Building MEGA CASTLES in Conan Exiles

[@selenagamya1612]

Welcome back to another episode of "Shad shows me how grossly incompetent I am at building things in video games."

[@MarkWIXX]

You mean my 4x4 box isn't good enough?

[@Redbeardkyx]

Exactly this. This has just blown my mind. Playing the game since it's early access release and haven't seen a single castle that has even remotely looked as great as this and I considered myself a "solid" builder. Well, there goes that!

[@SUPERVANS56]

I'm friends with an architect, and he pulls this sort of thing all the time.

[@KronosSupreme]

Not really. It's not like its difficult to make this if you are in creative mode. He builds this but its not like hes actually going to play with anyone with it lol. This can take you 3 hours in creative mode.

[@dburgd99]

Pretty sure he would still be able to do it...

[@rayanderson5797]

I love how there's this city, and they've watched a slave lord slowly build his fortress on a mountaintop nearby and then steal their people to turn into thralls to defend his mountaintop fortress.

[@haemahn6072]

It be like that sometimes.

[@jeanlannes4396]

For me the most beautiful part of castles is how they fit into the irregular terrain.

[@DZ-1987]

Like a certain bridge am i right? (Jehayrus DZ, how can he understand the innuendo there?) Well you just spilled the beans DiZeN.

[@LazyLoonz]

they look like carved masterpieces!

[@DymoPolska]

Damn Shad, you should be hired as castle designer somewhere. Your work in limited game environment looks better than a lot of videogame designs. Everyone, just imagine if Shad had acces to developer tools in some game, while designing a castle :D

[@ShiftyMcGoggles]

I'll keep Shad in mind.

[@nicholasrandall3507]

If he can export Honourguard as an .obj or .fbx, it would be easy to import it to Unity or the Unreal Engine.

[@ViolosD2I]

Actually using the knowledge from his videos to critique castles and cities built by our level designers.

[@ameritus9041]

These videos should be mandatory watching for all videogame, movie, etc castle designers.

[@swankfiber5278]

Tomek Dymek he needs to make his Fallout 4 castles into a mod so we can download them

[@Dainon86]

Your enthusiasm for castles is pleasantly contagious. Well done work sir.

[@Atm_0s]

Dude! Where's the footage of you putting these together? I'm pretty sure a lot of people, myself included, would grasp the principles of fortification in a much more hands on way with seeing sped up examples of this kinda thing. I've always stood at the walls of castles and marveled at how utterly amazing it seems, to even begin to think about setting out to create such things.

[@davez4064]

Michael McAdams it’s call death by grinding. It’s one of things I love and hate about Conan. You don’t just get to spam bases you gotta earn it and when you make a mistake building it smarts lol.

[@batmandiablo3]

I, too, would like to see the building of these structures in game. Preferably without the aid of "God Mode", mods and any other external assistance. Show us what you can do with just the base game.

[@pdraggy]

especially the second castle it looked like some of those keeps were carved straight from the rock itself rather than blocks placed on there, it looked too good!

[@XTheAllianceX]

I'd be disappointed if Shad didn't live in a castle in real life.

[@Maulstrum97]

He should buy land and build a castle to live in.

[@LordInter]

he could move to europe or Asia and buy one relatively cheap. They're not exactly cheap to maintain though and most of them that are still standing are follies or houses that look like castles 😟

[@thatlazguy]

We need to start a kickstarter to get him a castle

[@lordfabulous6198]

@@Maulstrum97 costs a fortune with modern expenses. Was expensive back then too.

[@Maulstrum97]

@@lordfabulous6198 depends on your design and your material but i agree it can be expensive. If you build it with modern features it's going to be more expensive

[@iaobtc]

"Castles that match the terrain" EXACTLY, that shit drove me crazy back in my Minecraft days, people just carving giant squares out of the terrain to plop castles INTO - you build WITH, not AGAINST!

[@LazyLoonz]

Really hard to do that since minecraft doesn't really have that much variation other then basic biomes

[@codymcginley6823]

@@LazyLoonz tf mean with the hills and what not, plus uhhh what version of minecraft are you playing? Cause minecraft hasn't been monoterrain for years

[@trippinbawls88]

@@LazyLoonz Dude... minecraft is one of, if not *the* , best and easiest games to build with the terrain on. There are no clipping issues as you lay a block and go from there. And, as this comment is only 2 months old, there are *many* biomes to choose from (I think, to date. There are over 60 biome variations [IK there are 41 for SURE, But I am 99% positive there are over 60 now]), so, I have no idea what you mean on that topic. It's... basically the _exact_ opposite of what you typed is all lol.

[@trippinbawls88]

Also, I haven't played minecraft in like 5 or 6 years... this information is just that accessible lol.

[@Pile_of_carbon]

I seriously hope you'll get hired to advice on computer game castle design. Your castles would be endgame content. NPC: "The enemy has barricaded themselves in Castle Shadmor! You need to get breach their defenses!" Player: "Whelp... this might take a while. Better call off everything for the next week."

[@casimiriii5941]

Pile of carbon mining, could quite possibly be the best way to pay siege to a castle (or fortified city).

[@chrisgraves6909]

aah, but what about dragons?

[@h4724-q6j]

Shad's castles are way too OP.

[@sergiohenrique2411]

lol r u serious? his is a very ez raid...

[@LordInter]

starve it out, no way am I assaulting that!

[@c4r151]

I would really love to see an unedited video of Shad building one those castles.

[@pingasbungus4517]

Yeah, he should start streaming on Twitch or whatever.

[@salemwolf4506]

Agreed! Would absolutely LOVE a twitch stream!

[@spamhonx56]

18:30 you know you like castles when describing defensive features makes you sound this happy.

[@darthplagueis13]

6/10 Not enough *MACHICOLATIONSSSSSS!!!!!1!!!!11!!!!!*

[@DZ-1987]

Screw that, you can't have effective machicolations without crenelations first. I tested it in multiple games.

[@tommygames9859]

And not enough Streitkolbenschützen 😏

[@devilishwolfie6975]

@@tommygames9859 Theres not even any Panzerkampfwagens

[@thesammurairat700]

I think when when Shad found out that jetting castles without *MACHICOLATIOOOOOOONZA!!!!!* were real, he stopped adding them in

[@Gotz_the_iron_hand]

Nothing better than a Shadivesity video about castles! My favorite KZbinr talking about my favorite thing!

[@nathanturner1177]

OMG... This is really the best build of a keep i have seen in this game and I have 300 hours into it.

[@lexburkhart5281]

Love the game, mate. It's an absolute blast. They stick to the lore of Robert E. Howard beautifully. For your castles; place fence foundations around your other foundations. It gives it a nice stone trimming that really looks grand. It also allows you to use different square and wedge foundations of you're looking for variations in flooring and outer stonework. Try also putting those fence foundations between foundations to create a nice stone and wood floor pattern. I was actually going to recommend this game to you because of the construction kit. Cheers!

[@Kaffeeteria]

I love this! I installed Conan Exiles for the sole purpose of building my own castle. Glad to see I'm not the only one. :)

[@kai7692]

Three amazing castles, i gotta say my favourite was number 2, one thing bothered me about number 3 and it was that plateau not being used and defended, seems a perfect place to extend your castle to.

[@mr.j7444]

2 would be perfect if he could replace that one bridge with a draw bridge also add the siege cauldrons over every doorway

[@triangledefinition]

Room to grow shouldn't be undervalued, what use is a castle that can't be adjusted as times change?

[@kai7692]

I cant help but imagine an enemy army setting up siege on that plateau :P

[@Kendo121e]

exactly what I thought, can add at least 1 more wall

[@samuelhaines3685]

Wall it up, have it serve as living space and what not, as well as serving as an outer bailey. The more murdering sections, the better.

[@lordanok1936]

I need to say. The last castle is AWESOME! I build a few walls and "castles" myself in Conan Exiles. But seeing these make me feel like i spent hours building garbage. Impressive!

[@philhsueh4860]

Very nice, it's definitely one of the best looking castles that I've seen in the game yet. It beats J0hnbane and Vintagebeef and they build some fantastic looking bases. One thing though, you do need to build crenalations if you want your archers to be able to fire at anything, plus the spikes on them prevent anybody from climbing, not that NPCs can (to be the best of my knowledge) climb. You should also build it out of T3 materials for maximum protection because T1 doesn't hold up against trebuchets and explosives for very long. Looking at your 3rd castle, there's one vulnerability (from an in game perspective) and that's your elevator. In a multti-player game other players can use call and use your elelvator, set some explosive jars or throw some orbs to break down your door and then they have free reign inside. You should put walls and a door around the base of the elevator to make it more secure. One nice thing about your castles 2 & 3 is that, assuming Purge forces can't use trebuchets & explosives, those 2 castles should be nice and Purge proof. To make it more player proof (I know, you're playing single player) I'd recommend getting rid of any plateaus or ledges that a player can rest on while climbing to your wall. What I do is I always extend my walls out as far as possible so that there's nothing but sheer walls and cliffs and no place for a player to stop and regain stamina.

[@danmoore4503]

Very nice! You might know this already but the crenelations and fences for the tier 3 building sets are actually climbing defenses. As a player tries to climb up they take damage and fall off. Also for building in pvp the main defensive consideration should be the alter locations. You can build a sort of magic shield on a tier 3 alter to protect your base from being demolished by an avatar. They would have to break into your castle and destroy the alters first if they really wanted to do that. Also, foundation stacking to make walls is not a good idea. The snap points of walls ceilings and pillars can interlock in a way that makes a "honeycomb". All they would need to do is break the bottom foundation on a section of your wall and each foundation stacked on top would collapse, not the case with honeycombing, each wall is supported by another tile.

[@schattenlupus57]

They almost seem like they weren't player made, like they were meant to be there.

[@TheBMan95]

More CASTLES! WE NEED MORE CASTLES!

[@therealkillerb7643]

Great work, especially the final one. Since you have a flat plateau in front of the castle, why not build a village there for all your thralls? Maybe you could have smiths, tanners, inns, etc., protected by a curtain wall? Anyway, another great vid - thanks - your stuff is always interesting to watch.

[@javicoca]

The Real Killer B Man I would have looooved to see that plateau thoroughly built on

[@chessmaster7m]

It seems like a massively wasted opportunity for the bailey. Throw some farming, crafting, storage, anything in there as the cliffs lend it massive defensive strength and just throw another guardhouse at the entrance for yet another layer of defense for that insane castle

[@brawlgasm56]

id love to see an updated video here with all the dlc's and additions to the game

[@Graestra]

I literally just bought this game the other day and was going to try to make a Shad approved castle in it. Stayed up until 2am playing it and then woke up to this.

[@robertmarquez343]

Man, you're really good at this.

[@smallpoly10]

Shad's excitement is infectious.

[@Dauntress-]

I really have to say that I admire your enthusiasm for these castles. Got tons of inspiration for some builds in game so thanks.

[@Slitheringpeanut]

The second castle is beautiful. I like it best.

[@rzxymontage1607]

Slitheringpeanut where is it on the map?

[@s8theninjawarrior916]

@@rzxymontage1607 near the frontier of the high lands near the savana biome in the middle of the map

[@r.coburn3344]

First time I have EVER liked a sponsorship ad. I'm going to that site as soon as the video's over.

[@ellisbarnett0292]

No Way Kult of Athena is also a good website for buying medieval weapons

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

HBO: "A main keep? .... give me 50 designers, a rendering farm, and six months" Shad: "Pfff.... give me a week on a gaming computer, and I'll throw in the decorations for free"

[@dougjones6487]

But does it have MACHICOLATIONS?

[@quintoncraig9299]

I was going to ask that...

[@matilija]

But what about DRAGONS??????????????

[@quintoncraig9299]

+matilija Where we are, we don't need dragons, we have Elder Gods. (This game actually has an Elder God as a summon, and he fucks shit up.)

[@matilija]

....you don't watch enough Shad.....

[@quintoncraig9299]

You have no idea how much I know of shad...

[@Nocure92]

Damn dude, that 2nd castle looks very impressive.

[@casimiriii5941]

As a medieval enthusiast I thought you might enjoy this excerpt from LIFE IN A MEDIEVAL CITY by Francis and Joseph Gies. "Besides these peacetime calamities, there is always the possibility of war. Here at least people in the city enjoy an advantage over the peasants in the villages. When the feudal army rides, is sets fire to everything it cannot carry off, but the walls of a city like Troyes are nearly always proof against such depredations. The besieging army of Hugo of La Marche and Peter of Brittany was easily held at bay outside of Troyes in 1230. Even an enemy armed with a formidable array of siege engines and missile weapons has a difficult time breaking into a walled city. A feudal army can rarely be kept in the field longer than a month or two. The military obligations of vassals does not extend further, and mercenary troops are too expensive for any but a very wealthy prince bent on a highly important objective, such as a Crusade. Ordinarily three attacker must within the limits of a short campaign muster either an overwhelming assault force to scale the walls at many points simultaneously, or a powerful enough battery of siege engines to knock down walls or gates. He has a third alternative, of the ground is favorable, and if the defense is insufficiently alert: mining. "The overwhelming assault force may prevail when the stronghold under attack is a castle with a weak garrison. A tightly-packed city of ten thousand citizens, like Troyes, is unlikely to succumb even to a very large storming party, because there are enough men to night and day to keep an alert guard at every point of theb two-thousand-yard rampart. When the assault force approaches, under cover of a "castle," or movable wooden platform, to fill in the ditch around the walls and plant scaling ladders, the garrison can quickly concentrate at the threatened point or points. Lofty walls, and especially round towers, give the defenders all the advantage in the contest of arrows, bolts, and missiles. Combustibles can be flung down on the attackers "castles, and even if some of the storming party gains a foothold on the wall, they can be isolated by the fire from the neighboring towers, for the space in front of the walls is always kept clear of any cover. The towers project, so that they can bring flanking fire to bear on attackers scaling the wall. "The old-fashioned Roman siege engines have been much improved. The Romans employed only tension and torsion as motive power. Medieval military engineers have added the counterweight, which provides both more power and greater accuracy. A trebuchet, or counterweight engine, consists of a long firing pole balanced on a pivot, or cross-pole, in turn mounted on a pair of uprights. The firing pole is not set on its mid-point, but on a point about a quarter from its butt end, which is faced toward the enemy. The long end is pulled down, the missile placed in a cavity or sling, and secured by a wooden catch worked by a winch, while the butt end is loaded with wedge shaped weights of iron or stone. When the catch is released, the counterweight drops, sending the missile flying. On more sophisticated models, the counterweight can be moved closer or father from the pivot, increasing our decreasing the range. A couple of zeroing- in shots permit a good engineer to fire with considerable accuracy. The missile is ordinarily a heavy stone, though variants include combustible materials and occasionally the heads of enemies. Some military experts prefer a simpler model of counterweight engine, worked by ropes pulled down by men. This is inferior in range and accuracy, but it has the advantage of being highly maneuverable, so that several may be brought to bear on a single weak point in the enemy's defenses. "Artillery, however, is no monopoly of the archers m attackers. In the crypts of the towers of Troyes' ramparts, a great number of dismantled engines stand ready for assembly, together with a spot of stone ammunition. "How effective catapult artillery is against a stone wall depends on the wall. Some old walls, made of a thin shell of rough-cut stone covering an earth core, can be battered to pieces. But a good modern wall, laid in even courses locked into a rubble core, can defy all the engines an enemy can bring to bear, as has been repeatedly demonstrated by the redoubtable though weakly garrisoned Crusader forts in Syria. "The attackers third alternative, mining, is the most promising, provided soft ground can be found. Against a castle it is particularly effective, because the mine can be driven under either a Sexton m section of the wall or under the main keep. No explosive involved-the mine is "discharged" simply by seeing fire to three timbering which supports the mines roof. As the timber burns , the ground wire m who m above collapses. At one siege in Syria the Saracen engineers first undermined and collapsed a tower in the curtain wall. But the garrison, composed of Knights of St. John, successfully fought off the subsequent assault and trees m reestablished the barricade in the rubble of the tower. The Saracens then dug a mine into the interior of the castle, directly under the keep, and invited the Franks to send their own engineers to inspect it. When the Frankish engineers reported back that the discard m discharge of the mine would cause the certain collapse of the keep, the Knights agreed to surrender on terms- matching out and abandoning the castle to the Saracens.

[@caseyshaunthomas]

I love the enthusiasm you have for castles and the intimate touch used creating these. I would rather enjoy seeing a timelapse of your process for building it.

[@jasonm7993]

Wow. You are really good at this. I bet you rock at Minecraft.

[@TridonsEve]

21:44 - Vaulted ceiling? Not vaulted? Why isn't it vaulted? How could you, Shad?! *bawls unconsolably*

[@TheArrieman]

I love how you introduce your builds. Concept talk -> nice flyby views -> the reveal. You can really tell you work on your craft.

[@iaobtc]

"Putting a castle in the middle of nowhere is kind of useless" *chuckles in Castle Houska*

[@shadfacts6465]

Shad Fact: Shad is the only person to successfully divide by 0.

[@lokenontherange]

Dividing by zero is actually easy. You just pour everything you have into zero piles, which in one pile for each item. Or in math terms: 3 / 0 = 1 + 1 + 1

[@quintoncraig9299]

Dividing and multiplying by zero all end the same, = 0

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

It goes to infinity and beyond.

[@nasserfirelordarts6574]

If is basically turning a certain quantity of items into 0 items, easy, just destroy them

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

That would be multiplying by 0

[@iaobtc]

"One of the most valuable resources in this game is actually the NPCs" Human resources?

[@void_null844]

Shad, why do you remind me more and more of Rogal Dorn of the Imperial Fists? I mean, damn, I can imagine someone asking Shad to build a treehouse for their kid and it would STILL be the most fortified treehouse on Earth.

[@christopherjones7191]

Void Walker *Finds a mountain* I am fortifying this position with MACHICOLATIOOOOOOOONS

[@nillman]

Now i want shad to build an actual house... like a castle.

[@matrimalviarin5043]

"I am the grrates treehouse architect in the galaxy. Bring me my tools, and 12,000 laborers."

[@nealsterling8151]

Absolutely astonishing Castles! You are an artist!

[@notben5088]

Shad, I'm stealing some (let's face it, ALL) of these designs for my play through

[@WyzrdCat]

This is pretty awesome! Makes me kind of wish for a mod or gameplay mode for Conan Exiles which is more like realistic siege mechanics! A heavy nerf to how far you can climb, some additions like siege towers and such... could be fun!

[@matthewmuir8884]

...No machicolations? 0/10 to this game!

[@Sierrebrarc]

A couple sloping inverted walls, some steel support beams from Pythags mod, reinforced fences used as short walls, and BAM!!! you have a fully functional machicolation. Add a crenelated wall on the wall side of the box you just built, and you can attach a Siege Cauldron.

[@chopslap5497]

Fun fact to stop people from climbing out of your murder hole, there are torches that can cause hypothermia making you take a constant tick of damage. While being damaged you cannot climb, using enough of these torches you can overwhelm any level of cold resistance as well. Only what four or five years late? Totally not dumping on the comments.

[@samgopnik6638]

Pls do more of this series. Just build castle and explain the effectiveness and functional of the castle in this game

[@dreddbolt]

Arif Aiman Definitely. :)

[@swankfiber5278]

I saw in that commercial video game swords and I saw an elite sword. Shad needs to do a video about it NOW!!!

[@johnmichaelfabian878]

Castle building Knowledge Increased.. Thanks shad

[@dmwingon]

this is amazing, i love that second castle, it looks fantastic! there are so many interesting places like that to build in this game, i tend to suffer from both abundance of choice and indecision. also your excitement for the subject is infectious, as someone else said, and it got me excited to hop back in the game today (i was looking around online for what other people thought were good places to build, after spending three hours yesterday running around).

[@noahstahl5936]

Long life his Majesty King Shad!

[@DZ-1987]

And his beautiful bride (may god give her peace) that horse he decapitated.

[@deavonw]

Loved watching your Exiles building skills increase with each castle.

[@Talon323]

Hey shad, have you ever considered anlysing dark souls keeps, castless and forts? Or have I just missed those videos?

[@nilok7]

Sen's Fortress...

[@rayanderson5797]

I think Sen's Fortress speaks for itself. The hundreds of corpses of my character that litter it's halls are a testament to it's defensive power.

[@yikes6758]

Please! Or aldia's keep, drangleic castle, forest of fallen giants' fortress, lothric, eleum loyce, or anor londo!

[@Thesaurus_Rex]

I think that the weird thing about a lot of Dark Souls fortresses is that they aren't necessarily that defensible, they're just filled with devious traps once an attacker gets inside. Many of them are actually terrible for keeping people out, and would be terrible to defend because of the aforementioned murderous traps (think about how many enemies you can get environmental kills on in these places). The only one that comes to my mind as a place that's an actual castle with the intention of defending from intrusion, rather than killing anyone who sets foot within, is Lothric Castle. Anor Londo is a bit of a unique case. It doesn't have much in the way of defenses or death traps, but it doesn't necessarily need them, since it's so high above its surroundings that access can only be provided by flight or magic. Cainhurst Castle (yes I'm including Bloodborne), while resembling a normal castle, is bizarre in that _there is no logical way to access the throne room._ Seriously. Go to the Cainhurst throne room, and try to find any way for the inhabitants to leave, or for an invading army that wouldn't want to walk on slippery roof tops to get in.

[@SuperBuizelll]

If you look at Lordran as a whole, as from the view at Firelink, you can see the entire region consists of a series of ringed cities tiered uphill toward Anor Londo, with Sen's Fortress merely being the final checkpoint. The scale is such that the entire Darkroot Forest is almost just a keepside garden to Anor Londo. In theory you could have such a fort as Sen's at every entrance to the next tier, and counterattacks could be launched from one ring to another. Anor Londo itself was originally accessible by foot directly from Sen's, as the bricked-in gateway arch past the Iron Golem indicates.

[@igorthelight]

There is an old strategy game "Stronghold HD" where you can build cool castles and siege other lord's castles. Work perfectly on modern OS and in widescreen! Old but gold!

[@barbiquearea]

What! No Machicolations? Outrageous.

[@MagicalMaster]

Actually if you read around then you learn that the Wheel of Pain was actually a mill designed to use manpower rather than wind or water. Also as a funny note they used a real one, but Arnold had beefed up to such a ridiculous level for the movie that they had to push against him in order to make it look like he was struggling at all. Also be careful Shad, this game has a tech that lets you make sapper bombs. It's about halfway up the levels but it can and will completely destroy a wall. Remember to use and lock your chests. Also, archers on the inside, over the ground and with fences around and a roof overhead can only be hit with ranged weapons. A few of them with crossfiring arcs and the inside is hell on earth to any invader.

[@Sawtooth44]

ima share this with vintage beef as hes quite the builder in this game and may enjoy this video (and he might make a realy awesome castle with an amazing interior)

[@aswd90]

DO IT! JUST! DO IT!

[@spoons1905]

As a Conan Exiles player, all I can think when he's showing off his castles is "He doesn't use enough fences". You could easily break into any of those.

[@sharku117]

Holy crap just asked for a video in this a few days ago and here we are, Love you Shad!

[@astarothk2273]

but shad! the walls arent thick enough! no machiculatioooooooooooooonsuh! lol game limitations and whatnot but thats a really awesome castle, i should give the game another go now that its out of ea

[@cross81094]

the castle at 11:30 is my favorite for sure- no one is even gonna be able to touch that if you place a trebuchet or two and up the material... not to mention you break one of the bridges and they can't get any further no matter what. Not only that but it truly looks like it belongs in the Conan universe

[@feli-the-sunfairy]

Thats correct, but Medieval Engineers has something better, they got MACHICOLATIONS!

[@ShotgunAFlyboy]

13:00 Clearly somebody didn't apply for his permit to crenelate

[@creepybasementdoctor2257]

Finally. This game is getting more love. One of my favorite KZbinrs is playing it. Thank God Shad found this work of art.

[@WGSen]

It's officially been a year since you've uploaded this! Have you kept up with the game and designed any new forts in the other biomes?

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

The wheel-thing in the movie was meant to be a millstone. But I think they got halfway though building it and decided enough was enough.

[@tsunamio7750]

@Shadiversity, they just used the same system used in rust. Not that it had something new to it, but seeing the time frame during which it was built, they clearly took inspiration from rust. You should try rust as, many building tips will allow you to us, in some strange forms, actual castle design. With slight modifications for guns, but castle desigs nontheless, with murderholes that works and whatever you can build with your own skills. but it's nice to have a proper introduction to this game we hear so much about while not seeing much.

[@ellisbarnett0292]

But Shad... WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS?? and also I couldn’t help but notice the absence of machicolations!!

[@mr.j7444]

there are dragons actaully.

[@Sioolol]

Bought this game recently. And I must say, for building and creating castles, homes, villages and other fantasy-like structures it is probably the best game currently. Game gives so much freedom in making what you want and how you want. And the lore is amazing too, nice addition to make the world more believable and cosy.

[@Tannyboy20]

i love seeing you make castles in games! always impressed at what you make.

[@DaddySolutions]

I actually played this game religiously for years. One good way to keep players from climbing your walls is to put fences on top with the posts facing out. Once a player hits those posts, they will take damage and fall off. That in combo w/ high fortifications means most first-time raiders will perish to fall damage unless they have enough stamina to cling and drop back down and regroup

[@ElectricGeckos]

The more I watch about castles from you, the more I want to redesign the castles I'm trying to make.

[@DahLekKnight]

Those are great looking castles! I loved how you started matching the castle to the terrain.

[@BE02Raziel]

Your designs are very inspiring. Love it when you nerd out about your custom created castles in any given game. What mod are you referring to in regards to building your 3rd castle?

[@arconite2842]

Hey shad, the 'wheel of pain' is a grain grinder. it's not 'pointless' it's designed to make flour for cooking. the bigger the wheel of pain, the more grain can be ground at one time

[@JacobBite]

I don't even play half the games you have, I'm just here to learn about castles.

[@AG-dk5kf]

Awsum! I'm normally much more into the gameplay than the building, but after I have seen your castles, I am so inspired now to build an awesome castle in my Conan adventure 👍

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

Loved that second castle, Shad!👍👍😁

[@Blaze_1961]

I can build anything as long as I have a design. The creative design is where I fall flat. You sir have both. Good Job!

[@generalgage4780]

11:03 you could also potentialy put a murder hole under the bridge not sure how practical it would be though

[@baboon0285]

by far the best part of this whole video beyond the amazing castle designs, is how much joy Shad gets out of talking about castles. now i know what happiness sounds like.

[@bizarreworld2510]

It's completely because of you Shad that I could point out several mistakes in the castles you made and also kinda your fault for making them in such positions and ways

[@LordDarkhelm]

Same here, maybe the students are finally surpassing the master?

[@cracklingvoice]

First castle: can be attacked, would be a challenge. The outer bailey housing the Wheel of Pain is slightly lacking in cover from the towers flanking it, there is a slight dead zone in your fields of fire that would shelter siege ladders. 2/5 Masadas Second castle: a siege engineers' nightmare. Other than pounding it into submission via extended and precise bombardment with mangonels and trebuchets, there is no real method of assaulting it. The first gatehouse is covered by archer fire from several vantage points, as are all possible approaches. The only possible weak point is the archer balcony in the first tower if attacked by (very long) ladders. One issue: the tower on the second rock has a higher elevation than the defenses on the third rock, commanding a view of the final walls. 5/5 Masadas Third castle: very tough to crack, but not impossible. I didn't see a secondary fortification forward of your gatehouse to control access to the mesa, which gave me the impression that an assaulting force could establish a camp within sight of your gates but outside of effective arrow fire. The ramp and drawbridge makes for a nice twist in gaining access, especially with the large flanking tower that can provide flanking fire on the ramp. The keep entrance would be full-scale suicide to assault. Assaulting up a flight of stairs, with defilade and enfilade fire coming down onto their heads, is functionally impossible. The defenders could just cut that little staircase away and lock the yett behind them, forcing the attackers to build a ramp up to that gate, all while being punished by archers. 4/5 Masadas

[@petrino]

ok... now i wanna see you fortify a castle specifically against the avatars.

[@madscientistshusta]

Petrino impossible

[@petrino]

i know. i still wanna see him try.

[@Benthesniperof8]

@@petrino not all that impossible. Instead of building tall, find big flat plateau and build wide. The avatar would run out of time before being able to kill a third of the base. Plus if you have shield.

[@jeankeller4572]

Shad, I love the way you exclaimed about the draw bridge lol, and i loved the presentation of your castles and building skills. I now have a few good ideas on how I want to build my kingdom in Conan Exiles. Thank you much for your video.

[@rocketboy617]

watching this while playing Space Engineers and thought, Why not build a castle on the moon? not as practical because spaceships, but it would look cool. Now I just have to find a good piece of terrain to build it on. And maybe a forge class ship to make the materials for it.

[@DrTheRich]

what about a floating spaceship castle that has towers sticking out in all 6 directions with no up XD

[@rocketboy617]

might make a spaceship castle once this one is done, going to take a while though since I'm doing it in survival mode. right now I'm building my Forge class ship while fighting off various threats (meteor storms, rogue drones, pirates etc.) and ironing out bugs with the mods I have installed. kinda difficult when the game crashes every 30 mins or so. I think I have which one is causing it but it's also one of the core mods I want to use for the Forge ship, namely the reactor to power the thing. This will probably be one of the biggest ships, if not The biggest, I've built in survival once complete.

[@jamesforgie6594]

Dunbant I hope you’re able to do this... it sounds awesome!

[@TheDrsalvation]

7:05 you can also just place fences, they have spikes and knock down anybody who tries to climb up your tower. I personally place a path that others can actually climb without the fences, making them think it's the climbing path I take, but there are hidden explosives. That said, I'm very impressed, I builed a small square tower with a squared courtyard for my soldiers and I was proud of that... now I see how much better it can be

[@generalgage4780]

i love the conclusion at the end with the music xD

[@MonkeyJedi99]

#1 is climbable from a few places. #2 is a nightmare to assault, with cover fire from every direction except in the very few places where you're tied up dealing with doors. #3 is end-game content. Straight up.

[@Marinanor]

Shadiversity! Great to see another video! I'd be elated if you'd do a review of the sword fights in Willow the movie. (1988)

[@Railstarfish]

I love how organic these castles look, the way they adapt to the landscape. A castle looks and feels so much more "real" to me when there are signs of little compromises being made rather than somebody having unlimited resources and an ideal location.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Second castle is my fav too

[@dilophosaurussk4333]

These videos are one of the primary reasons i watch your vids, hope to see more!

[@XellDincht]

the last really castle looks impressive. I bet it would take *ages* to gather all the resources if you want to build that thing without cheats (Admin mode or how it is called)

[@wetbreadstickcapo8507]

Use doors for it instead of walls

[@emmitstewart1921]

I notice that the donjon at 21:00 to 21:50 is lit by luminaires made of large bowls of flaming fuel suspended about two feet below a wood ceiling. About a half hour or so after lighting those in a real building, the ceiling would catch fire. Before that, however, you would have evacuated the building because there are no vents and the rooms would be filled with smoke and carbon monoxide.

[@yiweicao4051]

Another great video! I absolutely love your castle videos and fantasy re-armed. I would like to know if any of these castles have been assaulted by in-game enemies and what are the results?

[@mayalackman7581]

I want to know too.

[@mike5177]

More videos on this, pleaseeeeeee!!! 😋

[@Donbasos14]

That looked so good I wanna play the game myself XD

[@zarthes]

Those later crenelations you spoke of, have spikes that prevent climbers from climbing over walls, also allow for a Cauldron of oil to be attached to it.