Hermitcraft 9: 29 - IS HARD HARD? (Decked Out) 

The coin is a cool artifact, because you can't take them out of the dungeon

Write a list of questions that you want to ask Tango, then buy the dungeon master lackey from the crown shop, then ask all the questions during the run.

btw iskall you can climb dripstone by jumping on it's hitbox, lots of people actually use them as ladders!

Twice in this episode Iskall was having trouble with a compass and said "I think it might be below me" and both times they were actually above. Verticality goes both ways!

Gotta love these feature-length hermit episodes dropping every few days

Noticing, at least with what you show on camera, that you're looping through only about half of the Level 1 areas looking for keys. Your search goes through the ice hallways and the upper crypt, of which treasure is only common in the crypt, and you don't spend any time in the TNT room or downstairs in the library (your old "food room"). The way you're currently searching for treasure, there are many more drop spots you aren't accessing that have good chances to give keys. Hope that can help you speed up your Level 1 phase and get you into Level 2 faster!

Looks like both the artifact locations you couldn’t find (second run and last run) were by the spider den, one on each side. Great to see Iskal gradually figuring out how Clank works though, and so fun to watch him learn the game as he plays rather than just finding everything out from a third party.

FYI: You can punch any spawning mob in the dungeon - spiders and slimes should be the only two so far. Tango has stated this openly to Etho and others. The named mobs are not to be punched. 😂

You should've bargained that 1 coin to cub for his museum lol!

Tango did confirm during one of the lackey runs, that the room with double berries has a higher potential key drop rate

Some tips for clank: It is fine to run and jump around, but if you hear a shrieker, that is you gaining "clank". If a tip-toe sound plays a couple seconds after a shrieker, that means you blocked the clank with one of your sneak cards, which add 2 clank block (see the clank block on the map). So, if you hear a shrieker, that means you should try to sneak and avoid making noise in that area (where active shreikers are in the map is random each run). But otherwise, you don't have to sneak all the time unless you are super trying to avoid clank. Also, getting the artifact automatically triggers 3 clank, which is why the intensity always seems to ramp up after you have your artifact. Love watching you play!

If you hear a dispenser click *alone*, rather than with note block, then you are *not* hearing treasure drop. What you are hearing is the old card system that Tango didn't remove. It does absolutely nothing other than click randomly. That's why a lot of Hermits (especially at the same place Iskall heard and commented on it) start looking for drops but don't actually find one. Anything they do find didn't drop in association with the click - it dropped from a 'ping' or 'bong' or one of the other noteblock sounds. I can't describe them, but they're the ones that can be listened to in the Book Room off the Main Hall. 😅

2:41 that is the shrieker - that's exactly what people are talking about. If you don't sneak constantly where those are, you set them off and make clank. 14:37 any noise you make in that zone will set off a shrieker, including walking. Sprint jumping vs walking makes NO difference to them. The only thing you can do to stop it is sneak.

16:06 it's always funny to hear Iskall referring to decked out as the vault😂

iskall, the further you go into the dungeon, the more cards you want to have in your deck. if you take out cards then by the time you get down to level 2 or 3 you'll have no cards left to play and you'll generate clank really quickly

The main reason why people avoid sprint jumping is because hunger is such a big issue. You're more likely to run out of berries that way. As for sneaking, the shriekers generate clank; they are ransom each run, but if you walk over one you can know to sneak over it if you go over it again.

You were so close to finding the entrance to level 3! [even though you didn't have a key...] Something you probably didn't know from the way you tried to get out of the lava pit, is that you can climb on dripsones!

20:10 I've watched hundreds and hundreds of runs and you're the FIRST hermit I've ever seen take that lava parkour shortcut successfully. You ARE a parkour master now. O_O

That last one didn’t have a broken artifact pickup, it was probably just above or below. Level 2 is more vertical than level 1. The little sculk particles you saw was a clank detector. Unless it is actually broken and I’m just wrong lol :P

I think that last artifact was a case of verticality, or in other words, the artifact being at a different height in a room above or below. The sculk signals that appear in certain areas just there to calculate clank and don't indicate where the artifact is.

So essentially, clank is generated by sculk sensors that are calibrated to only detect player footsteps. The skulk sensors littered around the map each have a 1/2 chance of being active, and it is impossible to know which ones are active on any given run. When you hear a shrieker, you triggered a skulk sensor and generated Clank. Sneaking will prevent you from being detected by the skulk sensors, but keep in mind that every 2 minutes you add a stumble card to your deck. So sneaking and moving slowly will cause your cards to be drawn before you make it far into the dungeon, and every 2 minutes you will still gain 2 clank. In addition, you can’t always be sneaking because you have to run away from ravagers. Whatever strategy you think works best with this information is up to you.

16:06 "the vault could get cranky" And here we see the VH iskall's inclusion in Decked Out.

41:57 I'm not sure if that's a bug, but there is a room vertical to that location. Spoiler about what that room is: It's at the bottom of the vines escaping the spider den

Hey Iskall, I think with your playstyle, you would do really well with cards like second wind, loot aans scoot, sprint, bounding strides and silent runner. All speed and jump cards.

19:39 you were definitely looking at the right place, just a shame you couldn't get the ravager away, as i assume that was what you were trying to do. 40:58 was definitely in the spider-den above you, which i have heard have the most expensive artifacts

So good to see you on enjoying Hermitcraft again, and even more to see your shenanigans with other Hermits. Glad you got the break you needed.

2:43 That noise you were wondering about is exactly the reason your dungeon runs end up with Vexes harassing you. It's the shrieker noise, and it activates when you pass a shireker while not sneaking. Each of those sounds that you hear increases your Clank by one. The "tiptoeing" sound that you hear is not generating Clank, it actually is the opposite. It notifies you that Clank has been blocked. You would know this if you read the sound instructions properly in the soundcheck room instead of reading just half of it and pressing the buttons :D

Iskall is literally a clank machine 🤦‍♂lol

Another great episode! You might consider just doing an exploratory run to get to know level 2 of the dungeon. It is much larger than level 1. Even if you don't leave with an artifact you will leave with +1 Map Knowledge, which will yield dividends later on.

if you want to know the artifact location that iskall couldnt find on run 2 its on the way up to the spiderarea on the left side

Phase 3 was really difficult for a lot of hermits with all the changes Tango made! Don't worry about it, Iskall! You'll come back in Phase 4!

It’s a great day when Iskall uploads

Decked out looks great with your shaders ❤

Iskall: lets play it careful Also Iskall: activating 4 shriekers at the same time

im fairly certain that your final artifact wasn't broken, the spider area is above that

2 Tips: *You’re still not sneaking enough. Save sprinting for ravagers. Everytime the shrieker goes off, that equals clank. *when searching for keys, you repeat the same locations. You walk away and then come back. There a more key locations. I suggest exploring the whole map when looking instead of repeating locations. Doing great! Really enjoying these videos!

Crank is generated when you trigger a shrieker (also, stumble cards and when you get your artifact). Shriekers are triggered by any player sound, which includes running, jumping, eating, and interacting with some things. Sneaking will prevent you from triggering a shrieker that you walk by. The issue with sneaking in decked out is that you don't necessarily know where all the shriekers are until you trigger them. The idea seems to be in general that if you trigger a shrieker during a run and remember where it is you could sneak when you go by there later. Or certain parts of the dungeon that seem to often have shriekers active you might want to sneak through. Also, sometimes you just get lucky with shriekers, and sometimes you get unlucky. Of course, this all goes out the window if a ravager is chasing you.

12:22 xD That was a great camera angle! I am enjoying all the Renskall

Iskall feat. Rendog is my favourite combo in quite some time. I also love the "STOP MESSING WITH MY DOG" comment to the Ravager. A+ episode, Mr Iskall, sir.

Love your attitude with failed runs, you stayed upbeat. Those ravagers were a pain in level one xD I think only the one in the crypt is zoned now so basically there are 4 roaming about in the ice area. Good luck on Phase 4.

I'm addicted to watching people be addicted to decked out

Iskall, once you identify where the shreikers are located, those are the spots to avoid or sneak. Eating also sets off shreikers. You rarely visit the best spot for keys, the dripstone river off of the TNT room. Love your videos!

- Gambles 3 crowns (12 coins) and gets 1 coin in return - Flabbergasted - Demands to gamble again

Man I started watching the video last night kinda drunk I can't remember a thing. Gotta rewatch, I ain't missing a single Iskal minute😂

Keep the Decked Out coming, it's great!

If you want some moves you could watch Etho treasure farming the first level in his video. You can run through the dungeon if you memorize the locations of the shriekers. Run>run>run~sneak~run>run>run. There are treasure droppers that have 4 stacks of keys vs coins whereas others are 3. One location is the dripstone area of lvl 1. Another I suspect is lava room next the berry bush. You’ve gotten multiple locations where you say “it must be under”. It’s actually over. There’s 2 drops in the spider area. You can see your compass flip as you run through on one of your runs. Your parkour skills are some of the best I’ve seen. I think if you were to learn the layout of the dungeon you’d be almost unstoppable. (Denis the menace)😂

i LOVE your decked out runs, it's sooooo much fun

The shrieker sound means you activated a shrieker wich adds clank .if you have clank block you'll here a tip toe sound. And btw that last artifact wasn't bugged it was above in the spider area. Great runs tho hope to see more runs like that❤❤

Clank generates three ways: 1. When the player walks or runs over an active shrieker (sneaking over it will not trigger it) = +1 Clank The dungeon randomizes which shriekers are active each game, so you can't memorize their locations. For an example of what that sounds like: you triggered three shriekers in quick succession after jumping over the lava parkour at 20:11. Then a Stumble card played, which amounts to about five clank in 20 seconds! 2. When the player retrieves the artifact = +3 Clank 3. When a stumble card is played = +2 Clank A Stumble Card is added to your deck every 2 minutes or so. A new card is drawn from your deck every 30 seconds or so. Eventually, the draw pile will be nothing but stumble cards. You'll see there are lots of cards left in your deck on the map, but after awhile, chances are, its just Stumble-after-stumble about to play. The dungeon becomes very dangerous, VERY fast once you play your last actual card. Etho asked Tango about max clank, and Tango said it amounts to about 20 Clank. The goal with clank and hazard block cards is to have your defensive cards play and cue it up on the map, and "save" it for when you really need it as you spend more and more time in the dungeon. Deeper trips require you to accumulate lots of block on your map. You don't want to burn through it trying to get keys. Hope this helps!

You can go through the spider area to drop down away from the spiders without looping around. Great run’s brother! Also other hermits are recalling where the shreekers are at so they can run as much as possible.

I just caught back up with all of ur epsiodes and i love it!

Decked out is probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen in minecraft

It is extremely fun watching you run decked out

Yo iskall! Btw it is always worth having sneak cards because the ONLY 2 ways to generate clank, is from clank generating cards (Not block) such as stumble +2 clank, and also triggering a shrieker which adds +1 clank. A stumble gets shuffled into your deck every 2 mins which means in that time, you could've afk(sneak to not trigger shrieker) and possibly drawn 4 cards, hypothetically of sneak which gives you 8 blocks worth of clank, so never pull out your sneak cards from your deck, as the time wasted waiting for card draws far exceed the punishment of spending a longer time in the dungeon! Hope this helps!! 😄

You might be able to pawn off that coin to Cub or Cleo for their museum

Iskall-Ren is the colab I never knew I needed...

Congratulations, that little gambling bit with the Mystery Box made me laugh so hard that I no longer need to apply eyedrops. I've not seen _anyone else_ get a coin from that. Impressive!

Iskall, that is a legally bought and owned coin. It’s a rare artifact and belongs in a museum

Loving all the decked out content from all the Hermits! More decked out please!

ok so this is how clank works: 1)you generate clank by making noise in the dungeon , mainly walking, running, etc.. It trigger shriekers which is the "creepy sound" you hear, meaning you generated 1 clank. 2) sneaking prevent the shriekers from hearing you and therefore prevent clank . 3) your "clank amount" is represented by the rate of the heartbeat; the faster its beating, the faster you are to max clank. 4) at max clank (very fast (and sometimes skipping) heartbeat, the evokers are water falls are released, meaning you get vexes. 5) if you have sneak cards, when they are played they add "clank block" you can see in your map. Each clank block you have can prevent a shrieker you trigger from increasing your clank, meaning not making the heartbeat faster. 6) generating less clank by sneaking or having clank block cards mean the heartrate increase slower, which mean evokers and vexes are released later, which mean you can stay in the dungeon longer. 6) when you successfully block a clank you hear the "tiptoe sound", like the "Ding ding ding", which is good. 7) the stumble card is a card that is added every 2 minutes in your deck, and has a chance of getting played. Stumble also generate clank, but the more card you have in your deck, the less likely it is for the stumble card to be played. 8) the amount of clank block (or hazard block , or any others thing on the map) does not represent the clank level (the rate/speed of heartbeat represent that) but it represent how much clank you can block. If a sneak card is played, it add 2 bars in your clank block. That means the next 2 shriekers you trigger will be block and not make the heartbeat faster, then you will see the 2 bars disappear as they were used. If the bar is empty, it means you will not block future clank, and they will make the heartbeat go faster and therefore bring you closer to vex time

41:30 yeah you were just in the wrong spot. That was most likely spider area.

I love how he gets outraged that there is gambling, outraged he spent 12 coins to get 1 in return, then disappointed he can’t buy another. You crack me up Iskall.

Its fun watching you play your way, keep being you 👍

your interactions and false and ren were priceless lol

The shreaker sound is when you triggered clank, if you know where the shreaker spots are you can sneak when you run over them to not trigger them

Eeee I'm so excited for this episode!! I love that you had to tell your mother that you had to play Decked Out xD

I do love watching you play iskall, It's really funny because you really do play exactly like you play vault hunters ^_^

Iskall and Rendog on a video together reminded me of the "Renskall Island" in Hermitcraft Season 5. Good memories!

btw the moment at 41:30 where it doesnt seem to recognise the compass, i think the blue lines were coming out of it were shreiker noises (the shreiker could hear you dropping the compass) it's not that it wasnt recognising it. It was probably just on a lower or higher floor of level 2.

The skreeching noice is when crank is made. Which happens when you make noice in proximity of a shreeker. So you really need to memorize where they are and then only sneak there and not eat there

below the entrances of some rooms, there are shriekers that increase your clank so avoid jumping around too much and sneak while enter rooms just in case

26:01 the dongeon is scared of the almight IskallMAN - "eek"

The skulk shriekers are the things that generate clank you want to generally avoid that by sneaking over them and remembering their locations

IskallMan! Treasure drops zones can have coins crowns and keys! It's just RNG each time a treasure is used on the map randomly around you treasure drops but there's no specific drop zone that favors any item. The frost embers drop from the same places but come out based off the frost ember system.

The one artifact you cant find is probably around the spider area

Don’t forget about verticality for the compasses sometimes it’s on a different level. Also extra cards in the deck delays the stumble cards from being played so the benefit of earlier treasure may not be worth the faster stumble.

The Iskall/Rendog combination is one I didn’t know I needed more of until today

I’ve seen a lot of Hermits find keys and treasure in the red basement berry room. Bonus, good food grab too.

You need to buy tangos head if you do you can play a run with him so op

The screaming noise you hear is the shrieker. It creates clank. Sneak past only those locations to keep clank low

So much fun watching you play Decked Out, apart from maybe when you're sprint-jumping while low on health, no food and in no immediate danger, because I also want to see you succeed! Looking forward to the next episode! :D PS: Hope you take note of the 5000 range and don't cut so close to the ravagers next time, it's so anxiety inducing I'm literally lifting my butt off the seat!

Thanks for sharing your runs, Iskall! You're making good time in terms of not having max clank and vexes everywhere, which is important - even on Deadly runs, a lot of times the Level 1 vexes, evokers, and hazard are what kill people on the way out, after all that hard work. As you get more familiar with the levels, if you pay attention to where the Shriekers are getting set off, that should help you know when to shift-sneak. It's super important in level 3. If you can find a good balance between speed, and shifting through the Shrieker areas, I think you could pull off some excellent higher-level runs, and grab some good uncommon cards that fit your play style if you want. The jump boost card is really good, if it is available when you have the embers (I think 26?). Also, idk if you submitted any tomes this phase, but if so, you may want to check that your scoreboard is accurate. Cleo somehow got 2 tomes that she said she never submitted, and people were wondering if a different Hermit put them in her box by mistake? (Tango may have got this sorted out by now, idk, but just FYI.) Good luck next phase! Dungeon knowledge is useful even if the run doesn't end well 😊

IskallMAN clank is the shrieker noise you hear it's very loud and like a scream. It doesn't activate when you sneak. Just pay close attention when you hear that noise. Keep track of those locations and you can run in places you know they dont activate. They are randomly placed each run. The clank is what makes the heart beat faster and vex come out

15:50 "Very nice dance!" 😂❤

Gotta say i love your upload rate these past few weeks :D

1:47 I really thought he was gonna say 'today is the day I set my spawn'. But if he remembered, he wouldn't be Iskall.

Hmm, I'm beginning to understand what Iskall's problem is. Decked Out is very much a game where it pays to be patient and try to learn the layout of the dungeon, where to pick up treasure, what routs to take to dodge Ravagers, where possible Shrieker locations are, etc., and to take things slow at times, peaking around corners, sneaking where you know a Shrieker might be. But patients and caution are not Iskall's strong suit.

Iskall always brightens my day

The empty dropper sounds are instant dropper lines that are no longer in use, not a treasure drop

Another tip, you can tell how much clank you have by the heartbeat of the dungeon. The faster the heartbeat the more clank.

The map takes a minute to get your head round, but what it shows is a queue. When you play a treasure card you get gold squares on the map acknowledging it. When the squares disappear again that means theyve tranlated into real coins in the dungeon. (I say this because if you play a treasure card on level one but then open level two, any treasure drops that were still on the map/in the queue will follow you down.)

It seems like bigger decks are the way to go. To my knowledge, the more cards you have, the less likely a stumble card will play which leads to a longer time till max clank, even without clank block. The obvious problem is that the chance of a certain card playing is less... Also, not a broken artifact.

Love the vids! Keep having fun!

I'm very late to this, and it's just a theory, but one I haven't seen people banding around yet, you're not using the sneak cards properly. They're very useful, since as they block clank, you can run and jump as much as you want for a short duration, so you should keep them in your deck, pay attention to when they get played, and switch between sneaking and running depending on whether a sneak card has been played recently.

awesome Episode! Love the runs!

That "bugged" artifact wasn't bugged, it was in/right outside the spider den.

Highly underrated and very impressive dungeon runs Iskall. He arrives at traps that other hermits completely avoid and with zero hesitation overcomes them... that 3 crown conversion to a single coin was painfully hilarious btw

If you keep track of all of the locations of the shriekers (they are slightly random tho) you can just sprint in between those spots without generating more clank on your own (Hypno and Etho do this a lot)

If you're going to mostly run in the dungeon, which is a workable strategy, you should keep the maximum number of sneaks and evasions in your deck, and just reduce the number of stability cards. You'll be generating more clank that needs blocking, but you'll be quicker, so hazard will be less of a problem for you.

There’s a “red room” below the crypt area that you pass over in each run, and there is often a key, berries, and loot in that room. Also good to know for escaping ravagers