Hermitcraft S10#4: Permit My Frog Storage 

Etho should bring back Shady E's as a black market

- revolutionizes item sorters after years of people using the same design - its so much more compact and fits multiple items in one tileable row - it requires next to no redstone and fewer hoppers - the design came to him in a dream - he buried it in a 1 hour hermitcraft video

offers a 50% cut, "i can't promise we'll sell any glass", i smell etho shenanigans

Doc is actually the nicest. He spent his first day getting villager trading set up and he freely let everyone use it even to the point of cleo stealing the villagers.

I love how Etho went from being sad he got a glass permit to getting all of them

I can absolutely see Etho giving away “Free glass” then coming back to his shareholders to report negative earnings and request diamonds to get the business out of the red.

Etho bringing up the old trauma of pre-enchant tools. I had forgotten how "unbreaking" used to mean only using the diamond tools for important stuff and sticking with stone tools for everything else.

You have to admire how Etho gets along with everybody. All these years, no drama of any kind.

I love the amount of collaboration in this season. It really feels like everyone is just always online and ready hang out at any time.

40:51 - "What is happening to this server" *immediately* followed by "Disappointment" riding into frame is comedy gold. 😂

I watched so many Hermit POVs to get crumbs of Etho, yet this episode was still jam packed with amazing stuff.

Man nobody's talking about the brilliantly simple item sorter??? So slick. And you can have multiple hopper minecarts running through it simultaneous, so there's a constant train of hopper carts processing an input chest.

Since you owe each of the hermits 50% of the glass profits you should name the glass (with signs, not actually naming every block) with brand names based on the hermits you owe a cut to. That way you don't forget who gets what. Doctor Blue, Knightly Red, Gold Gems and stuff like that.

I love the “I played old old Minecraft”. The man cave was originally covered in grass before silk touch and had to spread naturally down from the surface.

Etho (27:28) : " I'm not expecting anything from my magenta here." Stress: "Hold my tea."

how is no one talking about the low tech sorter?! It is 14 years ago Etho made his boat dispenser, and he is still doing it. Finding simple creative original solutions to specific problems.

“Another lost package” and “They’re just like us!” Straight hilarious

Oh, by the way Etho- the weird block lag (14:57) when breaking blocks and opening doors is caused by the combination of the Nvidium and Bobby mods. You could take out Nvidium and sacrifice some load times to prevent it or take out Bobby and sacrifice some render distance. Or you could do neither. Up to you.

Tango's despair at the Etho desk setup is the best part.

To this day etho loves doing "redstone" with water. That storage system feels so old school, I love it!!!

The keyboard/mouse discussion is missing an important detail: Etho said in the same stream that on top of all that madness his desk is at shoulder height. So when he's gaming his elbows are on the same level as his shoulders.

I love how Etho’s setup has slowly escalated into a running gag as we’ve learned more and more about it since the days of the duct tape and glue mic. Etho truly is *the* cryptid hermit, I feel like we’ve all just been Etho’d. Though, that being said, having like a good chunk of your forearm rest on the desk for the mouse is really comfy, even without the horizontal grip or anything. And now that I think about it, 10 years ago when he switched to the sideways mouse position is when he had the carpal tunnel issues when playing Mindcrack.

Are we just ignoring that multi item storage system?? That’s such a cool way of setting it up a very original, fun and surprisingly effective way of doing it

The sorting system shows what makes Etho Etho. I am in awe how simple this is. Only people who have build large multi item sorters before will understand.

Doc is really tough...to everyone but Etho. Honestly, almost everyone is soft on Etho and it's so sweet. EDIT: Guys I know WHY everyone is soft on Etho, I've watched him for like 10 years lol But yes, someone put it perfectly: Etho is the idol of idols in the MCYT world. I think it's really cool how much they all respect him and the other older mcyts.

Etho's been the only Minecraft creator I've watched for years and years, but this season has been so good that I've been unable to help myself from watching several other hermits.

I don't know if anywhere else in the world has a similar thing, but in St. Louis, MO a local philanthropist in the 1990s got extremely curious about the local-area archeology. He put out the call on the ol' Dunder Mifflin social media app for any interesting historical artifacts or natural-sciences tidbits. After amassing a large warehouse's worth of stuff donated to him by workers and students, he bought an old 8-story hotel nobody was using and turned it into the St. Louis City Museum. Everything from bugs (dead ones pinned to display cases) and fish/reptiles to fossils and rock/mineral samples to random doodads from long-gone decades dug up by construction workers has a place inside. Being it was intended to be an 8-story learning-playground for kids, something like 85% of the building's entire volume was built as a maze-like rat-warren of secret tunnels and odd passageways that ran interconnected throughout the entire 8 stories. On the roof was a playground area with a ferris wheel, a couple slides, and some small areas (one of them being a schoolbus held halfway off the building) for climbing around in. I doubt you can build something similar in a small enough area and still have it look good and not feel annoying to move through, but I think this could be a nice idea for the glass shop. A similar idea would be a callback to OGtho's glass-tube mob-filtering attempts from early Minecraft and before Chocolate Island.

How many times have you redesigned a storage system? Etho: Yes.

"Under the slab" a grungy hidden bar with a shady black market in the corner

For the glass shop, since you have the bright vibrant glass colours you could have Gaude-E-E's, basically the opposite of Shade-E-E's where the build is absurdly bright and colourful possibly with a mix of the brighter metallic blocks to really push the gaudiness. Something else that you could work off of is a shop based around stained glass windows like ones found in a church, could also be home to the stone shop with a name something along the lines of stones and stains.

Distance based voice chat is the single greatest invention in the last 10 years

Fwiw, I think the better structure for the glass shop will be a corporation: each Hermit who contributed a permit gets a share (including Etho for his original permit); Etho gets half the revenue for running the shop; the remaining half of revenue is the profit distributed evenly among shareholders. This simplifies the bookkeeping quite substantially and evens out the variance for each permit.

33:00 For the frog light shop, maybe a shop that incorporating jumping (like a frog) would be a cool idea? Jump boost, slime blocks, lily pad/drip leaf parkour. Even making a mini custom biome around the shop.

The interaction between Beef, Doc and Etho was way too funny 😂

All these years later and Etho is still taking me to school. Had no idea about the frog trick, that would have been really handy when making 2 froglight farms. That and my guy makes a no-redstone MIS, legend

that multi item storage is insanely simple. i was freaking out watching him put it together and slowly understanding how it works, i hope it actually ends up working in practice cuz i'd totally use that

With both the stone and lots of glass permits, I think there’s plenty of opportunities to play with “those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”. Like building the stone shop inside of the glass one where dispensers or bubble columns shoot out the stones inside the glass shop. Call it “Thrown Stones” or something like that.

i love that everyone on the server is convinced etho is all in on glass while he's just: ~sure, if you want to give it to me

42:37 Yeah, the US and Canada are a part of the CUSMA/USMCA/TMEC/whatever it's called in each specific country with Mexico too. Previously a very similar agreement was known as NAFTA. It doesn't cover everything, but it covers a lot. The US is not, however, a part of the Trans Pacific Partnership, while Canada, Mexico, and nine other countries around the Pacific are. The US was involved with potentially joining it, but following the 2016 election withdrew, and the TPP was somewhat changed into the CPTPP agreement in force today. This may have been what Doc meant.

The Intro to the shulker trading with Doc, was so wholesome after all the videos around Doc we've seen lately (and I know it's all fun and games, but still)

Don't forget when you get your cobble generator going for your stone shop, you can use cobble with quartz to craft diorite and then diorite and cobble to craft andesite.

I think a piston tape of coloured glass into a beacon (or a few) would look amazing as a "product showcase"! Coupled with froglights you could make a caleidoscopic vibe.

I love Doc and Etho's friendship so much

Glass shop: I'd like to see redstone that detects if a kind of glass has been purchased, collects the diamond, and queues up that kind of glass in the autocrafter to automatically restock: and I'd like the customer to be able to watch it all happen from behind glass :D

55MIN EPISODE POG

Etho describing his setup, thats basically how I play games as well. It not only helps reduce strain on wrists, but reduces strain on the elbows as well and works great for narrow desks that dont have a lot of room to the side.

I just. That WOOSH Etho tree outro. Is so perfect. I got incredibly nostalgic thinking about how many fun stories and endless hours of entertainment that has preceeded it over the years. And all the many places and activities ive been in or paused to sit and watch that outro. its incredible

Just spitballing here, but it'd be kind of neat to see a spore blossom farm set up like a UFO floating in the sky. You'd have bits of moss or green concrete floating down below it, and you could figure out a way to have it kind of "beam you up" into the shop area, which would be shaped like a spore blossom. As for the stone shop, I'm envisioning some sort of stone sculpture of a giant hand reaching up from the ground and holding, somewhat akin to a serving platter, the supply for your shop. Excited to see how the glass conglomeration goes! And loving the videos as always :D

This episode is peak Etho/Hermitcraft perfection! The inventions, the shenanigans! the interaction!

For the glass shop, what about something like a huge magnifying glass made of the different colored glass blocks above the shop? When the sun passes overhead(calculated approximately using daylight sensors), the shop's floor would automatically switch into magma blocks and dispensers would set some unburnable blocks alight - so it'd be like the sun is focusing down and razing the shop and any customers within, ha! Maybe the unburnable block could be swapped with soul sand for blue fire when the moonlight focuses through the magnifying glass too!

Fair to say my mind was blown by the simplicity of the hopper minecart water sorting. The entire time I was thinking about how items wouldn't get sorted if they were stuck in the hopper until you pointed out they would get pulled back into the cart on the next pass 🤯

I have been watching Etho for years and this has been one of the greatest episodes I have ever seen. Thank you so much Etho!!! Keep it up!

Glass shop ideas: Fulgurite: Make a mini desert or beach and make an explosion of glass (like what happens in real life when lightning strikes sand). You could put a trident with channeling on top so that when ever someone enters the shop in a rain storm, the shop is struck with lightning. The void: Use layers of glass to make a foggy river/pit effect or put a dinosaur in amber or "ice". China shop: Turn shop into a decked-out inspired game where a "bull" runs through certain parts of the shop. Other business ideas: Advertising... Acquire as many permits as possible, then allow others to trade, but charge taxes or just out-source collecting the items.

Watching Etho hoard the glass permits reminded me of a very specific shade-centric shop......

The permits are a great idea but I immediately see an opportunity for shady E, pick a hermit who is selling something that is kinda expensive to make (beacons, netherite etc) and constantly go and buy out their whole supply until they get their permit revoked and then since you already have all the items from the shop, go ahead and buy the permit and then sell them back to the hermits at a huge markup

The allay happily scooping up the scattered ink pouches to pour onto Etho like a naughty puppy though xD How cute is that?!

i would gladly take full episodes of just you raving about your storage systems bc they are so amazing not just in function but also in the way they show that you're forever innovating and changing up the ways you play this game 10+ years on. so inspiring!!

You can craft the non-stone overworld blocks with quartz. Cobble and quartz makes Diorite. Diorite and quartz makes Granite. Diorite and cobble makes Andesite. One could make an entire factory with that fancy new Auto-Crafter block.

Hey etho, I think a fun and interesting project that is very much your style would be an automatic colored glass delivery service. Once people set up their mailboxes, you could have a system where they send one of their own stamps, a renamed selection item (provided at your shop) and their diamonds. At your base, you could have smelters set up and glass waiting to be crafted into colored glass (or glass panes). Their stamp that they include with the order gets cycled and tells it where to go, the selection item tells you the type of glass to have auto crafted and the number of diamonds tells you how much glass they ordered. Then you could use a round robin system and the selection item to do a 50/50 split and even send off other hermit's diamonds to them when you fill a shulker to a set amount of diamonds. It would be a lot of work, but it strikes me as the kind of project you would enjoy doing. You would never have to worry about restocking a shop or overstocking any type of glass, only restocking your sand stockpile. You could even set up a noteblock indicator at your base to tell you when you need to go blow up a desert again :D

""you're lucky this server is PG" LMAO thats awesome

Etho and Cub are unstoppable together, two gigantic Minecraft brains are better than one.

I dunno if I've laughed so much during any other hermit's video like this one (beside Skizz. Skizz always makes me laugh.) I really love the vibe of the season being hanging out with other hermits and not rushing immediately into elytra travel but rather boat and horse, so far. I love how interconnected everything is and still distinct. Also, i didn't know thats how froglights were made. You learn something every day!

Oh man! Etho's at 4:13, I feel that so strongly. I started playing waaaaay back in Beta 1.2 there were no beds, no enchanting, nothing. The amount of work done and time with just plain old iron tools, I've put in my time!

I'm glad that I watched Tango's VOD before I saw all the random clips here. Definitely recommended for any Etho fans.

The minecart sorting thing blew my mind with the simplicity! Amazing work as always etho 😁

I just started watching Ethos and its SO. NICE. to see a Minecraft youtuber who explains how the farms they're building work, and often giving extra information. For instance where magma cubes spawn! I probably wouldn't have even thought to look that up before looking for magma cubes. TY ETHOS! also your personality is great! :D keep up the good work friend!

The way Etho told everyone "I don't know how much glass is gonna sell" and having to give people 50% of the profits, it'd be really funny if all the glass shops were hidden so they don't sell well

I don't know if you're still reading comments, but in your glass shop you should put a chest for each glass to leave the profit for each respective hermit to come pick up whenever they'd like, because it might be quite a pain to have to keep count of all the 50% for each hermit and bring it to them individually. So when you collect your profits, you put half of it in the corresponding chest.

48:05 I love how fast they all put that together and how it looks actually good LOL, hermit team up lol!

Etho collecting all the big minecraft nerd collabs. Cub, Tango, Doc love to see it!! Also damn thats a lot of work you are doing this season.

Just a small idea, keep the chains because they’re the least intrusive visually and just have a small gatehouse where that underwater hill is with a redstone powered lock

Doc's compensation should be a donor's sign posted on every mailbox with his shunker contributions

To solve the 51% with Iskall; Total up the sales at a certain period, divide in half, and Iskall gets the odd diamond if there is one.

Hey Etho, since you were asking for ideas for your shop, you could always go back to the ways of Von Sway and remake your WaySway shop, from a previous modded series (I don't remember which one exactly). You could make it out of froglights and colored glass to give the multicolored theme, plus, that's what you're selling!

The sorting system is very ingenious! I spent a few days trying to create an automatic stoneless item sorter but it way very difficult, this is a very good system!

You should give doc more stamps or have like a plaque for his generosity displayed at the post office

You should make a glass shop that when they buy a glass they pick the color and it auto crafts to what color they pick , that way you can have a couple stacks of normal glass and it only makes what’s needed instead of pre making a bunch of each color . Now that we have auto crafting , you could also add another step of just having sand ready and when color is selected it’s cooks , then dyes the glass ,kind of like krispy creme donuts how it’s a step by step on a conveyor system :) . Love the videos ❤

I think it would be funny if you sold boxes of glass in a random assortment of colors/types. Like 3 pink glass panes, 16 plain glass, etc. Or sample boxes, either of the glass or stone. An actually helpful idea could be "gradient bundles" for 1 diamond each that has one block each of a gradient.

Mouse position makes perfect sense, arm in a relaxed position with no added stress causing joint and ligament pain. I had to use this after years in IT left me with an RSI in my shoulder.

lmao the stained glass monopoly xD etho you HAVE TO GET THEM ALL!!! and open a shop ONLY AFTER and put the prices like 10x what they were last season xD what are they gonna do? craft it themself? lol bonus point if you get a duopoly with the person who has the dye and flowers lmao

Etho schooling gem was awsome

for the shops, you could do them all together as a cave setting, with different colored “crystals” of colored glass. selling different types of stone would fit right in for the frog lights maybe a mini cave pond?

The group helping you build your shop towards the end was pure gold!! ❤

Best episode of Hermitcraft... maybe ever.

Doc: "This is why America doesn't have a trade agreement with you!" NAFTA: "Am I a joke to you?"

As a left-handed girly, life is difficult LOL we basically have to force ourselves to use everything that is right-handed specific (scissors, keyboard, mouse, etc). I used to use my mouse with my left hand, but cords are just too short because they're made to all be on the right hand side, so i had to switch. When i was in college, finding a left-handed desk was so difficult. There would only be one or two in the classroom lol so we're all kinda forced to be ambidextrous in some capacity

“This is why I don’t start with an exterior. There’s not a lot of space and the interior is sloppy” In fairness, that’s because most people build the entire house at once and just decorate it afterwards… the outside and inside are not separate. You need to account for both. That’s why some people get house extensions

I gotta say, I much prefer the Etho who puts down temp stuff for short term to renovate later, rather than the etho who starts making a big complex thing for long term, but it takes like 4 months to finish LMAO... much better to get SOMETHING working in short term, then fix it later, and I like this

Hey Etho, since the permits are kind of on a 50% cut theme, I think a fun idea would be to make all your shops be dual-shops that focus on two of the permits. However, you should make the pairs in a way that makes NO SENSE, so that the shop is super weird and fun, like selling spore blossoms and end stone together in the same store, or as a duel package. Bonus glass to come along with andesite or something, lol.

Hello Etho, I think for your shop, you should make a big frog out of the lights and glass you are going to sell. Then, you can have the products inside the frog. Also, you could add a refill element that comes from underneath or the side of the chests to keep the chests full for customers. Another idea would be to build a cabin-like structure with the same elements, but a few frogs on leashes in the shop.

30:11 now that's a transition!

I'm so happy you included the clip about your desk set up, truly one of the best clips produced from this season

Giving Etho the glass trade might just be a bad idea, he has a history

I hardly comment on any RU-vid video, but I have to say this episode was very entertaining! It had me chuckling with my mouthful of snacks! The subtle editing, interaction with other hermits, and your enthusiasm for both minecraft and the server really shined this episode! Thank you Etho for the years of entertainment you've provided, I can't wait to see how this season of Hermitcraft pans out :)

For the glass store, I'm imagining something like those mirror mazes, full of glass of different colours

40:24 that reproachful „whoat?“ 🤣🤣 like it‘s something abnormal to not have bunnies😂

etho's made an appearance in every dang hermit's video since this one dropped, next one's gonna be a banger

i love how three of the hermits just started throwing blocks around the second he asked false for help building

Etho, absolutely love how ironically hilarious it is that you've ended up with so many glass permits. I wonder if there's a way to turn it into a reincarnation of your Von Sway home decorating service and/or Shade-E-E's free glass-- which were both so much fun to watch. Maybe something like glass recycling (where ppl can exchange leftover bits of glass), glass cleaning (where you replace colored glass with clear), "you pick" glass (where ppl have to mine it themselves from a pile of glass), or glass delivery (where you place blocks down on their front lawn). I'm sure you'll come up with something great! Looking forward to seeing how this season plays out.

I love how we are this far into the season and there are STILL hermits living like myself in my worlds... just clump of chests in a field with a bed. Lol! I decided i didnt want an actual storage room on a server with some buddies as im building a Murloc settlement along a beach. A normal storage room would look dumb and take up way too much space to fit into simple Murloc huts. So i decided to instead spread my storage around the beach in a way that it doesnt look like storage. For my stone types, mostly because they are the major "bulk" items, i built boulders of different stone types with a chest or 2 nestled into/next to the boulders. The granite boulder houses the granite storage, etc etc for other stone types as well as a little clay pit for clay storage. The rest of the storage is setup on the beach near a hut and janky dock, it looks like a little outdoor workbench to make some furnature or clean up some fish, etc etc... its amazing what you can do to hide storage by having it in plain sight but melded into the decorations and landscape. Kind of like what Grian did last season but much smaller and solid boulders instead of the large hollow shells filled with chests he had.