I Made a Custom Biome! :: Hermitcraft S9

Foreign Today is gonna feel uh remember remember how YouTube videos were in uh 2010 where we would just kind of hit record and then we would go and play Minecraft and then we would hit record or end recording and then we’d clip the ends and upload that video

That’s about what we’re gonna do today uh B-Dubs is sick I’m feeling much better than I did uh for the past two weeks or so I’ve been not so good but now finally reaching the level of normal sickness so feeling like I can function enough

To record this video we have quite a lot to talk about and a lot to do first and foremost got a shrieve of course as you can see we are back in the hermitcraft world we had a fun little crossover event with the Empire’s people unfortunately I missed the entire time

That they were here they were here on the hermitcraft server I’m sure a lot of you saw that from other people um I unfortunately was down for for all of that but um there was a secret Santa that happened and I believe I got a Prezi oh

Hello what do we have here Chris B Double O Christmas treasure hunt uh this is the first of four gifts whoa it’s dangerous to go alone take this your first clue chords are at the back of your struggle what chords are at the back at the back if you struggle I’m

Reading sick head oh this is so fun okay oh this is amazing clue one the biggest soup bowl on the server hmm used to be tasty head soup now it’s pumpkin I think I know this it’s dangerous to go alone take this I I does it mean take the book or does it

Mean take this guy I think it’s take this guy oh totem up on dying okay okay that means I can’t take my Croc okay soup bowl is here now yes pumpkin okay aha hey book oh with a beat ups be a head okay okay okay what do we have here

Beat Up’s treasure hunt you did it I knew you could clue two a place that exists on two servers toss an apple to your mount huh what’s all this another totem of undying okay wait toss an apple to your mount a place that exists on two servers hey there’s a dragon

There’s a drop oh I’m having delusions if I’m having flute delusions the dragons here what what’s happening I’m no I’m not going that feels like that feels like a doc M77 special I ain’t going near it I have a theory about this a place that exists on two servers on the season

See I was right I can’t believe it okay this because this is on the season 8 world and now on the season nine World okay a beat ups head here uh I bet this one was super hard I’m proud I’m so sorry about the coughing guys this is gonna be kind of persistent

Today but I’ll try to edit it out the best I can I bet this one was super hard I’m proud of you I actually it was the first place I guess the other place I was thinking was the rift potentially but uh okay it’s time to tell some jokes

Open mic night I know what that is look at all these goodies oh and these are Joker I should be taking all this stuff okay it’s time to tell some jokes open mic night there’s only one open mic night that we’ve had on the server and that was at

The B-Dubs mud Cafe let’s check it out let’s see if inside here is another clue sure enough oh that’s pixel riffs the place where you fell for the final time in your defense of the king whoa the place where you fell for the final time in the defense of the king oh

I know where this is okay look at all that calcite oh why Yaya is this from Pixel riffs I wonder alright it was right in here in the vault whoopsie there we go right at the end of The Vault my impossible uncrackable door and this is where I fell for the final time

Wait a second oh did I maybe this wasn’t included in all perspectives maybe I maybe it was somewhere else where I fell for the final time this is where I was defending King Wren maybe it’s over here aha uh-huh yes is this it you did it Merry

Christmas have a bunch of Colors oh British It’s gotta be pixel riffs huh spelled with a u oh my goodness sand loads of sand oh look at all these dyes and grab that comes in whoa that’s it comes in so perfect today concrete Creator

Oh so much sand that oh what a gift what a prize oh if this is from Pixel riffs that’s the sweetest sweetest thing ever what a sweet amazing way to start the day that was awesome I was actually part of the secret santa as well but because

I was ill and I missed the deadline uh amazing sweet green kind of helped me complete my secret Santa fulfillment uh as well so that that was so awesome wow um this actually the gravel is going to come in very handy so today what the game plan is what I plan on doing

And this is really the perfect time for it because uh I’m because I’m under the weather it’s it’s hard for me mentally I’m stuck in like a mental fog it’s hard for me mentally to top you know usually we’re topping our last episode and okay

What have I done last okay how can I beat that uh I I succeed I cannot do that today uh because of how how I’ve been kind of feeling ill but what I want to do today is create a brand new custom never seen never seen before biome

I think if we something you can do in your world you can make your builds and all of that stuff but if you dig in to the little intricacies of customizing the land around your build it adds so much it’s not very interesting it it takes

Quite a bit of time of course we’ll make it interesting right uh but it it and it can be kind of monotonous to do but when you do it you really add a lot to your area so I’m going to be changing the biome that we’re in of course it’ll look similar

Somewhat similar but we want it to feel more custom so I’m going to start chopping down all these trees and get all of this land cleared out at least for a good portion of this area and then we’ll start putting together some blocks I’ll show you some of the blocks that we

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Description box below and switch [Applause] just so you guys know I I’m not I don’t actually look that sick behind the fourth wall here uh B-Dubs looked up a makeup tutorial a flu makeup tutorial and I paint my face to look a little extra flowy that’s a

That’s the extent I’ll go of course of course uh but hey maybe you’ve noticed this I’m gonna slowly ease this down normal field of view is 70. uh because I’ve been sick I haven’t played Minecraft in like two weeks so when I come back and maybe some

Of you feel this as well when I come back it’s from not playing Minecraft for a while I end up of feeling very emotion sick very dizzy and the way to combat that is to turn the field of view up a little bit and then ease yourself back

Into it that’s kind of how how I’m doing that and it’s been working I’ve been pretty good so far no no major motion sickness although right now now that I’ve turned it down I feel it a little bit but we’ll get back to normal soon oh phone make noise

All right what are we doing here with this custom biome that we’re gonna make in this area well right now I’m farming for where is it these guys right here these little blue grass things they make a pretty nice looking almost like a just a blue flower you wouldn’t normally see

These IRL maybe a little bit uh but I’m kind of thinking about the colors that we want to use here in this biome and I think mainly of course we’re gonna be green because we can do the grass and all the foliage and stuff like that but

We’ll sprinkle in a little bit of this like cyanish light blue to help and I’ve always found a really nice contrast oh hello grow over here red a really fun kind of cyber Punky color contrast is red red it’s not the opposite side of the color wheel but it works nicely with

This bluish color so we’ll get some of these guys not a ton 24 should be good but to make this place feel a little more interesting and make it feel a little bit like uh it’s been worked on and a little more custom I’m gonna start putting I think Birch leaves are really

Nice if you look out into the forest where’s a good comp comparison the Birch leaves are quite a bit darker than like the normal uh green of the oak leaves and stuff so I think that’ll be nice I want to just kind of randomly try to get like some

Birch leaf patches around and when you’re going random it’s a little bit difficult to do in Minecraft because uh naturally we mentally do things in a pattern but if I just run around and just start placing stuff without thinking too much turn brain off don’t think and then just put some patches

Down we should end up with something a little random I also want to let’s get out of our head and let’s just take a look take a little snapshot of this is what the area looks like right now obviously it’s just uh oh gotta clean that up but it’s just kind of sitting

Here with you know the just the plain grass and stuff uh but take it mental snapshot of this and we’ll remember what it looks like after it’s transformed okay pretty good we have a nice amount of birch leaves placed all over the place just in Little Bush patterns right

So now what I want to do since this old monolith storyline wise we’re kind of saying that it was built here a long time ago we want to make it look like the stone in the ground is and actually I want to use a different shovel for

This I’d rather have dirt than grass at the moment so we want to do some patches of stone in the ground this will kind of help mix things up a little bit and if we just randomly kind of cut out a little bit of a shape here we can put

This in now if we did if we filled this up with just diorite like this and let’s spread this out a little more that’s fine so these white patches in the ground they look kind of cool but they’re they’re standing out quite a bit the grass color is pretty dark so to help

Ease that transition kind of on the edges I’m gonna I know we’re working a little bit backwards here do replacing some of the stuff we’ve already done but on the edges I want to put some mossy cobblestone it kind of works especially at a distance with this diet right but

It’ll just kind of help make it look a little more natural in the way I’m thinking about this is kind of just whenever it’s near the grass like these ones that are kind of tucked in more into the middle of the stone we’ll just leave those but

Whenever it’s near the grass so that doesn’t look like very much diorite maybe we’ll put one back right there and then to help ease that transition even more we’ll put a little bit of Lichen in here and that’ll just kind of dull down that bright diorite texture just a wee little

Bit and I think that’ll look pretty nice so now it looks like in the ground here there’s a little bit there’s like some diorite Stone Stripes popping up every once in a while all right that’s looking pretty cool now I want to get a bunch of coarse dirt and this is where that

Amazing gift will come in handy four Stacks is way more than we need I’ve also got some of these azalea bushes now these azalea bushes they actually are pretty contrasty they I gotta use them fairly sparingly I don’t think very much because from a distance they really like

There’s so much like an anatomy there’s so much like there’s small pieces big pieces from so from a distance they really stand out a lot and could potentially make the area look a little too busy so I just want to use them just a little bit here and there that’s

Probably the most I’ll use in this section but now I want to look at the terrain a little bit and look at some areas where like this is kind of becoming a little bit of a steeper slope right here so maybe we’ll cut this out just a little bit and we’ll turn this

Into dirt in the real world when when the terrain is kind of steep it’s harder for grass to grow in spots like that so we’ll just use some coarse dirt obviously we just want a texture that doesn’t look like grass to be there and we’ll put this coarse dirt in just to

Kind of mess things up a little bit make it look a little bit more interesting now the reason why grass wouldn’t grow here is mainly I think because water would erode this so if water if it ever rains water would run down this area yeah and it would just make it very hard

For grass to grow so I’m just kind of thinking about that a little bit like okay how would water run down this area uh would it wash away all the you know potential seeds or whatever that would cause the grass so just a little thing like that and then making it a little

More sparse on the edges I think looks pretty good and then to blend this in because this is a pretty big contrast from the green to the dirt we’re going to on the edges also put some grass just to help make it look like it’s blending in just a little bit

Now when you’re doing this and you’re making your own kind of custom biome just like me you should be doing this as well uh the the terrain can kind of tell a little bit of a story and help guide you a little bit as well so this area

Here is pretty steep there’s a pretty steep drop off on this Plateau here so normally this would be made out of stone maybe or we could just imagine that there’s a bit of a Stone Cliff here or something made out of stone that helped cause this and make this kind of sharp

Edge it also of course gives us a nice reason to add another texture and another mix into the whole thing don’t want to do it all out of diorite I think too much diorite will be a little bit strong so I think having a little Stone

In here like this is gonna be good and then you know some sharp edges and stuff like that you can get it is crazy or wild with it as you want but is it aren’t we wild and crazy placing these stone blocks um but yeah so that’s kind of my thought

Process with this is every once in a while you want to just have some Stones scattered across the area mossy cobblestone works very well for this as well because Stone in and of itself is pretty high contrast against Grass but we’re so used to seeing it naturally in

Minecraft that it’s not that big a deal but just having some areas like that and then you know kind of finessing the Steep edges just a little bit kind of helps uh add some more visual interest and then of course when you have areas like this that are kind of they seem

Like they’re out of nowhere if you pop some bone meal around it just like we did with the coarse dirt and stuff you put some bull meal around it it kind of helps blend it on in to the surrounding area now here you can leave the flowers

If you want but here I’m kind of choosing most often I usually choose to get rid of the flowers because I like to manually decide what kind of flowers go where but this right here and then you know you kind of knocks them out as well

If it’s too much but this kind of helps make it feel like more part of the terrain and blends it in alright so as we take this thing in stages we have stone kind of scattered in we have bushes around and we removed all the trees let’s add back some trees but

Let’s make them a little more custom I’m thinking right here and we’re not gonna go too crazy I’m actually gonna make this look almost like a big bush and I’m going with azalea leaves for this just to kind of mix up the green color a little bit I think the azalea

Leaves are nice but my thought process for this is kind of slowly make it a little bigger as it gets down to the to the bottom but we do the way we do this I’m just gonna do it on either side but we’ll kind of slowly

Make it a little bigger and we do it every other one so this row will just be those and then this row will kind of make it a little bigger we could put one there and maybe one there and one there and we’re almost nearing the bottom and

Then down here even bigger and then at the bottom we’ll go the largest size but I mean we’re just doing one side there but you can already kind of see the shape that we’re getting and going for here is not super complex it’s very easy to make these little trees that look

Pretty cool right especially from a distance you know it obviously this side’s not done we’ll use maybe the opposite of this pattern so on this row we did the small one maybe on this side we’ll make these a little bigger and then this row will be smaller hard to explain but

We just want it to kind of look a little bit alternating and a little bit that helps it make a little bit that helps it make it look make look a little more natural make look natural all right I popped another one of those little guys in right over there a little

Bit smaller than that one maybe we’ll of course as this area expands we’ll do more and more of that but kind of at the phase now to where I want to fill in with this blue stuff and I think I mean we might not have enough here but let’s go very random

We’re going to go dense in the center let’s see do I want this here let’s let’s cut this out we’ll go more dense in the center and then kind of work our way out making it less dense but I want to look make it look almost like uh

Paint paint stroke like he took a paintbrush and just like wiped it onto the terrain here I think that’ll be nice yeah that’s pretty good maybe maybe a little too much we can obviously take it out but then on the edges we’ll just do it a little more sparsely

Make it look natural like it’s growing out from the center but let’s take a quick trip out to this swamp bio little travel away floating Vines let’s get some of these blue flowers as well slightly different blue color but they’re very nice and I think it’ll help

Kind of just make those blue pieces uh look a little more different and help them pop just a little bit more I only have like 10 of these left but we’re gonna put some over on this side as well this is all objective when you’re doing this stuff it’s all up to

Your preference you know what do you think looks best some of you are going to look at this and think oh this is terrible this doesn’t look good or this isn’t how I would do it but that’s okay then you should do it your way and what feels

Good to you but it’s all just preference you know just kind of get in there and mess with stuff uh and and get it to a point to where you feel like looks good but here is if we’re bringing in that red and this is almost like a purplish

Red so it works really nicely with this just a little bit I’m just gonna put this very little small patch right here and it’s maybe even too much but maybe even pull a little bit more out of there just so it’s not too strong I just want a little

Small little dot of red or stripe of red right here just to help kind of contrast that blue and we got these blue orchids in here kind of make this look a little more dense uh but I think it looks good I think we’ll also hit this area with some bone meal as

Well just to kind of have the grass sporadically placed in here now normally when I’m doing bone meal we get there’s tons these huge super dense double talls and you get a very dense section of grass in there but and normally I knock some of that out but in a case

Like this I’m kind of using this more as filler now so in some kind of bald looking Spots I’m just bow mealing it and leaving like let all of that wild grass kind of show up in there and I think that that also acts as almost like

Another Bush type when you have these very dense patches it looks like another type of bush in there so we’re gonna go through and we’re gonna bone meal a bunch of this spot especially in areas like this where these kind of high contrast guys are will help them blend

In a little bit more as well all right beat ups has been going long enough let’s bring us back to normal I think I think we’re okay maybe this makes you feel does this feel weird for you guys now I’ve been dragging you through this this trip with me of uh the

Field of view trip last thing we’re gonna do here I just went around did some bone mealing and stuff like that last thing we’re gonna do we’re gonna make an actual tree but it’s gonna be a weird one and get this nice brown color in here and you know what I was thinking

This is probably the closest thing to like just getting some getting uh some paint and some paint brushes and just painting something I think that’s maybe why I find this uh so satisfying just being able to to get in here and yeah let’s let’s have the top just like this uh can

I reach that yeah I don’t think we’re gonna have any leaves on the top of this tree we’re gonna just work our way down putting some random leaves along the side it’s gonna look like a little sparse uh kind of sad but happy tree but

Yeah this is a spot where I feel like you can’t really make too many mistakes there’s not there’s not much you can do wrong when you’re going for like there’s no real structural rules or anything that you have to follow you can just kind of get in there and just start

Randomly placing blocks when you’re making your own custom biome and any mistakes or any weird stuff stuff that happens it happens because uh because you know you made it that way which is kind of nice I like that I think a little scraggler tree like this is gonna look nice in this volume

Uh maybe we need to do a little bit of uh finessing on it to make it look a little better but I think it’s nice it’s a nice little guy just beef that side up a little bit and then maybe a little bit right there that’s fine that’s fine you don’t have

To get often with my builds lately especially this year I’ve been getting a little bit uh too concerned about the details and everything looking exactly exactly right and exactly perfect and I think doing exercises like this are good where you just get in and you just make

A little bit of a mess and see how it turns out so I think we’re done let’s do a zoom out hello gorgeous beautiful face I love you so much and let’s see what we’ve got this little rocky area I think could use a little more work

Um that we’ve made but still you know what I mean I think it’ll it’ll end up being good but this is what we created today now I like I laid out kind of a birch log thing here that will lead out this way but that’s kind of starting to

Get into scars area which is this blue thing so I’m gonna hold off on that for a little bit because we might be able to have some fun uh interaction with with um our wheel of Poopsy and where the river is gonna run but I think I mean

From what we went from which is just you know this random Forest which is cool you know they look cool and stuff but now we’ve got something custom that’s ours that we made here that looks like is you know put some effort into it and especially I

Think you know the reason why if I could push my field of view all the way uh I think when you when you do like oh yeah you can see it with the zoom here this is you get kind of a cool a cool view like this oh yeah

I think that looks really nice so you remember that snapshot I told you to make where we just had kind of this bare area now we just spent some time painting with our different colors all over the place we get the brown and we get this

We get the blue stripes in there we get these random trees and some bushes and some stone colors in there then all of a sudden we’ve kind of painted something that looks kind of cool and it’s also fun to walk around in like when we when

We walk through this area if we’re ever going out this way or if somebody’s flying by we want to give them something kind of interesting and fun to look at and I think this does that so hopefully as we were going I was trying to explain everything that’s why I was saying this

Is going to be a little 2010 feeling um because I just wanted to try to slow way down and take the time to explain my thought process while I’m going along obviously this isn’t like the super intricate uh it’s take you know every single block

His foot had a lot of thought put into it this is just throw it all down uh so it’s not Flawless and perfect but hopefully it kind of inspires you guys and gets you guys motivated to do some stuff like it you should be making your

Own biomes is what I’m saying obey this wall but ladies and gentlemen I think that’s gonna do it for today’s episode I’m so excited that we got to do this together and hopefully if you enjoyed it uh let me know if you enjoy this style because

Uh you know sometimes I hear things from people who say they they kind of like things to be a little slower paced and stuff and I’m happy to try to do that more if that’s something that you like uh so definitely let me know the P it’s

It’s good to hear your voice on that stuff sometimes but as I said that’s gonna do it for today’s episode ladies and gentlemen I love you to death thanks for hanging in there with me while I was sick and not feeling too well I promise next episode I will be healthy I won’t

Be coughing and sniffling throughout but we sure be good I love you all to death and we’ll see you in the next episode [Applause]