Talkin bout - Medieval cities in Minecraft

[@sirrliv]

Very nice vid, Madnes. Very helpful. One question that came to my mind while you were talking about residential housing: From my understanding, it was common practice for craftsmen to live in an apartment upstairs from their shop/business, particularly in more crowded areas. How does this factor into your advice? Also, what are your thoughts about apartment buildings, which have been around since Roman times, in this sort of setting?

[@slug237711]

But... I always put flying ships above my arenas D:

[@gamerfrones4645]

This video is so amazing! It can´t be described in a little box on youtube. This video is simply just the hugest source of inspiration and the video that i have watched the most times, and every time i find something new amazingness! If someone somehow manage to read my comment without having actually seen this video, Watch it goddammit! Until your eyes collapse

[@RHDrumLessons]

Madnes, I just wanted to praise your style again. I've said it before but no one else I've ever seen builds with such confidence and control, yet with such a flair for "significance", if that makes any sense. It's like...you don't build the buildings in and around your city for the sake of doing so, but everything you create has relevance and a reason for existing. Also, the ship you show floating above the colosseum at 5:26 is utterly gorgeous.

[@LostArcadian]

Madnes, I thoroughly enjoy your talking about videos. They encourage creativity, which is what I find most important. You are a great builder!

[@aspenbell2060]

I have seen a lot of your video's and i never thought i would say this to any minecraft player, you are a medieval era minecraft master builder. You rightfully earn the rank of Architect!

[@zealious2440]

He would be a good history teacher

[@thewildchi]

Great video madness! One question: How do you decide the style or shape of each individual building? like do you research what that certain building would look like in medieval times, or do you just know a lot about history and architecture and just build what you think it would look like?

[@TWILGHTER901]

I'm so glad that you can guide me in the right direction. I always thought that a market stand on top of a tree next to mine right under a church was a winner. Hmm...

[@DezTheArtist]

Go Deeper into this topic please

[@Azrucal]

It is an art to be able to know how to put buildings close together and not have them collide. I try to cram buildings by each other and not having enough space to finish them because the other building is in the way

[@songbirdlyricz]

I love the history aspect you add in for the reasoning, great advice vid! :)

[@enddavid9594]

It's amazing that there was someone built such a magnificent medieval city in Minecraft 9 years ago. I'm shocked

[@yubyub96]

I think you should talk about giving the buildings an unique look,or/and on how to make a city look good from the street angle, that last one is something people almost never do, they always fly around but rarely make a walk through the streets and alleys. Or/and about how to make a city look alive both in the exterior(plazas,streets,etc) and in the interior(inside a shop, a house interior,etc) I love your videos madness and specially this kind of videos. thanks a lot for making them.-yubyub96

[@penguinorojo8962]

I was going to suggest that same thing! I thought it would be interesting to see a time lapse 'day in the life of' sort of video to see how he works on his city or surrounding area.

[@DapperBrick]

The code that is randomly generated to create a new world, this can also be manually inputted before creating a new world if you wanted to share that world across platforms(consoles, PCs, ect.). Random seeds are always numbers but you can type in words to form a seed as well. If you were being sarcastic then I regret nothing and hope both of us long and happy lives.

[@zukodark]

I really like these videos alot more than the building tutorials, as they tell how to build yourself, rather than telling how you build that certaint house. As you said before, randomness is important. None wants a copied house over and over again.

[@vidsalmic4477]

i have an idea for a mod. when you go on singleplayer (or host a multiplayer) you can select what city you could spawn in(stone-wood, desert, underground...).the city would be huge(walled city mod for example) and the houses would have interior furniture. you could also defend your town with siege weapons, horses and soldiers that you can customize(warfare mod for example)but also you could have ships to councer other islands. but also you could use block to instant generate structures(castles)

[@TheRevenWorld]

I really like these talking bout videos its great for those of us who like your videos for inspiration and to make builds for ourself instead of copying you builds brick for brick.

[@mivapusa]

For the things you accomplished with minecraft vanilla, I am most impressed

[@johnfireblast]

i love your builds and it gave me ideas for my buildings and a style to work off now i can build a house that not only looks good but to almost any size and terain Thank you sencerly, JohnFireBlast

[@Diamondphobe]

Fantastic video. Great information and an an inspiring fly-by. Particularly in default texture pack.

[@nakenmil]

Here's a tip: services that require access to water should be closer to water access. This includes for example a blacksmith, or a forge, or a smelter.

[@pedrogaya5558]

I'd like you to talk bout building a throne room.

[@FreeTimeStudios]

I love how it sounds like "traitors" at 2:25 but he actually means traders/merchants, even though "traitor" could possible be as well ^^

[@Sentinalh]

I really enjoyed this video. I have trouble building cities because I always want to lay it all out in my head first and try and put everything in exactly the "right" place. That doesn't really work out very well at all. Of course I'm OCD so I have trouble making things non-symmetrical. I'll be launching a Minecraft KZbin channel in February so maybe I can start to work myself out of that and do more unsymmetrical builds.

[@ManxmanofTheNorth]

One thing you could do is build your city in a wall, and then expand it outside the wall, and have a kind of "tiered" city.

[@StaleSnake]

We all might like a tutorial on like Churches(simple ones)or docks, or bays, or even an amazing town center.

[@SepulcherGeist]

Dangit! Now I have to tear down my flying arena ship, church-mine, and tree markets. And those took me forever!

[@TheXkneeXshooter]

Install Singleplayercommands, select the whole area and do 1.//expand vert 2.//replace log air That's my suggestion, its pretty quick to install the mod and is really easy.

[@EpreTroll]

Hey madnes. If u are gonna make a new video u should make a tutotial about a new chapel design! U have only one tutorial about that yet. And u do have multiple tutorials which are more designs and parts. ( sort of) like ur tower tutorials and the houses, windmills. And u should make a new "We build this city"!

[@irishboss1915]

Holy crap its another medieval minecraft building legend!

[@johnmcchord4490]

talk about jails and prisons next! :)

[@charleslamb4189]

***** And torture chambers. Don't forget fun fun torture chamber. :D

[@noobarockacus]

World Without End started a few weeks ago and if ur over 15 :) I suggest watching it, has bits about town charters and such while a show of a 14th century english town with a focus on trade in wool. Maybe Madnes u could build a bit of Kingsbridge? Maybe build the bridge before we see it rebuilt and see if urs is better than theirs XD

[@KillyAKAkillzone]

Your end speech is epic as always xp I really got no idea how you can say it that fast :p Good tutorial btw helps me out alot :)

[@Carie2011]

"Instead, let me demonstrate how not to place something" .. That made me laugh. Especially with the over obvious market stall on a tree. I enjoy your videos a lot and use your designs when building. I really need to focus on one then and start my city. I always start with two or three houses, then a church and... lose my way. I think it gets overwhelming trying to figure out where to place the next build and what to build next.

[@ChargesMineCraft]

I think you are absolutely amazing!!! I don't know how you can build as amazing as that!!! You are, one of the best builders in the world!!! I wish I was as good as you!!!!!!

[@patatenmousse]

I always begin with thé castle, because the cities, before trading became an important part of the european society, were meant to protect a noble family and their people. So I think cities first developped around the castles that were a shelter during sieges, and then the markets were implemented.

[@zelliatorsema9579]

I start with farms if a farming village, or docks if a fishing village.

[@BenCarnage]

I know this sort of isn't what you generally do but I'd be really interested in what medieval types of redstone uses can sort of be seemingly natural in a medieval setting? Where to put it and what not to do. By this I mean for example a wheat farm with a windmill and hidden redstone in small scale. May be completely the wrong request for your channel but just throwing it out there. -lover of both medieval and redstone

[@kriegspiel]

Would love to see a video about different architectual eras, minecraft style. I.ex. gothic vs. victorian etc.

[@mcsdaver]

But I always have flying ships near my cities. I use the Zeppelin mod to fly the ships. It is the fastest way to travel. Plus everyone can ride together or take their own ship. The ships hold a ton of chests!!!

[@OneRightClick]

He already did do a basis of market shops, but I really would love to see the market in general

[@zomy92]

what you can't do, can always be learned. just keep trying and great things will happen :)

[@luckotheirish8590]

Can you do a talkin bout materials? Like using chiseled stone bricks and mossy cobble as well as other things like that. Or maybe how to make ruins/ pastures.

[@RomanSpartan3]

I love to build in medieval style, I am going to take a tour of the server and maybe I'll get some more ideas. :P

[@penguinorojo8962]

Thank you for posting this. I am kinda curious how you plan things on the smaller level, like in a town block or market square level. I am just starting a new city and want to plan things out more then I did in my first. I already started with the main 'center' of the city, the palace and its grounds, but I am having trouble deciding how to expand out.

[@henry73737]

In my medieval city i had to put a quarry near the church's entrance because that was the only space in my Medieval city plus i'm on a creative server and i can only build 125x125 cities

[@Hlodolog]

Could you make a tutorial about construction of your medieval houses, generally? I want to make my own buildings, but i could use some guide...

[@wingshad0w00982]

you know, the church entrance in front of a mine isn't totally unreasonable if the city is known for mining. The other two, those are very clever.

[@OvantheWise]

So what your saying is if we build a specel building such as black smith/church and things like that then we should have aproximitly 3-4 houses that are strict residential in order to make the city look right?

[@CGriffo124]

Even if you could do that, I doubt you'd want to... All the chairs would go into the upright position, all the top half slabs would become bottom half slabs, and that's just best case scenario, worst case is it corrupts your minecraft and you have to delete it

[@B0untyCraft]

Damn , the things you build look so happy and cozy :3 Mine look more saddish , like a oldman's house :p

[@OhSome1HasThisName]

Could you please explain how to build large buildings or features, like squares. Should they have a porch running around them and stuff like that.

[@Okbom]

The Mine you showed was really amazing , you should do a tutorial about how you build it.

[@bricec5215]

madness can you do a video on defences for the city walls and world seeds that are best for cities

[@masonjohnson7699]

Im sooo happy and protective of my city... It's completely done and it is also completely medieval with my own designs:D im soo happy. Lol. I have all the buildings i need ... From ships... To castles... To blacksmiths.... ETC.

[@connormcgill2419]

You should make a video on it

[@justinmat9952]

Can you have a talking about about avoiding terraforming and building with landscape

[@connerpellegrini9500]

Thanks for the advice madness nice job on your city keep making more videos and ill keep watching again thanks for the advice it really helped.

[@I.w0nd3r._]

Yeah,Please do a horse stable medieval Stable..I've been looking for ages!

[@CRASHHEADHUNTERz]

I would like to know how you place your blocks in relevance with the building. For example : where you place cobblestone or where you place wool and even wood. Because when I build I feel like I use to much of one item. Thanks in advance if you make the video.

[@sokrayzed]

Those buildings you mentioned that should be required in a town, would you be able to build them and give us a tutorial? My town is looking a bit blank with only a blacksmith, and windmill, townhall and a chapel .

[@EldiwynPG]

then have flouting islands, tall buildings for the airships, alot of metal stuff. im a steampunk builder

[@ManxmanofTheNorth]

Thanks, friend. It really means a lot.

[@atspats112]

He talks about medieval realism, while having windows everywhere, lol. Not flaming, just found it funny.. I love his builds :)

[@TinyNinjaDude]

This is great! I have been trying to find a good place to build, and this has helped me so much! I have just one question: Which biome should I look for? Would you recommend Plains or Forest/Forest Hills? I known in the seed, you showed a Forest biome, and Plains have so many annoying ravines and pools and such. Would you say to build in a Forest biome?

[@andrepuppi2325]

I downloaded City Kargeth and I found a place that could be very well used as a castel is close to the golden flower and beast and catapult

[@gabrielshaw9040]

Hey Madnes could your next Tutorial be on how to build a wall that goes with you Medieval Gates? I really enjoyed that tutorial since it fits my town on my server

[@YinYangLogo]

im pretty sure he has a pluggin or mod to prevent firespread, i just used the command blocks to turn off the firespread, the command is "/gamerule doFireTick false"

[@Flavor1c3]

Plz do a video over how to build medieval style and love ur videos keep up the good work

[@alexh846]

Talking about: best landscapes for a city

[@mattperino39]

you should do a tutorial of one of the houses in the market square

[@jmcop30]

could you please put up a download link for the city, I (and i'm shure most of ur fans too) wold love to explore it on my own it looks amazing.

[@Cryssix]

Thanks Madnes64, this helped ALOT :D Keep up the great work! :D

[@dragoadow]

Hey Madnes You know the house or building you showed ( 1:24 ), can you make a tutorial on it couse it looks awesome and I want to know how its buildt.

[@RsSabre]

Madness can u do a tutorial or any tips on how to build a city/village on a mountainous landscape (sorry for the bad spelling) thanks.

[@thelegoofawesome]

I wish you would make some of the bigger boats that have been seen in some of your videos... they look so cool, but then I can never remake them in a way that looks GOOD! Ah well...

[@MegaPonokio]

Also I think you should built you next city in a snowy mountain biome.

[@winterhazard]

Full circle city walls, similar to TES: Oblivion imperal city layout. Would be nice to do.

[@ASPfreerunning]

Can you make a tutorial about the vlag/pennons you have on some of your buildings

[@hoddrock5850]

Can you make a mod that pregenerates medieval cities in your Minecraft world

[@OneGamingDude]

I always love the endings. :)

[@Left4Awesome5]

Can you do a tutorial series on craftsmens's houses?

[@Darkmanlp33]

Hey Madness can you please talking about the cities in mountains or swanps how shouldt guys built their and what the must choose to use for a good city . Sorry for my bad english gramar im german i only wrote in english that other people can read this.

[@xSimpleBlaze]

Thank you for a very detailed video! I defiantly put your advise to use. Also sorry to be a pain but I would really like someone to give me some feedback on my medieval tutorials, I post a new one every Saturday! Thank you.

[@MrIronCoo]

Could you maybe do a tutorial on a more simple city wall

[@TrollScapeFilms]

What about walls around cities and rivers etc, would the walls just stop at the bank or what? And of so how would they stop?

[@stojanhansen3593]

At 2:03that tree on the hillside u should make it a giant elven tree with roots coming out the side of the hill

[@YinYangLogo]

im planning on placing little villages apart from my main city, how far should i put them from the city? and how big should it be? and how should i plan it since it will obviously be smaller than the main city, by that i mean wat kind of buildings?

[@1Benidict]

What about a renaissance type city it would be cool to see how

[@irishboss1915]

Don't metion it man, I always make medieval builings according to you and Madnes64. Although xbox doesn't have upsie own stairs yet I still make a pretty good replica of your keep

[@grimcreeper1073]

Could you please talk about how to add bad neighbourhoods / slums in a medieval city? (If you 've ever played Skyrim , the Gray Quarter of Windhelm is a perfect example of what I 'm talking about) -sorry for bad english-

[@Bigred073]

Since I like to build primarily out of stone, I often run into the problem of

[@rexstewart8994]

Hey Madnes could u elaborate more on the where to place stuff instead of what not to do? Love ur vids thx

[@rpstudios1106]

If you cross the ocean in the direction of the church and the blacksmith, you will find a desert, in wich is 1 pyramide, 2 desert villages and now the best... 3 dungeons directly under the surface!!!! you can see them just from the surface!! Im german so my english is not very good, but ih ope you understand ;)

[@jzziloho]

can you make a tutorial, on how to make a realistic, hand made, cave? that would be awesome!

[@mj127871]

Can you do a talkin bout farms/ the surrounding area of a city?

[@CanadianObviously]

Could ya make a how to build tutorial for the building @ 1:35 ? Such a cool looking building, thanks :)

[@manlol099]

What texsture pack do you use.. I think you already said but I cant find it, and if you know any good medieval texsture that looks great with your designes it whould be great. PS; love you vids they are great and keep doing it:D PSS:can you make tutorial for HARBOUR that would be great

[@HardmasterKing]

Hey dude i love your videos but there's one thing i haven't seen any1 talk about. How to randomize 'cause i can make good medieval building but when i see some worlds they're...different. like random fences trapdoors in a building, extra towers everything u can possibly imagine, please make a video on it

[@HardmasterKing]

can u send me the link? pls that would help a lot