Etho Plays Minecraft - Episode 586: Chaos To Order 

Etho, I know this will inevitably get buried under the mountains of other comments of praise, but I just wanted to take the time to say thank you. I've watched your channel consistently since at least the beginning of middle school, and now I've graduated college. You’ve been the single most consistent aspect of my life, and the last remnant of the good ‘ol days of RU-vid that I cherish so much. Its hard to believe that its been over 10 years of Etho, it feels like just yesterday when you were building Wilson, starting up a modded series, tasting eye candy on TerraFirmaCraft and hanging out on Mindcrack. Your uploads are always something I look forward to. Even as life gets exponentially more complicated, I will always enjoy sitting down to watch some Etho just like old times.

Etho getting trolled by his own sign who knows how many years later is peak this let's play. Thank you for continuing to make episodes on this even so many years later!

Hey Etho!! I realize that there's another comment similar to this one but I too wanted to thank you for being here for the last 11 years of my life! I can't remember if it was first grade or second but my first video of yours that I remember clearly was your Dwarves vs. Zombies series. From that day on, you've been a part of my life as I continued to grow older and older. You've been there for me - unknowingly and just for like many others - as I changed schools, houses, made and lost friends, fell in love with hobbies and people, and graduated! Just simply seeing your videos appear on my page randomly - especially your Let's Plays - brings me unending nostalgia that makes me want to rewatch the entire series again. Your videos were one of the biggest reasons I could convince my parents to get Minecraft in 3rd grade, your redstone being a reason for me to attempt coding and mechanics! Day after day, depressive episode or the greatest of the week, I looked forward to seeing your videos! From the series in another planet I can't remember the name of, to Let's Plays, to HermitCrafts, Terraria, the one MindCrack "building" Guude's new house, and especially this one specific video: Episode 472! I spent forever looking for it, but it was the cinematic one with "Monody" from TheFatRat! This one video exposed me to a music genre that I not only wanted to listen to, but also I wanted to play. The days of sitting on my mom's phone, my iPad, and watching through all your videos are all over, yet the more I watch you, the more I feel like those days are coming back. I can't believe I'm graduating in literally a week and you've practically been part of every single year I've been in school. Again, I want to thank you Etho, for being one of my greatest influences!!

Etho, about 2 weeks ago I graduated from college with a bachelors of science in electro-mechanical engineering. I’ve been watching your videos since episode 1 of your let’s play, I was 8 years old… it’s crazy how fast time flies. You basically raised me through minecraft, and I think you influenced my career choice through your redstone engineering lol. I just wanted to say thank you for everything, you’ve really had an impact on me. And I still get excited when a new Etho video drops lol :). #EthoGirlForever

Etho: Light gray stained glass got me. Hermits: Sweet, sweet revenge!

It was so sooo cozy watching you go around the world packing up chests. 100% would watch more of that if you aren't already done.

Man I wish Etho kept recording himself exploring the world and picking up the items. It was pretty nostalgic going through everything and hearing some background stories xd

I personally like that you focus on one series at a time, it really shows. This season of Hermitcraft is very reminiscent of Season 7, I remember how much time and effort you put into that one and look at how well it turned out.

The free glass from shade-e-e's has finally made it way to the lets play world

I guess 40 minutes is the new standard for episodes... I, for one, approve of the new format! :D

Every time Etho mentions a design flaw in a storage room I know he's gonna make another one.

There’s something so satisfying about that montage of punching out the chests. I feel like I’m watching someone clean their room. That post feeling of living in an organised space.. so good

Etho cleaning up his chests? What's next, a roof on his builds? Joking aside, there was so much nostalgia in this episode, like a mini-world tour!

For the last year and a half I have been on my journey to watch all of his Minecraft Lets play episodes (for the first time). I'm at episode 495 so I can't watch it yet but glad to see Etho still making the videos!

To think, it all started with a boat road. Now this madman is making shulker-based item hard-drives. Love ya Etho, keep it up!

Very satisfying episode Etho. Seeing all these places that haven’t been “on camera” in so many years

Etho getting got by the "Don't Read This" sign that he placed is the most Etho thing ever

I love how Etho gets as nostalgic about his old stuff as we do. As someone with a strong penchant for nostalgia, I feel that. This video really was a trip down memory lane, right in time for graduating college after over a decade of Etho.

I remember laying on my grandparents couch and watching as Etho announced that the Nexus was the project he chose and being so excited. Now he’s cleaning it out for another revolutionary storage room. Don’t really have a point but just feels like we’ve come full circle.

the realistic mining cave is one of my favourite episodes, saved in my watch later and every world download i go and check on it, so glad to see you still remember it

Etho falling for his own sign is hilarious, and what makes such a long-running world special. Also falling for the light gray glass pane is karma at its finest.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="251">4:11</a> Etho this project isn't only for you!!! There are definitely those of us out here who loooooove this project :)

the surprise mini world tour was so nostalgic, literally kept smiling as i recognized more and more places that i didn't even realize were "old" or at least old enough to be nostalgic about. crazy how i was growing up watching you in elementary reading comments about how they've been watching you for years and are now graduating college, to being in college myself. thanks for all the great videos etho! you never get old (in fact, I've been enjoying your videos more and more over the years!)

That was so nostalgic! Seeing all the chest monsters scattered around the world! Almost a world tour, just the behind the scenes of the world a bit more. Love all the series, even when their on a semi hiatus. I definitely appreciate the more dedicated love to hermit craft at the beginning of the seasons, that way your not so far behind all the other hermits every season.

"Each one of these tells a story; I just don't know what that story is." 🤣

I think a cool idea could be to develop an area using all of your "forbidden" blocks & items from previous versions of MC as the main palette. It would give you a way to display them while having them serve a decorative purpose in the world! Maybe it could be a wing of the Minecraft museum area?

I loved the chest clean up, we got to see old builds again and it’s like watching an ASMR cleaning video

This is the dream of every viewer ever wanting a sorting video. Sorting Etho’s world…kinda the pinnacle lol. Love the system!!

This video gave me such warm fuzzy feeling seeing Etho running around and doing a deep spring clean of the world. Each place just invokes such good memory not only the history of the world but also the history of Minecraft. I smiled throughout the video, and of course laughed out loud when Etho got got by the light grey stained glass pane, and the sign! XD

I love how the videos aged enough were Etho is trolling himself <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="971">16:11</a>

I enjoy any form of Etho content. It doesn’t matter if it’s Hermitcraft, Let’s Play or life series!

I think I speak for just about mostly everyone that it doesn't matter what you're uploading, we're watching! We are absolutely loving how much etho content we're getting. Plus when you play more hermitcraft, we get to see you from other perspectives which is amazing!

Thank you for the episode, Etho. My partner of 4 years passed away very recently, and I have been struggling, but the familiarity of your videos has been very comforting. I have definitely missed the regular Let's Play, however I think your plan of focusing on Hermitcraft for a while was a good idea, that series has been extra enjoyable this time around. Looking forward to next time. 💛

Both the light grey stained glass AND the "Don't Read This!" sign... Past Etho got Present Etho good!!

Seeing the old redstone testing ground brought so much nostalgia... the original mancave entrance... the big snowflake in the sky! I barely even remember the mushrooms under the canopy, and i don't remember what the canopy *is*, but i remember that it's there! Digging through 10 years of chests, seeing Etho fall for his own trolls... I fell off of minecraft content for probably several years, aside from an occasional check-in with Etho, but the recent seasons of HermitCraft and a renewed, sustained interest in this world have led to some of the best YT videos i've seen recently, and after 12-ish years, i think Etho and minecraft have added some wonderful moments of peace in my life.

Etho your videos have such a great balance of familiarity and originality, it feels both refreshing and comforting at the same time, its great. It was so nice to see older parts of the world in a new video, it made me feel weirdly nostalgic even though i've only been keeping up with you for like 2 years !! I love this balance that you have its pretty unique I really appreciate it :) Taking time to sit down to watch your videos feels like a rebalancing of my own life sometimes 😆

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="807">13:27</a> Congrats on your FREE GLASS! xD

I enjoy both the hermitcraft and LP series, and I totally get why the synchronous series is getting priority especially since it was the beginning phases of the season. I think what you’re doing with the episodes makes sense especially with how big of a grind this LP project is.

Its so funny having etho talk about everyone having their own projects they like the most. And then mention clearing slab city off camera. I dont know why but im obsessed with slab city and always wish it would make a return. Something about it was just so satisfying.

Cleaning up is so nice. Cleaning and organizing my things makes think more clearly and I'm less scatter-brained.

I would totally be interested in a super-long no commentary, uncut video of you just going through and cleaning out every chest from every area. It'd be a nice dose of nostalgia to put on in the background.

Good to see the LP back!

I love these little maintenance videos - cleaning up, connecting projects, bugfixing etc. It's needed and allows us to revisit places, enjoy the trip down memory lane and yet feel like stuff got done

It’s so nostalgic seeing old parts of the world that haven’t been visited in a while. I’ve been watching this series since I was a kid and it’s still so fun to watch :)

Hi, Mr. Etho. I just wanted to say thank you for staying to your authentic self. I have been watching you since I was in 3rd grade (around 8 years old) and now I am about to graduate college as a 21 year old. Your thousands of videos have brightened my day for over a decade and you are the still the same quirky, funny Etho that I started watching all those years ago. Even if I don't play Minecraft anymore, your videos are still so entertaining and make me appreciate the game that I grew up with. Thank you Etho!!

Etho - you do projects for you and the viewers are just grateful to be along for the ride. We love your content and the more you enjoy what you're doing the more fun the video is to watch.

This is almost the perfect etho episode. Little nostalgia. Little redstone. A MONTAGE!! I love it. Thank you for all the fun and great times we’ve had over the years. Thank you for the endless hours of entertainment through the good times and the bad

I linked this video to share in my discord community for my realm and this is the message; (Url) watching Etho go around cleaning up his chest monsters scattered around his world to put in his storage system he’s building after a decade of playing on the world brings me a lot of peace. The fact that he said “you never know the value some is going to take from your videos…” as I was typing this only doubled that feeling, that was nice. The timing as we have been slowly preparing to build a community storage hall underneath the main end island so that it’s accessible from anywhere in the world. Nice. Thanks, Etho

Oh my god! This guy! <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1080">18:00</a> - I absolutely was thinking just about 1 tall base when it was getting to that point! This gave me chills!

Wow, this episode was so satisfying as somebody who's been watching since 105. It's always so fun being reminded of all the weird little one-off tests and old projects scattered around the map, and cleaning up all those chests is somehow a little affecting, like a sense of bittersweet closure almost

Etho, I've been watching your videos for nearly a decade and as long as there is still a let's play, I'll watch every minute. I and most long time viewers can appreciate the sorting project simply for the fact that it will make your life easier and help you modernize the series. I loved watching you visit old projects and do house keeping. Thank you for all of your videos. Whenever you upload I know my day will have a happy ending

I love projects like this even if it feels repetitive. Just seeing the incremental progress on something so massive episode to episode is just so satisfying. I think deep down that really why most people watch Minecraft lets plays. There's just something deeply satisfying about seeming something so huge come together over time.

An Etho is never late, nor is he early, he uploads precisely when he means to

There's a number of things here I hadn't known about, but the way Etho keeps saying "our" or "we" or "us" as he talks about them makes me feel included, and I appreciate that so much. I may not have been here for most of this world but happy to be here now and sticking around for always! :D

I'm always happy to have a new Etho Plays Minecraft episode. It feels like coming back to somewhere familiar and comfy after spending time away. I love all the excitement and interactions on Hermitcraft this season, but it's nice to relax with some solo LP time, too. 🌞

I remember on e of the first times Etho put his world up for a download. I was in highschool on a laptop I got for Christmas and I was playing on my own world with my brothers. We downloaded Ethos LP world and our computers were not having it. Anyways, I'm knocking on the door to my 30's now and I haven't missed an episode. Thank you for the MANY years of entertainment and memories you've provided.

The amount of nostalgia I had in this episode is crazy, Its always amazing to go to different places in a old minecraft worlds and go through the chests, it gives the place life and gives a bit of lore, it gives the story of how a player interacted with the place and is like a window to the past of not only the player but of how minecraft evolved as a game, like you building an area with a new block new best block mentality gives a storyline of how the different blocks were released and how valuble they were in the past, not a lot of plople has a chest full of pertified slab, mending and infinity bows, infinite trading villagers stuff like that makes minercaft personal to the player. Thank you for the nostalgia Etho

I’ve been watching Etho since I was in middle school and now I’m 22 and watching this video while my newborn daughter sleeps next to me. Thank you Etho for years of entertainment!

Thank you for making filling and organizing a sorting system entertaining and fun. Thank you for what you’ve doing for the community.

Hey Etho, I’ve been watching your videos for about ten years, and have never commented. This time though, I watched the video all the way through probably 4 or 5 times this week and felt it was finally time. We all admire your commitment to this series and for inspiring others. Your creative process and ability to make changes while still keeping true to your core is deeply moving to your audience… and to me personally. There are thousands of comments like this one. Your videos have been a much needed reprieve over the years. I’m starting a tattoo apprenticeship on Saturday, my career endeavour is to be half as committed and creative as you have been with your art. This is my favourite episode of the entire series so far. Not because of Nostalgia- I’m not sad things aren’t how they were… I’m elated and excited to see where things are going. Sincerely, Thank you.

Etho: I'm a hoarder. Etho's 10 year old Keyboard: I KNOW

Honestly, it was like a mini world-tour as you went through and cleaned up your old storage rooms. Your last world tour was 3 years ago, I have a feeling that episode 600 is going to be awesome, not just to revisit the old stuff but just to hear your thoughts and feelings on how much you've evolved over time and what has changed throughout the years.

I'm on my own journey going through the entire series from the beginning, currently on ep 277, but I couldn't resist watching a fresh episode today. It's so insanely cool to get what feels like a glimpse 10 years into the future for this world, it just makes me so excited to keep going and so appreciative that we have more episodes coming. Long live Etho Slab 🫡

I really loved to watch you cleaning, to see those 5-10 years old places once again, what a feeling!

My kiddo turned 14 on Monday. I've been watching your videos for... well that long at least? Can't believe your on Episode 586. And I'm glad as much as you've grown - you've still remained "YOU" if that makes any sense. Time does move in the blink of an eye the older I get. It was fun watching you go through your world chasing down chests - it was like re-visiting all of your old work and brought a lot of good memories back :)

This episode was somehow more nostalgic than the world tours. It's like the world tours are the "public facing" episodes where you can show off the bigger picture to new people, but this episode had a lot of little secrets that were only perhaps a segment of an episode long ago, like rare/no longer available items.

Watching Etho collect all the scattered chests in the world was like watching my life flash before my eyes lol. It's crazy just how long we've been watching this series! Also, though I could be biased as I have enjoyed all your vanilla SMP series, I think focusing on Hermitcraft was a very good idea. It's made a huge difference this season for you to be so present on the server. I'm used to long waits for the singleplayer series. To me, it's about the quality, not the quantity. Of course, I hope this series will continue ad infinitum, but taking time away to be part of the Hermitcraft server during it's limited run is important, and the lets play will still be here to return to no matter when you have time to return to it.

It doesn't matter how long between episodes of any series I have to wait, I'll always watch every video.

Such a satisfying video to watch; something about getting a glimpse of past adventures through chests was pretty nostalgic. Great work Etho!

I loved watching you go to the old builds for just a second and looking at the chests, It brought back memories from your videos from 5, 6, or even 10 years ago.

I enjoy seeing the different approaches for the different styles. On HC, Etho simplified his storage so that it's super light on redstone. On the LP, insane unliminited minefield of redstone storage system of doom. It's very satisfying to see Etho clean up his hoards. They weren't hurting anything, other than performance, but clearing away the insanity can be fun. I do miss episode frequency, as I'm sure many do. But I'm much happier to wait, knowing that creators are having more fun and/or enjoying the content they're creating more. Balance is important. So many creators cranked out so much content as quick as they could for a long time. Many of them look back at it now with disdain, they don't like the quality and so on. I think that clearly taints any fun they may have had making that content. So I'm happy for the creators to do better for themselves. Enjoying the process more now, and later.

Your talk about the big moments and how to manufacture them came was part of what made me realise just how big a moment this episode is. That was a great storytelling trick. I've missed the LP world so good to see it back 8-)

Exam tommorow, this is the perfect procrastination oppertunity, thanks etho. Your redstone builds are one of the things that got me from a child to almost finishing a degree in physics!

every time etho uploads an angel gains its wings

Listening to etho talk about organizing items and collecting all of his items is morphine. It was my favorite part of Minecraft making a storage area and organizing

More on camera chest emptying please. What a blast of nostalgia.

I didn't expect this at all but I always love to see more of the OG World I was really loving the new Storage System project

This felt like such a monumental episode. So much nostalgia going around the world, seeing some things not seen in over a hundred episodes, finishing up this massive project reminiscent of the series defining Nexus… absolutely loved it. I’ve never been more excited for the future of the single player world! :)

this was such an awesome trip through memory lane. what an awesome way to celebrate a project well done (or mostly done). i think i speak for many of us when i say we would love a montage of you grabbing and going from all the points of interests left to gather from

What a ride it has been throughout the years. Almost certain that I specifically made this RU-vid account so that I could subscribe and I remember you being my first one (I misclicked one day last year bc the new YT layout and accidentally unsubbed for a second). I could spent hours watching you go through and clean up this world and sort all the memories that come along with it. Thank you for everything Etho!

Trolled by FREE GLASS even in single player 🤣

The release of this episode could not have had a better timing for me, since I was just looking for something to calm me down after a rough and frustrating day! It's so cool to see this massive project become operational, and i loved the trip down memory lane as you went around your world to collect all the items. As someone who is very nosy, getting to look through all the random chests that would normally get ignored in videos was actually really satisfying lol, and I loved that you got trolled by your past self. What you have with this world is honestly really special--with all the stories, personality, and creativity that it holds--and that really came through in this video. Thank you as always for all the work you put into these videos, this absolutely brightened my day :)

Such a nice trip down memory lane. Almost got emotional seeing you finally clear out some chests from areas very rearely visited or touched due to its relivance in the game anymore. A great return to the series imo

I LOVED the chest cleanup! Would love to see more. It was really nice going down memory lane; I love seeing old projects. Keep it up Etho!

It was honesty really fun watching Etho go around his world looking at old chests. Can't explain why but it was entertaining

I have no idea how he does it, but Etho entertained us for 40 minutes and he was just moving stuff around!!!

This video is such a trip, seeing all these places I'd seen for years and years once again!

It is my first "Etho plays minecraft" video and ijust loved it !

You have always been my favorite Minecrafter, I don't think that will ever change. You have the old school feel but keep bringing the new along with you. It's the perfect mix. You also explore all parts of Minecraft which is awesome and might be part of why I too love all parts of Minecraft.

It feels like a veritable lifetime since we've seen this world! The novelty of season 10 of Hermitcraft and having you fully onboard with it has been exciting but I was just feeling like the LP had been gone for far too long. Glad to have it back, even putting aside the single player aspects of it, it's nice to be in a world steeped with history, and this episode really exemplified that with your consideration of what chests were okay to break.

Hey Etho, Thank you for all the laughs over the years. It's been an awesome time. Man, I've really grown up and things have changed, I'm 25 now. I have a friend back in middle school here in Idaho, who first introduced me to the world of Minecraft, and He also introduced me to your videos. He died in a tragic motor accident almost a year ago, He loved farming, farming simulator, minecraft, and his family. We used to talk about watching your videos when were kids, I say kids, but I mean about 14 or 15. So yeah, we were kids I guess. At that time in my life I was probably around for the early days of this current world, but I went back and watched the old ones to be caught up. I'm watching the old ones again. The best part about your videos is the growth and the progress you have made. You're one of the funniest people on here. And once you warmed up and started joking around you became even more enduring and funny. That's why my friend introduced me to you, well and your legendary red stone skills. I just wanted to say thank you, I look forward to your videos. Your lootin and scootin and the "your mom jokes". Thank you for all these years of content. One of your many viewers, Isaac

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="973">16:13</a> you know you have an old world when you can troll yourself.

Dude, within 5 minutes Etho has given me the solution to the exact problem I was dealing with in my own long term world.

Man, these "clean up the world" episodes are soooo satisfying!

The realistic mining thing was definetly a highlight, such a simple concept but it changed the way I approach mining in my own worlds.

This has to be one of the best episodes for me. I’ve spent years and years (full decade?) perfecting storage grouping and organizing with Excel, adding with each new update. To see you go through and consolidate your storage: I’ve done that (not to your scale). I’d forgotten so many of those past projects you’d done. That mini-tour it resulted in was also great for a return to the series.

I like the walk down memory lane to clean everything up, some of that stuff we haven't seen in 10+ years!

I absolutely loved Etho going around Marie Kondoing chests. Is nice seeing spots we don't really see that often anymore. Really puts in perspective how long its been since the beginning. My absolute favorite project was the moving storage made of minecarts, i still feel like its the coolest idea ever. Thank you so much for all these years Etho :)

The stronghold base is STRAIGHT nostalgia. Looking in the chest with all the diamond tools always gives me chills. That is the only place in the world with tools enchanted with 50 levels

The nostalgia from seeing all of these locations as you clean up chests is so intense. I love it.