Hermitcraft S10#3: Exterior Be Finishing 

A more technical description of design is perhaps something like this. "Repetition feeds satisfaction from recognition. Variation feeds curiosity from exploring." Generally, both values bring most people happiness. So providing at least a little of both is a good option. But some people value one experience more than the other and that is what makes the deciding factor. Who you are building for can also matter. I personally value patterns a lot more than I do exploring. So I actually dislike common techniques like color variations in the floor and walls. This is what puts a deciding factor on which people will grab the attention on what type of viewer. While I recognize the other Hermit's talents, not all of their builds are for me.

Did you know they actually featured Etho in an indie anime called “Naruto”. They made his character the coolest to reflex Etho’s personality.

Neck kisses* Joel is different kind of unhinged

etho absolutely not commenting on joel's "neck kisses" literally sent me

I really like how Etho places like 5 blocks then it's done. Immensely funny to me for no reason.

My favorite part is when he said “it’s Etho time” and then slabbed all over the place.

0:31 "Etho you disappeared!" *drinks milk to remove an invis potion*. Hilarious joke and/because you had the discipline to not draw attention to it. Respect.

Fun fact: The trick that Etho used on Iskall to confess to the nether portal is a form of prisoners dilemma. Where two partners are separated, and told that they’ve been ratted out even though they really haven’t, the officer says if they confess then they could have a shorter sentence. If both stay quite they both benefit in the form of no confessions given. If one confesses then they could get a shorter sentence but they screw over their partner, if both confess then most of the time their both screwed. It’s really interesting to watch cops put this tactic into play and Etho played this perfectly on Iskall.

"Not a fan of ladders, huh Tango?" Etho took that personally

I love watching the friendship of Joel and Etho slowly develop from the Life series to now

"Let me go into freecam here for a second" When I tell you my jaw dropped..... never thought I would see the day. He has come such a long way :)

The PETPETS: The Pearl Etho Tango Packaged Entities Transport System

9:50 “i had another idea here!” as he is standing under a light bulb is so clever.

It kinda feels like Etho and Bdubs are at the brink of singing "Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you. No you can't. Yes I can. ..."

We get engineering, color theory, music theory, interior / exterior design knowledge all from watching this one video! Im going to start putting "Etho Girlie" on my resume

What I am slowly realizing is Etho has turned his "interior only" bases inside out, now there's exterior only and all the functions are outside. Now the inside of the building looks strange.

This is the first time I’ve heard Etho say he watches a hermit’s content a lot on camera. Congrats Joel!

The Joel and Etho, I mean - Effo, tandem will ALWAYS be my forever favourite!

Etho using freecam really threw me off, of all the things I never expected that to just casually pop up unannounced. Always gotta love those nifty little editing touches that pop up over the years. And the cut to the porch view... wow was that smooth! We've come a long way from the star transition eh.

I felt the etho tingle, and sure enough he arrives.

Etho finishing an exterior?! Always keeping us on our toes ❤

One thing I really love about all of Etho's builds is that they almost all take extremely unorthodox block palettes, and still make them look extremely cohesive. Bdubs excels at making builds that look good from a distance, but Etho's you can explore and really get up close and personal with, and they honestly look even better the closer you get. No shade to Bdubs at all, just different styles.

30:48 LMAO the Canadian Prince Scam The postal service idea seems so cool though, I hope people utilize it this season.

I think the floor should stay clean. It looks good the way it is. Scar once said something to the effect of "you have to leave plainer parts on a build so that you can control the focus of someone viewing it." If everything is equally detailed, it's almost unsettling to look at. You don't know where to focus. I prefer to look at BdoubleO's ultra textured builds from far back because the distance blends the textures together more, but up close, they can be a little jarring or have a cluttered feeling. The walkway in question is a semi-enclosed smaller space, so I think the clean look helps to make it feel more open and bright.

12:41 The genius of Scar. Just fully ran with it. 3/4 corners + a curve. Brilliant

Hey gamers. I've been a long time fan of Etho, practically grew up watching his videos. Ive been watching since near the beginning, before I had this account, before I had a computer, before I had anything, I'd sit with my aunt, and we'd watch Etho together. Through all my life troubles, I could aways go and watch an episode, be it with team Canada, OOGE, the lets play, or mod series, I could always sit and watch. In 2012, my father decided to adopt a puppy, and he named him Copper. Anytime a new eqisode came out, Id sit with him on the couch, and watch. He was my best friend. I grew up with him, spent every moment that I was home with him, which was the majority of the time outside of the school. Honestly, Im trying to make a long message saying how much I loved that dog, and just how some of my best memories with him were watching Etho, but Im struggling to get the words, if any can descirbe them. He passed away today. I loved that dog, I remember how he'd come running up hearing that good old intro, knowing it was time to lay on the couch. Thank you Etho for nothing but good memories.

Etho, since you helped design the mailing system of the server, I feel it is your obligation to also start the black market since Grian created the permits for each type of store. He also is creating an enforcement team which brought this entire idea. It’d be amazing for you to set this up using your own mailing system. Send anonymous mail with proposals of “illegal” trades would be hilarious and so entertaining. Create an entire storyline with the new season.

Etho, the way you build is super inspirational to me. Your explanations and process feel very “logical” and “reasoned” - like a designer would use - which makes sense as you’re such a talented technical minecrafter. Yet often this type of building can lead to overly simple and repetitive builds - like brutalism but in minecraft. Many other builders have a more “artistic” process, which leads to great results but for me is completely incomprehensible. I have no idea how people can just texture things on the fly while barely having to think about it. What you’ve mastered, in my opinion, is being able to include texture, colour variation, and organic / asymmetric elements (all of which the “artistic” builders do) - while still doing so with a “designer” mindset. You directly cite colour theory (and even RGB, lol), you explain how you try to balance variation and repetition, you iterate on designs, etc. What this leads to is (1) a wonderfully unique building style and (2) one that feels totally accessible to a more “designer”-minded person like myself. Of course, I don’t want to assume how you function. Perhaps the process feels very artistic to you, which is obviously great as well. Whatever the case, you do such a good job at _explaining why you are doing what you’re doing_ that I feel I can actually learn from it! Edit: I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t misunderstood: I find your builds and those by the more “artistic” builders both extremely great! Both have their own unique charm, neither being better than the other!! I’m not saying your style is more accessible because it’s simpler - far from it! Thanks for the great episodes! Have a nice day everyone!!

Hey Etho, Just an idea, but an easy way of getting around your roofing problem could be by building a simple rooftop garden. Given the focus on incorporating nature into the build, I think it could add some more charm to the base.

I'm not a redstoner in the slightest, but I can't believe just how much of that explanation of the mail system I understood. You did a great job of building it AND explaining it, which is a rare combo!

PDST lol you can tell Etho and Gem truly enjoy colabbing together they always have fun poking fun of each other

I hope "Sherlock Etho" becomes a mini series like "Redstone with Bdubs"

Hearing the smile in Tango and your voice when Pearl asked if you wanted to create a postal service was absolute gold!

The mail system Etho and Tango created is so innovative and inspiring, Can't wait to see more collaborations like this in the future 🙏

As a designer, yes. Our brains like pattern, but in the interiors industry we really try to go for subconscious patterns. Eg. Finishes that connect throughout, repetition in certain spaces. I personally try to avoid symmetry because it doesn’t help/enhance designs and in some ways can be quite unnerving to the eye. ✌🏻 I really love the garden area in your base because it references similar finishes while still keeping a ‘messy’ element of greenery. It’s setting a rule and then breaking it with purpose👌🏻

Etho & Tango pioneering a functional 24/7 mail delivery system. Awesome and inspiring to watch!

I really love Etho’s build style, and that it doesn’t necessarily involve texturing all the time. It’s bright and busy and detailed and beautiful even without it, and a plain wall or floor offers a great base for an otherwise very detailed build. Texturing has a time and place, and it’s nice to see building where it isn’t necessarily needed in every zone, but is scattered about in places like his crop farms that aren’t as visually busy otherwise. (Also because my stupid brain is super analytical and hates the idea of putting packed dirt in my wooden floors just to add visual variety, I like the reminder that I CAN make builds that can both be beautiful and make sense to me)

For the Mail System: You could automatically add the sender’s stamp as well. So the receiver knows from who it came from and is also able to send a response easily. And as side effect it is impossible to get infinitely traveling carts in the nether when someone messes up the stamp. It just gets returned to sender after one complete loop.

Can't wait for the Mail System, it sounds like it'll be a big part of season 10. I hear Tango is planning on setting up a Mail Order Catalog System, I'm sure Grian will purchase a bulk supply of Mumbo stamps, and Scar will finally have people to send his weekly Disney newsletters to.

house and drum n bass producer here, the extra bits we add to change it up and keep it from getting too repetitive ( swapping every 4th snare with a snap/clap, toms at the end of a measure, other fills in between bars ) is called ear candy, which is super important to keep a listener engaged, eye candy in builds does the same thing for sure

The analogy comparing visual design to music made a lot of sense to me, and compelled me to recommend one of my favorite books on the subject, aptly titled “How Music Works” by David Byrne. The book covers many different social, psychological, and technological factors that have influenced the development of music over time, including a bit about how we’re naturally drawn to patterns and beats. One of the chapters I find particularly interesting connects the evolution in popular musical styles to changes in the architecture of the venues you’d expect to hear that music performed - Bach wrote intricate pieces for small ensembles designed to be played in close quarters filled with soft furniture, where Tchaikovsky wrote for full orchestras in cavernous opera houses and literal cannons as instruments. Music and architecture (including like… the architecture of your headphones and your car and stuff) has always gone hand-in-hand. Not entirely relevant to the main video but if anyone is reading this, I hope you have a good day and that you found this interesting! :)

Re the texturing, if you watch that video where X, Cleo and Joe toured Gem's base last year youll hear X say that a plain floor is actually beneficial to him. Gem thinks this way as well. It allows other parts of the build to be "busy". Im loving your floors so far because they feel achievable for a builder like me.

Mental Time-space. Bdubs always builds as if these were old inhabited places, old villages from the "people before" as he tends to refer to his ideas, his builds are amazing like that. But yours is, well, yours. "Tis mine and I built it" so theres no crooked floorboards, no moss from the pass of time, nor jagged tree logs. A man building his home for his present, alive just in time.

20:42 The Etho version of “It’s quite simple really”

love watching the friendship of Joel and Etho slowly develop from the Life series to now

On the topic of repetitive patterns, I find the 80/20 rule works quite well to make sure it's not overwhelming, but also not boring. 80% of cool colors and 20% of warm ones, 80% of repeated patterns and 20% of unique and detailed spots, 80% minor texturing and 20% bold and detailed textures etc (the reverse logic works as well to create very busy and overwhelming environments). It's something I learned from character design, but I think it works great in helping to bring attention to a focal point in your build

I really appreciate the use of freecam. I know you don't normally do that on the let's play, but since it's common practise on HermitCraft I enjoy the fact you're also using the tools of the server.

Wow, that mail system is a REALLY ambitious project. I love it. Reminds me of the old Mindcrack subway system that I don't think was ever finished. Massive props to you and Tango for figuring it out and actually building it!

Joel and Etho giving us boat boys memories. I love Bdubs and Etho's friendship, you can tell they respect each other so much :) The mail system looks so cool! I'm glad this season most of the hermits are based close to each other. The prince scam note was perfect😂. Enjoyed the video!! Your base is looking incredible 😊 Can't wait to see more and future mail system shenanigans

Okay I'm going to say, I'm going to school for software design and watching you make the mailbox was amazing. All of the small things that break and get in the way remind me of coding, especially the whole mailbox checking if there was a shulker and made sure there was a stamp. Error checking in minecraft is mindblowing lmao Love your stuff Etho

i am absolutely enchanted by the palette this season! i’ve never noticed quite the amount of pink-ish blocks that all go so well together, like the jungle wood and the white terracotta… so good!

The red ceiling is very cool! I audibly gasped when I saw it. It's so pretty

The mail system is Genius. This thing is a content creator for all the hermits that will use it . Communication, mail order delivery, shenanigans, story telling, ...

Joel and Etho's banter always puts the biggest, dumbest grin on my face. Y'all are fun chaos.

Hey Etho, I have a small suggestion for the mail system. If you automatically put the stamp of the sender in the minecart together with tye stamp of the receiver, not only would it be possible to notify the receiver who the mail was from, but also if the stamp was named to something invalid or had a typo, the mail would simply return to the sender once it does a full loop.

"He disappeared" and then reappears from invisible potion. I see what you did there Etho. Nice intro

The mail system is so freaking cool, not only is it using storage minecarts, something that has gone sadly mostly unused due to the superiority of shulker boxes, but it also has so many redstone mechanics that make it work in the end... Just so cool :D

“No hes obsessed with me”- etho * the next moment he is using the banner letters that joel does *

The way BDoub navigates the small convo on texture really made me appreciate him as a person. His kindness and social adeptness just extrudes through that interaction. Like affirmation and bringing ethos feeling into the convo without making it weird is such a rare skill. That was fire.

BTW etho, you can rename barrels and maybe dispensers in the anvil so maybe you can also rename the barrel as "inbox" and the dispenser as "stamp outbox" or something for a friendlier user experience.

This mail system is an incredible example of what you can do in Minecraft when you have an intimate knowledge of all the game mechanics. So cool, thanks Etho!

“pdsp…that sound like a diagnosis” i died💀💀💀💀💀💀

Idk what’s my favorite part of the season, the hermits being hermits or the early days let’s play vibes every hermit seems to have adopted once more

This post system is such a good idea. I love the idea of sending anonymous messages. Can be used for lots of stuff, like mystery games, trolling, causing chaos etc. Really looking forward to seeing every way you people will use this for.

Joel’s book goes like 3 series deep in references 😂😂 Miss the boat boys

I love it that tango and Etho are casually making infustructe for the Hermitcraft server

The mail system is going to be so cool when it's all finished! The conversation on repetition vs variety in building was also really interesting. Personally I like a mix of both with slightly more repetition. It helps the unique parts pop even more.

I am spellbound at the redstone going on with the chunk loading, mail packaging, all the portal magic...... and Etho can freakin BUILD too! Unreal, man, unreal!

I think this build has my favorite color palette I have seen on a Minecraft build yet. Etho becoming a master builder is such a flex because he’s been a legend at everything else for so long.

15:15 the checkered red ceiling is lovely!

That mail system is insane, love it. Also thoroughly enjoy you interacting with Tango! I've started watching more of his content since Decked Out 2. Thanks for doing what you do, Etho. Been a fan for over 10 years now, which is insane to think about.

I've been enjoying how simple and community centered this season of Hermitcraft has been.

The exterior is looking amazing. Looking at it is like having a cup of something nice after a long day, your eyes just wanna go "ahhhh, that's better." The color combinations, the flow, the detail, the soothing greenery, it's just ... Von Sway at its most zen. I too like a cleaner build and less texturing. But then, I tend to build at small to medium-smallish scales, so it's easy to over texture and look like you've built a patchwork quilt instead of a building. :D Especially because my things are meant to be used close-up on a day-to-day basis, and not just looked at from a distance.

Bdub's texturing is a work of art, but who wants to live in an art piece? Clean those grimy walls, fix up those cracked bricks!

I just wanted to say, I really really like this style of editing. I'm a bit of an old head (like most people here now I presume) and this is pleasantly reminiscent of the older, "raw" videos I think you used to make. There was something really nice about following you through the process of getting materials together, or grinding on a tough build. I also think that this still has some of that kinda cut-down trimmed feeling to them that you really perfected in hermitcraft season 7. It's refreshing stepping away from content-optimized mega-cut attention burners and to just kinda chill.

The mail system was a major throwback to all of Etho's work with RailCraft and similar attempts he made in other series.

Lmao guys, the “neck kisses” thing was a joke from the Decked Out stream with the Hermits and some other RU-vidrs. That must seem so weird without context 😂😅

Also that ending with tango made me feel like what it must have felt like to see Alexander graham bell demonstrate the telephone. Simply marvelous

It's crazy cool to see Etho at 2.5m subs when he was stuck on just under 2m for YEARS!

What. A. Glorious. Episode! This base is shaping up to be my favorite Etho base of all time, in terms of aesthetic.

Loving the post commentary bits being included, hearing your more collected thoughts on why you're doing things is nice.

I love the explanation of the mail system! Stuff like that is what makes these videos so entertaining. It's both genius redstone design and encourages the hermits to interact. Has the same feeling as the OG nether hub on MindCrack

Etho and Gem are such a delight together, love that clip at the end. Mail system is awesome!

bruh, your mailbox system is literally like coding in a teleport function for static objects within an already determined structure. Minecraft blows my mind still to this day and I'm so glad there are people like you and the other hermits to help convey the beautifulness that is Minecraft.

Hey Etho! Hope you're having a good day. There's a great way to proactively deal with minecarts which MIGHT travel backwards. Using a curved rail (where the normal flow of the minecarts is unchanged), you can "catch" the minecart which is going the wrong way. Then a block or two away from the curved rail (off the normal track) you place a powered rail (power on) going into a block, which will turn the minecart around and keep it on track. Just a thought. Give the idea to tango if you don't want to take it on yourself. Amazing video as always!

I really enjoy how much the Hermits are collaborating this season.

Somebody's about to get a mail full of light gray stained glass panes.

Ethos past with Sam and Max made him the best detective to solve who replaced his portal corners

I've been building a storage system sortof similar to the mail system you have. The idea is that you can send a request to a central storage system through the nether, and it returns items back to the sender automatically. (Similarly, you could sent items to be sorted and stored.) Feature creep lead me to never really finishing it, but it's cool to see people playing with chunkloaders!

I really enjoy the etho style of building. There’s a very satisfying amount of detail that really makes the build feel lived in. I like the clean paths and a little less texture because it really makes the unique color palette stand out.

17:08 I can only think of one man who would do that to Etho's portal. Etho is the next Phoenix Wright, guy just grilled Iskall into admitting his own crimes using his bluffing technique.

Whenever I use beehives in a floor, I normally use Oak planks to texture. They blend in a bit better than the chiseled bookshelves. Just a personal preference

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A few thoughts on the mail system: - Currently, there is no way for the player to know that their package was ever sent out. If the dispenser at the bottom of the world is out of chest minecarts (envelopes), there's no easy way to know. - The only way that a player can get more envelopes is receiving letters. Let's say a hermit sends an advertisement to every mailbox-owning hermit. Then they have so so few envelopes left! At least having some indicator that they're low on envelopes would be a nice touch. - Introducing a new hermit to the mail system will get more complicated with each new hermit, since stamps must necessarily be standardized. Is the intention that every new mailbox setup will coincide with a package to all hermits with a new set of stamps? If someone addresses something to GoodTimesWithScar and not just Scar, the letter will never go anywhere. - What if the player sends something with an invalid stamp? Will it just go in circles forever?

22:40 Pearl: "We will Not have packages go missing." Grian: loses his potato he sent to Mumbo's nonexistent mailbox barely a month later

You and Tango are super smart figuring out what you need to do to deliver the mail

Your base is soo pretty! I love the colors, the plants being intermingled, and how I basically forgot you were only doing the exterior because of how the structure and outside aspects are so well combined. Also the few chiseled bookshelves match the beehives so perfectly and look refreshing. I'm also so happy about this mail three-some, and loved hearing about how the mailing system was so thoughtfully designed to be sustainable, not cause problems, and minimize space taken up. The system's so neat!

If you switch out the bamboo half slab for a bamboo raft you could sit in your chair, but it might look strange I'm not sure.

After hearing you talk about building a Railcraft-inspired ticketing minecart system for years, it's amazing to finally see it come to fruition in such a useful and widespread application on Hermitcraft. I'd love to see the postal system replace a central shopping district this season, - imagine hermits sending an order and payment via the post service and receiving their items directly to their base, that would be so cool!

I really like the mail system that you and tango did. The redstone is pretty clean, we can see every problem solved in the making of it, and yet it's really simple ! Awesome work !