Hermitcraft RECAP – Season 9 Week 58

Hello, everyone! Pixlriffs here from the  Hermitcraft Recap. I’ve got some very   exciting news; VintageBeef’s Hermitcraft  TCG has been turned into an official card   game. This is something that you can  go out and physically buy to play the   Hermitcraft Trading Card Game in your own  homes. And we’re lucky enough here at the  

Hermitcraft Recap to have been sent a  preview copy. Really excited to get to   open this, and share with you some of the  contents of this for the very first time. [wrapper crinkling] This is a Pop-Tart. “The actual Hermitcraft TCG won’t  be shipped until… fall of 2023.” [chewing] Mmm! Strawberry.

>> Welcome to the Hermitcraft Recap! My name is Pixlriffs, our writer is SloyXP, captions on this video were provided by Lyarrah. And having eaten that Pop-Tart, we are  of course very excited to share the news   that VintageBeef’s Hermitcraft TCG is  being made into a physical card game,  

Available for pre-order for the next 30 days. They did not pay us to say this. Nor did they actually send us the Pop-Tart. BEEF: Speaking of being completely lost, I would   be absolutely nothing without the amazing  artists that brought on for this project. 

Aibi, DrawnByCC, Lodorigo, and Pillow Dash. You guys have been absolute incredible. >> With TCG mania gripping the server,  it seems worth highlighting that you   can be a part of the phenomenon. And  hey, if you play this in real life,   we can virtually guarantee you won’t  have an anvil dropped on you. Which  

Is more than we can say for playing  it on the actual Hermitcraft server. DOCM: Okay. [anvil clangs]  CUBFAN: Ohhh! [cheers] >> But as this week will tell you, there  are an ever-increasing number of ways to   play the game – in both the physical and  virtual sense. So without further ado,

Let’s take a look at all  the events and mishaps that  occurred on the Hermitcraft server this week. BEEF: […] a year. When I got to  about the halfway mark, I was thinking,   “Oh my gosh, I’m only halfway? This  is gonna take forever! I hope it’s  

Worth it! It has been. The response has  been incredible, I’m super super happy. >> Starting with XBCrafted, who really exemplifies  this week’s loose theme of putting your own spin   on the card game craze. Having originally planned  to build his own arena, but put it off when  

Everybody else had that idea, XB returns with the  concept of team battles, in which a 2v2 matchup   is possible. We can’t wait to see how he figures  out Rotation Battles and Dynamax Raids as well. XB: Uh, the- the redstone for this thing is gonna  be… [sighs] How do I put this? A nightmare. 

[…] kinda deal. Uh, it’s already done!  I do have it! All I gotta do is rebuild   it. ‘Cause you get even one thing wrong,  one thing, and none of it works. [laughs] >> The 2v2 arena even gets the  blessing of TCG creator VintageBeef,  

Although he’s mostly confused about  this rhyming book XB is reading at him. BEEF: Signed by “K”. XB: Right. And so,   I’m- Keralis hasn’t even been on. BEEF: I mean, it could be somebody else!   It could be, um- Ketho. Or- XB: “Ketho” 😂  BEEF: Or Kumbo-Jumbo! XB: That’s his new name,  

By the way. 😂 BEEF: Krian!  XB: [still laughing] BEEF: It could be many people!  XB: “Ketho”. You heard it, people. Tweet at him! BEEF: Sounds like a diet. Ketho. [chuckles] >> We’re as excited as XB is to see  the game evolve into doubles matches,  

But he also has our sympathies with how  complex the redstone setup will have to be. We have a feeling it won’t be quite as gnarly  as DocM77’s arena, though. After chaining down   the goat skull to stop it floating into the sky on  eldritch energy alone, Doc harnesses the power of  

The Hermits’ own self-destructive tendencies,  and wires up a new ‘Anvil Mode’ for his home   arena. You see, he’s figured his server-mates will  eventually figure out he’s manually triggering the   anvils to land on them, but he’s counting  on them getting a kick out of it happening  

Randomly. One quick safety measure, some chunk  loaders, and a wireless redstone relay later,   he’s able to successfully remote-trigger an anvil  being shot into the arena every minute-and-a-half.  The sheer randomness is also a countermeasure  against the Hermits’ unpredictable behaviour.   Quite aside from having to graffiti  his chunk-loader portal to make sure  

Nobody messes with it, his attempt  to anvil GeminiTay (under the guise   of tournament practice) fails  when she refuses to stand still. [explosions] [note blocks] GEM: What is this?  DOCM: [nervous] What do you mean? GEM: What is this??  DOCM: Nothing? GEM:   Did you miss? ‘Cause you did miss. 

DOCM: Ahh… GEM: Did you aim it?   What happened? Where did it come from? DOCM: Um, yeah. Can’t find my cards.   I’m sorry. I- I have them somewhere in my  sorting system. Maybe we can play later.  GEM: It’s okay. You were just  gonna hit me with an anvil anyway.

>> As his TCG experience of late mostly  consisted of being anvil squished,   Xisumavoid stays out of festivities this week. But while his own redstone is much less   expansive, it’s certainly as fascinating. What we have here is an innovative cow cooker  

Farm, based on a cauldron and stuffed within the  footprint of a wheat nanofarm. The actual wheat   is even circled around the player so they can  continuously breed new calves even while AFK. XISUMA: So, I’ll give it 20 minutes for these  cows to grow up, and we’ll put them inside. 

[stammers] No! You are not cows! You’re  gonna mess up my plan by getting in this pen. >> The final trick is that the baby cows glitch  into a lava cauldron when they’re grown, and drop   plenty of leather and cooked beef. Enough, even  for Xisuma to reconsider his golden carrot diet. 

With the excesses of his production overflowing  his pockets, X turns to ImpulseSV who – just in   time – has finished another floor of his iBuy  megamarket. But not the fire exit stairway. IMPULSE: Oh, one thing I should warn you is,  this back door’s the emergency exit for stairs  

That are not in yet. XISUMA: Ah.  IMPULSE: So just- maybe watch your step. Uh-  XISUMA: Emergency~ IMPULSE: Okay, no! [laughs] >> Admittedly, the elevator here really is the  safer place in case of a fire: it’s made of water.  Regardless, Impulse already has more  shops than he can keep track of,  

So it helps to have Xisuma move into  the new space with his own production.  If anything, it frees him up to come  home and find that completely wrecked.  As you’ll probably remember, GeminiTay  has left a giant statue of herself over  

The entrance to Impulse’s base, playing on  the many dotted i’s his base brandishes. IMPULSE: It’s a giant Gem. Why  is there a giant Gem statue?!  You guys haven’t really seen  it yet. I’ve seen this one.  We’re getting pranked by our neighbors.  Over and over again, apparently, now.

>> But, since she seems so fond of his branding,   Impulse decides to redecorate more of  Gem’s own palace with the golden i letters   and statues of his visage. Even the  beards in the walls make a return! IMPULSE: And, yeah. Now we can just have like,  

Little beards just kind of hanging out.  In the doorway? That’s pretty good. We put   it on white so you kind of get like  that teeth look as well there, too. >>Also Impulse capitalizes on  Gem’s prank for PearlescentMoon,  

And adds a giant Mario to the giant Piranha  plant Gem left at Pearl’s base. Never thought   we’d ever see Chris Pratt on the server! Never  thought we’d see Sethbling on it, either. IMPULSE: [snorts] You’re welcome,   Pearl. He’s a great addition to  your base. I think it fits right in.

>> Also in Super Mario Bros you die if you jump  onto the piranha plant, and Impulse specifies   that this is a Super Mario Bros Mario, so  this is quite the self-cleaning mischief. Rendog also proves to be a self-cleaning  mischief, tasking himself with cleaning  

Up all the chest-monsters he has  left at various locations across the   server this season. We’re quite surprised  PearlescentMoon hasn’t found all of them,   but she’d be proud of the effort that goes into  packing it all and shipping it out to GigaCorp  

Island. Which is not a landfill, although he’s  been gathering mud for terraforming the island,   so some land has been filled in one sense. Instead, it’ll be all the more satisfying when   Ren can cram everything into an auto-sorter and  let it chew through all his earthly possessions.

RENDOG: We’re about to start work on our  next major project for the season. Which   is our auto-sorting storage facility! Which I’m  really excited about getting to finally, and- >> Unfortunately, Ren lets us know his  videos might be few and far between as   he begins the search for a new place to live IRL.

RENDOG: Don’t worry, it’s  nothing medically serious,   or anything like that. It is just an adult  issue that I need to deal with right away. >> At least a few more items can  be checked off his to-do list,   as he makes more progress on the  racing pavilion at the ice boat track,  

And Pearl cleans him off the board  in their TCG tournament match. Despite being the game’s creator,  VintageBeef still finds some stiff   competition as he faces off against Etho  – whose audience voted for him to crush   Beef where possible. So tune in to  Beef’s episode to see him well and  

Truly tenderized. Turns out even playing Etho  against himself doesn’t earn you any mercy. BEEF: I’ve got a very special guy right here. No comment? [laughs]  ETHO: …Oh, sorry. I- I was just  thinking of my- my predicament here.  BEEF: Super special guy. Weakest guy in the game. ETHO: That’s- the Ultra-Rare Etho in fact. 

BEEF: That’s correct, that’s correct. ETHO: It’s a pretty good card. >> But none of this puts Beef off from designing  new cards for the game – including Command Block   and Fire Charge effect cards, and  alter ego cards for the Jingler,   Beetlejhost, and iJevin’s evil turn  as a green slime. He also teases a  

Goatfather card already in progress, and  updates the in-game tournament bracket,   which has progressed far enough that a tournament  of the knocked-out players can now be arranged. BEEF: Joe, Ren, Gem, X, and  False, if they wanna play. >> We also get to see work-in-progress  at Mumbo’s base, where – now he’s finally  

Happy with the living conditions inside the  vault – he can begin to do something with the   giant template marking out the rest of his base. The first thing he does, actually is remove it,   which in turn makes him slightly embarrassed  about the scale of his vault compared to the  

Surrounding builds – and a high security vault  is not something you should feel insecure about. MUMBO: First thing’s first. As you may have  noticed, uh, this? This whole template here?   I think I rightfully would have lost all  of my subscribers and my YouTube channel  

Would be dead. I’d have no friends, and my mum  wouldn’t answer the phone when I called her. >> Which is why he rebuilds the  blueprint for the rest of the base,   only this time it’s aligned with the  already-constructed vault; and it’s  

Orange. After some creative drafting he settles  on some designs for the connected sections,   including structural pillars made of possibly  the least structural material you could imagine; MUMBO: That is quite a cool addition. >> But that won’t stop him filling the  centre with a vertical industrial park,  

The likes of which harken back to  ImpulseSV’s superchunk from back in Season 4. MUMBO: This is an absolute winner. I-  I really can’t wait to start building   this. I can just- I can picture it in my head. >> And finally we have TangoTek, and  the 30 to 50 Ravagers in his employ.

TANGO: Okay, normally I just flee   in terror at this point. Are we good? Look at all the ravagers pouring down! 😲 >> Having done a dry run of Decked Out 2,  Tango now attempts a more exciting version,   where the monsters are actually at home. But first he has to actually bring the  

Monsters home, is the thing. And the  only raid farm he has available is   the one from the beginning of the  season he made with Grian and Scar. The one that fills the mobcap  with Ravagers in 10 minutes. [Ravager pain noises] TANGO: No! Cram less! Stop with the cramming!

>> As such, Tango has gotten  exactly what he’s bargained for;   it’s just he should probably have  bargained for fewer ravagers. Still,   the numerous beasts are delivered to the  dungeon level, despite the minecart’s protests. TANGO: Okay. Wait- [squeak] Okay. Nametag!  [smack] TANGO: -okay, come on! The distance  

Between where I can nametag them and where they  can eat my face is- not a large difference. >> And even the gameplay redstone  goes off without a hitch!  Oh who are we kidding, the one Evoker is  within working state for no reason anyway,  

And summons plenty of Vexes, even though  the difficulty explicitly told him not to.  Oh well, that’s something for Zedaph to playtest   on a later stream. Just maybe seek  an insurance provider beforehand. 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!