📐Village Design Guide for Going Medieval, underground rooms & bonuses, building defenses | Part #1

[@random2829]

Great content! This video alone answered so many questions I had about the gameplay. Thanks! Oh, and thank you for the play list: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CF9g2QAQz0qSRDZph6r8bUt

[@perafilozof]

You are quite welcome! I am happy to hear you have enjoyed it. Part 2 and other videos coming up soon.

[@CrowGB]

Loved the use of The last kingdom names for your settlers! Great series!

[@perafilozof]

Thank you. I hope you will enjoy all my Let's play episodes here: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CFfe5sKL9vOiNbI2RyIcRRB

[@questioneverything-_-]

Good addition to base defence is adding long grass. Movement speed is reduced quite a bit when someone is walking through it. Adding it somewhere that forces raiders to move through it will allow archers more time to pick them off. Would like to see some creative designs using the long grass. Just remember once winter comes the grass will die.

[@perafilozof]

Wow, what a great tip! Thank you Question Everything and welcome to my channel. This is going into my community tips video for sure!

[@FurlowT]

I found some interesting bugs with the game's invasion events. Mind you, I started hard difficulty in Survival mode Lone wolf, so I started from just one settler. Even when geared up, your settlers get destroyed by raiders pretty fast. I found that if you fully wall your village when raiders arrive, the pillagers won't move. They'll just stand around. You'll get a "Defeated" message if you don't tell anyone too go into defense mode. BUT, by time start getting literally 55+ enemies too deal with. If don't want your village too get walls knocked down while hiding inside, make a moat around the outter walls. The moat takes a lot of time, but it's great way to funnel your enemies. The game does have glitch where if you make a maze, the attackers won't come to your town, it's like it can't figure out the pathing.

[@perafilozof]

Hello Furlow Torent and thank you for sharing your experience and idea with us. It is indeed a problem with the pathfinding but also gameplay mechanic as there is no jumping in the game. So a moat is THE best defense right now.

[@jinwei3428]

I just have one main attacking tower with the rest of my base underground. Only 1-2 melee attackers with the rest of my 15-20 units being archers with crossbows for added range. Bait tactic used against trebuchets. Which also means my melee attackers need to be in leather armour to run faster. Managed to survive way long with this technique.

[@perafilozof]

Great combat tips Jin Wei! Thank you for sharing!

[@hardiz91]

Actually for the tiles, you can make it work as a road. If you place it somewhat like a road from 1 building to another, the settlers will follow that instead of walking randomly to the place they wanted to go. I knew this because I accidentally saw the speed walking of each tiles were different. Hence, i made an experiment and saw that they walked using the roads i made. So, if your village designs are far and wide, make use of this tips. 😁

[@perafilozof]

That is a great tip HadRyan RedCoat ! Thank you for sharing and welcome to my channel. Your tip is going straight to the top of the Community tips videos.

[@gorlab9549]

Villagers will always take the quickest path to a task, so their code is drawn to paths as they increase speed.

[@n000b51]

16:31 excellent tip about the different bonuses that I didn't precisely known. Thanks to share it !

[@perafilozof]

Hello Noomi Shawlee and welcome to my channel. I am glad I could help! You can find more such videos and advise in this playlist of mine : kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CF9g2QAQz0qSRDZph6r8bUt

[@JYCrazy1]

Awesome content! And whoever designed the cathedral you showed at the end of the video is a legend.

[@perafilozof]

Hello Jack Y and welcome to my channel. I am glad you enjoyed the whole video! The cathedral was made by a user u/Jikan00 from the Going Medieval subreddit.

[@danpaunescu9302]

If you want to make really cheap single bedrooms make the room 4x1 for just a blazer and a bed. Still takes a lot of room when scaled up but it's the most economical

[@perafilozof]

Great tip Dan, and welcome to my channel. I will make sure to include your idea in the Community tips video.

[@perafilozof]

I hope you enjoy this first part. If you have any suggestions or questions feel free to ask. You can also submit your own screenshots for them to be showcased in future videos. Email is on my channel about page.

[@secondid1150]

Can you review weapons and armors? There's various types of weapons and armors. but I cannot know their exact performance,required min.skill points, etc- before i make one. I can only assume more advanced materials i use the better performance it show. Its quite a big investment of time and resourses to make an iron weapon(or armor) during mid game and its really annoying to find out that i cant use it(due to min. skill points)or it has lesser performance then the weapon i already have in my storage

[@perafilozof]

@@secondid1150 Good suggestion, I will do a video on weapons and requirements.

[@itz_lurk3r]

I don't know if anyone pointed it out yet, but if you accept a slave better check what apparel they are wearing when they come in. Some comes in wearing shackles as an apparel which gives off negative mood to that villager. Simply open the manage tab, drop the shackles if they're wearing one and have them wear winter/summer apparel. Additionally, during summer and a heat wave is present, you could deal with it through changing the villagers schedule to work in the night and sleep between 9-16. It will help reduce villagers suffering from excessive heat especially if you haven't have summer clothes prepared.

[@perafilozof]

Brilliant tips MkAlpha! Thank you for posting them. I think I mentioned the summer heat wave night work time back in my 10 tips and tricks video. Or another video.

[@tapejara1507]

one tip for mountain area: coal is a really good cash ore to sell. its worth 3 times as much as stones and iron ore. I buy out almost every trader.

[@perafilozof]

That is a great tip Tapejara! Thank you for commenting!

[@nuttyvisual2456]

Finally here she is! Been waiting for this series!

[@perafilozof]

I am glad to read that. Enjoy and come back again for more.

[@cloudymaro]

Such a great video! Great tips for the individual room buffs, but with many more villagers added on later, atleast for survival modes, it gets chaotic and probably not work it to have. Shared rooms still seem best, and more resource conscious.

[@perafilozof]

Hello Cloudymaro and welcome to my channel. You are correct, with 10+ settlers it takes A LOT of space and resources for each one to have his own room. So this is something you should leave for much later on unless you are playing in the peaceful mode, as you correctly concluded. I am happy to read you enjoyed my video. You can find more like it here: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CF9g2QAQz0qSRDZph6r8bUt

[@Vomarik]

Excellent stuff. Thanks for sharing.

[@perafilozof]

Hello J L and welcome to my channel. I am glad to see you enjoyed it!

[@SenneCools]

great video like always so much information greatly packed. it's easy to understand but you still get a lot of information about everything. great work

[@perafilozof]

Hello senne1009 and thank you for such a wonderful comment full of compliments. I appreciated it very much! I hope you will enjoy my next videos just as much.

[@SenneCools]

@@perafilozof I'm always down to learn new stuff so see you there ;)

[@mikeburgess1688]

Bears or guard dogs would make a nice defense, or ambush option.

[@perafilozof]

Those are some great ideas and would spice up the gameplay Mike! Thank you very much for sharing! Have you checked out my showcase series on players castles and settlements? kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CEcr8sSQ8zzMuc3GARDnIX5

[@mikeburgess1688]

@@perafilozof I have some, and look forward to seeing more of the series. There are alot of great ideas in it.

[@perafilozof]

@@mikeburgess1688 That is great to hear! The next one is going to blow your mind away!

[@401ak5]

Hey, new veiwer here. Found your channel because of this game, and got to say... I'm an instant fan, and love your accent! From just a hurried glance through your channel I'm assuming you don't have play through videos of the time you spent building these three scenarios? Do you do them on a livestream or different channel? Because of your tact, and forethought, I'm very much interested in watching a play through of yours.

[@perafilozof]

Hello Brian and welcome to my channel. I am glad you enjoyed the videos. No, I don't do Let's plays for a number of reasons, main one being having a small child at home who won't let me sit and talk in front of my PC for hours. Second reason is because I enjoy making tutorials, guides and how to videos which are quite lacking on YT, especially about this game. While Let's plays are a dime a dozen. Once my kid grows up a bit, I will be back to making let's plays along side other videos.

[@BYROXI5000]

One tip: to protect clay, sticks, Limestone, gold, iron... we don't have impact with temperature. I put personally all this materials outside with a little roof: we don't need walls: just 4 walls and wood beams with a roof on the top, is pretty cheap in the beginning of the game ;).

[@cathyfahey1780]

This is great! I need to learn how to make efficient fort/room design for a whole village. If you make another video on this, could you do it to show the end result design rather than what the design is in progress? Maybe I just need to google best village/fort layouts but I really like how you break things down and explain the benefits of things. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@perafilozof]

Hello Cathy, good suggestions. It's rather time consumight, which I why I mentioned in the video I will be making this as a series, and next videos will focus on just one village at a time.

[@craiggehlert]

hmmm... crocs in a moat...would be amazing!

[@perafilozof]

I thought so too! We just have to get the developers to think so too :)

[@robertpatafta597]

Naravno da je engleski danas dominantan i mora se. Ali ne dolaze ovako dobre stvari baš često iz naših krajeva pa bi bilo odlično malo domaćeg jezika za sve nas. Puna podrška radu i trudu!

[@perafilozof]

Pozdrav Robert! Dobrodošao na kanal! Ništa mi draže ne bi bilo, ali bi bio uzaludan trud. Veoma malo gledalaca a uz to nikakva nadohnada. Možeš videti ostale slične videe o ovoj igri u okviru ove liste: kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CF9g2QAQz0qSRDZph6r8bUt

[@robertpatafta597]

@@perafilozof Ma sve jasno.Samo naprijed i sretno!

[@celladoor_uk]

This game is so close to being able to scratch that 'Dungeon Keeper' itch I have had for decades. Please, devs, dungeons asap. Still, incredible game, looking forward to loosing days of my life to this.

[@perafilozof]

Hello Celladoor and welcome to my channel. I am glad to hear that. You can find more of my guides on this playlist and there is an entire Let's play of two villages as well. kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CF9g2QAQz0qSRDZph6r8bUt

[@celladoor_uk]

@@perafilozof I am checking your stuff out now man, I am really enjoying your videos. Keep up the great work! I haven't played the game yet but your videos are helping me acquire the basic understanding so I can hopefully skip some of the obligatory save restarts one tends to run into when starting a game like this. While I am here, I may as well let ya know, I make music. It may or may not be your thing but most of it is on my KZbin channel if you're interested in hearing something new at some point. I mainly make dark heavy alternative grungy stoner rock. Again, thanks for your content man, I shall be watching your lets plays for sure. :)

[@perafilozof]

@@celladoor_uk Hi, thank you for such a wonderful comment and praise. Hmm, I will have to give it a ear and see if maybe I could use some of your music for my video backgrounds. It would be a nice collab opportunity.

[@perafilozof]

Yeah, KZbin is deleting your comments in mass. Your are not the first one who I have noticed this happen to.

[@mikeburgess1688]

Something that has messed me up a few times, is the location of the reroll group button. With it being right above the first character tab, sometimes as I click between the characters to see how balanced they are, I sometimes reroll my group instead

[@perafilozof]

Ouch! That is very unpleasant! Indeed it is a case of bad button placement. You could write to the developers in the suggestion box on discord to change it.

[@mikeburgess1688]

@@perafilozof the 4th or 5th time I slow down and pay attention more. 😁

[@perafilozof]

Just like me :) Being too fast is my character flaw.

[@ZimCrusher]

do you have a video on what things to keep close together, to keep your people from walking really far?

[@perafilozof]

Hmm, not really a topic I covered in a dedicated video. What is happening in your village? What job makes them go too far?

[@ZimCrusher]

@@perafilozof Just looking for the basics of what should be near what, for good production speed. Instead of just adding a storage space in each room, drawn from a larger storage space. As I expand, I have been slowly making new rooms for each item, so books, have their own room, armor is in a room with armor racks, texitles (leather cloth) have their own room, dead animals, dead people (for eating), beer, seeds, etc all now have their own room, and this has been expanding westward. Going East, I have all the sleeping areas, then all my production has their own room. This was my firs time playing so I didn't know about what uses what, I just wanted things to be clear. Now, I'm looking at it, and thinking, "my armor guy has to walk all the way across the base to get armor to deconstruct."

[@perafilozof]

Hi, so to keep things like that more organized and prevent settlers from walking too far there are a few tips: 1) as you mentioned keep supplies necessary for each job close to where the job is done 2) have multiple small bedrooms around the settlement which are close to working areas 3) build vertically to keep bedrooms, workrooms and storage rooms close to each other 4) build under, on and above ground to get every type of room close to each other

[@somebodyontheinternet1090]

2nd video link didn't have a pop up above or below?

[@perafilozof]

Hi, I just checked, the pop up card is set, and there is a link down in the description. It's called 🔨 Building tips: Basements, Temperature & Insulation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKvEZYVtga92r7c

[@spatrk6634]

oh right. you can build vertically in this game. im such a dumbass... i was like getting mad i picked small map and dotn have enough room to build. totally forgot i can build more stories. i just built basements and not second floors

[@perafilozof]

Happens to us all. Good thing you have my videos to help you. How do you like the game so far? BTW these are all my guides and I also did several Let's plays on the game as well as showcases of other players settlements. kzbin.info/aero/PLRYGjguAn0CF9g2QAQz0qSRDZph6r8bUt

[@spatrk6634]

@@perafilozof Game is great in my 15ish hours i played it so far. more chill rimworld. i imagine it being amazing after current roadmap updates are implemented. i just think that combat is far to easy and weird. AI is pretty dumb, trying to get to your colonists is their top priority. so you can easily bait them into a death trap. i think they should change that to facilitate more siege stuff from enemies rather than horde of brainless peasants rushing through trap mazes while trying to kill your settlers.

[@perafilozof]

@@spatrk6634 Yeah, you are correct, the attacking AI is low on their priority list, I think they will tackle that last, and add ladders :)

[@OdeeOz]

🤔Putting a Kitchen, or high heat source directly above, below or next to your food storage cellar is not a smart thing to do. _The temperature in food cellar will rise, and that rots food faster._ 🤯 The rest of video gets 👍👍& 3⭐

[@perafilozof]

Hello Odee Dilon and welcome to my channel. The thing is that the developers have changed they way heat is distributed a few times while leaving in some info that doesn't represent how things work right now. So some if my advice can seem confusing when look at at different times. There are a few mechanic were major changes have been made due to this being a EA game so I have to keep updating my guides to keep up.

[@OdeeOz]

I agree, and offered my input to cover those changes to date, so _New Viewers/players_ would not be confused by things not working as shown a year ago. @@perafilozof 😉

[@perafilozof]

@@OdeeOz Indeed, thank you. I haven't posted part two of this kind of a video about Settlement design so it's defiantly time I work on that.

[@dasjapanischeamphib8762]

Doesn't brewing count to cooking and so synergize with kitchen bonus?

[@perafilozof]

Unfortunately no. A brewing station doesn't get the extra bonus and it brakes the kitchen's specialized status

[@Antonin1738]

Have they fixed the 100% GPU issue?

[@perafilozof]

Not that I am aware off. It's an odd one, for example, I never noticed my GPU having that issue.

[@felixreali7101]

is this game still being developed or is what we have now all we are going to have?

[@perafilozof]

Hello Felix! A lot more will be added. The next Update #4, coming soon, will add old and new animals, as pets, farm animals and as enemies. There will be many other additions players have requested.

[@felixreali7101]

@@perafilozof that sounds great. Can't wait for animals to be tamed

[@felixreali7101]

@@perafilozof also, do you know if it's possible to play Going Medieval outside of Steam? I absolutely hate Steam (I don't like their approach or their customer service). Is it possible to just buy the game elsewhere and just download it onto my pc?

[@perafilozof]

@@felixreali7101 Well than Good Old Games is the best place for you to buy it at.

[@felixreali7101]

@@perafilozof just bought the game via GOG. thanks for the info :) Question: where on my pc will i find the Going Medieval Save files?

[@ricksgaming7298]

no link up or below

[@ricksgaming7298]

nvm found it lol

[@perafilozof]

Above are the cards. Below are the links in the description. Cards sometimes don't play for some reason on desktop or mobile.

[@kfed8226]

Yes we need dungeons and the ability to take prisoners.

[@perafilozof]

Let's hope we get that in some later update. Update 3 coming out today!

[@rancorusia]

a trebuchet is a type of catapult, why bring up semantics

[@perafilozof]

Hello Rancorusia and welcome to my channel. You are probably right, I took that topic more seriously than necessary.