Etho Plays Minecraft - Episode 563: Lava Lawva Larva 

Hey Etho, I recently became a big fan of your lets play. And i was wondering, how do you deal with all the praising in the comments. Sometimes the entrire commeng section is just people saying how they grew op with you and how they think you are so awesome. Now dont get me wrong I also find you awesome, but isnt it hard to not get very narcisistic with all these people praising you, and the pressure of knowing you made peoples childhood. How do you make sure you do not become a very egoistic person with all these comments? (Sorry for my bad english im not a native speaker)

563 episodes in and this man still finds a way to do a new bizarre and creative (and always slightly unhinged) intro each time

I got my snacks ready!

Hey Etho, I can't help but notice that there's been a definite lack of star wipes lately. I'm sure you'll agree that this has devastated all of us. Please, free the star wipes!

Hey Etho, I just realized, the new skulk blocks reminds me a *lot* of your old XP farm with the silverfish spawner… you break blocks to get XP, except now it’s a lot more practical. Do you think you’ll ever revisit that design with an updated version? It could be a fun throwback and a new farm for you to play around with!

1:42 "We have this villager right here..." Name him "Re-Phil"

Loving the manic energy of this episode so far

This was Etho's best acting since episode 404, what a great actor!

I'm really glad Etho is still able to enjoy his Let's play world so many years later. I hope things are well for him :)

I'd say don't keep the guard rail, but for a more technical reason than an aesthetic one. Since your angle against the cauldrons will almost never be exactly 90 deg, there will always be a non-zero chance of placing lawva directly on the guard rail's face, directly above the flowing water.

Etho, the method you're using for chaining water streams together continuously is almost exactly you used to do in your old mob system pipes. I cant believe you forgot about it. Also, if you wanted to ensure that an item will never get stuck, just replace the pressure plate with a top half slab.

I love that the fahrenheit thing is the hottest take I've ever heard Etho make...

I love how etho comes up with so many new and fun ways to make an intro!

Life is good when Etho uploads

Hey Etho! What a perfect way to spend a part of my Sunday afternoon.

Really going off the rails this episode, much appreciated

Hey Etho, I have been consistently watching your content since my last year in Highschool in 2013. It's always nice to see a new video come up especially at those times where life has been pretty rough. Seeing how you have been doing this for close to 10 years now, my question is: Did you ever see yourself doing EthosLab for as long as you have now, and what are your thoughts on the future? Do you think you'll still be making more episodes in 5 years time?

09:38 This means you’re keeping your world?! Oh thank goodness. Having to say goodbye to this world would have been very hard as a viewer to do. Can’t imagine how difficult it would be for you. I cannot wait to see what’s under your bedrock xD

Always a pleasure to watch your SSP.

7:50 Instead of a pressure plate you can use a top slab, that way even if it falls directly on top of it, it will still be pushed by the new water stream, and items below can still go under the slab.

To the point on rockets, i keep 2 stocks in my rocket box. Rocket 1s for "daily drivers" where you just need to do short hops between areas or around a build and Rocket 3s as "cruise missiles" for when you want to go someplace a few thousand blocks away. A good example of this in your world would be use rocket 1s when building and around the mancave area where you have most of your stuff (it is the oldest most historic part of the world after all, and was built when travel was much slower) and then use the cruise rocket 3s for getting to your amplified base or other general exploration. I do understand the convenience of not needing to pay attention to rocket types, and also am curious if increased flight duration is gunpowder efficient or not (ie if 1 duration last 1 second do 2 duration last 2 seconds or say 1.5 seconds) PS: don't use rocket 3s in the nether, thats a very good way to faceplant into a cliff and lose everything. Edit: checked the wiki, flight duration is given as Ticks = 10(#gunpowder +1) + rand(0,5) + rand(0,6) Meaning that it is technically most gunpowder efficient to use duration 1 rockets. (2 flight 1s are worth 2*(20+(0,11)) vs 1 flight 2 worth (30+(0,11)))

Hey Etho! So I built the shulker reactor myself in a world to test it and I thought I'd share some of the issues I encountered and the solutions I came up with. I'm sure you're already aware of most of this, but thought it might be useful to you. I found that you'll get hit by the shulker pellets every once in a while, which would either cause you to fall out of the farm, thus killing you, or make you need to heal which would eventually lead you to starve. I'm not sure why it would happen, it seemed quite inconsistent and sometimes the farm could run for more than an hour without getting hit, other times it would happen every five minutes. Either way, I was able to mitigate it by using walls and signs in such a way that kept you inside the water stream even if you get hit. Pair that with a regen beacon and you won't die. Unfortunately it kind of messes with the aesthetic of the farm though. Another issue was that a lot of the shells would fall on top of the shulkers and eventually despawn, cutting down on the rates. I was able to prevent that by flushing the inside of the reactor every 4 minutes, similarly to how the outside gets flushed. This helped quite a bit with the rates of the farm. I didn't play around with the outer walls really, so I'm excited to see how the changes you're making will affect the rates. Just some insights I thought I'd share. I really love the farm, it's such a fun concept and I'm excited to see how it'll end up!

my depression has been brutal the last couple of days, but i'm not even a minute into the video and i'm smiling. thank you for your videos, etho.

Hey Etho, I wanted to ask about the music block tunes you put together for the last season of hermitcraft. They were a lot of fun, so I was wondering if you planned on bringing back in the future? Or was it just an experiment for that season? And what made you decide to make songs for that season in the first place? I’m sure it took quite a bit of time but I really enjoyed them.

These episodes are never long enough 😭

Lmao the intro is hilarious, always coming up with something surprising

Favorite Etho-ism: "Uh huh!"

Love watching the research processes of established Minecrafters. It’s so interesting that, with all the experience, there’s still new things to figure out in vanilla Minecraft without resorting to “hacks”.

The return of the king! I've missed your let's play series.

Was mid-watch in Netflix-show. Saw notification. Now watching Etho

Etho: I'm gonna drown him... Me: Nah, his nose is sticking out he'll be fine.

Etho: “poor guy is stuck here forever” Etho: “…anyways”

Wow, the shulker farm is honestly breathtakingly beautiful when it's filled :o

One of the many great joys of seeing a new Etho video is the knowledge that we're one step closer to the next BattleBane episode....

21:30 i love how the villagers nose sticks out like he can still somewhat breathe lol

The trident’s true loyalty is with the void 😆

I think go without the guard :) it looks nicer and you won't be afking so you'll already have to be paying attention somewhat with the farm, like if you got buckets in your hand, etc. What's a little more paying attention! Also the farm looks great!

It's always amazing how I can go months without watching a single player episode and come back and it still feels like a minecraft home to me. And I always leave wanting more.

It’s a good day when etho uploads

Hey Etho, don't forget to find some geodes out in your world and get some of that amethyst to make into tinted glass for any mob farms you have for 1.18.

Hi, Etho- I know that you must get a lot of comments just like this one, but I was thinking about the past, present, and future the other day and couldn’t help but be appreciative of you and the role your videos have played in my life. I have been (like many others) here from the beginning; I was 8 years old when you began this series and, despite my insanely short attention span, I followed it religiously. Now I am 19 years old, and I cannot genuinely say there have been many constant things in my life, but one thing that certainly fits that description is you and this channel. Just to put it into perspective, in that time I have gone from 3rd grade all the way through middle school, high school, and I’m now halfway through college. I have a good job, a car, a good grip on my future, I’m looking for roommates and apartments. Friends, acquaintances, and romances have seemingly come and gone like flashes of light, and my own personality has made switches and developments beyond my wildest expectations more times than I can count. Through this time I’ve seen the rise and fall of the Mindcrack server, I’ve seen YOUR relationships with people change, grow, fall, end. I’ve seen your branching out into modded Minecraft, I’ve seen your many adventure map series, I’ve seen the UHCs (and the thousands of different animations and kinetic typographies of the moment from season 4(?) where it came down to just you and Guude and you won with half a heart). I’ve even seen the rise, peak, fall, and resurgence of Minecraft itself, the slowing of this let’s play series, but your steady commitment to bringing us all videos and never failing to find new adventures and projects in a world which many people would have deemed “finished” many years ago. I have seen MYSELF fall away from playing and watching Minecraft, but am happy with my slow return to the game and to your videos and many others. But most importantly, through it all I’ve seen YOU develop in an unbelievable way; as I’ve heard you acknowledge yourself before, it’s crazy that the guy from episode 1 of Etho Plays Minecraft is the same as the Etho we all know today. The slow emergence your personality has made over these many years is astounding-however, to tell you that I’m proud of you I do not believe is really my place. Only you can do the self-analysis that determines how proud you are of your own developments… but regardless, I think we can both agree said developments have been for the better :) I’m still young, and I know I still know very little, but one thing I have learned as I’ve grown is the importance of constancy in a person’s life. I’ve also learned just how tough it is to find things that can be deemed as such. So the fact that I can still open my phone, get on RU-vid, and often see a new upload from you is something that I don’t think I’d ever be able to thank you enough for. You’ve long been a beacon of happiness, purity, nostalgia, and entertainment in my life, so much so that even my dad lights up when he hears your voice come over the speakers-“Is that Etho??? I can’t believe he’s still making videos!” What you’ve given to me and to many others is the gift of something constant (and a very GOOD something constant, at that), which is much more than any of us could ever ask for. Something I want to stress to you is that you could disappear unannounced from RU-vid tomorrow, and that would be okay. The gift you’ve given to all of us is more than many people put out into the world in their entire lives. Even if that may sound silly to say about recording yourself playing a video game and putting it on the internet, I swear that it’s true. So I hope that you know that if up-keeping the channel ever started to feel less like fun and more like an obligation, many of us would be understanding and supportive of a stop. We know that you’re a person with your own life, just like us, and whatever choices you make in the name of bettering yourself, we will be behind without hesitance. All this is just to say: thank you. I will never stop enjoying your videos, or hearing your voice, or seeing that upload notification. EthosLab will forever be my favorite RU-vid channel, not because it’s inherently the best or most productive or most creative or most diverse, but because of the anchor is has acted as throughout the majority of my life. Thank you again for all your hard work, dedication, and just all you do in general. I hope this message finds you in good health! Your fan always, Michael Brungardt

I get so tense whenever etho is flying in the end eveytime.

This made me cry. When i was a young boy I used to watch you everyday as I played Minecraft. Brought me back for sure. Glad to see you are still playing!!!!

Hey Etho, Please, please take us on an exploring adventure underneath your world when the update comes out. Oh and all the new space below the mancave! the possibilities! And I am very excited for the villager system idea you presented! Sounds very cool!

I'm back with more EthosMath! I spent hours looking at the upload dates of all 563 episodes, and compiling them onto a graph for you to look at. You can find the URL in the description of my channel!

Hey Etho they're changing the color of the stripped dark oak log texture! idk if you know but i wanted to tell you since you use it so often! For comparison its now alot more reddish-warmer tone now and it goes really well with brown wool

7:45 the chocolate island classic design! Man that brings me back!

the shulker reactor is a nice example of selection pressures, as the ones that are inside die off and can't reproduce only the ones on the outside survive, so evolution takes its course.

20:21 loyalty tridents will currently only return from the void on bedrock (the combat update that's coming out at some point in the future (maybe) fixes this)

Talking about the update has me super excited for Caving With Etho: Sub-zero Edition!

Mubojumbo: redstone is easy! Etho: redstone is hard! Love the different perspective, yet both are amazing at contraptions with different aproaches!

I love this series it never gets old. I learn a lot about redstone and get to witness these crazy awesome contraptions Etho makes that I would never have thought of!

Always worth the wait

Yay an LP episode! Omg loving this behind the scenes style 💜💜💜

Watching Etho while doing some boring school project always makes it way more fun! So thanks for the upload!

Enderman is the new mascot for the mushroom farm xD Great episode Etho!

My hype for this series to return is extreme!

That Shulker reactor is still one of my favorite Minecraft builds/farms I’ve ever seen. Largely because, it’s kinda arguably the easiest-to-make mostly-AFK shulker farm???

14:31 The way he goes "But then the minecart goes back up--..." and then just starts silently punching the minecart killed me

Been watching a lot of the older LP episodes. Super in the mood for a new one heck yeah!

Hi Etho! I've been really getting into your content lately, especially your Let's Play series, and this upload made my day! While I haven't been here as long as other fans of yours, I thoroughly enjoy your videos and admire how good you are at so many aspects of Minecraft; and you yourself are a very pleasant, interesting, unique, and entertaining person! I just wanted to say thanks for making such quality, enjoyable videos and being the wonderful person you are!

Amazing timing, since I just got my snacks!

thank you for all the memories over the last 10 years Etho

Hey Etho, one of the most exciting changes coming in 1.18 (which you didn't mention) is that Mobs will only spawn at light level 0, down from "any under light level 8". That means half as many hidden lights required, and approximately 99% less creepers in the Mancave.

Let's go another Ethoslab video I can't wait to watch this. Its been a while since there was a lets play episode but it is worth the wait.

Hey Etho, when you update your world do you plan on staying in amplified? The new terrain is pretty crazy as is, and you may not need to stay in amplified to get cool generation. On the other hand, amplified is only crazier now and would be fun to watch you explore!

When we first got elytra on our old server, we played around with the rockets and elytra physics. We challenged ourselves to see if we can travel between our bases (~1000 blocks apart) with as few rockets as possible. What surprised us was that with 1 rocket, you can get basically infinite air time and distance with the right finesse of your flight angles. Basically, you try to fly at barely less than horizontal, and when you start losing speed, you do a -45 degree dive and back up. If you do it correctly, you can actually break even or even gain height after your dive, all this without a single rocket. I'm sure this isn't news, but I haven't seen this talked about much online, probably because it's not super practical and kinda tedious to pull off, and rockets are cheap, but I wanted to share anyway. Love your videos Etho, always looking forward to the next one, no matter what series it is :)

Out of all the Minecraft let's players that I watched, etho's play style is my favorite of all.

Best intro you've done in a while! Loved every second of it :)

Hey Etho! as a fellow Canadian, i think it would be pretty cool if you did a project to show ur Canadian pride! Maybe like decorating a build, creating a monument, or making a Canada biome. I love this country and i think it’d be great to show some Canadian spirit in the world, eh? 🇨🇦

That shulker farm is an absolute delight to watch XD

The long-awaited LP episode we’ve all been waiting for! :D Your old man voice sounds a lot like Pearl and Martyn’s old folk voices in the last LL session lol

Thank you for posting today. I’m at work for 13 hours and this is perfect to boost the mood.

we have all been waiting for this

It's incredible that you got a whole episode out of just that clip from the beginning!

I vote remove the guard on the front because it's easy to just run along the front and grab the that were dropped

5:17 AM, i have a deadline later for my computer engineering course. That's when Etho decides to upload an LP video..... Etho is gonna be my downfall. LMAO

21:17 I like how the villager can breathe trough his nose. It just sticks out of the water

Etho: “So I found this big hole underneath the pumpkin farm. I wonder, how did it get there … I made it” 😂😂😂

Etho thank you for continuing to make great content! Hope you have a great rest of your day!:D

Hey Etho, I was just watching some of your old videos to get that nostalgia feeling and I came across Battle Bane. Do you ever plan on finishing it or releasing it as is for other people to finish? Love the video, keep up the great work!

the intro reminded me of his initial interaction with Spaz with all the camera and crew jokes

The Fahrenheit part cracked me up 😂

'Etho Plays Minecraft' is my favourite show 🤗 Love how you've automated your lava array & made the collection process so fun 😊 When you think up a new idea for a complex farm or automating some tedious process, how long would you say it typically takes you before you've figured it all out? 💛 Take care

22:50 duration 3 rockets will actually be a bit more useful if they ever re-add the elytra changes they had in the experimental snapshots, as the elytra would only lose durability with a rocket boost, so using duration 3 rockets would allow for more efficient travel in terms of durability

Hey community, I am a fan of Etho for so long I no longer see his improvements as "On that episode he had better audio/editing". I just appreciate the iterative progress in how Etho presents himself and his gameplay. Before I felt more that he turned on the camera and just played the game, letting us see what he was doing. Now he has more of a presentation style where he does stuff and shows us his findings. However, Etho always has been true to himself and played what he wanted and how he wanted. Many thanks Etho and to many more episodes of vanilla or modded, single or multiplayer.

"Etho's Roadtrip Bonk Rockets!" Order today!

The new caves look really good, and on top of that they're massive. They're going to be fun to go caving in but do you have any ideas for building projects you could do in them? I'd suggest a "mancave 2.0" type thing - it can be more modern too.

You know, with a world this old I bet you always discover old builds/contraptions you have lying around! Have you "re-discovered" anything cool worth looking at, Etho?

3:00 Grandma Etho 😂

That downward trip in the shulker reactor is soooo mesmerizing

Yay new Etho video!

dear etho imn Alice and i am 6. on saturday i got a poppet and maybe you could make a poppet and inside you could sell stuff so people can make their own poppet. Hey etho, alice's dad here. She wrote this all by herself with a bit of help with spelling from me. she loves your videos so thank you for that. like father like daughter. Im not sure what she means but she is insistent this is what she wants to share. Thanks for everything and keep up the good work!

So glad to get another chill video from etho

I love how you are visiting old builds

The funny thing is that there is no way to tell whether the intro was just a cleverly executed bit or if that is his actual process.

I built the reactor as well and its working well. However... sometimes (very rarely) one shell hits me from the side and pushes me out of the water stream. Do you or anyone here have an idea of how to fix it?

Loved the behind the scenes part at the very start. I don't often think about how you makevintros, and that added some context for me.

That intro was so cool. It felt so heartwarming to have a sneak peak of Etho's "raw video"

4:08 this sounds awfully similar to what ilmango said in his peaceful series ep.90