World Building: Everything about Deserts

[@Stoneworks]

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[@lamptrent]

love you too bb

[@SamyH_amSet]

You are the best

[@dylanthechillinvillain2488]

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[@SamyH_amSet]

I also created a desert and i solved the water problem with big caves near the surface filled with it. plants still cant grow on the surface because between the sand and the water is a thick layer of stone. In some valleys, the caves are opened and oasis arise. People can live there, because of the cold and fresh air from the caves. they have water, food from plants that grow inside the oasis and from animals who come there to drink and they have direct access to wood, stone and ores to build houses, tools or weapons. They also can use the natural tunnel system created by the flowing water, so they can escape conflicts or to track down (herds of) animals without having to go through the desert. Also the cave rivers and oasises are interesting habitats for fantasy creatures.

[@Rexxae]

[@gabrielcaballero4817]

Remember: if your characters enter a desert at least one of them MUST drink cactus juice and get high

[@lockejawe4050]

And also befriend a giant mushroom...

[@robinhyperlord9053]

Because Americans have no education...

[@wizardofarts1276]

And if you want, MAYBE have someone be sleep deprived and hallucinate all of your friends dancing and fighting in a circle

[@LEO_M1]

Robin Gilliver What?

[@zucchinibyday]

CACTUS JUICE: IT'LL QUENCH YA! NOTHING'S QUENCHIER! ITS THE QUENCHIEST!

[@templarmapping1096]

Intro had me worried lol

[@azarishere6442]

Templar Mapping lol same

[@suiradkeemaj69]

lol i'm crying had to pause the video and make sure i was in the right site.

[@justsomeguycalledjuanluis6294]

When I saw the intro, it made me question if I was on the right site

[@PepperKoi]

Had to check if I was on the right site, turns out I wasn't

[@thetrashmaster1352]

I freaked out.

[@euansmith3699]

"Why is this desert here? It is totally unrealistic!" "Um... a Wizard did it..?" "Mmmokay."

[@zucchinibyday]

A WIZARD DID IT * epic sax music *

[@Mare_Man]

@@Badartist888 *Taint intensifies*

[@cameronmoore3859]

😂😂😂

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

Why are your deserts all on the equator bro? Uhm well pangaea had a giant desert and like 3% of it was equatorial, and the andes and ethiopia have small areas of equatorial green drylands so deserts can be equatorial!

[@liamjohnston2000]

Ah, a fellow intellectual I see.

[@commander31able60]

this is how you, as an author, can spend 3 weeks building a realistic desert only to have characters simply pass through it. time well-spent.

[@azarishere6442]

commander31able i gave lore to every named place in my world, and most of them were only mentioned in passing with only their name. Fucking tolkin complex

[@commander31able60]

@@azarishere6442 but did you come up with the grammar and dialects for your constructed language, come up with the common speaking and spelling mistakes its speakers make, come up with jokes prevalent in that culture and pick and write the songs people sing when they're drunk? because if you didn't then, according to the internet, you suck at world-building.

[@fredranzalot4849]

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[@commander31able60]

seigeengine that escalated quickly.

[@SinerAthin]

OOR they'll simply teleport across it.

[@KefkeWren]

When creating my Pathfinder setting, I noticed that even the lowest level Cleric can create water, so I decided that the desert nation was a theocracy. The Church had a seemingly, if not actually, limitless supply of the most valuable resource of all, and so quickly amassed a great deal of power. They had the power to let people live wherever they wanted, but could also cripple settlements that didn't follow their rules (even if places by rivers and oases couldn't be denied water, they could still be flooded). So, it just seemed to make sense that they would wind up in charge. How could they not?

[@barkingmad7090]

That’s a really smart idea

[@electroflame6188]

Hydraulic empires be like:

[@willstanbury9725]

This example is singularly far better than any "worldbuilding" advice given in this entire god awful video.

[@justincavaliere1361]

I borrowed this for my recent campaign I started that takes place in the desert.

[@Cosmic_demonartist]

Clirgy men bbeg??

[@napolien1310]

I live in Saudi Arabia in Alqassim region which is basically a desert. The Alqassim region has two major cities and a couple of smaller towns and villages, and most of these towns and Cities got created because of Oasis and aquifer waters, trades which made them great places for small farm lands and growing palm trees. The two major cities are pretty close to each 30-50 km apart and hated each other because of competitions. My town is third largest by population and it is increasing because of urbanization and sadly for my town unlike the other two we were built above a rocky earth which made it hard to dig for water, even tho I live in a desert which isn't interesting if you are creating a map you can still make a lot of great things if you study the place.

[@Nawaf-qk9mu]

الله حيه!

[@napolien1310]

@@Nawaf-qk9mu يا هلاا

[@robertfaucher3750]

I was at the dinner table watching this and the intro freaked me out

[@theposhdinosaur7276]

The best part of the intro is, if anyone understands why you're reacting awkwardly to it, they are just as sinful as yourself.

[@williamt.sherman9841]

i don't get it

[@theposhdinosaur7276]

@@williamt.sherman9841 Don't worry, you will one day...

[@thespanishinquisition4078]

William T. Sherman PORN. That’s what the intro is from.

[@theposhdinosaur7276]

@@thespanishinquisition4078 NO REALLY!? You're kidding right?

[@battlepig1014]

The fact that everyone in this comment section recognizes that intro says something... Not that im any different.

[@Tethloach1]

I have no idea what they are all talking about.

[@battlepig1014]

Tethloach1 then you are pure my friend

[@rick149ou]

As a proud communist you have to share, comrade!

[@Paid2Win]

I have been with my lady for 3 years, really grateful I didn't even notice it until the comments pointed it out.

[@gottwangs7854]

that humans like sex?

[@windhelmguard5295]

one thing you also need to keep in mind when designing a lived in dessert is distance. and by that i mean how far can a caravan realistically travel before the supplies needed to feed and hydrate the caravaneers and their pack animals for the jurney, become disproportionally large compared to the ammount of goods the caravan can actually transport. i actually used this concept (among others) to explain the existence of free cities on a continent i'm designing, basically the ocntinent is split into three major kingdoms and a bunch of free cities, all of which need to have a reason as to why they where never conquererd by the major kingdoms. one of these cities was built arround an oasis surrounded by a huge dessert, the city remains free because besieging it is impossible, pack animals can only carry so much and the dessert is so vast that the pack animals have to carry a LOT of food and water in order to even make the trip to the city, so bringing siege equipment along is impossible, additionally it is impossible to cross the dessert without re stocking at this city, which gives the city significance.

[@tspoon772]

But wouldnt that also mean that the city would have to be relatively small, because the oasis could only provide a tiny amount of farmable space

[@vitriolicAmaranth]

I live in a cake

[@christianweibrecht6555]

Reminds me of that City from game of thrones where Danny had to face off against wizards

[@itsvairen334]

The intro looks suspiciously familiar

[@droopsmoop]

Lmao half the comments are from people who nearly got a heart attack from the intro

[@gabumonboys]

Simple, don't explain wind currents to your audience so you can place deserts anywhere.

[@natedunn51]

Just don't have winds, like the doldrums. No wind, no rain.

[@DinaricWolf]

That intro tho, followed by a Runescape account named stoneworks 69 :D

[@thassablu1885]

Patrolling the Mohave, almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

[@grimtheghastly8878]

You mean Mojave?

[@becky1739]

Grammars muCh?...?.?,,?

[@Slender_Man_186]

Mojave, Hispanic pronunciation of the J, like in Jalapeño.

[@The_mrbob]

I'ma just throw down a r/woosh for you to all share.

[@LUNE.44]

@@The_mrbob ?? that doesnt even apply here

[@1lobster]

I'm working on a fantasy book that mostly takes place in a desert, so this is quite helpful!

[@MeetThaNewDealer]

What's the name of it.

[@PHKola]

@@MeetThaNewDealer Dune

[@HxH2011DRA]

I'm have to follow the crowd and say that intro scared the shit outta me XD

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

For a little less than 14 minutes, that was more comprehensive than I expected. GOOD JOB! Worth mention... The Sahara (supposedly, according to Popular Science as I recall) has subterranean aquifers among the largest in the world. At least, that's what certain satellite imaging has suggested... Which starts my first point... Just because the "surface" is desert-terrain, doesn't necessarily require plants to have wide and shallow root systems... Nor does it mean water is entirely inaccessible, even without obvious oases dotting the landscape. {hinted around in the vid', but not exactly "out loud"} Would like to see something about "tundral deserts" mentioned. Terrain inhospitably cold as well as dry can be an interesting deviation from the "conventional ideal"of a desert land. ...which leads into my second suggestion point... Having lived in deserts from time to time (longer term than I'd like, frankly) I can promise you that "heat" isn't the only killer part of them. At night, most nights anyways, Deserts have a proclivity for getting EXCRUCIATINGLY COLD... SO the whole of stress on your body comes from the ridiculous changes in temperature as well as the deathly potentials of sweating. AND speaking of sweating... It's pretty much a "potential killer" in ANY extreme of temperatures. That's just worth pointing out to folks involved in "writing compelling narrative"... In colder climes, it's deadly because you first sweat, and then the sweat freezes... coating you in ice-filler for the textile (clothing) matrix that your wearing... So it turns your wonderfully warm and thick coat into a rigid, fiberglass-ish material full of ice... In hotter climes, however, sweating simply dehydrates you... AND in the particularly arid (low humidity) atmosphere of deserts, you don't necessarily NOTICE that you're sweating as it evaporates quickly enough you don't FEEL wet. That's what makes it easy to "overlook" until you're already in more trouble than you can handle (hallucinations, disoriented, stroke, etc...) Basically, for being so wonderful at managing body temperature, sweating SURE IS dangerous! Finally... Over all, this covers the HUGE greater majority of the science of "conventional" desert construction in the dubious realm of world-building. My tidbits (add-ins?) are NOT in any way meant to diminish that. I just think they're worth mentioning here-abouts in the comments as something either reasonably researchable or just worth "mulling over" as we foray into our own peculiar ideals of deserts... Swamps and Jungles may well be my favorite of terrain-types to work within, but Deserts are certainly worthy fodder for a WHOLE variety of nightmare inducing circumstances... They certainly need NOT be boring, dragging, or delusionally monotonous landscapes for narratively creating a "slog" in the minds of readers/audience. They can be (and should be?) fascinating and adventurous drivers of story, resourcefully creating (spawning?) the source for conflicts and "bad sh*t" galore to plague the hapless heroes and ill-advised adventure-seekers of our campaigns. ;o)

[@Stoneworks]

as for the tundral deserts, I point you to the subheader at 13:46

[@terzanole]

The intro was pornhub

[@MrMarinus18]

"In hotter climes, however, sweating simply dehydrates you.....Basically, for being so wonderful at managing body temperature, sweating SURE IS dangerous!" Not really, it's more to say that sweating has it's limitations. Sweating is the only reason people are even able to walk around in 50 degree heat in the first place. If you become too dehydrated in a hot desert you usually die from hypothermia because you stop sweating. "They certainly need NOT be boring, dragging, or delusionally monotonous landscapes for narratively creating a "slog" in the minds of readers/audience" The first thing is wrong but the second is right. They do make the characters bored, slow and demotivated but just because the characters are bored doesn't mean the audiance is as well. In ATLA the desert is actually one of my favorite episodes in how tough it is on the group and how strong Katara is to hold them together. One challenge when working with a desert is that they are very large areas with few features so you need to do large time skips which can create level of narrative dissonance.

[@TheNSJaws]

Congratz on reaching 15k, and thanks again for another informative video!

[@gunjfur8633]

I didnt even notice the intro, because I was on the site right before this vid

[@Tethloach1]

what intro are people talking about?

[@gunjfur8633]

@@Tethloach1 The first 3 seconds. "stone works" Its often seen on pornhub

[@gabrielcaballero4817]

@@Tethloach1 you are pure

[@Tethloach1]

@@gunjfur8633 I guess I am not too familiar with it.

[@jordendarrett1725]

@@Tethloach1 It's the same exact intro to official pornhub videos except with a name change, lmao. You are innocent

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

They say, out in the desert, you will eventually find a place emerging from the sands. A great black ziggurat, standing impossibly tall far from where any man has the right to walk. They say the desert tribes turn away from the sight of the place, muttering over and over in their tongue; "do not look, do not go, it is not real." They say that if you walk towards it, you will find yourself in its vast shadow, regardless of which way you approached from. As you walk closer, the sky will begin to darken, the light of the sun seeming to wane as it descends behind the ziggurat. When the shadows have fully claimed the sky, one will begin to see ruins among the sand. First the very tops of ancient buildings, then walls, then windows and doors, until finally one is walking on an ancient road amongst square buildings untouched by time. The unlit sun will have changed by this time: hanging above and behind the ziggurat will now be a great hole in an already empty sky. As one approaches the black stone of the structure, too vast to be made by human hands, one starts to hear voices echoing from behind them. Voices speaking dead languages in hushed tones, growing closer and closer as the temple looms higher and higher. Finally it sounds as if the voices are directly behind your ear as you reach the black stones. In the moment one touches the rocks, the vision ends.

[@florbengorben7651]

What the fuck

[@georgethompson913]

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

[@amatsu-ryu4067]

*+1 to insight*

[@lazarb4419]

And now the weather.

[@amatsu-ryu4067]

@@lazarb4419 Forecast calls for a giant fucking Babylonian pyramid that likes screwing with people.

[@y_yy_2844]

Higher-altitude cold deserts are really interesting to me. Places like the Atacama, Patagonian, and Kazakh deserts/semi-arid scrublands get just a bit warm at the very height of summer and that's it.

[@aleak9602]

It would be really cool if you could make a video on food/ the technology and culture that shapes it. I really love your videos, I just found your channel and have been watching all of your lovely lessons on world building! :)

[@troyjohnson2395]

I was just listening to videos while drawing and I heard the intro. Nearly spit my water on my drawing.

[@SamyH_amSet]

CONGRATS FOR 15K SUBS! I also created a desert and i solved the water problem with big caves near the surface filled with it. plants still cant grow on the surface because between the sand and the water is a thick layer of stone. In some valleys, the caves are opened and oasis arise. People can live there, because of the cold and fresh air from the caves. they have water, food from plants that grow inside the oasis and from animals who come there to drink and they have direct access to wood, stone and ores to build houses, tools or weapons. They also can use the natural tunnel system created by the flowing water, so they can escape conflicts or to track down (herds of) animals without having to go through the desert. Also the cave rivers and oasises are interesting habitats for fantasy creatures.

[@Zerpderp0]

I kinda wanna see a D&D campaign run in your world

[@Stefannice]

This seem really interesting, solved some problem like water, but also still have the possibility for some dungeon crawling in the galleries that might be flooded.

[@notablegoat]

Water is still the primary eroding agent in most deserts. When it does rain, many deserts experience intense flooding that dramatically reshapes the landscape. Wind, although more constant, has a much more modest effect, only really having a visual impact over many, many years.

[@roguedruid]

2:37 I'm so glad you put in stuff so we could see the scale of the Sahara

[@DonovanPresents]

4:38 Actually there are more rock formations in Utah than Arizona. Yes Arizona has mountains and plateaus, but Utah and northern Arizona is where they really start forming.

[@fedoramaster6035]

10:56 or an underwater water table, like the Garamantes! Especially in fantasy, a city in the middle of the desert is super easy to justify if you just add a water table under the land.

[@astrid-fp]

“you shouldn’t ignore the science behind it” *laughs in magical explanation for lack of science behind any/most of my landforms*

[@shadowdemonnetwork4810]

I hate sand

[@proudpapaprick]

It's all coarse, and rough. And it gets everywhere.

[@670HP-Package-NOW]

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@AlexGameOver_13]

Without the h

[@windradyne8724]

"Hey. If you have adblock on, and you’re watching this……. You’re a monster. You've stolen from me." Hmm. *turns adblock on* Got your nose!

[@zachisosum]

S P L O O G E

[@mwf6771]

If your deserts aren't realistic you can just say a wizard did it. Because a wizard did it.

[@saltyfajitas2584]

Its so cool to watch old videos of channels and see how they have grown since

[@s4d3er]

awesome new intro

[@Dragons_Armory]

You know this really made me aware that geologists and natural scientists has a huge platform to advice people on lore if you choose to take the time to make videos like these. Subbed. Love the series, keep it up!

[@VanLightning900]

Really love how you took out the time to make a video just about deserts. I don't think there are other videos like this. Ever since i saw Dorne on Game of Thrones i've been obsessed with desert cultures. And now I can't wait to read Dune. In the future, i want to world-build my own desert empires. This video is definitely helpful. Thanks.

[@CailinZwarts]

Oh lad, you need to read the Wheel of Time, the Aiel are amazingly complex and sooooo much better than Dorne, no disrespect to Martin but Jordan gave the Aiel culture the most attention out of all his cultures, it's just the best, right up there with dune

[@VanLightning900]

@@CailinZwarts There are so many Wheel of Time books lol. But if the Aiel are as incredible as you say then I bet it’s worth it. Desert worldbuilding is still my favorite. Thanks for the reminder to pick up Wheel of Time.

[@alexmiddleton9390]

Island video: Realism is Everything. Desert video: SKY WHALES!!!

[@Nick-pi8vz]

Dude, KZbin recommend me this video and I decided to watch it near my family. You almost killed me with that intro.

[@brycehamm289]

As a person living in a desert in Arizona I can confirm he knows what he's talking about 😉 but don't forget with these high elevations and canyons the top of them at some levels are more foresty, for reference look at the change in biome in the Grand Canyon!!

[@TargonStudios]

I don't think I've ever subscribed to a channel after watching only a single video until now. Great content, this seems like an incredibly useful channel

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

Just realized that all the deserts in my world operate quite well, entirely by accident. Sweet.

[@voxlknight2155]

The Sahara actually has the most expansive river system in the world... Under it! Yeah, deserts are covered in bellowground river systems. Why? Well, when you eat soup, stuff floats on top, right? Well, just imagine that but huge. Not a perfect analog by any means, but its close enough.

[@WarDogMadness]

gobi desert and Tabernas Desert are my favourite.

[@timobatana6705]

The Bill Nye joke was the best.. I mean you nailed it bro.

[@Stoneworks]

finally! first one to mention that joke. I loved that joke.

[@tristannino7597]

I just want to acknowledge the nigahiga clip. You sir have roots smothered in culture.

[@tristannino7597]

At the time it was a 9 year old reference 😂

[@MrMarinus18]

One thing I always found puzzling is that distance to the ocean doesn't seem to make that much of a difference. There are wet areas like the Amazon thousands of kilometers inland and there are dry areas like the Sahara that go all the way to the coast. Also in the US the driest areas are fairly close to the sea of Cortez. Spain is the driest region in Europe even though it's surrounded by water on 3 sides.

[@uclearwhale]

This is a great video, I had recently been doing some research myself into why deserts form and its great to have all that summed up very neatly in a nice video

[@atrophiedup2myeyes]

Thank you for this. No, seriously, THANK YOU. Say... how would a world with a broken moon be like? You know, like the one in Time Machine?

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

It's prolly gonna form a ring fairly quickly

[@notablegoat]

If the Moon was shattered, you'd find things would get pretty uncomfortable on Earth pretty quickly. Much of the resulting debris would find its way to Earth and kill, if not everything, then almost everything. It would be like the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, only instead of one meteorite you'd have hundreds maybe, thousands probably. I think it goes without saying that there likely wouldn't be much, if any, large life left. That includes us. After that, a planetary ring would form and probably last for a long while. Slowly, over the course of millions of years, a new Moon or set if moons would begin to coalesce from the orbiting dust and debris. The new Moon would be smaller than the old, and have a very young surface with few craters compared to the real Moon.

[@atrophiedup2myeyes]

@@notablegoat Whoa, thank you for this generous explanation! So you think the ice age will repeat itself if that happened?

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

@@atrophiedup2myeyes no, the ice age was not related to the meteor impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The ice age came way, way after that. In the scenario he gave you, there would probably be something like a nuclear winter, where dust clogs the sky and plant life struggles pretty hard, if any life survived, of course

[@atrophiedup2myeyes]

@@Ezekiel_Allium Oh... Thank you, thank you!!! I wonder if creatures under the sea could survive something like this?

[@ArlanKels]

The livestock idea has been slightly disproven. They've found that livestock, due to their poop + trampling, tend to end up actually help in reducing the potential for a desert. There are actual Before and After studies where they took large groups of livestock into places that were on the verge of becoming deserts and turning them back around. I'd link the video where the guy does a long boring speech about it but I'm lazy. So lazy....so very lazy.

[@brittnianime]

**SCREAMING** AT YOUR INTRO!! ive never muted in confusion and fear so fast

[@thetherrannative]

Worldbuilders constantly shouting one another out on KZbin is my new kink.

[@Stoneworks]

The Therran Native it’s a lot of fun

[@darthaureus1198]

0:00 Ahh... i see you're a man of culture as well.

[@noaht393]

A day ago found your channel, and already like it a lot. I don't even world build. Because of your channel I might some day. I have subbed.

[@Lucy-ng7cw]

Dude you should start a patreon or something. I love your channel. Keep at it.

[@Briggie]

12:58 that sounds like a lot of people who discuss world building on youtube.

[@robbiekite170]

My dad was working outside whilst I was watching this with my window open. Thanks man

[@Stoneworks]

Robbie Kite you’re welcome robbie

[@CascadianBraeden]

Why do deserts always have to be reddish brown or ochre? Minerals come in all different colors, so why not have a blue or green or indigo desert? Or how about a metallic desert of hematite, or covered in the iridescent shells of ancient sea creatures, or one with phosphorescent mineral deposits that glow in zebra stripe patterns at night!

[@CubicApocalypse128]

Deserts tend to be brown because of iron oxides in the rocks. These are some of the most common minerals on Earth, and they also give most of Mars its red color. There are black dunes on Mars, made of basalt. If your planet has vast lazurite or malachite deposits, or if copper is more common than iron, you could have blue or green sand. Most of the cool minerals are prone to weathering, which tends to turn them a dull gray or brown.

[@MrMarinus18]

Not all do. The rocks in Antartica tend to be more grey. Bright indigo colors mean purity and with the constant dust this will not happen. Deserts made of ancient sea creatures happen. In Mexico there are large deserts full of limestone. It's just that those iridescence substances break down overtime.

[@MrMarinus18]

@@CubicApocalypse128 I wonder if green parts of deserts can't exist. Chile and the US have areas with extremely dense copper deposits that stretch out for hundreds of kilometers so I think green areas should be possible.

[@PhilipLL]

I would like to note that Cacti can only be found in the Americas. And nowhere else in the world.

[@nerdzone]

That is your best video by far. Keep up the good work!

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

I really like coastal deserts and fog deserts. The Atacama Desert is both and the driest nonpolar desert in the world. You could make some bigger cities on the coast with trade and everything, but they would need access to water and food. Maybe they control oases.

[@johannageisel5390]

I love you too! I need to build a desert, so your video comes in handy.

[@rogerjames5600]

this is the first video by this channel i have seen, and i subscribed because of the intro.

[@Greendayfan666GD]

Lmao I just binged all your videos in one sitting 10/10 content great moves keep it up proud of ya.

[@enderflashria3597]

The intro made so many thoughts race through my head. Mainly, "oh shit, I'm not in incognito mode"

[@romulusnuma116]

Oh no I was gnomed

[@newhappythoughts1628]

2:00 Was not expecting you to bring up my city. LOL

[@robgucci7663]

Im writing a story and the main character is from a rich trading city thats based off Waw An Namus, an oasis inside a volcano crater in the middle of the Libyan desert. I had trouble working the geography and making a civilization out of it, but this video really helped me out. Thanks man, haven’t gotten this much help from a video in a while

[@Peoples_Republic_of_Cotati]

I'll just add that the ancient Nabateans had a most impressive civilization, see Petra.

[@RuslanLagashkin]

This channel is waay underrated

[@blair3549]

Just found your channel. Keep it up, we need more of these types of videos on this site.

[@SupremeKaiZamasu]

The rain shadow effect is why a huge part of the us is like that

[@Vel0cir]

Deserts tending to be west of continents are because of the direction of spin of the Earth, though, so if your planet behaves differently, the desert locations will similarly change

[@annondonkeykong]

You might want to know that deserts are also great at collecting metallic minerals of the 15 major kinds of mineral deposits formed by groundwater in the Western Hemisphere, 13 occur in deserts. Mineral deposits are created, enhanced or preserved by geologic processes in arid regions due to climate. Groundwater leaches ore minerals and deposits them in areas near the water table, concentrating the minerals so ore can be mined.

[@steamtasticvagabond474]

I like to imagine a desert forming over an enormous glacier. The glacier is buried deep below the heat of the desert, but the ancient ice is still cold. There’s various tunnels leading down to caverns of cold ice and fresh water. Towns would naturally form around access points to the ancient ice. It’s would also be pretty easy for a bastardous ruler to seize control of the water by guarding the access points.

[@fourriversfarm]

Love this type of video, as well as the one about swamps/wetlands, id love to see more like this with other earthly (and non-earthly?) biomes!

[@Zekonos1]

hey man these videos are really awesome... love the graphics and thorough explanation of stuff... maybe another video topic could be like the technology or culture or how the two kinda combine to change the civilization? look forward to seeing more from ya!

[@tooslow4065]

so could a desert be reclaimed if you put enough water into it? or would it just become a mud pit?

[@sprazz8668]

Hi, just came across this video having not seen your channel before, and I have to say this video is incredibly good. It's entertaining, scientifically accurate, comprehensive, there's enough detail, just overall you did a fantastic job! Will definitely check out more of your shit. One thing though, it would have been cool if in the video you had talked about tundra deserts as well as traditional deserts as they're rather interesting and present a few more challenges. Anyway, great work, hope to see more of this sort of content in future

[@thepedrothethethe6151]

6:43 gets flashback to the Florid Desert

[@GnarledStaff]

One thing that struck me about the mohave desert was that the land was not barren sand dunes. I think this is a common misconception. Deserts often have plants, they just don’t get very big, have spikes or bristles and taste like poison. Several species eat those plants- or at least they eat some of them. Instead of sand dunes the land can be course soil. There would likely be little riverbeds or canyons created when it does rain and decent sized bushes grow there. There are even trees near the water of rivers. I recommend looking up desert biome plants- not just googling cactuses.

[@rianmulcahy7200]

2:37 Damn, the comparisons really put things into perspective

[@Andvare]

Don't trust Bears for survival tips.

[@talyn3932]

lost me at the Bear Gryls reference. That guy is a hack!

[@16ktsgamma]

Zelda:Let's just put the Desert right by a bunch of mountains. Pokemon:Let's just put it right by two cities.

[@allanjohnson8951]

3:30 Correction -- it caused a monsoon system to develop, as the hotter air made the pressure in the interior lower, effectively pulling in rain clouds from the Atlantic. Trees could now grow, and they transpired to allow more rainfall, and boom we have a feedback loop. This eventually was broken when temperatures in the region were too low (though, still hot by human standards) to allow for pressure systems to develop as strongly, and the rainforest began to recede and eventually die in the region. The wikipedia article doesn't have much to say on what exactly the threshhold temperature for that shift would be, but I think if you want to use this in world building you could probably find global average temperatures around the same time as a guideline, and shift the rest of your planet to match Earth in order to achieve this realistically.

[@fedoramaster6035]

12:38 dune is genuinely a masterclass in worldbuilding. Idk if there’s another IP that matches it, especially in its flow of events - it’s hard to describe if you haven’t read it, but the history and politics of the imperium are super realistic in a way that even other stories that talk about trade and religion aren’t. If you’re into worldbuilding and haven’t read it yet, READ DUNE. don’t watch it, that’s not the same. Read the first book. And the glossary.

[@billysinge8977]

I’ve lived in San Francisco CA, Phoenix AZ, and Bristol (England) so far. It’s useful when considering redwood and pine forests, arid deserts and damp yet often sunny temperate countryside.

[@hectorcastro5396]

@8:29 got me feeling so nostalgic

[@Stoneworks]

Hector Castro @0:00 got me feeling so nostalgic

[@hectorcastro5396]

@@Stoneworks got me there too xD

[@johannageisel5390]

I love the shot at 2:37 Made me snicker loudly.

[@PixelBytesPixelArtist]

If you made an inconsistent desert say “radiation” and all is totally 100% good

[@KingJames-nb9jl]

Where did you learn all this?

[@iteate]

google

[@Brickertown]

This is a neat series concept.

[@a_tired_wendigo]

Your intro is fantastic

[@KalonOrdona2]

Dude I love all your references!

[@tsarbucksthemighty4648]

That’s the best intro I’ve ever seen

[@djornh4107]

God damn it that intro killed me 😂😂😂

[@PhoenixStriker1]

*lives in desert* *clicks on video describing deserts* *knows 90 percent of the content already* *acts surprised by it*

[@ayrus1787]

So I have a question for anyone I'm about to start a new dnd campaign but need a map been looking around but can't really find a good world generator (and me drawing one would probably make people's eyes bleed) so do you have a go to or know that's one that's good?