Minecraft Hardcore Historic Castle 8 – Guildhall and Village Transformation

We’re heading away from the castle today but we’re not going far we’re just going over to that little village there i’ll have to come harvest that because we’re still having a medieval castle day but we’re also having a bit of a minecraft day too i desperately desperately need mending

I mean this pickaxe is not going to last forever i need sharpness i need unbreaking oh that’s not looking too bad this at the moment is bog standard minecraft planes village and you know the villagers aren’t too bad since village and pillage came out but it’s not a medieval village is it

We’ve got two churches woot but i’m gonna reduce that to one and we’re gonna make something that’s quite important i need a trading hall i really do like that sorry i’ll stop i need a trading hall but i don’t want to just make a minecraft trading hall

I want to make something a bit more appropriate to that place so i’m going to start by demolishing some things and i’m going to put in my standard anglo-saxon village church there’ll be a link in the description to the tutorial for that and then i’m going to make a guild haul

So first things first let’s start taking this place apart well i made a bit of a happy find look at this it’s a zombie spawner and i’ll show you where it is it’s not far from the village although i got a bit carried away with it and

Didn’t realize it was night time and i’ve lost three villagers because they got zombified and then burned up fortunately the golems looked after the rest but no here’s the village there’s the zombie spawner because i was frustrated by not being able to get that glass so i went and forced the

Enchanting table to give me silk touch and by the time it did i didn’t have the levels i only had 10 levels left and stupid thing was on a 3 so i needed 30. how annoying is that and then i came down here to dig some coal and hopefully kill a couple of

Zombies or something and i found a zombie spawner so i have rigged up a very very basic xp farm i mean look at that water in the corners a little trough here and slabs to stop the baby zombies getting through i’ve just got six more levels to go then i’ll have silk touch

And then i can get back to dismantling the village only this time i’m gonna keep an eye on my clock it was the whole point of having one in the first place I thought i’d lost some villagers but i haven’t there’s seven which is how many i should have had one of them’s lost his profession but there’s seven okay that’s good so you ready there’s the well there’s the village there’s the start of the village it needs some houses in but until i get

The next building done that’s what we’ve got i want to change the color of a couple of these rooves make them a bit darker but look at the state of that axe it’s got to wait till i get mending and i can’t get mending till i do the next thing

Well i could but you know one thing at a time let’s do it in the order that i want to do it and i’ve got seven iron golems wandering around it’s insane yes there’s no roof on the church i want deep slate for that i haven’t had time to go get it

But you know waiting to raise the money for the leads on the church roof that that’s not unheard of that’s not without precedent i want to build now though i do want a trading hall and i thought the best way to do that was to actually make

A guild hall so that’s what i’m going to do i’ll probably have to back and forth a bit for supplies but we’ll do what we can in the meantime i want a bit of a portico at the front that’s a start right i want the bottom floor to be in brick i’ve got

Some brick and some granite whether i’ve got enough we’ll see i’ll probably make the rest in dirt if i have to and then i’ll just replace as i can yes that’s desperate i am desperate i want some terracotta as well oh no no no that bit’s open that’s a bit of a saving

Oh well now i want some plain terracotta too but that’s gonna have to wait as well i love cats but that one i cannot get to go back up to the castle with me just wants to be down here in the village and loves getting in the way shush

So i’m just going to mark out the perimeter of the gill tool to start with probably do with put do you think you’re a cat thank you let’s put some dirt there okay so what was the guild hook well put it in the blunters terms it was the headquarters

For a guilt yeah hello pussycat so what was a guilt guilds were a collective of initially merchants but then also crafts people the first medieval guild probably was established in gelderland in 1020 that’s in the netherlands guilds then sprung up across europe and there was an established merchants guild in london by 1120.

There may well be earlier ones but that’s what i could find for certain they flourished for the next few centuries but by the 17th century had started to decline guilds still exist now but they don’t have the power and influence that they enjoyed in the medieval period they started in medieval times because

You had merchants you had traders you had crafts people and the way that they could sell their wares was to travel around individually minecraft’s got them wandering traders what’s the problem with being a wandering trader what’s the problem with being a single merchant think of how we regard them

With suspicion they’re con men they’re thieves at times they’re useful i’ve certainly found them useful with getting saplings for up there but most people just regard them as pests they’re there to cause trouble so what happens they meet with unfortunate accidents um i’m not paying attention we rob them for llamas leather or

Leashes if you’re a medieval merchant and you watched what we do to wandering traders you’d likely be looking at your own future mind you telling anyone that you have a magic box with little blocky people in it that move and make noises you’ve got a whole other future in front of you and

It’s very short and you’ll be lucky if you live long enough to hear the word inquisition but i digress so the future’s pretty bleak if you’re wandering around as a lone trader there’s bandits on the road there’s who knows what it was a dangerous life so they started to band together

Safety in numbers and then they began to make formal associations and make a base for themselves and the guild was born or reborn girls existed in classical rome they were called collegia singular form collegium but they would have been recognizable to medieval europeans and once established for merchants it

Was only a short step for guilds to form around craftspeople the word guild is derived from the anglo-saxon verb yelden to pay or to yield or the noun guilt a payment or a service to be a member of a guild required the payment of a subscription fee and the

Adherence to certain standards and duties and membership was only granted with accreditation i have to work out where the doors to this thing are there’s going to be doors up there i will have one here and one there there were other names for guilds in the british isles and on the continent

Collegium that stayed in use company corporation livery society fellowship fraternity brotherhood to name some and you can see from those last three the guilds had male associations some were male only but a lot weren’t albeit in a limited capacity if a male guild member died his widow

Could take over his business and his guild membership and this will of course look much better once i have some extra blocks mixed in for texturing you’re just going to have to bear with me for the moment there were also guilds that offered places to women as a matter of course

Although often this was in lower positions and without any real authority thanks guys there were some guilds that were only for women concentrated mainly in textile production such as the silk weavers who could be a member and what they could do varied from guild to guild country to country and over time

Guild charters spelt out every aspect of the guild administration from fees rules and community obligations through to the keeping of guildhounds and everything in between yes some of them had mandated puppy dogs many of the guild charters survive some have been digitized they make interesting reading guilds were responsible for the training

Of apprentices the fixing of fair prices and the assurance of a level of quality for the goods produced and sold if someone was overcharged or if workmanship was substandard the guild member responsible had to rectify or recompense at their own expense from their own materials and repeated violation could result in

Loss of membership and a ban on trading in that town altogether along with of course loss of reputation there was a hierarchy to guilds masters were at the top then journeymen and at the bottom were the apprentices only masters could take apprentices the general age to begin an apprenticeship was 12

But some guilds took on children as young as six the length of apprenticeship varied too but could range from two to up to fourteen years during this time the apprentice wasn’t paid but lived with their master who was required to provide not just education but also bed and board and tools of the

Trade apprentices were also not permitted to marry and not permitted to drink in public houses there would be other restrictions specific to the craft or trade concerned um i want another door uh we can probably do with the door here and do we need another one

Yeah we can have another door here okay all right now i need to work out placement of windows once the apprenticeship was complete to the masters and guild satisfaction the apprentice was elevated to the position of journeymen they could now earn from their craft or trade they were allowed to marry should

They wish but they were not allowed to take on apprentices of their own they could also work on a masterpiece or masterwork to be submitted to the guild for assessment of elevation to the rank of master this work was carried out in their own time and at their own expense

And was no guarantee of success too many masters in one area could mean not enough apprentices to go around apart from anything else so guilds could end up reluctant to elevate every journeyman who applied to be a master ah that’s it i’ve run out of brick and i am not happy with

That let’s get rid of that put that there and put the brick there all right i’ve just got to decide for oh no i don’t like that either yuck what am i doing this is something you’ve got to do sometimes lay some blocks down and then step back and see if really

You like what you’ve done or it needs adjusting in this case it needs adjusting quite a bit hello all right i am filling in the empty spaces with dirt i said i’d do this because there aren’t many and i do need to get on

And as i said if i can swap in some terracotta that will look a lot better too we’ll get there this is going to take a little bit it’s going to go slowly okay it’s not off to a bad start there was also a strong social and community aspect to guilds

They had responsibilities towards their communities that were expected to be met this could include care for the elderly in firm and disabled care for orphans care for the sick they might be expected to keep the street to the town clean which isn’t as bad as it sounds gong

Farmers paid good money for collected poo what was expected again varied according to guild place and time so on to the guild hall itself while trade secrets were just that secret and to be kept within the guild the guild hall was not a locked and wholly private building

Part of it had to be given over to the public there was accommodation for those under the guild’s care there was often a chapel attached for members and the public there was a general public meeting area where anyone could trade guilds were often the centre for the local commodities market

And the great hall within the guild hall was also available not just for members but also for general public celebration a hall for hire areas of the guild hall would be off limits to the public private meeting rooms record offices and of course the guild tavern well it’s not the best stained glass

Window in the world but it’s using the glass from the old churches so waste not want not and having said that oh but three windows Don’t worry i’m just letting my sacred numbers get the better of me if i can combine aesthetics and symbolism yay and if i can’t i’ll go with aesthetics every time oh you’re a bit imposing okay oh that’s much better oh that’s that’s much better we’re doing that

Right so the windows are quite simple it’s just dark wood bars this area here all of this i mean that’s the chapel but this is all the undercroft and the undercroft is supported by great big wooden pillars there we go they’re the supporting pillars of the undercroft the undercroft was the public

Area get off cat i’ll get them out of the other box so what i need now is plenty of support for the upper floor so we’re going to have a very long beam and then beams going crossways as well Do There we are one guild hall let’s go inside and have a look now i’ve got to tell you there isn’t a lot going on inside because this is going to be a trading hall and i’ve got to get all that set up and this guy if i shift the brewing

Stand into the chapel he wants nothing to do with it i’m gonna have to sort that out But anyway this is the chapel that’s where the brewing stand is going to go when i can get him to cooperate this is the undercroft this is the public part of the guild hall so i’ll be putting some trades in here because you know people could come here and trade and meet

We’ve got a little pauper’s dormitory and this will be an infirmary and again i’ll have particular trades in here so not much going on at the moment and if we come up oh yeah that’s just a loft space i might put some extra storage in here if i need it

But this is the great hall of the guild hall so this is where the guild members would meet where they’d all come together because you know the masters would live out in the village that’s where they’d have their schools but they’ll have meetings here this could also be used by the public

For celebrations and then we’ve got private rooms here and these would just be for the use of the guild members so we’ve got a couple and then this this is the guild tavern now this would only be for guild members i’ve not finished decorating this yet

Because this is going to be my trading hall for librarians so i’ve got all the enchanted books and i do not want to put barrels in here until i’ve got these guys sorted out or they’re all just going to want to be fishermen and i don’t want them to be fishermen

But you had a guild tavern because apprentices weren’t allowed to go to the local tavern and think about why the guilds teach you the secrets of your trade things that can only be known by the members who have paid their fee to be a member you’ve got an apprentice

Goes down to the local tavern there’s a weary fellow there who plies them with drink and before you know it they’re telling all the secrets they know and more besides you can’t expect them to not want to drink in the evenings with their friends so you’ve got a guild tavern so it

Prevents the journeymen and masters from getting out of control too although they can go to the local tavern if they want to but here’s a place where the guild members can also just kick back and relax with each other after a long day so the guild tavern

That’s our guild hall we’ll have a look at the outside but there we go brick and half timber with wattle and dorb and in vanilla look it’s not the best solution in the world but it’s the one that i came by there’s this side that’s the tavern wall

That’s the chapel side i’m not sure if i’ll leave the chapel like this or not i don’t know how i feel about it i’m not thrilled i’ll have to think i’m always thinking aren’t i and sometimes not enough and sometimes way too much and then this is the front now there’s

Still more to do i’ve got to do like a little forecourt i’ve got to set up this area and i’ve got a i’ve got to take that down and replace it with proper village houses i want to change the colors of some of those roofs and put some more houses in

And put a wall around and get some farms set up and that’s a whole lot of stuff and we’ll do that next time there’s end cards on the screen to some more of my tutorials and if you’ve made it this far put the secret code phrase in the comments guildhound

And i’ll see you next time bye