Hermitcraft RECAP – Season 9 Week 72

This week on Hermitcraft: MUMBO: It’s walking! SCAR: It’s moving! It’s going! GRIAN: This one! >> And on that day, the karma of Rendog’s Season 6 Hippie Revolution  finally caught up to him. Welcome to the Hermitcraft Recap! My name is Pixlriffs, our writer is SloyXP, captions on this video were provided by Lyarrah.

And this week brings the long-awaited  showdown between mechanical marvels   cooked up by both sides of the  Buttercups-Perimeter conflict. It’s Robot Wars without the remote controls,  it’s Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em  Robots played at 0.1x speed,  it’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines without the gratuitous nudity. But will it be back?

There’s only one way to find out,  and that’s to take a look at all   the events and mishaps that occurred  on the Hermitcraft Server this week. Starting a step back from the giant  robot shenanigans, with XBCrafted,  

Who is above it all – at least physically. Because  despite the lap time contest now being over,   FalseSymmetry’s Elytra course is  still open to people who just wanna   goof around. And XBCrafted knows one goof  who’s always up for a friendly competition.

KERALIS: Well you’ve done it. I have not done  it. And also, I do have a disadvantage because-  XB: That sounds like a “you” problem. KERALIS: I’m left handed.  Yeah, but but, I’m just saying how  it is! If you wanna go in here just  

Cheating your way though the-  the victory, it’s all up to you. >> After bashing their heads on the rings  and figuring out in which order they’re   actually supposed to be flown  through, they get real spammy   with the rockets and real heavy on the  banter. XB is technically the victor,  

But we all know the real winner here is  the server’s various firework rocket shops. [spamming rockets] KERALIS: Ooo! XB: Ah-ha! KERALIS: Dang’t! XB: I saw that. I- [laughs] KERALIS: [stammers] I crossed the line!  I crossed the line. I did cross the line! XB: [laughing]

>> The in-flight entertainment is getting to  watch False progressively improve her base.   Stream after stream is poured into  finishing the mountain peak castle,   and there is no end in sight – thankfully. But to catch us up on all the tweaks , False  

Actually provides her own Hermitcraft Recap-esque  segment of all the things she made look nicer   across the palace. We’re just adding the  piano music and letting it play out, really. FALSE: I built up a whole extra tower  section to the side of my train tracks,  

And built out the interior already for a  small seating area. Oh, and I did in fact   build myself a small auto sheep pen, ready to try  and complete my St Jude map a little bit later on. >> While False is doing our job for us,  Xisumavoid has helped her with hers,  

And left a camel pen as a part of his  Camel Dash minigame. That goes really well,   as you can guess from False’s video being  titled, “The Most Difficult Mob Ever”.   But after a few attempts and some Cubfan  coaching, False earns her own baby camel,  

That soon joins the slowest horse on the server  in the stable of things awful to ride on. FALSE: You’ve got a friend! Aww! Yeah they just seemed such a perfect couple.  They’re just too cute together.  They’re just too cute.

>> False isn’t the only one being put through  her paces by a camel. In what’s technically a   flashback episode to the early days of Hermitcraft  in 1.20, Joe Hills is part of the group that   discovers a camel in a distant village as  soon as the Trails & Tales update arrives. 

By “distant”, we mean upwards of  10,000 blocks from spawn town,   so naturally Joe’s first instinct is to  cut down on the travel distance by going   through the Nether. And, naturally, the portal  from this village takes him to a basalt delta. [portal noises] JOE: Okay, this is not the safest area for a camel.

[Villager hums]  JOE: [gasps] How did you-?! You were down there!  Well, despite the “help” from the  locals, we’re still making progress. >> With only a Villager and some iron  golems for company, he digs a staircase   to a safe tunnel height in the Nether ceiling.  Safe, of course, aside from the magma cubes.

Eventually, Joe finds his  way back to civilisation,   and is able to ride the camel all the  way through hell and back to spawn,   where he decides the best place for the  first camel on the server will probably  

Be Cubfan’s museum. Although there was another  plot twist in store for him when he got there. JOE: As we clear the trees, the beautiful  Museum District opens before us!  So, here’s what we’re gonna do instead,  we’re gonna put the camel over here. What? What is this?! Is this a second camel?

>> Hilariously, Cub’s exhibit welcomes  an even worse mode of transportation,   as Piggslriffs joins the historic animal pen. CUBFAN: The last remaining named  pig, I believe, from the Pulled Pork   advancement. And that, of course- This is the last remaining one.  So, let’s go Piggslriffs! We got  a museum to put you in, my friend.

>> A new gem of the hostile monster part of  the museum is the practical installation of the   Wither Boss projectile. It took some doing,  but through a lot of slime block pushing,   Cub has successfully nudged one of the frozen  wither skull floaties into the museum facility. 

But just having the skull on display was  too simple, and Cubfan comes up with a   contraption essentially playing death  tennis with itself, as it bounces the   smoking skull back and forth using redstone. Another questionable interactivity is the  

Secret passage leading to the museum gift shop  basement – an area you certainly do not want   to keep secret if you ever wish to get any sales. As promised, there’s sherds and horns being sold,   for those willing to extend the history of the  ancient objects onto their own personal vase. 

But most curious is the library section where  one sign distinctly reads “Decked Out Blueprints”   which certainly Tango is changing too  rapidly to ever write anything down. CUBFAN: The Diamond Pillar Saga. HotGuy Flies Again, perhaps an autobiography.  We got the Joe Hills Poetry Corner. I’d really like Hermits to come here  

And, and author some books for sale,  you know? That would be fantastic. >> This week the ever expanding set of  Decked Out 2 features hits a fresh batch,   as the mod used for applying  custom music to disks and horns,  

Gains an ability to assign the block  radius across which the music can be heard. TANGO: Because now we can do  things like- like- like, 100! Boom!  And now, everyone- [BDubs Disc: SHUT UP!]  -within a hundred blocks would  have just heard that sound.

>> This does not stop at just Bdubs being  able to scream, “Shut up!” across the server.   Tango actually develops sounds and sound  effects custom for the Decked Out levels,   significantly expanding the ambiance  and the atmosphere of the dungeon.  So breathe it in, before you get  chucked out by Wardens, of course. 

Because at this point, the boss mobs of  the final level are queueing up to play!  Tango actually builds a full on Warden farm  at a remote ancient city, key difference being   that instead of killing the beasts, the farm  shoves them into a nether portal, and then into  

A lengthy tunnel leading back to Decked Out. The redstone systems may not be quite ready   for the monsters to be let loose, but it  helps to have them Chekov’s Gun’d for later. TANGO: Well, on the bright side, getting  Wardens into Decked Out seems to work just fine!  [Warden grumbles] TANGO: Here he comes! 

I just- [nervous laugh] I just need  to wait for them to de-spawn now! >> As if sensing the invisible threat, Grian  puts his best effort into the segment of   Decked Out he promised to build for Tango. His part is a mad scientist laboratory,  

Where once someone has been assembling  iron golems until they went insane and   decided to build a full on roguelike  game in survival Minecraft or something. GRIAN: This side, like I  said, was absolutely fine.  This one, wasn’t quite happy with it. If you’re ever having trouble with a build  

And you’re not quite sure, you’re [mumbles]… Just sleep on it! Sleep on it, come back the   next day with a fresh brain. And you’re-  you know you’re going to be able to do it. >> Maybe it’s this decorating mood that got him  onto the track to put a giant Live Laugh Love  

Sign at the side of Docm’s perimeter wall. Really  ties the hole in the ground together, that one. GRIAN: But at least I’ve now actually  contributed to this whole Buttercup operation. >> Funnily enough, GoodTimesWithScar just wants   to outsource the finer detailing of  his respective base to somebody else. 

Having scooped every diamond from every single  shop he owns, Scar can actually afford to payroll   PearlescentMoon’s work on cleaning up the  many dragon eggs across the Scarland Park.  As well as a few Redstoners  to work on the rides for it!

SCAR: You can- you can- you can have it for your office. PEARL: A trailer? My off- I get an office as well?! Alright! [bashful mumbling] SCAR: You can build your own office, or I can build it, however you please. PEARL: Aww! PEARL: Now, I am confiscating these eggs because they are illegal property on the server.

This is not allowed. SCAR: Oh it’s okay, I already have a stack or two. >> First of course, he has to make  the garage for them to sign up at.  Clearing out a significant  backstage for the future personnel,   as well as the many vehicles waiting  their turn on the park’s railway.

SCAR: Now, I have a question. Should  this position be permanent? Or is it   job-based? For instance, if we need  turnstiles, a Hermit can choose to   do that. Or if a Hermit wants to do the  firework launchers, they could do that.

Also – and this is a minor note – but Scar what  are you wearing? Scar no, this is how Afton died! But talking about murderous animatronics, I  guess it’s as good a time as any to get into   the main event of the week: Buttercups  vs Perimeter – the Robot Wars episode.

At least one-third of the Buttercup collective  has had success with a machine this week – Mumbo   manages to catch his own button in the Purple  zone, claiming himself a purple crown and a   handful of diamond blocks, and presumably  becoming his own best friend in the process.

This is self-care on a level  we can’t even conceive! His other machine is pretty successful too  – given the task of building a weapon to   surpass Metal Gear, he redstones together  a walking bouquet of buttercups designed   to deliver a TNT payload straight  to the face of DocM’s robotic goat.

MUMBO: That looks balanced,  everything looks correct here.  Apart from this. What are you?  Why won’t you leave me alone?! Can our robot actually destroy them? Yes it can! >> He then goes back to building his base, not at  all afraid about it being blown up a second time,  

And shrugging off the fact that it’s still full of  dragon eggs. To be fair, “I could clean my room,   but instead I’m going to build a fortress,” is  probably the mindset of most Minecraft players.   At this point, said fortress is getting taller  than Grian’s base, so expect another Hermitville  

Build-off if Mumbo makes a big deal of it –  but in the meantime, Grian encourages him not   only to not build the back, but also to  consider not building the sides either. MUMBO: Yes? GRIAN: Are you- are you done?  MUMBO: Uh, no. 😅 

GRIAN: You could leave it. You  could leave it right there.  MUMBO: [laughs] GRIAN: And it- it could be done.  That looks pretty cool to me. MUMBO: Yeah, from one angle.   We can’t all build bases like you, buddy. Where is Scar? We’re meant to be having a meeting.

>> Throughout all this, Rendog  decides the best way to undermine   the Buttercups’ plans is to literally mine  under them. But he doesn’t want it to just   be a hole in the ground – that’s far too  pedestrian for his more refined tastes.  

Instead, Agent double-o-sev-Ren builds an  undiscoverable spy bunker which it’s fine   for us to tell you about, because  it was discovered pretty quickly. DOCM: What are we doing here? What is this? RENDOG: Okay. DOCM: Is this a thing that explodes? RENDOG: No, this is a spy thing. 

The official name of it is  the Discombobulator 9000. >> But the hidden door was quite innovative,   allowing secret agents to activate the  entrance while also getting a much-needed   snack break. Also giving him and his new  spy suit a surprising amount of camouflage. 

But Ren has some different camouflage in mind,  because in the event that his undiscoverable   bunker was in fact discoverable, he decides  to create an underground habitat for Sniffers,   and to disguise himself and Doc as a single  sniffer through creative use of Minecraft skins. RENDOG: Um, hold on. DOCM: [giggling]

RENDOG: So if you crouch and look down, you look like a Sniffer’s rump. It’s gonna work, dude! It’s gonna work. DOCM: [squeak-laughing] RENDOG: If we come to the corner over here  where this mushroom is, they’ll never know!

>> Naturally, he makes himself the front half and  Doc the back half. And the juvenile part of our   brains has to wonder if that has anything to do  with him nicknaming this place the Sniffer Hole. DocM is living and probably loving,  but he’s definitely not laughing.

DOCM: Oh my god. Look at it! What did they do? There’s a flower pot, and there’s cozy lettering.  This is the worst. How dare they? At- >> Ren’s spy base and the pantomime Sniffer  routine are a little unorthodox for him,  

But at least they’re not written in 20 meter  high cursive letters on the side of his   perimeter. And the Sniffer Hole almost allows  them to eavesdrop on the buttercups’ plans,   except Doc can’t contain his rage when he overhears them planning   to add more yuppie Etsy projects to the walls of his base.

GRIAN: What else could we do? SCAR: A tapestry? A tapestry background? SCAR: Like it’s em-bordered? Love it. MUMBO: [laughs] Yeah, yeah yeah. DOCM: [shouting] No!! [Buttercups panic] DOCM: No! You stop! SCAR: Oh no 😂 MUMBO: I see some quartz. [everyone fussing] DOCM: You’re not gonna build

Any more motivational quotes on my wall! MUMBO: Why did you need a disguise if your base is   hidden? That just seems like strange extra steps. DOCM: Um… >> Naturally this blows their carefully  crafted cover, so we’re left with a pair  

Of guys in Sniffer onesies and a trio  of hippies declaring war and settling   things with giant robots at 100 paces. Grian has set up a giant piece of pottery   with a wall of falling concrete to reveal Mumbo’s  buttercup of destruction, and we think it’s pretty  

Funny that he made a garage door out of the  blocks that were insta-crashing him last week.  But the technical problems don’t stop there,  because the machine stalls halfway thanks to   some complications with the voice chat mod.  Once it’s jump-started though, the head-on  

Collision we were all hoping for happens,  and it goes about as well as you’d expect. GRIAN: Come on! Come on! MUMBO: Yesss!! Come on! DOCM: Do something! MUMBO: Yes! Yes!! GRIAN: It’s igniting! MUMBO: It’s ignited! [chain of explosions] DOCM: Ohh! Awesome! GRIAN: [hysterical laughter] It blew itself up! [everyone laughing]

SCAR: We did way more damage! >> But the Perimeter team had what the Buttercups  lacked – a phase 2 of their plans, launching the   butterflies overhead and nearly dropping TNT  on Scar and Grian’s bases. The trio scrambles  

To block this threat, and even more of the  goat robot gets blown up in the process. DOCM: What are you-?! Your  incompetence is his strongest power.  GRIAN: 🤣 MUMBO: Yep! SCAR: Here you go! >> After all of that, Doc still  considers himself the winner,  

But we’ve got to wonder if the server  hasn’t seen its last robot face-off. DOCM: [sighs] I’m never gonna wear  that stupid Sniffer onesie ever again. >> But all the while, perhaps the real  doomsday device has been hidden in plain sight. As you see, finally, there’s Zedaph.

Though putting netherite gear onto a  set of leather armor is crime enough,   the real offence to anyone with an ear is the Cacophony Machine Mark 2 Zed installs at the so very Community District, where – you know – people live. 

The trick here is to rig 16 music discs to  all play at once, and thanks to the latest   in Minecraft updates, you can! The vanilla  jukeboxes actually have redstone capabilities now.  And even if it’s a little different from how  the datapack they used does it, Zedaph is able to  

Engineer a fully automated redstone jukebox. With an on-demand “off” button, thank god. Well at least he doesn’t luck out into the Pigstep  disk, so no use running the noise maker 3000 just   yet – oh no Rendog what are you doing, put  the Pigstep back, don’t let him have it, no-

[button clicks] [jukeboxes ALL play] ZEDAPH: [distressed noise]  RENDOG: Oh my- [Zedvancement Jingle] RENDOG: I don’t think I’ve ever experienced  that emotion in real life, before.  ZEDAPH: [laughs] RENDOG: I think it would take something very serious to be consumed to go back to where I’ve just been. >> And that’s about it for this week’s Recap!

Our writer is Zloyxp 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.