You absolutely do not have a "terrible" accent! As a community, we shoudn't measure you based on that, you're an amazing creator, thank you for your hard work!
To right. Never be ashamed of your accent. A person's voice is an integral part of them, and you are just fine as you are. If anyone complains just say you can't understand them 😂
I agree. I personally think an accent makes one’s personality even more distinct, especially in my own (and I guess many other’s) feed in which ‘international’ content is mostly native English speakers. I am personally studying in an international environment and I love the accent diversity
@pablopandocchi I'm probably a bit biased because I'm from a very rural part of England and have an accent you don't hear so much on young people now. You'd be surprised how nasty people can be about even native accents. I've been called an inbreed, bumpkin, thick. Mind you, I did enjoy thoroughly confusing the kinds of people who say that when I went down to London for the first (and only) time 😂😂
Regarding the mother vine or the Sensory Root, having it wrap around the back of the head would make an interesting choice, this area of the brain is dedicated to sight, as well as forcing the pilot to have a shaved back of the head, would create a sort of fashion or style that is unique to pilots. A class based thing or something that marks them out from the crowd.
very good speculations not necesarily shaved, but cropped so the root doesnt tangle too much, over time the vine and the pilot become "attuned" or used to each other, the vine creating specific patterns on the skin oof the pilot and creating slight scarring/discoloration of the skin around the face. This is the mark that distinguishes vineplate users, but specially mech pilots. and since they are held in high regard its become a fashion in some areas to get light face tattoos with similar patterns, while other find them distasteful, kinda like stolen valor but not penalized.
Wow this is absolutely great! I love your drawing style and the whole concept! I've always hated when stuff in fantasy doesn't make sense on a base level and breaks the rules of physics (even though it's fantasy) so it's really refreshing to see some actual thought put into things like arm placement. Very cool!
My favorite parts of mech animations are often the donning/entering and bot up sequences. The steps that take statues to mobile demigods of war or titans of construction. This is PERFECT info for a nerd like me! I love to think of a Commonwealth Dockyard, with pairs of operators actuating big vine powered cranes, lifing one of these mechs up and out of the hold of a barge, its Operator watching on as they rest up for the next part of the march.
This idea is so fuckin creative and enticing i will be here til the end of time. Give me plant prosthetics instead of a wheelchair. Also your accent is chill dude. It IS your choice to sound how you want, so if you decide to do work to reduce it thats nobodys business, but its also nohodys business how you sound in the first place. Stay safe dude.
Love it. I have been delaying doing my own worldbuilding videos for over a year now. I am attempting to finally make the delve myself :3 Looking forward to seeing more from you
Omg very cool concept i like plant based magic and i think is so overlooked some ideas that came to my mind when i was watching this for example the motor vine can extend into the mouth of the operator so when they are on a long journey they dont have to get out for drinking or eating bcs they can suck nutrients trough vines
for in & out system, what if the butt & back thighs of the tree mech also open up & since it's magic? It can close up perfectly while the exterior still protected/reinforced with steel armor. Meanwhile the back legs can have plate armor with small ladder ridges for easy/mobile mount, like mounting a horse. Also, I think the mage pilot still need a head pad too because the helmet clearly without any padding. the chainmail seems rather unnecessary since it could easily replace wholly with plates as it's not a human body but a whole tree .
Would love to see how these mechs are used. Are they war machines? Are they used by builders for work or other civilians? Are there tools are weapons created specifically for these mechs? What is the appeal for actually using a mech? (other than they are cool as shit)
Mechs are definitely war machines, the plate and weight make them too inefficient for daily and non war use, there is a cost to the magic system after all (coming in the next video!) however the vines are very flexible (ba dum tsss!) and there are other contraptions used in daily life, for work/ transport etc. even other war applications that aren't to the level of an armored mech. however their weapons are the same as they were used in the early modern period, just scaled up. Mostly polearms since it makes the most sense, and they are relatively cheap to produce at that size (and they tend to break their weapons semi regularly) The reasoning behind using vine-mechs is the same as fielding full plated knights in the middle ages or early tanks up to 11, extremely hard to create and field, but a very scary concentration of power in a small area, and hard af to take down since they have enough armor thickness to protect them from the early firearms of the period, and even small cannon if it hits them where the plate is thickest, but more on a later video! Thank you for the insightful questions! you inferred quite a bit from just 2 short videos :D
I would be interested to see more kinds of mech like this. The ones drawn here would be infantry/heavy infantry I think. But perhaps there would be other kinds, like one that resembled a centaur. Being used as giant heavy cavalry, maybe because of the extra limbs it takes more magic/essence to operate or it creates problems for longtime pilots of them, since the new neural pathways in their brains for making the 6 limbed quadrupeds walk might overwrite and/or interfere with their ability to walk while out of the mech, causing them to require walking aids or wheelchairs after years (or however long) of use. Keep up the good work 👍.
I love your workdbuilding ideas and want to give some of my thoughts about them. Why does a pilot have to climb so high up? Maybe it would be easier to get inside if the armor was lying face down on the ground or sitting on some sort of high step. It also makes sense for the armor elements to have metal pins or hinges that penetrate through the wood fibres, and thus hold more firmly.
I mostly didnt want to have to draw a different pose and the vines are connected to the inner "skeleton" within the mech, more than to the armor, since the latter is meant to be replaceable Thank you for the comment!
Another thing you could imprement is rock and plant/wood golems( not very original very I think it fits your setting). They would not be as strong or as versatil the metal mechs but they could be made in case no armor is avialable. But they would need to have some disanvantages. Such as: -Being heavier/ Slower than the metal mechs. -Not as strong as the metal mechs. -Require more energy and mantain to make on the spot than to form the muscle vines of the metal mechs. -The pilot is more exposed than on the metal mechs. Or things like that.
This is again, such a wonderful concept; I cannot wait till a year has gone by and you've crystallized a wealth of material on here to go forward with - VERY impressive!!
Thank you so much! That's the plan! Im hard at work on the next video, its taking a long time because it sets the foundation of the magic system, and Im working on improving the "production value" as well haha Thank you so much for the comment though! made my day!
This is probably nitpicking but the person's legs won't be able to bend inside the mech, therefore they wouldn't be able to run or walk but I can definitely suspend my disbelief. Regardless, this is such a cool use of magic!!
Just discovered your channel so i dont know if this was discussed in another video but a cool idea just popped into my head. One staple of mecha has gotta be some dramatic explosions right? So i thought a fun equivalent to that for the armor would be that the tree would go rampant and "explode" out in different directions, distending the armor in horrifying ways. A battlefield post battle would be a macabre forest
Seeing the obvious weakness at the back, I immediately thought of multi-piloted vine mech abomination that has no directional weakness. This is a very nice concept you have.I hope to see more of it.
I’m really loving the concept and hearing everyone’s thought processes on the intricacies of their worldbuilding. And also noo accent is actually quite charming in a friendly way D: but whatever you think is what suits you best!
You could probably forgoe the ladder in an emergency by like having the mech in a kneeling or even a push up position and you could get in albiet awkwardly, and then once it powers up it could stand itself up.
The whole thing is such a cool concept. I really get the feel that the average person knowing anything about them wouldn't think they could just hop into one and those that were in situations where one was an option many might decline if they were inclined to different styles of combat or claustrophobic, so it would make sense as to why everyone and their mother wasn't wearing one aside from cost n stuff. @@Tree.lancer
I know I'm late to the party, but an interesting way to go go about controlling these tree-lancers could be through some form of magically assisted fungal symbiosis. For context in our world its been shown that in many forests mycelial networks can act as a network that connects many trees to each other allowing for a form of pseudo communication through the use of chemicals. So in this case what if pilots infected themselves with a magically produced fungus that allows them to interface with a fungal network inside the mech that acts as a sort of nervous system?
trust me, I considered it, there's also smaller yellow vines that connect trees to each other and help them communicate at the crown level that I explored, they would have 2 vines, "the muscle" and "the nerve" I'm still unsure if I should go that way. maybe the "root vine" is just grafted on However it complicates a bit the worldbuilding, and the aesthetics I want to have. we'll see however, thank you for the suggestion!
I love how you've done the mech but the weapons seem very small comparatively. Wood and cellulose based organics are very strong, so you could make the entire weapons including the shaft metal, Also the medieval age did have gunpowder weaponry. I dont know if you would like to add that into your world but that could be something that could help inspire you.
oh don't worry gunpowder is part of the setting This is not a medieval work, but at the time of the story some technology like guns will be in the early-modern period stage. Some mechs will make heavy use of gunpowder weapons, mostly in sieges, but some are purely melee, mostly because they wouldn't have the manual dexterity to reload weapons by themselves on the field.
your creations are inspire me to write a RPG vilage, it is so amazing (i'm not selling enything just scribe by fun), but an idea who came to my brain, is a minion, a golen or something like that, a cute creature (or not) who help in forge, clean the hose or kill someone, those basic stuffs, maybe a templar thing or an alfred from batman who lives only in rich hoses, you know?
So while i want to see more of the magic system and the mech-suits, the real goodness is the world itself. There are so much potential with the early modern period, like a much longer lasting al-andalus, poland-lithuania becoming a superpower, proto-capitalist merchantile italy competing againts a revanchist byzentine state (depending if this is before or after the turkish migration). Ofcourse i am just stating examples for ideas, what ever you come up with will be good.
Hello! thanks for commenting again under this video I'm going to repeat my answer to the comment on the last one: I can tell you the conflict will be modeled (kind of) on the 30 years war, and the Polish Deluge, but taking inspiration from other wars, Also developments and technologies that drastically alter the cultures and historical antecedents that didnt happen in our world or happened much later, which really alter the political landscape, so really, not much like anything in our world that happened in that period. Hope you re still interested though! I will start videos on the main factions sometime in the near future!
Thank you! I'd thought to do the same at one point if time allows and people like this project enough! I'd recommend you wait until the next video that will cover the magic system, it might give you some ideas! :D
I really like this concept but wouldn't it be easier to mount and dismount if the mech were in a position where it was kneeling? Or could a person just simply feed their energy into the construct in order to I have the vines come down and be climbed? Another good option would have been if the legs had a series of decorative spikes along the back that could look menacing but could also be climbed similar to the way someone climbs a telephone pole.
@@Tree.lancer that's totally valid. I was continuing to think of different ways. I was thinking if there was a back cloak with holes in it or some shoulder armor with bits of flowing scarves hanging off of them that those two could be used as climbing implements. I do think though the kneeling position makes the most sense. It would make them easier to get in and out of as well as for storage capabilities I'm not sure if there's ever going to be a need where you're going to have to stash these armors in different places. Or hide them in Haybale's or anything like that.
Ty so much! well its mostly Mexican, with perhaps a smidge of Polish, not sure because I thought I had a very mild accent until I started recording myself for videos x'D
Great content. Love the world you are creating here never thought of such a concept before but its incredibly intruiging. I also think your accent sound pretty nice, and i am not only saying that because i have an ugly german/turkish accent then speaking english 😅
Was reading a book called cowboy necromancer the other day and one of the characters is a biomancer and in a chapter twords the end of the book she grows wooden armor around herself and later complains that while it can stop pistol rounds and melee weapons it can't stop rifle rounds the first thing I thought of was this video and that she should have steel armor plates made that she could attach to her plant exo skeleton
Awesome video. Can the arms alongate or contract like a spring to release more power on the impact. Or are the vines pretty rigid and not really elastic?
haha! very interesting question more info in the next video, but to answer quickly it depends on what the resting state was when they were fixed to the mech or other machinery in general vines can exert power both pulling and pushing by contracting or expanding inner section chambers, however they are stronger in the pull. And in the case of the mechs, since they are mostly confined within its rigid exoskeleton, not much expansion is happening other than to power the blows (the triceps pushing a bit as the biceps pull, and the other way) however, what happens when the vines are unbound? Well, it depends! more info on this later!
I had a simular idea a long time ago, though the power armor was powered by symbiotic slime that acted as its muscles, and neural interfaced with their hosts, in one version of the idea the suits would only be usable to individual of a species who's bodies were modified to host the symbiotic slimes, in other versions they are usable for anyone of a certain species, though the symbiot slowly consumes the pilot for power, fortunately the species can regenerate pretty good so shirt term use is no biggie, though when not in use the unbounded symbiote would be removed from the armored and would still have to cared for/fed, though they don't have to eat their host its just the most avaliable sorce of nutrients to power the rigors of combat.
i really like your "terrible" accent. i think it's nice to hear some different voices and not everyone sounding the same and it's not like it's a hard accent to understand anyways
Thank u for explaining this i would love to learn about magic system and i am writing a novel for a hobby i would like to learn it and create my own magic system
Thank you for commenting again! The magic system overview will be next week, so stay tuned! and best of luck with your novel and other projects, and have fun! I really recommend Monster Garden's magic system video if you are looking for more inspiration on that, in case you haven't watched it Cheers!
Just a thought but what if the mechs were personalized for each person, like since a child they will steadily grow a tree and manipulate its essence around the "skeleton" of the mech or use the least flexible parts of the tree as the skeleton, because if they were growing said tree since childhood would they not be able to connect too it easier allowing better manipulation of the mech and control? ( Got the personalization idea from a book series where your "magic" was stronger when in a environment you are familiar with like your home or favourite tree) i am not trying to backseat to your world or magic system i just like expanding or exploring ideas even if my expanding is quite bad which it mostly is but i just find it fun.
That's a cool idea! And while it could work on some cases, like a vineworks engineer/pilot, the process of creating a vinemech takes a lot of people with different expertises, and becoming a pilot is no easy task itself! However that doesn't mean there aren't different types and specializations of the Mechs, in fact a lot of them are unique and made with a specific battle role in mind. Thank you for the cool idea though;
Hear me out, Plant babies, some sketchy organization/military raises kids but as soon as they are born they remove limbs and flesh unnecessary for mechs and replace it with seeds and let the child be some tree-borg thing thats only goal is too be the best mech pilots out there
@@Tree.lancer I would also like to add, to make it even more personal, the vinemech can have their own unique body parts that has grown in accordance to the user's preferences, like plant grafting so it can have four hands or four legs, or maybe different plant combined/grafted together to create faster moving legs with strong body, etc. Basically, it acts as a pseudo customization for your vinemech frames, of course there should also be armor customization.
what would anti plantmech weaponry look like, would these mechs use like lances or ballistas, or does it just have to rely on the brute force of the vines themselves? If there is anti plantmech weaponry what would your opinion be on gunpowder weapons in the context of the setting? And secondly I have to ask for the sake of giant mechs = funny, how big can these get and still be able to be piloted? After only 2 videos im subbing to you boss, I love everything about this, from the vines themselves, to the illustration you've given us, would love to see different structures of mechs, and maybe different styles and factions, different kind of vines, different kinds of armour, after 7 minutes im hooked.
really excellent questions! Worry not, all of this has been considered, and Ill go more in depth in a video focusing on the mechs themselves and other war tech after the next one, which will focus on the magic system itself that powers the technology in this world! Thank you for the sub and encouragement!
@@Tree.lancer Woah im hyped already in which case, that's quite the bombshell of worldbuilding for iron vessel, but most importantly take care of yourself boss, burnout can be a real killer of these kind of worldbuilding experiments. Yes im hyped, but take as long as you need and as long as you want, I can wait, and I will wait. Take care bro, go at a pace that makes you happy!
@@bongothemidget1031 thank you so much for the kind words! Dont worry, I dont plan to! and Ive done a lot of prep for this setting and story, around 3 years here and there, so there's a lot to pull from C:
I thought they could just hang them at their side like normal, or perhaps crossinng them over their chest, but perhaps a couple handles or something would be good to have. And thank you!
I'm gonna copy my answer here as well! sorry I was about to answer your comment earlier, but my dog had to go on his morning walk xD So, ATLA is one of my favorite shows ever! so you may be on to something there That said, the way the vines work is very different from the water bending the swamp sage was doing on the algae. Very good insight though! I hadn't thought about it but subconsciously it may have played a big role in bringing this concept to life! I always like that episode a lot and wondered why no one else did plant-water bending later.
@@thegreatandterrible4508 yup! nothing is really ever %100 original, and I will wear my ATLA inspirations proudly, thinking back on it, it may have been the story that really got me into world building originally
@@Tree.lancer Even Shakespeare is mostly adaptations of older stories! Avatar the Last Airbender is my favorite piece of media ever, so comparison to it is almost never a bad sign.
When you said that the Magic User, being able to control the mech made me think that, Older Mages, ones with more magic and power will likely have more control over thier mech armor. I have but one question. What sort of Attachments would go on a mech. Me personally, these mechs act more than just Guards or Tanks. They can also carry way more than any other. Have Larger Rifles, or straight up have shoulder cannons. Idk, the options for weaponry make sense for a walking bipedal tank.
How does one prepare to pilot a mech? They must need to produce and conserve a lot of essence. Are some people naturally abundant with essence and better suited for pilothood? Or do they undergo exercises to generate larger reserves?
Will cover this in a later video but basically mechs are guarded by and deployed with a large infantry retinue and baggage train, called "troupes" of 40-60 or even more people. before a battle all who are able "share" some of their essence with the pilot, which can hold this large amount for a limited time, but enough for most battles/tactical actions. Once this reserve runs out however, they run the risk of succumbing to madness if they run their own reserves too low.
i know its kind of implied but is there enough space in the chest area to move your arms to cut yourself free? or is it tight and clostrophobic? there doesn't look like there is much room in there.
It would depend on the pilot and the mech ofc! but in general there should be enough room, although perhaps not plenty, with smaller folk perhaps even bringing extra cushioning to stop bouncing around as the thing moves, while larger folk might fell like a large guy in a tiny car for instance.
so where would the calf and the foot go, inside the mech's leg also, wielding weapons and stuff like that, fine movements require a whole lot more proprioception and finnesse than walking/running. I got a few ideeas that could gelp, hit me up if u wanna talk about it
Does wearing the suits have any negative impact on the wearer? How long does it take and in what form does it exhaust the wearer when they are in the suit? If they aren't exhausted, does a fight just end with death, destruction, or the flight of the suit/suit wearer? (Flight because of the suit wearer expecting death or destruction of the suit, not because of exhaustion, therefore no time limit due to exhaustion in combat).
Very, very insightful questions there is a cost ofc, I like when magic systems have clearly defined costs and boundaries, although they might not be completely understood within the setting, despite many scholar's efforts The next video will be about the magic system, and I hope to answer (at least some!) of your questions there!
culturally how are these used in non combat ways? were they developed as weapons or as tools first? could one be made or refit to aid in digging out ores for smelting or built with pulleys to act as a crane for loading and unloading goods from ships or wagons?
Next video should answer a lot of these questions! but yes, the vines are used in all manner of ways, and there are demimechs, and powersuits, made strictly for agricultural or transport purposes for example. As for their evolution, that's another video entirely, but basically, they started from simple prosthetics, then the military application, then the economic applications, and from there they developed in tandem.
Wait but wouldn’t the legs suffer from the same problems you mentioned for the arms? Like, what if the mech has to raise it's knees to, let's say, halfway up to the chest, wouldn't that also be problematic to do without snapping the pilot's leg?
4:29 Wait a minute. If the pilots knee is by the vine mechs hip joint... what happens when it walks forward? I mean wont the leg raise up and instantly break the pilots knee?
Personally I feel "roule of cool" is often self defining, without poper justifying or properly exploring somethings existence in the story the "cool thing" can feel really cheap, unearned and ironically lame unlike your vine mechs
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Mecha + Medieval still the best combo
Early modern armored murder salads
@@Tree.lancer Murder salads 🤣🤣🤣
You absolutely do not have a "terrible" accent! As a community, we shoudn't measure you based on that, you're an amazing creator, thank you for your hard work!
To right. Never be ashamed of your accent. A person's voice is an integral part of them, and you are just fine as you are. If anyone complains just say you can't understand them 😂
I agree. I personally think an accent makes one’s personality even more distinct, especially in my own (and I guess many other’s) feed in which ‘international’ content is mostly native English speakers. I am personally studying in an international environment and I love the accent diversity
@pablopandocchi I'm probably a bit biased because I'm from a very rural part of England and have an accent you don't hear so much on young people now. You'd be surprised how nasty people can be about even native accents. I've been called an inbreed, bumpkin, thick. Mind you, I did enjoy thoroughly confusing the kinds of people who say that when I went down to London for the first (and only) time 😂😂
Fr! Take that speech training money and buy a nice dinner!
I honestly thought he said "third world accent" for some odd reason
The marks on the pilots back are a nice touch.
Maybe they could develop some condition if they used the mech to much or to hard.
Regarding the mother vine or the Sensory Root, having it wrap around the back of the head would make an interesting choice, this area of the brain is dedicated to sight, as well as forcing the pilot to have a shaved back of the head, would create a sort of fashion or style that is unique to pilots. A class based thing or something that marks them out from the crowd.
very good speculations
not necesarily shaved, but cropped so the root doesnt tangle too much, over time the vine and the pilot become "attuned" or used to each other, the vine creating specific patterns on the skin oof the pilot and creating slight scarring/discoloration of the skin around the face.
This is the mark that distinguishes vineplate users, but specially mech pilots. and since they are held in high regard its become a fashion in some areas to get light face tattoos with similar patterns, while other find them distasteful, kinda like stolen valor but not penalized.
As someone that loves mechs and treants and other fantasy plant things, this is the coolest thing to me!
Glad you like it! :D
Mage with fire spells: "Cute campfire. Fireball."
As someone who hopes to make mechs into a playable dnd-esque class, thank you for the inspiration!
No worries, and thank you! I hope you do make them!
Wow this is absolutely great! I love your drawing style and the whole concept! I've always hated when stuff in fantasy doesn't make sense on a base level and breaks the rules of physics (even though it's fantasy) so it's really refreshing to see some actual thought put into things like arm placement. Very cool!
you're one of mine! thank you! and glad you like the concept! :D
My favorite parts of mech animations are often the donning/entering and bot up sequences. The steps that take statues to mobile demigods of war or titans of construction. This is PERFECT info for a nerd like me!
I love to think of a Commonwealth Dockyard, with pairs of operators actuating big vine powered cranes, lifing one of these mechs up and out of the hold of a barge, its Operator watching on as they rest up for the next part of the march.
This idea is so fuckin creative and enticing i will be here til the end of time. Give me plant prosthetics instead of a wheelchair.
Also your accent is chill dude. It IS your choice to sound how you want, so if you decide to do work to reduce it thats nobodys business, but its also nohodys business how you sound in the first place. Stay safe dude.
I love when something that looks like fantasy is actually semi-hard sci-fi. Well done.
Absolutely amazing idea for the plant mechs I can’t wait to see what other crazy ideas and designs you come up with
Thank you! there is definitely lots to come and I hope you will like them!
Good choice with the arms.
yup! it was nagging me! Thank you!
Love it. I have been delaying doing my own worldbuilding videos for over a year now.
I am attempting to finally make the delve myself :3
Looking forward to seeing more from you
Please do! I'd love to see more interesting worlds, stories and settings!
And thank you for the kind words!
i absolutely adore your humor, im definitely excited to see where this project goes
Haha thank you! and here I thought I was toning it down enough haha
Cheers!
Your accent is great not terrible. 🖤🖤🖤
Omg very cool concept i like plant based magic and i think is so overlooked some ideas that came to my mind when i was watching this for example the motor vine can extend into the mouth of the operator so when they are on a long journey they dont have to get out for drinking or eating bcs they can suck nutrients trough vines
Fantastic concept!
Beautiful art! ❤
Came here from Monstergarden and you got a new subscriber
for in & out system, what if the butt & back thighs of the tree mech also open up & since it's magic? It can close up perfectly while the exterior still protected/reinforced with steel armor. Meanwhile the back legs can have plate armor with small ladder ridges for easy/mobile mount, like mounting a horse. Also, I think the mage pilot still need a head pad too because the helmet clearly without any padding. the chainmail seems rather unnecessary since it could easily replace wholly with plates as it's not a human body but a whole tree .
Would love to see how these mechs are used. Are they war machines? Are they used by builders for work or other civilians? Are there tools are weapons created specifically for these mechs? What is the appeal for actually using a mech? (other than they are cool as shit)
Mechs are definitely war machines, the plate and weight make them too inefficient for daily and non war use, there is a cost to the magic system after all (coming in the next video!)
however the vines are very flexible (ba dum tsss!) and there are other contraptions used in daily life, for work/ transport etc. even other war applications that aren't to the level of an armored mech.
however their weapons are the same as they were used in the early modern period, just scaled up.
Mostly polearms since it makes the most sense, and they are relatively cheap to produce at that size (and they tend to break their weapons semi regularly)
The reasoning behind using vine-mechs is the same as fielding full plated knights in the middle ages or early tanks up to 11, extremely hard to create and field, but a very scary concentration of power in a small area, and hard af to take down since they have enough armor thickness to protect them from the early firearms of the period, and even small cannon if it hits them where the plate is thickest, but more on a later video!
Thank you for the insightful questions! you inferred quite a bit from just 2 short videos :D
Proof that druids should be able to cast magic vestment.
I would be interested to see more kinds of mech like this. The ones drawn here would be infantry/heavy infantry I think. But perhaps there would be other kinds, like one that resembled a centaur. Being used as giant heavy cavalry, maybe because of the extra limbs it takes more magic/essence to operate or it creates problems for longtime pilots of them, since the new neural pathways in their brains for making the 6 limbed quadrupeds walk might overwrite and/or interfere with their ability to walk while out of the mech, causing them to require walking aids or wheelchairs after years (or however long) of use. Keep up the good work 👍.
i love this! such a fun idea to world build off of!
Thank you! :D
I just got recommended this and I absolutely adore this. This is an absolutely inspiring idea. I can't wait to delve into your world and how it works.
Thank you! so glad you like it! Im working on the next installment
Badass concept man. I think the rule of cool is absolutely enhanced when things have a logical explanation of how it could work within a setting.
I found you through monstergarden - amazing work!!
came from monster garden cool vid!
Me too!
Welcome fellow Ram trenchers! :D
I love your workdbuilding ideas and want to give some of my thoughts about them.
Why does a pilot have to climb so high up? Maybe it would be easier to get inside if the armor was lying face down on the ground or sitting on some sort of high step.
It also makes sense for the armor elements to have metal pins or hinges that penetrate through the wood fibres, and thus hold more firmly.
I mostly didnt want to have to draw a different pose
and the vines are connected to the inner "skeleton" within the mech, more than to the armor, since the latter is meant to be replaceable
Thank you for the comment!
Another thing you could imprement is rock and plant/wood golems( not very original very I think it fits your setting). They would not be as strong or as versatil the metal mechs but they could be made in case no armor is avialable.
But they would need to have some disanvantages.
Such as:
-Being heavier/ Slower than the metal mechs.
-Not as strong as the metal mechs.
-Require more energy and mantain to make on the spot than to form the muscle vines of the metal mechs.
-The pilot is more exposed than on the metal mechs.
Or things like that.
Incredible, this is so awesome. Please keep it up!
fantasy mechs are so untapped and i love this. I've been trying to figure out how to make mechs work in my setting so this was great!
This is again, such a wonderful concept; I cannot wait till a year has gone by and you've crystallized a wealth of material on here to go forward with - VERY impressive!!
Thank you so much! That's the plan!
Im hard at work on the next video, its taking a long time because it sets the foundation of the magic system, and Im working on improving the "production value" as well haha
Thank you so much for the comment though! made my day!
Showing your ideas with more diferent types mecha (armors) and weapons will be really cool.
Honestly, this is very well thought out for a "few days" idea. It all just folds in perfectly.
this is such a cool concept, i cannot describe why but the concept of massive fantasy mechs makes me so happy!
Vaya maquina. Saludos desde murcia! Me encanta tu estilo.
Muchas Gracias Amancio! :D
Beautiful artwork!
this and monster garden have so much potential lore; so much that i start thinking about WH 40K and i think its amasing
Awesome!
This is probably nitpicking but the person's legs won't be able to bend inside the mech, therefore they wouldn't be able to run or walk but I can definitely suspend my disbelief. Regardless, this is such a cool use of magic!!
Just discovered your channel so i dont know if this was discussed in another video but a cool idea just popped into my head. One staple of mecha has gotta be some dramatic explosions right? So i thought a fun equivalent to that for the armor would be that the tree would go rampant and "explode" out in different directions, distending the armor in horrifying ways. A battlefield post battle would be a macabre forest
Seeing the obvious weakness at the back, I immediately thought of multi-piloted vine mech abomination that has no directional weakness.
This is a very nice concept you have.I hope to see more of it.
I’m really loving the concept and hearing everyone’s thought processes on the intricacies of their worldbuilding. And also noo accent is actually quite charming in a friendly way D: but whatever you think is what suits you best!
So simple yet so perfect, can’t wait to see more
You could probably forgoe the ladder in an emergency by like having the mech in a kneeling or even a push up position and you could get in albiet awkwardly, and then once it powers up it could stand itself up.
yup! I just didn't want to change the pose haha
The whole thing is such a cool concept. I really get the feel that the average person knowing anything about them wouldn't think they could just hop into one and those that were in situations where one was an option many might decline if they were inclined to different styles of combat or claustrophobic, so it would make sense as to why everyone and their mother wasn't wearing one aside from cost n stuff. @@Tree.lancer
Hey this is really neat.
Thank you very much!
I love you treelancer
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Had to look through 3 of the monster gardens streams just to find this channel .. definitely not disappointed >:]
I know I'm late to the party, but an interesting way to go go about controlling these tree-lancers could be through some form of magically assisted fungal symbiosis. For context in our world its been shown that in many forests mycelial networks can act as a network that connects many trees to each other allowing for a form of pseudo communication through the use of chemicals. So in this case what if pilots infected themselves with a magically produced fungus that allows them to interface with a fungal network inside the mech that acts as a sort of nervous system?
trust me, I considered it, there's also smaller yellow vines that connect trees to each other and help them communicate at the crown level that I explored, they would have 2 vines, "the muscle" and "the nerve" I'm still unsure if I should go that way. maybe the "root vine" is just grafted on
However it complicates a bit the worldbuilding, and the aesthetics I want to have.
we'll see however, thank you for the suggestion!
I love how you've done the mech but the weapons seem very small comparatively. Wood and cellulose based organics are very strong, so you could make the entire weapons including the shaft metal, Also the medieval age did have gunpowder weaponry. I dont know if you would like to add that into your world but that could be something that could help inspire you.
oh don't worry gunpowder is part of the setting
This is not a medieval work, but at the time of the story some technology like guns will be in the early-modern period stage.
Some mechs will make heavy use of gunpowder weapons, mostly in sieges, but some are purely melee, mostly because they wouldn't have the manual dexterity to reload weapons by themselves on the field.
Iit's wonderful! Don't mind what would one think of your accent. Artists speak through art.
your creations are inspire me to write a RPG vilage, it is so amazing (i'm not selling enything just scribe by fun), but an idea who came to my brain, is a minion, a golen or something like that, a cute creature (or not) who help in forge, clean the hose or kill someone, those basic stuffs, maybe a templar thing or an alfred from batman who lives only in rich hoses, you know?
So while i want to see more of the magic system and the mech-suits, the real goodness is the world itself. There are so much potential with the early modern period, like a much longer lasting al-andalus, poland-lithuania becoming a superpower, proto-capitalist merchantile italy competing againts a revanchist byzentine state (depending if this is before or after the turkish migration). Ofcourse i am just stating examples for ideas, what ever you come up with will be good.
Hello! thanks for commenting again under this video
I'm going to repeat my answer to the comment on the last one:
I can tell you the conflict will be modeled (kind of) on the 30 years war, and the Polish Deluge, but taking inspiration from other wars,
Also developments and technologies that drastically alter the cultures and historical antecedents that didnt happen in our world or happened much later, which really alter the political landscape, so really, not much like anything in our world that happened in that period.
Hope you re still interested though! I will start videos on the main factions sometime in the near future!
@@Tree.lancer cool, can't wait!
this is a really cool idea. You should create a giant mech design. subbed.
Glad I discovered you. The detail is amazing and linework great. Is it PS, SAI or CLIP?
This is amazing!!!
This is so fucking cool! I'd love to make a rpg system for this or just something. This is so awesome
Thank you! I'd thought to do the same at one point if time allows and people like this project enough!
I'd recommend you wait until the next video that will cover the magic system, it might give you some ideas! :D
@@Tree.lancerHeck yeah! 💪💪
I really like this concept but wouldn't it be easier to mount and dismount if the mech were in a position where it was kneeling? Or could a person just simply feed their energy into the construct in order to I have the vines come down and be climbed? Another good option would have been if the legs had a series of decorative spikes along the back that could look menacing but could also be climbed similar to the way someone climbs a telephone pole.
I just didn't want to have to draw another pose x'D
@@Tree.lancer that's totally valid. I was continuing to think of different ways. I was thinking if there was a back cloak with holes in it or some shoulder armor with bits of flowing scarves hanging off of them that those two could be used as climbing implements. I do think though the kneeling position makes the most sense. It would make them easier to get in and out of as well as for storage capabilities I'm not sure if there's ever going to be a need where you're going to have to stash these armors in different places. Or hide them in Haybale's or anything like that.
Your art is amazing! If you don't mind me asking, what accent is that?
Ty so much!
well its mostly Mexican, with perhaps a smidge of Polish, not sure because I thought I had a very mild accent until I started recording myself for videos x'D
Neat.
Cheers!
Great content. Love the world you are creating here never thought of such a concept before but its incredibly intruiging. I also think your accent sound pretty nice, and i am not only saying that because i have an ugly german/turkish accent then speaking english 😅
I think we all think too harshly of our own voice/accents, it was more of a tongue in cheek remark from me, but thank you for the kind words!
Was reading a book called cowboy necromancer the other day and one of the characters is a biomancer and in a chapter twords the end of the book she grows wooden armor around herself and later complains that while it can stop pistol rounds and melee weapons it can't stop rifle rounds the first thing I thought of was this video and that she should have steel armor plates made that she could attach to her plant exo skeleton
Awesome video. Can the arms alongate or contract like a spring to release more power on the impact. Or are the vines pretty rigid and not really elastic?
haha! very interesting question
more info in the next video, but to answer quickly
it depends on what the resting state was when they were fixed to the mech or other machinery
in general vines can exert power both pulling and pushing by contracting or expanding inner section chambers, however they are stronger in the pull.
And in the case of the mechs, since they are mostly confined within its rigid exoskeleton, not much expansion is happening other than to power the blows (the triceps pushing a bit as the biceps pull, and the other way)
however, what happens when the vines are unbound? Well, it depends!
more info on this later!
I had a simular idea a long time ago, though the power armor was powered by symbiotic slime that acted as its muscles, and neural interfaced with their hosts, in one version of the idea the suits would only be usable to individual of a species who's bodies were modified to host the symbiotic slimes, in other versions they are usable for anyone of a certain species, though the symbiot slowly consumes the pilot for power, fortunately the species can regenerate pretty good so shirt term use is no biggie, though when not in use the unbounded symbiote would be removed from the armored and would still have to cared for/fed, though they don't have to eat their host its just the most avaliable sorce of nutrients to power the rigors of combat.
Unfortunately I am also a horrible artist so I don't have any drawings of how it would work only writings
Sounds very cool!
i really like your "terrible" accent. i think it's nice to hear some different voices and not everyone sounding the same and it's not like it's a hard accent to understand anyways
Thank you, Ive come to therms with it since I made this video, it just surprised me how heavy it was, in my head I sound like a native speaker lol
@@Tree.lancer yeah, I get that too, in my head I sound kind of British, kind of American but when I speak it becomes very German
This is deeply cool ❤
Like it 😊
Thank u for explaining this i would love to learn about magic system and i am writing a novel for a hobby i would like to learn it and create my own magic system
Thank you for commenting again!
The magic system overview will be next week, so stay tuned! and best of luck with your novel and other projects, and have fun!
I really recommend Monster Garden's magic system video if you are looking for more inspiration on that, in case you haven't watched it
Cheers!
Just a thought but what if the mechs were personalized for each person, like since a child they will steadily grow a tree and manipulate its essence around the "skeleton" of the mech or use the least flexible parts of the tree as the skeleton, because if they were growing said tree since childhood would they not be able to connect too it easier allowing better manipulation of the mech and control? ( Got the personalization idea from a book series where your "magic" was stronger when in a environment you are familiar with like your home or favourite tree) i am not trying to backseat to your world or magic system i just like expanding or exploring ideas even if my expanding is quite bad which it mostly is but i just find it fun.
i never have thought of a plant based mech like yours and i find it awesome, keep up the good work!
That's a cool idea! And while it could work on some cases, like a vineworks engineer/pilot, the process of creating a vinemech takes a lot of people with different expertises, and becoming a pilot is no easy task itself! However that doesn't mean there aren't different types and specializations of the Mechs, in fact a lot of them are unique and made with a specific battle role in mind. Thank you for the cool idea though;
Hear me out, Plant babies, some sketchy organization/military raises kids but as soon as they are born they remove limbs and flesh unnecessary for mechs and replace it with seeds and let the child be some tree-borg thing thats only goal is too be the best mech pilots out there
@@Tree.lancer I would also like to add, to make it even more personal, the vinemech can have their own unique body parts that has grown in accordance to the user's preferences, like plant grafting so it can have four hands or four legs, or maybe different plant combined/grafted together to create faster moving legs with strong body, etc.
Basically, it acts as a pseudo customization for your vinemech frames, of course there should also be armor customization.
what would anti plantmech weaponry look like, would these mechs use like lances or ballistas, or does it just have to rely on the brute force of the vines themselves?
If there is anti plantmech weaponry what would your opinion be on gunpowder weapons in the context of the setting?
And secondly I have to ask for the sake of giant mechs = funny, how big can these get and still be able to be piloted?
After only 2 videos im subbing to you boss, I love everything about this, from the vines themselves, to the illustration you've given us, would love to see different structures of mechs, and maybe different styles and factions, different kind of vines, different kinds of armour, after 7 minutes im hooked.
really excellent questions!
Worry not, all of this has been considered, and Ill go more in depth in a video focusing on the mechs themselves and other war tech after the next one, which will focus on the magic system itself that powers the technology in this world!
Thank you for the sub and encouragement!
@@Tree.lancer Woah im hyped already in which case, that's quite the bombshell of worldbuilding for iron vessel, but most importantly take care of yourself boss, burnout can be a real killer of these kind of worldbuilding experiments. Yes im hyped, but take as long as you need and as long as you want, I can wait, and I will wait. Take care bro, go at a pace that makes you happy!
@@bongothemidget1031 thank you so much for the kind words!
Dont worry, I dont plan to! and Ive done a lot of prep for this setting and story, around 3 years here and there, so there's a lot to pull from C:
Definetly a Flamethrower.
My question is how do they hold their arm in the mechs other then that they look super cool and look like the mechs from anthem
I thought they could just hang them at their side like normal, or perhaps crossinng them over their chest, but perhaps a couple handles or something would be good to have.
And thank you!
Said on the previous upload, but I'm curious if there was any inspiration from the Swamp Benders in Avatar the Last Airbender.
I'm gonna copy my answer here as well! sorry I was about to answer your comment earlier, but my dog had to go on his morning walk xD
So, ATLA is one of my favorite shows ever! so you may be on to something there
That said, the way the vines work is very different from the water bending the swamp sage was doing on the algae.
Very good insight though! I hadn't thought about it but subconsciously it may have played a big role in bringing this concept to life! I always like that episode a lot and wondered why no one else did plant-water bending later.
@@Tree.lancer That's really cool! And, yeah, the ideas are very different, there's just a spark of similarity there.
@@thegreatandterrible4508 yup! nothing is really ever %100 original, and I will wear my ATLA inspirations proudly, thinking back on it, it may have been the story that really got me into world building originally
@@Tree.lancer Even Shakespeare is mostly adaptations of older stories!
Avatar the Last Airbender is my favorite piece of media ever, so comparison to it is almost never a bad sign.
When you said that the Magic User, being able to control the mech made me think that, Older Mages, ones with more magic and power will likely have more control over thier mech armor.
I have but one question. What sort of Attachments would go on a mech. Me personally, these mechs act more than just Guards or Tanks. They can also carry way more than any other.
Have Larger Rifles, or straight up have shoulder cannons. Idk, the options for weaponry make sense for a walking bipedal tank.
*gasp* tree magic mecha
How does one prepare to pilot a mech? They must need to produce and conserve a lot of essence. Are some people naturally abundant with essence and better suited for pilothood? Or do they undergo exercises to generate larger reserves?
Will cover this in a later video but basically mechs are guarded by and deployed with a large infantry retinue and baggage train, called "troupes" of 40-60 or even more people.
before a battle all who are able "share" some of their essence with the pilot, which can hold this large amount for a limited time, but enough for most battles/tactical actions.
Once this reserve runs out however, they run the risk of succumbing to madness if they run their own reserves too low.
i know its kind of implied but is there enough space in the chest area to move your arms to cut yourself free? or is it tight and clostrophobic? there doesn't look like there is much room in there.
It would depend on the pilot and the mech ofc! but in general there should be enough room, although perhaps not plenty, with smaller folk perhaps even bringing extra cushioning to stop bouncing around as the thing moves, while larger folk might fell like a large guy in a tiny car for instance.
so where would the calf and the foot go, inside the mech's leg
also, wielding weapons and stuff like that, fine movements require a whole lot more proprioception and finnesse than walking/running. I got a few ideeas that could gelp, hit me up if u wanna talk about it
Does wearing the suits have any negative impact on the wearer? How long does it take and in what form does it exhaust the wearer when they are in the suit? If they aren't exhausted, does a fight just end with death, destruction, or the flight of the suit/suit wearer? (Flight because of the suit wearer expecting death or destruction of the suit, not because of exhaustion, therefore no time limit due to exhaustion in combat).
you don't have to answer i already read that there will come a video about this. love your videos hope there will be plenty more in the future.😊
Very, very insightful questions
there is a cost ofc, I like when magic systems have clearly defined costs and boundaries, although they might not be completely understood within the setting, despite many scholar's efforts
The next video will be about the magic system, and I hope to answer (at least some!) of your questions there!
culturally how are these used in non combat ways? were they developed as weapons or as tools first? could one be made or refit to aid in digging out ores for smelting or built with pulleys to act as a crane for loading and unloading goods from ships or wagons?
Next video should answer a lot of these questions! but yes, the vines are used in all manner of ways, and there are demimechs, and powersuits, made strictly for agricultural or transport purposes for example.
As for their evolution, that's another video entirely, but basically, they started from simple prosthetics, then the military application, then the economic applications, and from there they developed in tandem.
Wait but wouldn’t the legs suffer from the same problems you mentioned for the arms?
Like, what if the mech has to raise it's knees to, let's say, halfway up to the chest, wouldn't that also be problematic to do without snapping the pilot's leg?
I like your accent
Nice logical
Yo this slaps! good work, new sub from me
Awesome, thank you, and glad you like it! C:
gus fring?
I have stolen this idea to put in my homebrewed D&D setting! Except it's the drow that utilise the corpses of treants via necromancy.
I imagine that extremely uncomfortable
Exposed back rubbing against the vines
Also wouldn’t you get hot in there?
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Wait a minute. If the pilots knee is by the vine mechs hip joint... what happens when it walks forward? I mean wont the leg raise up and instantly break the pilots knee?
Very random but i keep to my statement that attack on titan is a mech anime.
How big do the mechs get?
depends if they move around a lot or not, but Id say the one here is a medium sized one
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Dude. MAKE MINE MINIATURE GAME!!!! AND GET A CONTRACT WITH TOTAL WAR!!!!
… fantasy power armor😐
Personally I feel "roule of cool" is often self defining, without poper justifying or properly exploring somethings existence in the story the "cool thing" can feel really cheap, unearned and ironically lame unlike your vine mechs
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There's nothing wrong with your third world accent brother 😌
Don’t you dare get rid of your accent sir!
That's so fricking cool, I love the concepts here, keep being awesome!
Thank you! I'm glad you like the idea :D