Etho Plays Minecraft - Episode 571: Villager Fun Times 

That villager getting sniped off the bridge right after etho talked about how he likes doing things lazily was perfection

"You see that guy with the spider eyes over there? That's a spider!" -Etho, 2022

I started watching Etho in highschool. Now I have a college degree, a wife and kid, and a full time job. Thanks Etho ❤

6:27 Etho being coy about making *another* end portal base just cracks me up

“That guy with the spider eyes? That’s a spider.” The smartest minecraft player in history strikes again, folks. Watch out for more incredible insights.

Etho. You know what, I cannot believe how many projects you have finished in your let's play world. You have finished soooo many projects all the time, it's just incredible, how do you do it?

16:45 "for some reason he wants to go in" as Etho pans over to the dozen composters built into his redstone contraption.

Etho, I know you say you haven’t been able to put out as many videos but honestly you’ve been doing really well considering your situation that you mentioned. Losing a parent is probably one of the hardest, if not the hardest thing that can happen. Especially if you lose them far too “soon” (losing them at any time is very difficult though). The fact that you’re able to continue as well as help your family is so commendable. I also lost recently my dad a few months before you did (far too “soon” as well), and it’s a very difficult circumstance. Please don’t feel pressured from viewers to make more videos if you need to help your mom out or if you need a break as well (it seems like you aren’t which is good). The pain never goes away but it does lessen with time and support from family and friends. Thank you for your videos, I really appreciate them! Anyways, to not be so deep, I have a random question: Have you touched anything to do with VR yet? Is it something that interests you? If you have tried VR games, what do you think about it?

Etho really just made a villager pez dispenser. He is the best.

For the zombie villagers to not despawn, you need to trade with them when they were villagers, before converting them to zombies

Etho: I dislike the state of current villager trading Also Etho: *Builds one of the coolest villager trading systems with automatic rotating villagers.*

This is my kind of Etho video, well most are, but I really liked this one. He built a creative design to complete a vision he had in mind. He also showed interesting features such as how he preps Villagers and moving mobs with water. Add in a handful of goofy moments and you got yourself peak Ethoslab

Two things about villagers: The major bonus from curing actually only stacks from 5 cycles, then it its the cap. And zombie villagers do indeed not despawn, but only if they have been traded with at least once, and thus have their profession locked in.

Today is a good day.

Personally I love villagers because they make building large projects so much easier but I definitely agree that they aren't the most fun mechanic. If I were able to change it, I would make the villager system more akin to Terraria where each villager needs a room with certain requirements before he's willing to trade with you. For example, maybe each villager needs a room with at least 5 x 5 floor space, a bed, a chest and his workstation. Obviously some people would just build tiny boring boxes to get their trades but this system would encourage people to build individual houses for each villager, which would take more time but would be much more fun. To expand upon the idea, you could have it so each villager has slightly different requirements for their room before their willing to trade (which you would be able to check by clicking on the villager, replacing the trade menu until they have a house) which would again encourage some more creativity when making trading halls. This system might not work at all, and it would certainly be difficult to code for a game like minecraft but I think it would be a fun idea that encourages more creativity when dealing with villagers than sticking them in a 1 x 1 x 2 hole.

Been watching you since I have been 12. I am now 21 and still love your videos. I didn't know about the passing of your father, I am very sorry to hear about that. My condolences to you and your family and I am proud that you are able to talk and be honest with your community. Thank you so much and I love getting back into your videos again after some time!

I half expected the beds to explode when the villagers slept on them. Only half disappointed that it didn't.

Sitting at home on a snow day with some hot coco and an Etho video on my screen is the perfect day as far as I'm concerned. Thanks Etho!

Villagers can despawn if they haven't been traded with before and convert to a zombie. Once they're traded with (or named, or riding something), they're persistent.

Paramore, Halestorm, and The Pretty Reckless? Etho sure has some good taste in music.

Hi Etho! Little tidbit you don't seem to know: Villagers pathfind to higher blocks. That's why they all were very happy to jump over the wall but didn't jump down a hole. I think it's so they try to pathfind out of caves. Whenever I want villagers to go somewhere I just make the path end with a single block up and they go there on their own. I think it's also why the villager was happy to get into the system on his own! He figured he could get higher up using the water stream!

The best feeling is when I am interupted while watching old Etho episodes by a NEW Etho episode! Yay!

This is the world record for procrastinating to make a villager setup on a YoutTube let's play. I double checked; this is indeed the longest still running LP. It's been ELEVEN YEARS!

Still my favourite youtube channel to watch, after more than 10 years. Thank you etho.

I think villagers are fine UNTIL you start chaining systems together. If you just roamed from village to village trading with what you have on you at the time, I think they are perfectly fine. It's when you start to setup massive reed farms for paper and whatnot, that's when I think Villagers start to enter the realm of "OP". If they want to try and balance them out a bit, they'd have to address that further than how they have already.

Congrats on the success of battlebane! It was really fun to watch 😊

TLDR: Thank you for the endless hours of entertainment. Here's to many more. ----- Came to your channel from Hermitcraft (which I only discovered recently for shame) and seeing as you were going to be coming back to hermitcraft after a bit of a hiatus (not sure if that's the correct word) I thought I should probably see what this guy's all about and why he's so looked up to. For some reason I decided to start with your first solo LP series on Chocolate Island. I am so glad I did because I got to see you playing Minecraft from its early days right up to the present. I also got to witness a genius and born entertainer at work. Thank you for your insight, humour, instruction, fun and so much more. I look forward to the next episode. Whenever that might be. It matters not because you and your family will always come first. Yours sincerely, a very recent new subscriber.

Now that battlebane is finished, anything is possible! I look forward to seeing the new base :)

Etho at the beginning: "Oh how wonderful Minecraft is, all the different ways you can go about doing anything you want" Also Etho: *Moves villagers as lazily as possible*

I love how Etho can be perceived as a 4D chess player that's super smart and makes a lot of plans when he really achieves the same goals by being super chill and going with the flow of the game. Everything is an exploration project with trials and errors. Super admirable.

All the time I thought: why not just putting the villagers in minecarts, have a hopper below the track and cycle them through. But then I remembered I'm watching etho and that is exactly what I love about this guy and why he still has fun playing the game after all this time

Every episode you give us, I'm grateful. When my Nan passed, my mom was put in charge of the will and I saw the time it takes, so I'm doubly grateful for whenever you somehow find the time to create and record a new video

an inflation system for villagers would be cool, checking the number of emeralds that exist in the system edit: as somebody pointed out, it would be deflation for the price of emeralds. a basic buy order, sell order system seems more intuitive as well compared to the non haggling villagers

AT A CAVETOWN CONCERT BUT HAVE TO KEEP UP THE ETHO GRIND

You know Etho's dad must have been like Etho to have had so many things going at once. Just imagine if a someone was trying to finish all of Ethos unfinished projects, that what I imagine him and his family are dealing with.

Etho like many other people have said before you take your time getting back to making videos and grieving. We are all incredibly supportive of you and your decisions. 10 years later and I still watch and love all of your videos keep up the great work!

Been following this series since the first world. I’m 25 now and after a day of bad health this video could not have come at a better time! Cheers Etho

This video might be one of THE best "first" videos for people who don't know the joy of watching Etho.

Never thought I'd see a villager dispenser system in Minecraft, but Etho never disappoints

Etho: I always do things in this game in the laziest way possible Also Etho: Engineers a redstone villager conveyor belt to avoid having to walk between them & his chests Don't you ever DARE change

I think 1.14 was a terribly balanced update, but with phenomenal ideas in it... hope to see it rebalanced soon. In my world, I've tweaked all villager loot and their schedules, so villagers supplement item rarity/frequency rather than replacing the world

Ah perfect. Just had 2nd surgery in 3 days and laying in hospital bored our of my mind. Great time for a etho episode to come out.

Etho in 2010: Builds a base above a portal with a gimmick of pushing mobs through glass tubes. Etho in 2013: Builds a base above a portal with a gimmick of pushing mobs through glass tubes. Etho in 2022: Builds a base above a portal with a gimmick of pushing mobs through glass tubes. Me, every single time, without fail: "This is the single greatest concept I've ever seen."

Just spent 14 hours straight getting settled in a new house and finally was able to sit down and enjoy some tea. The fact that I saw etho in my feed has made the end of this day perfect.

Etho, keep building new bases! A big part of the charm of your Let's Play for me is just being along for the ride as you follow whatever is grabbing your interest at the time. Finished projects be damned 😛

The first minute describes the game perfectly. If I would describe the game to my parents or someone who doesn't know about Minecraft, I would show them it.

Watching this in the rain while eating in the car with some food. A vibe for sure

I started watching Etho when i was in primary school, now i'm a month away from finishing my degree. Everyone in my life calls me Eto too, its something inspired by you

I've been waiting 6 months to say this. Over the last 6 months I've watched every single Etho LP episode for the first time and I've finally caught up. I've came up with one question. Etho, have you ever considered using a program to delete old chunks you've explored but never built in to reduce file size? It seems to be a recurring issue

HALESTORM!! when etho mentioned them I got so happy. the lead singer is from my hometown

The segment in the start made me recall a thought I had recently when I started playing in a new world: Minecraft actually has a really fun combat system. The thing is, I've never really thought much about it. I've taken it for granted, yeah you hit enemies with a sword, they die, how much more is there really to it? But as I started my new world recently, I realized just how many different types of encounters you can have, and how there are always so many different ways to go about "solving" them. One time I encountered 2 skeletons, 1 zombie and 1 creeper. Not an unusual thing. But there are so many things you have to consider while fightning them: Don't get too close to the creeper, don't stand still letting the zombie catch up, keep sidestepping the skeleton's arrows, all while navigating the terrain you currently happen to be in. How do you go about killing them? Do you take the skeletons first? Do you try to make them shoot eachother? Do you go for the creeper first, as its the potentially most dangerous enemy? The zombie because it is closest? Do you try to get a music disc off the creeper? The variety of what mob combination you encounter, in combination with the variety of environments you could be fightning them in, means that every single fight is different, and will require a slightly different approach than the last one. And the best part of it, you feel like you're totally in control of your character during any of these fights. It's quick and snappy, there are no 2 second long animations to swing your sword. You can use special tools like, blocks, bows, water, ender pearls, potions etc. if you feel like that is what is required in the moment. Since you have so much control in any given moment, you really "should" be able to handle any situation, but how well do you actually do it? This means that there is potentially a really high skill ceiling, there is probably always something you could do to fight more "efficiently". On the other hand, you don't have to do every fight in the most "efficient" way. As long as you survive, you're fine. This means that the skill floor is also relatively low, I don't think many would consider minecraft combat to be especially "difficult". I think this is a good thing, most people can figure out how to kill a zombie, but when put in more complicated situations, one might need to be a bit more careful, or have more experience with how to deal with those types of encounters. Anyways just some thoughts I've had recently and wanted to share. Do you agree, or am I overanalyzing this and giving too much credit?

Etho finding Pretty Reckless and Halestorm is so cool! I just saw them live on their tour together. Been a big fan for a long time. Some of the best female fronted rock bands of all time

Such a bummer that those villagers are gone! poor Etho spent so much time on them. I remember that episode where Etho mentioned the core concept of this villager trading system in the attempt of solving the inventory issue when trading. It always makes me happy to see a seemingly insignificant idea comes to fruition later on. BTW the opening sequence is so silly and so brilliant. Love it!

It has taken me 11 months, but I have finally caught up on this absolutely LEGENDARY LP. Awesome work Etho. What you have created in Minecraft and this community over the last 10+ years inspires me every time I fire up Minecraft for myself. Keep up the awesome work, and I’m glad to see you back doing what you love.

I was 3rd grader watching you and wishing that was my world. You playing dwarves vs monsters, all of it. Now I’m a sophomore… where did the time go man. Thank you Etho, u shaped my childhood

Hey Etho, you're one of my all time favourite creators and I love your videos. I mean this as a compliment; your Redstone segments will never fail to knock me out. Something about it gives my brain the signal to put me to sleep and it's been consistent ever since I've started watching you. I can never wrap my head around Redstone but at least I can sleep on it. Take care, brother!

It’s a great day when Etho posts!!! Keep inspiring and being amazing!!!

Oh boy a new Etho video to look forward to after work! I started watching Etho back in seventh grade, now I’m an engineer! Things change except the excitement I get from a new Etho video!

Hearing you say you're listening to Halestorm and The Pretty Reckless made my night. Two of my favorite bands ever.

I am really sorry for your loss Etho; I know it isn't easy, but you take the time you need and take care of yourself and we will all be here when you do upload. You don't have to push too hard. Thanks for all time smiles and laughs you have given to us over the years.

I feel as though you'd enjoy Frackin' Universe. It's a mod for Starbound that fixes that feeling of "there's something off here and I don't know why" by fleshing out a lot of the actual scientific exploration. It provides a research tree that intuitively gets you interested in trying out all the features, because as you research you unlock crafting recipes and get to learn how they function. It also adds a tonne of biodiversity. The main game suffers from the fact that you have this infinite universe to explore, but you come across the same few alien races. Starbound expands upon that by adding a lot of diversity to the planets you find and providing reason to explore by providing unique elements you can use for further research. Plus there's a lot more in the way of automation and engineering. It's a great mod.

One thing I love about your creations and contraptions is that they're so against the grain. The moment I saw the concept of the trading hall, so many more doors opened in my brain for how you can approach a trading hall in the game and it always makes me super excited to load up minecraft and try stuff. I'm 24 and I feel like a little kid again!

Everytime I watch Ethos, I get reminded of my childhood and now at almost 24 years old, the nostalgia is real

I also played Starbound in the first iterations of the game, and personally, I feel exactly how you do about it. For me, I think it came down to the massive change in the way the style of the game changed. It's hard to explain, but the original game had a different pacing that was really, really cool. I can't remember exactly how it worked, but it was something like every planet had a level, 1-100, and a "rating" I'll call it, A-Z. Idk if it was A-Z, but something like that. A planet that was A1 was weaker than a planet that was A5. A5 was weaker than A10. But a planet that was B20 was something like the strength of an A60. I can't remember the system exactly, but it was so, so, so cool the way it worked. It was a bit complicated and convoluted, but I think it had a ton of potential if it was just iterated on a few times. But instead they completely scrapped that because it was too challenging, and in my eyes, it felt like they didn't respect the player. They had a really neat system that was a bit challenging to learn, but was really cool and added a ton of diversity to the game, and removing it because it was too hard just felt like they didn't respect the players, and from then on, it just felt weird playing the game

Losing a family member can break even the strongest warrior. We love you Etho! It's great to have you back! 💚💚

Thank you for being you. I, and I'm sure many others, view your channel as a bastion of security and stability. The knowledge that despite whatever may be occurring in the real world there is a safe haven of acceptance and comfort gets many of us through hard times. I know that you've done that for me atleast. And for that I thank you. Please know that you make life easier for many who have a hard time simply getting though the day. The gratitude I wish to show to you can never be aptly expressed.

I would make 3 interrelated changes to villagers that I think are quite small but would have large impact to them. 1) When a trade's stock runs out they would pick a new trade according to their profession to replace it the next time they visit their workstation. Likely with a tiny chance to replace non-out of stock trades as well if all their trades have stock. (Part of this would also be letting Datapacks create/control the workstations/professions and the linked trades.) 2) Give the villagers a wealth tag that accumulates when they sell something and decrements when they by something. Then add that value to their gossip system that does some weighted average with a middling value, their current value, and the value they get from the other villager they gossip to. If they have a high wealth they are more likely to pick trades that buy things (thus decrementing wealth) and when under a low threshold they are more likely to pick trades that sell things. 3) Add some sort of trading post block that lets you put emeralds or items in it and villagers nearby can then use the inventory in it to make a random trade placing the new items back into the inventory with trades that give an item already in the trading post being less likely to be selected. Though I'm uncertain how well this would interact with enchanted items. This would create a system where the non-technical players would be able to set up the trading post block and just get an assortment of items based on the villagers they have so farmers would slowly exchange for fooditems in it, a trading post in a blacksmith heavy area would slowly give armors and tools, etc. over time and if they want to get specific items they trade with the villagers looking for that item the same as now. Trading halls as they currently exist would then be more generalized to discourage using them for mass trade of a single item but still be available for doing so at a slower rate. Technical players could then use the trading posts with filtered hopper redstone systems to slowly gain a particular item automatically. With a sliding scale where even more technical players can add more complications like: - careful control of gossip villagers which can only trade at one post so to slowly force their wealth in one direction. - add a system of separate areas that automatically send certain items from one trading post to another area to allow a slow afk where farmer villagers can harvest and sell carrots then they can trade with a post that will drain the emeralds by nearly filling the post with food-like items, and then sending the emeralds to another area to trade for some other items slowly over time with different ways of setting up the trading posts to guide the trades to get certain items.

Halestorm are amazing, seeing them live is great. Better late than never with the finding of them.

Yes! Wonderful taste in music. Halestorm is one of my favorite bands. There is something so enjoyable about watching one of your favorite youtubers run around in such a nostalgic part of his base talking about loving the same bands.

Hey Etho, just a tip with villagers. While you can cure them more than 5 times to reduce prices, these are not permanent discounts, as they only remember up to 5 cures per mentally. After a certain amount of time, the trade prices will go back up. Also, you may run into the issue where villagers stand on the thin part of the trapdoor that still has a hit box while open, and you’ll get two villagers in one storage unit. The water system should help them to separate out, but just something to keep in mind

16:08 Etho waking up that villager only for the villager to go back to bed looks like me when I wake up early in the morning and then remember it's Saturday lol

4:27 In response to your question, the main goal of changes I envision would be to stop the "jail cells" trading halls. First of all, limit the effectiveness of multiple curings, 1 should be enough. Secondly add a "happyness" measurement to villagers, which goes up if they're walking around, chatting with other villagers, smelling flowers, looking at paintings, etc. Basically incentivizing players to make a "functional" village to get good trades.

Etho, dont worry about struggling getting episodes off, we can wait, you taking care of IRL stuff is way more important, even for us, wish you all the best ! And as always, great episode, always love the way you find new ways to do fun stuff !

There is no better way to end the day than eating hot stew while watching Etho's new LP Episode !

Etho, I’d heard of you for years but only really started to see you in season 7 of Hermitcraft, and now I’ve been going back to watch this let’s play starting back at your videos from 10 years ago, and now that I’m seeing your now uploads I wanted to say that it’s so fun to see the difference between 2012 Etho playing Minecraft and 2022 Etho. But one thing that hasn’t changed is your enthusiasm for the game and it’s absolutely wonderful. Thanks for being awesome!

Your videos are always a treat Etho. I been watching the series since the episode count was in the 300s and somehow you never seem to stop innovating. You are one of the few channels that has earned post notifications and I am grateful for all the entertainment you’ve given me over the years.

Yes! Another great Etho video! Any day now he's going to finish Harvest Moon.

been watching these steady for the past 6 and a half years through middle school, end of hs and now in my first few years of being an adult. thanks for all of this etho

I just finished preparing my dinner... And then there it is... a new Etho upload. This is life.

Etho it’s been like maybe 12 years or more I have watched you, I just wanted to say that I am very sorry for your loss etho, I’m going to keep that short because I don’t want to make it worse. And I also would like to thank you for everything you have done on RU-vid, for giving us a safe place as kids, to come and watch your videos and make memories with you through them. Thank you so much for all you do Etho, thank you for putting the dedication, time, and your heart into the videos over the years. Thank you so much for everything Etho

The villager falling made me laugh so hard i remember when you tried to make the nether village like a hundred moons ago where you accidentally made one of them fall into the lava by mining the cobblestone from under them. Things haven't changed i feel like hahahah

Watching for 10 years and I just now learn that Etho likes rock let alone the Pretty Reckless

Great cutting edge episode, Etho! Thank you for being so inventive and creative. Your work is inspiring.

Sometimes I wish I could wipe my memory and enjoy all of these episodes all over again! Always look forward to the next one, when you're ready :) Thank you for all the time and effort and for sharing parts of your personal life

Great video as always Etho! I especially liked that one part when you worked with the villagers!

Blimey what an introduction to the start of the video, very entertaining and enjoyable to watch.

Villager design fix: Supply & Demand. Whenever you buy something from a villager, the cost to you for that item(s) goes up. Across all villagers. And the higher you push it, the longer it takes to come back down. So if you "buy out the market", it becomes a less appealing way to do it. That way villagers are still great for a splash of resources when needed, but the more you rely on it the better the proposition of adventuring yourself becomes. It would create a natural game cycle, like what day/night used to be with day being for building and surface stuff while night was ideal for mining. Edit: I originally had an aside here to cater to the "big number go up" types, but frankly on reconsideration my enjoyment of the game is so different from that perspective that I can't offer a good pitch for that. I'll leave that to others. Instead I'll use the space for an example of how to do it - multiplier. Say the first 32 redstone is at normal price. At a stack in a short span, apply a 1.15x multiplier to the price. At two stacks, 1.25x. At three stacks, 1.5. At a chest worth, 10x. And so on. Then the higher your multiplier, the longer it takes to degrade. Change the numbers for balance, of course. Just example numbers.

I’ve been watching your videos since i was about 6 or 7, now im 15 and just watched a ton of your videos and i love that you’re still the same after all this time. thanks for so many great memories

Hey Etho, my life as usual has been having a lot of ups and downs, but I want to just thank you for being a source of joy throughout all of them. I remember back to seeing episode 250 air and seeing how much progress you've made always gives me a bit of hope.

I hope you realize how much joy you bring to all your viewers! I’ve been watching both you and bdubs since 2012 and it still makes my day whenever I see a new upload, especially from the LP!! I’m eternally grateful, thank you!

I absolutely love how you explain redstone contraptions. It always makes perfect sense to me and I can't think of any other RU-vidr who can do that.

7:57 That image, in conjunction with the segment, got an honest laugh out of me. Absolutely hilarious; never change, Etho.

It would be cool if villagers interacted with you beyond just trading. If villagers offered certain resources or trades in exchange for a quest, where maybe you have to go out into the world and kill some pillagers, or interact with the world in some other way than just simply trading.

I know you have a lot going on at the moment Etho, yet you still care about us enough to put out this episode. Just wanted you to know it is appreciated. Always makes me smile when there's a new one to watch.

....villager PEZ dispenser. ....he made a villager PEZ dispenser. Spectacular

Amazing episode Etho! I love how you took something so standard that everyone who plays Minecraft does relatively the same, and creativity made it interesting and unique. Keep it up! This is why we all love watching you so much!

Loved all the creative bits in this episode Etho, even if the episodes are coming slower, they're as good as they have ever been

Never clicked so fast in my life. I got my snacks and I am READY for this Etho video! LOVE YOU ETHO

the timing on the closing doors after you said take care, byebye... genius!

i love when etho goes through the tunnel next to the potion room, i remember when the episode he built it came out, i was a little kid waiting at the doctors office to get tested for allergies and i watched it on my moms phone to pass the time