And Hungary has the Kremnica mine but also got another special building in the Nyitra duchy at the 1.1.1 update.

@@DoubleBizzy which special building is that? the only one I could find was the holy site of Taltoism

@@Calintares look in Hungary, nyitra, barony of turoc has a slot for the mine. Then theres another special building slot right next to it in a county to the left, main barony, cant remember the exact name right now but I updated it in the ck3 wiki county list

I got a little excited about making this video. I edited the description to note we need to take a deeper dive into buildings and specials. I'm finally seeing this play out in my Sibling Rivalry after forming the empire and continuing on to Reconquista.

kinda surprising how few map modes there are in CK3 especially compared to imperator or victoria 2

@@laszlokiss483 Tbh, Imperator prob only has the maps going for it.

@@whoopigoldberg9956 to each their own i suppose I love IR and have had a blast playing it i dont like the way tyranny and aggressive expansion work as mechanics but it is still a very enjoyable game for me at least

I need a list of how much tax they provide at the beginning in order from highest to lowest but can’t find one anywhere

I'm going to go ahead and rename this video.

@@DoubleBizzy In the kingdom Pagan on the far west there are 2 special buildings which grant +3 and +2 gold and +2 learning among other benefits. However you need to build one. One the plus side it also has multiple farmland terrains with more to conquer in in the Bengal Empire. Starting as a feudal society.

I was gonna say this looked nerfed in some way.

Yep, I started in Munda 867 as a baby, ironman mode. By 1150 I have over 2000 living dynasty members, 52 cadet houses, rule all of India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Tibet. Reformed Buddhist religion called Jungle Fever, makes everyone feast endlessly, have ridiculous amounts of kids, and hold mystical communion every 5 years. From Bodh Gaya, my dynasty members hold all renown generating sites in the empire. Feudally, I can field 98k levies and 32 knights, all 25+ prowess (graceful aging and gender equality ftw). Basically I'm waiting to see if Gengis Khan wants to come out and play. Otherwise, the game's pretty much broken. Lol Also, considering moving my capital to Baghdad. 7 holdings I can directly hold with floodplains. That's 25+ knights and 10k+ levies from just one county alone.

@@jsmith42690 gross

That's a good one. BUT, take a look at @OneProudBavarian the video he did for the Last Karling, he ends up getting that achievement also by allying with William of Normandy and others, then gaining enough opinion and piety to ask the pope for a claim on HRE. All as a secret cannibal. It was awesome.

@@DoubleBizzy sounds great ill watch it. thank you :D

I went ahead and properly named this video being about counties and duchies with the most holdings. I think a different video would be necessary to include the bonuses from buildings. Clearly I don't know the game deep enough yet to make that video. Yet. :) Thank you.

You're right. Many of those counties are on desert and have very low development. Good places are the Floodplains of the Nile Delta (Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, etc.), Constantinople, Cordoba, Toledo and Rome (which all have high dev, farmlands and special buildings except Toledo), the vast floodplains and farmlands of India, the floodplains of Mesopotamia, especially Baghdad (floodplains, high dev and special building). Mecca and Medina are also very good for Muslims (high dev, Holy Mosques as special buildings giving you dev growth and a lot of taxes and piety). I don't know all places, so I probably missed some but these are the good ones I think of.

That very well could be the case. Basically, I came from the angle of "confederate partition splits all your holdings, so how could you grow tall in a single county or duchy?" Buildings are good, but they are built in holdings, so I approached from the aspect of where you could have the most holdings.

@@DoubleBizzy imo 1 farmlands is worth 2 desert holdings so i think the best single duchy to hold would be in india where all the counties/holdings would be farmland and all start at or near 20 development

@@n3v3rforgott3n9 Good point. Eventually, we'll play both and find out :) Right now I'm itching for achievements, but I think I'll try the End of an Era achievement in one of these "desert" areas just to see what really happens.

@@DoubleBizzy i played a game in bohemia where I built 3 castles in prague. The good thing about this is that revoking baronies is fast and easy and so before death you can let your kids divide it all. The main heir inherits 4 castles for 1 county. Or maybe your next heir was not a steward but a learner because that's your plan. Just give the baronies to lower nobles and keep all your counties, your next heir can retake the baronies. Counties with a lot of holdings adds extra flexibility to the game. Lastly, and as a reference: if at 867 you start developing your capital as greater poland, by 950ish your county will be the most developed county in the world, and it spills so the surrounding counties will have high values too so you can definetly catch up in those terms as well.

These are great questions that I don't know the answer to yet. I do know that if you want to be the head of your own religion, you basically have to reform or "invent" your own new one with the correct tents / doctrines. The more you change, the more expensive it becomes in terms of piety. You can get a lot of piety through the Learning lifestyle or by winning holy wars. Yes, "lay" clergy and probably a "temporal" head so it can be passed down through your dynasty - I believe "spiritual" head ends up being someone else, like the Pope for Christianity. I don't know if being "lay" clergy allows you to hold temples. I still prefer tall actually, because I've come to find out that barony-level holdings can be revoked without tyranny. So castles (and temples and cities) are an easy way to adjust your own holdings to your domain limit. Give extras to family members (especially your young heir waiting for you to die) so they can earn money, prestige, etc. But if you go stewardship or gain more domain limit through innovations / legacies, you can take them back. I would think great starting positions to try this would be civs close to going feudal so you can build those temples. So, being a large tribal group (e.g., 867 Sweden - Bjorn Ironside) you can be cultural head to get innovations (marry high learning spouses) and be able to raid for a ton of money to pay for all those new holdings you want to build. Also check out Hungary and the Arpad migration, they are right on the edge of feudalism map-wise.

@@DoubleBizzy Hmm, just watched another tutorial. You can convert to an existing religion with ease, but a reform of a faith can take a lifetime! In a custom faith you need to choose: Spiritual (you have a head of the church like the Pope) or Temporal (you lead the faith) and Theocracy or Lay clergy (the last means you can own temples. It doesn't say what happens to the temples you don't own if you have too many.) Many nice options to choose from, so much fun to do this. There is an option to consider witchcraft no longer a crime and to change gender laws. Each deviation from the original faith does increase the piety cost (2000+). Getting this and Holy sites is a lot of work though. Sweden is cool, but Bohemia, with three counties with 6 holdings seem perfect for a more peaceful/intrigue turtle campaign. If the culture area is small enough (don't know) to own it all (making one culture head) that might also make it perfect for advancing this at an incredible pace. Both high learning and high average development boost the speed. The only county with 8 is a cool option too. There is a noble with a large army on the coast of France (forgot the name) that can practically go anywhere he wants, that's nice too.

Mecca: It has 2 sacred sites, which give tons of gold and development. Temples give additional piety and Muslim faiths have lay clergy, which further increases your income if you run a small kingdom/duchy. Also you can name yourself as head of faith almost immediately by having 2 holy sites. Just make sure the religion you believe in is Suni or they're going to declare a bunch of holy wars on you.

@@javierfernandez8611 Interesting start!

Also many of these 6 and 7 holdings are in the desert and therefore maybe less useful than even a 4 holding county in the grasslands because of the huge development penalty you get

Yeah, I kind of jumped the gun with excitement making this video... But at some point, I am going to play one of them and see what happens. There are some buildings for desert, but I now realize that developed duchies that have special building slots also are going to end up more powerful. Like Kremnica Mine in Nyitra in Hungary - SO much gold.

1067 If you don't wanna wait 200 years to upgrade your holdings

@@whoopigoldberg9956 seems i can snowball bigger as 867

I am finding out in my Sibling Rivalry playthrough that development does indeed affect buildings. For example, you need development to get cultural innovations, which in turn unlock upgrades to the holding as well as to the buildings. There was a money glitch where I got $14k from banishing my realm priest, but I had to wait for high medieval innovations to complete so I could max out the castles, temples, cities, and their buildings.