How to design the PERFECT map...

[@transferegg]

Drew: why would anyone wanna live in this city it’s so cramped The city: rent/35$ Drew: IM MOVING IN

[@fromfareast3070]

OMG how can you live in this city ?! rent/35$ im sold.

[@Kayypags]

Drew In The Cramped City: Uhhh IM MOVING OUT.

[@Liggliluff]

And if that's Hong Kong dollar, that's about 4.50 USD now

[@mallorydagreatest5963]

This would be so miserable to live in, I could never live in this cramped area (35$ rent) Aight I'm in

[@smokolia]

there is a small village in Poland it’s called „Mała wieś przy drodze” it translates to „Small village next to a road”

[@cockatoo010]

There's Bad Essen in Germany. It was an inn village. The name means Bath and food

[@victorjohnson5646]

HMMMM

[@TheGreatMrTeabag]

1:20, They were near impossible to take. Proper castles were nearly indestructible to most weaponry at the time. Invaders would have to either starve them out or have someone working for them on the inside to let them in.

[@skinnynoodle2599]

The walls were, but the keep was easy to take down, invaders would spill gunpowder by the walls and either light it but more commonly would threaten to light it so the defenders hidden inside there would come out

[@RTFManuel]

No, you just have to hit the castle walls with your sticks or swords until the health bar goes down. Normally they should start burning and then collapse.

[@kingconniebonnie2178]

Actually Drew, people make these fantasy maps either for like you said D&D but they also use them for writing their own fantasy stories in that world. And some people like me, just imagine wars and world events on those maps

[@ANANAS1K007]

i just design it in world box

[@bulldowozer5858]

0:38 "It is unwise to keep two -infinity stones- tits so close together" Algeria: "What if I do anyway?!"

[@Hulvian]

only just saw it lol

[@ceoofcbt4514]

Meanwhile in afghanistan

[@mallorydagreatest5963]

LOL

[@alts_stopmotions7069]

When I was a kid I used to draw fictional country’s on a piece of paper and make them battle 🤣🤣🤣

[@erairlines7106]

Wait I'm not the only weirdo?

[@trla6505]

@@erairlines7106 never was

[@odst2247]

SAME; islands, city’s and warfare all with paper and pencil lol

[@czpokeblade2839]

I did the same thing with my friends. They ended up not liking it but I still do it.

[@kingconniebonnie2178]

Wait! I’m not alone?!

[@trexyroar]

8:11, wait, are you telling me drew went to college? I thought he was taking too much crack to enter.

[@Apalumbo07]

Probally dropped out or it was community or he really did go to college

[@proffesorbennu]

Drew: "If it's generic we can just get rid of this" Me: "Drew's generic get rid of him!"

[@splinte111]

1:20 that's why you had sieges that lasted years sometimes.

[@jarskil8862]

Imagine sieging castle for 4 years just to find out about secret food tunnel :D

[@splinte111]

@@jarskil8862 feels bad man

[@ohitsrusher842]

21 year siege comes to mind

[@Arcaryon]

@@ohitsrusher842 I can not really imagine how it would be to actually maintain your moral for years. Probably why so many sieges ended in a swift surrender. It takes a lot to endure such an event.

[@ohitsrusher842]

@@Arcaryon The siege was actually lost because the French 'reinforcements' showed up to a Greek city defended for 20 years, failed horribly, declared the city undefendedable, and left. Basically destroyed the moral of all the people left.

[@andii-]

“D and D is a big reason, right?“ Fantasy Authors: 👁👄👁

[@alfredpek2812]

THANK YOU FOR VALIDATING MY OBSESSIONS WITH MAPS, DATA, AND GEOGRAPHY!

[@Nexandr]

When I was younger, whenever I was in a bus I would take pencil and just draw circles and when the bus would shake, for example at a speed breaker, it would create jagged lines and it would look like a country. I would then divide it into states, make terrain and make stuff in cities.

[@Bascanska_Ploca]

10:05 we have those in serbia too, i have steped on one and it kinda feels like when you step on a trampoline. Also im pretty sure its just debree from the lake building up and grass and trees start growing at some point.

[@skinnynoodle2599]

0:50 that is called a motte and Bailey castle, believe it or not, it was very effective and could be made within a few days. The major weakness is that if one single fire arrow were to hit it, it would go up in flames, unless they built it with stone. The main watchtower was the motte and the small village was the Bailey. The Motte would also act as a keep and would be protected as it is up the hill. Most attackers would start at the Bailey and pillage it before heading to the Motte but as you can see, the steep staircase was there, this is where the defenders had a tactic they would throw down an oily sticky substance (I’m not sure what it was exactly maybe tar) which would either prevent the attackers from climbing up or stick them in place. He defenders would then rain down arrows onto the attackers! This was super effective but the stone version was more expensive so most villages had a simple wooden one, which lead to fires

[@kaspermarthinsenbjerg138]

‘Middelfart’ in Denmark doesnt mean ‘middle fart’ but something like ‘middle journey’ or ‘middle trip’ refering to the crossing from Fin to Jutland

[@OneTwoFive0]

Chaparral is basically a desert but with lots of living shrubs, bushes and trees. Honestly looks beautiful

[@lgmmrm]

1:20, you had trebuchets and catapults, though usually what besiegers would do is to dig tunnels underneath the castle walls and then remove the supports or, later on after gunpowder became a thing, detonate explosives, which would destroy the foundation and cause a section of wall to collapse.

[@tnapeepeelu]

0:20 I came back from swimming yesterday and the house that our friend's mom has, the walls are made off stucco too, I also got inspiration!

[@tomeullabres5288]

Castles were indeed very hard to take fightng so it was very uncommon that someone actually tried to do it. The usual way to take a castle was deny all supplies and wait until people inside the castle was hungry enough to surrender but that doesn't fit very well on movies.

[@Imperial_Kaiser]

There are dates above the castles

[@Super-Shafs]

And I thought I was the only person. when I was in 5th grade, I had a bigger table than normal because I had a growth spurt. and on my table, I also saw continents, oceans, and island. I would also draw countries and kingdoms, and even drew the weather. But also, at 6:27, the same thing is happening with my phone

[@hidaven2006]

Fun fact: if you are on an iPad or IPhone take a picture of a fictional or real map and select “markup” on the editing screen for the photo. This allows you to paint over your map from which point you can create nations, and make them battle

[@JamecBond]

6:40 thats called de-lamination and yeah its just one layer (or multiple) of a "laminate" peeling off.

[@wisphen]

8:20 I honestly thought it said skin tones and I didn't even question it

[@disillusionedrightest7313]

Drew over here just analyzing his preferred skin tones...

[@jarskil8862]

If talking about hot areas id prefer being black as possible. But I live in cold and dark north, so whiter better.

[@DarwinskiYT]

Who tf is grey?

[@wisphen]

@@DarwinskiYT the interdimensional aliens you see when you take dmt

[@Nflrealtime]

12:17 the abbreviation used for Georgia makes me uncomfortable

[@jack_copperz]

The thing about taking over castles is that you don't. You take the land around the castle and camp out till the castle occupants either starve to death or they surrender. If you're storming the castle walls then you better have have a darn good reason other than "the enemy is in there"

[@skiactive1830]

There's a village in Sweden called Ni**a but the Swedish word

[@UnRealistic.]

8:12 me too agh those peopel don't understand what maps are or what we do ....it was so frustrating and also embarrassing....😑

[@DarwinskiYT]

Holup

[@DanielRBW]

"Sorry Boss, couldn't come into work today, my island didn't float to the shore this morning"

[@blakechow8294]

But the island actually moves extremely slowly…

[@waynejohnson1786]

I love how Djibouti is included on the map of “silly place names” 😂

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

0:57 Every castle building simulator ever

[@UnRealistic.]

Honest Abe

[@felipeviana6215]

Are castle building simulators even a thing?

[@luggy6117]

Me a Worldbuilder and Cartographer: Finally, my time to shine.

[@thebasileus4793]

Do you have any advice, I suck at drawing and would like to know some tips.

[@luggy6117]

@@thebasileus4793 I guess my recommendation would be to just look at maps, study them, and start big, slowly getting more and more fine with your edges.

[@thebasileus4793]

@@luggy6117 ty

[@justagecko4113]

3:52 this should be his slogan

[@normial4]

8:35 by the volcano in libya

[@xycrypt]

Norway with 10 lines: Ok kinda similar South Africa with 10 lines: P O T A T O

[@jarskil8862]

0:36 Shame Finnish places arent on list. Long time ago Sweden started force integrating Finland to empire and Swedish officials walked around Finnsh towns doing mapping and they asked place names from locals. We hated Sweden so pissed of farmers gave some insane place names to the officials, and the names exists to this day.

[@Icantthinkofaname267]

00:13 bro I still do that

[@visegradi]

About minecraft, there's a group called BTE buliding earth in 1:1 scale

[@jayayywhy4374]

Drew: talks bad about the walled city Walled City Rent: HK$35 (~$4.50 USD today) Drew: "Im on my way"

[@diegoangeles1549]

2:56 bruh it looks like they are dabbing

[@spr1ngw0lf96]

Lol im glad im not the only one who noticed that🤣🤣

[@spr1ngw0lf96]

Lol im glad im not the only one who noticed that🤣🤣

[@karibrimacombe8710]

@@spr1ngw0lf96 you commentes the same thing twice

[@lapiswolf2780]

9:54 Tectonic plates in a nutshell

[@Mr_Kiwi_the_Wizard]

Drew watchs paint dry while having war flashbacks asmr.

[@Vinayak-rk1tc]

Same bro! The wall thing

[@myncimynci6448]

Fun fact, the "city state" of Lesotho is only slightly smaller than Belgium.

[@rathinasabapathy3796]

Stan is derived from the Sanskrit/Urdu/Hindi word staan meaning place/land. So if you make a place called stanistan it will be called literally land of lands

[@ichmagzitaronen1599]

3:00 is that mountain dabbing?

[@thatoneeaglewarrior2284]

2:10 they found the eagle eating the snake while escaping the Atzcapatzalco people after they sacrificed the kings wife; who was believed to be the reincarnation of Huitzchilapotli; the Aztec god of war. So they settled the city Tenochtitlan. Tenochitlan was built by Chinampas; mud and silt from the bottom of the lake, the temples were built of limestone because it was not too heavy. The people of Atzcapatzalco charged the Aztecs heavy taxes due to the reasson of them settling in ‘their lake’. The people of Texcoco, and another tribe helped overthrow The Atzcapatazalcoans, by forming a triple alliance/ the Aztec Empire.

[@danielclasen809]

i actively do this, but with a minecraft world map.

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

I make a lot of fictional worlds that eventually get consumed by our world. "This area is the France-equivalent, that's the America-equivalent which owns the Hawaii-equivalent" and then I draw the map and it either looks horrible or basically is just an already existing country or region

[@hdskipper9878]

Inside the walled city looks like the lower levels of corouscaunt and I love it

[@sheevpalps3846]

This is one of the best subreddits out there.

[@manjotbali8985]

What is the name I need to be there

[@crazylemur6986]

Yea which one is it ?

[@colossal_rat]

@@manjotbali8985 it's r/mapmaking

[@colossal_rat]

@@crazylemur6986 r/mapmaking

[@sheevpalps3846]

@Manjot Bali and @Crazy Lemur It's r/mapmaking, but r/imaginary maps is great too

[@NS-pj8dr]

Chaparral is like the most common biome in California, part of the reason the place won't stop burning (dry shrubs and trees).

[@Oooze3424]

I'd pay to have drew attempt worldbuilding

[@vicki0]

9:31 Every time u include Denmark I’m just like OMG OMG ITS MY HOME COUNTRY OMG HE INCLUDED IT 😅

[@DarwinskiYT]

Well that one was a Lego map so there’s no way it would not include Denmark

[@ausdorian3252]

2:26 OMG someone put that in a museum and make a game whit it

[@mr.shameless1886]

1:48 this map jsut shows antarctica as the highest point of the sunken world of pangea and atlantist cahnge my mind

[@lionelkeijzer8008]

Antartica is really dry it's basically a desert with ice

[@bigcurty9107]

can confirm "muff" is a real place and there are equally funny place names. just go on Google maps and zoom in at the invisible border between Derry-Londonderry and Donegal _(gotta be careful when it comes to the island of ireland's geography)_

[@kortwalsh1724]

Childhood map making! Jeez deep thoughts bro. And legos and you got every story made in last twenty years.

[@hirwin7593]

“I don’t want to ruin the design” I would love to see the castle crumble

[@ciala51]

5:11 rigging is the turn for ropes, chains and wires on a ship that go from the nose of the forecastle deck to the rear of the poop deck (no im not joking about the name of that there it’s actually called a poop deck) and it would go via the masts so on a twin-mast sailing ship it would go forecastle-forward mast-aft mast-poop deck in the early 20th century and late 19th they introduced the marconi system which operates using morse code and 1 or more high points for the transmitter and wires running along the length of the ship from 1 high point to another most ships had 4 of these running from one mast to the other these wires were the receivers altho now they use radio so you don’t see them on ships anymore

[@riskybusinessish]

3:41 Dwight: “are you referring to alchemy?”

[@Bigmilklord]

HOW TO TAKE A CASTLE YOUR GUIDE FOR A EASY PATH TO VICTORY: 1. surround the castle with bulky men swords and shields 2. stand there and don't let anything go past you 3. they surrender or die from starvation

[@mallorydagreatest5963]

What if the men starve lol, get an inside man to do the job :D

[@spencerstrickland5266]

I guess I'll be the weirdest of the weirdos here... Every now and then, when my imagination is active, sometimes when I take a leak I'll look in the toilet, longer than most people would, and I would watch the pee fizz form continents and islands until all the bubbles popped. I hope I made everyone feel a little less weird by confessing that. Don't make fun of me. 🤭😂

[@mistereyeball2479]

Foam in water is the best for mapmaking and continental drift, especially since u can just stick ur fingers in and move the foam to what you want

[@tomatocharro348]

When I have diarrhea I take a picture of my shit and name them and send it to my friends so they get mad; yes I’m wierd

[@spencerstrickland5266]

@@mistereyeball2479 Thanks but I'm not weird enough to dip my fingers in the toilet after I just pissed. 🤣😅

[@mistereyeball2479]

@@spencerstrickland5266 I was referring to like a sink with soap suds, not piss

[@spencerstrickland5266]

@@mistereyeball2479 I know. You just didn't clarify so it sounded funny.

[@softystorms8087]

I have popcorn cilling and walls and i see them as ilands

[@FranciscoXimenes-t5m]

Well, it may be mostly for D&D but I make a LOT of maps and most of them are for just imagining a fictional world or creating stories, realities, and people's lives. Also just for fun really, it's something to do.

[@beat-loaf9137]

The picture in the thumbnail was in my resource booklet for my geography paper

[@DarwinskiYT]

NOC

[@jamessargeant7761]

3:00 the sleeping warrior in Scotland is similar.

[@Force2reckonVods]

Bruh, I would 100% watch a series where you design fantasy continents, dungeons and other shiz.

[@vincey79]

Me who lives 10 mins away from one of those city/town names I prefer to see the funny side to it

[@pidgeypodgey]

"casltes must have been hard to bust through" Yeah I wonder why they used them if it made it so hard for their enemies to break in

[@LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau]

13:00 You are a freak. But as Seal sings: You ain't never gonny survive unless you're a little crazy.

[@morehbein6207]

Drew lives in California, the online place where the Chaparral exists/ is called that way, and knows a lot about geography: What is the Chaparral?!

[@lv_thiago9635]

9:55 here in Argentina we have that too, we named it "El ojo", "the eye", it's in the north of Buenos Aires

[@bkan373]

¿Por qué tenéis tantos psicólogos?

[@lv_thiago9635]

@@bkan373 la verdad no se xd

[@sentientglitch]

10:20 they have one of these in the Telus World of science Edmonton.

[@martinhorvath4117]

you would describe tundra as humid. But since it's cold it mostly means that it's all year winter, so below water freezing point. Cannot really call snowy weather wet either.

[@incompleteriver770]

Drew make a public discord since your fans love you

[@WatermelonQeed]

The 2 Twatts are in Orkney (the bottom one) And My home islands of Shetland (the top one)

[@Hobbyrepubliken]

That Arcade at the end was build to mimic the Kowloon Walled City. It's not actually in there

[@commandertoastcz6256]

2:02 In chechia, Stan = Tent

[@bkCheezburgor]

Ah yes Khazakhtent

[@jonathanastro2531]

I have been drawing maps for my whole life and none of them are this beautiful lmao

[@starhalv2427]

00:17 I used to do the same thing.

[@ishandey6061]

I now want to make a map

[@_MC529]

8:44 Breaking News Sahara now to be found in the Ivory Coast😳🥵

[@DarwinskiYT]

He said reaching the Ivory coast

[@diffkopf]

7:50 your could Play Risiko or Something Like that at the table

[@madshansen2625]

Most castle sieges were done by cutting of the supplies to and from the castle making the inhabitants have the choice of starving or surrendering, or the attackers would have an inside man/woman who could open a small side door

[@madshansen2625]

And then of course sometimes they would attack the castle whit ladders and other siege weapons

[@tonai]

Ozymandias is from Ninjago. Few episodes have taken place there.

[@nox8600]

This isn’t for DND specifically, it’s for worldbuilding in general. I love worldbuilding, but my maps are usually awful.

[@Nikioko]

3:31: I would describe tundra as permafrost. Is frost dry or wet?

[@ahuasltlianm]

0:13 -0:26 I do the same you are not the only one

[@natesantos1359]

"Unless rhe volcano. Explodes" Sounds like pompeii,

[@UnRealistic.]

Drew's new secret channel is very ÜWÜ see what I mean DruuWu Finally another channel..

[@kibaender9286]

I'm glad I'm the only one who used to imagine continents on my walls

[@nonnativenarnian]

10:13 reminds me a bit of CS Lewis' Perelandra.

[@harroldinab]

I wish I knew about this when i was younger, because I would've bloody loved it!!

[@jakobdiehn6596]

9:09 hurts to say but ocean ridges dont make islands like that

[@Newbierank]

13:08 "map of Scandinavia" but includes finland

[@racsoleerf124]

1:18, Knights: Well yes but actually yes

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

"We all know that the Obama Prism is the best map." - Abraham Lincoln

[@taconanolol1674]

R/mapmaking is the subreddit