stream is over, but the VOD is on the twitch channel if you want to watch: www.twitch.tv/rimmy

The stilt on the windmill is there as a pivot point so you can turn the whole building to face the wind no matter from where it blows

In terms of the shepherd's crook, yes, you yank the sheep with it. Sheep are really fucking dumb, and will get stuck in places they have no business being in. The crook provides more leverage to get sheep out of ditches, holes and the like.

19:55 I imagine some merchant coming into town, bell starts ringing, the merchant asks if they are under attack and the answer he gets is "Its just the god damn priest again"

Never be ashamed of your love of windmills. They have been the backbone of civilization for a very VERY long time. Windmills and watermills are the most important inventions for agriculture

An actual shield wall that does it's job and the battle not disolving into singular duels but both sides maintaining an actuall battle line! That's amazing!

@37:30 concerning the swivel for the windmill Basically people would turn the windmill with that lever at the back into the wind to maximise wind energy. If it were a fixed foundation, the windmill could only operate if the wind came from the front.

The whole "Oi, Morgen!" into "gluten Morgen" had me in shambles

I honestly love the whole assinging families thing, it fits the feudalistic setting of the game

Village priest on his way to scare his Lordship away with the bell

Backyard Smelters and Workshops… GENTLEMAN, ITS TIME FOR: “THE SUBSTANTIAL JUMP THAT WAY” FARMS? WHO NEEDS THEM?

I absolutely adore that combat happens on the same map as your village that your villagers just come from the village take up arms and form a cohort and you see all this happening Its not some seperate battle map thing

From what i understand about the garrison towers not having stairs, the stand alone towers like that often just used ladders because they were more defensible. You get under attack, you just hoist up the ladder.

I guess Rimmy never played Stronghold, because his whole oxen rant is in that game.

9:05 Morgen is an old school european measurement unit. If we can believe Wikipedia it's an old dutch measurement. Morgen means morning. And it's the amount of land a farmer could plow in a morning with the help of Oxen. It claims to be around 8000 to 10000 m2 of land. But that's debated as german, english and french measurements were about 3 to 4000 m2. The other dutch term is dagwand, which is about 3300 m2. So it's speculated that morgen is not used for plowing, but instead for sowing or harvesting.

(I noticed that cheeky edit at 25:26, that got a chuckle :) "Beware your misspeak there Milord, helmets are only 72, not 92 we need not overpay the perfidious merchants, they'll ruin the manor at this rate" -the lords scribe

3rd year medieval student here, tip for anyone when the release comes in two weeks, might be worth having a outer and inner wall so you can manoeuvre your militias and retinue to favourable positions before the attackers arrive.

For the "ledger" system it would be pretty cool if you could build a bailiffs office to manage families & guilds that manage commerce; like early game towns should be somewhat tedious to mange until you 'spec' into a role designed for management. I personally love the aspect of having a guild that could generate income and could even produce masters that could open specialist versions of their crafts. Could also open up for the creations of districts and the likes

"My family are farmers, just not sheep farmers." Evidently they're not descended from the Welsh either

37:35 it is so that the windmill, the actual part above the stilt can be rotated around a central axis to make sure it gets the best wind. you can actually see the plank or log used to rotate it jutting out of the building near the entrance door.

18:23 Evil Don Quixote be like

Legend of the Five Rings does the social combat thing you mentioned too, you use the same conflict rules for important social situations as you do for combat, and some 'kata' (combat techniques) and 'shuji' (social techniques) can even be used in the other type of combat based on what traits the technique has.

The windmill is called a smock mill, and they're made like that so it could rotate with the wind to maximise efficiency. You rotated it with the tail that was in the backside

I know with goats you can use a shepherds crook to hook and pull them around because they're so stubborn and sometimes the males wont stop headbutting you so you use that to turn them around to stop them from trying to headbutt you

37:45 The weird stilts of the windmill is a pivot point, so you can turn the mill into the wind, by the handle you can see next to the door. And yes, this type of windmill sometimes fell over in heavy storms, but in areas where the wind often changes direction the ability to produce flour all the time instead of just sometimes was considered worth the risk and effort of rebuilding

14:45 cartoon factory whistle goes off

12:33 yeah, it goes around the sheeps neck since sheep will get stuck on each other, and its a good walking stick for older farmers in the mud

Tester and dev contributor here. The church bell sounds are recorded from extant bells of the region that inspires ML's setting (Franconia in Germany). And it rings the start of the month.

@1:07 i refuse to believe thats not a drop bear. 😂

1:06 Rimmy was 1 bear riding princess away from making Rawicz city coat of arms

I think the lategame is having enough elite families (lvl 3) and specializing them, if there is a way, to be the source of your nobles/knights/retinues, and the bigger your town is, the more freely you can recruit and maybe even start training troops, mainly from lvl1 families with not much specializations/assigned specific goods/resources/material. Late game is coming into your own as a kingdom, the early game and midgame is the bandits, the late game is being a powerful kingdom, contesting other powers; especially in this case, the Baron the king sent you to eliminate. There's so many more for lategame after establishing your towns and perfecting your system for each region as best you can

"Golden bear with black outline" Son you're lucky that Winnie the Pooh's out of copyright these days.

37:41 These structures supporting windmills that you called stilts are actually posts, by mounting the rest of the windmill on them it allowed for it to be rotated in the direction of the wind, in fact these specific kinds of windmills were called post mills. Think of it as the yaw motor in modern wind turbines with the difference being that in modern turbines the yaw motor is way higher than the posts in windmills because in post mills you needed to uses oxen in order to rotate it to wind's direction.

Albrecht? Like the "Go sing your song to the Salmon and the Trout" Albrecht?

Your towers without stairs were originally a roman concept. Effectively the principle was to prevent easy access to intruders, to better ensure the inconvenience of the defensive structure towards the enemy, local garrisons would enter and exfil via a ladder that they would deploy or retract into the towers. Love your vids Rimmy, been watching you for a good few years now.

The Windmill is on a stilt so you can turn it into the wind

For the garrisons and towers the entrance was often on the second or higher floors, they would lower a ladder to reinforce it and raise it in the event of a siege, these were very common in cities as they acted like mini fortresses, you can find some that still exist in Italy.

The no stairs on the garrison tower is a feature, not a bug. It's a very simple way to fortify the tower so attackers can't easily attack the entrance.

17:50 I hate that you've put this idea into my head because I definitely hear it, and I hate it!

With the garrison tower, they likely enter through a ladder and pull it up into the tower to prevent a breach during a siege.

34:25 funny thing is that lords actually would own the mill. So you placing your manor right there was right on point

I wish this was out. I've been home sick for a few days wishing my immune system could have bought me a couple weeks before I got sick..

3D medieval rimworld? Count me the fuck in, how many war crimes can we get away with

Could this be an in-chest simulator to rival Crusader King? Can't wait to get my own download finish

37:19 Given the way it is built and the lever/rudder behind it, I think the entire windmill is made to be able to spin, so you can turn it and optimize how much of the wind it catches.

well, off to watch a rimmy stream

4:05 I guess your peasants took it literally when you told them to go pound sand lol

For the windmill, it is both likely due to preventing damp from the soil damaging flour or grain or causing mould, but also that the windmill rotates around the centre poll.

As regards to the windmill having a single post, it's so you can turn it to face the wind.

12:32 yes, the shephard's crook is literally used for hooking the sheep to pull em around kinda like a leash, you'd use it if they got like stuck or if you need to catch them and corral them back into the flock

Think I'm genuinely looking forward to playing this more than any other game for about a decade, feels like that anyway 😂❤

those windmills you could turn from the bottom so that they could stand against the wind on 37:14 you see the beam where they could turn the wind mill. first genaration windmill kind of type

Rimmy: That church bell sounds very RPG mker esque Great. My town's church is going to remind me of RPG maker every hour, now.

@14:50 the Legend of the Five Rings 5e TTRPG has a similar social conflict system to what you described, and also a mass battle system, though units lost in mass battle usually don't effect your economy.

It feels like I could hop into Henry of Skalitz and walk around 7:47

A goal in life to find a person that loves you as much as Rimmy loves windmills.

19:55 I don't know why but this got my crying from laughter xD

i'm so looking forward to this game, thank you for doing this playthrough to get me hyped again.

37:33 I think it is so that windmill can rotate to get as much wind as possible

"Why is the bell ringing" Completely misses the "Raiders near" message

the windmill was on the stilt thing, so it could be rotated so it was always facing the direction the wind was blowing. that post out the back near the door is the lever to spin the whole building around with

good video lord rimmsworth of the dunnunder line.

I have waited so long for this I am so happy

the walking around the city reminds me of the old medieval total war, loved walking around the castles and cities after building them up

Fun Fact: Modern Wheat is actually a dwarf breed that is much shorter and needs less room. So in the medieval Era wheat would have been much taller and more vulnerable to storms and wind, all while not producing nearly as much food per acer even after you account for modern agricultural tech.

*rapid bell ringing* Lord Saddler.

There's a Windmill in Coffs Harbour that I absolutely *adore* looking at whenever we drive past it on the Pacific, I completely understand the Windmill thoughts :P

12:22 The hook or cross on the end of the shepherd's crook is used to help Sheep get unstuck from places such as if they fallen into a ditch.

Love how far this game has come, can't wait for release

Dirt pounding is a thing for floors, and if you don't do it yearly, the house will collapse

That bell sound you chose… Monty Python and the Holy Grail “Bring out ya dead“

Even a small mediaeval town is such a complex interconnected system. Makes me marvel at how our species got there and even surpassed that level of complexity. Especially when you think about how utterly dumb and narrow minded each individual usually is, from the peasants right up to the highest leadership.

I swear the bell at 17:53 is the same sound that they used in Patrician 2 for the church

So happy you mentioned SIFRP, I love that tabletop game

A true Lord of Manors Moment

I cannot wait for this game. I have been waiting for over two years.

A shepherd's crook is a long and sturdy stick with a hook at one end, often with the point flared outwards, used by a shepherd to manage and sometimes catch sheep. In addition, the crook may aid in defending against attack by predators. When traversing rough terrain, a crook is an aid to balance. so yes the stick is used for dealing with uppity sheep, walking over rough terrain and thwapping any predators or miscreants that come around.

The walking through town Is a feature which I wasn't expecting but looks so good

43:00 WHEN THAT MUSIC HIT IT GAVE ME PTSD

@RimmyDownunder 37:38 They built it like that so when they needed it to work they could turn the building to face the wind. That's what that pole is fore on the outside, you'd just push on that to turn the building.

Never had a play through convince me to buy a game as much as this game GEEZUS THIS IS COOL

19:54 This? Perfection.

The church bell sound is no joke the exact sound the church in my town makes

The game is sooo cool I love it. Rimmy I beg thee make more videos of it

Cloak? Distinct blue tinge? Those aren’t necromancers. They’re Fremen!

The windmill is built like that so they can turn the windmill itself to face the wind. Pretty simple, but very good.

Hey, this game seems kinda nice, its good to know these medieval builder games are slowly coming back

Rimmy's noble harassing the townsfolk was the funniest thing XD

This game has sooooooo much potential

The discussion about mercenaries at the end is pretty spot on, I think a lot of medieval armies consisted of a LOT of mercenaries

I'm getting my own PC because games like this and watching you play this with how your reaction to it makes me want to play it even more

37:40 Wind directions are not constant, so the mill is on a swivel so the miller it can orient the whole mill to get the optimal wind-catch.

12:41 to answer you’re question Rimmy, you’re close. They use it to catch the leg of the sheep when they don’t want to be caught

I love windmills is medieval version of trains and i'm here for it.

This really makes me wish for a video on one of the old stronghold games.

Rimmy desires Helldivers super dives when he strolls thru his village

Appears im quite early for this one. Good.

There is a few advantages i could see building windmill on stilts first one is that wood was more expensive and you need sails to be quite high so if you can get same results with less wood its better other one is that some stilted windmills i have seen are on a cog so it can be turned when wind changes direction.

After watching the first 5 minutes of this i can definitely say i will get this game

for the question on what the crook is for, they use it in case a sheep gets stuck so they can help like if they got stuck in a ditch