@@simply_syrup1457 There is a skill you can get that lets you keep half of the resources when demolishing. That makes it less painful. I wish you could simply upgrade the buildings, but things like Workshop 2 have to be built separately.
I am also a chronic restarter. I can’t name a game I didn’t restart or make a loads of alt accounts. Edit: at least I made 5 buildings and had 2 villagers before I restarted.
My tip for all restarters: Start a new game, turn on infinite stamina and weight and set seasons to 30 days. Now you take some time and just go farming materials for 3-4 hours. After farming you save it. Now you have a save game which you can use everytime you want to start a new game and you won't need to farm again.
One thing I forget when starting to build is to *not* be too efficient with space. When buildings are squared off and placed as close together as possible, it can quickly turn into an urban maze. The buildings start to block out the light and it becomes pretty grim to play in. Allowing space between the road and the building and between the buildings themselves lets you have space for building yards to fill with the decor built into the game.
I appreciate your tips. Some do not apply to my style but others do! I tend to put 1200-2000 hours into games I love, so I set my seasons to 30 days! Haha yes I know it’s crazy, but I’m retired and have plenty of time for long gaming sessions. Also, you can always choose to sleep and skip seasons at any time when you are ready. I just started playing last week and have over 100 hours in! I have a wife, 12 villagers, and a big farm so far, with my first winter approaching very soon. I love this game. Thanks for the videos!
Well said! I've seen your comments on some of my other videos. You are a very kind soul, and it's super encouraging to hear from you. All your comments are very well thought out!
@@simply_syrup1457 Thank you for your kind words! I've watched a lot of videos and rarely anyone puts their soul into their settlement. You are one of the few, so I really like your videos.
Sometimes when the wind is blowing, and the music is playing softly in the background, I get chills from just standing and enjoying this beautiful world of Medieval Dynasty.
Wow finally. A "things i wish i knew" video with actual amazing tips and not a rehash of the first 5 things the tutorial tells you. Thanks for these tips. Too many games expect the fast paced style you discourage in this video. It's kinda ingrained in me to push quests hard and powergame. I had already restarted with the intention to slow down and was about to restart again. You saved me, I won't restart again. I promise.
when you start, travel the map and find that one place, reall dig into the fact that you can remove trees and that slopes can be okay within reason, second, when you make a house alter the type of mats you use, stone all the way, that way you can upgrade with limestone, and third, your first villager should be female and a wood chopper, marry her early, she will give you quests to bring in 6 skill people, really op. But of course take your time! Enjoy it, and like he said, don't restart, you'll eventually make so much materials that you can just choose to move anyways... awesome vid!
Bought the game because I wanted a game that was chill and relaxing after a 12hr shift and Medieval Dynasty is just for that. Your tips really help. You earned a new sub! 🔥👍
There is one thing you cannot make undone. That is clearing forests. If you remove the tree stump, the tree will never grow back, but if you leave the stump, the tree will grow back in a few years. So only remove the stumps if you are 100 % sure you really want to use the land for permanent buildings or farmland. Clearing forests will otherwise leave ugly irreversable wounds in the environment, that frankly just encourages you to restart everything.
Yep. That is why I am getting ready for my (hopefully) final restart. Didnt pay attention to that little detail and now have skinned the land in a very ugly way. Round 3 will be better!! lol
Good tips. I have over 2000 hours in MD since I started playing back when it was first released in beta. I played the original map all the through to have my heir's son take over the village. The issue that always makes me restart a game is terrain. Since I've played a game where I reached the max number of buildings you can build (200%), the most critical advice I can give is you must find an area on the map with a huge amount of flat or relatively flat land. Building on hills is a major pain, especially if you want to surround your town with walls. You will constantly get messages that the ground is too uneven to place even simple items like benches, wash tubs, or flower pots. Fields work okay, but other buildings can't be built on very hilly terrain. I had village I built in Oxbow with over 100 settlers, but I had to restart because I simply ran out of buildable space after 80 buildings. I've always played the game with future game enhancements in mind, thus I figured the devs would eventually add some kind of attacks on the village, so walls were a must.
What's funny is it never occurred to me to use the fences as aesthetic barricades around the houses you house your citizens in... I settled at the lake to the far southeast of the map and I really like the location. Now I'm going to use some of the space around me to give my villagers a little bit of a yard for their houses lol.
Funny, I've just started a new game on the New Map and that's what I've realized: take your time and let time pass! I would also add: build your 1st settlement as a small test +. That way, if you're unsatisfied after several hours and building, you can always start a new one elsewhere on the map with better plans in head.
Ive been playing the game on n off past few montha....i hav regularly had 2 restart cos my fibro brain forgets a lot of info n v.i.p stuff...but 2 days ago my fella started to play on Xbox...and I wound up helping him out..telling him where to start what to focus on....he is a C.O.D guy thru n thru so it felt good to be the ONE telling him how to play an Xbox game...my main advice is slow and steady...its not a race...gunna make a playlist of ur videos to help him out. Thank you 😊
My problem when I first started was building too fast and building cheap houses that deteriorate quickly. Also having to use the management screen more often than not. Dealing with all that had me creating a new game and doing things very differently and slowly just like his video says. Unfortunately saw this video today and would have been a huge help if I saw it when I was first starting my build. These videos have helped me tremendously… All that said, went back to my first build and putting it in order the way it should be.
Thank you! Only about halfway done in my opinion. Hoping to have everything mostly finished by year 50 so I can do a village tour on the channel! Thanks for the compliment!
@@simply_syrup1457 Damn I only have a few benches and tables because the wife handed me a decorating quest, but now that I've seen what you did I got a few ideas and will dedicate some time in to decorate.
My plan is to keep going how I am till the 3rd year at least, I'm currently set at 6 day seasons. Then I'll change it to 30 and find a perfect spot and construct a whole new, more organised village and once I'm satisfied I'll transfer everyone and destroy the old one.
Yeah I expanded way way too fast. I started building everything I was unlocking not knowing I wasn’t even able to cover the property taxes just yet. I’ve taken the time this weekend to slow down and focus what building I have now. Like I just built the pig pen the other day and I spent like 5k in buying a male and female piglet along with adult male pig to create manuer. I’m slowly depleting my task list. No lie I had like 25 things missing from a bunch of places they either needed tools that broke or supplies. But just like you said I’m just taking it one at a time making sure it’s flowing before I even think about adding a smitty 😅
My tip for beginners: Start a new game, turn on infinite stamina and weight and set seasons to 30 days. Now you take some time and just go farming materials for 3-4 hours. After farming you save it. Now you have a save game which you can use everytime you want to start a new game and you won't need to farm again.
It's funny, here i was worrying I was playing to SLOWLY because I always take my sweet time and smell the roses in any game ... turns out i was accidentally employing a meta strategy!!
I actually like to manage my toen. I dont have many people in it yet tho. But I just love it as it is one of the only games where you can actually build recruit and manage. The game Going Medieval is a bit like it too but all topview instead of 1st/3th person
Oi new comers, if you think of deleting your world due to not happy with your village, quickly activate unlimited carry weight, destroy all your stuff, and move, you don't have to activate infinite carry weight but its less of a headache ❤️❤️ Edit: also no generators not even greenhouses cause they're easy money
Heck you don't even need to do that. I started just west of the starting village as most people do, I was planning on moving after I get to 10 villagers, this was more of a thrown together camp. I moved to that nice lake down in the south west with the awesome view. Well I should say I'm in the process of moving. I was planning on moving all along once I decided where to settle after getting the early stuff done and paying my first taxes (didn't want to get stuck mid move where I have 2 of everything or something crazy) anyway you just need to throw everything into a storage building and then first thing you build in your new place is a storage building as you can access everything cross map.
Set seasons to 30days. (After two -or three?- in-game days when you go to sleep you get the option to skip to the next season if you want to) With 3 days I constantly felt like I had to rush things and made the game more of a chore than fun. With 30days it's tons more relaxed.
Oh I expanded way too fast. I even moved the slider so I could have more buildings. My first play thru in games like these, I use them to inform my decisions. I have 5 Stalls constantly selling food and tools because I build too many and the main storage area is too small, so everything builds up. I know I could back down their production but there production is their leveling. They can't be good at something if they aren't doing it a lot. So things like having pigs produce more manure than my farmers can make into fertilizer now. Which means I normally have to visit the storage building yank a bunch out and process it myself and I tend to take it around with me to sell in town to recoup the coin I expend, but it makes the worker level like crazy. Same thing with the stalls selling product, they level insanely fast as long as they are selling lots of stuff. In a couple days I went to my storage area and noticed there was already 10,000 coin waiting for me and I'm in season 5 I think because there are kids now 4 years old and I have like a week into this game because I'm retired. My questions..... Can you add another main storage area or are you relegated to one? I haven't tried it because I didn't want to break anything and I haven't looked but I'm seriously having difficulty with that storage space filling up with things tools, weapons, logs, clay, etc. I am constantly pulling out stacks of stuff and placing it on the floor inside the building itself. What happens if the Main Storage building is full? What happens, I've come close but I keep going in a removing items. Do the workers stop producing because the storage is full? The one thing I think I would do differently if I did start over. I would put off the village from having kids too early on. Use the first 3 seasons or so to take care of exploring and beefing up your hunting skills, because I got so involved in building that I'm a 10 in everything except hunting. I think I'm at 8 right now. Instead I think I would be more personable by watching them grow. Right now because I expanded so fast, I really couldn't tell you half their names. I've got something like 20 kids between 0 and 4. They need to add a house type called duplex so two men or women can share what is considered one house. That way you can decide who is getting married and such without losing space because of building limits.
I've been playing with 10 day seasons (based on another RUclipsrs recommendation) and it has been great! 3 days per season was just too fast paced for my attention span and my desire to build and plan. Lol
Hy man I started Medieval Dynasty today on the PS 5 cuase of your Review vid. Must be honest binning is a bit confusing but going to push through. Thanks man.
Hey i just started playing 2 days ago and ive got about 8 hours game-time. However ive started building my village in an awful location and theres no where near enough space, its on the mountain just behind gostovia and its got no space and very uneven land so the buildings arent easy to place. Do u recommend i start a new game (ik u said not to but…) or should i destroy everything and move to a better location . Btw i have a wife around 15 buildings and 5 workers.
Just start building in your new location, and slowly move things over time. Remember storage is shared, so you could have two separate villages if you wanted to. Keep playing, I wouldn't recommend restarting!
After 2 weeks i already started over lol. Wish i saw this earlier ..jeesh My village was just too ugly. Guess i'll have to go back to it and see what i can do
I wish management was different. My villagers are just so stupid. "Oh all my hunters need knives because the smithy can only make one a day." So i spend my time making knives. I just built a second one. But that took a while because I needed to build the houses, the second smithy (smithy 2), then realized that I was out of rocks and supplies so another woodshed (level 2) and excavation hurt, and more houses for the villagers. All of this because the hunters cant make a simple tool. My town basically had to have a whole new district (four houses, and 4 more jobs) just because i was tired of making four knives a day. I wish on the screen there was a spot that showed how much / day do you need vs much your villagers are making. It would take figuring out a lot less time and less of a trial and error. With all my villagers, if im not around during a day because of a quest then my entire system bottlenecks at some point. Normally its the smithy because he needs some resources, but I honestly cant figure out whats going wrong. Theres never enough.
Good advises. I have a well operating town, but i'm not satisfied with my town planning. I settled too soon and too close another village. I wish i'd build over a river or near a lake, and most importanly, on flat ground :D My town looks is so inclined that many parts are not buildable :D I'm considering moving elsewere and making a whole migration, house by house since i've no money problem and a lot of ressources to do so. And leaving an abandonned town with no buildings but all the infrastructure in the oldtown :D
Thank you for saying to NOT start over lmao. I was thinking about restarting but when you said not to, It reminded me that I tried starting over on my Animal Crossing game and it ruined it for me, I cant even play it anymore. Plus its already my 2nd playthrough because of that one update that was kinda game breaking unless you restarted.
Thank you very much for the helpful videos. Please may i make a request. Video on how to manage a settlement, so many buildings and chests, what goes in what chest, my villagers do not like me atm lol. Need help thanks.
Thanks for the idea! Once you build your resource storage things will become much easier. All of your resources will automatically go there and villagers will also know to take tools and supplies from your storage once they need them!
I just started playing Medieval Dynasty a few days ago. Your five tips for a better experience are so helpful! I was hurrying through everything, trying to do all the quests and build the next thing. It started to feel like work. Your suggestion to only use the management screen at the start of each season is particularly useful. I confess that I started my game over after the first year, because I had no clue what I was doing at the start and my village was ugly. Maybe you could do a video on how to build an aesthetically pleasing village from the start, so new players don't make that mistake. 😂😆
My recommendation for making a aesthetically pleasing village is to place down roads and use them as guides before placing buildings. Plus use the compass when placing buildings using the N-S-E-W to square your buildings up and keep them in line. Farm plots can only be placed in this manner.
Just start your small village somewhere. When you come across a beautiful spot with a lot of building area, start designing your town. When ready, move your villagers there and destroy your old buildings for resources.👌
My survival game instincts kicked in with this game. I thought I had to do everything fast. Once I learned that, the game was much more enjoyable for me.
Yeah hunting 1 or 2 deer a season will keep you and villagers good and you can keep warm with a torch. You're not in danger of dieing unless you come across a wolf (I've done this several times LOL)
Can I just build a cabin and live in the woods for awhile by myself and just hunt and fish and stuff or does the game make me build a village and get villagers?
You can do whatever you like! If I was playing through again, I think I would roleplay kinda like your saying. You would probably need to build an additional building or two for the crafting stations, and taxes would be hard to pay, but it would be fun!
I have two days in I restarted the second time I played it I wasn't thinking about restarting ever again it's a grind, just remember to save u never when u going to die and restarting from last saving point is a vibe killer if u grind food , equipment
While I still save often, one OP change that I made is infinite hit points. While I realize this isn't for everyone, it has made the game considerably more enjoyable for me. Now I don't have to worry about hearing a wolf growl at me in the woods. Also, I am still using stone arrows with a recurve bow and it takes 5 to 6 hits to take down a bison. I have considered the OP changes but feel that the reality of the other settings makes the game enjoyable (if everything was set to OP, it wouldn't be very enjoyable). Anyway, the infinite hit points have been a significant improvement for me.
Goodmorning Wish you very happy New Year. I had some questions about the game (depends where I should build my buildings ) Does the Wood collecter be close to a wood ? For more wood ? Does it really take threes away ? Is the distance between work station and there home important Is the distance between work station and storage important ?
My question is when I have the material in the resource storage, can I use them to build in the village directly without carrying the material in my inventory? Nice Video btw keep it up 3>
Nope! The best way to move resources around is with your horse. You can also get about 50 extra kilos of bag space from buying or crafting book bags and pouches. Carry weight will always be a problem for you, once you get to the later game you will probably be able to move around 220 kilos at a time, enough for almost any build.
Set seasons to 30days. (After two -or three?- in-game days when you go to sleep you get the option to skip to the next season if you want to) With 3 days I constantly felt like I had to rush things and made the game more of a chore than fun. With 30days it's tons more relaxed. Since you can skip seasons as you like I really see no reason not to set it to 30 days.
I have the seasons set to 5 days and this has been perfect for me. Three days felt rushed to me. Having the extra couple of days each season makes it considerably easier to afford paying the taxes. It also enables the farmers to do the farm work required each season with fewer farmers. On the other hand, I do see the need for years to go by (I am currently in year 8 in the game) so longer seasons would make this difficult.
@@michaeljet007 yeah I'm doing 5 days. I started with 4 but in the first summer I switched to 5. 30 is way too much I don't want my game to drag on and it would be way too hard to feed a decent sized village
I just started playing last week. This was extremely helpful. Thank you! Especially tips 1 and 5. Question: Would you say the economy is broken? I’ve seen a lot about making tons of money and that the economy is out of balance. I’m sure there are exploits but I’m hoping there is a risk/reward that doesn’t make the economy tedious and boring in the late game.
I have played around 40 hours and so far it's not that easy to make money, and I still have to sell food and raw material to buy things I want. But I can imagine when you (your villagers) start making things more valuable it can accumulate quite a lot. Sometimes I produce a lot of one item that I sell in big quantities and it is a bit broken that there is no devaluation for scarcity. At the same time if there was devaluation I wouldn't be able to get any money almost (depending).
I also just started about a week ago and I wouldn't say the economy is broken. Sure, you can make a lot of money later in the game when you've set up the means to produce valuable resources (example: plant flax, turn flax stalks into thread and thread into cloth, then sell the cloth), but you usually need to make expensive investments to make it all work on the way there. Also keep in mind, you have to buy technology stuff for coin and once you start getting into animal husbandry (I'm not there yet, but have looked into it), buying the animals to get started is expensive.
Someplace that has a large flat area. Kinda depends on what you're going for though. If it's for decoration someplace cool. If it's for productivity next to a town.
I sold like all my ores and other things just to afford a horse. Wanted to reload a previous save and turn them into bars and or gear to make more money. But watching this video I'm not going to restart as one might say
No need! They come with there own clothes, however, they will require extra firewood in the winter time so be prepared for that! You can lessen the amount of required firewood by insulating there home, this will also make them happier.
Hi. Do you think this lake is a good place to start a village? I’m thinking to move all my village to there because is so pretty! And do you have tips for village design?
No you have to tear them down and rebuild, but there is a skill that allows you to get 50% of the material back once you get it. The OPs point is hang in there and eventually you will be able to fix any early game issues much easier than they may seem at the time early on.
Turning Medieval Dynasty into a life sim, and I like it. Probably out here trying to eat different food for each meal so Racimir doesnt become unhappy lol
Hey, cool video. How exactly did you decorate your village like this? I know I can throw objects out of the backpack onto the ground, but how do I move them and arrange them? E.g. the skulls
Great game let down by not being able to expand fully. I see the game as being almost a generation builder. Except the building limit is 65. About 35 of those buildings can be houses you can get 4 people per house and then that's it. My city can't get any bigger will properly have to evict a family when my son wants to move out into his own home. So yeah great game until you hit a point you simply can't progress my city is fully self sufficient I literally log on just to walk around in awe of what I've created. Just hope they update the game and make it bigger. Selling your stuff to nearby towns should help that village get bigger there's none of this in game. Something for game developers to think about.
Mmmmm. I would say think bigger, after being out for two years a lot of RUclipsrs have tried to make this game their own. If you want to stand out, you have to do something special!
I would say crossbows were added 6 months to a year ago, they came before the bandit update which was about 6 months ago! Better get back into the game!
I just started playing last week and I set my seasons to 20 days. My plan is to be a hermit for all of the first year and build a town around a lake with 30 buildings and then once I’ve saved up enough money selling wooden vials I will get people to fill it
Just do your research into both games! Medieval Dynasty will have a lair of management that you may not be expecting. I love the game personally, just got my friend on Xbox to pick it up and he loves it too. It's not perfect by any means but it's one of the few games I would recommend.
Honestly though the way i placed the hunting lodge near my farm i know I'm gonna have to destroy it and not a single content creator said you should have fences for farm animals 😅, now i gotta delete these 1 by 1, oh well more work, could really use help from another real player would be nice
I recently bought a horse and am currently regretting it. The primary reason I wanted to buy a horse was to be able to load up a lot of meat while hunting. I put a saddlebag on the horse and opened it and it said 20.0 kg capacity. I currently have 71 kg capacity on Racimir. I currently have 30 people in my village and enough income to use the fast travel and that is considerably more convenient than getting from place to place on the horse. Unfortunately, as far as I know, the only way to get around in early game is to run.
some of the plants you can collect from the ground have healing properties if you eat them. check the plant in the inventory menu for details. also you can find healing potions occasionally and eventually make them yourself in the herbalist hut.
Nice video! I have a rather off topic question that I can't seem to find the answer to. I started playing just a few days ago, so maybe I need to unlock something. I want to build a campfire with benches, but underneath I'd like it to be gravel, not grass. Is this doable? I believe you have gravel with things build on it too right? Hope to get an answer, as I really can't find it anywhere haha
Braydicus is correct! You can only have one child though, it adds a little bit to the role play dynamic. Just remember to talk to your wife often or she may leave you!
1 tip: Set technology points gathering to 700%. Reaching 10000 points of production is impossible in solo play. Want to play this game forever because you don't know what to do in your life? Me, not.
I am a chronic game restarter. I just started playing yesterday. All I did was build a small house. I already feel like restarting 🤣
Oh noo... Just yank that thing down and move it to where you want it. Pilgrims used to do it all the time.
I'm not alone!
@@simply_syrup1457 There is a skill you can get that lets you keep half of the resources when demolishing. That makes it less painful. I wish you could simply upgrade the buildings, but things like Workshop 2 have to be built separately.
I am also a chronic restarter. I can’t name a game I didn’t restart or make a loads of alt accounts.
Edit: at least I made 5 buildings and had 2 villagers before I restarted.
My tip for all restarters:
Start a new game, turn on infinite stamina and weight and set seasons to 30 days. Now you take some time and just go farming materials for 3-4 hours. After farming you save it.
Now you have a save game which you can use everytime you want to start a new game and you won't need to farm again.
One thing I forget when starting to build is to *not* be too efficient with space.
When buildings are squared off and placed as close together as possible, it can quickly turn into an urban maze. The buildings start to block out the light and it becomes pretty grim to play in.
Allowing space between the road and the building and between the buildings themselves lets you have space for building yards to fill with the decor built into the game.
I appreciate your tips. Some do not apply to my style but others do! I tend to put 1200-2000 hours into games I love, so I set my seasons to 30 days! Haha yes I know it’s crazy, but I’m retired and have plenty of time for long gaming sessions. Also, you can always choose to sleep and skip seasons at any time when you are ready. I just started playing last week and have over 100 hours in! I have a wife, 12 villagers, and a big farm so far, with my first winter approaching very soon. I love this game. Thanks for the videos!
love this, kudos!
Now that's commitment. Would love an update
I’m the same way. I vow to not restart my next go at it. 30 day cycles until ready to get crops up
Indeed, why rush when you can just enjoy the beauty of nature and the unhurried expansion of your possessions. Thank you for your advice!
Well said! I've seen your comments on some of my other videos. You are a very kind soul, and it's super encouraging to hear from you. All your comments are very well thought out!
@@simply_syrup1457 Thank you for your kind words! I've watched a lot of videos and rarely anyone puts their soul into their settlement. You are one of the few, so I really like your videos.
Sometimes when the wind is blowing, and the music is playing softly in the background, I get chills from just standing and enjoying this beautiful world of Medieval Dynasty.
Wow finally. A "things i wish i knew" video with actual amazing tips and not a rehash of the first 5 things the tutorial tells you. Thanks for these tips. Too many games expect the fast paced style you discourage in this video. It's kinda ingrained in me to push quests hard and powergame. I had already restarted with the intention to slow down and was about to restart again. You saved me, I won't restart again. I promise.
when you start, travel the map and find that one place, reall dig into the fact that you can remove trees and that slopes can be okay within reason, second, when you make a house alter the type of mats you use, stone all the way, that way you can upgrade with limestone, and third, your first villager should be female and a wood chopper, marry her early, she will give you quests to bring in 6 skill people, really op. But of course take your time! Enjoy it, and like he said, don't restart, you'll eventually make so much materials that you can just choose to move anyways... awesome vid!
Bought the game because I wanted a game that was chill and relaxing after a 12hr shift and Medieval Dynasty is just for that. Your tips really help. You earned a new sub! 🔥👍
There is one thing you cannot make undone. That is clearing forests. If you remove the tree stump, the tree will never grow back, but if you leave the stump, the tree will grow back in a few years.
So only remove the stumps if you are 100 % sure you really want to use the land for permanent buildings or farmland. Clearing forests will otherwise leave ugly irreversable wounds in the environment, that frankly just encourages you to restart everything.
Yep. That is why I am getting ready for my (hopefully) final restart. Didnt pay attention to that little detail and now have skinned the land in a very ugly way. Round 3 will be better!! lol
Please keep these coming! I’m new to the game bc of Gamepass. Your videos have been so helpful
Will do! Very encouraging to hear! Working on the next video rn, should be a good one. Thanks so much for the support.
Good tips. I have over 2000 hours in MD since I started playing back when it was first released in beta. I played the original map all the through to have my heir's son take over the village. The issue that always makes me restart a game is terrain. Since I've played a game where I reached the max number of buildings you can build (200%), the most critical advice I can give is you must find an area on the map with a huge amount of flat or relatively flat land. Building on hills is a major pain, especially if you want to surround your town with walls. You will constantly get messages that the ground is too uneven to place even simple items like benches, wash tubs, or flower pots. Fields work okay, but other buildings can't be built on very hilly terrain. I had village I built in Oxbow with over 100 settlers, but I had to restart because I simply ran out of buildable space after 80 buildings. I've always played the game with future game enhancements in mind, thus I figured the devs would eventually add some kind of attacks on the village, so walls were a must.
What's funny is it never occurred to me to use the fences as aesthetic barricades around the houses you house your citizens in... I settled at the lake to the far southeast of the map and I really like the location. Now I'm going to use some of the space around me to give my villagers a little bit of a yard for their houses lol.
what I learned this morning, after the 1st year do not travel between settlements without a quiver of arrows.
Funny, I've just started a new game on the New Map and that's what I've realized: take your time and let time pass!
I would also add: build your 1st settlement as a small test +. That way, if you're unsatisfied after several hours and building, you can always start a new one elsewhere on the map with better plans in head.
Ive been playing the game on n off past few montha....i hav regularly had 2 restart cos my fibro brain forgets a lot of info n v.i.p stuff...but 2 days ago my fella started to play on Xbox...and I wound up helping him out..telling him where to start what to focus on....he is a C.O.D guy thru n thru so it felt good to be the ONE telling him how to play an Xbox game...my main advice is slow and steady...its not a race...gunna make a playlist of ur videos to help him out. Thank you 😊
Ive restarted my game in Ark probably over 100 times, i love the beginning of games more than late game play, nowt wrong with restarting your games
Haha awesome video. As always!! Tip 5 was awesome. I learned there WAS fast travel !
Slow down - my first and all time favourite tipp I always give new players. Usually they don't listen to me. xD
Nice video, well done. 👍
My problem when I first started was building too fast and building cheap houses that deteriorate quickly.
Also having to use the management screen more often than not. Dealing with all that had me creating a new game and doing things very differently and slowly just like his video says. Unfortunately saw this video today and would have been a huge help if I saw it when I was first starting my build.
These videos have helped me tremendously…
All that said, went back to my first build and putting it in order the way it should be.
I found this video looking up “where to find thistle” and there’s no video on it, where do you get it at? Lol
I love the management screen
Well that is some impresive and well decorated settlement
Thank you! Only about halfway done in my opinion. Hoping to have everything mostly finished by year 50 so I can do a village tour on the channel! Thanks for the compliment!
@@simply_syrup1457 Damn I only have a few benches and tables because the wife handed me a decorating quest, but now that I've seen what you did I got a few ideas and will dedicate some time in to decorate.
My plan is to keep going how I am till the 3rd year at least, I'm currently set at 6 day seasons. Then I'll change it to 30 and find a perfect spot and construct a whole new, more organised village and once I'm satisfied I'll transfer everyone and destroy the old one.
Yeah I expanded way way too fast. I started building everything I was unlocking not knowing I wasn’t even able to cover the property taxes just yet. I’ve taken the time this weekend to slow down and focus what building I have now. Like I just built the pig pen the other day and I spent like 5k in buying a male and female piglet along with adult male pig to create manuer. I’m slowly depleting my task list. No lie I had like 25 things missing from a bunch of places they either needed tools that broke or supplies. But just like you said I’m just taking it one at a time making sure it’s flowing before I even think about adding a smitty 😅
I turned off taxes, screw paying taxes in a video game
My tip for beginners:
Start a new game, turn on infinite stamina and weight and set seasons to 30 days. Now you take some time and just go farming materials for 3-4 hours. After farming you save it.
Now you have a save game which you can use everytime you want to start a new game and you won't need to farm again.
Best tip ever tbh
It's funny, here i was worrying I was playing to SLOWLY because I always take my sweet time and smell the roses in any game ... turns out i was accidentally employing a meta strategy!!
I actually like to manage my toen. I dont have many people in it yet tho. But I just love it as it is one of the only games where you can actually build recruit and manage. The game Going Medieval is a bit like it too but all topview instead of 1st/3th person
Same here lol, I bought the game because I heard it was like banished in first person, so the management is a welcome aspect for me
Oi new comers, if you think of deleting your world due to not happy with your village, quickly activate unlimited carry weight, destroy all your stuff, and move, you don't have to activate infinite carry weight but its less of a headache ❤️❤️
Edit: also no generators not even greenhouses cause they're easy money
Good idea!!!
Heck you don't even need to do that. I started just west of the starting village as most people do, I was planning on moving after I get to 10 villagers, this was more of a thrown together camp. I moved to that nice lake down in the south west with the awesome view. Well I should say I'm in the process of moving. I was planning on moving all along once I decided where to settle after getting the early stuff done and paying my first taxes (didn't want to get stuck mid move where I have 2 of everything or something crazy) anyway you just need to throw everything into a storage building and then first thing you build in your new place is a storage building as you can access everything cross map.
Great tips! I’ll be binge watching all the guides haha
My issue is I try to go and do stuff as quick as possible, and then I get overwhelmed majorly with trying to farm and get settlers and such
You and me both, there is no time limit in the game, just have to relax and enjoy the ride!
Set seasons to 30days. (After two -or three?- in-game days when you go to sleep you get the option to skip to the next season if you want to)
With 3 days I constantly felt like I had to rush things and made the game more of a chore than fun. With 30days it's tons more relaxed.
Oh I expanded way too fast. I even moved the slider so I could have more buildings. My first play thru in games like these, I use them to inform my decisions.
I have 5 Stalls constantly selling food and tools because I build too many and the main storage area is too small, so everything builds up. I know I could back down their production but there production is their leveling. They can't be good at something if they aren't doing it a lot.
So things like having pigs produce more manure than my farmers can make into fertilizer now. Which means I normally have to visit the storage building yank a bunch out and process it myself and I tend to take it around with me to sell in town to recoup the coin I expend, but it makes the worker level like crazy. Same thing with the stalls selling product, they level insanely fast as long as they are selling lots of stuff. In a couple days I went to my storage area and noticed there was already 10,000 coin waiting for me and I'm in season 5 I think because there are kids now 4 years old and I have like a week into this game because I'm retired.
My questions.....
Can you add another main storage area or are you relegated to one?
I haven't tried it because I didn't want to break anything and I haven't looked but I'm seriously having difficulty with that storage space filling up with things tools, weapons, logs, clay, etc. I am constantly pulling out stacks of stuff and placing it on the floor inside the building itself.
What happens if the Main Storage building is full? What happens, I've come close but I keep going in a removing items. Do the workers stop producing because the storage is full?
The one thing I think I would do differently if I did start over. I would put off the village from having kids too early on. Use the first 3 seasons or so to take care of exploring and beefing up your hunting skills, because I got so involved in building that I'm a 10 in everything except hunting. I think I'm at 8 right now.
Instead I think I would be more personable by watching them grow. Right now because I expanded so fast, I really couldn't tell you half their names. I've got something like 20 kids between 0 and 4.
They need to add a house type called duplex so two men or women can share what is considered one house. That way you can decide who is getting married and such without losing space because of building limits.
I've been playing with 10 day seasons (based on another RUclipsrs recommendation) and it has been great! 3 days per season was just too fast paced for my attention span and my desire to build and plan. Lol
Hy man I started Medieval Dynasty today on the PS 5 cuase of your Review vid. Must be honest binning is a bit confusing but going to push through. Thanks man.
Hey i just started playing 2 days ago and ive got about 8 hours game-time. However ive started building my village in an awful location and theres no where near enough space, its on the mountain just behind gostovia and its got no space and very uneven land so the buildings arent easy to place. Do u recommend i start a new game (ik u said not to but…) or should i destroy everything and move to a better location . Btw i have a wife around 15 buildings and 5 workers.
Just start building in your new location, and slowly move things over time. Remember storage is shared, so you could have two separate villages if you wanted to. Keep playing, I wouldn't recommend restarting!
@@simply_syrup1457 wdum storage is shared?
@@mjxvibez7097 your storage (warehouses) they all share inventory space, so if you built a 2nd one you will have all the items in that location aswel.
@@wiingspan ohhhhh thx man
@@simply_syrup1457 hey thx for the tips ur channel is great 👍
After 2 weeks i already started over lol. Wish i saw this earlier ..jeesh My village was just too ugly. Guess i'll have to go back to it and see what i can do
I wish management was different. My villagers are just so stupid. "Oh all my hunters need knives because the smithy can only make one a day." So i spend my time making knives. I just built a second one. But that took a while because I needed to build the houses, the second smithy (smithy 2), then realized that I was out of rocks and supplies so another woodshed (level 2) and excavation hurt, and more houses for the villagers. All of this because the hunters cant make a simple tool. My town basically had to have a whole new district (four houses, and 4 more jobs) just because i was tired of making four knives a day.
I wish on the screen there was a spot that showed how much / day do you need vs much your villagers are making. It would take figuring out a lot less time and less of a trial and error.
With all my villagers, if im not around during a day because of a quest then my entire system bottlenecks at some point. Normally its the smithy because he needs some resources, but I honestly cant figure out whats going wrong. Theres never enough.
Good advises. I have a well operating town, but i'm not satisfied with my town planning. I settled too soon and too close another village. I wish i'd build over a river or near a lake, and most importanly, on flat ground :D My town looks is so inclined that many parts are not buildable :D I'm considering moving elsewere and making a whole migration, house by house since i've no money problem and a lot of ressources to do so. And leaving an abandonned town with no buildings but all the infrastructure in the oldtown :D
Thank you for saying to NOT start over lmao. I was thinking about restarting but when you said not to, It reminded me that I tried starting over on my Animal Crossing game and it ruined it for me, I cant even play it anymore. Plus its already my 2nd playthrough because of that one update that was kinda game breaking unless you restarted.
Great video🙌🏻 definitely will help alot of new players out like myself !
Thank you very much for the helpful videos. Please may i make a request. Video on how to manage a settlement, so many buildings and chests, what goes in what chest, my villagers do not like me atm lol. Need help thanks.
Thanks for the idea! Once you build your resource storage things will become much easier. All of your resources will automatically go there and villagers will also know to take tools and supplies from your storage once they need them!
Good advice. Thank you.
I did buy the game today on sale in the Ps store. It looks really great.
I just started playing Medieval Dynasty a few days ago. Your five tips for a better experience are so helpful! I was hurrying through everything, trying to do all the quests and build the next thing. It started to feel like work. Your suggestion to only use the management screen at the start of each season is particularly useful. I confess that I started my game over after the first year, because I had no clue what I was doing at the start and my village was ugly. Maybe you could do a video on how to build an aesthetically pleasing village from the start, so new players don't make that mistake. 😂😆
My recommendation for making a aesthetically pleasing village is to place down roads and use them as guides before placing buildings. Plus use the compass when placing buildings using the N-S-E-W to square your buildings up and keep them in line. Farm plots can only be placed in this manner.
@Creative Game Mechanics Good tips! The wonky building and field issue is annoying, but that's a good workaround.
Just start your small village somewhere. When you come across a beautiful spot with a lot of building area, start designing your town. When ready, move your villagers there and destroy your old buildings for resources.👌
@creativegamemechanics , but sometimes it looks better to have some curves instead of everything straight and blocky.
My survival game instincts kicked in with this game. I thought I had to do everything fast.
Once I learned that, the game was much more enjoyable for me.
Yeah hunting 1 or 2 deer a season will keep you and villagers good and you can keep warm with a torch. You're not in danger of dieing unless you come across a wolf (I've done this several times LOL)
Can I just build a cabin and live in the woods for awhile by myself and just hunt and fish and stuff or does the game make me build a village and get villagers?
You can do whatever you like! If I was playing through again, I think I would roleplay kinda like your saying. You would probably need to build an additional building or two for the crafting stations, and taxes would be hard to pay, but it would be fun!
Turn off taxes and live free
Thanks for the tips new player here playing on Xbox.
Any time! Really hope you enjoy the game, don't forget the tips in this video!
I have two days in I restarted the second time I played it I wasn't thinking about restarting ever again it's a grind, just remember to save u never when u going to die and restarting from last saving point is a vibe killer if u grind food , equipment
Saving often is a good tip! You never know when you might run into some bandits. Sounds like you're having fun and that warms my heart.
While I still save often, one OP change that I made is infinite hit points. While I realize this isn't for everyone, it has made the game considerably more enjoyable for me. Now I don't have to worry about hearing a wolf growl at me in the woods. Also, I am still using stone arrows with a recurve bow and it takes 5 to 6 hits to take down a bison. I have considered the OP changes but feel that the reality of the other settings makes the game enjoyable (if everything was set to OP, it wouldn't be very enjoyable). Anyway, the infinite hit points have been a significant improvement for me.
Sick video man! Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Will do!
Goodmorning
Wish you very happy New Year.
I had some questions about the game (depends where I should build my buildings )
Does the
Wood collecter be close to a wood ? For more wood ? Does it really take threes away ?
Is the distance between work station and there home important
Is the distance between work station and storage important ?
How much of the early game do i spend doing the story mission and villager missions as they are really not fun and boring
My question is when I have the material in the resource storage, can I use them to build in the village directly without carrying the material in my inventory?
Nice Video btw keep it up 3>
Nope! The best way to move resources around is with your horse. You can also get about 50 extra kilos of bag space from buying or crafting book bags and pouches. Carry weight will always be a problem for you, once you get to the later game you will probably be able to move around 220 kilos at a time, enough for almost any build.
Bout to start playing this. Hope it's good
Set seasons to 30days. (After two -or three?- in-game days when you go to sleep you get the option to skip to the next season if you want to)
With 3 days I constantly felt like I had to rush things and made the game more of a chore than fun. With 30days it's tons more relaxed.
Since you can skip seasons as you like I really see no reason not to set it to 30 days.
Whatever is best for you! As long as you are enjoying the game then you are winning. So nice to hear that you are enjoying the game this morning!
i had the same feeling at 30 i was more relax than at 3.... relax game was more enjoyable ...many different ways to relax
I have the seasons set to 5 days and this has been perfect for me. Three days felt rushed to me. Having the extra couple of days each season makes it considerably easier to afford paying the taxes. It also enables the farmers to do the farm work required each season with fewer farmers. On the other hand, I do see the need for years to go by (I am currently in year 8 in the game) so longer seasons would make this difficult.
30 days no taxes for me
@@michaeljet007 yeah I'm doing 5 days. I started with 4 but in the first summer I switched to 5. 30 is way too much I don't want my game to drag on and it would be way too hard to feed a decent sized village
I just started playing last week. This was extremely helpful. Thank you! Especially tips 1 and 5. Question: Would you say the economy is broken? I’ve seen a lot about making tons of money and that the economy is out of balance. I’m sure there are exploits but I’m hoping there is a risk/reward that doesn’t make the economy tedious and boring in the late game.
I have played around 40 hours and so far it's not that easy to make money, and I still have to sell food and raw material to buy things I want. But I can imagine when you (your villagers) start making things more valuable it can accumulate quite a lot. Sometimes I produce a lot of one item that I sell in big quantities and it is a bit broken that there is no devaluation for scarcity. At the same time if there was devaluation I wouldn't be able to get any money almost (depending).
I also just started about a week ago and I wouldn't say the economy is broken. Sure, you can make a lot of money later in the game when you've set up the means to produce valuable resources (example: plant flax, turn flax stalks into thread and thread into cloth, then sell the cloth), but you usually need to make expensive investments to make it all work on the way there. Also keep in mind, you have to buy technology stuff for coin and once you start getting into animal husbandry (I'm not there yet, but have looked into it), buying the animals to get started is expensive.
Run from Mine to Mine and stock up on Metal ore, salt, and rock. Making metal arrows or specific items are huge profits.
Where would you recommend to be some of the best places to build your village?
Someplace that has a large flat area. Kinda depends on what you're going for though. If it's for decoration someplace cool. If it's for productivity next to a town.
I sold like all my ores and other things just to afford a horse. Wanted to reload a previous save and turn them into bars and or gear to make more money. But watching this video I'm not going to restart as one might say
Stone knives and bags are good things to sell
i needed to watch this before i played. i set the seasons too long and completed the story really fast and had more than 10 couples housed in year 1.
Hi do you need to make winter clothing for your villagers. Thanks
No need! They come with there own clothes, however, they will require extra firewood in the winter time so be prepared for that! You can lessen the amount of required firewood by insulating there home, this will also make them happier.
Hi. Do you think this lake is a good place to start a village? I’m thinking to move all my village to there because is so pretty! And do you have tips for village design?
😊hi thanks for teaching me how to play
I set my taxes to max early on to get the achievement for 5000 coin debt. I owe 15000 in debt and have 92 coins. Restarting my game now.
Can you change the buildings locations after you build them or are they set in stone ?
No you have to tear them down and rebuild, but there is a skill that allows you to get 50% of the material back once you get it. The OPs point is hang in there and eventually you will be able to fix any early game issues much easier than they may seem at the time early on.
How did you make that archery range at 6:15 ?
Ima be fr i sleep everynight in game cuz i thought you were supposed to lol seemed like if he needs to eat and drink hed need to sleep too
Turning Medieval Dynasty into a life sim, and I like it. Probably out here trying to eat different food for each meal so Racimir doesnt become unhappy lol
@@simply_syrup1457 haha thats a good idea. Anything to get that feeling of sims 2 on xbox proper 3rd person life sim
Great game I really wish you could adjust the timescale tho
I just started it and I have no where to place my house 😅
You can clear the whole forest if you put your mind to it! There is always some extra space some where!
Hey, cool video. How exactly did you decorate your village like this? I know I can throw objects out of the backpack onto the ground, but how do I move them and arrange them? E.g. the skulls
When you throw things on the ground you can hold E to grab things instead of clicking E to pick things up.
Thanks
How to your villages get anything done being so spreed out haha
how to light up items on floor?
Thanks!
You bet! Will have more content out soon! Thanks for the encouraging comment.
Thanks for the video
You bet! Will be coming out with more soon!
Thank you so much!!
You're welcome!
Great game let down by not being able to expand fully. I see the game as being almost a generation builder. Except the building limit is 65. About 35 of those buildings can be houses you can get 4 people per house and then that's it. My city can't get any bigger will properly have to evict a family when my son wants to move out into his own home. So yeah great game until you hit a point you simply can't progress my city is fully self sufficient I literally log on just to walk around in awe of what I've created. Just hope they update the game and make it bigger. Selling your stuff to nearby towns should help that village get bigger there's none of this in game. Something for game developers to think about.
I am about to start a series on RUclips on this game any tips?
Mmmmm. I would say think bigger, after being out for two years a lot of RUclipsrs have tried to make this game their own. If you want to stand out, you have to do something special!
@@simply_syrup1457 VERY TRUE I love your video so much
When did they ass crossbows , i played since early acess did they add it in that bandit update has that happened yet in out of loop
I would say crossbows were added 6 months to a year ago, they came before the bandit update which was about 6 months ago! Better get back into the game!
How do you get new clothes?
I just started playing last week and I set my seasons to 20 days. My plan is to be a hermit for all of the first year and build a town around a lake with 30 buildings and then once I’ve saved up enough money selling wooden vials I will get people to fill it
I think farming will be a lot different with so long seasons. Much more fields for each worker since they have so many days!
Thank you!!!!!
i just subscribed in ur channel bcause u are strange, strange calm voice
Why does this say unavailable on gamepass???
Using this video to determine if I get it on my pc or not!
It has my recommendation! Very great game, should be on the Xbox game pass if you subscribe to that!
its free on Gamepass PC and Xbox Gamepass.
Just started on game pass lol woooooo
Is the game worth it for the price? Because for the price i could get asterigos for ps5 which is a AA game
Just do your research into both games! Medieval Dynasty will have a lair of management that you may not be expecting. I love the game personally, just got my friend on Xbox to pick it up and he loves it too. It's not perfect by any means but it's one of the few games I would recommend.
Oops I restarted before I even watched
Lol! Learn from your mistakes and keep on trucking. Hope you are enjoying the game!
@@simply_syrup1457 lol great game just horrible at it
Is 3rd person default?
Honestly though the way i placed the hunting lodge near my farm i know I'm gonna have to destroy it and not a single content creator said you should have fences for farm animals 😅, now i gotta delete these 1 by 1, oh well more work, could really use help from another real player would be nice
Great video!!!
Thank you!! Will be coming out with more very soon! So encouraging to hear this morning thank you!
Are there horses? What’s the best way to travel
I recently bought a horse and am currently regretting it. The primary reason I wanted to buy a horse was to be able to load up a lot of meat while hunting. I put a saddlebag on the horse and opened it and it said 20.0 kg capacity. I currently have 71 kg capacity on Racimir. I currently have 30 people in my village and enough income to use the fast travel and that is considerably more convenient than getting from place to place on the horse. Unfortunately, as far as I know, the only way to get around in early game is to run.
I already retarted 😂 when I fist started playing I didn't like where I built my village and everything was just a hot mess
I’m having issues with my farm shed. I want them to Plant Rye. Where do I store it for them? Food storage, farm shed chest or resource?
How do I heal? I bought the game on console after watching your video! A tree fell on me when I was cutting it down now my health is super low.
some of the plants you can collect from the ground have healing properties if you eat them. check the plant in the inventory menu for details. also you can find healing potions occasionally and eventually make them yourself in the herbalist hut.
thankyouu
Can you help me I can’t use the workbench
hmmmm... you can't use crafting stations that you don't own. Is this your problem?
How do you make money at the beginning
Will have that specific video out today or tomorrow!
Nice video! I have a rather off topic question that I can't seem to find the answer to. I started playing just a few days ago, so maybe I need to unlock something. I want to build a campfire with benches, but underneath I'd like it to be gravel, not grass. Is this doable? I believe you have gravel with things build on it too right? Hope to get an answer, as I really can't find it anywhere haha
Those are actually roads placed under the decorations! Pro-tip place down the decorations first and then the roads after.
@@simply_syrup1457 thank you!
Can you go fishing in the game?
You can go spearfishing! It's pretty simple but rewarding!
Can you start a family on here ?
You can get a wife to have an heir
Braydicus is correct! You can only have one child though, it adds a little bit to the role play dynamic. Just remember to talk to your wife often or she may leave you!
The saddest things about the game.
No option to play as female
No vocal story telling.
1 tip: Set technology points gathering to 700%.
Reaching 10000 points of production is impossible in solo play.
Want to play this game forever because you don't know what to do in your life?
Me, not.