Hermitcraft RECAP – Season 9 Week 67

Welcome to the Hermitcraft Recap! My name is Pixlriffs, our writer is SloyXP, captions on this video were provided by Lyarrah. And if you hear the sound of industrial chugging  in the distance, for once that’s not a redstone   contraption – that’s Xisumavoid’s self-titled  album under his musical pseudonym ‘Soulside  

Eclipse’. So for anyone who’s been weighing  it, the server just got a whole lot heavier. XISUMA: I put so much of my soul  – my passion – into this project,   and this year I decided to make it a  reality. And so I’ve spent the last-

>> But things on Hermitcraft are still light  and breezy, with all sorts of minigames popping   up to distract everyone from what they were  doing, unless what they were doing was building   minigames. And we have news that – as of yesterday  – the server was upgraded to Minecraft 1.20,  

And immediately began creaking under the  pressure as everyone scattered across the   map looking for cherry groves, suspicious sand to  brush, and designs to stencil onto their armour. But here at the Recap we are creatures  of the past – we only watch videos up to  

And including Friday – so let’s take a look at all the events and mishaps that occurred  on the Hermitcraft Server this week. Starting with ImpulseSV, who now has an  i9 on his industrial district motherboard.   Although he might need to look into the  overheating problem – the fire that’s  

Overheating the excess bamboo from his farm. Because Impulse, like many other people,   has realised bamboo will be in popular demand  once the server updates to Minecraft 1.20! IMPULSE: We’ll see. The Hermits will eventually  come to realize how amazing Bamboo is. But I want it ready for them when they do.

>> So he not only re-routes the  farm into his storage system,   he converts the other half of the farm that  was previously sugar cane into bamboo as well. IMPULSE: We probably got enough sugar  cane to last the rest of the season,   even if we go on for another five years.

Which, I don’t think we  will, but, anyway! [laughs] >> Then it turns out to need a whole minecart  system to collect and refill shulker boxes just   so he can store it all and ship it off to iBuy. Truly, his cup runneth over.

Just like the Zedvancement cup runneth over to  ZombieCleo’s museum – at least, when Impulse   decides to prank them and wears the trophy while  under the effects of an invisibility potion. IMPULSE: Ha, that worked pretty good. CLEO: Actually- 😂 That actually looks pretty good. 

IMPULSE: [laughs] Oh! Look, I can- 😂 CLEO: It’s so good! That’s great.  IMPULSE: Oh, we’re making a game out of  this. We’re so making a game out of this.  This is so “Prop Hunt”! CLEO: This is proper “Night at the Museum” stuff,   we gotta tell Scar. IMPULSE: Oh!

>> In the meantime, Cub is runneth over  the entire server trying to get as many   mobs as he can to his museum  within the limit of four hours. CUBFAN: We got the arctic fox. I said we were  racing against the clock to get these mobs,   because, we absolutely are,  guys. We absolutely are.

>> Luckily some people straight up sell  animals just across the road from here,   and some animals will chase you  down across half the server.  As such, Cub successfully acquires a hoglin,  that naturally transforms into a zoglin in   the overworld, because no matter how speed  you run, you can’t out-speed-run the plague.

[Zoglin grumbling] CUBFAN: It seems   like this guy can’t drown, actually. Makes sense because basically, he’s already dead?  So… I guess that’s cool. Okay, we gotta be kinda careful here,   because Zog the Hoglin will actually attack any  mobs in his nearby area. So we gotta put him  

In a pen that’s not adjacent to another  pen. Like this one here might be good. >> Another rare beast for Cub to put  into his museum turns out to be Bdubs.  The many shiny varieties of BdoubleO would cost a  shiny penny if Cub was getting them from the head  

Gacha machine. Luckily, he was able to strike a  promotional deal with Bdubs directly, and get the   whole pile of Bdubs heads in exchange for actively  advertising the shop in the museum exhibit. BDUBS: Yeah. CUBFAN: I think   what I can do, Bdubs, I can put a  uh, “Sponsored by Bdubs’ Head Shop”.

BDUBS: Ahhh! Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. CUBFAN: And then the coordinates, yeah yeah yeah. BDUBS: Okay, that one- CUBFAN: Gr- No, “graciously provided by”! CUBFAN: Do you have any neat stuff, by the way. BDUBS: I mean, if- if you wanted. You know,   I made that castle. Ransack it. 

Anything in there is yours. CUBFAN: Anything?  BDUBS: Yes. CUBFAN: Oh my goodness. Okay. Okay. >> HotGuy exhibit gets an even better deal – on  top of displaying all of Scar’s merch, the museum   offers a shooting range where you can practice  your archery and even win a replica HotGuy bow!

CUBFAN: And when you jump through the portal,  wouldn’t you know it, it’s the Empires folks!  So I thought it’d be appropriate to  put them, like, through the Rift,   because they are, you know,  Empires members, after all. >> Now what Cub did have to actively battle  for, is the Evil Xisuma TCG trophy exhibit! 

We didn’t get to talk about this last time  because of… some wi-fi interference,   but Evil Xisuma is now a TCG boss  battle! And an automated one at that!  That’s right! Through what we can only  imagine is a redstone incantation,  

X was able to put together an in-game  in-minigame boss with a mind of its   own! So the layers of abstraction  are piling up, as you can see. XISUMA: Now. This is no straightforward system,  because there is another element of the difficulty  

Increasing. So, with Psybot’s help, we now  have an amazing Evil X boss battle arena! This week however brings an  arguably harder challenge for   his mechanisation skill. Because if you  think making your own redstone is hard,   consider how much harder it  is to tweak someone else’s. 

Yes, it’s once again time to make David the  Copper (aging) field even more complicated! XISUMA: So just imagine that the facility  here, instead of having just this one,   could have all the different stages of  aging. And we can do this with redstone! 

So, I thought this was going  to be really simple, you see- >> You might remember me helping X install  this beast of epic proportions, and if you do,   you’ll know it was not designed to  also wax the copper on the way out.  So now he’s modded a boss battle  into his favorite minigame,  

And developed an add-on for a tool I designed. But no, Xisuma hasn’t spent as much time on the   server as usual, he says wearing  a crown that takes hours to get. XISUMA: Oh, time! Time! [noteblocks chiming] XISUMA: Woo! I got the first level!

Did I break it? It only went down by one.  It’s stuck in a loop! What have I done? >> BdoubleO manages two minigames this week,   although one of them is, “how  can I get my PC to not die?”

BDUBS: But, I am finding that uh, that wasn’t  everything. It’s kind of brute force. I blue   screened like, 20 times in the last 24 hours.  Bdubs has been in a pure panic mode, just F.Y.I. >> Apparently, enough “dedotated WAM” and  horse riding fries your computer memory,  

So many blue screens died to bring you this video,   and the redstone with Bdubs segment is  sponsored by Windows Accessibility Settings. BDUBS: Redstone with Bdubs~! [computer beeps] BDUBS: Sticky Keys. Sticky Keys came on  and ruined my Redstone with Bdubs moment. 😒 >>Despite this, he still gets  to create the other minigame,  

Thanks to the cooperation of a snow  golem which immediately tries to escape. BDUBS: Blast! Well, he’s gonna coat the floor  down here. [clears throat] And this isn’t getting my snowballs  because I have a Silk Touch pick. >> Once he’s farmed enough snowballs, he sets up  a sideshow attraction in which contestants have  

To fling snowballs at a target block to win  a prize! Unfortunately for everyone involved,   the prize is a horse that dangles  in front of the target. So you’ll   only get to ride away once you’ve  pelted the poor creature with snow. TANGO: So all I gotta do is shoot your horses,  

Right? That’s easy, from what I’ve seen. BDUBS: No! No, no stop. It was me the whole time. >> Still, somehow TangoTek gets  away victorious – both from the   minigame and the one pillager he also somehow won. BDUBS: Patience is key- Ohhh~! BDUBS: [arrow hits] Oh hey! TANGO: Oh what is this?! 😱 What-

One player at a time here! One player- BDUBS: He shot my armor stand! The stupid idiot! >> The carnival game was a nice distraction  from working on the Decked Out dungeons. It   helps that Grian showed up now with an  offer to build the secret laboratory  

Level decorations, and Tango can focus on  the redstone, of which there is plenty. GRIAN: Right. TANGO: The guy   who was into all the science, the  labratory, was into making golems as   pets and stuff like that kind of thing? GRIAN: Okay. Yeah, I can do that.

>> Even the door from level 3 to level 4 could  not be a regular piston tape. For extra oomph   and pizzazz, Tango made sure that the way  you open the elevator shaft to below the   black mines, is by dropping a TNT block into it! The game naturally resets it by generating basalt,  

So no harm no foul, inbefore Etho tries to use  it to clear out the Wardens populating the level. TANGO: And now, in theory, we  should haver a blast proof floor! [kaboom] TANGO: Excellent! >> Then again, maybe we should keep  Tango occupied with environmental design,  

Given that now he’s making secret passages like  this underwater one. The idea of a chest behind   a secret is perfectly fine, it’s just  the way there is so windy and brutal,   it could be considered its own underwater level! TANGO: Over through here, and all  the way down here, and to all this,  

Around the corner, I’m almost drowning, down  here, under the thing, and then you’re here. >> You can see how this is a  little more involved than the   current top minigame that is about  pressing a button at the right time. And luckily it’s a bigger landmark than the  Button, because xBCrafted only just remembered  

The button was there – and it took longer than  he’d like to admit to discover the TCG swap shop. XB: This, I feel like, is not it. 😅 I goin’ places I ain’t s’posed to be!

You would think there would be a sign that says,  like, “here’s the place to swap your TCG stuff!” >> But he’s observant enough to play spot the  difference between the cards he’s swapping – most   of which are just worded slightly clearer – and  even to spot foxes darting between the trees of  

A taiga biome. Because xB and VintageBeef team up  to locate the vulpine residents of the enclosure   Beef built for xB’s zoo project. xB even gives us  a display of expert marksmanship saving them from   the encroaching creepers – although he can’t  save them from Minecraft’s lead mechanics.

BEEF: Do you just run up to them  and just use the lead on them?  XB: Uh-huh. BEEF: I think   that’s probably where I’m going to leave it.  Now how do I get- Where do I go from here?  XB: Alright. I’ve got three. BEEF: Oh wow. Okay.

>> Coincidentally, FalseSymmetry  is about ready to put Grian on a   leash after he snags a good button  press from her and for nothing! JOE: Might as well get… Jaffa Cakes? No, I think that’s Australia. I dunno. FALSE: Yeah,   Jaffa Cake. Yeah, Jaffa Cakes. JOE: Jaffa Cakes? Oh. Okay cool.

Yeah go get some Jaffa Cakes! FALSE: Nope. JOE: Oh hi Grian! GRIAN: I saved the   button! Good day! Only I get  to be Mumbo’s best friend! Yay!  FALSE: Uh, bye? JOE: Bye… bye Grian. FALSE: So I guess now that Grian isn’t in  my good books, I guess I can add him to my  

List? I just feel like making a bit  of a list, of people that have… wronged me. [chuckles] >>Not that False herself is  a stranger to shenanigans,   as we see her pull some PT jump  scares on Rendog while he was   visiting. Invisibility potions are really  good for pretending to be an armorstand,  

If you know for sure the other guy  is playing with the particles off. FALSE: Oh hi. RENDOG: Oh!  [sighs] That cared the living hell out of me, man. FALSE: How you doing? [laughs] >> Ren and Grian marathon False’s elytra  course over and over, which just proves  

That the tweaks from last week helped –  as neither dies of kinetic energy. All the   while False is plotting her revenge as well  as the exact layout of the castle innards.  Ultimately, she gets to pull  the exact same goof on Grian,  

While he’s AFK at the button. Just a shame  no one got to the Jaffa Cakes this week. FALSE: I had to kind of give  him a taste of his own medicine. [button clicks] [note block chimes] FALSE: [laughs] I had   to. Guys. It’s- it’s even. It’s fair.

>> As a desperate bid for Mumbo’s friendship,   Grian has been trying to hit the purple  crown limit. Nobody else has it on the   server at the moment, which means Mumbo is  pretty lonely with no friends out there.

GRIAN: Well, at least I uh- at least I’m still  in the running to being Mumbo’s best friend. >> Well, for his part, he could help by  not threatening to burn his neighbor’s   copper over the continuous  target block prank exchange. GRIAN: No! [panicked laugh] [screams] Man’s burning- That’s not very best friend behavior!

>> As such, Grian only gets the  regular friend crown for now – no   thanks to someone holding a grudge here. What took longer still, is arranging some giant   rocks around his base in a presentable manner.  At a glance, it might not strike you as a 7 hour  

Build, especially since we saw floating boulders  out of the guy already. But consider – this is   also where Grian’s chest pile has been this  entire time, and it’s not there any more! GRIAN: Look how much I’ve got rid of in terms of  clutter. This was all just sitting in my base.

Turns out, offering to work on Decked Out level  4 wasn’t just him procrastinating on cleaning   his storage after all, and Grian had it all  moved in a neat, or at least neat-er fashion! Not neat enough for Zedaph, at least. ZEDAPH: Okay. This is- this is like neat mess.

There’s a shulker box right there though! Hey, I lived in your mansion once.  GRIAN: Oh yeah, that’s true. ZEDAPH: I know exactly what   it’s like to live in your mess. GRIAN: Oh yeah, that’s true. This is some big words from a man, whose  storage – though maybe neat – doesn’t have  

Any dragon eggs in it. Which is why Grian’s  duped one is of big interest to Zedaph. ZEDAPH: Rumors tell me that  you are a man with eggs. >> For now, though, it’s a no-sell, and  Grian even considers booby trapping the  

Dragon egg with an observer, so that the  rare item isn’t too easy to get from him.  Joke’s on him, one could simply point  out the extra egg to PearlescentMoon,   to send Grian to Minecraft  jail for his duping crimes. And finally there’s DocM, who decides this  time he’s not going to spend hours camping  

Out to get the latest colourful accessory.  This time, he’s gonna hack the button. DOCM: Very suspicious to have  Grian’s cam account on all day.  I think what he’s trying to do is  keep it loaded so it runs faster? >> First, though, he looks at  how they massacred his boy.

DOCM: Alright, anyways. You know,  that is just one example. You know,   after Mumbo got banned from tournament play,  which ruined our whole strategy we’ve been   using for the whole first season  of TCG. Poor Mumbo. But still yeah,   it’s no longer (200 and 4?) But it’s  still one of the most powerful cards.

>> Doc swaps basically his whole  card library at the TCG swap shop,   but he keeps a couple of the pre-nerf cards as  a collector’s item for his personal trophy room.  There’s a brief diversion as he, False,  and Impulse help Cubfan capture one of the  

Remaining ghasts from his prank on Grian – all  for Cub’s museum – and a momentary panic when a   stray fireball hits the anvil cannon. Luckily, it  wasn’t in quite the right place to blow everything   sky high, but we were also very tense when  Doc put out the fire on that one observer.

IMPULSE: The observer’s alright. DOCM: It blew up two- it- It blew up two rail tracks! IMPULSE: Easy repair though at least? DOCM: [groans] Thinking. Nothing  about this thing is easy. IMPULSE: Oh. Oh no. DOCM: I need to call   in the Hivemind! I don’t know what  happens if I update this observer  

Here while the fire is on. IMPULSE: Oh no… ugh. >> But with those distractions aside, Doc turns  his attention back to the button heist. Digging   a large hole below the button’s chassis, he  rigs up an Ender Pearl stasis chamber that  

Triggers when the button reaches Purple – or,  alternatively, when someone presses it. With   the idea that he can either arrive to click  the button himself, or snipe the crowns from   someone else – then using another Ender Pearl  teleporter, he warps back to the Perimeter. 

The first tests don’t go quite according  to plan, but there was always a chance   there’d be some bugs to work out. Finally, though, Doc parks himself   in an AFK booth overnight, and returns to  find all three crowns in his inventory.  Which we’re pretty sure makes  him Mumbo’s best friend.

DOCM: [hoarse] Oh my god, we succeeded! I win! [rolling thunder] DOCM: Yes!! [coughs] Just woke up! 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, 

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