Hermitcraft RECAP – Season 9 Week 56

This week on Hermitcraft: FALSE: “Doc, you’re aware of your Dragon moving closer to my base from town, right?” [nervous giggle] Just wanna make sure that he’s aware that this guy uh, havin’ some fun. “Scar owns it now” That… makes sense then. >> Welcome to the Hermitcraft Recap!

My name is Pixlriffs, our writer is SloyXP. captions on this video were provided by Lyarrah. And it has been seven days since the last  Dragon-related incident on the Hermitcraft Server which on the one hand means it’s a good  thing that nobody’s run into the loose dragon  

Currently scouring the skies of the Server. On  the other hand, it means nobody knows where it is.  If you’ve been looking forward to the Hermitcraft  TCG finally reaching its tournament phase,   the wait is over! VintageBeef has  revealed the full bracket! Eventually. [many pistons slowly moving] BEEF: Oh, here we go. It’s-

BDUBS: It’s working! BEEF: It’s working, it’s working. Lemme- BEEF: So the first matchup is at the top there. CUBFAN: Oh, let’s see let’s see. BEEF: It’ll take probably four- ETHO: Four hours? So in a flurry of cardboard, the server leaps  into action! Decks are built, arenas are prepared,  

And even a theme song is composed –  thanks to the musical stylings of Cubfan. [to the tune of ABC by The Jackson 5] CUBFAN: 🎵 T C G! Easy as 1 2 3! 1 2 3, T C G, baby you and me~ 🎵

>> I mean it’s no Hermitron Go, but we’ll take it. And while we’re there, let’s also take a look at all the events and mishaps that occurred on the Hermitcraft Server this week. BEEF: So Jevin is facing- [pistons move]  CUBFAN: dun-dun-dun… BEEF: Nobdy!  ETHO: What?! CUBFAN: Ooo, a bye? 

BDUBS: He gets a bye?! JOE: A bye round?  CUBFAN: Okay. BEEF: …’kay. That is incorrect. 😒 >> Along with announcing the matchups, VintageBeef  officially bans the Rare Mumbo card until the game   is more balanced – which it should be once his new  Alter Ego and Effect cards are in circulation. In  

The meantime, the tournament winner can look  forward to receiving all of them as a prize. BEEF: Rare Mumbo is banned for this tournament. BDUBS: [anguished cry]  BEEF: That’s right. [whole crowd jeers, “wow”, disappointed noises]  BEEF: Until we can figure out- 😅 ETHO: Booo!!

>> Such generosity is what we’ve come to  expect from Beef, since he spent part of   his week herding Wardens on the Nether  Roof with DocM, and hooking up Bdubs with   a booster pack ahead of tournament time. But perhaps he’s simply learned by example, as  

XBCrafted has been hooking him up with all kinds  of materials – and a sneak preview of his latest   projects. Makes sense to get an appraisal from the  guy who keeps building zoos in his other series. Because XB’s latest addition to the mob  menagerie is a polar bear enclosure! He’s  

Apparently lost one of them, but two  are still there – which is a net gain,   but you might need a bigger  net for an escaped polar bear. XB: Oh look at ’em. They look so happy! [baby-talking] Look at ’em! Oh, they’re just so happy!

>> And also his villagers keep getting  out, so it’s just chaos in general,   although not nearly as chaotic as what  happened on the Nether Roof, but I digress.  XB admits he’s never seen a polar  bear enclosure in real life,   but still nails the aesthetic  before he releases the bears.

The nether roof welcomes Xisumavoid, but not  for a straightforward reason either. Having   tried a few palettes on a test world version of  the ice bridge he wants to build, X has settled   on a very specific shade of white. It of course  including the quartz blocks, Xisuma sets off to  

Build a zombie piglin farm to trade the gold they  drop for quartz, along with a few other valuables. XISUMA: Maybe I just work from one side, like-  This is- this is gonna be madness, now. I know  this just isn’t going to work out very well. 

You know, I’m starting to think I should have done  the trap doors before putting in the eggs, right? >> The gold farm design he goes for actually uses  the player to kill off the zombified piglins,   which means they need to be shuffled  around and moved up to the AFK spot.  

That requires a whole slimeblock elevator for  the mobs, then a piston pusher conveyor to it,   a piglin trading cell, and finally,  an item sorter that could keep up   with the stream of items. So at the  end of it all, is the bridge built? I’d tell you but I forgot  what we’re talking about.

Also some of his money the trading piglins  immediately spend to buy themselves some boots. XISUMA: Oh yeah, and look. They’ve  all bartered themselves some fancy   iron boots. I found that rather amusing. >>BdoubleO is at the horse track, if you want some of this.

BDUBS: I’m at the horse track  if you want some of this! >> It’s time for a long-awaited showdown between  himself and Etho, to decide once and for all   who’s the superior horseman. We won’t spoil who  wins, but luckily for Bdubs he has other talents! 🎶 [Western music] BDUBS: Dude, any- any slip-up, right? 

ETHO: Flawless! BDUBS: I got you.  ETHO: Flawless! BDUBS: No you did not. Oh-  ETHO: Oh my goodness I did the lilypad fart, too. BDUBS: No you did not! 😲 >> The interior of his cyberpunk temple  base lights up with details this week,  

Between a variety of inventive rug designs,  some flickering lamps making creative use of   redstone randomisers, and a few heads  to display on the adjacent shelves.  Bdubs is even getting in on the TCG tournament  action despite being a newcomer to the game,  

Although he has to face off against Hypnotizd  before he can set up a grudge match against Etho. BDUBS: I’m doing a Boomer deck. This isn’t it, don’t worry.  I’ve got a lot of other stuff that Etho  gave me to kind of help me out a little bit.

>> He might not want to face Docm77  in the card arena or the race track,   considering Doc’s first goal now the server is  on 1.19.4 is to breed the fastest possible horse.  Hopefully that makes up for one of the  cornerstones of his TCG deck being banned  

From tournament play, but Doc reformats his deck  for a face-off against Impulse. A game that he   hosts at his home arena, freshly decorated  for the start of the tournament. The standard   TCG setup is arranged inside of the fossilized  skull of – you guessed it – an enormous goat. 

And he still finds ways to butt heads with his  fellow hermits outside of the card game court,   when some casual PvP over at GeminiTay’s  takes on a life (and a few deaths) of its own. [nearby voices cut off mid-sentence by death] DOCM: Wow! 

XISUMA: What is going on here? DOCM: She’s juggling me like an absolute boss.  ETHO: Yeah… yeah she’s got the timing right. DOCM: I don’t even know how that juggling was   possible like that anymore. GEM: […] the timing, the  

Little sword on your screen? In your cursor? You just have to hit every time it’s full. >> Gem has been inciting the plank violence  specifically to fill in the cells of her   castle’s basement. Lest we forget that  the elven princess keeps a head count. 

Thankfully, that’s not the only interior  decoration she applies this week. Gem finally   unpacks into the mostly unfurnished elven keep,  bringing in a kitchen, a dining room, and what   seems to be a wine cupboard, just in time for some  guests to arrive and have a soup-warming party.

GEM: Yeah, Pearl, we need a bridge. PEARL: I wanna build a bridge. And get over it.  IMPULSE: Uhhh… GEM: Mm-hmm. Mhmm, mhmm, might be fun.  IMPULSE: And Pearl is gonna take the  googly eyes off my statues. Right, Pearl? 

GEM: Oh yeah, why do you have moustaches? PEARL: 😈 No, I wanna add more googly eyes!  GEM: Yes. IMPULSE: Don’t you dare~ >> Though the irregular shapes  of some areas catch up to her,   and while the library with the highest ceiling  and a balcony just make sense because daylight,  

A room where the roots of the Greater  Cherry Tree would be is a bit of a puzzle. GEM: It’s got a great view of everything going on. And it’s also got a little secret up above it,   in that- welp.  That, my friends, that’s the cherry tree.

>> Gem shapes the roots into a  round table, and I am way too   obsessed with Elden Ring to be normal about this. At that, Gem takes a break and furnishes other   people’s bases. Adding a Mario piranha plant to  PearlescentMoon’s base – where it frankly blends  

In entirely too well; and a sizeable statue  of herself amongst Impulse’s statues of him,   reasoning that with that many letters “I”  on the base, it could use a her as well. GEM: So you know those pixel art builds  people do sometimes of Minecraft skins?   Yeah. I’m gonna try to do that.

>> ImpulseSV starts his day with a  week-long project. It’s a slime farm,   dug out by hand all the way to bedrock over at  his industrial circuit board. It’s worth it for   93,000 building blocks, unlimited slime, and  a spawning floor you can just jump to clear.

IMPULSE: We actually dug down to this  bit here, which is- yeah, negative 59,   I was right. And uh, now- now these  guys of course spawn attacked me. >> He settles on a combination of iron  golems and allays to dispatch the slimes  

And collect their orbs, then decorates the  entire thing in a colour palette that feels   very Iskall85 – but then again, it is a slime  farm. We don’t know what you were expecting.  He also sidebars into a meeting with  the Soup Group, although they don’t  

Seem to decide on anything except  building better connections to each   other’s bases and not letting anyone  else use their meeting room chairs. IMPULSE: Pearl is gonna take the   googly eyes off my statues. Right, Pearl? GEM: Oh yeah, why do you have moustaches? 

PEARL: 😈 No, I wanna add more googly eyes! IMPULSE: Don’t you dare~ >> With 15 TCG tokens on the line, Welsknight  gives it his all when facing off Cubfan in the   tournament. But unfortunately, with Wels  only recently being back from hiatus,  

His all is only one deck variant, and  with how Hermitcraft is televised,   Cubfan knows exactly which type he’s going for,  and stacks his own deck to counteract that. WELS: We have our Rare Xisuma,  and we have a Rare Iskall…  just because. I don’t really have anything else and I want  

To have a certain number of Hermits in the deck. CUBFAN: Uh, we are playing Welsknight for our   first round. I know that Wels typically plays  Redstone and Farm types. So that means we’re   probably gonna be looking to play mostly Miner?  But Builder I know Wels has an Iskall card? 

I’ll add in some other rare stuff, and some  ultra-rare stuff, and see if we can make it to 42. >> It still takes all that and a whole lot of luck  for him to truly take Wels down, but ultimately,  

Cub proves his worth as the Pyramid Arena  champion, and moves to the next bracket. WELS: Really don’t think there’s a whole lot  I could have done to change the outcome of   that? I’m sure there were probably like,  a couple of misplays here and there? But,  

At the end of the day, [stammers] I just didn’t have a deck. >> Luckily for Wels, FalseSymmetry newly installed  a tower and a rail track leading up to her elytra   course, openly inviting her servermates to  come compete in her minigame. So Wels can  

Try and get the jump on this one. You do need  to jump off a balcony to start it, after all. FALSE: I’m very glad I uh, built the dark  oak tree farm. It’s been kind of amazing.

>> With more people expected to stop by her  castle, False sees to it that more of it actually   livable. Or at least that the drinks are provided. So, False installs some redstone potion brewers,   though runs out of redstone before it’s  even time to mix it into the brew. Just  

A sign that you may have been working  on your minigame for too long, really.  Could’ve borrowed some from Etho, probably,   but chose to smash him with an anvil  recently, so back to the mines you go. FALSE: Oh, he’s looking up, he’s looking up!  RENDOG: Yup! FALSE: He’s looking up! No! 

RENDOG: No! FALSE: Aww, he’s alive!  CUBFAN: Aw, hahaha. FALSE: You didn’t see anything, you didn’t see anything. ETHO: How? RENDOG: [dramatic noises] >> Mines would be a pretty good spot to be,   actually, seeing how when coming  back to pick up his new pet dragon,  

GoodTimesWithScar doesn’t actually find  the flying lizard where they left it.  So yes, somehow, there is a dragon loose on  Hermitcraft and it’s not really anyone’s fault. SCAR: I’m… genuinely, slightly, positively,  overwhelmingly freaking out. I had nothing   to do with its disappearance. Nothing at all!  Either somebody killed it, or it’s flying around.

FALSE: I’m pretty sure this guy was over there. So the fact that he’s getting closer and closer   to my base – and well, Stress’s base, to be  honest. He’s literally- he’s heading there. >> Very actively trying to not think  about it, Scar returns to JellieLand and  

The centerpiece castle he’s been building.  At this point, the ground level walls are   put in and it’s just the pointiest towers  left before the whole ensemble is complete.  Well, the grand opening is  shaping up to be quite epic,   thanks in part to Cubfan providing the  pyrotechnics. Hell, in his demo for Scar,  

He provides so many of them,  it straight up kills the guy. [many fireworks exploding] SCAR: […] fly through it?! CUBFAN: [laughs] CUBFAN: Oh no- 😂 Your stuff! >> So, between this and the gift package  from Bdubs, Scar has everything to enter  

The final stage of castle building – bar the  honey blocks, that Cub then happily provides.  Anyway, someone bought most of Hypno’s  honey blocks, I wonder what that’s about. HYPNO: Uh, yeah. So, all the  honey bottles are gone. 😅 

Oh my goodness, yeah. I need to definitely  come back in here. I do have some stock- >> Hypnotized returns to the server  for the first time since the Rift,   apparently recorded half a Hermitcraft  episode, left again for like a month,  

And now came back to finish and post it. It’s  hard to believe, but he admits as much himself. HYPNO: And then I stopped recording it, and  then I’ve been moving on to other things,   and I don’t really know what happened, but-

>> Luckily, in his absence, his friends at least  kept patronage of his candle and bee accessories   shop. Enough to warrant a quick restock on all  the dyes for the candles. Even the green one,   the one he didn’t have a farm for.  Luckily, tricking a Minecraft cactus  

Into growing somewhere it shouldn’t is  not much of a challenge: the cactus farm   joins Hypno’s wide array of productions. Also Hypno loses his TCG round. We’ll   tell you to whom as soon as Beef’s  wall of concrete is done unveiling. BEEF: […] of these things! [pistons move] [everyone laughs]

JOE: 😅 You could’ve put torches underneath it. BEEF: Wait there’s the first one! BEEF: Okay, now time for the- the other half. >> And that’s about it for this week’s Recap! Our writer is SloyXP and my name is Pixlriffs. Captions on this video were provided by Lyarrah.

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