History VideoGame / MedievalDynasty

** Once a steady supply of input resources is provided, grinding related skills and technology becomes incredibly easy. This is particularly visible with Building technology. There will be a point in the game where you will be swimming in excess stone, while stone walls offer the most experience. All it takes is to continuously build and tear down a wall segment, and any loss of material sustained this way will be easily overcome with the excessive amount of stone you already have.

* TrueCompanions: Iordan, Uniegost, Sambor, Wolrad and [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Kestrel]] formed a roaming group of good-hearted con artists, helping the needy. But as time progressed, and both age and their personal issues started to catch up with them, [[ BreakingTheFellowship they eventually fell apart]].

* DiscOneNuke: There is a supply of iron tools and a few high-quality bows scattered in the wilderness in specific areas at the game's start. They are ''significantly'' better and faster to use than anything you will be able to afford for a long while, not to mention produce. Their location is fixed, so getting there is about either stumbling on them, memorizing their position or checking an online guide.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Wooden crossbow. It's marginally stronger than bows, but takes a horrendous amount of time to reset and takes bolts, which are only worth using if you have the iron ones. And due to a few quirks of the engine, bolts have a nasty tendency to over-penetrate, hit the ground and get destroyed in the process, giving you a weapon with low damage, low firing rate and almost guaranteed destruction of every single bolt used with it.

* BearsAreBadNews: Bears are by far ''the'' most dangerous animals you can face. And they usually roam around caves, making it extra-dangerous to even start thinking about mining. Bears are the only animals that are immune to otherwise OneHitKill that are crossbow bolt headshots and once they close to Racimir, he's pretty much dead.

** Growing cabbage. It's the only crop maturing within a single season, it can be harvested en masse and is used for cooking potage, one of the most efficient nutrient sources (even without accounting for how fast cabbage grows) that you can access almost from the start. You will be hard-pressed to grow any other food crop thanks to the sheer efficiency of cabbage.

** Woodshed trivalise gathering logs. You can fell trees yourself, but that's time-consuming, the logs are some of the heaviest objects and the trees take time to regrow - lots of it. A woodshed, with even the crappiest lumberjack, is going to produce 12 logs per day, ''without'' felling any actual trees. The downside is that Racimir won't be gaining related experience.
* BrattyHalfPint: Fenenna is a FieryRedhead child with some ''serious'' attitude. Racimir ends up running a few minor errands for her, trying to work her into buying Sambor's woodcarved figurines. It takes him a while to figure out that the kid is just openly messing with him.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: After unlocking the Inspector ability to highlight things around, animals gain different colouring depending on how dangerous they are, while objects that can be interacted with are highlighted in yellow.
* CommandAndConquerEconomy: Played with. Unless you assign people to specific jobs, they will simply stay in your village, doing nothing. However, once assigned to a building, they will act on their own with default settings - which might ''not'' be the best thing to do. Structures can only be build by Racimir.

* CrapsackWorld: The world outside the valley is your standard medieval fantasy mix of grimdark and DungAges, with wars, famine, poor peasants being abused on a regular basis and what not. Various characters moved to the valley, Racimir included, precisely to escape the terrible lot awaiting them anywhere else.

* DiscOneNuke: There is a supply of iron tools and a few high-quality bows scattered in the wilderness in specific areas at the game's start. They are ''significantly'' better and faster to use than anything you will be able to afford for a long while, not to mention produce. Their location is fixed, so getting there is about either stumbling on them, memorising their position or checking an online guide.
* EasyCommunication: You can at any point in the game open the related menu and swap around worker placement in your builds, change production mode or even fine-tune the exact feather-to-meat ration gathered by your hunters, despite being an entire day of travel away from your settlement.

* EyepatchOfPower: Sambor is missing his right eye, covered by an eye-patch, yet is by far the toughest and most imposing character in the game, while being a [[RetiredMonster former highwayman who found a new purpose in life]]. In fact, the eye-patch is only adding to his rugged looks.
* ExposedToTheElements: Not wearing proper clothes is a great way to suffer from hypthermia in the winter and heat stroke during summer. Hats, in particular, are [[TruthInTelevision badly needed during the summer]], especially when working in the open sun.

* {{Fanfare}}: Whenever you level-up a skill, technology or progress or finish a quest, there is a short fanfare playing.
* FetchQuest: The majority of quests are about bringing X to Y. Sometimes, ChainOfDeals might get involved. This allows to throw the game OffTheRails by simply stocking related goods beforehand.

* GuideDangIt: Good luck figuring out how and where to find salt without a guide, especially since caves are some of the least frequented parts of the map (not to mention being in complete wilderness), as they attract bears. To a lesser extent, the same goes with metal ores, but you will unlock meat salting in the first few in-game days, while you might not even figure out there is metal smelting in the game until ''much'' later.

** Woodshed trivalise gathering logs. You can fell trees yourself (and remove the stump if you want them to regrow a few seasons later), but that's time-consuming, the logs are some of the heaviest objects and the trees take time to regrow - lots of it. A woodshed, with even the crappiest lumberjack, is going to produce 12 logs per day, ''without'' felling any actual trees. The downside is that Racimir won't be gaining related experience.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: After unlocking the ability to highlight things around, animals gain different colouring depending on how dangerous they are, while objects that can be interacted with are highlighted in yellow.

* ElementalCrafting: You start with improvised tools made out of wood and stone and it takes quite a while and effort to even unlock the ability to smelt any sort of metal. The metal tools themselves are tiered through copper, bronze and iron, with iron being behind ''another'' few tech gates. However, you can buy better tools at any point of the game, as long as you have the money and reach Hornica.

** And then there are the villagers themselves. Not only CommandAndConquerEconomy is in effect, but you simply need people to operate your buildigs, as there is only this much you can do yourself.

** There is a Farming skill that offers a chance to double the yield of a single plot of land, by [=25/50/75=]%. It's as busted as it sounds. Plus, just by preparing land for a single field, you should get enough experience to unlock all three levels of that skill.

** Copper tools. They are a significant improvement over wood-and-stone tools, while not requiring all the extra effort that goes with smelting bronze nor building a mine to access iron ore. Most importantly, their extraction rates mean they require less swings than default tools, without having "lost" extraction tied with bronze tools[[note]]Each tool has a specific extraction rate, tied with materials used to make it. To finish any given task, one must reach 100. Copper tools extraction is 25, while bronze has 30. This means bronze requires the same amount of swings as copper, but the 4th swing is mostly wasted, as it's 120 out of 100 needed. But the durability of the tool is used fully. For comparison, iron tools have extraction of 35, so while there is a minor waste in the end, at least iron tools require one swing less[[/note]].

''Medieval Dynasty'' is a survival/town-building game with RPGElements by Render Cube. It entered Early Access on Steam in September 2020.

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: Cold will drain your health (unless you wear special clothing or stay indoors), potentially fatally, but you never have to worry about frostbite.

* ArbitraryEquipmentRestriction: You can't set more than one rabbit trap until the game feels like letting you. This is because traps are SimpleYetAwesome; they only require a few twigs to make, they get you free meat with no effort on your part, and it only takes a day or so before they can be reused. If you were allowed to make as many traps as you want, it would trivialize the survival aspects of the game.

You play as Racimir, an orphaned youth fleeing the flames of war. Luckily, the valley of Bostovia is lush, rich in natural resources and unclaimed land. Racimir can make a living however you choose- hunting wild animals, farming, gathering herbs, fishing, or trading with nearby settlements. If he builds up his reputation enough, he can even start a family of his own, to inherit the role of player character once Racimir dies. Given time and careful play, his dynasty can become leaders of the region.

* FamousAncestor: By peasant standards, anyway. Iordan was a self-made entrepreneur whose success inspired Racimir, his nephew, to settle in Bostovia. He's dead by the time Racimir arrives (murdered by bandits who attacked his trading caravan), but his friend Uniegost lets Racimir live in the town anyway, for old times' sake.

* WithAHerring: Racimir has the clothes on his back and a hammer given to him by a family friend. But that's enough.

''Medieval Dynasty'' is a survival/town-building game by Render Cube. It entered Early Access on Steam in September 2020.