Such a Gneiss Visit (ft. Gneiss Name)

They actually did the collab this is so cool!

Hopefully they repeat it with the geologist showing him some of the work he has done in his Minecraft explorations!

My worlds are colliding!

OMG. This is a bigger crossover event than Avengers Infinity War

Gneiss video!

I would have loved to hear Gneissname's touring through the completed work. When you said you had a second one, I thought it was going to be the other tower interpretation from earlier.

I was waiting for this premiere THE WHOLE TIME, only to miss the notification AND THE VIDEO. XD

YAY my two favorite nerds in the same video!! WE ABOUT TO LEARN TODAY, GANG!!!

Yes... YES!!! Even though you two don't share fields, I love how you both use Minecraft as a way of educating people while making it entertaining!!!

Yeahhhh!!!!

What is the hollow is a giant kiln, the lay out makes me think of those big kilns they make for roof tile making. then maybe the furnace is supposed to be what heats the kiln room for the firing.

So, I work in a home improvement store and sometimes I'm in the paint department, most of our red and yellow pigments are still iron oxide.

It was great to be on the server and see what you have been up to Daskalos. I was actually surprised by the amount of history that could be archeologized (I'm making this a word) from the trail ruins. I'm looking forward to the things you have planned in the future.

This wasn't a cross-over that I was expecting but a pleasant surprise nonetheless!

Love that this video wasn't you both working on a big project or anything, it's just two people of different fields talking and comparing notes. Super interesting to listen to!

I absolutely love both of y'all's content and was so excited to see that you've collaborated on something💜

Loved the video!

Better meetup than Avengers Endgame

No way, never thought you'd both collab. I did imagine once about an smp around science with minecrafters like you two lol

Collab of the century

"do you know anything about rocks and color" - autistics trying to make friends

This is such a unique way to experience minecraft! Its as if I was standing in the ruins of pompei again! Incredible video

Two geeks geeking makes this geek very happy! :-) You two could collab again in the future. If you'd get used to each other cadence, it would make for super interesting videos!

Kind of a shot in the dark, but could that brick cellar thing be a brewery? I remember reading something about native Mexican people using brick holes like that to ferment corn but idk

The geology nerd and the paleontology nerd collab let's gooo

i didn't think this would happen, and i'm so glad it did.

Very fun video! Its so interesting to see where different fields intersect, and even where they dont, its often not the areas one might assume!

"Most people want to know how they got here"

"Oh this happens to me all the time"

😂

Perfect collab

Edit: very Gneiss collab

This feels like a collab made in heaven

Get an architect/engineer that plays Minecraft to analyze this too!

Last year I was in Uzbekistan, where mud bricks and fired bricks are the traditional building material (because it's in a desert with only a few oases and therefor not that many trees).
In the beginning they built all from unfired mud bricks. There are still giant fortresses from pre-christian times around which are slowly dissolving and/or being reconstructed. These buildings have to be maintained all the time, because otherwise they become nothing but hills of clay over time. That's why the huge city walls of the ancient capital of the Khoresm realm, Khiva, are technically very young and very old at the same time.

Once they had the ability to fire clay (roughly in the Middle Ages) they used fired bricks for the mosques and madrasahs and mausoleums, but mud brick with a straw-heavy surface plaster was still in use for houses and walls.
Of course many are switching to concrete nowadays or at least use fired bricks, but that's a relatively recent development coming with the industrialization during Soviet times. When you go into the villages, though, they still build their garden walls and livestock pens out of the stones and clay that they find in their surroundings.

Uzbekistan also has this long tradition of glazed ornamental tiles and other ceramics, may it be for use or for decoration, and the main glaze colours are blue and green. Additionally, there is a wood carving tradition, mostly in elm and mulberry. Traditional houses feature carved columns, doors, window shutters, and their respective frames. The mulberry is particularly important, because the ground water in the oases is salty and slowly destroys the fired brick and ornamental tiles, but mulberry wood is resistant to that salt water. Therefor they traditionally put down beams of mulberry as foundation for the walls to block the rising of that water.

Aaaaanyway, maybe that was a settlement by Minecraft Uzbeks. ^ ^

The mineral dye is an interesting note. We should be able to get green from copper ore, red from iron ore, etc.

Listening to the discussion about the bricks prompted a thought.

So the tower was the focal, and built by the "government" or a merchant. The other brick buildings would have been built to support the tower.

The tower then becomes a safe area, and a point of interest. So then it becomes a trading point for traveling merchants to set up. After a while, more permanent crafts start to settle there.