Hermitcraft 10: Episode 17 - NEXT BIG PROJECT!

Hello and welcome back

to the next episode of Hermitcraft.

I have got a plan of action together.

I am making a mess of this.

I'm growing some pumpkins because

today we are going to be-

Wow that was quick.

We are gonna be doing a lot of little jobs

and one of which is something that I've been preparing over here.

So you can see, I've got a large area

of basically nothing in here

but I've added a hole with a campfire.

Now I'm going to be making

my own little creeper farm.

It's not gonna be efficient.

I think we care a little bit too much

about making the most efficient farm ever

but hopefully it will work.

I think I know enough creeper mechanics

to make this work for me

which is the main thing

and then I'm just gonna stack up multiple layers

and get a creeper farm so I can get some gunpowder.

Why do I need gunpowder?

Well, it's not for rockets

which you might expect.

No, I have plenty of rockets.

It's taken me a while to get through this box.

What I actually need this for

is some TNT

because we've got a pretty big

project ahead of us.

So if we go over here.

Well over here, up here, you'll see this!

Cherry mountain!

The overlooked and underappreciated

landmass that connects

many of us Hermits together.

Yet

we've decided to do nothing with it.

Since the start of this season where we

met very briefly here,

we've done nothing with it.

Well, not today!

Today I'm going

to set up a meeting

between all the cherry mountain people

and we're going

to do something- Ah.

A cherry tree just whacked me in the face.

So that's the plan today.

Get gunpowder-

Wait, I didn't explain why I needed gunpowder.

You'll see later.

You'll also notice I've done

a little bit of work around here.

Not only is this place clean,

look at that! A fresh storage system.

I've also opened up this

and created a bit more floor plan.

Ay? Progress is happening.

But I couldn't help but notice

through the lovely rose bushes

that the snelicopter

has vanished

That sneaky snail

is up to something.

The snelicopter is gone

and there's a hole

blasted out of it

and just like last time- Wow!

Even more diamond ore gone.

That's a lot of diamond ore

but I'm not sure it's

actually that much.

Do you know what's really upsetting?

Is I don't think the snails have even taken half

of how many diamonds there were here.

Half the- That's insane.

Ah hello. Oo! Big Ron's now open.

[GEM] Big Ron's?

[GRIAN] Isn't that Mumbo's- That's Mumbo's house.

[GEM] The snails have gone to Mu-

[GRIAN] I think Mumbo has got like a multiple personality thing going on

because he's got

several shops owned by different people

but I'm pretty sure they're all him.

[GEM] Right... Well, we better go check out Big Ron.

[GRIAN] Last time I checked, there wasn't a Ron on the server.

[GEM laughs]

[GRIAN] Mumbo's been doing some work!

[GEM] This looks awesome!

[GRIAN] Look-

Gem, he's done some trees. Do you think-

[GEM] I know!

[GRIAN] Do you think he did these? I think he did these!

[GEM] I think so! Look at the details!

They got trapdoors on them.

[GRIAN] Right, here's Big Ron's.

[GEM] Big Ron's.

[GRIAN] Big...

Oh the "O" has gone down.

Tech superstore.

[GEM] It certainly looks like a super store.

[GRIAN] Mm.

[BOTH laugh]

[GEM] Okay.

[GRIAN] Mumbo doesn't know about this.

[GEM] Okay.. [GRIAN] He hasn't got a clue

[GRIAN] They've taken over Big Ron's.

So they're selling

the diamond ore

for four diamonds for two.

Now that's a bargain, I don't know about you.

Can you make money doing this?

So if I put four diamonds in,

I take two diamond ore

and then you just mine it.

Come on, be kind to me.

[GEM] Let's see.

Oh!

[GRIAN] Eight diamonds!

[GEM] What? [GRIAN] I just doubled my money!

[GEM] What?! [GRIAN] I've just doubled

[GRIAN] my diamonds.

Thank you very much snails.

[GRIAN] What a brilliant- This is perfect. [GEM] These snails have got a legitimate business.

[GRIAN] Hold on, hold on. I'm gonna go again.

[GEM] Uh-huh.

[GRIAN] I'm up to seven. I'm up to seven.

I didn't do- I think I've gone down now.

You know what? I'm gonna stop there. I'm up, I'm gonna leave.

[GEM] Wow okay. [GRIAN] And they're wearing Scar's hat as well.

[GEM] You go, little snails.

[GRIAN] Not only did they take his diamonds,

they took his attire.

[GEM] I love them.

[GRIAN] You see in the back there?

Private and confusing.

[GEM] Yeah, enter the private and confusing door.

[GRIAN] Uh-huh.

[GEM laughs]

This is where they parked the chopper?!

[GRIAN] Yeah, how did they get it in here?

[GEM laughs]

Oh the snails.

[GRIAN] That's not for us to worry about, I don't think.

[GEM] Yeah, not our problem. Mumbo's problem really.

[GRIAN] Yeah, this is genuinely Mumbo's problem.

[GEM] Mumbo's problem.

[GRIAN] Mumbo's problem.

And this is what happens when Scar doesn't do anything about the snelicopter.

They succeeded, I guess.

He had plenty of time to stop them.

[GEM] Now they're selling his ore.

[GRIAN] Yeah, not sure they've got the permit for that

but I'm not sure that they're Hermits so...

[GEM] Yeah.

Snails don't need permits.

[GRIAN] They're so cute.

[laughs] They look like such-

If we can give them a bow tie, I would.

[GEM] [laughs] They're so distinguished.

[GRIAN] [laughs] They are really distinguished.

They're trying to run a legitimate business here.

[GEM laughs]

[GRIAN] Scar could solve this problem

by buying his own diamonds back.

[GEM] Oh true!

[GRIAN] Yeah but don't tell him that. [GEM] What if Mumbo buys them though?

[GRIAN] Don't tell him they're there.

Well, considering it took him that long

to even see the snelicopter,

they might be out of diamonds by the time this goes down.

[GEM] He's not gonna notice.

Mumbo is gonna buy all of those,

it'll be fine.

[GRIAN laughs]

Oh those snails.

Alright.

It's been a long time since the snails

have made a big move like that

but I just love these little snails so much.

They're just doing their little-

They've got their own little side quest going on

which is really fun.

I think Scar missed his opportunity

to get his own snail.

He didn't do the magic words.

There's a way for people to get a snail

but only Gem has figured it out.

Grian's fireworks.

Oh this is what Cub gave me.

Cuboom fireworks now open.

Yay!

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

Ouch.

Oh that's pretty cool.

That's pretty cool!

I'm not gonna waste them too much,

I've just wasted a bunch of them.

Right, let's turn our attention

to this creeper farm.

Now like I just said,

it should be, in theory,

fairly easy to put together.

I do know a little bit

about creepers.

There's a couple of farms.

Actually, there's sort of three or four major farms that you can do

to get gunpowder.

One of them is with cats.

I'm not messing with cats.

I cannot be bothered to

ferry cats all the way over here.

I think that's the best way to do it because they're scared of cats.

Or you can just have them like a passive farm

where they walk off the edge.

Again, not so great.

The third thing you can do

is use snow golems

because they will attack,

as far as I'm aware, they will attack a creeper

and then the creeper will walk towards them

and then they walk into the hole.

So that's the method we're going to use.

Alright, please do not take this

as a viable tuto-

Oh!

Yeah, wonder how many times

this is gonna happen.

Right, do not take this as a viable tutorial

because it's not.

I am just winging this a little bit.

Alright, that should block the water.

Cool, so this is what we're gonna funnel them into

and then the creepers fall down here

and they get pushed eventually

into the hole.

As simple as it gets, right?

So we've got a platform,

now we need to put the snow golem

here in the middle.

Right, and then I think if I put fences here,

we need to stop it from actually falling off the platform.

There we go! We have a snow golem.

And now we have a friend.

Alright, so that's part two.

Platform, snow golem.

Now we need to force

only creepers

to spawn in this space.

Now the thing about creepers

is that they're just short

of two blocks tall.

So by adding

a bunch of trapdoors

and this is super expensive,

we force only creepers

to spawn in this spot

apart from the fact

that spiders will spawn

and we mitigate that

with carpet.

They can spawn in a 2 by 2 space.

Right, so the best configuration is not gonna be a pretty one.

I might need to do a bit of trouble shooting

because I have a feeling

once the creeper's aggro'd

it needs a way

to get to the snow golem.

I think this, this is the reason

that a lot of people opt

for bamboo

because it's a lot cheaper than wood.

Maybe that's what I should do next is

swap these spruce doors

which I use an awful lot of.

This- [sighs] This feels like it should work

but for some reason I have-

Maybe the creeper can get that close and then explode?

Ah, we'll find out.

wow. Why can I see-

That might be a glitch with my mod

but I can see through there.

Oh that's-

That's weird.

Right, it needs to be

completely pitch black in there

for anything to spawn.

I'm a bit worried that absolutely nothing has spawned.

I should be-

I should be far enough away, I think.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Nooo! Okay.

Something-

Okay, that is not what we wanted to happen.

I had a suspicion that they'd be able to explode.

Alright, I have amended the design.

It was as simple as moving this block forward.

I was actually right the first time.

I needed a bigger gap here

so that the creepers don't just explode when they

feel like they're too close.

So by pushing all this back

and neatening up

the design, I think

I've got something that's actually

a little more pleasing on the eye as well because it's

finally symmetrical.

Now there's tons and tons of creeper farms out there

and they all use similar methods

but the one I had a quick look at

was the one by Wattles.

Now hold on.

We need to see with our own eyes

some creepers spawning in here.

So please- Oh have I messed up anywhere?

As long as there's a trapdoor

above, we're not gonna have the same

situation that happened last time.

This is all your fault.

Why is there not a single creeper?

There's not a single creeper. Okay.

Right, it's been-

It's been at least five minutes now so let's-

Let's go and get some torches and do something about this.

Right, this area in particular

is our problem spot.

This is soaking up a lot of my

potential mob spawning locations

because they'll just be sitting here

taking up- Oo! Careful!

Oo it's- Oo it's getting spicy!

Oo! Parkour! Dodge! Parkour!

Yikes!

If we needed any further proof-

If we needed any further proof that this was

the problem area, there's a

ton of mobs here!

If your farm isn't working,

it's because they're spawning in caves around you.

Always.

Aha! There we go!

Right, proof of concept.

Creepers are falling in.

Not many.

Definitely not many

but that is definitely enough for me

because we know now

that the problem is just unlit caves.

Oh! Look at that profit!

17 gunpowder!

Oh!

Ohh! Look at that!

Oh we're gonna-

We're gonna make like two TNT with that.

Now that we've got that squared away,

let's open this up and make

the other platforms.

I'm gonna light up a few more of these caves

and I think we can probably

fill out the rest of this farm

in the form of a timelapse.

I just got really up in your grill just then.

I'm so sorry.

[MUSIC]

Alright, it's done.

It could in theory

probably have

one, two-

No at least one more layer

but I've stopped there just to see how it's going

and it's going

really, really well.

I'm not gonna lie, it's not the most impressive

fastest farm in the world

and it's probably a lag causing machine.

However, as you can see it's doing pretty well

on collecting gun powder.

So let's take a quick look

at how much it's produced.

That was pretty swift, hey?

59 gunpowder.

That's a lot better than the 17 we just had.

So this is going pretty well.

I need to invite all of the

other cherry mountain people

via the mail system

while I wait for all this to happen.

Multitasking.

Who's on the mountain?

We got Mumbo,

we got Gem.

I think that's everyone: Skizz, Impulse, Joel,

Scar, Mumbo, Gem, we all

are around-

Cherry mountain meeting 8 pm tonight.

Hopefully I'll be there.

Right, do we have to do this one at a time?

I'll be honest with you,

I think I'll be lucky if even a single person turns up.

Right, do you know why this is better than Discord?

It's not

but if you think of something, let me know.

I think we'll be lucky if this works.

I'm really stress testing

[laughs] Etho and Pearl's postal system.

We are making some gunpowder,

I'm gonna AFK up here for a couple of hours

and see how we do

on the creeper front.

Be back in a few hours

to see how we've done.

It's nearly time for our meeting

so whatever we've got is whatever we've got.

Let's take a look.

Oh I didn't think about the sand.

Hey! That's not great.

I would've hoped for a little bit more than that

because I've been AFK for...

Oof about three hours so that's-

That's not great.

So I will have to look

at how maybe I need to position myself slightly differently

and maybe I need to light up some more caves

and it could just be

the amount of people online as well.

That doesn't help on a multiplayer server.

But either way, we can put something together hopefully.

We need to put together

lots of TNT.

We've got

four stacks of TNT,

we are going to need a way to

ignite that.

It should be fairly easy.

I don't know how far this is gonna go

but we've got

a ton of TNT.

Now there is a real

possibility,

a real worry that

this

and hopefully this TNT will make sense.

I promise, this will make sense.

It really will, it really will make sense

but trust me, this is part of the process.

Now there is a real possibility

that this TNT does some significant damage

to our friends

which means I think we should set

a rule in place

right from the start

and the rule goes like this:

no stuff at meetings.

No stuff at meetings.

I think that's a great rule.

If you don't wanna lose your stuff,

don't bring it.

That's what I think the rule should be.

I might have got this just about right.

Now I'm trying to spread out

all the different layers of TNT

so we can get a pretty decent explosion.

I mean, this is gonna be one of those explosions

that's really big

but not very efficient

because it's all piled into one place.

Right, let's see how far this gets us.

That's it.

So in theory

if I make a meeting spot here,

that's the TNT.

That's the lever.

Don't press the lever.

No one press the lever.

I need to make some chairs.

Right I think we're ready and I'll sit here

so that the lever's closest to me.

Did they get my letter?

[JOEL] Grian?

[GRIAN] One.

You got my mail?

Did it get to you?

[JOEL] It did get to me, yes.

[SKIZZ] Alrighty.

[GRIAN] Two.

[IMPULSE] Oh hi.

[GRIAN] Gem!

Three!

Four!

[SKIZZ] Are we almost there?

[GRIAN] Oh.

[JOEL] One more. [GRIAN] One more.

[IMPULSE] Who are we missing?

[GRIAN] Who's got a bed? [JOEL] Mumbo and Scar.

[IMPULSE] Scar?

[GRIAN] I need epic entrance music for this.

Avengers assemble.

[laughing]

[IMPULSE] It did feel that way, didn't it?

[GRIAN] Come on Scar, you can do it.

[IMPULSE] Oh man, I thought I was gonna be late.

I literally just read my mail.

[SCAR] Oh I had to save a-

[cheering]

[GRIAN] And guess who's not here.

[JOEL] Er...

[GRIAN] Mambo.

[JOEL] Mambo Jambo.

[IMPULSE] Ah come on.

[GRIAN] Hi everybody, welcome to-

Is this the second meeting?

The first one being on like episode one?

[JOEL] Yeah.

[GRIAN] So second meeting of the magical mountain,

cherry mountain crew

we really need to nail down that-

[JOEL] Magic mountain.

[GRIAN] Before we begin,

there's one rule that I think

we should carry on for every meeting after this,

for very obvious reasons.

We should attend meetings

with no stuff.

No stuff, no gear, no items, nothing.

Just- So let's just take five,

go back to our bases,

put our stuff away and meet back here.

[SCAR] Can we fly back up to the mountain? [SKIZZ] We're gonna walk up here?

[GEM] How do we get up- Okay.

Okay sure.

[JOEL] Please don't blow up the mountain too much, Grian.

[GRIAN] This has nothing to do with the lever on the floor.

[SCAR] No wings?

[GRIAN] Right, we're gonna get rid of everything.

Just to be safe.

Look how pretty this is!

Right, we'll put our ender chest here

next to Mumbo's empty seat

and there we go, we're ready

for the meeting.

I also realised...

Do ender chests blow up?

[JOEL] Yes. Sometimes.

[GRIAN] Well I'll lose this one.

[JOEL] I think that would be fine to be honest

depending on how big the explosion is.

[GRIAN] What are you talking about? There's no explosion Joel.

[JOEL] Well why are you asking if the ender chest blows up, Grian?

[GRIAN] No reason!

[laughs]

[JOEL] Everyone else lives really far away, by the way.

[GRIAN] Yeah, this was a bit of a bigger journey for them.

[JOEL] Seen any good movies lately?

[GRIAN] Yeah.

[JOEL] Cool, that's all I wanted to know.

Don't need to know the name,

just I'll thank to you saying so.

[GRIAN] There's this one that just came out called Toy Story.

[JOEL] That's not come out recently.

[SCAR] Oo! That was quite the hike. Oh boy.

[SKIZZ] That was a tough hike.

I- [laughs]

[SKIZZ] I forgot how big this mountain is. [GEM] It's our weekly exercise.

[IMPULSE] I listened too intently, I didn't even bring food.

Joel, do you got an extra one of those?

[GRIAN] I wonder- I wonder why I've got an extra seat.

[JOEL] Why have you got an extra seat?

[GRIAN] Weird. Anyway.

Shall we begin?

[SKIZZ] We shall. [JOEL] Sure?

[GRIAN] I've got a confession to make.

I don't have

the best reason

for us to get together.

I was kind of hoping you guys would have some ideas

but hey, I'm gonna just kick things off

and see where we go.

[IMPULSE] [laughs] Okay.

[GRIAN laughs]

[laughing]

[SKIZZ] I just wanna say,

Grian you fit right in with a lot of people I work with buddy.

[laughing]

[GEM] This could've been an e-mail!

[GRIAN] This could've definitely not been an e-mail.

[JOEL] We literally have mail now guys, come on.

[IMPULSE] Yeah.

[GRIAN] Right listen. Listen.

Scar back up, back right up.

[SCAR] Oh hey hey! I don't know what's going on.

Hey oh!

[GRIAN] Listen everyone,

when we started this season

I didn't really know what my base was gonna be

but I knew one thing,

I really like the idea

of having a volcano

and everyone

knows that this is kind of close.

It's a big old

mountain but it hasn't got the donut in the middle.

So

my thought is

if we turn magic mountain

into a volcano,

we can do something

in the volcano together as a group project.

I don't know what that is.

I don't know what that group project looks like.

[SCAR] I have an idea!

[IMPULSE] I like it.

[JOEL] Excited to build another volcano, Scar?

[SCAR] No, no, I got an idea.

We could sacrifice people to the gods of the volcano.

[GRIAN] Well that's not what I had in mind. [IMPULSE] Yeah I sacrifice Skizz!

[JOEL] Okay, weird?

[GRIAN] But it's still a big project

to do and

I thought I'd just kick start things. [TNT sizzling]

[IMPULSE] Oh!

[chatter]

[GEM] What did you just do?

[GRIAN laughs]

[laughs]

Perfect.

Well, I think we can put our stuff back on.

I didn't expect a full

instant death explosion, that was-

That was quite something.

Well let's go and see how well that did for us.

Let's have a look.

[JOEL] This has actually left quite a big hole.

How much TNT did you put in here?

[GEM] I accidentally fell in.