Hermitcraft 9: Episode 19 – UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

Oh nnnn-nooo. Noooo. Noo. Nooo. Excuse me one moment. [sighs] Don’t start a resistance. Don’t start a resistance. Don’t start a resistance. Okay, that’s better. Welcome back to another episode of Hermitcraft where there have been some developments. I’ve been a little bit under the weather recently

And as such haven’t been able to get on the server but it turns out that my priority quest shenanigans have rather made an impression. To the point where Ren has decided to just claim every single shop. Property of the cro- It’s not just- It’s not just The Entity, it’s all the shops.

However, it looks like the priority quest of buying half of The Entity’s stock has definitely succeeded. Hey, a few more of these and we might make back ten percent of what we dropped into this king thing. There we go. So over a stack and a half of diamonds. Success!

But what do we do about this? See, we can’t act directly because that would be kind of a resistance and you know what we’re doing, we’re resisting a resistance this season. And as difficult as he makes it with these actions, we are not about to start resisting

Just because he’s claimed every single shop. Like I said earlier, we seemed to have made a bit of an impression on Ren because he’s taken- Yeah look at this. Look at this, I saw this earlier. So here’s my priority quest, I made them over here.

And then he’s gone ahead and seen that this is like working and he’s made “priority royal quests”. And what does it say? Read one of your- These are the same thing. Oh they’re- They’re actually doing it! I was right, putting them outside and people are claiming them. “Decorate the king’s bedroom”

Well hang on? Hang on! Throw one block of netherite into the pit. Hang on, hang on, hang on. He’s just as- He’s trying to gain the system just as much as me! Host a royal event. Well, Impulse went ahead and did that and he even did the red herring providing a- a fish.

I’s also come to my attention if you go over here, the king is almost certainly onto us. Because over here by the portal, the mad king has done something. The royal message board. Hear ye, hear ye! Your king has doth decreed- Do you need the “doth” and the “has”? Have doth this…

– A new law to be thusly obeyed. Those caught in breach of the law shall doth be puni- There’s a little bit too much “doth” in this. So sayeth his royal Dogness, King RentheKing. King RentheKing? There’s a- Whatever. Thou shalt not make quests. So… He’s 100% onto us

Because he’s just made it illegal to make a quest. But obviously that doesn’t apply to him because he’s making royal quests which I assume are different in some way. So I’ve been wracking my brain, how do we- How do we overcome this slight obstacle and I’ve got an idea.

And this is what you would call a royal legal loophole. Now I’m no lawyer here but I’m not making priority quests anymore. No, no, they are currently illegal by the decree of our insane king but I’ll tell you what isn’t illegal: is a priority adventure. So not really a quest

But by the power of the thesaurus, I have bested ye old kingship. The adventure says “Ask Grumbot what to do”. Now you might be wondering what’s the difference between a priority adventure and a royal quest or a priority quest? Well, it’s just a quest with extra steps you see,

I’ve thought of a way to deal with this claiming of all the shops in the most not me kind of way. So what this says here is “adventure not quest”. Get round the legal loophole stuff. “Ask Grumbot what to do” and then we’ll go and make sure Grumbot is in on this

In one way or another. Again, running into the issue of need to supply a couple of diamonds here. But we could easily get around this one by revisiting the good old Ren statue. You see, these glasses actually used to be black wool. And now they’re diamonds because of mismanagement of public funds.

So if we just pop these back into being sunglasses then we have ourselves, what I would call, a budget. I think they actually look cooler. 23 diamond blocks just to remove a few signs from the shops. Maybe six? And then what we can do is stash the rest on the statue.

Right, so that’s part one. Someone accepts the priority adventure, okay? And the task is to go and ask Grumbot what to do. Of course our son loves a good prank so I doubt that he would have any issue with this. He’s going to say “generate content”. That’s something our Grumbot boy would do.

Now the generator has had its very first customer. You can see it says here “Non-Grian’s pay five diamonds” and I topped these up with a bunch of nonsense so I feel extremely sorry and kind of scared for whoever generated content. So, here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna remove all of those

And we’ll save those for another time. Don’t worry, this content won’t go to waste. Now all we have to do is tweak the circumstances so that the generator isn’t so random. There we go “Remove king claim”. It’s always three individual words so we want them to remove the king’s claim to the shop.

There we go, and then once they’ve done that content, that extremely randomly generated content, then they will have completed the quest and we will be rid of the king’s claim to our shop at The Entity and the bonus is everyone else gets their claim removed as well.

If you had a keen eye, I’ve actually been doing a whole bunch of building in here. It’s looking more and more industrial by the second. I did mention at the start of this episode that I’ve been under the weather so not the best ideal recording voice going on.

So while I’ve been a bit sniffy, what I’ve done is just added in these girders and lots of decorations and things like that. And you know what? It’s really come together quite nicely. I’ve been- I’ve been hanging out down here by The Rift.

I’ve added in some stone here to kind of make this a bit more pretty. And it’s come together! The Rift feels a little bit more at home now, less of just a random anomaly under my base and more of a proper laboratory which is what we were kind of going for

And we’ll be able to do some proper experiments on The Rift very, very soon. So I wanted to add something to the roof to make it look like, again it’s all supported. That was the idea behind these girders, is to make sure that the cave feels like it’s been

Made secure and it’s not gonna fall down on us. So two lines and then… So I create these diagonals to make it look like the two beams are now supported. I think that looks pretty good. I might want to experiment with making it a bit higher or

The gap between these two lines, I’m not sure. I’m gonna sit on this one for a little bit and think about it. So I don’t want to spend all my time and energy down here in the cave. What I’ve been thoroughly ignoring is actually my main base.

I haven’t done much with this for a while. I’ve obviously been adding in some farms which have been pretty good. I’ve managed to drain the river almost fully in the areas that are spawning squid to the point where my squid farm is actually producing things because it was very, very slow before.

Now it’s actually, as you can see, producing ink. And that actually brings me to my other thing I did while I was feeling under the weather, which is these multi-coloured boxes. I am going to sell concrete powder, not concrete because I don’t have a concrete machine

But no one on the server at the moment sells concrete. So at least getting powder on the market is a really good idea and of course I’ve got more white concrete powder and more grey and the darker colours as well. So I think The Entity can make a whole bunch of diamonds

Just off of these. This is a gap in the market that ill Grian was able to capsulize on, by having lots of spare time and no voice to record. So we’ll move these over to The Entity with a nice display pretty soon. But what I was getting at was this:

I’ve been thoroughly ignoring this partly because, and I’ll be honest with you, it’s partly because I really like the way it looks. But I have, as you can see, steadily added just a tiny little bit of work. Now that means, in Grian terms, that means “Oo! I think I’m ready”.

So I’m just gonna quickly- I think I’m gonna build just this little section here, maybe a little something something here. I want to see a little bit more progress done on the actual- the floating rocks. Don’t know how far we’re gonna get, probably not far at all but let’s go! [MUSIC]

I’ve had to cut this a little bit short and leave it under construction because of that in the distance. A book that’s important. But first, I mean take a look at this. I was totally winging it, this is not been pre-planned at all. This has just been on the fly building

And that’s why there’s scaffolding because I want to see what this profile would look like. And I think it will look pretty good. And then what I’m gonna do here is add another one of these just slightly lower and try balance it all out.

But as you can see from this very full tab list, there’s a little event going on. And I have already had a little peek at this. Royal invite. Dear Hermit, I (Impulse) have accepted a king’s quest to have a royal event. I hereby invite thee to a royal costume party

And you need to dress up in Xisuma costume. So ehm… I’m not gonna turn down a party. No sir. Time to put my costume on. This is my Xisuma skin. I’m going as stride-suma, the strider. I think it might have been last season or the season before, I actually can’t remember.

And let’s go and meet everyone at the party. It’s over at the crastle. The King’s crastle which is easily one of the most magnificent builds on the entire server. I love this thing. Bdubs has really got down this mixed texture technique. I really could learn a lot from him. [IMPULSE] Welcome everybody!

This is a great turn out. I think this is our first ever royal event. [EVERYONE] Wooo! [IMPULSE] Everybody bring their Xisuma costume? [CUB] Ah yeah! [CLEO] Everybody. [JEVIN] And there’s Xisuma, the man of the hour. [EVERYONE] Ayy! [CUB] Let’s go! [X] What’s going on? [TANGO] We started a cult.

[IMPULSE] Well very nice, very nice. We’re gonna do this party down in the vault, I’ve got some party favours and things so follow me, come on in. [JEVIN] Oo alright. [HYPNO] Let’s go party! [X] Is the warden still down here? [KERALIS] Oh somebody died. [GRIAN laughs] [EVERYONE laughs]

[BDUBS] I picked up her shulker! [TANGO] Oh it’s just all on the ground. [KERALIS] I cannot, totem of undying. [X] Well, I will certainly throw my diamonds at that one. [GRIAN] Oh X, you’re gonna- this is so weird. Whenever you talk, I genuinely don’t know who it’s coming from.

I have to like look around. [EVERYONE laughs] [X] Over here! No, I’m over there! [IMPULSE] Alright, so it can’t be a party unless we have some party games. So as you noticed, I’ve set out some boats. They’ve got a chest in it which means there’s only one actual spot in the boat.

And we’re gonna play like musical chairs. You guys are all familiar with that game, right? [EVERYONE] Yes. [IMPULSE] I’m gonna play some music and when the music stops, you need to pick a boat. [BDUBS] Woah! Okay, ehm… Wait! Wait! What is happening?! [GRIAN] Wait, where are we going? [TANGO] Go go go!

[HYPNO] Clockwise, Grian, clockwise. [GRIAN] Wait wait what? He said anti-clockwise! [JEVIN] BdoubleO, keep going, keep going. [IMPULSE] Music stops! [GRIAN] Ah! [chaos] [GRIAN] It’s not over!!! Yes! [TANGO] Right as I clicked. [GRIAN] Woo! [IMPULSE] Alright, everybody out of your boat. [JEVIN] We’re now the sad Xisuma group.

[IMPULSE] We’re gonna take a couple of boats out of the mix here. [BDUBS] Oh boy. [GRIAN laughs] Wait, we’ll go this way. [IMPULSE] Round and round we go. [X] There’s a boat missing! [JEVIN] Yeah, that’s on purpose. [TANGO] That’s how it works. [IMPULSE] And take a boat! [GRIAN] Ah!

[X] Ah I got one! [CUB] Oh no. [IMPULSE] No boat for Joe, no boat for Cub. You guys are out. Just so you know, okay. Alright here we go, round three! [X] Ooo! [KERALIS] No, no no no no. [JEVIN] My money is on Grian. [CUB] This is a jam, this is a jam.

[HYPNO] Grian’s got speed, bro. [IMPULSE] And stop! [BDUBS] AH NO! [JOE] Oh Hypno! [JEVIN] Oooh, Cleo. [JOE] Hypno got Cleo! [CLEO] Nooo! [BDUBS] Blast! [TANGO] Whomp whomp. [IMPULSE] After this, and then we’ll do a final round. Here we go, next round starting… now! [KERALIS] No no no no. [GRIAN laughs]

[BDUBS] Watch out Keralis! [JOE] Go Keralis, go Keralis, go go go! [BDUBS] Gonna stop it, you better hurry! [IMPULSE] Stop! [GRIAN] Dap! Dap dap! No! [JEVIN] Nooo. [GRIAN] Is that it? There’s only two left? [CLEO] X and Hypno. [BDUBS] Xisuma was in it first! I saw. Cheater.

[GRIAN] You’re just letting the birthday boy win. [BDUBS] Can they cut the middle? [inaudible talking] [GRIAN] Let them sweat, let them sweat. Wait for it. [IMPULSE] I wanna know who’s closer. And stop! [EVERYONE] Ohhh! [IMPULSE] Alright, very nicely done. Of course it’s fitting that you win a shard.

The royal shard for this exact quest. This party that we’re throwing. [BDUBS] Wow! Wowie! [IMPULSE] Oh there’s one more! There’s one more! A coupon for iBuy which is the name of my new mega shop. [EVERYONE] Wooww! [BDUBS] 50% off?! [GRIAN] ♫ Happy birthday to you! ♫ [EVERYONE laughs]

[BDUBS] This is a wonderful party. [CLEO] I think it’s great. [TANGO] Yeah, it’s fine! [CLEO] Joy is the music. [IMPULSE] We got some more games but if anybody wants to take any party favours back here, go ahead, feel free. [inaudible talking] [BDUBS] What?! Oh there’s diamonds in here! [EVERYONE] Ooo!

[BDUBS] Wait a second. [inaudible talking] [JEVIN] Oh the king’s here. [BDUBS] Ren! [GRIAN] Ren? [BDUBS] We’re down here! [REN] Excuse me? [inaudible talking] [CUB] I think er… [GRIAN] He didn’t clear this with the king?! [CUB] We’re out, we’re out. [GRIAN] He didn’t clear it with the king?!

[FALSE] Where’s the exit? Where’s the exit? [HORN] Surprise! [GRIAN] Get out! [laughs] Just scattering. [laughs] They didn’t clear it with the king?! And Cleo died again! That was a little bit strange, we played musical boats and apparently that wasn’t er… approved by the king so… Ren might be a little bit annoyed.

That was super fun. It’s a shame I didn’t win that one because the prize was 50% off of Impulse’s mega shop for the whole season! The whole season! Alright, I need to get out of this extremely cursed skin. So, woosh! That is better.

Now let’s talk quickly about what we’re gonna do with this. I’ve done a little bit more thinking about this design and do you know what? I’m really happy with the way that it’s gone and I decided, and believe it or not, this is true.

This is true, I’m going to do quite a big building on the back here. Yeap you heard me right. So thinking that this section wraps around, makes its way up and then the castle medieval section of the build will begin here.

I was also thinking about a platform that goes out to the portal but I think it might ruin this floating aesthetic. So in a non-literal sense I need to sit on many of the ideas for a while that I have. It took me how many months just to build this little section here.

But you know what? I think the wait was worth it because this is exactly how I wanted it to come out. So that’s where we’re gonna leave that under construction and we’re gonna whittle it down a little bit like we’ve been whittling down the room down here.

I don’t have a- The Rift Room? The Portal Room? Ooh. Oh that’s terrifying! He looks really, really angry. Like really angry! What is wrong? Who’s messed with Grumbot? Well at least the beeps don’t sound angry. [beeps] Du du du! You should not answer for me. You should not ans- oh!

Is this just because I put in the answer? I- you- Because of the adventure thing I put in the answer that said generate the content. He’s angry because I spoke for him? I am… I am sorry. Sorry Grumbot. It won’t happen again. Bedoop, bedoop, bedoop, bedoop, bedoop. Boop boop boop!

My Grian was sorry too! What does that mean?! What does that mean?!! My Grian was sorry too. What did you do? Who are you? That’s terrifying! Okay. Let’s… Not… mess with Grumbot. Okay, well ehm… Er. As I was saying, we whittled away this room in here, girder by girder.

And I think we may end up doing the same with the base. You can see here I’ve been experimenting with some textures. I’ve got these like pillars that are down here- [PEARL] Oh? What’s this then? What do we have here? A chest monster, with no notes? No reason for being

Completely and utterly disorganized? This seems like you may be in need of the service cleaning lady services. Please call 1-800-clean lady for an immediate area refresher Or visit little twinkly tr- [GRIAN] Pearl. [PEARL] That’s all. [PEARL] Bye, have a great day! [GRIAN] What?! Okay, there’s some kind of.

[PEARL] How do we turn this thing off?! [GRIAN] Oh it’s still going! The Twinkly Trash clean prototype. Okay. Amazing. Ehm. Noo noo stop! Er okay! Do you remember at the start of this season when I said I was gonna try and not have a chest monster? And my starter base,

It had proper organization? I even have a space in there for organization! [sighs] Ahhh. Chest monsters kind of just appear out of nowhere, they start really small and they look organized like this, they look like they mean something. Then before you know it… It’s – argh – me and Scar we’re-

Do you know what? I might actually- That advert might actually have worked because I just- I just can’t. I can’t seem to do it. Admittedly a lot of this is just me gathering stuff. Like look, there’s just a lot of gravel. It’s fairly organized but she’s right. It is a chest monster.

And I only just realised it. It’s like a friend telling me that I’ve got a problem. Okay. Well that kind of is a good segway into what I need to do now which is shift all of these over to The Entity and get them on sale. My Grian was sorry too.

Right, delivery service. We’re probably gonna regret putting concrete powder for sale at The Entity. But I promise it’s gonna be a good seller. I think I’ve got the order completely wrong and on top of that I don’t know how to display this in a meaningful way.

I have no idea how to display this. There’s a huge- There’s 16 blocks, that’s quite a lot for this- this tiny rock. How do I display this is a mea- You know what? It’s fine. The main thing is getting this on sale. Okay, all concrete powder, one diamond per stack.

We probably won’t sell a single bit of the brighter coloured concrete. It’s generally not that popular. However, that’s why I’ve got three boxes of white concrete powder and some of the more common colours like the light grey, the grey and the black concrete down here as well. And we’ll see how this goes.

This could be a massive mistake or it could be a massive, massive profit. Right, that’s another job done. Oh. Oh I missed. Oh I missed so badly. Why did I do that?! I was not paying attention. And on that note, I think it’s time to end this video.

Thank you very much for watching, I hope you’ve enjoyed this episode. And I shall see you in the next one. Good-bye!