Decked Out Cards Revealed! Hermitcraft 9: #35 

Something very important for playability: If you’re planning on randomly destroying cards after every Decked Out run, I’d suggest that you add something that tells the player which cards from their deck were destroyed, so that people don’t get confused or do another run without realizing one of their key cards is missing.

Imagine dropping in the minecart and you hear Etho's voice screaming "We're all going to die!"

3:58 the "exit only" sign feels like it should say "no entrance" or "wrong way" because "exit only" makes it seems like an exit from that room they are in

Bdoubleo being so terrified about accidentally flooding redstone is so real

One possible problem is if a Hermit does not change their spawn bed after playing the game, they could die and respawn in the room. Could that interrupt a player in the dungeon?

Maybe you can put a thicker gold border for the permanent cards to make it more obvious? Like a gold frame for photos.

I think it's worth getting pixel artists who can help with the card art along with the card's overall design. Scaling down images doesn't really work when clarity is important. Pixel artists are great for this because they know how to convey important information within the confines of their medium. Having someone who specializes in card design specifically will help a lot in ironing out some details. Some of the things that stand out to me (and to others who've also echoed this) with the current card designs are: - Icons and numbers being too small or undefined - The card art taking up majority of the face of the card when it can be cropped (especially when the art itself has so much negative space on the top of the frame) - Bounty, Second Wind, Smash and Grab, Skillful Retreat - The reused assets of the card art (recycled backgrounds, figures, posing, etc.) - Curious Advance, Deeper We Go, What Lies Beneath, The Darkest Depths -> same posing & figures - Curious Advance, Second Wind, Stoneskin -> same backgrounds - Sneak, Smash and Grab, Vanish, Smarter By The Step -> same backgrounds - The padding inconsistencies - Border colour pertaining to rarity rather than card type (ie. ethereal). The rarity of the card isn't as important as the functional typing. I understand wanting all this detail in the cards but scaling down an image is not going to have that effect -- it'll have the opposite, if anything. Simplifying the icons will also help them stand out. One way to do this is by limiting the amount of colours used. For example: the hazard symbol does not need that amount of definition and shading; it can literally be 2 colours. Those icons should also be easily defined by their silhouette. Not only does it help with quick glances but it's good to have for accessibility -- which in turn, is good for everyone. Hopefully this was some helpful and constructive feedback. I'll still be extremely excited to see the final product regardless :)

For the first Decked Out, I was obsessed with seeing the hermits play it and experience new parts of it for the first time, and I cannot WAIT until they all experience that minecart ride for the first time!!! This is so exciting!!

A heartbeat sound on the minecart ride that gets faster and faster then stops suddenly when you hit the end. That would fit in well with the ravager idea you mentioned

I would love to hear some hermit voice acting rarely heard around the dungeon to make you feel like you arent quiet alone but also feel the dread of not finding where they are in this huge endless Labrinth. and the possibility that the voices were actually from the warden mimicking it's prey

I think a really cool idea for once players are 'teleported' into the dungeon off the minecart would be to have a few shreikers go off to mimic the screams of the wardens from the depths below and give a sense of fear before entering the dungeon

Tango is definitely one of the Hermits carrying this season. This content is absolutely unbelievable and a must watch for me every single time he uploads. Along with Doc's shenanigins, Scar's amazing theme park, Beef's card game and Bdubs' revolutionizing Minecraft building, there's some insane scale going on in Hermitcraft Season 9. Of course I love all of the Hermits, but Tango's videos are just something special and nothing would be the same without him.

A suggestion: make the cards that drop things in the dungeon prioritize the level the player is currently on when the card is drawn. Nothing would suck more than drawing the 20 ember card and never seeing any of the embers it dropped because you're 3 levels away and they all despawned before you got there.

I know others have said this, but I definitely think the icons need to be larger, and also it needs to be more obvious when a card is ethereal or permanent. Eg: maybe a box at the top which is empty on a normal card but can have a ghost symbol and or a lock symbol (lock being for permanent). Then another thing is I think the difference between the clank block and clank generate symbol needs to be more prominent, its hard to see the difference at a glance to me.

Beef: spends the whole season making his cards Tango: so anyway, here’s the cards I made

You need an alternate way to get into dungeon in case somebody (scar) gets off the minecart too early

There's TWO mega games going on this season and I love it: Decked Out and Hermitcraft TCG. So impressive.

for the minecart ride: in that little opening you should put Aurora Bearialis (the polar bear from decked out 1)

Rewatching this and seeing some of the older cards and ideas is crazy now. Delve, focus, flee with extra flee... WHAT?!

Amazing prgoress! One change I would make is the purple border for orange or something. Blue and purple are really close and hard for colorblind folks to easily distinguish.

I love the cards. One suggestion would be to make the icons on them bigger so they are a bit easier to resolve. Especially the numbers need a bit of a squint to see on video. Since you'll want all of the hermits viewers to easily see what's going on in a run that would be helpful.

Between Decked Out and the Hermit TCG, I think card games are the hot commodity this season.

Other Hermits: taking a normal break after holiday chaos Tango: spending many, many hours on decked out

coming here from seeing the finished product of Decked Out is an incredible experience... seeing the final designs and then seeing how he got to them

Card idea: There are only a couple cards that drop embers/coins; with such a large dungeon chances are you won't find them. I'd make most cards drop a small amount of coins/embers, and dedicated cards drop a ton of them. This would (1) make the player feel good (2) add more distractions and risks while they're on their way to find their artifact (3) make cards that get played at bad times not a *total* waste.

13:54 hahaha Bdubs instinctively walks closer, and Tango instinctively backs away, over and over.

Keep working on Decked Out Tango, we're not getting bored and we're loving it!

Jumping in the minecart and saying the music may be familiar, I was really waiting to hear Grian start telling us about the Big Barge Sweep 😅

I definately think the icons and values on the cards need to be more prominent. But they look awesome, and I am in awe of the amount of work that has gone into this crazy project.

It would be cool if you and Beef each put a little easter egg related to each others games in.

*i love how nostalgic this is to the past, can’t wait tango great job*

That card art is outstanding! So looking forward to see hermits play this

You should make a card describer. Put in your decked out card out pops your card plus a book explaining the card. Very useful to make explanations to more causal players and maybe some game insight.

When this is done, maybe at the end of the season, it would be really cool if you could get some of the Minecraft devs to come on and experience everything you've done with Decked Out 2, kinda like what Cub did with his Total Chaos a while back! This is definitely going to be epic, keep up the good work Tango!

A FEW CARD IDEAS : ) 1. A one use card that gave you an invisibility potion as you enter the dungeon, with some sort of drawback (generates hazard for example). 2. A card that provided you with either a respiration helmet, or a potion of waterbreathing. You could have underwater passages/secrets that would systematically drown the player unless they have either item. You could build such underwater passages for example beneath the waters of the undeground lake. 3. A gamble style card with a 50/50 chance of doing an effect uppon entering the dungeon, one effect being bad, and the other being good. You would kind of roll the dice and hope for the best as you start the game knowing you would get either an advantage or a disadvantage (Example: 50% chance of having 20 frost embers be dropped in the dungeon VS 50% chance of generating 2 clank as you just begin your dungeon run.) 4. A card that provided you with throwable items such as snowballs, to hit certain target blocks that could trigger contraptions in the dungeon. You could also hide skulk sensors that would watch out for snowball sounds and trigger contraptions. You could sell clues about where to throw the snowballs and thus trigger the skulk sensors in the black market of the dungeon. 5. A card that gave you a fishing rod for players to fetch coins and frost embers dropped in otherwise unreachable areas of the dungeon. You could also hide skulk sensors that would trigger with the sound of fishing. Say, you make a stop to fish in the underground lake, you catch a fish and that triggers a secret shortcut for example. 6. A card that gave you the necessary materials to spawn either an iron golem or a snow golem inside the dungeon, to distract mobs and take aggro off you for a moment. (EDIT: Not a good idea afterall, Iron golems can damage/kill dungeon mobs and snow golems would mess up the place with snow layers) 7. A one time card that gave you a nearly broken shield, allowing you to block say: 1 to 3 hits from mobs inside the dungeon. 8. A card that gave you swift sneak leggins for the dungeon levels with the wardens. 9. A card that gave you 1 enderpearl upon entering the dungeon. 10. A one time card that gave you a totem of undying. That's all I got, i'm out all out of ideas

Love the artwork on the cards! It feels very Clank-esque with a Minecraft touch, and I didn't know I needed that in my life! I suggest making the icons for cost, delve, and clank/money larger because they're difficult to read in the game.

With how many secrets there will be in the dungeon, I'd love if the background card art gave some hints about where to look for secrets (ex- delve cards having backgrounds that allude to the shortcuts to deeper dungeon layers). I feel like adding hints like this will have the players always paranoid and attentive for other details and hints, whether they are real or perceived.

The symbols on the cards look quite small, if you intend for them to be read from more than a block away (how are they shown in a shop?) you might want to make them bigger. Even if you recognise a card from its image, most people watching on youtube won't.

This has got to be my favorite episode so far. Never wanted it to end. Some of these cards sound awesome and I love all the atmosphere additions.

The card art is incredible. I can't believe how amazing it turned out.

For the cards, I'd make the text and numbers larger so they're more readable. As for what's overpowered, the Draw 2 card is _very_ powerful. If you can get as many as you want later on, you can basically trigger your whole deck instantly. It probably needs some sort of cost, or limitation on not drawing more cards off a draw effect.

Love the Cards! What if legendary (only legendary because otherwise it would be too much) cards were anounced when drawn using a custom music disk? So when "the darkest depths" is drawn it would play a music disk saying "THE DARKEST DEPTHS - ACTIVATED" in a typical anouncing voice.

I can not wait to experience the initial impression from the other Hermits on their first play through of Decked Out. Tango’s builds are my favorite. Thanks for such a massive undertaking

honestly, this is so amazing! i would literally pay full price for this game

Very excited for this! While we're here: I'm hoping that this time, rather than there being only 1 main competition with 1 main winner, the game has multiple shorter competitions (monthly, maybe?) with multiple mini resets. This way one person can't take the lead early on, and instead lets others who may be unavailable early after Decked Out opens join in later with a fresh slate. Monthly winners could get some kind of benefit in the next month's competition, but are only allowed to win Once.

Tango: I want to get to minimum viable product as fast as possible Also Tango: (introduces Focus, a whole new mechanic that can affect several redstone systems)

I can't believe the amount of detail in the card art! The are gorgeous!

Tango should build an ultimate Decked Out game in creative mode with Worldedit. Imagine how big you could go! After the project is finished, he could release it for the fans to play.

The card art is so awesome. Feels like a real tabletop game or something. Moselbop knocked it out of the park!

Having a card that gives you a single splash potion of slowness might add a moment of tension and skill when being chased by a ravager. It doesn't hurt it, and if done wrong it can hit you aswell.

The "one shot in the dark" art is inexplicably horrifying. I love it!

The cards look absolutely fantastic! I do recommend doing what Beef did with the cards though, putting its rarity (which can just be indicated by the card name's font color) and saying either permanent or single use in its name. What it does can be put on the lore. While the indicators are at the cards already, brains fart sometimes and most hermits won't remember what each symbol means from the get go.

The enterance where you place your shulker turned out so good! Taking a break from it on stream was definitely a good call. I love the shape of the room, it really draws your eye.

Tango I think you should also add some environment focused cards. perhaps one that adds an extra ravager to the first floor but generates more ember on the fourth floor. Perhaps one opens a short cut that you can parkour over and whatnot.

Bdubs and Tango is the best hermit relationship.

Vintage: I'm gonna spend the whole season building cards inside maps. Tango: I'll pay someone to draw them on Photoshop in hours

You should make a book where all the carts are in and next to them is a short describtion of what they‘ll do. Maybe also some history abt the card and over all decked out? So the dungeon gets his own history if you know what i mean!

This season is gonna get mad (good) pretty soon with both Decked Out 2 and Beefs Hermit TCG. You are both crazy dedicated to massive games within a game. Looking forward to watching other Hermits play both of them. Cheers!

After a full week of full on decked out two action. Re-watching this now, knowing how it all worked out. Its just great. 10/10 🎉

It absolutely BLOWS my mind the level of "programming" you're putting into this game within a game. INSANITY. MADNESS. INCREDIBLE.

The cards look phenomenal it reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh cards for some reason, maybe because that's the cards I always had even though I never learned how to play it. I can't believe BDubs hasn't watched Goonies I thought everyone and their Chinchilla had seen it! Glad you figured out how to do the tunnel drop, also the people who don't watch streams really missed out on building the room where you place your Shulker box and it dispenses the Minecart lol

I love the fact you could ask Bdubs and Scar to make the island and castle and get those 2 done in one sitting but you choose to do it yourself

This project is coming along so well and I'm glad to see how excited everyone is about it (including myself!) I do have one important comment regarding the card artwork - the anti-aliasing on the icons and numbers on the cards causes serious readability problems and I could barely make out what they showed. They should really be handled using a pixel art style, rather than just downscaling an image to fit within a low-resolution texture.

Clarity is gonna be in everyone’s deck for sure

Suggestion: I think placing some water sources above the ceiling of the underground lake would bring a cool dynamic feature to that peticular room, adding that ocasional dripping water effect to the cave. Hiding some spore blossoms in that same room would also add a nice ambient detail in my opinion. Adding some sort of movement to builds generally makes them look and feel more compelling/atmospheric. Spore blossoms would totally match the overgrown greenery subtheme you've got going in that room, in my estimation. Btw Loving to see the progress on Decked Out so far! Keep up the amazing work Tango, can't wait to see it finished!

Waiting for the hermits to have a ‘fun’ time in the dungeon 💀

Incredible! No words. Tango, you're a wizard...

Hi Tango, the epic music that you played first when showing us that great minecart tunnel would fit so well instead of the other sound.

You should definitely preview the heartbeat during the intro minecart ride. It could increase before the drop and the exit, and increase a lot if the ravager shows up.

Moselbop those cards look so good! The entrance ride turned out great! I’m squealing with excitement! The map to card texture helps your game and Beef’s game look so realistic! Love it all!

The ride to the entrance could be a mini game with Target blocks sprinkled through to earn something at the enterance

If you just want something interesting to look at on that ledge during the minecart drop down, you could add a campsite with a skeleton sitting there like he froze to death trying to get down to decked out or something lol I feel like it would give Chester Copperpot vibes

We are all so hyped!

I think some blue flames in the minecart ride will give some nice animation and a better sense with the ambiance and sounds

Great job on the entrance room and minecart ride Tango!

For some of these cards, like Necessary sacrifice for example, it'd really suck if the card got played without you knowing that it was activated. Maybe it triggered right as you were exiting with your artifact, and it burned a card and you gained nothing for it. The player wouldn't even get the choice/dilemma of "Do I risk turning back and be greedy for the embers? Or do I take the card loss and secure this artifact for sure?" because you just wouldn't know, and you might think there was a bug afterwards, seeing that a card got burned but not knowing why as you saw no embers during your run. All I'm saying is that because the order of activation is random and unpredictable, it'd be really nice if the player could check which cards had been played so far during a run or maybe if the player was notified with a sound or something when really important cards like that were played. Also, I don't know how the system works when the deck runs out of cards to process, so ignore me if this is irrelevant, but if the system keeps cycling the deck over and over every time it runs out of cards then it seems like someone could fodder an entire deck of common cards to Necessary Sacrifice just to farm a metric ton of Frost Embers. A point of concern I have with these cards so far, is that a good portion of them seem to be ethereal (one-time use), and at least one card destroys other cards in your deck. Having cards that work like that is fine and I think adds a fun dimension in crafting your deck before the run starts, but including a chance for any card played be destroyed on top of that seems extremely brutal, and almost unfun in my opinion. Unless cards are extremely easy to replace or acquire in the first place, it seems like you could walk in with a freshly built 8 card deck, get killed in your run, and then find out that your deck only had 3 cards remaining. Wouldn't that just be extremely demoralizing? I love this game, it looks really awesome and is quite different from Decked Out 1. And hopefully I'm just overreacting as a spectator, but I worry about how repayable this system will be if people lose cards every time they run it. Anywho, card loss concerns aside, I'm loving the aspects of this game so far, and I wish you the best of luck in it's finalization!

Tango keep up the lovely work and amazing progress I cannot express how excited I am about Decked Out and the videos just keep getting better and better!

I'm hoping someone, when Decked Out 2 is finished, will create a card game version probably like D&D for us to play IRL. If someone creates Decked Out: The Card Game, please post it to Reddit.

SUCH A COOL MINECART RIDE! And I'm so happy that the ship is maybe a bit sunken. Really suits the theme better imo. Loving your hard work, tango!

I absolutely LOVE the Art on the cards, that looks so incredible great. I am still astonished, even though i have a hard time thinking of purple as legendary, due to the fact that purple is mostly related to epic, while yellow is legendary. But honestly this is nothing in comparision to the incedible art itself.

I'm so exited for decked out to be done!!

Ayyy Another Decked out Upload , Loving your recent work tango, both the create streams and decked out streams are a blast to watch

Tango, I can’t believe how amazing of a job you’ve done with this game. Truly sir, you’re an artist of minecraft. I appreciate you! Truly incredible work.

One cool thing would be cards for short run too, for example a permanent card that blocks the next 5 clanks but doubles the clank after. So that people could do short runs to grab the missing coins or embers they quickly need!

This is so cool! I don't know if these are still books or otherwise you could use lore text, but having the effects, whether or not it is permanant, ethereal etc. in writing is super important! I think the cards won't feel effective to the players unless they know they're being activated, especially if a voice can read out the name of the specific card so the player knows what's going on and can strategise. I don't know if you'll be able to do this in minecraft, though, with sound distance limits. It feels like it might be possible to exploit the "destroy one card" card by putting exactly 2 cards in their deck and using that run exclusively to farm frost embers?

You know it's a great day when good ol' tango uploads

You should record a voiceover for the minecart job briefly explaining the rules and objectives, kind of like when you're waiting for a rollercoaster ride to start

I've been kinda struggling to watch hermitcraft videos lately, just a bit burnt out I think, but Decked out is just so insanely cool that I watch every video you make on it as soon as it releases. I'm definitely gonna get back into hermitcraft once this is finished for all the hermits to plays

Every time I come back to this channel i get my mind blown by Tangos creativity and sheer genius in this game. I can’t wait to see Decked Out in action!!

For that empty wall in the room where you input your deck shulker, it could be fun to treat it like a video gaem loading screen, you know, with random facts about the game and/or helpful tips. Bonus points if you redstone-ificate it to have different ones for each playthrough.

Tango! You should make a short on how you designed your cards and the system behind them! I would so watch! P.s you’re doing an amazing job and your hard work is paying off! Five months is incredibly impressive for the mass size scale and time it takes to make this. So much love your way! Happy New Years ! +100 Cudos !

Love the idea of synergy between cards like that.

40 whole minutes of tango and decked out!? What a delight. I'm so pumped. My gf and i watched the goonies a while back and it was such a fun watch. I am soooo excited to see bdub's build. I also adore the minecart entrance.

This is an immense project, so I’m glad to see you making such progress on it! I hope you are also taking time to rest, and to celebrate each step of the process that you complete.

I really like the structure of your episodes. Jumping between segments like that really helps the pacing. Can't wait to see what comes next!

The cards are so so good from front to back. I love the silhouettes and background art. Truly just blown away at your creativity during this process. Unbelievably amazing! I'm beyond excited to watch the game play. 💕

I missed the production of the first decked out so seeing your design process for the first time is absolutely incredible. I’m so excited not only to see the hermits reactions but also how this game continues to develop.

So many wonderful thoughts! Loving everything here and the amazing effort, Tango! Love the trust/bond with BDubs that has developed over the years on Hermitcraft!

So ready to watch Etho discover all the secrets your gonna put in the game lol

Love the cards! And I really like the ones with the info squares, makes them look like real trading cards as well as being informative.