Hermitcraft 9: Episode 24 – Begin?

[MUSIC] That’s right, the rift has become a full blown portal. It has somewhat lost its charm. I must admit, it’s somewhat lost its charm. Obviously, the lighting effect and the glass has been completely overshadowed by the swirling mess. So I guess- Well yeah, I’ve got a problem now of zombie pigmen

Constantly spawning here. So what I’ve done is I’ve created this little area here and I’m gonna put some turtle eggs so that these guys will path to it and I’ll have like a little gold farm there. So, this is the big thing. Why don’t we just go inside the portal?

We’ll solve this problem once and for all. Euh!! The game has crashed. Okay, if I re-log. Okay okay, this is a very broken portal. And it has the added dangers of these. Now one thing I have been adding to the wonderful Grumbot cave is a bit of texturing to the floor.

Now I bring this up- Normally I would just go ahead and do this but the thing is while I was texturing this wonderful floor, I was interrupted by Zedaph. Okay? Zedaph was just… Well okay, give it ten seconds and you’ll see exactly what happened here. Ehm… Yeah I see you. [laughs] [laughs]

[laughs] I could see your name! Yeah I see you. [laughs] [laughs] That stone suit doesn’t- doesn’t quite work the way you thought. I don’t know what to do with this, Zed. [ZED] Did you actually see me? [GRIAN] Yeah, I saw your little face. [ZED] But I’m not here! [GRIAN] You turn- [laughs]

But you’re not here. I had to do a double take because I just saw like this shadow go past. That stone costume is in- If you didn’t have the eyes, I probably wouldn’t have seen you. [ZED] But I’ve got to see you so I need the eyes.

[GRIAN] Oh I see. [ZED] Turn around, turn around, turn around. [GRIAN] Okay, okay. [ZED] Okay, you can look. [GRIAN laughs] [ZED] Do you see me still? [GRIAN] Perfect. Perfect. [GRIAN] No, can’t see you, you’re invisible. [ZED] Argh! Okay darn it, well… I tried! You can’t blame me for not trying.

[GRIAN] I’m not quite sure what you’re trying to do. [ZED] I’m trying to spy on your face and I got a really good picture and then I was trying to escape but how do you get out of this place man? [GRIAN] Oh. Oh yeah, you would’ve failed.

[GRIAN] There’s no- There’s no way out. [ZED laughs] [GRIAN] There’s no escaping whatever’s going on down here. [ZED] Yeah, I realized that that up is my only route and I couldn’t do that without you hearing me. [GRIAN] No. [ZED] Now I look silly. [GRIAN] Yeah you didn’t look silly before.

[ZED laughs] [ZED] [sighs] Okay well, I guess I’ll get dressed and get outta here. Thanks for nothing. [laughs] [GRIAN] Does this mean I need to look out for you all the time? [ZED] Well, I’ve got to get a picture of you at some point without you catching me so…

[GRIAN] Can you just ask for a selfie or any- You know, a selfie would’ve been fine. [ZED] I’m embarrassed now- I’m going. Okay? I’m going. Goodbye. [GRIAN] Why does he want a picture of me? [ZED] Oh this is- Okay. [GRIAN laughs] [GRIAN] I’m so confused. I think that was like

One of the weirdest encounters I’ve ever had. I was just trialing out some textures. What do we think of this? I think this is going well, right? Like it’s kind of… dark around the edges and emanating inwards. And then I was thinking of keeping it stone but then maybe-

I’m trying to like normalize what’s just happened. No. That was weird, right? I’m not quite sure why Zed needed a picture of me but I haven’t seen him since. So either way, I think that this flooring is looking pretty good. Now the only decision I need to make

Is whether to make this whole thing in light grey concrete powder and just ditch the stone altogether or I just have it transition into stone and leave it there. Personally I’m feeling like this feels a bit more constructed. Anyway, let’s crack on with today’s episode.

There’s far too much lore going on in this intro. Perhaps we should generate some content. Doo! And see what we might be doing today. We got “ravager” “anyone” “AFK”. Ehm… [MUSIC] Ravager… [MUSIC] AFK… [MUSIC] Anyone… I could do that. To get my hands on a ravager,

I need to wait for a raid to spawn. I’m not gonna get one of those by myself. And then I need to wait for someone to go AFK. There’s a lot of waiting around for this one, I’m not just gonna magically get a ravager from thin air.

So, what are we gonna do today? Well, I would like to at least tackle a little bit of the back of the base. Otherwise I fear it may never get done. Let’s get ourselves a few bits and bobs and starting hacking away at this sort of area. It’s really interesting to me how

Gradients in particular have become so prevalent in building. Like I don’t think I’ve seen a modern build from the last few years that aren’t utilizing gradients or better texturing. And I put that down just to the fact that there’s so many more blocks available,

All the shades of colours are coming into it. “Grian, the king requires assistance for a resistance.” “Against the resistance or something.” “Please maketh haste to thine statue.” Oh. He’s summoning me to the resistance assistance shop. Oh I didn’t close the shop after I was done. This- This-

Might be another one of those situations where I’ve buttered my own toast. I- I- I- I think- I think I’m about to be employed and there’s not a lot I can do about it. Oh no. It’s the king. Come down here, the room’s down here. The room’s down here.

[REN] Good morning sir Grian. [GRIAN] Yeah, it’s actually all the way down here so welcome to Grian’s Resistance Assistance Consultancy Services. [REN] Ah indeed. I’m not pleased to be here! [GRIAN] You’re not looking well, Ren. You’ve lost some colour. [REN] It’s been a stressful couple of weeks. [GRIAN] You’ve gone grey! [REN] Yeah.

Someone blew up my throne! [REN] Any ideas? [GRIAN] No. [GRIAN] Noooo. Noo siree. [REN] Er anyway, I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t in desperate times. I’m going to require assistance for a resistance against the resistance. [GRIAN] The semantics of my entire series dictate that that makes sense. [REN] It certainly does!

[GRIAN] [laughs] I forgot to close the shop. [REN] Here’s the diamond. [GRIAN] Noo! I forgot to close the shop! [REN] I’ve caved now! [GRIAN laughs] [GRIAN] Noo! [REN] You must assist [REN] the royal resistance against the resistance. [GRIAN] I mean at least, at least,

The only save and grace here is that you didn’t try to negotiate a discount. Pearl asked for a 50% discount on one diamond! [REN] That’s not even possible. [GRIAN] No! [REN] That’s what you get when you work with soup group. [GRIAN] So- So you’re resisting the resistance

Who’s resisting you and therefore you need resistance assistance. Unfortunately, that makes a lot of sense. [REN] I need assistance for the resistance against the resistance who have been resisting me. [GRIAN] I understand. [REN sighs] [GRIAN] So, what do you want me to do? [REN] Ah! It’s actually gonna be super fun.

We have to go to the nether though. [GRIAN] The nether? [REN] Yeah. [GRIAN] Okay. [REN] Yeah going to the nether. Follow me. [GRIAN laughs] [REN] Yeah, there we are. Here we are. I don’t know how to describe this, Grian. [REN] Err… Best way I can describe it is [GRIAN] Whaat is happening?

[REN] It’s the final boss of any Mario game. [REN] That’s the best way to describe this. [GRIAN] Are you Bowser? [REN] Yes, I am Bowser. [laughs] [GRIAN] So okay, what’s the plan here? [REN] Okay, okay, let me take you through it real quick.

Did you come up here and have a look at what’s going on? We’ve got all the diamonds over here, okay? [REN] All server diamonds. [GRIAN gasps] [REN] In the vault, this is gonna be a vault. [GRIAN] Is this all of them? [REN] This is about a third of them, Grian.

There’s still maybe more to be placed. Okay? [GRIAN] Alright. [REN] I promised to create the most [REN] impeccable vault ever created by any Hermits and that’s what I’m doing here with my crew. [GRIAN] Okay. [REN] And the way this is gonna work is that I’m going to challenge the entire server

To break into this vault and if they do they get the diamonds but it’s gonna be impossible, they’ll never be able to- [GRIAN] Okay, so this is like you’re challenging the whole server, if they- If they fail, that’s it. They can no longer- They’re not allowed to… No more.

[REN] I don’t wanna hear complaints about diamonds. I get to keep them all and we move on with our lives. [GRIAN] Right. [REN] Yeah. So, the way that this is gonna work is that each of my minions is gonna be creating literally an impossible game. [REN] Okay? [GRIAN] Uh-huh.

[REN] Cub’s gonna make an impossible game here. If they’ve managed to completed, Cleo will make the next impossible game, if they’ve managed to complete that, Scar will make the next impossible game. [GRIAN] Right. [REN] And then we shall get to a point- If they get to this point, I’m sad.

Right? Because it’s supposed to be impossible. [GRIAN] And you want me to make a room? [REN] I do but I want you to make a room that will suck all hope from the soul. All hope will be lost in your game. And there’ll be no chance of a victory. Whatsoever.

This will be where the buck stops. Right here, this is gonna be your room over here. [GRIAN] Okay, so I’m the last line of defense? [REN] Yeah. Last line of defense. I want all hope to be lost, Grian. [GRIAN] Okay. [REN] No chance of anything else. It ends here,

Right here with you. The buck stops right here. [GRIAN] Okay, right. I understand. Yeah, I can make a room. So I have to- I have to make it impossible for success. [REN] Yeah. [GRIAN] Okay. [REN] Success is impossible. [GRIAN] Got it, got it.

Alright well, this is a lot more work than one diamonds worth and I see that you’re not struggling. [REN] That is a good point. It is definitely more worth than one diamond. You set the prices here. [GRIAN] Yeah I know, I know. I need to close that shop immediately.

I’m gonna burn it down straight after this. [REN] Well get to it please, we don’t have much time. [GRIAN] Yeah I mean, you’re gonna have to prob- probably have to put up a temporary wall or otherwise, you know those- The temptation here is- This is unfair, what you’ve done.

Okay, after that request that has given me one single diamond, I have got myself a whole bunch of materials and we are going to make our defense room of the vault. So this is the very bad vault. And the challenge is that they need to get round to get to the vault, right?

And then I’ve got the last room. So what I’m thinking is a quiz. I’m going to- Oh, how do I st- How- eh- I need to stop this. I’ve forgotten my button. There it is. There it is. So, I’m going to create a like red versus blue type thing.

Where I ask a question. So I say like “What is my name?” And then on the left, you know, I’ll say “If it’s Grian go to the red side” “if it’s Bdubs go to the blue side.” And here’s the thing, I was listening very carefully and I made Ren repeat himself multiple times.

He said “I must ensure that there is no success” but he did not specify and I mean this, he did not specify success for him. So what if my room, assuming they get to my room, is not necessarily easy but… obvious or some other way of helping out the challengers.

And then as a reward for beating my room I could have a whole bunch of loot here for them. If they succeed I’m gonna gift them a whole bunch of loot. So ehm… if you’re gonna play the resistance semantics with me, I’m gonna play the-

We gotta be very careful with words here on the Hermitcraft server because it’s like well, you didn’t say you can join a resistance, you just said you couldn’t start- Semantics, this has been the- [laughs] This has been the season of semantics. So right, I’m gonna go ahead

And I’ve got a whole bunch of pistons here and we’ll have lava on both sides so right, it’s gonna be a pretty manual one. So it’d be something like this. I’m gonna go ahead and put together this room. It shouldn’t take too long. But, you know, who knows? Right, let’s go! [MUSIC]

Okay, I think I’m done. Let me quickly explain how this works. I think most of you probably understand how this is gonna go but I want to explain a little bit further. So this is my room, mangrove wood really is my colour. This- THIS is my vibe.

Anyway so we’ve got one and two. And I’m gonna be up there asking the questions such as “What colour is the sky?” Go to one if it’s green or go to two if it’s blue. So everyone’s gonna go here and stand in this one and then I up here have control.

So obviously, if they’re standing in the right one, the second get eliminated. So it’s just choosing the right answer, okay? And ehm because there’s actually quite a lot of confusion built into this game, I have naturally got myself a book that tells me what to do. [chuckles] So there’s no real way

That they can mess this up. If they follow logic and thought. Okay? So here’s the first question: question one what is 2 minus 1? Is it one:2 or two:1? Go to one or two. If your mind just melted, that’s what I’m- [laughs] That’s what I’m hoping happens to our contestants.

Of course the answer is red:2. 2 minus 1 is 1 and one is 2 and two is 1. So they should go to one because 2 minus 1 is 1. It’s really that simple! This is what it feels like when I’m watching one of your videos, Mumbo Jumbo! Okay right so,

I’ve got loads of other questions but I don’t want to spoil it because obviously this is going out before the actual recording of whatever the vault challenge is gonna be. So that’s it. I’ve got some really funny questions to ask this group, okay? The losers climb the ladder

And then they can help out but if they’re clever, all they have to do is to split their their guys and they should make it to the end. There’s five questions, it depends how many there are. But only one person has to survive the whole thing

And then they get access to the highly secure vault of loot. So I may have ensured success for the resistance in the fight, I’m hoping there’s about eight people. Well, they’ll be alright, they’ll be fine. Everything’s gonna be fine. This is my room for the vault thing, it’s completely done.

I’m happy, you should be happy, we’re all happy, let’s go back to the base. Well actually, we’re not gonna go back to the base. We are gonna head out and find the pillager portal. While we’re gliding, trying to find a pillager post

It’s probably a great time for my feet to tell you that if you’re not subscribed and you’re at this point of the video, hey! Maybe you wanna see more? No? If you don’t subscribe, my feet are gonna be upset. Alright, let’s see if we can find a good old pillager po-

Wow! Look how cool that looks! Oh my goodness, the things you can do with this. I think I know where one is. Here it is. So there should be a bunch of pillagers. Er… There were earlier. Ah look- Wow! They are menacing.

Right, so all I need to do is kill one of these guys with a banner and I got myself the bad omen. Let’s now head over to the shopping district so that we can try and set off a raid and get ourselves a couple of ravagers. Oh! There we go!

There’s the raid. Probably should have slept before I started this nightmare. Ah! No! Flashbacks! Right [sighs] so we need to get a ravager. Oh which means I’m definitely not prepared. Aahhh-haaa! Aha! There’s our first ravager. Now how do I get it in the thing? There we go, that was easy!

Right, first ravager got. Oh he looks so sad now. Look! He looks so fed up! He looks so fed up. Poor fellow. These animations bring so much life to the game. What? That just went straight through him. Okay, so unfortunately there is no one AFK at the moment

So you are gonna have to stay put for a little while, fellow. And just so no one- Just so no one gets rid of him while I wait. Please do not kill, he is required for fun purposes. It’s not really- It’s gonna be a little bit fun.

Oh I feel sorry for the person that’s gonna AFK near you. So the reason that I triggered it in the shopping district is that someone will likely go AFK around this area, it’s probably the most active area so it really depends where the person goes AFK

And there’s no one AFK right now. Ah, it’s just a waiting game now and I can’t wait all day so good job, goo- Waahh! We are- [laughs] We’re gonna head right back and leave him where he is. As we approach the very broken portal in the very strange room,

We are about to set the record very, very straight. The only way I know how. Literally nothing has ever gone wrong using TNT to settle our problems. Right, here we go. I think this works, right? I think it’s time to say, please subscribe, my feet asked you earlier. Did you really not subscribe?

Okay right, well that’s the end of the video everyone. Thanks very much for watching and I shall see you in the next episode. Good-bye!