THE KEYS | HermitCraft 9 | Ep 36

How’s it everybody rain dog here with another episode from the hermitcraft server this week and I gotta be honest I’m mildly surprised that I’m able to be standing here talking to you on top of this here tree right now I didn’t think I had enough juice left

In me for another video this week um after the last episode for those of you guys who uh watched the previous episode you’ll know it was a bit of a tough one to get through for both of us and um I thought after that one I might take a

Few days off and just relax a bit however I’m feeling very good today I gotta say man you know what it’s a beautiful day in England today the sun is out the skies are blue and not only that it is a very exciting day for me in

Real life because today is the day that I get the keys to my new house from the estate agents I’m gonna have to go into town in about an hour or so to collect the keys and then go to the property and take inventory um before I can finally move in to the

Place on the 1st of June so a very very awesome milestone for me um because this is kind of the end of a battle in my mind that has been going on in my life for the last couple of months and this is a moment of great positivity

Where we get to start new right we get to start a whole brand new chapter in a whole brand new house well it’s not a brand new house it’s an old house but I’m renting the house and it it’s it’s a new chapter you guys are picking up what

I’m putting down over here right um but I did think that I might be able to get a little bit of work done with you guys out here that the boat race before I do that I’ll do a bit of recording this morning and when I get

Back from the house later on today I will finish try finish off the video see if I can get it out for you guys today um like I said I’m going to be heading over to the new house to check it out make sure that the previous tenants left

It in a good condition and uh going to be taking inventory on it also so that we can so so that when I move out one day I can’t be blamed for anything that might be broken right now um anyway that’s all like super boring adult stuff guys let’s talk a little bit

About Minecraft shall we last episode was very talky I didn’t really discuss what I was doing but of course for those of you guys who have been following my boat race project with ether I did a bit of work out here at the boat race and

This is one of the newest sections of the boat race that I’ve added and essentially what this thing is is kind of like a splitter so we have all the races coming down this Here track and then they’ve got to make a choice to go left or right and if they go right

There’s a little shortcut that they might be able to take through there it’s very tight though so if they they crash they’re going to lose a lot of time or they can take the safer routes through the middle um to to get a nice Apex into this bend

Over here so last episode I was just terraforming all of this and uh today before the end of the day when I get back from the house I I’m gonna come and maybe do some more work out here I want to get some trees planted on top of all

Of this I’ve just been to our tree farm to collect a bunch of bone meal and Spruce saplings from the Giga Chopper so I want to come and get all of this treed up I also want to plant a few forests out here along this line so that when we

Are racing down this track from this position here we’ll see some more trees it won’t be so flat out here right we’ll get a couple more trees and whatnot going so a bit of work to do out here however this morning there is another part of the track that I’d like to work

With you guys on First and that is this section over here which is a section of track that I think I might have worked on the last time I live streamed on Twitch and uh well as you can see it is an area that needs to be completely iced

Over this is going to be the starting line of our race course and well at the moment it’s looking horrendous isn’t it there’s there’s no ways we can race on this so first thing that we need to do is fill all of this with ice ah yes it’s

Been a couple of weeks since I played Minecraft guys a little bit Rusty forgot about the fact that you actually have to sleep in this game and well b double O isn’t online right now so just went and did some manual sleeping over there at that racecourse area like I was saying

We need to do some isification at the very beginning of the race track and I believe one of the last things I did before I took a bit of a break uh was collect a bunch of packed ice yes indeed I went to chop down a bunch of

Um giant icebergs and yeah looks like I managed to get an absolute insane amount of packed ice here which is great oh and a Zoomer void um donated a bunch of packed ice to the project also I believe it’s all starting to come back to me now

Guys you know when you take a a bit of time away from the heavy craft service sometimes it takes a little bit of time to reassimilate your brain Hole uh to get back to where you were before but um yeah let’s set up a little workstation

Over here with all of the icing this should be a pretty simple task I think just um scrambling down a bunch of packed ice into this area ether is going to be working on the return section of the track which is this bit here and I’m

Not sure exactly what his plan is here so I think we’ll make a boundary for our packed ice and we’ll just fill in everything from here to there with packed ice and um yeah we’ll take it from there I suppose not exactly the most mind-bending of tasks here guys but

It’s kind of an important thing for me to do to make today’s episode you know this is again probably going to be much more of a talkie episode than a progression episode but just me sitting in front of this computer making this video and hanging out with you guys is a

Huge step for me um and it really is important that I do this and maybe I’ll do this for the next few weeks or so just try and make three or four episodes a week like this and that’ll really get my my brain and my mind back into YouTube back into

Hermitcraft and uh back where it belongs back where it’s at its happiest and I suppose while I’m doing this guys I do want to thank every single one of you who watched the last episode and just left an incredible amount of love and support in the previous episode guys

Thank you so very very much I appreciate all of your kind words and thank you to everybody who shared your own similar stories of loss and Trauma and grief I found it very cathartic to know that you know there’s a lot of you guys out there experiencing the the same thing as me

And you know like I mentioned in the previous episode we’re all going through something in our lives and it’s sometimes very comforting to know that we’re all going through something together and we can all help each other get through it you know what’s crazy guys making this video today feels so

Much easier to do than the previous episode and if I go back two weeks from right now the thoughts of producing videos was basically an impossibility for my brain and I’m just so very pleased that uh I’ve got to this point where I can actually record a video like

This and I was thinking about this this morning and then I got a message from Doc M77 and it all started to make a lot of sense to me he sent me a message on Discord that said something like this Ren I’m so proud of you for making that

Video you have broken the paralysis and uh this is a really good step for you to getting back on track and you know what doc was 100 right I was completely Paralyzed by all of the things that was that were going on in my life and uh making that previous episode helped to

Unthaw me you know it’s it almost felt like I was there on from Lord of the Rings I was sort of Frozen by metaphorical Worm tongue which I suppose uh we could call trauma and uh uh just by producing that last episode even if it was just me rambling for 40

Minutes that helped to break that paralysis and help to uh I guess restart my brain in some way and even though I’m nowhere near 100 I am very determined to continue doing this to continue making videos like this for you guys and uh you know what

I think what I might do for the next few weeks or so is just try and produce a video every two days or so and it might only take me a couple of hours to make the videos as opposed to usually it takes me maybe two or three days to make

A video but I think just to get my train rolling down the track so to speak I think I’m just gonna make some videos old school style for you guys you know where we come together and we just try and make two or three hours of progress

Every episode and also just sort of hang out and talk about real life for a bit and I think more than anything it’s going to be important thing for me to do I think uh probably the next five to ten episodes of my hermitcraft series are

Gonna and don’t take this the wrong way guys but I think they’re going to be more for me than for you guys and I hope that’s okay I’m just gonna you know work to get myself back into content production mode and to uh you know remind myself of how much I love doing

This with you guys and um yeah I think that is something that I could probably get myself to do you know what that also feels like quite a sensible and achievable goal especially considering over the next two weeks or so I have to move an entire house from one house into

Another house and then get that new house set up for my business and deal with all of that stuff so you know what that sounds like a plan and a very realistic goal and um yeah I’m gonna do my best to get it done guys

Oh by the way speaking of Doc M77 and before I forget I just want to say a very special thank you to all of my fellow Hermits who tried to contact me over the last few weeks or so like I mentioned in the previous episode last month I kind of disconnected from

Everything and I basically didn’t reply to anybody but a ton of my fellow Hermits continued to try and contact me and to let me know that they were thinking about me and sending me love and sending me support even if I didn’t reply and to my fellow home and said God

You know were had my back and were sending me love and support and whatnot guys thank you so very much I appreciate you guys more than words will ever describe I’m I’m greatly honored to be in this great group with all of these great humans and um I I also want to

Send out a very special bit of love to skizzle man who also touch based with me and sent me a message and you know asking if I was okay and offering a hand of support and whatnot and um to all of you guys who who did that thank you very

Very much and I do apologize for not getting back to you and not replying to you and basically ghosting everybody but like I say I was disconnected for the last few weeks so this week when I got back online I saw all of these messages

From all of these Hermits and I was like oh my goodness I’ve been ignoring everybody I feel so awful but um I’ve been getting back to everybody now and starting to feel a little bit better and certainly all of those words of support from my fellow Hermits and

From the amazing skizzle man they really helped me um yeah get back to a better place uh mentally so thank you very very much fellow Hermits skis and of course to everybody in my amazing Community who were also constantly checking in and making sure that I was okay so big love everybody

Um the community of the hermitcraft universe is is just amazing aha progress now there is a familiar and very comforting feeling everybody I settled in for the last couple of hours this morning to do as much as possible here at the start of the race and I have

Accomplished a lot more than I thought I would it’s quite amazing how much you can do in Minecraft when you just put some music on and uh just play right it’s been about an hour or so since I last recorded and since then I have managed to pretty much finish everything

That I wanted to do today I got all of the ice down on the track over here and I even managed to add some more work to the to the section of the race including the red and white barriers uh along the side of the tunnel section here let’s

Just get rid of the snow we’ve just had a snowstorm so it’s kind of covered everything in snow but um let’s just clean this up get it nice and pristine there we go I did make some adjustments to the tunnel itself because as I extended the length of it

Um having like three pillars per section here was getting a little bit distracting as you race down the tunnel and I decided to widen it up a little bit and I think it’s actually a little bit better this way because if we considered you know four to eight people

Racing at the same time we want a lot of space inside of this tunnel for the races to sort of Dodge and weave and with all of those pillars in here that I had in the previous design it would have been very difficult for people to

Overtake in here a lot of people would probably end up going face first into the pillars that’s no fun right we want to make sure that Racers have as fun a time as possible on this course and I think the widening of the track like this feels good man added the barriers

To the sides also on both sides of the track um so now we’ve got red and white all the way through and I don’t know if I have a boat back here but maybe we can do a little full immersion uh feel for this tunnel no wait where’s my boat gone

All right boats are quiet tell you what guys why don’t we go on a full immersion tour of the race course as it stands right now and then I gotta rush off I only have a few more minutes to record this morning because I need to go and

Collect my keys for the new house super excited but first things first guys let’s experience the boat race together as it stands right now we’ll go full immersion mode and as you can see with this widen tunnel like this I think it feels a lot better to race down there

That feels pretty awesome we’re going to come into the first major Big Bend this is where eight races are going to be bumping into each other and trying to scoot past each other into the first chicane let’s see if we can take the shortcut that we built yep there we go

Shortcut taken although not quite very good taken it’s fine we’re gonna come into this shortcut area here and then into the bobbing and weaving of this section and this is going to take us into the next part of the Racecourse that we’re going to be working on today

And let me see if I can take the shortcut here I’m going to take my foot of the accelerator to get in here and there we go nice we took the shortcut quite efficiently there and that’s about as far as we have gotten in our section

Of the race course but I am very pleased with the progress that we’ve made out here especially over the last week or so yeah actually achieved a lot more than I thought I would and very pleased with that however I need to go get the keys

For my new place now guys but when we get back I would like to start working for the last part of this episode on getting some trees up on these islands here um I just want to get this whole section completed today if we can and I need a

Kind of cool name for this area here is it the fork or the funnel I think maybe it’s called The Funnel uh or the the filter or something you know we’re filtering players into different channels over here I don’t know something like that but um yeah sorry

Dudes I’m kind of rushing through the section of the video I need to go get the keys for my new house guys I’ll speak to you in a couple of hours thank you that’s right guys Ah that’s the sound of the keys to our new house oh man wow

I never thought I’d be this happy to Jingle jangle keys in front of a microphone but um this is a very joyous moment for me today guys this uh this is a big step forward um in a very very bright future for us here on the rain Dog Channel you know

These keys this is a a confirmation that that rather large stress upon my shoulders of finding a new place in just a matter of weeks it’s done we we did it I got the keys now there’s there’s no going back I’ve signed the papers um legally I’m set for another year

Um and nobody can stop me oh man awesome anyway so I’m back from the estate agents guys and I’m in a great mood I want to do a couple more hours of progress out here on the race course I think and while I’m doing that I just

Want to talk to you guys about what happened today mostly for my own good I did mention earlier this morning I think that the next few episodes are going to be for me uh more than they are gonna be for you sorry about that guys but I would like to document what happened

Today just for my own uh I don’t know historical records so that you know in five years time when I listened back to this period of my life and I can be like oh yeah I remember that day when I went to and got the keys from the estate

Agents that was a great day um so anyway I’m gonna do a bit of workout here on this section of the race course that we worked on last episode just gonna plan some forests and do some terraforming and try to get this place looking really really nice so that by

The end of this episode we would have done some great progress at the start of the race and we would have hopefully completed this little section of the racecourse here and I’m just trying to make it a bit more interesting and and more exciting for the races as they come

Around these bends so that it’s not just so flat and so white everywhere right we’ve got some trees and forests popping up all over the show so yeah guys what an absolutely incredible sense of relief I’m feeling right now I I have probably been stupidly concerned up until this

Point that until I have these keys in my hand like I do now something can still go wrong right the landlord could decide to not rent the house anymore or something could go wrong with the paperwork or you know any number of these sort of hypothetical situations

Have been running through my mind and it’s um you know it’s a massive relief to know all of that is now out of the window got the keys we’re in no nothing to worry about but I must say it was quite an interesting afternoon that I

Had so yeah I headed off into town to get the keys from the estate agents today guys and I had a very specific plan for this entire operation I’m a person that likes to plan things out quite well I do so with my videos and I

I do so with things that happen in my life and I like to follow a plan quite rigidly and when the plan goes a little bit wrong it sometimes um you know throws me for a loop every now and then and unfortunately today’s plan to visit the estate agents didn’t

Go quite as smoothly as I would have liked the plan was very very simple okay I was going to go into the office with a couple of bottles of wine and a hamper of nice foods and stuff to give to them because honestly they really went the

Extra mile to find me this place you know explained to them my situation and they understood the urgency of it and everything and they really um they really pulled out all the stops to make sure that that I was I would get a house and that I would be safe and

That everything would be okay and I really wanted to thank them so my plan was to you know put on a nice put on some nice clothes I was looking good I got some some wine and some foods and whatnot for them I was going to go in

There you know like um like a night of of thankfulness and hand out the gifts and thank them for their incredible work get the keys and swoop out of there on a cloud of of relief and joy that was the plan fortunately didn’t quite turn out that way you see I live

In a small little town here in England and generally speaking parking in these small towns is a problem for any of you guys who might live in small British towns you’ll know that you kind of need to leave 10 minutes a little bit earlier than your Rendezvous time so that you

Can find somewhere to park and well you know I I kind of forgot about that and yep when I arrived at the office that I’d never been to before you know I just followed the sat nav to get there there was no parking anywhere and I eventually

Had to end up parking about a 10 minute walk away from their office and thus this resulted in me having to carry these gifts that I was going to give to them the you know there were three or four bottles of wine and a hamper of food all the way through town

The sun was Blazing I’m in a suit jacket you know uh starting to sweat a little bit stressed so by the time I got to the airport I get got to the office I was you know a bit of a mess sweat pouring down my face a hair or a ruffle slightly

Out of breath you know carrying all of these gifts and as I walked in I think everybody in the office was a little bit surprised I think they thought I might have been a delivery person or something coming from Amazon or something you know but then they quickly recognized who I

Was uh and and you know um they were happy to see me and whatnot and as I was about to start handing out the gifts to the three people that helped me at the at this agency another person walked in and one of the telephones began to ring

And so I didn’t have the attention of the room at all and I was just standing there awkwardly with all of these gifts and you know of course life continues for the for the estate agents right they got work to do they they don’t have time

To just sit there and listen to Rendog ramble on about how thankful he is you know they’ve got stuff to do so that was sort of me narcissistically assuming that I could just swoop in there like a knight of joy and um and take control of the whole situation but anyway didn’t

Quite turn out that way so I you know I awkwardly put the gifts down and just very briefly explained hey guys this is for you thank you so much for everything that you’ve done for me he has just a uh you know something to to show how

Grateful I am thank you so much for all of your hard work and uh it was very well received and we then sat down and did the last bit of paperwork and then it came the moment for me to receive the keys to the house and you know my

Current house keys and I don’t know how many like how it is for you guys but on my current set of house keys I’ve got a front door key a back door key a garage key and my car key that’s it I’ve got four keys on my key ring the new house

Has about I don’t know let me let me let me try figure this out there’s about 15 keys on this jingle jangling set of keys here guys I’ve never seen so many keys keys for a house in my entire life and bear in mind the house that I’m moving

Into is smaller than the house that I currently live in and the estate agent you know went into the drawer and picked out the keys and plonked them onto the table with like a bash you know and I was like oh my goodness are you sure

This these are the keys to the right place I’m not the keys to a castle or something what’s going on here and she assured me no these are these are the keys for the house uh turns out the house is about uh 25 or 30 years old and

All the cupboards have keys or every window has a key sort of thing you know the upstairs Windows share a key and the downstairs Windows share a key and the kitchen windows have a key and then the the garage has like two or three keys

And there’s like a safe that has a key there’s like a lot of keys going on in this in this house mostly for like cupboards and things like that so you know at some point I need to go through all of these keys and uh maybe try label

Them or something anyway so she plugged the keys down on the table and I was so very happy and the first thing they did of course was just went straight to the house and um oh before I talk about that yeah there was another thing that she

Plonked down also which is the inventory of the house and it went a little something like this plonk and um basically it was I don’t know maybe uh 50 or 60 page inventory and what an inventory is for those of you guys who maybe haven’t rented a house before it’s basically you

Go through every single room in the house and you register all the different things so you know if you’re in the TV room you register the state of the carpets the state of the walls if there’s any damage and so on so that when you leave the house eventually

Um the landlord can see if you’ve done any damage compared to when you first moved in you’re basically taking a a carbon copy of the house as it is when you when you move in to protect yourself and the landlord when you move out if that makes any sense but um because of

All these cupboards and everything all over the house this inventory is particularly large and uh a very thorough inventory indeed and um it’s going to probably take me half a morning to go through the inventory because uh you know we’ve got to go through every single room you have to

Test every single plug you have to open every single cupboard you know you have to check every wall every roof ever guys it’s extremely adult and extremely boring and which is why most adults will tell you that moving house is one of the worst and most stressful things that you

Can do in life it is absolutely horrible there’s so many boring things that you have to do but they’re very important you’ve got to get them done and so maybe inventory will be a problem for tomorrow’s rain dog I’ll maybe tell you about it in uh the next episode Maybe

Um so yeah I just went to the house you know went in and it was just a such a a sense of wonderful relief and and happiness that um this is you know the new place that I’m going to spend the next few years and I immediately felt a

Great sense of urgency and and excitement and you know immediately I started to think about man when can we start streaming again what’s that going to look like how are we going to set up the office oh you know what are we gonna do here like where’s the internet gonna go

Um you know how long until we can start making videos from this place I suddenly went into this full-on um content creator mode which I haven’t really felt for a while and these this last month or so but it all sort of came rushing back to me

And it kind of reminded me also of you know how incredibly lucky I am to to have even been in that position to be able to do that um to be able to have found a place so quickly and within a couple of weeks hopefully be set up to continue

Producing videos and so on on YouTube and uh you know I just want to take this moment guys to to thank you and to thank all of you who watch and especially those of you guys who support me on patreon and on Twitch you know guys it’s

The reality is that without your guys support I wouldn’t be able to afford to have done all of this so quickly and you’re not only helping me get through a particularly difficult period of my life this year but you’re also enabling me to continue my work as a Content producer

And uh it just would be impossible without you guys so I want to say a very very big thank you and I really appreciate the support um so very much and um you know I can only say so many words to say thank you

And the the best way for me to say thank you to you guys is to to get back at what I do best which is producing these videos for you guys and um I appreciate your support very very much thank you everybody anyway so yeah went to the house it’s looking fantastic

Unfortunately a couple of issues that I need to sort out in the next couple of weeks issue number one no fridge and I don’t actually own a fridge here I this is in the current house that I live this fridge was here when I got here so I

Went to take it with me so problem number one I gotta get the new fridge um that’s a problem for another day I think I’m not going to worry too much about that now I’m getting a fridge isn’t the you know the greatest problem uh problem

Number two however is gonna be a little bit of a harder one to tackle there’s like a little front area in front of the house that’s got a very small bit of lawn and a little flower bed that is actually on the walkway of the neighborhood and at the moment it is

Just in a complete state of disarray it’s completely weeded over the grass is really tall it kind of looks like one of those like uh you know when when you were a kid people tell you stories about that weird old man that lives in a house

And the garden’s all grown over and this you know and he’s like a creepy old man that lives all on his own and has been there for he’s 120 and any kid that goes into the house gets eaten alive you know it’s kind of cut that sort of vibe going

On right now because everything’s really grow overgrown so I’m gonna probably gonna have to go and do some gardening this week I’m just gonna have to go you ink out all the weeds try get the lawn looking good you know get the flower beds sorted out because at the moment

The neighbors are probably wondering who the heck is living there or who you know what weird man is moving into this house and why is the garden looking so terrible so yeah there’s another at the back of the house is also a small little lawn with a little

Garden area around it some flower beds and whatnot and they’re completely weeded over too so that’s probably going to be a like a full day of work again some very adulting work uh joinking weeds out and planting stuff and whatever and so I won’t bore you too

Much with that but uh yeah I I’m hoping for some nice sunny days in England over the next couple of weeks so that I can go get all of that done and just make my neighbors aware that hey I’m just a normal person don’t worry there’s not

Some weird Maniac moving into this house he doesn’t clean his Gardens you know what I’m saying I definitely don’t want to be that guy I don’t want to be the I don’t want to be the house that the neighborhood looks down upon you know I

Just want to be a normal house and fit in with the neighborhood and sort that Garden out so that’s going to be um that’s on my mission cards for uh for the next few days as as I say that’s a problem for another day for Rendog

Um and uh we’ll tackle that in the next few weeks but uh yeah the the house is looking great everything’s looking good gotta do the inventory gotta sort out the garden gotta get a fridge and now the real hard work Starts Now now we gotta move my current house into that

House and uh yeah that is certainly a problem for tomorrow’s rain dog but a problem that needs to get sorted probably pretty quickly and actually starting to experience a little bit of a panic attack right now guys I do need to get on that I need to find somebody to

Help me move and all of that um yes I should probably start dealing with that today so maybe okay you know what we’re gonna call it for today’s episode guys we’ve done some great work out here though look at this place man it’s looking awesome so we we’ve got

Trees nub and uh and foliage planted on all the various islands of the filter and I think it’s looking great man it looks so much better now right like as we go down the race try back we can see all the nice trees to the left and the

Right and it really it almost makes it feel like you’re going faster as the trees are going past you and that’s quite a cool effect I think and um I’m very happy with this area I think it’s looking awesome and very happy with the way that the start of the race looks too

So great progress today guys both here on hermitcraft and in real life I’m feeling a lot better today and uh thank you again everybody for um for everything thank you so much for all the love in the last episode and for all of your support across the board um yeah I

Appreciate you guys so much but uh yeah uh guys I need to go and sort out my the moving part I need to get this house moved to the new house we’ll talk about it next time okay look after yourselves and uh we’ll see you in the next episode