Lumberjacks and medieval villages

well, it depends on the level of service.

actual lumber MILLING, that is, taking trees and turning them into lumber might make for a more interesting buisiness/encounter area.

you have tree-cutters, mule-drivers, Mill operators(or lumber splitters), the cook, probably a charcoal burner and/or cord-cutter(gotta fuel them cookfires in the city man), a carter to carry supplies back and forth to town, and maybe a camp whore.

all of them, burly men and women with axes...

and people in this job need far more than just ONE type of axe, there are felling axes, trimming axes, splitting mauls, offset axes, broad-axes, wedges, etc...

Your typical woodsman's job was to go into a forest, harvest mature trees, remove branches and bark, cut it into manageable sizes then transport it back to town.

He would also clear the forest of underbrush to reduce the possibility of fire, harvest some wild plants opportunistically, plant new trees (or leave stumps from trees that can regrow from a stump).

Much of the time this would be pretty safe. Many woodsmen worked in lots and forest deliberately set aside to provide fuel and raw material.

>medieval village life would be helpful too.
work your trade, take a break every few hours(the work day was longer, but these people DID take breaks, working to the clock is a modern thing)

EVERYONE CARRIES A KNIFE, its like carrying a watch or wallet. you eat with it, you use it to cut stuff, you almost always need one.

shit smells BAD
leather tanning, labor sweat, animal dung everywhere, smoke from cooking fires, etc.
if it's an investigation then you might have smells that DON'T work with certain locations.
combined with the superstitions about immersing yourself in water in medieval European communities

people were not usually literate...this does NOT mean they were stupid, it just means they probably wouldn't write a thing down or give credence to a written thing.

wc lvl?

Adding to the illiteracy thing:

It usually means that people have a lot of HARD PRACTICE with the things they do.

And information is often passed in little rhymes and songs, and other easy to talk about snippets.

huehuehuehue

> Daytime
Chop down trees
> Nighttime
Sleep
> Weekends
Skip and jump, press wild flowers, put on women's clothing, hang around in bars

People worked mostly by daylight, so the woke up very early, ate heavy and went to his job to start to work with the sunrise, until sundown.
Weather was important, too, as nobody wanted to risk dead from neumony or whatever you could got by getting out under a rain (spanish fag here, sorry about my english).
The season of the year was very important on the village live

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Kek'd

All the information you want is freely and readily available online, asking tg about actual history, while using a term that's as incredibly vague as "medieval" (it's a completely useless term, you should narrow it down to a specific century at least) will only result in a bunch of bullshit presented as fact from people who learned everything they know about history from videogames and podcasts.

The answer to your question will vary immensely based on time and specific place, like every other sort of industry.

Imagine you're from the year 2500 and going to 14chan to ask about 20th century technology and go "What was airplanes like in the 20th century?"

One guy jumps in the thread and tells you about the kind of plane that's barely one step away from the Wrights Brothers first manned flight, another guy starts telling you about the B2 Stealth bomber, and they're BOTH right. And that's ONE century, the "medieval" period spans several hundred years.

Well, tell em. Educate the unwashed masses. Share your knowledge and maybe learn something new. Just because its Veeky Forums doesn't mean we have to be /tv/.

Sure, but the answer depends on what specific time period/equivalent level of material development he's playing in.

"medieval" in popular usage encompasses something like a thousand years, and even if we just zoom in on something like turn of the millennium to say, the 1500s, society, technology and industry looks completely different. From blacksmithing and warfare to agriculture, all of it is different depending on when and where. If the OP would be more specific, I'd gladly do it, but chances are he's after something like "well you know, D&D kind of medieval" and then it's a waste of effort anyway.