Manor Lords: Let's Build A Historically Accurate Village! 

Were you wondering what to watch until the Manor Lords Early Access period starts on the 26th? We will be building historically inspired villages in DAILY Manor Lords videos - Make sure to subscribe!

I think Lidl and a large coal power plant would fit in nicely

Trust OPB to get access to this and spend the video talking about historical German village planning. We'd have it no other way.

HELL YEAH BABY, LORD THOSE MANORS, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Historically, tanneries would be placed far away from settlements due to the intense odour they produced. For our dear Mr. Bavarians sake, I hope that's not something they've modelled in the game..

Historically tanners would be build down wind and near running water, since that job was a nasty business. Also, for historical villages you could look into the Angerdorf or Dutch brinkdorp where the communal green was also used to house the livestock. Maybe something for when you get sheepfarms? Lastly: consider how lazy people would cut through open terrain. If there are no obstacles (foliage, rivers, elevation) would you really walk in a round about manner? Think of some desire paths between places of work and housing. No one takes the perfect 90 degree angles at T intersections if a Y would shave of some meters/yards ;-)

I worked on an archaeological site near the town of Zeitz in southern Saxony-Anhalt. Large medieval monastery and for some weeks a guy worked next to us on a memorial stone about the killing of a Bishop by a "slav" and one of the last local pagans (most likely Sorb or Polabian). Funny thing is, local legend paints the Bishop as an asshat who had it coming.

OPB comes in with the PERFECT approach for this game. A well researched, carefully considered, authentic and original approach to village design. 👌🏻

OMG I love it! Historical knowledge and explanation combined with a nice game is my favorite type of video!

When I saw the round design it immediatly reminded me of Charlottenburg, the only round village in Romania. It was founded by German speaking immigrants from Swabia and South Tirol

Petition for a lets play series 👇

I LOVE THIS ANGLE. Historical authenticity to go with historical authenticity. It is so right! And I love me genuine German pronunciation for German names too :)

From one Bavarian to another: THe Baron that is the antagonist int he non-peaceful modes is named "Hildebolt von Berenreute" (currently has a type, missing the second "r") after a character in the song "Maienzeit ohne Neid" by Neidhart von Reuental. The song is also part of the soundtrack.

I love you OPB

I have been waiting soooo long for this game i am excited

I just imagine this lord just popping in and out of reality to explain something out loud to an invisible audience and these peasants are just scared out of their minds while they're working.

One the one hand, it's great to be able to see more of the game, on the other hand, the next 2-week wait will kill me. I need it now!

>historically accurate village >feudal lord personally oversees each and every household, micromanages production, and pools resources in his storehouse

*German:* Keeps mentioning "living space". *Eastern Europe:* 😳

I'm so excited for this game, been following it for years! Happy to see you're putting out a new long-form series too, can't wait to see what you get up to here!

6:50 yeah this literally the case with Czechs. As a pagan Slavs we were many times raided (for the good of Christian faith of course) by neighbouring Germans. When we decided to convert to christianity Holy Roman Emperor literally said "NO" (we all know why :D ). So our dukes look to Constantinople for help with this. And they truly did. They've sent scholars etc. and even though christianity came here from orthodox Constantinople, we still use latin script and we were catholics. Same went for Poles who accepted christianity even later than Czechs. They converted after their first king Mieszko I. married a daughter of Bohemian duke Boleslav I. who was already christian. With "ostsiedlungs" we have a rich history too. Mainly in border areas. In 12th century Bohemian kings and dukes literally invited German settlers to settle in the lands later know as "Sudetenland". Czechs and Germans lived there for almost 700 years together.. until one man with silly moustache came in to power and f*cked up everything. So we lived there together until 1945 when all Germans were literally displaced and their property confiscated. What is interesting though is that in many of villages and towns there you can still see the German influence.

I love the effort you put into researching how the villages in Europe (Germany I presume in this case 😊) were built, I hope I gonna hear more about it throughout the series!

This video came up in my recommended and the title intrigued me. I've learned a lot from you and even was interested in doing research on my own. Thanks for the lesson and I'm looking forward to seeing more from you!

Great video! Earned a sub 👍 Well balanced mix of gameplay demonstration, humourous commentary, and interesting relevant historical facts. Will be getting this when it comes out. Wunderbar!

I am looking forward to the next episode. Thank you! Subscribed.

I’ve been watching loads of these Manor Lords vids these past weeks. This dude, is hand-down my favorite!

I love the history you're teaching as part of this video! I've liked and subbed! As a Canadian, I have very little line of sight into this world. Our history goes back at most about 400 years, so this worldview is very exciting to consider. Thanks for your great work!

This is so cool. Looking forward to your series of videos on this game.

I just stumbled into your channel after picking up Manor Lords. As a history enthusiast (in another lifetime, I may have been a history teacher), I really enjoyed the commentary! Thank you so much.

Thank you for this historical gameplay in this beautiful game

I love the history you add to your videos, and the RP aspect as well. Really looking forward to the next CK2/Vic 3 campaign for that reason, but also enjoying this one so far!

Beautifully done, a most enjoyable journey.

It's crazy how well this game is designed! The consequence is that you may create a realistically looking (and functioning!) medieval villate but also a larger town. I've mangaged to re-create my home town (Krakow, Poland) and it looks and works just great!

Omfg that is amazing, so happy for you. Devs are so great for doing this.

Lovely playthrough! Game is looking very good, with more polish it can be breath-taking. I'm eager to see how deep the mechanics and complexity of the settlements can go. Looks great! My reference for great pre-20th century townbuilding is the Anno series (both 1404 and 1808 over all), and I'm liking the similarities and innovations in Manor Lords. I wish OPB would put links or at least a bibliography to the books and articles he researched. I wanted to take a read at them, looks like interesting material. I know there is actually much we can understand how a vastly rural society worked by looking at our own agricultural towns and etc., but also studies on how villages were (what is a serf or freeman), how they were built and displayed... it is really interesting!

Thank you for the video. So excited for this one.

This is brilliant I love the approach you're taking with it

I really like the overall vibe you're creating with this village. Feels nice.

I love the idea of ​​building several small and medium-sized villages instead of one big city and trading between them. The fact that you want to do this based on historical models is great. subscription is out.

I’m saving this series playlist. This is great. 😁

I love that you dive into the history of the development of towns

I subscribed. I so want this game. It looks amazing. Thank you for this video.

I can't wait! I'm glad I can see this game before release

Great and informative video, thank you!

Happy to hear that this will be a series!

I’m so happy to see a historical play-through. Looking forward to seeing a beautiful village and not a min/max blob 😊

1:00 min into the video and I’ve subbed. So hyped for this series.

Great suggestion from the algorithim! I really enjoy your mix of history and gameplay, new subscriber on board for this adventure.

"You're gonna get a raise..... that's a lie." I laughed so hard I woke up my cat. Been watching various snippets of Manor Lords content to learn about the game since I won't be able to purchase it immediately at launch. You've earned another subscriber who will gleefully watch in the meantime until I can play the game myself!

Thank you for the great video and your work. As a Bavarian it was very interesting.

AYY OPB!!! love the content!!

Also many Germans settled in the western parts of Poland with many cities having German-based laws even. Various Polish princes of that period invited German settlers in order to boost the population of their realms. As the result, there was pretty sizable German minority in Poland untill the forced resettlements in the Soviet-controlled Europe after WW2 to make population "fit" into the new borders.

At game start I actually find one family in the logging camp is fine, its actually access to the Ox with everything that has to do is the main bottleneck, not access to timber. Once I get a second ox then I up the number of families at the logging camp and assign the second ox directly to the camp. That frees the other ox to concentrate mostly on moving timber from the camp to where you are building. The single ox at the start though has to do everything, including moving the timber from where it has been cut. Even with only one family at the logging camp I find early on with only the one ox the logging camp is cutting more than the ox can deal with on top of moving timber around to the build sites. If I were to put two families anywhere in the first stage it would be in the woodcutters camp to prepare for that first winter, or maybe with your layout in the hunters lodge with that long walk!!!! Are you aware of the Tab key? It shows you all the information you need at a glance. Where your oxen are, traders, the state of the housing (whether occupied, what needs are still required and whether they can be upgraded), and information on all your industry buildings. Not so vital early game but as the village gets larger that overlay becomes so important. Its also not a toggle, so only active when you need it. Personally I restart scum at the beginning, restart the game until I get a map I like. Personally I prefer good fertility and rich animal spot kind of close to where I intend to build (but not too close, don't want them to migrate because you are building too close to them. The rest of the resources I am not so worried about as I can trade for them later, or set up trade routes with other villages I own. I like my first village to be the 'bread basket' though. I know that is a bit late for your playthrough but thought I would bring it up. Nice to see someone else playing a less than optimal efficiency run for a more historically accurate feel though. All too many people just play with large vegetable and orchard plots and do not bother with farming at all, which just looks wrong for the vast majority of medieval villages which even if they specialised in say quarrying stone would STILL have areas set aside for fields.... EDIT: The size of the back yards only matters for the vegetable patches and orchards. With everything else so long as you *have* a back yard size does not matter.

This game looks amazing. Really excited for release.

Endlich! Ich bin so gespannt auf all die schönen Dörfer und Städte. Man hat einfach so viele Freiheiten beim Bauen.

History and city building. Two of my fave things. ❤

hope the game does and sells really well so maybe after they can make an expansion or sequel that brings it into the victorian era, would be awesome to build in that time with all the factories, mines etc...

PRO TIP: First thing you should do is to upgrade the tents. It costs 1 timber and keeps your approval up. It prevents the homeless complaints. It also makes each family of 2 a family of 3 right away. Second build logging and get it working. Third another hitching post and order an ox. Forth homes then granary and storehouse. This gets families moving in and the goods off the ground.

I’ve been waiting for this game for awhile now. I’m so ready to go

Nice! I was waiting for someone who knows history to play this! 🙌 Grüße aus Italien!

I so cant wait to play!

YEEEES FINALLY IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG

I love that you're playing around with that free roam feature, it feels like this game's selling point yet I've not seen anybody even look at it.

Manor Lords and OPB!!!!!! This makes the wait so much easier :)

I love hearing your pronunciation of names here. Reminds me of my Oma and her sister ❤️

This is amazing!

I think i just found my new comfy series ! Watching this in bed with a cup of tea will be GLORIOUS!

I think this is not just interesting, but in the case of the Ostsiedlung also important to know about. That being said I do appreciate OPB not sugarcoating the fact that these settlements were a product of settler colonialism. That being said "This is my living space now" seems like a great slogan for Ostsiedlung

Yes! Narrative series ❤

since you're into history: hildebolt von bereneute (probably a typo, since it should be berenReute) - the name of the competing AI - is a figure from the song "mayenzeit (one neidt)" by neidhart von reuenthal and one of the opponents of the troubadour. the song is even part of the game's soundtrack - without lyrics though. neidhart himself was an interesting person, because unlike the 'stereotypical minnesang' (where the troubadours express their affection towards higher ranking noble women), he was the founder of the so called 'dörperliche dichtung' (where the troubadour expresses his affection towards simple peasant girls, but usually being similar unsuccessful as the other minnesänger) and thus kind of mocking the 'stereotypical minnesang'.

Would love to see a watchtower on that cliffside! Seems like that might be a road that an enemy force might take toward town 😮

This game looks so good!

likes the way you plays ....keep it up

Looks a nice medieval city building game l love it ❤ opb

i just want to say I CANT FUCKING WAIT FOR THIS GAME AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I just realized this dude (the dev) has been so hard at work. 2 weeks ago your early version u played was basically 0.7.0xx Its now 0.7.9xx Hes getting there! Really like this game but also ur style of video. Sub time hehe

Above and beyond with this let's play

I can't wait for this, I still play the demo 😊

I feel that this game is the freedom to build like you have it in Foundation, the graphics of Kingdom Come Deliverance and the Setting from Medieval Dynasty. I can't wait for the 26th when I can play it myself.

Finally a _historic_ gameplay!!!

What would be a cool addition to the game, relative to what you're saying with backyards of trees for firewood, is if there was a burgage upgrade that lets them grow their own lil trees like the foresters, but then they cut them down after for firewood.

Respectfully, humbly, and down right thoughtfully first!

Thank you for the historical context and lessons, I study history myself.

Hahah. ‘Good job, feller.’ Nice one.

I am a Saupreuße but I must admit that I love your video!

I think you'd look really good in that Cape 💯

Putting a tannery on the road into your village? That's brave.

Can't wait to play this

Hopefully the dev(s) will add rivers, lakes and fishing to this game! It looks amazing.

I just built a circle town in ostriv with none of this eu city knowledge 😂 can't wait to watch and soon play Manor Lords

This is why I'm excited for this game, it will allow us to create beautiful villages and towns of Medieval Holy Roman Empire, and it's a chill game where you can build and make armies, unlike Age of Empires 4 fast paced micromanaging nightmare, I wish there was regimental control of units there.

The real question is historically accurate to what part of Europe? It would be super cool if they added things like fish ponds and allowing for different forestry management and stuff. Even water powered mills and hammers. He then immediately specified exactly where, when, and under what circumstances he had chosen this design. I can't express how happy this makes me.

I finally found someone who plays using historical-archaeological sources exactly as I will!

Best playthrough simple due to the historical context

OOOOOOOHH MY GOOOOOOD

"She doesn't look happy. I should tax her more." - OPB

I love Crusader Kings 3, but I'll watch everything you recommend. Now I'm inclined to buy this game when it comes out. Love the content and the accent. Ps: My ex was Austrian, and the accent is quite similar 😅

Wow. I can really envision all of that wheat growing there in those fields....all of that now-extinct not-yet-genetically-modified wheat. Glorious!

This game looks amazing

man! give me my fix man,,,, man ,,,, give me a fix man 2 videos a day man! more of this man