Hermitcraft RECAP – Season 9 Week 65

This week on Hermitcra- [TV static] EVIL X: [evil laughter] [TV static] EVIL X: Everything is perfectly fine! And nothing important happened! [TV static] EVIL X: Especially to Xisuma!  You can trust me! I’m him,   but evil. If something happened,  I would know, wouldn’t I? [TV Static] >> Welcome to the Hermitcraft Recap?

My name is Pixlriffs, our writer is SloyXP, captions on this video were provided by Lyarrah, and how is our broadcast being interrupted? This is a prerecorded YouTube video! [TV Static] [Evil Xisuma laughs evilly]

>> One thing that we hope will not be interrupted  is the release of Minecraft 1.20, and we see a few   Hermits preparing themselves for the chaos  of bamboo being a viable wood type, cherry trees   being available (if probably thousands of  blocks away at this point), and Armour Trim being  

The new status symbol. We’ll see if having  netherite trim on netherite armour ends up   more desirable to the Hermits than the fancy new  crowns Mumbo is promising for saving The Button. Or, y’know, a signed HotGuy calendar. MUMBO: I mean, that is a bargain.  That is absolute bargain,  

IMPULSE: And you may recognize this  one. It’s one of my all time favorites.  In fact, it’s one I actually invented. It’s  a two in one villager breeder and iron farm. >> With that weight off his mind, he starts  to consider how to lift other heavy loads,  

And fills his base with the lived-in details  of a dwarven mining operation – freight   carts and elevators to move ores  from the depths to the surface. IMPULSE: How cool is this, right? We got the chains, kind of pulling it up. Oh, there’s the flag guy. 

Okay, you stay put. We don’t  need to get in a fight right now. >> All this is interrupted by a jump  scare from PearlescentMoon which kicks   off the next phase of their prank war  – bringing the rest of the server in as well.

The “Cheese Touch” is quickly returned by Pearl, but they team up to tag Joe Hills,   and we’re looking forward to  seeing how this cookie crumbles. [Impulse shouting] [Totem activating] PEARL: We did it! [multiple explosions] JOE: Whoa! Oh my god! [Impulse and Pearl laughing] JOE: Okay, y’all. I- I was just through

Getting a drink from the kitchen. 😅 I come back and y’all exploded?! >> But with that delivered, Impulse  heads back to the Nether to connect   his industrial district to his base with a lot  more style and convenience, and we discover why  

Xisumavoid auto-crafted so much gold as  they unveil the new Nether path to iBuy. IMPULSE: This is enormous! But I gotta say,   I love the color choice. XISUMA: I was gonna say,   it’s like the grand reveal, but technically,  you’ve already seen this before.

>> Having spent a week organizing his ender  chest to carry almost every obtainable block in   the game, Xisuma seemingly decides to use all of  them on this one tunnel through his base skeleton. XISUMA: So now, at the end of the project,  

I just have to put my shulker boxes back on the wall of hoppers.  And then all of this junk just gets chucked  into here, and everything gets sorted again.  So yes, everything I used out of my ender  chest, like the terracotta and the wool and  

Some of the sand here that got depleted will  just be restocked by using our sorting system. >> A similar fate befalls the nether tunnel  to his allay flower farm. Though the well   organised storage soon enough attracts  the attention of the cleaning lady.  PearlescentMoon commissions  a redstone sorting system  

For the basement of her garbage processing unit. A sort of a trash compactor, if you will. Though it’s not clear if she wants the  trash sorted by color or by taste here. PEARL: Is there a price? XISUMA: Oh! 

PEARL: Would you like me to pay something?  I feel like I need to pay you for your time. XISUMA: I was so happy to do more redstone I   didn’t even think about that. Um… [Pearl giggles] 

XISUMA: I can’t even think of anything to ask for. PEARL: You know what? I think I have an I.O.U.   from you, actually. A long time ago. XISUMA: Oh, okay.  …from me? PEARL: I- I think? Maybe? >> Whatever it is, X obliges and  delivers if not the whirlpool of  

An input that she requested, then  at least a believable sinkhole.  Though the most time Xisuma certainly  sinks into his newest TCG project which- [TV static] EVIL X: The Xisuma video for the week was perfectly normal! [TV static] EVIL X: Do not watch his video to check.

[TV static] EVIL X: He just did some… regular Minecraft things. Nothing to do with me, no. [TV static] EVIL X: Look the other way. >> VintageBeef also gets a sneak preview of it, but for some reason our footage of that has also mysteriously disappeared. Huh. Would you look at that.

BEEF: Where we going? This way. XISUMA: Well, this- this bit here   is just my base, right? BEEF: Right, yeah.  XISUMA: So, what I’ve constructed is in my base,   down this way. BEEF: Okay?  XISUMA: I’m expecting a lot of foot traffic  through here from fans of the TCG game, you know? 

BEEF: Alright, alright. XISUMA: Okay. Um…  I think I’m just gonna let you wander into  here and see if you understand what this is. BEEF: Okay, let’s see. Looks menacing already. [chuckles] With the- >> Dreadfully determined to  deliver on Decked Out dungeon,   TangoTek dives deeper into the digging.  

And though the Patreon supporters were quite helpful in designing the third level of – what is increasingly harder to call a “mini”- game – they can’t help actually dig  out the area for it on the actual server. TANGO: Got their help, so, big shoutout to TP, Zalvy, Kashmirr, and Caableguy.

You guys are amazing. Thank you for the help in getting this all put together. >> The fan-assisted level called The Black Mines,  actually spans over three different stories,   all connected with a central shaft unlocking level  four. And it’s almost a shame everyone involved  

Brought in their A game building this, because  none of it is going to be visible at this rate.  That’s right, chances are, the players will be  spending their time in this place mostly shrouded   by pulsating darkness, as this is exactly  the level when the Wardens join in the fun.

TANGO: Y’know, like we did in level  one, we hid Evokers in the walls,   right? We can’t do any of that on  levels three and four, because the   Wardens will sniff out the Evokers and just  blast-ificate them, right through the walls.

>> What’s better, Tango is already figuring  out the 1.20 arrangement of calibrated Sculk   sensors for maximum coverage and potential clank  upgrades. For a redstone system that will happily   tattle on you to the boss mobs as soon as you  let go of that shift key. And remember – the  

Longer you crawl through the place, the higher the  difficulty gets. So better warm up those glutes. TANGO: […] develop something down  here that I’m coining as, “AggoNet”. >> While we’re talking about the obsessions,   Cubfan135 has been arranging lists of  collectibles like this is Stardew Valley.

CUBFAN: Then I want some bigger items, too! Right?  ‘Cause we got- we got all this space to fill out  inside the museum, right? We got so much room. Uh,   and also, you know, Cleo has bigger things,  so we want bigger things to, you know?

>> Having arranged multiple pages of ideas on  what to put into his Museum of Hermitcraft, Cub   sets off to bother multiple Hermitcraft members  for their memorabilia, even scoring another crown   for the assorted crowns exhibit, when TangoTek  agrees to part with his Parkour King trophy.

CUBFAN: This was legendary. I don’t know- TANGO: It is legendary, yeah. 😏  CUBFAN: Dude, I saw you do this? And I was so  inspired, I wanted to go run up a mountain. >> For his part, Grian surrenders the very  lodestone that started the Empires crossover  

Event, as long as Cub promises to not  put the Begin button on it. Luckily,   Cub can’t anyway – the button is in  Cleo’s original home museum at the moment. CUBFAN: “Twinkly Trash- GRIAN: You can have that, if you want.  CUBFAN: – Clean Prototype”.  Perfect. This is beautiful.  

This’ll go in the record collection. GRIAN: I’ve- I’ll tell you what else I’ve   got in the same kind of department? CUBFAN: Yes? Yes? I’m interested? [Bdubs HORN]: “You’ll speak when spoken to!!” CUBFAN: Ooo! That’s a a good one. [Grian cheers] CUBFAN: That’s a good one. GRIAN: I’ve got the “speak when spoken to”~

CUBFAN: I like it, I like it. [Bdubs HORN] >> Also the whole time they talk,  you can clearly hear the hundreds   of chickens Grian has tucked away in a  wall somewhere. Which makes him acting   all coy about teasing the return  of the Poultry Man all the funnier.

[many chickens clucking] GRIAN: I… I don’t wanna spoil it! Actually, I don’t wanna spoil it.  I’m gonna- I’m gonna wait and-  Yeah, it’s got something to do with this. Goodbye. >> Man, all the best villains  are coming back this week!

This just continues the trend of Grian keeping  all his functional projects directly outside of   the place he calls his base. Which includes the  arrangement of chests one could only generously   call a storage system. Luckily, he has  now come up with a plan for the stuff,  

And that is to leave it all exactly  where it is, and also keep adding to it.  So while Pearl is out there  organizing a recycling center,   Grian’s approach to a storage room  appears to be conceptually a landfill. GRIAN: I started digging this hole  for no reason, and I just didn’t stop. 

I think subconsciously, maybe I knew  what this big old indent is gonna be for.  And I’m gonna pile everything into  there with some kind of organization.  At least to begin with.  And then it’ll become just- >> But one piece of garbage  he simply won’t have on his  

Territory is the one target block Mumbo put there. In response, Grian puts the target block back into   Mumbo’s vault and rigs it to make a TNT noise  followed by a bunch of assorted Grian noises. [TNT sizzles] [panicked Mumbo noises] [TNT explodes] MUMBO: Grian! [Grian DISC]: Pew pew! [assorted Grian noises]

MUMBO: That was… [Grian DISC]: Yeah! Explosions! GRIAN: [laughs] MUMBO: [confused laughter] I genuinely- I got so confused, then. Because  I thought you were saying that. GRIAN: [laughs harder] MUMBO: And then you started laughing. GRIAN: I- 🤣 I know! I now realize  that it was completely pointless,

Me making that disc, because  I could have done the noises. >> While there, he even fixes  the un-even-ness of Mumbo’s base,   having spotted that the whole reason it  was rectangle instead of square is that   one sidewalk was four blocks wide instead of five. Which is an easy, if disorienting, fix.

GRIAN: You know, Mumbo’s pretty oblivious. Do- do you think he’ll notice? Is this intentional?  This can’t be intentional. Do you reckon he’d even  notice if we fixed it? You know what? I needed a   reason not to do any more work to my base,  so, I’m gonna work on Mumbo’s for a minute.

>> You’d think turning his floor into something   resembling a target block would help  Mumbo recognize that particular pattern,   but Grian still needs to point it out  to him before the payoff can happen. In his defense, Mumbo was distracted  by his new HotGuy calendar, which he  

Had to cross a picket line to buy,  and was rewarded with instant karma. MUMBO: I mean, that is a bargain.  That is absolute bargain,   for someone so attractive  to have touched my calendar. Oh. Oh, have I just supported  someone that’s maybe not good? Where shall we put this thing? I’m- I’m thinking-

[sighs] I’m joining the protest. “I spent 16 diamonds and all I  got was this stupid pumpkin.” >> But Mumbo’s own home grown produce is  about to be the new hot commodity once   1.20 arrives – he’s setting up a bamboo  farm in anticipation of using the new  

Wood to craft chests and other wood-agnostic  items en masse. Which is probably why he’s   so protective of his bamboo, enclosing  it in a 16-block-high cage of iron bars. ZLOY: Man, that’s gotta be at least twelve. >> When you heard ‘bamboo farm’ you probably  didn’t expect “hell in a cell’”, but here we are.

And finally there’s DocM, whose own personal hell  might be about to return since Mumbo has promised   crowns alongside the diamonds for anyone who  saves the button from imminent destruction. DOCM: People said, in my comments  section, you want to introduce crowns? 

MUMBO: Yeah, I have- I have crowns. Uh. I’m just waiting on- on them being introduced   into the resources. DOCM: [laughs] Why?  MUMBO: There’s a- DOCM: Why- why   would you do that to me? You know. MUMBO: And the crowns are good. The   crowns are really good. DOCM: I- I gave you a-

>> But Doc is harnessing destruction in  different ways, and now he’s learned to   bend Wither skulls to his own whims, is starting  to find uses for them besides just leaving them   threateningly above other people’s bases. The latest module of his wither reactor  

Demands another Wither be added to the machine,  all so he can split the wither skulls in four   different directions. Then, setting up a low-fi  temporary raid farm so he can trap some Evokers,   he tricks them into constantly spawning Vexes  which are trapped in boats and killed by the  

Wither skulls, converting them into wither roses  with none of the extra mob drops or hassle. And as someone who’s been killed  by vexes on numerous occasions,   I’ll be needing the blueprints of  this one for the sake of revenge.

DOCM: Um, yeah. About 1900 per hour, so  if you do let this thing run for an hour,   you would have a shulker box filled. Is this not the most insane   thing you’ve ever seen in Minecraft,  probably? Like, this view upwards? >> 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! Don’t forget to leave a like while you’re still here, and subscribe so you won’t miss future Recaps. Thanks for watching, and we’ll see you next week.