Main house The Huns' main house was solely reserved for the chieftain of the pack. All resources produced by the tribe, as well as spoils and prisoners, had to be handed in there, and thus became the personal property of the Hun chieftain. Before long, the prisoners usually ended up as ghastly trophies adorning the tent of the horde leader. Residential building Like their other structures, the residential tents of the Huns could be erected and taken down in an instant. Their furnishings were accordingly meager: Apart from a fireplace and a few household goods, the only things to be found here were a few furs to protect the inhabitants from the cold of the night.   Butcher's shop As the Huns never took to farming, they depended almost completely on hunting for the provision of food. It is doubtful, though, whether they limited themselves to animals when choosing their victims. On the contrary, it is probably safe to assume that they tended to consider every living thing outside their own horde as fair game.   Carpenter's workshop Wood was not the only raw material Hun carpenters worked with in their workshops. Quite often, they would also use bones left over from the butcher's shop to make articles for everyday use. Incidentally, the origin of objects that were manufactured from extraordinarily big bones remains a mystery – this refers in particular to the colossal skulls that the Huns used to decorate their tents. Mine The mines that the Huns built and operated hardly merited that title. In fact, when it came to acquiring ore, the nomadic horsemen had to rely on chance findings. They would simply erect a tent wherever they happened upon metalliferous stones on the surface of the earth and assign the most stupid but strongest members of the horde – usually the skull breakers – to scrape the sought-after material from the ground. Stable Being a nation of horsemen, horse breeding was naturally of great importance to the Huns. But if you are picturing the nomads roaming the steppes on noble thoroughbreds, you'll be sorely disappointed: The Huns had small shaggy horses, which were however extremely robust and tireless. Armory The weapons that the Huns manufactured were neither elegant nor of high quality. They were rather crude tools for killing, and could be relied upon to do their job in the hands of any seasoned warrior. Accordingly, the only striking feature of Hunnish weapons is that they are without exception devised to inflict particularly severe and slow-healing wounds. Goldsmith's workshop Like any other barbarian nation, the Huns loved gold. As the natural mining of this precious metal posed considerable problems for the nomadic horsemen, they tended to procure it by robbery and theft. All the same, any Hun horde was able to obtain gold from the right ore. Place of sacrifice Places of sacrifice were the central features of any Hun settlement. Their blood-thirsty and merciless gods demanded continual attention and were wont to deal out severe punishment for any horde that neglected its religious duties. A typical punishment consisted of the total elimination of the negligent tribe. Storage house As the Huns more or less lived from hand to mouth, they were in no particular need of storage facilities for their resources. Therefore, storage tents were only erected on the instructions of a wise chieftain capable of realizing the advantages of storekeeping.