I'm always amazed how you make your builds look so good with only a few variations in blocks. Great work, as always!

Love this build! It's big enough to work on its own, but small enough to be manageable. Very well done. And I appreciate when you differentiate between what is and isn't historically accurate in the build; it lends you a great deal of credibility. A quick note on glass: there is evidence in some Old Norse (so Early Medieval) great halls for glass from as far afield as Egypt or Constantinople. Obviously it wasn't very much glass, but it was impressive at the time. The glass was green and showed traced of natron, which is pretty cool! I think you were right to eschew the glass in a standalone keep, but I could definitely see some storytelling potential in a keep that starts out without any glass, and then as the castle gets further built up around it, the lord and his family buy some Alexandrian or Byzantine (or, for glass closer to home, Venetian) glass to put in their windows and show off their wealth!

You've definitely earned a sub

your content is amazing, I love history, castles and building in Minecraft and I feel like this is my ideal channel, thank you

And here I was just hoping for another dudieboy Minecraft tutorial after rewatching the wall tutorial earlier this week. I love this one!

will forever treasure this video. thank you for this very educational build

Was definitely worth the wait, amazing work!

Great build as always. BTW, was wondering how you got the textures at the end to be kind of disjointed and off-center like some blocks are merging with others (like a corner of a brick where it might otherwise be pure stone/cobblestone)

There was a tutorial series done awhile back that was a pretty good compromise between Minecraft and being historically accurate. And while it's great, it takes a lot longer to build and way more resources. I have built it in survival before, just definitely not a "starter" kind of build. This is a great build in that checks the castle build, while being approachable at the early game. Very good tutorial. And definitely going in my playlists for my next world (when 1.21 comes out in a few weeks).

Useful tips as always, DB. :)

Amazing build (so far, I’m only to the first floor design 😊) dudieboy! Thank you for sharing your historical accuracy and knowledge with us

This is Great. I love historical builds that go this in depth

Love this build. Inspired me to create something similar. It is simple enough, yet beautiful and functional and as you said navigatable. Thanks for the effort you out in and pointing out where it is historically accurate and where not. Looking forward to future videos and will check your current ones!

This is amazing I really really love it! The reasons behind the design keep me hooked and feel so smart

Babe wake up, new castle tutorial dropped!

Ayyy! Welcome back dude! Great video dude. What a great thing to wake up to.

19:04 glad I’m not alone in adding this kind of stuff lol

As a lifelong castle-appreciator I absolutely love the build. For walls that won't interact with other blocks, I tend to use stone brick fences. They look slimmer, give more visual space and still look the part. It does get a bit finnicky when placing doors or - heavens forbid - trying to mix blocks, but it can make a build feel less '1 x 1 meter everything' in certain sections of corridor.

20:25 Machicolations are not murder holes. They are similar, but murder holes are the holes in the ceilings typically in entrance ways. While Machicolations are the holes between corbels like you said. The dispensers are much more accurate to what murder holes are used for. So they actually are accurate in functionality. :) The castle looks really good. :)

Beautiful job! I love your videos.

Outstanding build. Using this with macaws fences and walls let's you line the build with cheval de frise for added defenses.

Absolutely awesome!

I Be watching more of your work and sharing your link

Thanks for visiting my channel and watching this tutorial! Did you find this tutorial easy to follow? Will you build this Norman Castle Keep in your world?

Nice work love it

yo where is the link to this farm cause i wanna build it

Underrated

I really love your tutorial Im using it in my survival world and I think it's amazing! Im making another world using your wall and im wondering what mod did you use to elevate the blocks?

Who else is still waiting on that Castle video promised at the end of this one???

Good video, but there is one problem with uour auto dropper design. If items lsnd on the last row of hoppers (the ones over the redstone torches), the items wont go through until the front two gst items due to the torches locking the hoppers.

At the beginning you said you can play it in whatever version you're playing right now but in the tutorial you used waterlogged stairs which means you can only use it in versions after 1.13

This is so cool! I love it!

this is awesome for a piglin head farm, you just need to place a creeper farm on the overworld and send charged creepers to the nether

Really good video used to play in school days 10 years ago but ive got back into building with my brother and nieces

Really cool video! Thank you!

Why Why Why ..... are you in SUCH A BIG HURRY!!!!????

That sword comment is crazy clever. 😮

I'm more interested in how you got your walls to look like that.

5x5 = 3x3 7x7 = 5x5 Rooms are always measured by floor space. Great video though. Straight to the point and informative 👍

What is interesting about them is that, they grow on par with Bamboo and is edible in case you need to fill your hunger. Though you will teleport after doing so within 8 blocks.

But what about stairs into a raised half slep

Ur just so wrong tbh

very clear and super helpful tutorial! Looks pretty nice in my world too, which is always a plus!

I just built a tall watchtower but I was unhappy with the spiral staircase. This video was the perfect answer- thank you so much!!

Ugh I've been playing Minecraft for absolutely forever since my kiddos had me sit down and play with them and I've always somehow struggled with a spiral staircase, I can cath a quad patient but can't seem to build a spiral staircase without it being.. Too wide I would say. What is wrong with me??? I will now go rebuild the one I had made because mine also has slabs but I did four blocks in the middle it's just so big but this is much simpler and I love it. Thank you very much I appreciate your time and I've subscribed. Also trapdoors.. I never even thought of that! For me that is a game changer haha thank you.

Its so funny and interesting that things like how you hold a sword still influence things today! It also has influenced that the standard way to mount a horse is from the left side, because you carry your sword on the left hip

How do you crouch-place while flying without going down?

I’ve not seen this much of detail in any video historical information and a real tactical wall not just great looking Criminally underrated video