City life in the middle ages - Medieval Madness

Have you ever wondered what it was like to live in a medieval city?
German version: • Leben in einer mittela...
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● Madnes64
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Thanks to everybody who helped making this video:
● DoctorVisual - Intro
● Vindsvept - Intro music
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● Valentin Schmitt - Editing
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● Matt King - Drawings
● Paleodraw - Grumpy Cat picture
Paleodraw
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● Spencer - For being a cute cat
● Lyezare - For the new profile picture and banner
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Background music:
"The merry woods" - by Sasha Volkov
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Source Material:
"Herrschaft im Mittelalter" - Reclam
ISBN 978-3-15-017072-4
"Die Stadt im Mittelalter" - Reclam
ISBN 978-3-15-017074-8
"Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen: Mittelalter"
ISBN 978-3-406-65916-4

[Jeracraft]

This is absolutely amazing, loving the new change madnes! Dragon Slayer all the way!

[Madnes64]

Jeracraft No Jeremy! How could you support Spencer and his delusional profession! ! :O

[Jeracraft]

***** I was once a dragon slayer myself... =/

[Madnes64]

Jeracraft How much did Spencer pay you to say that??

[Jeracraft]

***** Fine you got me there... I was nothing but a farmer.. haha =[

[wariorgeden]

Jeracraft ***** My 2 icons amazing !

[Jeracraft]

Another great minecraft KZbinr falls =/ its so sad to see you go, I used to follow both you & Jamziboy all the time and thanks to you & him, I managed to get to where I am today..

[Redranger]

true :( i sad what he left i dont know reson why :/

[xToDiee]

+Jeracraft This is sad...

[zakback99]

i think its so people can continue his ways of builds to be preserved or improved

[toby109tt]

:(

[FungusStew]

I remember seeing you in the comment section of jamziboy and madnes64 videos a few years ago when you had maybe 2-3000 subs, don't result remember how long. I am now subscribed to you, good job

[Alan Fox]

Ahh if we could only go back in time to live in a different age, I would stay right here.

[RustyGamesWins]

You should discuss village habits too! The little gardens and free range chickens and cows. Also the wandering pigs! I love medieval history but I would never want to live back then!

[BreauxCraft]

well done, man. you can tell this series has your attention to detail. i hope you keep up this kind of high standard in all your endeavors. your minecraft vids are an inspiration, and its fun to see your passions and design work level up!

[Deatheater 36509]

Loved the video. Could you maybe make another going into detail about certain things such as wether or not a feudal lord ruled under a higher power, such as a king, and what the differences between them were?

[BiGSmoke]

Hey Madness. The last time you did an update on your server's other cities by other builders was a while ago, I can remember the Kargeth update #7, and I think there may have been another one at some point. Although I wouldn't mind seeing more of the other builder's work, what do you think of this? What if you and the other builders were to try and build a massive city in between the others? I would love to see the clashing and merging of the different styles and cultures that would take place. If the bunch of you tried not to make your buildings close together or bunched up, the other builders would have space to mix their own creations in with one another. I get the feeling this idea sounds like absolute chaos, but what if it's not? I can only dream of what all of you combined can do when you put your minds to it.

[BLTspace]

This was so good Madnes! This whole time is fascinating to me. Love the sketches as well. I would want to be a carpenter if possible... or dragon slayer lol. Looking forward to more of these and also that Alf cameo xD. Great job, really. Keep em coming!

[KevinPat13]

This was a really cool video! It'd be awesome if you could do more of these kind of videos :3 Also I would probably work in textiles since they would probably be more wealthy than other merchants because of the type of market it was.

[JohnnyAwesomeGTB]

Your vids give me a Lou of inspiration when it comes to my crafting. I have issues with planning though. Like how to plan a build so it's not identical to someone else's. You should post a video explaining your thought process when planning a build so that others like myself aren't 100% copying tutorials and are able to start building their own. I've got several ideas in my head but no ideas on how to use them lol.

[Jezza]

Love the new intro and the whole setting of the video with the medieval feel to it. Well Done, keep it up. Also loved the Age of Empires sound references!

[STARPHROST]

This is AMAZING!! I love the artwork. If I were living in medieval times, I'd probably be a scrivener / librarian or baker.

[LOZZA PRODUCTIONS]

STARPHROST Fabulous, I'd definitely visit your bakery!! I'd be a stonemason or blacksmith maybe

[Johan Dale]

@LOZZA PRODUCTIONS Blacksmith, even now i would like to learn the art.

[zerotoning]

I would be a wizard lol

[Lord. D]

@zerotoning relatable

[Benzer Morris]

Who is going to die for his/her highness ambitions hmmm?

[Kipp Bangham]

Please make more of these!! They are pretty cool and I think they are very interesting!!!

[BiGSmoke]

Hey Madness. I remember when you posted videos about the other builder's creations, Kargeth update #7, and maybe something else, it's been a while. I would like to see more of that, but I had an idea. What if, in between all the other cities, you and the other builders all came together and built a massive city? The way the styles and cultures would clash and merge could be amazing, I can only wonder what it might look like. If all of you decided to follow your own styles and build spaced out enough so that other builders could build next to each other, the out come could be disharmonic, or it could mesh and blend perfectly. Just a thought.

[Bassem Hammoudi]

Hello Madness! Great video. I would love to see a tutorial on a monastery, the medieval school thing

[Rainulf Felton]

loving it, would be cool to hear some details about the medieval town law... would help me know if the city I built is actually a town.

[pinkietrash]

Just out of curiosity, how long have you been building Mad? I've been building medieval and rustic things for almost 2 years and I've gotten better at it, with someone who builds the same interests as me, and gives tutorials, I'm just curious when you started doing all this, and how you improved. Are you self taught?

[Corvus Lycidas]

I really look forward to more of these kinds of videos. The artwork is beautiful, and inspire me to draw too (but I am not nearly as good as Matt King in this video). I also learn a lot. One thing I would love to see would be one about medieval castles (how they were defended, important rooms or things, how they were built up etc...)

[Abby]

Beautiful drawings! Though I more or less knew everything already, I still enjoyed watching it. Keep making these kind of videos!

[LeVigilantee]

Maybe you could do a tutorial of the interior of buildings. And especially the differences between large and small interior rooms and how to fill in big spaces.

[DizzyAaron]

VERY WELL DONE! Congrats on your project and thank you for sharing! Came out awesome! :D

[Corbo]

This was brilliant , I love this so much, it may not be minecraft, but who really cares , you'd be a better world civ teacher then my world civ teacher himself , please do more of this!

[Udesii Baar'ur]

What is the best way to develop your own personal style when it comes to medieval builds? I mean it was great that you helped with the tutorials but I'm looking to try and branch out with my own things to try and build my city in a unique way. So far it has a lot of Kargeth's feel like it could be a sub city from your world but would like to make it better.

[stepbro11]

Awesome video madness! You've just earned a new sub! Also your tutorials are very helpful :D

[Sean Speedy]

I had a feeling Madness would play age of empires. You should start a new series of you playing it as realistically as possible! that i would watch

[Flamma2Games]

At first I wasn't too psyched about the idea when you told us in another video but I really like this vid! keep 'em coming!

[Voya Ristika]

Concise and informative. I enjoyed this video, and really am glad that Spencer gets to be a dragon slayer. I think he'll do very well because he sounds so cute.

[Gravitation3Beatles3]

Very pretty artwork! Matt king did an absolutely wonderful job!

[CaptainXRex]

Bin gespannt wo das hinführt. Ich schau deine Videos schon seit Jahren und bin immer dankbar neue Bauweisen und ähnliches durch eine gute Erklärweise zu lernen und jz noch mehr geschichtliches zu Erfahren wird bestimmt gut. (Aus Angst vor englischer Grammatik auf Deutsch geschrieben). Freu mich schon auf die neuen Videos.

[Cameron Cromwell]

Thumbs up if you think he should do a market square tutorial or at least show us how to build a certain building that we could replicate 4 times to make it a "square". You already did a tutorial on how to build a fountain in the middle. Thanks :)

[Isaac Stevens]

You put together amazing videos, and deserve every sub you have, so here's another one!

[Paul Davidson]

It's amazing how even after all these centuries, our attitudes towards other people haven't changed much.

[Splekh]

Super Format, musst du auf jeden Fall weiter machen!! War garantiert viel Arbeit das alles zu zeichnen:P Und ich will wohl Spencer werden:)

[Micah Sponsler]

Age of Empires! Still one of my favorite games, I'm glad you used some of that in the video. Keep it, I'm loving the series!

[Walrus With Ebola]

Madnes, please upload again ;_; You were the reason I ever wanted to start building medieval-styled structures and I've gotten so far and made my way up the "medieval building ladder" that I've even contributed to the Conquest texture pack, but now you're gone and I wanna die

[Metatron]

Very good video, and loved the animations and sound effects

[anjribirdپرندگان خشمگین]

Hello, I watch your videos lol.

[Rune]

Nice video, I would like to be a blacksmith, because I love melee weapons. Could you do a video about all kinds of medieval weapons?

[OakKodama]

Very nice, hopefully we will see more of these informational videos :)

[Ninny]

Oh my goodness, thank you sooo much. Me and my friends are working on a minecraft roleplay server that's mainly based off the medieval ages. Your builds and this helped a lot. Thank you! It would be great if i knew more people who could both build medieval buildings and know how they works aswell. XD

[oktopus 26]

what is the server ip? if it's allowed to ask ;)

[Ninny]

Oh! wowie! Glad you asked :O The IP is play.lucridem.com, we're still in beta, so don't expect a lot of people on XD Thanks for asking!

[pinkietrash]

I can build medieval as well, but I'm not as good as Mad is though (he's like 10x better xD) I am also good with rustic builds too, maybe like skyships and cabins. If you want, it is a little bit late to reply but I can be maybe some kind of build team on that server (if it's a Minecraft sever without any mod downloads, I may be good at video game building but I really suck at computer programming)

[Ninny]

Xx_PinkiePink_xX Yes! it is a vanilla minecraft server, and there indeed is a build team, but are you just planning on joining for the builds, or do you want to roleplay on it aswell? :o

[Lucifer El Diablo]

i loved your builds, sad to see you stop 😭

[curvedlines]

Great work. Great series!

[2G1A Tutorials // English]

Man what an inspirational video! The drawings alone gives me the urge to build something in Minecraft.

[Steve2Work]

I would have been a professional kitten juggler. . Enjoyed this, as well as your impressive builds. Thank you.

[ricsackPlays]

Really great job! How did you do the animations? Did you draw them yourself?

[Madnes64]

ricsackPlays Pictures were provided by a friend, Matt King.

[Abby]

Hey Madness, where are you? We miss you. This video is amazing, and I'd love to see you make more. Please, come back to us!

[When Chibisaurs ruled the Earth!]

To all those asking where the next video is, Madnes stated : "For all of you who have been wondering: There haven't been any videos because I was on an 8-week business trip. I'm currently working on the next videos." Be patient.

[Lord Sethize]

I absolutely loved that you used the Age of empires sounds.

[yo]

The conversation with your cat was hilarious, dude. All too relateable..

[Andrés López Moreno]

Cathedral builder. Gothic cathedral builder. I know that technically it's not a profession because lots of different guilds joined efforts to build these, but I LOVE Gothic cathedrals and I design one every week.

[Vincent Thendean]

Ah, even this great video fell victim to the street poo myth. Though to be fair they did say not all cities are like this particular example in the beginning and also said people (especially nobles) care about hygiene. At least they didn't say everyone drank beer instead of water. Too many people want to know more about castles but ignore towns and cities. Nice to see someone made a video about the topic.

[Deathe01]

Nice video :D looks like this will be a good series :)

[Antroz59]

Words cannot explain how much jizz there is on my floor at this moment. Thanks for the awesome series! This is just what I needed as a series (and I was actually in the making of something along these lines. I guess I'll just change the way I annimate things actually.) But yeah, tons of efforts into this video! Thanks for bringing us some great content like this! keep the awesome work! SideNote: New channel art and other changes really make this channel professionnal. It's nice to see that everything is going well for you!

[Albert Jansson]

Good video. Not repeating the myths like many do.

[Nation Of Rice]

You were one of my favorite youtubers. I basically learned everything from you... Where'd you go? :(

[Thramoun]

I just love the building site in the lower right corner at ~1:21. It's suposed to be the one from Age of Empires 2 right? There's no way I could forget those!

[Madnes64]

Thramoun Sharp eye, yes I spent half of my childhood playing that game :P

[Thramoun]

***** I can already tell with my sharp eye that this is going to be an extremely interesting series, I especially enjoyed the part on politics :)

[Mike120xD]

A Blacksmith always loved how they create amazing armour and weapons.

[Lothar]

This is excellent! I love the age of empire sounds, and ofcourse the wilhelm scream. xD

[CaptainXRex]

I would like to watch a video abaout world editing commands (How you enter it. What they do and how you use them in the best Way.) You can explain things so well.

[Valentin Teslov]

Well, the question wasn't specific enough. If I were to travel in medieval times while retaining my current knowledge, I'd probably want to be a war engineer, or an engineer in general. My primary concern would be faster development of technology and living conditions. First thing I'd probably do would be to try and get an audience with the king or a person of high authority and discuss my vision with them.

[Ryvuhl]

love this, more please

[Tiqew]

omg madness I haven't watched in years. you're the best man keep it up! always inspiring

[Kyle Sullivan]

Hello there! I've been doing casual research on medieval times for recreation and there's one question that Ive never been able to answer no matter how much research I put in... Did commoners, like not royalty or nobles... ever own land? Or houses? I know that a vast amount of land was owned by nobles like dukes and counts and barons, and that land was given to people in exchange for labor and such. I know the idea of feudalism. But did nobles and kings own ALL the land? Surely there were commoners like merchants that got rich. Was any houses or land up for sale which they would then own? You made a mention in the beginning that the cities were free and the rest was under feudal rule. So does that mean commoners could own houses and property, and not just have that space given to them by a lord in exchange for rent? Its all so confusing. I suck at economics :/

[LevoGAMES]

To my knowledge, it was possible to purchase land if you had enough cash. The land was owned e.g. by the king, who had a person or department that administrates who is getting what kind of land. The king himself often had better things to do, as to give a patch of land to merchant XY. Other than that, well, if you didn't have the money, you would buy a town house and pay taxes for it (basically a rent). Or, as you said, you would work for a count or lord, and they would lend you a bit of land in return. There were not many options, back then ^^

[To the Hungry, Every Bitter Thing is Sweet]

Yes, they could build on common land (usually the worst parcels), and allow their animals to graze on the common land.

[Bernasiek]

Cool concept ! Interesting and funny, wilhelm scream approved :D So you did the research only for this video, for your minecraft builds, or was this knowledge you already had ? And btw, I would be a blacksmith in medieval city ;)

[Madnes64]

Bernasiek I had rough knowledge before but I had to read quite a bit to make the vid. Welcome Mr. Blacksmith :P

[Etienne Quarez]

+Madnes64 I think that you have a really mature community because I haven't seen any dislike on this vid'. Incredible for a big channel !

[Etienne Quarez]

***** Of course, it's also because of your excellent concept !

[TheTitanian]

Madnes64 did you draw the pictures yourself

[Harvestminer]

I think I would be a Blacksmith or at least a Lumberjack because blacksmiths can create not only useful tools but also artwork and a lumerjack because I love playing with those Lincoln logs!

[Gavin McKenzie]

Madness64 you were the one who made me become a pro at minecraft! i used to build dirt houses, now i built crazy awesome buildings! you were a big inspiration to me! R.I.P my dear friend...😫😔

[Petr Novak]

+Hawkmations look he uploaded a video explaining where he has been on april 2016 check his channel he is finally back!!

[ChrisselZockt]

Cooles Konzept ;) Gefällt mir, besonders die Animationen :)

[Kang5030]

Most likely, I'd want to be a mason. Masons were among the most influential and respected tradesmen back then, and mason guilds had the council's ear at least and seats on it when times were good. The work gave you cash you could use to learn more advanced architecture, and hell, you might end up designing a cathedral!

[ScreamDesignPlay]

Love this series already ;D

[Theodore Thanados]

Could you make a server update soon? I really would lile to see the changes :)

[Artillator]

This video is awesome. Good work Madnes. I also noticed the Age of Empires sound effects xD

[Madnes64]

Artillator Glad you can appreciate the sounds :)

[Artillator]

Of course :) Age of Empires is the best :D

[The YouTube Buccaneer]

I loved this episode history is so cool

[Jennifer Pawlowski]

Hey madness, hoffe mal du warst 2 monate lang im Urlaub :D Ne jetzt mal ehrlich; Du musst auf jeden fall weiter machen! Come on!

[Stryker]

You have really inspired me, thanks madnes64

[bramthesmooveboss]

850 likes 3 dislikes not too shaby for a new series 👍

[Kim Olsson]

The main thing I love about medieval times is that you had more freedom to use your skills and creativity to make a living without a degree, company, tax registration and so on. If I lived in the medieval times I would be an engineer, inventor, painter/artist, blacksmith, leatherworker, carpenter/woodworker, bowyer and an archer.

[HusseinFarhat]

Can you please do a guide on how to build a house with to many roofs

[MaverickMono]

Loved the drawings and animation. The Script... was the "rats were a constant plague" supposed to be ironic? But it's a brilliant series, I just hope the topic is a little more specific next time :)

[Madnes64]

MaverickMono Nice, you noticed the play on words :) Bts the next topics will be more specific indeed :)

[Niko Winter]

I would be a mercenary( sell-sword). Best profession ever, travel a lot, gets plenty of coin, able to do what you want. Its a good life to me. I'd be an assassin, guard, archer, knight, bandit, and rogue all in one.

[CaptainXRex]

a story which is heartwarming and soft like a mother's kiss

[Ella Thompson]

I have started to build a medival city, but my first few buildings in front of the castle are not connected, should I delete them and start again or should I try and find a way to connect them ?

[Christian Pohle]

If I could choose, I would supply Spencer with the tools he need... you know, armor, sword, shield, lance and so on.... a smith for sure. Sadly, free choice of profession was not so much available.

[Jae Rae]

Nice Alf reference there. Had me chuckling. Wasn't expecting it.

[SchergeSatans]

+1 for Wilhelm scream. Great project, I hope there will be more of it...?

[Madnes64]

SchergeSatans I do hope so too :)

[Black Assassin]

I'm making a medieval "World" so I just wanted to ask for a new tutorial (Blacksmith, house, or tavern). Thanks

[Mr ward]

I'd be a blacksmith if I was in that era.

[Brian Edwards]

I always imagined being a plowman with a bullock because oxen are strong but they don't work all day so when the bullock gave up for the day I would (reluctantly) be forced to take him home and we would chill together in the byre.

[Windisch]

Nice. Have you ever thought about combining your educational stuff with pictures of your minecraft buildings?

[Petr Stuchlý]

***** does everything on his channel have to have minecraft shoehorned into it? this is great as it is and it's got its own unique visuals.

[Windisch]

Petr Stuchlý Yes, maybe you are right. The Pictures are really well done. Was just an idea.

[Petr Stuchlý]

***** yeah I know, sorry for the tone of my comment, really didn't mean to come across like that...

[Windisch]

No broblem. :)

[BLTspace]

Petr Stuchlý Agreed. Absolutely love the sketches and feel of it.

[Fraser Kemp]

hey i Was just wondering if you could tell us the seed of you worlds because i keep spawning in jungle desert or snowy biome and all i want is to build some medieval stuff on a plain biome

[Jakub Jaworski]

So what exactly made a proper medieval city. Let’s say a country capital vs port city vs mountain city vs a normal plain city. In the medieval period (mainly looking at Europe)

[Owain Williams]

Love this video, but I'm sure that townspeople had more than "one or two pieces of clothing".

[Video Games Are Fun]

medieval madness is one of the best pinball games ever made

[Dávid Rudolf]

I would like to be a blacksmith (to make weapons againts dragons), i think it should be a great honor to beeing a blacksmith at thosedays. Just imagine that knowlege what they had. :)

[Ryan Hilliard]

This is hilarious! 😂Subscribed!!

[Diogo Schenk]

Loved Age of Empires references.

[LegitAdventurez]

Now I have an even bigger reason to go to Germany for a nice visit.....I don't speak German though.

[egrif]

"No, Spencer, you can't be a Dragonslayer.No, Spencer. No. No Spencer. Bad kitty." I'm loving the new genre of the chanel! Very interesting :-)

[LevoGAMES]

I'd be a merchant and/or teacher. Maybe even a city guard.

[Erik Mohr-Skogan]

Pleas keep this up. I really like this.

[Filip Diaconescu]

I used to watch his vids a long time ago and I found his channel again now. Why doesn't he upload anymore ?

[sladikk]

So basically it was exactly like Age of Empires 2? Awesome

[Madnes64]

sladikk I see you get it now! That also means that you can destroy a stone wall with a sword...