Crusader Kings 3 - Guide - Unique Buildings Guide 

Another rare hour of entertainment on youtube that educated me without my realizing it. Thanks for all of your hard work on this. Your supplements to my Ck3 experience make me feel like I am 13 years old and playing Civ I for the first time.

the buildings are so cool, always that little thing that keeps me interested in any game of ck3. especially love the hagia sophia and the mechanics of it being a different bonus depending on your religion

This is definitely super useful as it was quite tedious to go to the wiki and scroll until I found the right county. A lot easier to remember where what is in a visual format👍🏻

It would have been so cool to see real images of these unique buildings while you're talking abou it! Just an idea

Great video! Unique buildings are pretty much the main source of local flavor in the game, and it's a shame many newer players don't even notice they're there.

Man, I am enjoying your videos so much! Please keep it up

Listening while doing some school work. Thanks for this great video man! Keep up the good work!

I think you missed two unique mines maybe three. One in Thuringia. In Gottingen I think. Held by a countess. One in a city holding in Greece. South of Selanik/Salonica. Third one I barely remember is somewhere around Alps. Not sure where exactly.

Hey i requested this vid! Thanks dawg!

Thanks for the time you put in for this knowledge!

Epic, I love your guides!

this was useful and gave some ideas for new campaigns

No love for Fes! University of Al Quaraouiyine built in 859 is not pre-built not even in 1066 start date. It take all the way up to 1250 to be able to meet all the requirements to built it, thats 400 years later LOL. Anyway, thanks for the awesome video!

super glad i found the channel, good info. and as an american its nice to finally have someone with good content that doesnt either have an english accent or a lisp, youre truly a godsend. laughed when you said notre dame the french and then american way lol.

The gold mines of Mali are great, sad they weren't mentioned. You can build three of them, providing you with 15 gold a month, increasing the taxes of these holdings by 15 percent and you can upgrade them later on.

Once I have an empire I always go for House of Wisdom (Baghdad), Stonehenge (Salisbury), Constantinople, Universities (Tirakka, Cairo, Nalanda) Rome and Aachen.

Great channel, I like your voice and your education in videos, keep the great work and I hope you get more views.

The "Kölner Dom" was pretty on point, ngl!

I was the thousandth like! I think you are a great youtuber! You occupy a lane that a lot of other CK3 RU-vidrs do, but you have your own style that's distinct - and for me warming/personal. For the Al Gore rythm

Just woke up! I saw the notification, and I had to watch it :)

1. Great Vid! Thank you! 2. I’m amazed at how little you butchered the words, honestly most Americans would’ve made a shamble out of some of these names but you said them exactly how I would have so far. Worth the comment and the like

Adrian von Ziegler’s music fits perfectly here.

Thx bro

Thank you for making this video. I've spent 1,500 hours in game and I only knew about 10% of these unique buildings. A question though -- for "Holder of this holding", do you still get the bonus if it's held by one of your vassals? Or do you only get the bonus if you hold it directly?

Great video, im honestly very impressed. Good work.

Is there a unique building in Alexandria i can see a unique slot in the castle? What inovation do i need to get

For the algorithm. (Great vid, dude.)

Bless you

Is The House of Wisdom the "Grand Mosque" of the Holy Site of Baghdad or can a Grand Mosque be built in that barony?

Hello, I watched the whole video and still need ur help or at least some of ur Ck3 wisdom: so apparently a friend of mine and myself started in 1066 in the Byzantine Empire on the islands Rhodos and Lesbos to try something new after playing in Europe for a while. After a while I managed to conquer Athens, for the flex and to build the special building there, but it’s just said „! You do not have any available Buildings for this slot.“ :( without knowing what to do I started the research and already found out that i can build (I think it’s a church) when I have the Hellenic Religion BUT as a normal player in 1066, Byzantine empire I’m Greek Orthodox and it costs me 124k to change/switch my religion. I even researched on ways how to do that, and someone calculated a way in a reddit post but even with what he wrote it seems literally impossible to archive. So my final question is (I hope u can help me) can I change the special building to be build there in the slot OR can I just make my own Christ-Hellenic Religion (like just creating a new one or creating any religion) and make Athens to a holy place that I can build something there? Like is it possible to make his own religion and build special buildings at the holy places I choose when they already have a slot for special buildings? If not then Athens is absolutely useless cuz I can’t build anything on the special slot. I hope u can help me :)

How can I learn what Innovation is needed for a special building in Płock?

all hail the algorithm.

you deserve more, so i am commenting

Do the building mods disable the achievements when they are installed? Because it would be really great to have some of those buildings.

I can never figure out how to build the library of alexandria.. and have issues finding answers online for it

You forgot Notre Dame its a very cool one I must say. But anyway the video was great as always and I appreciate your hard work making these for us

Do you know what the special building slot in York/Eoforwic in England is for? I got very confused today when I saw it and can't find anything about it

Is there one in north riding?

good video :) i don´t like that you can´t see in the game what are the conditions to build the spezial building

What about the rest of the "minor" universities e.g. Bologne, Padua, Oxford? Are they the same as that in Siena?

30:38 Okay Jerry.

Rome has to be the best county/barony (still hate that some city republics are castles, like Genoa and Venice. Oddly not Pisa though. The CK2 barony of Westminster and city of London system was much better, so I hope they will undoubtedly fix it in future.) with both the Aurelian walls AND the amphitheatre. Can't get much better than that. If you form Italy and get strong enough to reclaim Latium and Rome from the papacy and their 20k mercenary stack, they will likely have upgraded all the holdings to level 3 and all of their building slots. My tax income doubled after taking rome from +21 to +45, WITH retinues at full strength, it's insane. After building some of my own bouldings, upgrading counties of myself and vassals, and optimised the land I had taken, I got it to fluctuate around +55 to +60. Most of my money and levies comes from the duchy of Latium alone, and the threshold for vassals to be considered "powerful" is very high. Only the Duke of Lombardy who has something like 6 counties to himself and the Duke of Tuscany with about 5 are powerful enough to demand council positions, but they wouldn't be a threat even if they rebelled. It also takes too long to build the white tower of London as in to get the perquisites to build it, as your culture will already be, or will already be turning to English if you invade as Normans. I think the Normans or William the conqueror specifically should get an event or decision when owning London to construct the tower, even without the required fascination.

A lot of these you stated are realmwide but aren't actually, some are only for the duchy it's located in like Constantinople and the Theodosian walls, or Stonehenge which is only for whoever holds the holding. Canterbury is also a church settlement so it means most benefits are only available to your realm priest.

Hey man great vid, i love your content! Could you please share a link to all the mods you use?

Thanks for the videos. I'm noting that in some cases in this video you are mentioning a "realm wide" bonus, when there isn't one. The Aurelean Walls, for example, give a bonus to levy size and taxes to all building in the duchy, but you call it a realm wide bonus. 30:47 I saw this mistake in other places as well. EDIT - another example is at 39:35. The description clearly indicates a "duchy wide" bonus, but you call it a "realm wide" bonus.

What about the catedral of Santiago???

The "Holder of this Holding" question. Does it apply to the person who owns the county, or to everyone who has lordship over it? For example, does the King of England get the bonus from the Canterbury Cathedral if it's held by the Earl of Kent (or the Duke of Kent)? Also, do you still get the bonus if you leased it to a holy order you are the patron of? You missed (in Holy Sites) one of the most famous of them all (especially if you play the Civ series) The Hagia Sophia. Ok, you got to it in the Historical section, but you didn't mention that (atleast for Christians) the religion needs to consider Byzantion a holy site. Chatholics, for example, receive NO benefit from it. Is the Hostile Raid Time for the Aurelian Walls even remotely useful whatsoever? Considering you have to be a tribal government to raid, and the closest ones I know of are in Russia, I don't see how that bonus could be even remotely helpful. Also on Rome, considering the Colosseum was completed in 80 AD (almost 800 years before the games earliest start date), given that it's always built should be a given. That also applies to the Pyramids of Giza. The Hostile Raid Time defense of the Doge's Palace is possibly, maybe, perhaps, theoretically slightly more useful than Rome's, but only because it's a little closer to rulers that can raid. In practical usefulness, that hostile raid time is equally useless. Has ANYONE had raiders hit either Rome or Venice? The Barony of Constantinople is one of the most important strategically places - in CK3. You didn't have to mention "In CK3, actually." It was (and maybe still is) one of the most strategically important places even today. It might have diminished slightly because of the end of the Cold War, but what makes Constantinople (and the Dardanelles in general) is that they keep the Russian Black See fleet trapped there (and the fact that ALL of Russia's warm water ports are in the Black Sea influenced history half a world away - The Russo-Japanese War was fought over the fact that the Russians were building up Port Arthur and that threatened the Japanese). Any mod that adds more buildings is (near) useless in my opinion. Why? Almost the exact same reason why any mod (or for that matter, BG:EE and BG2:EE ) that adds more characters is near useless. In the Infinity Engine (BG, PST, and IWD and sequels, if any) you have a hard coded max of 6 character slots. In PST it's not too bad, considering there are only 7 other character (and the last 2 are either redundant and/or not as entertaining -or both- and the other 5). Not sure about IWD, but there are 25 additional character in Baldur's Gate and 16 character in BG2. The Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition series adds about 5 more per game. Any additional characters are redundant. In CK3, you have a holding limit based on your Stewardship, Innovations, perks, dynasty perks, and how powerful you are (earl, duke, king or Emperor) but it caps at about 35 or so. You used to have the NK strategy, but Paradox got rid of that VERY quickly. With just the buildings in the base CK3, you can easily hit that cap with holy sites, universities, and about a quarter of the (non-religious) unique sites. Sure, I could play a different character, but that would just allow me to choose different sites (just like I could choose different characters in BG2). What's the point of adding to a game when one character can't experience what's there in the base game, let alone mods that increase that number?

Is there any way to see these in-game? I've not come across it myself.

regarding universities, i have had some issues sending kids there to improve their education. Could exactly explain how that works? great video btw

Do the sites have to be in your domain or just in your kingdom for the benefits?

I wish I could give you a second sub for the better pronunciation of Cologne at 20:20 thank you.

You could use these holy buildings to grow renown by giving them temporal religious heads of your dynasty. If everyone is Gnostic than your empire can get like 100% increased renown by putting family members on 20 holy sites of 4 nonoverlapping faiths.

Does anyone who what can be built in mogadishu?

I'm missing an building!! The one in Alexandria!

Don't tell anybody this RBG! :) I was older than 13 when I first played Civ 1. Personally, I thought Civ 1 was the best version. Good times.

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25:35 hah, hah..... unless your name is Genghis Khan and you feel like burning down a great repository of human knowledge...... T_T

46:44, sadly catholique can't have the bonus. Could be cool if it's unlock after cease the schism between orthodox and catholic.

do an abbasid caliphate guide please

Bologna has also a university like siena

Fun fact i took constantinopel in 8 months

I really want to play the Serene Dog

At 14:09 I wouldn't say you misspronounced Seville (or Sevilla), one is just the English name of the city. However, right after you misspronounced Cordoba xD Then again, the game doesn't spell it Córdoba, so you actually read it correctly the way it is written in game.

Does anybody know why i can't build a special building in TUNIS? I try playing as a muslim in 1066 and it is still grade out. Do i need a specific sect for a islam?

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Don’t they have new buildings now shouldn’t they be an update on this?

Does anybody know why i can't build a special building in TUNIS? I try playing as a muslim in 1066 and it is still grade out. Do i need a specific sect of islam?

¿¿Y Santiago de Compostela??

the buddha of bamiyan were blown up 20 years ago

you didn't mention the university of Napoli

Need time stamps for the time stamps

Can you start saying "link in the chanel" from now on, plz?

I'm sorry, but I didn't get the information I came for. This would've been the perfect video for it, but unfortunately you left out some important bits.