I love it how genshin pays so much attention to the smallest things that most people don't even know (like how every liyue characters constellations aligns with the waypoints in the liyue map) but as soon as we get to normal human things that real people do in real life and it should be pretty easy, nah bro it's the most unreal thing in genshin that it doesn't even make sense
Yeah not asking for some big harbor. Just adding some more piers or connecting roads would work. Like some roads just end even though they could be easily connected.
It's so funny to me that Genshin will have you go through quests that permanently alter your game world in HUGE ways like removing the weather from islands in Inazuma, or even sinking an ENTIRE TOWER in Fontaine, but yet we don't have any normal quests to just clear up stuff like the trade route between Mondstadt and Liyue. Like come on Genshin. The closest thing I feel like we've had to that so far was the daily commission to rebuild the bridge in Wangshu Inn. I just want more quests like that.
Instead, we're doing mundane quests like being a delivery person or moving objects 10 feet because the quest initiator is incapable of doing it themselves 😭
I want a damn quest that require you to go trading, and no, no teleporting allow at all. You have to walk from Fontaine to liyue, ride using boats. Oh and restrict yourself from using character like Furina. From there, traveller and the other people follow can start talking in the middle of walking on how to improve, and soon the world changes with bigger reading ports I just wanna see the world changes in front of my eyes.
We should remember that the Teyvat the characters live in and the Teyvat that we get to play in are completely different size and location wise. For example hotels don't have any rooms at all or Layla's village that's 3 days away from Sumeru city to the north when there's isn't such a place what's o ever . Also the abandoned hospital in the desert that's literally just one small room.
Also like how did it take us like a day or smth to get from Liyue to Inazuma how come Kirara can just go throughout the entire Teyvat in a day multiple times and like how NPC often takes us from one side of the country to the other as if it's just a light walk (that happens a lot in Liyue's archon and character story quests like Baizhu)
I am so upset they gave us the northern section of Sumeru without giving us her village (Layla is my fave character). :( It's not that bad except the that the game is marketed as open world, and most games these days know that open world shouldn't just mean expansive places. Implying the lived-in aspect but not translating it well (like having paths and roads that end randomly or don't lead where they should, etc) just highlight how empty it is. Combine that with the fact there aren't really many cities within the nations, just the main cities, and it feels even emptier.
@@spyrothetimelordEh, I mean genshin does the whole open world thing a lot better than many other games. Look at the open world for pokemon SV for example , so many empty places with barely anything to do except catch a pokemon you've already seen before
I've been doing it for years on my own and thought I was alone, the one time I looked up if anyone else felt the same I just found a reddit thread where someone complained about the city layout of Fontaine and all the comments were telling them they were thinking too much and it was just a game
Same coz Genshin is the only game that I was immersed with how life would it actually be in there and in the architectural structure which are based on our real world.
The Fontainian woman of the last event said she was a naval artillery engineer and I'm just like... what navy? You telling me your nation, raised on a platform, had a decent navy? And it fought with some other navy and got obliterated? Does it look like Yilong Wharf or Bayda Harbor can hold a fleet of ships that also has artillery?
I have been waiting for this for so long! Ever since I discovered Baida Habor by sailing from Fontaine to there, I saw that some Fontain merchants had the same idea, and wondered how the trade works for other areas. Also, if there are so many traders and merchants, why do the trade routes have such little protection? Traveling in Teyvat without a vision is a miracle. These npcs deserve visions because they're the ones with true ambition.
Traveling Teyvat as a tourist seems okay, but getting your goods anywhere as a merchant seems to be quite an adventure. Most likely, most merchants don't actually go far - the same batch of goods just changes hands a whole lot while getting from one place to another.
They literally hire body guards for it, we are beaten over the head with that info multiple times. (Gaming's Lantern Rite, Kirara, Corps of Thirty, etc...) The real question is do they have money to hire that. Teyvat is one giant gig economy made in Russia and it's consequences is basically the industrial revolution meme taken literally. There's a reason why Pants the banker is somehow one of the top brass of the Fatui and even he have to deal with annoyances like Yelan on a daily basis
I am an irl transport planner watching this on my lunch. I am unsure if this video really counts as a break but hey at least someone else is as passionate about this as I am!
Loving these inspection videos. Also a fun fact, there is a reason why glaze Lillies and dandelion seeds are sold so expensively. Glaze Lillies are apparently at the brink of extinction and they’re very rare to find (excluding the fact that you can literally farm them every 3 days in qingce village). And inazuma was under the sokaku decree so any goods from outside nation were sold at an unreasonably high price, guess that lady never reduced the price even after the decree ended. Should talk to the higher organisation.
I guess the market's rules apply in Teyvat too. If a dandelion seed costs 60k mora, it'd be cheaper to just sail over to Mondstadt and grab those themself
idea: how about u rate the mayor cities, like if they got everything to supply the citizens , enough houses to live in, how friendly the citizens are, how the government works, if they are outsider friendly. You could maybe even include some small villages, like how to they get through everyday life
In that potion brewing event, Beidou talked about bringing her ship to Fontaine or Chenyu Vale And I already was way too confused when I heard that, I mean.. ...how the heck can you fit that big of a ship through those tiny rivers and streams in Chenyu Vale? Like, HOW?!?!
i only hope that when the anime releases it has a truly realist word. Like the game is just an oversimplified look of teyvat and it really is wayyyyy more big and complex
@@kotarouinugami1745 fair, fair. But it is still a bit sad when you're being told from the start of the game that trade from Fontaine to liyue comes from chenyu vale and then the map comes out and it makes no sense And bayda harbor is even worse. Like imagine, dornman port, mondstat big trade port, which we all know about, comes out and it has no lore no nothing, just a tiny little port with not even a proper land connection to mondstat city It feels like people sat and did the world building on how the entire interaction between nations thing is gonna work and then the map designers just kinda forgot almost
It's been irritating me for a few years, got used to it. But, just yesterday, a new event started, and the npc there says that Fontaine used to have a powerful navy before it got destroyed in a war. Um, I'm probably missing something... But what war? The archon war? The Khaenria cataclysm? Which happened 500 years ago? Maybe Remuria's demise whenever that happened? And they couldn't build a new navy after that? Maybe I'm exaggerating, maybe they don't need a navy, but I think Fontainians are well aware of the Fatui and a potential threat from the north, and all they got is local gendarmerie? That's just a thing that works in the real world but not in Genshin
2:45 Fun fact this guys existence aligns well with Noelles character story about a guy trying to derail mondstats wine industry who leaves because he was terrified of Noelles niceness because he thought she eas onto him
I think for watatsumi theyre still technically in development since theyve been isolated for years (just did heizous hangout revently Lol and basically watatsumi has been kind of smuggling ?? Goods for a bit while they wait for an official decree to be signed so imports arent as expensive for them anymore) but other than that this vid was so fun to watch LOL it made my brain hurt thinking of all the detours they'd have to make for trade ...
yes. Watatsumi so far has been providing for itself with little trade. Watatsumi while at a little odds with Shogunate, are still considered a part of Inazuma nation. So they cannot initiate international trade by themselves even if they have the route for that. This could also be the reason why watatsumi might not be interested in trade within inazuma as well. They are hardly on good terms with Shogunate, and you usually don't trade in decent amounts where relations are that sour. Sure some merchants go in and out, but that can hardly be called "trade". So it would make sense why they did not seem necessary to have a well developed port. Not to mention, Watatsumi is not rich by any means. If they cannot initiate international trade, their Pearls and corals are meaningless. They do not produce enough crops to have an agricultural trade. The only thing going for them could be fishing trade, but we know that Shogunate and Watatsumi fishing borders are pretty close. infact watatsumi's fisher men often fish in Narukami waters(part of her story quest)...if you have to fish in someone else's waters then what are you even trading with them? So watatsumi island is relatively poor(sadly). The resistance was already on the verge of collapse. It was their sheer rage for Shogunate, Gorou/Kokomi's leadership, Yashiro commissions help, and well also Fatui's help, that kept them going. So yes, now is the time when they can hope to actually do some legit trading now that they are on better terms with Narukami. But even with that, i doubt what can they even offer Shogunate in exchange? My bet is, they will establish themselves as pearl and coral producers in Ritou under the Inazuman international trade(as states cannot usually bypass National laws regarding trade), the Shogunate will receive portion of their earning and on the other hand, the Watatsumi traders will have buyers buying through Ritou's channels and trade routes protected by the shogunate when in their territory.
To have a feel on what the "actual" scale of teyvat you can see it in arle domain. The building where you're fighting her are like 3x much larger and the scenery looks way bigger too. Even then you can still argue that teyvat is much bigger than it
in fontaine city there is a elevator near the teleport in the side of the city, that leads to the main area of the city, but the water there is quite shallow so idk, but i think is the main way to npcs to leave the court outside of the aquabuses
From my understanding, Tevyat have some technology of airship. We can look in daily quest in Monstadt, Liyue, Inazuma and random encounters in Sumeru that some merchant use small airlift zeppelin to carry merchandhise to other area in map
@@kotarouinugami1745 Also those Sumeru beasts seem to be really heavily used as a way to pass through the rainforest desert and anything else really in Sumeru.
This makes me wish for a map revamp once most of the nations get released. Like just making it look nicer and more believable especially in these trade routes and roads. Probably too much work since they already made the regions, but it would be a cool update late into the game maybe.
what makes the liyue trade route even messier is the trade route along the Bishui river was apparently CLOSED for some unspecified time for an unspecified reason according to Ganyu's voice-line about Keqing. that's just. hanging out there with no explanation.
im so glad that i'm not the only one who notices these things. every time a new land expansion update drops, I like to make my way to the new area the way an NPC hypothetically would. You can imagine my confusion at how people get to yilong wharf from liyue harbor 😭
5:50 in navia story quest, that area is indeed supposed to be the main hub for boat transport from the court of fontaine to puaso and presumably everywhere else in fontaine.
@@loreyxillumina not when they have at least one line down indefinitely bc mobs/monsters, a magical kaboom, or a supernatural event cut it clean in twain bruh. nyc metro alr sucks hot ass but fontaines system makes me cry
I suppose it would be impossible for an underground train to exist due to irminsul roots, in places like dragon spine, tsurumi, eternal oasis and chasm(where nails were dropped) we can literally see irminsul roots from earth. It seems like leylines are placed not very deep, though the depth can be various, considering the existence of chasm, but it also can suggest that leylines are placed very randomly like somewhere they can be deeper and occupy less space, somewhere they can be near the ground and placed closely to each other. You can't destroy nor remove them(dragon spine, tsurumi and desert experience), you probably can't predict where they are, therefore you can't build an underground railroad.
As much flak the Aquabus lines understandably catch in these videos, the system is younger than Navia, making it incredibly new by the standards of a world where everything else is 500+ years old. It's also unfinished, since it was constructed by a private mafioso, and it was distrupted after his affair with a Champion Duelist. The story quest for Navia actually touches on the issues, and now that the Spina has recovered from Callas' death, she says she wants to start adding more stations to each line. Will Arlechinno use her connections with the Spina to invest in the project and gain influence in Fontaine? Maybe.
I love how some places don't even have roads connecting them and are somehow still busy harbors like how? Why are they still even used if you can't access then by land?
IRL in medieval times it was not unheard of to use only rivers for transport. Because building decent roads was beyond the abilities of the fractured countries..
@@kotarouinugami1745 I'm talking about stuff like Bayda Harbor that has no connection to any place in Sumeru at all and the only road is extremely dangerous but it's still somehow frequented
@@Seami-bz6bt I have to agree about Bayda Harbor. Either there is a lot of transportation by balloons and porters, or the road connection was severed recently. By all logic, it should have proper connection to Sumeru City.
@@kotarouinugami1745 I mean people also travel by desert so i think having a bit of unfinished road basically on top of vanarana is acceptable especially if people of sumeru use sumpter beasts for traveling and not just air ballons
@@generaltoszur1036 The problem is, there doesn't seem to be a way for a sumpter beast to walk that path. there are too many cliffs. Unless sumpter beasts can use those crosses that hang in Sumeru.
I made a map about trade routes on r/Genshin_Lore. What bugged me is the lack of an obvious route from Lumidouce Harbor to the Court of Fontaine... My best guess was it goes through the Fountain of Lucine to get to the aquabus terminal.
Fontaine imo is the most egregious. The "canal lock" for to and from Fontaine is too small for larger ships. Not to mention the tower area is actually taken up by a elevator for people and not for the locks themselves. And yea I noticed how Fontaine is completely walled off from the outside and there are basically no other connection but the aquabus which mean people have to go to take circuitous routes to go to their properties outside. The other factor here is there are no roads from the opera or harbors to said rural areas making navigation difficult. Maybe by boat? But the lack of docks also further disconnect the islands from each other. I also really loved they included public transit in the game. But there are many issues. For one, the route is poorly designed. They should extend the Navia line past Marcotte and down to Lumidouce harbor as their end stop. They can also repair the south wing so they can run through service in Fontaine to Elynas. So Navia line would go from Elynas to Fontaine, to Marcotte, and end at Lumidouce. This will allow the Melusines to travel from Elynas to Fontaine for work. This will also connect their busiest harbor to both the capital city and a major tourist attraction(opera epiclese) Lastly, I would realign the Clementine line to avoid going through a mountain as that is unnecessary construction expense but since it already exists its already sunk cost. Secondly, the alignment would be further west and a station added for Poisson. Since the line goes over southern Elynas, a station there for the Melusines and the couple human settlements there too would be nice. Additionally, the aquaducts are too narrow and only support one boat at a time limiting frequency which gets worse with longer routes. They can add a section in the middle with double width known as a passing track or passing lane. This will allow a boat for each direction and pass each other at the middle doubling frequency. You can add 3 passing segments(two of which can coincide with stations) for 4 boats. Instead of double tracking, passing tracks would be much cheaper.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who realized that Fontaine's layout makes no sense. I like to imagine it's bigger than it actually is and getting to the opera house would be easier than a single aquabus. It looks wildly inconvenient
@@xChaosFlower i think you are not forced to use aquabus to get to the opera house other than some roads from research institute area going next to the opera house , you would just need to jump over fence lol , but there is also this one road from opera house that goes into eriniyes forest and roads there look good , especially with some used house s and rusty rudder along the road
With how dangerous Teyvat seems to be to wander around, it seems to me that most people just pay adventurers or some other group for protection if they need to trade outside of highly patrolled areas.
3:53 canonically speaking, wild Glaze lilies are almost extinct and all of the existing ones are planted by locals, meaning they are somewhat endangered. it makes sense for them to cost a lot considering their demand is rather big. they were fairly common before the Archon war but the amount of destruction, bloodshed, geographic changes and God residue in liyue caused the Ecosystem within liyue to change almost completely.
Me and some friends tried to make the teyvat tradinh route on stream once and we reached similar conclusions to yours lmao Id love to see an event of Teyvat Trades through the nations it would be hela fun
They're super limited when it comes to infrastructure, due to the game having to be compatible with mobile devices. Considering that, its pretty generous.
I would like to add that there are two daily quests connected to the fertiliser salesman in Inazuma, and the second one is when you mess up the receipt and it grows a bunch of mushrooms. So it seems to work
At this point Beerevity is a trade inspector,road inspector,guard inspector,house inspector,water inspector,weather inspector,mountain inspector,Monster inspector,Aranara inspector,ship inspector,inspector inspector.
If it comes down to international trading routes, the only feasible thing to me is a whole maritime line that surrounds Teyvat up to Chenyu Vale, either making Shenznaya a bit of an isolated land with it's own port. So ships have to sail all the way north from Fontaine, over Chenyu Vale, passing Shneznaya port and Dornman up in the north of Mondstadt, to then travel southwards, passing Dragonspine, to either redirect to Inazuma, Liyue Harbor, or pass Liyue to either go to Ormos and Natlan's respective port somewhere southwest. All smaller scale commerce is transported on land through Air Slime balloons or foot merchants that use sumpter beasts, or if we go back to the potion making event, they transport it themselves. (Crazy as frick). Sumeru must get everything through Port Ormos, then the capital gets supplied through small shipments. Commerce between Liyue and Chenyu is also probably done like that. Stone Gate is nothing but a tourism attraction that, at most, sees small merchants moving small cargo. And no other islands but Narukami will probably see development, since there's a crazy lot happening on all other islands (Nobody likes Watatsumi but themselves, so they can do whatever the frick they want.) That's the most reasonable conclusion I can come up with, until Hoyo decides to butcher the northern Teyvat continent even further and decides that, nope, more random mountains between countries up to Shneznaya.
They need to start doing air trade at this point, on water and land trade between Liyue and Fontaine seems hard to accomplish with the current world design😅. I wonder what kind of good they would sell, I'm guessing liyue exports ore, sumeru exports spices and books, Fontaine exports marine life and electronic devices, Mondstadt exports flowers?!, And Inazuma exports yae manga. I think Inazuma and sumeru would have high tourism, inazuma bcs its wonderful islands whilst sumeru bcs people around teyvat come to study in Academia.
To add, Liyue exports their silk since the silk flower grows there. Xinqiu's bio offhandedly mentions his family has ties to the trade and an Inazuman tailor randomly mentions that she gets her silks for her kimonos from Liyue
I literally hate chenyu vale just for this, like it makes no sense how the harbor is that big yet there is no convenient way to get between the harbor and liyue harbor.
Love your video concepts and actually makes me wonder how things Genshin works or relates to our real world life practices. You've done the road inspection and briefly looked at abandoned places around Teyvat. It would be a cool idea if you visit and rank what you think are the creepiest and most dangerous places in Teyvat.
Btw I thought the Sumeru Archon Quest already made it clear that all of Teyvat is just a simulation. And clearly the simulator has forgotten about how reality works😂
i once wanted to do "lore accurate" way cause im out of resin. making my way out from fontaine to liyue and midway through sumeru, i use boats and i just stuck in those narrow ahh "waterway". i gave up 😭
1:36 wangshu inn isn't an inn, it's restaurant. It’s a translation issue but I won’t call it mistranslation. Just the regular occurrences where you can’t find the perfect counterpart in another language/culture. So, Wanshu Inn in Chinese is 望舒客栈. 望舒= Wangshu, which is a legendary sword’s name. 客栈 is translated as inn because I guess it’s the closest we can get. In ancient China,客栈 is typically a restaurant at road for travelers to eat and rest. You can imagine it as an ancient Chinese motel, except for better quality of food, drinks and beds.
The Genshin map is currently about the size of the city of Paris, and… I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure a continent should be bigger than that. I think canonically Teyvat is supposed to be much bigger than what we see in the game but it is that, a game. The bustling cities are bustling, it’s just that we can’t see their real size. If we had a realistically sized map where Sumeru was the size of Iran and Fontaine was as big as France the trades routes would make more sense since there’d be more space for them to exist.
I have always been fascinated by the politics of Teyvat. I want a quest where Ayato, Ninguang, Neuvillete, Jean and Cyno(?) all sit down and have one big meeting with all the arguments and sass of the political meetings. They discuss trade routes, port exports and imports etc
Finally someone talking about it. I don't understand how we didn't go to Fontaine via its northern port and instead they made us cross through the dessert. Then Fontaine main port doesn't even make any sense. Its main port should be the one in Morte Region which is closer to Chenyu Vale and it should have an acuabus directly to the city. The acuabus system doesn't make sense at all, they made a tunnel in a mountain just because, they just should've built it around it or better, make it straight, there's no need to make so many unecessary turns since it's elevated. There should be also ports in Windrise in Mondstadt (and housing over there since it's plain and have water or at least some farms), in the northern zone of Watatsumi Iland, in Liyue near Mt. Laixin at the same water level as the main Fontaine port and Sumeru northern port. And there should be a better road system between Liyue and Sumeru passing through Dunyu Ruins and Lumberpick Valley since is plain and more efficient than going via The Chasm.
I'd like to think that the teyvat in game is just the interesting parts of teyvat and if you're actually there the world would be detailed that arent shown ingame. After all walking from nation to nation in just a couple of days is just weird
It is said that the Aquabus line for Lumidouce Harbor was cancelled because the main investor(Callas) died. And they are at least trying to reboot the project. Why they didn't make this line first is still a mystery though.
I think with the dangers between trade routes and just roads in general are getting monopolized by the aventurers guild Like we can see that some actually asked adventurers to guide and slay monsters along the way
Love this kind of videos hehe. Regarding the topic of getting out of Fotaine's city through only the aquabuses, there's actually an elevator inside the city that leaves you outside the city skirts/wall, however you probably didn't find it because is in an inconvenient place, you have to climb into the water channels above the city (you can climb through the building in which Neuvilette lives or through the aquabuses station). You have to walk on the water channels that go to the west of the city, once you are there, walk along the whole line that's above the west side of the city and in one pilar with doors that will open (if I remember correctly) an interaction option will pop to go down. Note: it's still quite an inconvenient way to transport goods into the city, not to mention that probably no-one besides the traveller or someone shady would use it because your goods and yourself would probably get soaked and if it's hard to get up there, it would also be hard to get back down into the city.
i came across your channel pretty recently, even if you might miss my comment i'd like to leave it here regardless. you are incredibly underrated, and these kinds of videos are very fun and refreshing
I also noticed some of these issues, mainly for the trade routes, because I like to travel a lot on foot ingame and a lot of times the path don't make any sense for example if a carriage wants to go there. Like why do I have to climb and glide to just to travel from Liyue to Sumeru.
In minor defense of all the ports being tiny, we do have to remember that these entire countries are literally the size of small cities. If Mondstadt were entirely flat land, you could literally have a foot race around the perimeter and it wouldn't even be that long compared to some of the larger races people have. There's only so many people you can fit in that amount of space, so the docks being small and empty is only moderately unrealistic.
The sorry state of roads and bridges along these trade routes leads me to believe that Teyvat never economically recovered from the Cataclysm. In fact, I’d bet that it’s been in a kind of dark age ever since. It’s so jarring to see these huge, elegant cities surrounded by crumbling infrastructure. Like, Fontaine is missing 2 Aquabus routes and has made no attempt to rebuild them.
I kiinda remember someone mentioning there was supposed to be an aquabus to the Lumidouce Harbor... if that wasn't a fanon ofc. Anyway, it looks like Callas' ambitions were quite an obstacle for some people so after his death all aquabus ways construction just stopped.
Observations like these really tickles my imagination thinking about how a "realistic" 1:1 scale of Teyvat would actually look like. So much of Teyvat is clearly omitted if not forgotten by devs, and these amazing videos clearly show that
I love me looking at pathways and roads connecting locations in-game. So I'm happy that this vid exist. I have always been wondering the interconnectivity of regions' trade routes
I’m actually happy someone else is interested in this like I always felt I was the only one so invested in the simple bits of Teyvat. A lot of it doesn’t make sense, so I just imagine that Hoyo couldn’t make everything super accurate. Like I make things up to be bigger or different, like obviously a capital city can’t be just 600m long. I see the game separate from the world. To make it feel real I write diaries from the perspectives of people living in Teyvat. It’s weird, but I like coming up with all the little nuances and the way things work.
9:05 This sumerian fertilizer IS better than the average one. However one mistake put you at risk of having whole field of mushrooms (source: daily quest)
Why? Now im interested too but why? One thing i notice tho some of the design somehow match what shaderversity about medieval house he does medieval stuff. Second floor floor is slightly bigger mainly for stability reason i forgot what he mentioned.
when a video you wouldn't normally think off actually goes hard, nice covering each topics of how they actually work since some had me baffled at one point
The trade routes are simple, they wait for a server day reset and they get restocked by hoyoverse
Genshin impact characters dont know a third party exist
@@sophiagonzales8974 huh What they don't?? I thought every hoyoverse characters knows they're in a game like Sampo in HSR
@@sophiagonzales8974 obviously they think its Celestia DUH (this is a joke!)
@@Ekklesia2680 of course they don't celestia is just mihoyo in disguise
@@Picking.a.name.is.hard1 Celestia is just mihoyo
I love it how genshin pays so much attention to the smallest things that most people don't even know (like how every liyue characters constellations aligns with the waypoints in the liyue map) but as soon as we get to normal human things that real people do in real life and it should be pretty easy, nah bro it's the most unreal thing in genshin that it doesn't even make sense
Woah really? Is there any UA-cam video that showcases this? (Liyue constellations)
Yeah not asking for some big harbor. Just adding some more piers or connecting roads would work. Like some roads just end even though they could be easily connected.
@@Sh4rkzz._ Ashikai referenced it in one of her videos, but IIRC, it was a reddit post that went into further detail
You know what they say, "Teyvat has its own laws"
If I remember correctly, then it wasn't only liuye characters but most characters cons could be represented with waypoints of their homeland.
It's so funny to me that Genshin will have you go through quests that permanently alter your game world in HUGE ways like removing the weather from islands in Inazuma, or even sinking an ENTIRE TOWER in Fontaine, but yet we don't have any normal quests to just clear up stuff like the trade route between Mondstadt and Liyue. Like come on Genshin. The closest thing I feel like we've had to that so far was the daily commission to rebuild the bridge in Wangshu Inn. I just want more quests like that.
Instead, we're doing mundane quests like being a delivery person or moving objects 10 feet because the quest initiator is incapable of doing it themselves 😭
Agree
We clear that stuff, but for some reason Tsarevitch doesn't move from his place!
@@June-yq7jy I think it's because he's actually a spy, and getting stuck in there is just an excuse.
I want a damn quest that require you to go trading, and no, no teleporting allow at all.
You have to walk from Fontaine to liyue, ride using boats. Oh and restrict yourself from using character like Furina.
From there, traveller and the other people follow can start talking in the middle of walking on how to improve, and soon the world changes with bigger reading ports
I just wanna see the world changes in front of my eyes.
*“Thank you for your resinless behaviour, beerevity”* we all say in unison :)
Thank you for your resinless behaviour beerevity
Thank you for your resinless behaviour beerevity
Thank you for your resinless behavior beerevity
Thank you for your resinless behaviour, beerevity
Thank you for your resinless behaviour beerevity
I think they work by trading tbh
No way
Omg why did I not think of that 😔
@@Beerevity Idk… but it’s a pretty wild concept, im not sure how i came up with it tbh
@@lil_stuumegamind 😨
No no that cant be it
We should remember that the Teyvat the characters live in and the Teyvat that we get to play in are completely different size and location wise. For example hotels don't have any rooms at all or Layla's village that's 3 days away from Sumeru city to the north when there's isn't such a place what's o ever . Also the abandoned hospital in the desert that's literally just one small room.
Also like how did it take us like a day or smth to get from Liyue to Inazuma how come Kirara can just go throughout the entire Teyvat in a day multiple times and like how NPC often takes us from one side of the country to the other as if it's just a light walk (that happens a lot in Liyue's archon and character story quests like Baizhu)
"teyvat has its own laws" 😭
I am so upset they gave us the northern section of Sumeru without giving us her village (Layla is my fave character). :(
It's not that bad except the that the game is marketed as open world, and most games these days know that open world shouldn't just mean expansive places. Implying the lived-in aspect but not translating it well (like having paths and roads that end randomly or don't lead where they should, etc) just highlight how empty it is. Combine that with the fact there aren't really many cities within the nations, just the main cities, and it feels even emptier.
@@zlatomirchokov896 Nothing drives me more insane than how inconsistent genshin quests are with how long it takes to travel from place to place
@@spyrothetimelordEh, I mean genshin does the whole open world thing a lot better than many other games. Look at the open world for pokemon SV for example , so many empty places with barely anything to do except catch a pokemon you've already seen before
holy shit guys she found another job
Collecting job titles like stamps.
Soon she will wear a badge of each of them on her cloths!
ur videos feed my insatiable hunger for hyperanalysing the architectural structure of teyvat
I've been doing it for years on my own and thought I was alone, the one time I looked up if anyone else felt the same I just found a reddit thread where someone complained about the city layout of Fontaine and all the comments were telling them they were thinking too much and it was just a game
@@liz8333 SAME, but with a friend
@@liz8333y'all, i thought i am the only one
Same coz Genshin is the only game that I was immersed with how life would it actually be in there and in the architectural structure which are based on our real world.
The Fontainian woman of the last event said she was a naval artillery engineer and I'm just like... what navy? You telling me your nation, raised on a platform, had a decent navy? And it fought with some other navy and got obliterated? Does it look like Yilong Wharf or Bayda Harbor can hold a fleet of ships that also has artillery?
"Somehow the most random things make the most sense." -Some random person
I have been waiting for this for so long! Ever since I discovered Baida Habor by sailing from Fontaine to there, I saw that some Fontain merchants had the same idea, and wondered how the trade works for other areas. Also, if there are so many traders and merchants, why do the trade routes have such little protection? Traveling in Teyvat without a vision is a miracle. These npcs deserve visions because they're the ones with true ambition.
The game recognizes the lack of protection with the amount of quests we have to do to protect the merchants.
Couldn't Mora be a Vision?
Traveling Teyvat as a tourist seems okay, but getting your goods anywhere as a merchant seems to be quite an adventure.
Most likely, most merchants don't actually go far - the same batch of goods just changes hands a whole lot while getting from one place to another.
They literally hire body guards for it, we are beaten over the head with that info multiple times. (Gaming's Lantern Rite, Kirara, Corps of Thirty, etc...) The real question is do they have money to hire that. Teyvat is one giant gig economy made in Russia and it's consequences is basically the industrial revolution meme taken literally. There's a reason why Pants the banker is somehow one of the top brass of the Fatui and even he have to deal with annoyances like Yelan on a daily basis
@@kotarouinugami1745 changing hands many times would make everything incredibly expensive, ofc they hire bodyguards and avoid sketchy places
I liked it when Bee came in and said it's trading time and traded all over the place
Beerebius, truly one of the movies of all time
I am an irl transport planner watching this on my lunch. I am unsure if this video really counts as a break but hey at least someone else is as passionate about this as I am!
Loving these inspection videos. Also a fun fact, there is a reason why glaze Lillies and dandelion seeds are sold so expensively. Glaze Lillies are apparently at the brink of extinction and they’re very rare to find (excluding the fact that you can literally farm them every 3 days in qingce village). And inazuma was under the sokaku decree so any goods from outside nation were sold at an unreasonably high price, guess that lady never reduced the price even after the decree ended. Should talk to the higher organisation.
I guess the market's rules apply in Teyvat too. If a dandelion seed costs 60k mora, it'd be cheaper to just sail over to Mondstadt and grab those themself
Shinobu's sweating because our girl here is slowly becoming another certified master of everything.
They would be good friends!
idea: how about u rate the mayor cities, like if they got everything to supply the citizens , enough houses to live in, how friendly the citizens are, how the government works, if they are outsider friendly. You could maybe even include some small villages, like how to they get through everyday life
In that potion brewing event, Beidou talked about bringing her ship to Fontaine or Chenyu Vale
And I already was way too confused when I heard that, I mean..
...how the heck can you fit that big of a ship through those tiny rivers and streams in Chenyu Vale? Like, HOW?!?!
simple, the world in lore is ofc much bigger than what we actually get for obvious reasons lol
Its secretly s flying ship, like the one Wriohsly built.
Her ship can't even reach Wangshu Inn and she wants to bring them to Chenyu Vale?
Beidou's ship doesnt have a Paimon saying " why dont we explore the area ahead of us later", so she can go out of bounds and sail through the unknown.
@@AashishPrajapati-nr2ox LMAO
i only hope that when the anime releases it has a truly realist word. Like the game is just an oversimplified look of teyvat and it really is wayyyyy more big and complex
maybe the gates below the harbors in fontaine are shipyards, their boats are all small
in mona quest she said that to tarvel from diluc's house to monstats its took 3 days so the wayyyyyy too bigger than what we have see in game
The world building is a bit sad when you look into it like this
It’s always the first way I explore, and pisses me off every time💀
I know right? At least HoYo put in ports so it makes an iota of sense, but still
I see it in a different way: the fact that one can even make such a video, shows that the developers put a lot of work into their worldbuilding.
@@kotarouinugami1745 fair, fair. But it is still a bit sad when you're being told from the start of the game that trade from Fontaine to liyue comes from chenyu vale and then the map comes out and it makes no sense
And bayda harbor is even worse. Like imagine, dornman port, mondstat big trade port, which we all know about, comes out and it has no lore no nothing, just a tiny little port with not even a proper land connection to mondstat city
It feels like people sat and did the world building on how the entire interaction between nations thing is gonna work and then the map designers just kinda forgot almost
It's been irritating me for a few years, got used to it. But, just yesterday, a new event started, and the npc there says that Fontaine used to have a powerful navy before it got destroyed in a war. Um, I'm probably missing something... But what war? The archon war? The Khaenria cataclysm? Which happened 500 years ago? Maybe Remuria's demise whenever that happened? And they couldn't build a new navy after that?
Maybe I'm exaggerating, maybe they don't need a navy, but I think Fontainians are well aware of the Fatui and a potential threat from the north, and all they got is local gendarmerie?
That's just a thing that works in the real world but not in Genshin
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Fun fact this guys existence aligns well with Noelles character story about a guy trying to derail mondstats wine industry who leaves because he was terrified of Noelles niceness because he thought she eas onto him
I think for watatsumi theyre still technically in development since theyve been isolated for years (just did heizous hangout revently Lol and basically watatsumi has been kind of smuggling ?? Goods for a bit while they wait for an official decree to be signed so imports arent as expensive for them anymore) but other than that this vid was so fun to watch LOL it made my brain hurt thinking of all the detours they'd have to make for trade ...
yes. Watatsumi so far has been providing for itself with little trade. Watatsumi while at a little odds with Shogunate, are still considered a part of Inazuma nation. So they cannot initiate international trade by themselves even if they have the route for that. This could also be the reason why watatsumi might not be interested in trade within inazuma as well. They are hardly on good terms with Shogunate, and you usually don't trade in decent amounts where relations are that sour. Sure some merchants go in and out, but that can hardly be called "trade". So it would make sense why they did not seem necessary to have a well developed port. Not to mention, Watatsumi is not rich by any means.
If they cannot initiate international trade, their Pearls and corals are meaningless. They do not produce enough crops to have an agricultural trade. The only thing going for them could be fishing trade, but we know that Shogunate and Watatsumi fishing borders are pretty close. infact watatsumi's fisher men often fish in Narukami waters(part of her story quest)...if you have to fish in someone else's waters then what are you even trading with them? So watatsumi island is relatively poor(sadly). The resistance was already on the verge of collapse. It was their sheer rage for Shogunate, Gorou/Kokomi's leadership, Yashiro commissions help, and well also Fatui's help, that kept them going. So yes, now is the time when they can hope to actually do some legit trading now that they are on better terms with Narukami. But even with that, i doubt what can they even offer Shogunate in exchange?
My bet is, they will establish themselves as pearl and coral producers in Ritou under the Inazuman international trade(as states cannot usually bypass National laws regarding trade), the Shogunate will receive portion of their earning and on the other hand, the Watatsumi traders will have buyers buying through Ritou's channels and trade routes protected by the shogunate when in their territory.
To have a feel on what the "actual" scale of teyvat you can see it in arle domain. The building where you're fighting her are like 3x much larger and the scenery looks way bigger too. Even then you can still argue that teyvat is much bigger than it
Who needs roads when you have balloon transport that needs saving by the traveler every single time
I think they just needed more excitement in their lives and made all routes extremely difficult to navigate so they won't bore to death
in fontaine city there is a elevator near the teleport in the side of the city, that leads to the main area of the city, but the water there is quite shallow so idk, but i think is the main way to npcs to leave the court outside of the aquabuses
I know that, it's at the western wing of the city, right? I always use that to travel to and from Poisson when I feel like not using teleporters
From my understanding, Tevyat have some technology of airship. We can look in daily quest in Monstadt, Liyue, Inazuma and random encounters in Sumeru that some merchant use small airlift zeppelin to carry merchandhise to other area in map
still uses land routes
Yeah, it seems that in really rough roads, transport is by adventurer-guarded balloon, and that drives the prices up greatly.
fountaine have a big airship like final fantasy
@@kotarouinugami1745 Also those Sumeru beasts seem to be really heavily used as a way to pass through the rainforest desert and anything else really in Sumeru.
This makes me wish for a map revamp once most of the nations get released. Like just making it look nicer and more believable especially in these trade routes and roads. Probably too much work since they already made the regions, but it would be a cool update late into the game maybe.
In Navia's story quest, the spot in 5:50 is the place where you get on a boat to Poisson. So I believe that is where the goods are dropped off.
And then there is the shipyard problem when you realise that only Liyue Harbor and the Fortress of Meropide have them.
what makes the liyue trade route even messier is the trade route along the Bishui river was apparently CLOSED for some unspecified time for an unspecified reason according to Ganyu's voice-line about Keqing. that's just. hanging out there with no explanation.
it's basically highway and car-centric system we have.
the poor development of port is clearly due to the poor fund management by the government.
im so glad that i'm not the only one who notices these things. every time a new land expansion update drops, I like to make my way to the new area the way an NPC hypothetically would. You can imagine my confusion at how people get to yilong wharf from liyue harbor 😭
i know i have an addiction to this game if im watching an analysis on its trading routes
Aight boys, Time to predict what the next video will be!
I predict she's going to trap herself in Inazuma
5:50 in navia story quest, that area is indeed supposed to be the main hub for boat transport from the court of fontaine to puaso and presumably everywhere else in fontaine.
My favorate thing to do: applying irl logic into games
I would love the idea of a video discussing if teyvat had a highway / train system
Fontaine has
@@loreyxillumina not when they have at least one line down indefinitely bc mobs/monsters, a magical kaboom, or a supernatural event cut it clean in twain bruh. nyc metro alr sucks hot ass but fontaines system makes me cry
I suppose it would be impossible for an underground train to exist due to irminsul roots, in places like dragon spine, tsurumi, eternal oasis and chasm(where nails were dropped) we can literally see irminsul roots from earth. It seems like leylines are placed not very deep, though the depth can be various, considering the existence of chasm, but it also can suggest that leylines are placed very randomly like somewhere they can be deeper and occupy less space, somewhere they can be near the ground and placed closely to each other. You can't destroy nor remove them(dragon spine, tsurumi and desert experience), you probably can't predict where they are, therefore you can't build an underground railroad.
this is my favorite kind of worldbuilding analyzation
As much flak the Aquabus lines understandably catch in these videos, the system is younger than Navia, making it incredibly new by the standards of a world where everything else is 500+ years old. It's also unfinished, since it was constructed by a private mafioso, and it was distrupted after his affair with a Champion Duelist. The story quest for Navia actually touches on the issues, and now that the Spina has recovered from Callas' death, she says she wants to start adding more stations to each line.
Will Arlechinno use her connections with the Spina to invest in the project and gain influence in Fontaine? Maybe.
I love how some places don't even have roads connecting them and are somehow still busy harbors like how? Why are they still even used if you can't access then by land?
IRL in medieval times it was not unheard of to use only rivers for transport. Because building decent roads was beyond the abilities of the fractured countries..
@@kotarouinugami1745 I'm talking about stuff like Bayda Harbor that has no connection to any place in Sumeru at all and the only road is extremely dangerous but it's still somehow frequented
@@Seami-bz6bt I have to agree about Bayda Harbor. Either there is a lot of transportation by balloons and porters, or the road connection was severed recently. By all logic, it should have proper connection to Sumeru City.
@@kotarouinugami1745 I mean people also travel by desert so i think having a bit of unfinished road basically on top of vanarana is acceptable especially if people of sumeru use sumpter beasts for traveling and not just air ballons
@@generaltoszur1036 The problem is, there doesn't seem to be a way for a sumpter beast to walk that path. there are too many cliffs.
Unless sumpter beasts can use those crosses that hang in Sumeru.
Dang, they really poured effort into that game
I made a map about trade routes on r/Genshin_Lore. What bugged me is the lack of an obvious route from Lumidouce Harbor to the Court of Fontaine... My best guess was it goes through the Fountain of Lucine to get to the aquabus terminal.
Fontaine imo is the most egregious. The "canal lock" for to and from Fontaine is too small for larger ships. Not to mention the tower area is actually taken up by a elevator for people and not for the locks themselves.
And yea I noticed how Fontaine is completely walled off from the outside and there are basically no other connection but the aquabus which mean people have to go to take circuitous routes to go to their properties outside.
The other factor here is there are no roads from the opera or harbors to said rural areas making navigation difficult. Maybe by boat? But the lack of docks also further disconnect the islands from each other.
I also really loved they included public transit in the game. But there are many issues. For one, the route is poorly designed. They should extend the Navia line past Marcotte and down to Lumidouce harbor as their end stop. They can also repair the south wing so they can run through service in Fontaine to Elynas.
So Navia line would go from Elynas to Fontaine, to Marcotte, and end at Lumidouce. This will allow the Melusines to travel from Elynas to Fontaine for work. This will also connect their busiest harbor to both the capital city and a major tourist attraction(opera epiclese)
Lastly, I would realign the Clementine line to avoid going through a mountain as that is unnecessary construction expense but since it already exists its already sunk cost. Secondly, the alignment would be further west and a station added for Poisson. Since the line goes over southern Elynas, a station there for the Melusines and the couple human settlements there too would be nice.
Additionally, the aquaducts are too narrow and only support one boat at a time limiting frequency which gets worse with longer routes. They can add a section in the middle with double width known as a passing track or passing lane. This will allow a boat for each direction and pass each other at the middle doubling frequency. You can add 3 passing segments(two of which can coincide with stations) for 4 boats. Instead of double tracking, passing tracks would be much cheaper.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who realized that Fontaine's layout makes no sense. I like to imagine it's bigger than it actually is and getting to the opera house would be easier than a single aquabus. It looks wildly inconvenient
@@xChaosFlower
If you look at pre-game comics Mondstadt compared to game Mondstadt, well, there is a pretty blatant difference
@@xChaosFlower i think you are not forced to use aquabus to get to the opera house other than some roads from research institute area going next to the opera house , you would just need to jump over fence lol , but there is also this one road from opera house that goes into eriniyes forest and roads there look good , especially with some used house s and rusty rudder along the road
7:00 WELCOME TO BAYDA HARBOR GOOD STRANGERS 🗣🗣🗣💯💯💯
This is genuinely more interesting to me than khaenriah lore
With how dangerous Teyvat seems to be to wander around, it seems to me that most people just pay adventurers or some other group for protection if they need to trade outside of highly patrolled areas.
3:53 canonically speaking, wild Glaze lilies are almost extinct and all of the existing ones are planted by locals, meaning they are somewhat endangered. it makes sense for them to cost a lot considering their demand is rather big.
they were fairly common before the Archon war but the amount of destruction, bloodshed, geographic changes and God residue in liyue caused the Ecosystem within liyue to change almost completely.
Poor traders in sumeru are being mauled by aranaras
Me and some friends tried to make the teyvat tradinh route on stream once and we reached similar conclusions to yours lmao
Id love to see an event of Teyvat Trades through the nations it would be hela fun
I totally forgot about tatarasuna
Making fun of the things that make no sense is fun, but I love how they at least try to give some explanation for these worldbuilding things
They're super limited when it comes to infrastructure, due to the game having to be compatible with mobile devices. Considering that, its pretty generous.
Im suddenly getting flashbacks to bloodborne lore when I see these things like abandoned areas that seem to have been or needed to be more populated.
I would like to add that there are two daily quests connected to the fertiliser salesman in Inazuma, and the second one is when you mess up the receipt and it grows a bunch of mushrooms. So it seems to work
Ahh yes, when the rpg world game environments being more gestural than literal representations of their worlds starts showing/falling apart 😄
At this point Beerevity is a trade inspector,road inspector,guard inspector,house inspector,water inspector,weather inspector,mountain inspector,Monster inspector,Aranara inspector,ship inspector,inspector inspector.
i love your genshin videos so so much, it makes me so immersed into teyvat and it reminds me of why i truly love this silly lil game
thank GOD someone asking the real questions
Some of them borrow or buy the aircraft from fontaine for fast and safety exploration maybe?
Ooh, i compleatly forgot about the fontainian airships!
This is very useful ℹ️. I rather learn about Teyvat trade route rather than our actual trade history 💀
This is definitely something that bugged me a lot ever since Chenyu Vale and Bayda Harbor were released hahaha
It funny how fontaine back then possesed a huge navy while at the same time located inland
If it comes down to international trading routes, the only feasible thing to me is a whole maritime line that surrounds Teyvat up to Chenyu Vale, either making Shenznaya a bit of an isolated land with it's own port. So ships have to sail all the way north from Fontaine, over Chenyu Vale, passing Shneznaya port and Dornman up in the north of Mondstadt, to then travel southwards, passing Dragonspine, to either redirect to Inazuma, Liyue Harbor, or pass Liyue to either go to Ormos and Natlan's respective port somewhere southwest. All smaller scale commerce is transported on land through Air Slime balloons or foot merchants that use sumpter beasts, or if we go back to the potion making event, they transport it themselves. (Crazy as frick).
Sumeru must get everything through Port Ormos, then the capital gets supplied through small shipments. Commerce between Liyue and Chenyu is also probably done like that. Stone Gate is nothing but a tourism attraction that, at most, sees small merchants moving small cargo.
And no other islands but Narukami will probably see development, since there's a crazy lot happening on all other islands (Nobody likes Watatsumi but themselves, so they can do whatever the frick they want.)
That's the most reasonable conclusion I can come up with, until Hoyo decides to butcher the northern Teyvat continent even further and decides that, nope, more random mountains between countries up to Shneznaya.
They need to start doing air trade at this point, on water and land trade between Liyue and Fontaine seems hard to accomplish with the current world design😅. I wonder what kind of good they would sell, I'm guessing liyue exports ore, sumeru exports spices and books, Fontaine exports marine life and electronic devices, Mondstadt exports flowers?!, And Inazuma exports yae manga. I think Inazuma and sumeru would have high tourism, inazuma bcs its wonderful islands whilst sumeru bcs people around teyvat come to study in Academia.
Oh.. I forgot Mondstadt has Diluc winery
To add, Liyue exports their silk since the silk flower grows there. Xinqiu's bio offhandedly mentions his family has ties to the trade and an Inazuman tailor randomly mentions that she gets her silks for her kimonos from Liyue
I literally hate chenyu vale just for this, like it makes no sense how the harbor is that big yet there is no convenient way to get between the harbor and liyue harbor.
Bruh they literally have a guard the carriage commissions 😂
Love your video concepts and actually makes me wonder how things Genshin works or relates to our real world life practices.
You've done the road inspection and briefly looked at abandoned places around Teyvat. It would be a cool idea if you visit and rank what you think are the creepiest and most dangerous places in Teyvat.
Btw I thought the Sumeru Archon Quest already made it clear that all of Teyvat is just a simulation.
And clearly the simulator has forgotten about how reality works😂
i once wanted to do "lore accurate" way cause im out of resin. making my way out from fontaine to liyue and midway through sumeru, i use boats and i just stuck in those narrow ahh "waterway". i gave up 😭
1:36 wangshu inn isn't an inn, it's restaurant. It’s a translation issue but I won’t call it mistranslation. Just the regular occurrences where you can’t find the perfect counterpart in another language/culture. So, Wanshu Inn in Chinese is 望舒客栈. 望舒= Wangshu, which is a legendary sword’s name. 客栈 is translated as inn because I guess it’s the closest we can get. In ancient China,客栈 is typically a restaurant at road for travelers to eat and rest. You can imagine it as an ancient Chinese motel, except for better quality of food, drinks and beds.
isn't inn in western medieval fantasy also kinda like that? it act like tavern for food and drinking, place to gather, and for traveler to rest
imagine how complicated the trade routes will progress after the release of Natlan a couple of months later 💀
The Genshin map is currently about the size of the city of Paris, and… I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure a continent should be bigger than that. I think canonically Teyvat is supposed to be much bigger than what we see in the game but it is that, a game. The bustling cities are bustling, it’s just that we can’t see their real size. If we had a realistically sized map where Sumeru was the size of Iran and Fontaine was as big as France the trades routes would make more sense since there’d be more space for them to exist.
"Teyvat has its own laws" Dang, the Trading definitely have their own laws😔
your videos are always such a joy to watch!! it would be cool if you could inspect each of the cities for how disabled-friendly they are 🤔
I have always been fascinated by the politics of Teyvat. I want a quest where Ayato, Ninguang, Neuvillete, Jean and Cyno(?) all sit down and have one big meeting with all the arguments and sass of the political meetings. They discuss trade routes, port exports and imports etc
Finally someone talking about it. I don't understand how we didn't go to Fontaine via its northern port and instead they made us cross through the dessert. Then Fontaine main port doesn't even make any sense. Its main port should be the one in Morte Region which is closer to Chenyu Vale and it should have an acuabus directly to the city. The acuabus system doesn't make sense at all, they made a tunnel in a mountain just because, they just should've built it around it or better, make it straight, there's no need to make so many unecessary turns since it's elevated.
There should be also ports in Windrise in Mondstadt (and housing over there since it's plain and have water or at least some farms), in the northern zone of Watatsumi Iland, in Liyue near Mt. Laixin at the same water level as the main Fontaine port and Sumeru northern port.
And there should be a better road system between Liyue and Sumeru passing through Dunyu Ruins and Lumberpick Valley since is plain and more efficient than going via The Chasm.
Video suggestion: how feasible and easy it would be to live in a region. WHERE IS ALL THE FOOD COMING FROM???
I'd like to think that the teyvat in game is just the interesting parts of teyvat and if you're actually there the world would be detailed that arent shown ingame. After all walking from nation to nation in just a couple of days is just weird
my favourite geographist in genshin
It is said that the Aquabus line for Lumidouce Harbor was cancelled because the main investor(Callas) died. And they are at least trying to reboot the project. Why they didn't make this line first is still a mystery though.
Right, it should have been the first line they made.
Girl i swear, you have the most original and out of pocket video ideas, love it 🫶
I think with the dangers between trade routes and just roads in general are getting monopolized by the aventurers guild
Like we can see that some actually asked adventurers to guide and slay monsters along the way
Love this kind of videos hehe. Regarding the topic of getting out of Fotaine's city through only the aquabuses, there's actually an elevator inside the city that leaves you outside the city skirts/wall, however you probably didn't find it because is in an inconvenient place, you have to climb into the water channels above the city (you can climb through the building in which Neuvilette lives or through the aquabuses station). You have to walk on the water channels that go to the west of the city, once you are there, walk along the whole line that's above the west side of the city and in one pilar with doors that will open (if I remember correctly) an interaction option will pop to go down.
Note: it's still quite an inconvenient way to transport goods into the city, not to mention that probably no-one besides the traveller or someone shady would use it because your goods and yourself would probably get soaked and if it's hard to get up there, it would also be hard to get back down into the city.
I think its because watatsumi is closer than mondstadt but hey im not the inspector
This is insane
You're not wrong 😂
i came across your channel pretty recently, even if you might miss my comment i'd like to leave it here regardless. you are incredibly underrated, and these kinds of videos are very fun and refreshing
I also noticed some of these issues, mainly for the trade routes, because I like to travel a lot on foot ingame and a lot of times the path don't make any sense for example if a carriage wants to go there. Like why do I have to climb and glide to just to travel from Liyue to Sumeru.
New favourite channel! :D (I actually never thought about this before, Thanks for the knowledge :D)
In minor defense of all the ports being tiny, we do have to remember that these entire countries are literally the size of small cities. If Mondstadt were entirely flat land, you could literally have a foot race around the perimeter and it wouldn't even be that long compared to some of the larger races people have. There's only so many people you can fit in that amount of space, so the docks being small and empty is only moderately unrealistic.
You should make a video reviewing how up up code the restaurants/food selling places are!
I second this!
The sorry state of roads and bridges along these trade routes leads me to believe that Teyvat never economically recovered from the Cataclysm. In fact, I’d bet that it’s been in a kind of dark age ever since. It’s so jarring to see these huge, elegant cities surrounded by crumbling infrastructure. Like, Fontaine is missing 2 Aquabus routes and has made no attempt to rebuild them.
I kiinda remember someone mentioning there was supposed to be an aquabus to the Lumidouce Harbor... if that wasn't a fanon ofc. Anyway, it looks like Callas' ambitions were quite an obstacle for some people so after his death all aquabus ways construction just stopped.
I CAUGHT A BEEREVITY VIDEO EARLY WOOAAAHAH!!!!
I love the realistic analysis of Teyvat’s structure. Definitely gonna sub
One year later: Hoyo has seen your videos and taken your feedback to heart, fixing all the issues you raised.
Sikes
Observations like these really tickles my imagination thinking about how a "realistic" 1:1 scale of Teyvat would actually look like. So much of Teyvat is clearly omitted if not forgotten by devs, and these amazing videos clearly show that
I love me looking at pathways and roads connecting locations in-game. So I'm happy that this vid exist.
I have always been wondering the interconnectivity of regions' trade routes
I’m actually happy someone else is interested in this like I always felt I was the only one so invested in the simple bits of Teyvat. A lot of it doesn’t make sense, so I just imagine that Hoyo couldn’t make everything super accurate. Like I make things up to be bigger or different, like obviously a capital city can’t be just 600m long. I see the game separate from the world. To make it feel real I write diaries from the perspectives of people living in Teyvat. It’s weird, but I like coming up with all the little nuances and the way things work.
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This sumerian fertilizer IS better than the average one. However one mistake put you at risk of having whole field of mushrooms (source: daily quest)
Can you see how safe monstad's houses are i want to get a house there
Why? Now im interested too but why?
One thing i notice tho some of the design somehow match what shaderversity about medieval house he does medieval stuff. Second
floor floor is slightly bigger mainly for stability reason i forgot what he mentioned.
when a video you wouldn't normally think off actually goes hard, nice covering each topics of how they actually work since some had me baffled at one point