the phantoms have.
briliant tutorial. you're not showing us how to build, you're walking us through the ACTUAL process. the convergence on real world castle walls is also facinating and shows that they are a lot more functional than decorative. and the fact you're giving us a genuine history lesson in the process. love it! :)
btw, could you please make a tutorial (with explanations oc) to how a dispenser elevator works? i tried to build an auto sorting storage using one, but for some reason my elevator worked faulty and i don’t understand why - items would drop around the first dispenser! thanx!
For real. When looking up Minecraft tutorials, I always go for the ones with between 1k and 5k views. For some reason, these guys are the best teachers.
I'm a huge history nerd and I've studied castles from several countries in depth. When I clicked on this video I expected some art kid to say "here's how I make a super cool wall!" that would be greater harm to the user than good, but when I watched it you actually explored some historical, defensive principals and I'm both surprised and very pleased.
I love seeing Minecraft base design re creating defensive philosophies from medieval architecture. Crenellations, machicolations, buttresses, arrowslits, and murder-holes all making a comeback.
That wall and tower was beautiful. I procrastinate on walling off my villages because i can never build a functional yet ascetic wall. Thanks to you that has changed. Im fortifying my precious town with these designs now. Amazing work and tutorial.
I really like how you presented everything. Not only is it easier to understand _(as several others have already pointed out)_ but it also makes it easy to take the core concepts and play around with them to make their own unique designs, which is really cool :)
Actually peak minecraft. I love making things realistic-ish like this despite the game's sandboxy logic. This video also serves as a nice way to teach about castles, the next episode needs garderobes!
Minor observations for others: A moat reduces how tall the actual wall needs to be. Additionally, the interior landscape doesn't have to be as low as the exterior. So the interior can be comfortably tall enough to climb the walls, while the exterior is deep and insurmountable by mobs. Though, bear in mind that most Minecraft mobs won't get trapped in moats that easily, which might defeat the purpose if you're trying to bait in skeletons up against the wall where it's hard for them to attack you.
I’m a castle guy so I recognize how well your conveying accurate info, but you also taught me a bit about using buttresses in Minecraft. I never use them but they do make builds look pretty and I’m gonna need to up my game on that front if I’m gonna learn the Gothic aesthetic
If you use stairs next to the walls, you can further widen that gap to allow for greater shooting range than the slit provided using a stone brick block and stone brick wall.
I love the practical building for effective protection from mobs! I really enjoy how you have a very nice way of breaking down the build and explaining it in such a way that follows logic. I've never really enjoyed build videos but this was nice! Also really enjoyed the calm but engaging pace of the video!
This is legit the best building tutorial I've ever seen, love how you applied good old logic and referenced real life architecture to guide the viewers through the thought process instead of just giving a blueprint with no explanation and tons of pointless fly-by's, 10/10 execution!
I'm really enjoying that you're explaining why you design something in a certain way instead of just what you're designing. I havent got plans to build a castle but maybe I will now!
Y'know, I came here from the spiral staircase video, and I greatly agree with a comment somebody else put; I'm glad you communicate clearly, but also in a concise fashion. You move quick, but not so quick you lose audience. You have gained a subscriber today. Also, I love that you convert meter to foot, so everyone gets it. I'm totally using this layout idea in the castle I'm building around my local village.
I have started using wall blocks on the corners of 5x5-9x9 towers to make them look way rounder, I really like how it looks. although it makes them look too round on larger circles.
Man you are so underrated. I love how you made it easy to follow while throwing in some history facts. Im in a Minecraft server with a few friends and we all decided to build castles. For me, i decided to take bits and pieces of building tutorials and put them all together to build my castle. These walls will definitely go great for aesthetics and battle functionality. Thanks 👍
Hey man. Congratulations this is a great video. I've never seen nobody in minecraft comunity explain in details based on historical facts how to build anything. A further more, you have a great didatics on teathcing things in a simple but deep way. Please keep doing this great job! I'm already anxious for your next tutorials
it's clear you've put a lot of thought and planning into these videos, and you've put them all together in a way that's easy to understand, excellent work! I think it's neat how historical concepts for fortification can still be relevant, even if only in a video game- I'll be looking forward to the castle tutorial!
clicked for a quick tutorial on how to build walls in my survival world... stayed for history channel, great calm voice, and I feel that I'm going away with actual knowledge on how to build walls and towers that I like without looking at a tutorial ever again. Thank you Sir! 💪
Loving your channel and how interesting it is to watch your videos! I actually prefer watching you play minecraft to playing it myself (my pc is out of action, but that’s not the main reason). It’s been like 10 years since I actually found it therapeutic and entertaining enough watching a video that I find it more interesting than playing the game itself. I also love how you go into historical accuracy of your builds as I always learn something. (also your voice and delivery is super calming). Thanks! -a 12-year minecraft veteran
One of my favorite videos for Minecraft, by far. I just love how you slowly add on things, giving reason for all of them. That refresher on the practicality (I watch Shadiversity) really helps me visualize what I want.
With the style of presentation here and in the earlier spiral stairs tutorial, I think a video of different roof types (gabled, pitched, flat..) would be a nice addition. There are tutorials out there already, but none that quite mix in real world technique and practicality - with aesthetics. And none that explain how you might turn an A shaped roof into a rounder barn roof. 😊
I Love designing bases to be defensible! It's interesting how you can still pull from ancient castle-building techniques and implement them effectively in the game. Most of the time it works against players too! For instance, the overhangs block ladders, and you could build the wall out of obsidian to prevent breaking. Alternatively, you could fill the inside of a wall with lava. It's just interesting stuff to me. Great video!
As someone who loves building in the medieval style, I absolutely LOVED this video! Castles and fortifications are like my bread and butter. I actually built my own castle in my survival world trying to use historical designs in the build and often looked at videos about medieval castle design for ideas from channels like Shadiversity. What I came up with is very similar to what you built here. For the machicolations, I used stairs at the top of the wall to create a gap below each crenulation. My design makes it harder to hit mobs that are right up against the wall if it's built too high, but it ensures the archer stays in full cover while aiming through the machicolations.
tip for detailing the backside of the wall, replace some of the logs with barrels to give a look of iron bands being added on to increase support. i can't wait for a castle vid!
The issue with that design, if you’re building a wall around a village anyway, is that all of the villagers will become fishermen. Same reason I never use anvils or grindstones as decoration blocks.
Yeyy now i finally can start building my castle! As someone from a country that has quite the history from medieval Europe it's very interesting those historical facts
Pretty nice and helpful video here. I remember fiddling with castle building in Minecraft a couple of years ago. Wonder what can you tell about building barbacans/gatehouses.
I love this so much for all the reasons everybody else has already stated. but more than that, I'm the kinda weirdo who gets hangups about minecraft building techniques that don't "feel right". Like when people in the community use mushroom, coral, wool, and other random weak materials purely for the aesthetics without considering things like whether it'll burn away in a lightning strike, or if an enderman might try to snatch it one night. But this, this is a fantastic demonstration of form from function. It shows how the raw shape of things can be meaningful without all the wacky modern block palettes .
When I started my Hard world on Xbox 360, these are the lessons taught by the first few nights of barely surviving. And this is a good refresher for me after only playing Creative since the Xbone release.
This style is great. I can't say I'm that interested in your other content. If you were to expand this concept to apply it to other considerations, such as players. (IE, if the players have these tools, here is how you would combat it... Think sand in the interior of the wall or protections designed to work well against players with elytras.) I think you would find a lot of people would stay and watch those videos rather than you happening to just get lucky with the algorithm. You briefly touched upon it with the length of logs, but having videos on different "limitations" you would run into (what is the average height of a log of each type and what is the maximum?) as well as how to work around them would be another fantastic addition. Perhaps information on "realistic" supporting industries, like a quarry. I'm confident that there is a pretty decently large "soft-rp" group out there who would love to include those sorts of considerations into their designs. Tying those considerations into real world considerations would also be a potentially entirely different, yet heavily overlapping, series. Well, all of that to say that if you were to have series like those, unless the production quality was significantly lower than what you have in this video, you would likely jump up to one of my favorite channels. I'm confident enough in the demand that if you don't pursue the idea, I just might, though it would be awhile before I could get started on it...
I have an old city wall I never finished building the city for, and I made it three blocks high so it was tall enough to repel creepers but not so tall I'd take fall damage falling off, did the thing with alternate crenellations with overhang, but I now know what it was lacking that would have saved a lot of trouble: murder holes. Gotta add murder holes to my old castles now. Oh, though something I always did was add a bit of extra foundation to the bottom to prevent zombies from using the wall as shade.
Yo, great video. Solid explanations with historical precedent. Presented clearly and the results look good, too. I think you'd get a lot of traction if you continued producing videos in this vein.
Like others, I really like that this build is both pretty and functional! So many builders are only thinking of the aesthetics. It's going to be fun adapting these ideas for my castle since I'm playing Minecraft indev versions and I'm super limited on blocks.
This is a really cool tutorial, I have some issues with it though: Mobs aren't very hard to deal with, and you can prevent them from being a problem in the first place simply by placing torches or other light sources. It's more efficient too because you don't use durability from your bow or drain your supply of arrows. Or need to build an elaborate base defense which costs considerably more resources than torches. Players have enderpearls and pickaxes, the speed at which they can bypass defenses entirely is simply too great. I have no issue with this video in terms of historical realism and building advice, but rather an issue that the game itself doesn't push you into doing this at all. Rather making the path of least resistance an incredibly boring task of placing torches.
This was amazing. I struggle at building in Minecraft, and really want to be able to build a lot of medieval structures. I decided to subscribe to your channel because of this tutorial.
I love your tutorial style. It’s just a bunch of general info with an actual tutorial so that it people want to do their own build they can. It’s absolutely amazing
Hey! I REALLY love this video, especially how you explain WHY you do things throughout the video, I always used to make shitty horizontal entrances in the corners of my castles until you explained why they wouldnt be put there. I was wondering if you could do this for the rest of a 'kingdom' ? Like how houses would be structured or how a market might look etc!
A few years ago I did some trail and error and ended up making a similar looking wall. It was different of course but mostly the same. Also I used right side up stairs under the walls and replaced the walls with upside down stairs for the matriculation’s. Might use these tips to make a more interesting looking castle next. Thank you
Excellent video, honestly I'm surprised you don't make this a guide series, maybe perhaps taking the interest of recreating castles or complex pre-modern iconic structures such as castles and showing the historical love and respect you have for them and how you would implement them into minecraft.
I really like the last two videos you made. As a fan of the medieval style and a fan of good explanations, you are a breath of fresh air. I'm excited to see how you tie everything together. Also looking forward to how you make a door
Never thought I’d see a minecraft tutorial this late in its revolution and just get so much detailed, practical and accurate detailing. This is sensational
Hello, wonderful tutorial! I'm interested in how did you add the texture to the walls that contain cobblestone, stone bricks, andesite and stone blocks? Did you do it manually or did you use a command? And how did you raise the walls with just one click at 7:59? What mod is that?
this video is... perfect. the difficult i face with such buildings is usually how to build them in multiplayer survival because often all the materials arent available together or im frolicking with friends lol.
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Thanks for the neat video! I appreciate the practicality of the design and the historical references. The medieval architects would probably have loved to have Minecraft around to practice on their designs.
I can't wait to see more guidance on the entire process of castle building! This video and your stairs video have been incredible guidance when it comes to building my castle walls, being practical, historical, and beautiful all at once!
I really love this semi historical/realistic building style and even though I've been constructing my walls in a very similar fashion to this for years there are still some small details in your videos I hadn't considered so far - subbed and looking forward to seeing more! 👍🏻
i'd be so happy if you included photo references to each point, like machicolations for example, it'd be very enriching to see the minecraft interpretation vs the real thing side by side as you build
Thank you for your inspiration and little tidbits of history. Your videos are fascinating and I am even translating some of these skills into builds I make myself. I have used more spiral staircases, more towers, and you taught me about buttresses and machicolations today. I always struggled to find a way to shoot mobs under my walls and never thought to use walls between them to create those little arrow gaps! Thank you, again, you're sparking my creativity and turning me from a rookie Builder into a full on Architect in minecraft. You even show how to make things efficient too!
I just came back to minecraft after around year and a half break and decided that this time im gonna build a castle, so this is very helpful and incredibly convenient, thank you!
i like that youre teaching us good looking and well functional medieval builds which can be fully customizible. i wont be suprised if this series gets to teach us how to build a cool medieval multiplayer RPG map. someone could easily add a few command blocks and boom youve got a nice map in minecraft. I will not expect that you make this series into building a RPG map but the way its going it does look like it!!!
Excellent tutorial that will really help me, as a definite struggling builder. The science of your tutorials is super interesting. Thank you for all the effort 👍🇬🇧
Love these - I'm definitely going to be rethinking how I build my walls. Do you have any idea how well they'd do during a raid? I'm trying to make the perfect (protected) village, or as close as I can manage. Curious about traps around the outside as well (for raiders mostly)
Thanks! That would be difficult because a raid can spawn between something like 13 to 1024 blocks from the player, so it’s difficult to spawn a raid outside your city walls, which would make more sense, right? A raid suddenly appearing inside your walled village means you’ve walled yourself inside with them. 😱 Seems to me the only way to control raid spawning is on a small artificial platform in the middle of an ocean, like I built in some of my other videos.
You can widen the machicolations by using a stair block. It'll still give you protection while allowing you to shoot further out instead of straight down.
Hello again so something I noticed with your walls you do not have a way to shoot down the corner leaving a blind spot you can avoid this by putting a diagonal block on the corner putting the embattlement one over on each single one causing your center to actually have a Machicolations instead of a Merlon with Crenellations space around the tower and corner if you want an example my own tutorial Shows how I managed it but also I do thank you for the tip on using the walls was very helpful to use along side my own designs which means I mixed both designs of embattlements. Thanks again for your time much appreciated
My freakin god, this is so informative! I'm absolutely saving this tutorial in a playlist! One thing I wish you'd have addressed here though is how to implement these tips on diagonal walls. Maybe with clean 45 degree angle and with buttresses as separate sections, for smoother diagonal. This would be very helpful when working with complicated terrain. Maybe even briefly touch circular walls at some point?
so glad i stumbled across your channel! watched the spiral stairs video then this one, and your instructions and explanations are so clear and straight to the point, love it!
Are you a teacher? cause I feel like your explanations are so clear and concise, and it's so easy to follow your tutorials and they're so awesome! I love all the work you do, thank you for this awesome tutorial!
Excellent tutorial. Subscribed. Your style of progressive learning, and building each new lesson on top of the previous concept, is undoubtedly helpful. Greatly appreciated. Thank you! A "roofing basics" tutorial would be awesome!
As I previosuly commented on other videos, i love the way in wich you explain things! Also with an historical explanation on why things are like they are, just wonderful!!
you know its a great minecraft build tutorial when you come out knowing WHY medieval fortresses look like they do. excellent video, one of the best build guides ive seen. any chance you could do one on building gatehouses?
Kinda neat you're showing me so many things I've been wanting to build - I'm not sure if I'll ever pick MC up again at this point, though. I'm thoroughly enjoying your videos, though! And if I ever get back to it I'll have new things to build! ^^
Thanks for visiting my channel and watching this tutorial! How do you like these tips and tricks for building walls and towers? Do you think these are helpful? Will they help you build your own walls and towers around your base or your village?
I think this is quite helpful, I really like how you went into the history of each design and spoke upon the customs of what soldiers would do, you’ve really done your research and it shows
@@bruh1619 Thanks so much!!
Super helpful, excited for the next one!
How are you moving on diagonals when flying?in creative you can only move back and forth on the same plane parallel to the floor. But when you move back while flying and looking down, you also move up it looks like
@@dhirom1789 Thanks! I, um, don’t know actually. 😅 I thought I could always move diagonally in Creative but if that’s not the case, I’m using the Axiom mod and it adds the building tools you see me use and also changes flying speed, so that’s be my guess.
It‘s brilliant! Thank you. This helps me a lot with building my own MineColonies Style pack.
It’s pretty cool that you can go through the logical thought process of how you would deal with mobs in Minecraft and come up with the same design people used in real life to deal with enemy armies. Really helps put into context why people designed things the way they did.
Glad you like it!
@@dudieboyit’s marvelous really
Yea medieval engineers really did pioneer spawn proofing and spider proofing medieval walls
@@agravemisunderstanding9668 For the spider proofing, it would be important, as ladders were often used to climb over them
Maybe real life is Minecraft??? 🤔
Whoa. The fact that you designed the wall based off the threats you were defending against, and not based off of threats humans were defending against 500-1000 years ago, makes this so much cooler...
Thanks!
@dudieboy I love these tutorials! How do the walls stand up to Phantoms? I usually get busy mining, and often return to the Keep, only to get ambushed by the giant scarey birds.
@@eric.c.bullock I wouldn't think the player would do well on the top of the wall against phantoms if you just have battlements. However, if you add a parapet roof, (I think the name is if I remember correctly) that's like the wooden roof some towers would have but atop the main wall would function to limit the angle of attack the phantoms have.
briliant tutorial. you're not showing us how to build, you're walking us through the ACTUAL process. the convergence on real world castle walls is also facinating and shows that they are a lot more functional than decorative. and the fact you're giving us a genuine history lesson in the process. love it! :)
Thanks!
@@dudieboyplease we would like the next video in the series
@@PattySeaLegs I been cooking, it's almost done!
@@dudieboyI have a problem waiting. Lol. Do you know when it might be uploaded to TH-cam?
@@PattySeaLegs Shooting for this week!
Maybe it's just me, but your explanations just make so much more sense than some other building guides
Awesome, thank you!
definitely not just you lmao, these are great
that’s because he gives explanations and not just instructions 😊
btw, could you please make a tutorial (with explanations oc) to how a dispenser elevator works? i tried to build an auto sorting storage using one, but for some reason my elevator worked faulty and i don’t understand why - items would drop around the first dispenser! thanx!
For real. When looking up Minecraft tutorials, I always go for the ones with between 1k and 5k views. For some reason, these guys are the best teachers.
I'm a huge history nerd and I've studied castles from several countries in depth. When I clicked on this video I expected some art kid to say "here's how I make a super cool wall!" that would be greater harm to the user than good, but when I watched it you actually explored some historical, defensive principals and I'm both surprised and very pleased.
Glad to hear, thanks!
I love the way you go over the reasoning behind each design choice. So much easier for my brain to hang on to and adapt based on my own needs!
Awesome, thanks!
I love seeing Minecraft base design re creating defensive philosophies from medieval architecture. Crenellations, machicolations, buttresses, arrowslits, and murder-holes all making a comeback.
If your wall is stone on the outside, and you've got the redstone to spare, lava dispensers can be fun, if impractical.
That wall and tower was beautiful. I procrastinate on walling off my villages because i can never build a functional yet ascetic wall. Thanks to you that has changed. Im fortifying my precious town with these designs now. Amazing work and tutorial.
Thank you, glad it helped!
I really like how you presented everything. Not only is it easier to understand _(as several others have already pointed out)_ but it also makes it easy to take the core concepts and play around with them to make their own unique designs, which is really cool :)
Thank you!
Actually peak minecraft. I love making things realistic-ish like this despite the game's sandboxy logic.
This video also serves as a nice way to teach about castles, the next episode needs garderobes!
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I love watching you place blocks 15 meters away, looks like you consumed the essence of the crab after it lost the mob vote
The way you go over historical architecture is really great. I like learning about this stuff, especially when it’s presented in such a fun way!
Thank you, I’m glad!
Minor observations for others: A moat reduces how tall the actual wall needs to be. Additionally, the interior landscape doesn't have to be as low as the exterior. So the interior can be comfortably tall enough to climb the walls, while the exterior is deep and insurmountable by mobs.
Though, bear in mind that most Minecraft mobs won't get trapped in moats that easily, which might defeat the purpose if you're trying to bait in skeletons up against the wall where it's hard for them to attack you.
Nice tips!
I’m a castle guy so I recognize how well your conveying accurate info, but you also taught me a bit about using buttresses in Minecraft. I never use them but they do make builds look pretty and I’m gonna need to up my game on that front if I’m gonna learn the Gothic aesthetic
Thanks!
You could also add dispensers with lava buckets. Not unlike emptying pots or boiling oil.
That’s evil, I love it.
If you use stairs next to the walls, you can further widen that gap to allow for greater shooting range than the slit provided using a stone brick block and stone brick wall.
I like that your reasoning is less "because it looks pretty" and more about what would make sense. Really interesting, well-explained tutorial. Ty!
This is the kind of videos I was waiting for since I started play in 2012
I love the practical building for effective protection from mobs! I really enjoy how you have a very nice way of breaking down the build and explaining it in such a way that follows logic. I've never really enjoyed build videos but this was nice! Also really enjoyed the calm but engaging pace of the video!
Thanks so much for watching!
This is legit the best building tutorial I've ever seen, love how you applied good old logic and referenced real life architecture to guide the viewers through the thought process instead of just giving a blueprint with no explanation and tons of pointless fly-by's, 10/10 execution!
I'm really enjoying that you're explaining why you design something in a certain way instead of just what you're designing. I havent got plans to build a castle but maybe I will now!
Awesome, thanks!
As a OG this is the best beginner build video I’ve ever seen. Much of this I do myself. Much praise @dudieboy
Thanks!
Y'know, I came here from the spiral staircase video, and I greatly agree with a comment somebody else put; I'm glad you communicate clearly, but also in a concise fashion. You move quick, but not so quick you lose audience.
You have gained a subscriber today.
Also, I love that you convert meter to foot, so everyone gets it. I'm totally using this layout idea in the castle I'm building around my local village.
I have started using wall blocks on the corners of 5x5-9x9 towers to make them look way rounder, I really like how it looks. although it makes them look too round on larger circles.
watching you reinvent crenellations snd machicolations at the beginning and then turning out just as practical as real life was great
Man you are so underrated. I love how you made it easy to follow while throwing in some history facts. Im in a Minecraft server with a few friends and we all decided to build castles. For me, i decided to take bits and pieces of building tutorials and put them all together to build my castle. These walls will definitely go great for aesthetics and battle functionality. Thanks 👍
Hey man. Congratulations this is a great video. I've never seen nobody in minecraft comunity explain in details based on historical facts how to build anything.
A further more, you have a great didatics on teathcing things in a simple but deep way. Please keep doing this great job! I'm already anxious for your next tutorials
Glad you enjoyed!
it's clear you've put a lot of thought and planning into these videos, and you've put them all together in a way that's easy to understand, excellent work! I think it's neat how historical concepts for fortification can still be relevant, even if only in a video game- I'll be looking forward to the castle tutorial!
Thank you!
clicked for a quick tutorial on how to build walls in my survival world... stayed for history channel, great calm voice, and I feel that I'm going away with actual knowledge on how to build walls and towers that I like without looking at a tutorial ever again. Thank you Sir! 💪
3:52 **Shadiversity jumps through window**
Loving your channel and how interesting it is to watch your videos! I actually prefer watching you play minecraft to playing it myself (my pc is out of action, but that’s not the main reason). It’s been like 10 years since I actually found it therapeutic and entertaining enough watching a video that I find it more interesting than playing the game itself. I also love how you go into historical accuracy of your builds as I always learn something. (also your voice and delivery is super calming).
Thanks!
-a 12-year minecraft veteran
@@crankfastle7919 How do I super like this comment? Thank you so much!
One of my favorite videos for Minecraft, by far. I just love how you slowly add on things, giving reason for all of them. That refresher on the practicality (I watch Shadiversity) really helps me visualize what I want.
Nice! Thank you!
The best guide about Minecraft builds that I've ever seen.
With the style of presentation here and in the earlier spiral stairs tutorial, I think a video of different roof types (gabled, pitched, flat..) would be a nice addition. There are tutorials out there already, but none that quite mix in real world technique and practicality - with aesthetics. And none that explain how you might turn an A shaped roof into a rounder barn roof. 😊
Thanks for the feedback! I have a script started along these lines 👍
I Love designing bases to be defensible! It's interesting how you can still pull from ancient castle-building techniques and implement them effectively in the game. Most of the time it works against players too! For instance, the overhangs block ladders, and you could build the wall out of obsidian to prevent breaking. Alternatively, you could fill the inside of a wall with lava. It's just interesting stuff to me. Great video!
Thanks!
I'm a huge fan of how you explain both the function and the aesthetics of castle walls. Please make more content like this!
As someone who loves building in the medieval style, I absolutely LOVED this video! Castles and fortifications are like my bread and butter. I actually built my own castle in my survival world trying to use historical designs in the build and often looked at videos about medieval castle design for ideas from channels like Shadiversity.
What I came up with is very similar to what you built here. For the machicolations, I used stairs at the top of the wall to create a gap below each crenulation. My design makes it harder to hit mobs that are right up against the wall if it's built too high, but it ensures the archer stays in full cover while aiming through the machicolations.
Nice!
tip for detailing the backside of the wall, replace some of the logs with barrels to give a look of iron bands being added on to increase support.
i can't wait for a castle vid!
The issue with that design, if you’re building a wall around a village anyway, is that all of the villagers will become fishermen. Same reason I never use anvils or grindstones as decoration blocks.
Yeyy now i finally can start building my castle! As someone from a country that has quite the history from medieval Europe it's very interesting those historical facts
Cool! Thanks
Pretty nice and helpful video here. I remember fiddling with castle building in Minecraft a couple of years ago.
Wonder what can you tell about building barbacans/gatehouses.
Short discussions on both are on my list to do!
I love this so much for all the reasons everybody else has already stated.
but more than that, I'm the kinda weirdo who gets hangups about minecraft building techniques that don't "feel right". Like when people in the community use mushroom, coral, wool, and other random weak materials purely for the aesthetics without considering things like whether it'll burn away in a lightning strike, or if an enderman might try to snatch it one night.
But this, this is a fantastic demonstration of form from function. It shows how the raw shape of things can be meaningful without all the wacky modern block palettes .
When I started my Hard world on Xbox 360, these are the lessons taught by the first few nights of barely surviving. And this is a good refresher for me after only playing Creative since the Xbone release.
You can also put stairs underneath the areas that have stone fences for an extra angle of attack.
Interesting!
What I mean is where there's a full block of stone that on the wall that you were standing on near the stone fence, switch that to a stair block!
@@ThePaleKing89 You could, though it might (maybe) allow arrows to go through easier from ground level…
This style is great. I can't say I'm that interested in your other content.
If you were to expand this concept to apply it to other considerations, such as players. (IE, if the players have these tools, here is how you would combat it... Think sand in the interior of the wall or protections designed to work well against players with elytras.) I think you would find a lot of people would stay and watch those videos rather than you happening to just get lucky with the algorithm.
You briefly touched upon it with the length of logs, but having videos on different "limitations" you would run into (what is the average height of a log of each type and what is the maximum?) as well as how to work around them would be another fantastic addition.
Perhaps information on "realistic" supporting industries, like a quarry.
I'm confident that there is a pretty decently large "soft-rp" group out there who would love to include those sorts of considerations into their designs.
Tying those considerations into real world considerations would also be a potentially entirely different, yet heavily overlapping, series.
Well, all of that to say that if you were to have series like those, unless the production quality was significantly lower than what you have in this video, you would likely jump up to one of my favorite channels.
I'm confident enough in the demand that if you don't pursue the idea, I just might, though it would be awhile before I could get started on it...
Great feedback and ideas! Thank you.
I have an old city wall I never finished building the city for, and I made it three blocks high so it was tall enough to repel creepers but not so tall I'd take fall damage falling off, did the thing with alternate crenellations with overhang, but I now know what it was lacking that would have saved a lot of trouble: murder holes. Gotta add murder holes to my old castles now.
Oh, though something I always did was add a bit of extra foundation to the bottom to prevent zombies from using the wall as shade.
Yo, great video. Solid explanations with historical precedent. Presented clearly and the results look good, too. I think you'd get a lot of traction if you continued producing videos in this vein.
Thanks!
Like others, I really like that this build is both pretty and functional! So many builders are only thinking of the aesthetics. It's going to be fun adapting these ideas for my castle since I'm playing Minecraft indev versions and I'm super limited on blocks.
Love the "form follows function" build style and explanations!
This is a really cool tutorial, I have some issues with it though:
Mobs aren't very hard to deal with, and you can prevent them from being a problem in the first place simply by placing torches or other light sources. It's more efficient too because you don't use durability from your bow or drain your supply of arrows. Or need to build an elaborate base defense which costs considerably more resources than torches.
Players have enderpearls and pickaxes, the speed at which they can bypass defenses entirely is simply too great.
I have no issue with this video in terms of historical realism and building advice, but rather an issue that the game itself doesn't push you into doing this at all. Rather making the path of least resistance an incredibly boring task of placing torches.
perhaps it could be useful for gathering resources by placing hoppers underneath
This was amazing. I struggle at building in Minecraft, and really want to be able to build a lot of medieval structures. I decided to subscribe to your channel because of this tutorial.
I love your tutorial style. It’s just a bunch of general info with an actual tutorial so that it people want to do their own build they can. It’s absolutely amazing
Aw thanks!
Hey! I REALLY love this video, especially how you explain WHY you do things throughout the video, I always used to make shitty horizontal entrances in the corners of my castles until you explained why they wouldnt be put there. I was wondering if you could do this for the rest of a 'kingdom' ? Like how houses would be structured or how a market might look etc!
A few years ago I did some trail and error and ended up making a similar looking wall. It was different of course but mostly the same. Also I used right side up stairs under the walls and replaced the walls with upside down stairs for the matriculation’s. Might use these tips to make a more interesting looking castle next. Thank you
Excellent video, honestly I'm surprised you don't make this a guide series, maybe perhaps taking the interest of recreating castles or complex pre-modern iconic structures such as castles and showing the historical love and respect you have for them and how you would implement them into minecraft.
I really like the last two videos you made. As a fan of the medieval style and a fan of good explanations, you are a breath of fresh air. I'm excited to see how you tie everything together. Also looking forward to how you make a door
wow dude , that's insane, you provide complete and detailed explanations, unlike other TH-camrs, I will subscribe to you.
Never thought I’d see a minecraft tutorial this late in its revolution and just get so much detailed, practical and accurate detailing. This is sensational
Thanks!
I usually don’t like when someone talks in building videos, but now the whole build makes sense… I will definitely build it…
Great video! The way you explain things makes building seem a lot simpler and I liked the added facts about history to help tie everything together.
Hello, wonderful tutorial! I'm interested in how did you add the texture to the walls that contain cobblestone, stone bricks, andesite and stone blocks? Did you do it manually or did you use a command? And how did you raise the walls with just one click at 7:59? What mod is that?
Thanks! I used the Axiom building mod to raise the walls, and I use the Stay True pack and the Continuity mod for the texture effects.
wow! i love that you explain it clearly and you add historical facts to explain why it was and should be built that way
this video is... perfect. the difficult i face with such buildings is usually how to build them in multiplayer survival because often all the materials arent available together or im frolicking with friends lol.
Thanks!
3:45 MACHICULATIOOOONS!!!
Oh, you said that seconds later XD
I wondered if anyone else had that same thought.
MACHICOLATIO-O-ONS-ah!
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Thanks for the neat video! I appreciate the practicality of the design and the historical references. The medieval architects would probably have loved to have Minecraft around to practice on their designs.
I can't wait to see more guidance on the entire process of castle building! This video and your stairs video have been incredible guidance when it comes to building my castle walls, being practical, historical, and beautiful all at once!
Awesome! Coming soon…
I really love this semi historical/realistic building style and even though I've been constructing my walls in a very similar fashion to this for years there are still some small details in your videos I hadn't considered so far - subbed and looking forward to seeing more! 👍🏻
Thanks!
i'd be so happy if you included photo references to each point, like machicolations for example, it'd be very enriching to see the minecraft interpretation vs the real thing side by side as you build
Thanks for the feedback, I tried it in a short and it kinda tanked. At first, at least. I’ll give it another try tho and see if it works.
Came here for the explanation (which was absolutely clear and fantastic, btw) and came out of it with some small historical facts. Excellent video!
Thanks!
How have I not found this before... As much as I know about castles, these design tips are really useful and well planned
Thank you for your inspiration and little tidbits of history. Your videos are fascinating and I am even translating some of these skills into builds I make myself.
I have used more spiral staircases, more towers, and you taught me about buttresses and machicolations today. I always struggled to find a way to shoot mobs under my walls and never thought to use walls between them to create those little arrow gaps!
Thank you, again, you're sparking my creativity and turning me from a rookie Builder into a full on Architect in minecraft.
You even show how to make things efficient too!
Thanks!
I just came back to minecraft after around year and a half break and decided that this time im gonna build a castle, so this is very helpful and incredibly convenient, thank you!
Good luck!
Thanks!
i like that youre teaching us good looking and well functional medieval builds which can be fully customizible.
i wont be suprised if this series gets to teach us how to build a cool medieval multiplayer RPG map.
someone could easily add a few command blocks and boom youve got a nice map in minecraft.
I will not expect that you make this series into building a RPG map but the way its going it does look like it!!!
Thanks! Not sure I got enough skills with the commands to make an RPG map, but I’ll look into it
Excellent tutorial that will really help me, as a definite struggling builder. The science of your tutorials is super interesting. Thank you for all the effort 👍🇬🇧
Great to hear! Thank you!
Love these - I'm definitely going to be rethinking how I build my walls. Do you have any idea how well they'd do during a raid? I'm trying to make the perfect (protected) village, or as close as I can manage. Curious about traps around the outside as well (for raiders mostly)
Thanks! That would be difficult because a raid can spawn between something like 13 to 1024 blocks from the player, so it’s difficult to spawn a raid outside your city walls, which would make more sense, right? A raid suddenly appearing inside your walled village means you’ve walled yourself inside with them. 😱 Seems to me the only way to control raid spawning is on a small artificial platform in the middle of an ocean, like I built in some of my other videos.
@@dudieboy oooh that makes a good point! yeah didn't think of that ok.
You can widen the machicolations by using a stair block. It'll still give you protection while allowing you to shoot further out instead of straight down.
Hello again so something I noticed with your walls you do not have a way to shoot down the corner leaving a blind spot you can avoid this by putting a diagonal block on the corner putting the embattlement one over on each single one causing your center to actually have a Machicolations instead of a Merlon with Crenellations space around the tower and corner if you want an example my own tutorial
Shows how I managed it but also I do thank you for the tip on using the walls was very helpful to use along side my own designs which means I mixed both designs of embattlements.
Thanks again for your time much appreciated
Subscribed because of your detailed medieval information.
This seems like the detailed architect or engineer videos I've been looking for...
My freakin god, this is so informative! I'm absolutely saving this tutorial in a playlist! One thing I wish you'd have addressed here though is how to implement these tips on diagonal walls. Maybe with clean 45 degree angle and with buttresses as separate sections, for smoother diagonal. This would be very helpful when working with complicated terrain. Maybe even briefly touch circular walls at some point?
Yes, diagonal and circular walls could be their own video
i really appreciated this tutorial. The good editing makes it easy to follow. Even the voice is goooood :)
Nice reach 3:30. Some mod or perhaps exclusive preview of the crab claw?
The Axiom mod
I’ve not seen this much of detail in any video historical information and a real tactical wall not just great looking
Criminally underrated video
so glad i stumbled across your channel! watched the spiral stairs video then this one, and your instructions and explanations are so clear and straight to the point, love it!
Well done! I like how you tied in the previous tutorial.
Thanks!
Are you a teacher? cause I feel like your explanations are so clear and concise, and it's so easy to follow your tutorials and they're so awesome! I love all the work you do, thank you for this awesome tutorial!
Wow, thank you! Not a teacher but that’s a big compliment.
@@dudieboy of course! thank you for these awesome tutorials!
i would LOVE this as a series. i think it was super helpful!
I haven't played minecraft in well over a decade but these are very therapeutic to watch
This is the Best building guide i have ever seen. And today i learned a lot about castle walls thanks
Excellent tutorial. Subscribed. Your style of progressive learning, and building each new lesson on top of the previous concept, is undoubtedly helpful. Greatly appreciated. Thank you!
A "roofing basics" tutorial would be awesome!
As I previosuly commented on other videos, i love the way in wich you explain things! Also with an historical explanation on why things are like they are, just wonderful!!
Thank you so much for all your support!
Excellent tutorial! I feel like I can build castle walls without following along a build for the first time. Thanks!
I'm a great fan of minecraft castles and I'll be using your advices for building! Thank you! The video is really helpful!
Making a castle MegaBase. This is amazing. I might have to design a bigger gate after I scaled the walls up.
Very cool video. If I ever tried making these, I'd probably try a slab-only roof on the rounded watchtower so it's not so tall at the apex.
you know its a great minecraft build tutorial when you come out knowing WHY medieval fortresses look like they do. excellent video, one of the best build guides ive seen.
any chance you could do one on building gatehouses?
Gatehouses coming soon!
i find these kinds of videos very helpful for my builds because i actually understand what im seeing instead of mindlessly copying the builds. 😅
Kinda neat you're showing me so many things I've been wanting to build - I'm not sure if I'll ever pick MC up again at this point, though. I'm thoroughly enjoying your videos, though! And if I ever get back to it I'll have new things to build! ^^
I just started playing Minecraft and so far you are invaluable for my builds.
This is fantastic! It looks awesome while not being so massive that I give up before even thinking about making it, great video!
Thanks!
This is such a a well done video. Being concise while providing great information is an art.