EPIC finale on Hermitcraft 9

Hello and welcome to this final episode of hermitcraft Season 9 it’s going to be a little bit different from my usual episodes I’ve got some of my favorite moments from the season playing on screen and I’m just going to ramble over the top so firstly let’s get some facts

Out of the way uh hermitcraft season 9 has just finished there will be a hermitcraft season 10 coming in the new year and I absolutely intend on being a key part of that series I’m going to be there from day one I already have some fun ideas being put together for what I

Want to achieve and I genuinely can’t wait to be part of it and I I can’t wait to actually start out on a fresh world again with all of my hermit friends now I’m sure there will be a lot of like admin ask questions about things like

The world downloads and other bits like that and I’m going to put all of those down in the comment section because if I try and do it now I will inevitably mess it up and then have to do a correcting comment anyway so I might as well just

Skip a step and put it all down in the comment anyway let’s talk about uh season 9 season 9 was an incredible season for the Hermits and hermitcraft as a whole there was some of the largest community events ever in the history of hermitcraft it had probably the biggest

Variety of stories and different play Styles across the board it feels like everyone has just really found their grooves and there’s just so much creativity coming out of all the players there was a massive crossover of course there’s Decked Out by Tango can’t help but mention that have to mention that

One there’s been Prank Wars there’s been giant industrial builds there’s been chaos there’s been stupidity there’s been tons of silliness it’s been mad it’s been pretty mad and there’s a lot of things I’m absolutely GED I missed out on and also there’s a lot of things

I absolutely loved being a part of now look okay we can’t really talk about what happened with me for hcraft season 9 without really giving the context of season 8 so season 8 was probably one of the most high otine like action dense seasons ever um but it did get

Criticized by some people for ending quite abruptly which I think is fair enough we wanted to avoid the slow down of the late stages of the season where motivation kind of gradually Fades and Peters out and instead we wanted to end when the energy was really high and I

End on a high and when people are still super invested but I think this break from the norm did throw some people off uh where I do think we did mess up was we had a huge break between hermitcraft season 8 and season 9 and that’s simply

Because the reason we did season 8 so short is because we wanted to launch season 9 for the when the massive update really and then unfortunately Mojang decided to split that update into two separate updates and yeah the the the first half of the update wasn’t really that strong

So then we thought okay well we’ll still End season 8 when we intended to but then we’ll launch season 9 when the second part comes out and then they just kept pushing that part further and further back so then we ended up just launching season 9 anyway

And it was in a bit of a No Man’s Land which obviously it’s no one’s fault you know these things happen there’s so many moving Parts but for me personally it definitely took the wind out of my sales a little bit and I remember when the

Season launched I logged in on day one and then actually didn’t join for the second day which never really happens with me but you know I was a little bit concerned but I brushed it off then I made episode 2 which was my epic failure of a slime farm which is genuinely

Hilarious and it’s a project that I look upon incredibly fondly not just because it completely revolutionized slime farming accidentally but also it’s just it’s cool it was it was weird um but then when it came to making episode 3 I just I couldn’t do it I had built up

What a hermitcraft episode had to be so high from season 8 and I had so much desire to constantly make better and better things that the lack of motivation to play and the pressure to do something good combined in a perfect storm to create just crippling in action

I would just sit in my computer not able to log on writing out ideas and then scribbling them out and just getting super stressed and you’ve all heard this before before um I took a month off I returned for a few weeks and then just completely dipped out I like yeah at

That time I was like pretty certain that I was quitting YouTube and I wasn’t going to come back um and then as the months ticked on you know I battled with purpose I battled with life direction for a while then me and my girlfriend decided to cycle from our house in

England to Rome in Italy and I decided as I was crossing in the Alps this is all very poetic uh that actually I would return to making YouTube videos once I got back from the trip hermitcraft still scared me a bit though so I eased myself into making Redstone videos for a few

Months before rejoining in early 2023 and over a year since the start of the season um which is bold uh now there’s no doubt the Hermits were really really welcoming it was so nice to be back online to rejoin the sin to be back working collaboratively again building

Up the vault was really cool revisiting that project you know creating another diamond button finding that I actually was the rich of hermit there were loads of things that were great really really happy with the videos I will say it did feel like I was a bit of a stranger on

My own server though if I’m going to be real that’s just what happens when you take a year off nothing felt familiar there were loads of jokes I didn’t understand an entire storylines I had just absolutely no idea of I was also completely out of sync with everyone

Else in terms of progress obviously and at very different stages of the game but I was again I was still just very happy to be there though and I was just happy to be in the right head space to making those videos and I really wanted to make

Something cool of my return so I started building up my mega base and immediately I knew it was just pants I hated it but I wasn’t sure what to do so I avoided it then exploded it with scar which was hilarious and I you know I was doing a

Third fresh start of the Season which you know if you’re going to do one fresh start you might as well do two and then you can do three you can do as many as you like but I I will say I did feel a little bit guilty that I kept getting

People hyped only to change directions or give up entirely um so that played on my mind a little bit but I had a cool design in mind people were psyched for it and I was ready to start building it just so happened that I started the new base at the Genesis of

An impromptu and absolutely enormous prank war with some of the biggest and most incredible pranks hermitcraft has ever seen and this was far more exciting than building my base and I wanted to devote all of my time to working on these incredible ideas and these incredible builds for that and I’m so

Glad that I did because it led to some of my favorite times on hermitcraft ever I think I will laugh about the Ridiculousness of that bot battle and of course the perimeter cover up until I’m like 60 years old but with that said you know like it

Did mean that my base was left mainly unworked on for a few months and it was definitely like not a prior for me when it came to making hermitcraft videos and by the time I returned to it I wasn’t exactly that fired up about it anymore

You know it’s like coming back to a drawing that you started 3 months ago and then you you go back to it it’s just it’s not quite as exciting as when you first had the idea and wanted to bring it into reality um and to be honest with

You the viewers weren’t that fussed about it either um each episode I worked on it I just saw the engagement drop which I never normally care about I never look at that sort of stuff but it can it coincided with my personal dropping engagement as well there’s no

Point in me doing something I’m not enjoying for people that aren’t enjoying either and that coupled with the end date of the Season being set around mid December and then decked out taking off and giant new game-changing Redstone updates arriving which meant I was doing

Tons of those videos then a few once in a lifetime projects arriving in my own box that I can’t talk about and then secret life and some personal trips season 9 base building just didn’t fit that well into what I was doing uh I did a community post recently talking about

How I’ve retired as a YouTuber I make things I want to make I don’t care about statistics or growing a huge following I’m just doing my own thing and you can come along for the ride if you fancy it but I can’t help but feel a little bit

Guilty that I haven’t wrapped things up neatly for season 9 and that the season as a whole has been such a mess from me um the good thing is me making a mess has probably given a good number of you who previously predominantly maybe used

To watch me uh a nudge in the direction of other Hermits who are so creative so funny so incredible at what they do that it’s probably expanded your content Horizons massively and that makes me very very happy and I’m so proud of my fellow Hermits for turning season 9 into

Another ridiculous ridiculous season it’s been really really cool to have played a very small part in it and and I’m so yeah I’m so pleased to still be a part of this community and I I just think you guys are awesome I have so much admiration for everyone um so

Thanks for sticking with me really grateful and I don’t take it for granted at all and I really hope I can make season 10 something special for all of us cool I don’t know if you could hear that gecko in the background there I’m in the Philippines right now you can

Definitely hear the crawls but the gecko was definitely something no