HermitCraft S9#13: Entering Decked Out 2 

Etho, I want you to know, that you can make those Decked Out episodes 3 hours long and everyone will be happy!

Tango unmuting himself just to cackle at Etho's misfortune at 31:35 is so good.

It's pretty cute how Tango spent a year or so designing Decked Out 2, and is still like "Yo, I wanna join your silly impromptu waiting room quiz game :O"

16:53 Context: Because the armor stands weren't locked, Etho was able to put a Frost Ember in it's hand. Tango is spectating every run with free-cam, listening in with voice chat, map in offhand (not his usual totem), and is sitting in the dungeon so he can hear the sound callouts (the sounds have a range limit, so he can't be in the Great Hall with the rest of the Hermits). He hears that Etho placed an ember in it's hand, so he grabs an extra Frost Ember, and goes over to the shop area to give it to Etho. However, this was the first day of Decked Out 2, Tango is showing off his Dungeon Master skin, and is only wearing his Dungeon Master Hood (retextured carved pumpkin) and elytra, and doesn't have his usual feather falling boots on. So, when flying over to Etho, he falls down a short drop hole to get there, like he's done 100 times, and splats because he's got no boots or a totem. This is especially ironic given that as of this run, no one else has gotten a win, so not only does The Dungeon get it's first loss, Tango also dies.

Etho: What’s the deal with bathroom peanuts? Everyone else: *Did NOT hear the word peanuts*

Etho’s immediate dungeon knowledge and intuition was incredible. He played those ravagers like they were nothing! For those who don’t know, Etho was one of if not the only person who didn’t die in his first round

Now we pray for an hour-long cut of Etho playing decked out after every video

Tango is truly a mad scientist and Etho is a mouse that volunteers

The return of the KING of Decked Out!

The fact that Etho managed to find the artifact, learn important game strategies, map out part of the dungeon, and survive even with terrible luck all on his first run is testament to his skill at game strategy. The fact that Tango died afterwards is just icing on the cake lol

I love the juxtaposition of Etho being clueless on certain features because he's made sure not to learn anything about DO2, but then also having the muscle memory of being a ravager matador from DO1.

What makes this so impressive is that Etho was the first hermit to survive the dungeon in that first run, his reputation proceeds him. So happy to see Etho in Decked Out 2 can’t wait to see all the runs that Etho shares with us!

Etho rarely changes up his editing style (overtly) over the years, but the recent episodes having little editor's notes in the form of minecraft books is a really cool thing that I don't think I've seen anyone else do. It reminds me of youtube over 10 years ago when video makers added annotations. Lots of content creators add editor's notes in text just on top of the clips, but having the actual GUI for the minecraft written book pop up in the corner really makes it feel like it's part of the normal game.

Bdubs placing torches next to people looking at cards in their hands is genius.

Everyone watching Etho’s run and congratulating him on winning was super heartwarming. The community spirit on the server goes so crazy

The irony of etho winning and tango dying is hilarious. Also grain saying in the calmest voice "this feels like an attack" is also absolutely hilarious.

Etho has returned when we needed him most. Classic Mr. Slab

Etho and Decked Out is a match made in Minecraft Heaven. The excitement that ensued in Tango's chat room of 20k viewers at the end of your first run was ELECTRIC. I was jumping out of my seat. That just showed how much excitement is happening on an individual level. So excited to see your progression this season, Mr. Slab.

It's so Etho to not only be the first hermit to survive, but also winning despite being on the high hazard from the start.

19:55 Do you have a monetary arrangement with Bdubs for helping you produce quality visual content? Or does Bdubs just know you so well that he provides his lighting services for free so when he watches your episode later he will be able to read the card in your hand clearly? I think the answer is obvious but I would like to thank Bdubs on behalf of all your viewers. That man clearly deserves a raise! Look how quick on the draw he was with placing that torch!

Please don't feel pressure from being last seasons winner, we all just want you to have fun, so you have no face to keep up, we love you

20:26 That gave me more whiplash than I think any other Etho moment of the past 10 years has

I really appreciate you asking about what order your cards go in. There was practically a whole dev stream dedicated to working on the shuffler to make sure that it didn't matter, and it just goes to show it was well spent because you would have absolutely started playing the meta.

Decked out content is so good. I would watch completely unedited footage of runs, win or lose. It's so addictive.

Here we go again, Etho about to memorize the whole map

The legendary master of Decked Out is back...

Etho's years of playing adventure maps with Team Canada have finally paid out.

6:40 "Clank is based on distance you cover, and hazard is based on time" - Clank is also based on time, a little bit. Every 2 minutes (1st one is 1 minute in) a Stumble card (+2 Clank) is shuffled into your deck. Additionally, Treasure is a measure of how quickly you can "delve" into the dungeon, as the Keys needed to go deeper are a type of treasure.

I love ethos voice it's so calming

Etho please upload every Decked Out run in full. I will watch every single one!

So glad you included some of the waiting room shenanigans! Tango was bummed that he couldn't hear what everyone else was doing up top and it's so fun to see those bits, too.

I’m absolutely thrilled you avoided spoilers, I can’t wait to watch every run you publish. Don’t think anyone will get tired of this kind of content, the views on your really long episode of decked out one runs illustrates this well.

Ok, I haven't watched Hermitcraft for about.. the entire season I think? And I am absolutely stunned and amazed on the creation as well as gameplay of this thing.

The mastermind of game strategy has returned! I've got my snacks ready, can't wait for Etho to meticulously strategize every minutia of Decked Out and blow our minds once again.

I cant wait for tons of Decked Out episodes, it was one of my favorite minigames to watch in the older season. It helped the Etho was so good at it.

Ethos channel is turning 15 in 3 days and 30 Minutes! (I have been watching for 8 of those years)

Let the addiction to Decked Out commence.

It was so much fun watching you from tangos perspective, of course we’re still gonna watch this as well!!! Hopefully we get to see lots of runs (convince him to give more keys per phase)

Etho trending at 25, it's what he deserves ☺ we've missed you

All the hermits are just looking at Etho at 4:40 they are in awe

Hi Etho! I'm in my first week of university and I just want to say thank you for being there all these years. I've been a viewer for literally as long as I can remember, having been introduced to your channel by my older brother when we used to watch your videos together. It seems odd to say, but you've been moreso a role model to me than anyone else has been. You're an amazing person and I hope you know just how much you've helped so many people. Thank you!! -C

I would gleefully watch several hours of pure DO2 gameplay from Etho. PLEASE upload lots of gameplay lol We can only experience this game vicariously through you!

You can truly tell Etho is a legend by earning it rightfully so! Now many people have the gift and skill along with exceptional perception of the hidden secrets that open up as well as the hide and seek game with the ravengers. He will be a force to be reckoned with this season of DO2!

Tango has done an incredible amount of work, and it freaking shows.

And so it begins. I can’t wait to see how Etho manages to cheese this new iteration of Decked Out.

The real boss of Decked Out isn't the ravagers... its Etho

I'm extremely hyped for Decked Out 2 content I watched the entire 8 hour grand opening stream start to finish yesterday and the 6 hours today and could've kept going because I was having so much fun. The funny thing is Tango kept telling chat in streams to go easy on Etho because he probably wouldn't know what he was doing, then right away he comes in and just dominates 😆 I don't understand how Etho is just so amazing at every and any game he plays.

Tango did such a great job with deck out 2! Definitely a more than worthy sequel. The game's complexity seems amazing. Just from seeing the basic cards, there seems to be an important breakpoint where you need at least +1 ember drops to go from 6(lowest artifact) to 7(lowest permanent card) so I think etho made a wise choice. I would guess that unless tango plans on increasing treasure drop rate(he mentioned he might on stream today), treasure should be prioritized (after getting 1 ember card) so that one can sustainably run the dungeon. I think keys cost 32 coins(8 crowns) too... Treasure also has the added key drop rate benefit, and I honestly don't think level 2 is that much harder than level 1 in terms of difficulty compared to just how much better the rewards are. The main difficulty with level 2 is the access of keys, which treasure would also give. A successful level 2 run is easily worth 3 lvl 1 runs (the artifact is 2-3x more, and the treasure quality is better). To put it in perspective, 2-3 successful level two runs would give more rewards than all the hermit's day 1 runs combined. And it gets even better when you realize that a rare high ember raid is better than multiple low ember raids due to how the shop works. Also, im curious if decked out 2 will be like 1 where it had easter eggs/hidden opportunities that give huge advantages to whoever finds them first since this was something etho heavily benefitted from in the first game. I tried to keep the spoilers to a minimum and only used things etho knows and things tango has explained to him :/

Can't believe Tango died and you survived lol. The stream was awesome

Etho would be the first one to make it out alive, even with vexes on his tail. I've been waiting for this video to come up.

The plea for uncut Decked Out is real and I'm here to add to it! So much fun to watch

Tango being excited to join their waiting room game is soooo adorable.

Oh my goodness. I am so excited to see you play decked out again!!! It was so fun last season 😃

dude those decked out 1 runs are a classic to rewatch glad eveyrone in the server is excited again for this upgraded version. so sick etho

Ends the video with sorry to convey his apologies for the brief hermitcraft video drought. Has the perfect first run for never seeing the game before. Comes up with great things to say in the Q. Great work Etho!

Etho PLEASE let us see all the decked out runs, even if they don’t have commentary. I would enjoy watching literally all of them. Watching the looting and what lead to the deck progression for me is even more important than seeing the deck progress itself.

Hi Etho! We’re super excited to see you get into decked out, please don’t fear releasing more episodes of it, we won’t get bored any time soon!

If Etho had even half as much fun playing as I had watching him play, I'm very happy about it, because it (hopefully) means we'll get a lot of content from the DO2 :)

I think what most people aren't realizing when commenting how funny it is that Tango really wants to play the waiting room game -- he's delighted to get to play a game that he didn't design, and rest for about five minutes lmao

Etho, we NEED to see every single decked out run and especially all the strategizing around deck building and card choices ❤

And this is why I've been waiting to watch Tango's stream. Wanted to go into this spoiler free

i just knew that we’d get a new hermitcraft vid when decked out released, he just can’t resist

Etho! Make sure to turn in at LEAST 1 Victory Tome each week. You need at least 1 tome submitted in order to be "in the standings" for the week. The players at the bottom of the standings (ie not top handful) will get BONUS Frozen Shards as a way to catch up to the leaders.

I was so so happy you were the first Hermit to get an Artifact! That felt right! Something awesome to commemorate you being the first DO champion! It was funny Tango died! I clipped that for him from the stream. Also by now I hope you got to watch his pov on your runs. We were all shocked and scratching our heads of your misfortune on your first run! 2 or 3 hazard doors closed at the beginning! What! The vex coming out early! That didn’t stop you at all! I look forward to seeing more of your runs. Hope you are having fun. Thank you. Btw the waiting room antics and mini games were hilarious!

Tango did such a great job with Decked Out 2!

Etho is like that cool cousin that everyone loves. Always glad to see when you post.

The most hyped moment of the Season! Not JUST Decked Out opening, but Etho playing it!

According to Tango, you should always submit at least 1 victory tome each week, as it will be converted into bonus frozen shards when the week ends (even if you don’t get points). Also, you can save up your victory tomes between weeks and submit them whenever you want.

Oh man i don't know for how long i can keep this grin of joy on my face, it's starting to hurt ! First Iskall, then Grian, then Etho playing Decked out 2 ? I'm so happy ! Thank you guys and BIG thanks to Tango for his incredible dedication & work to make this awesome game for us and the hermits to enjoy. What a wonderful day ! Seriously the game is mind-blowingly good, Decked Out 1 was great, and this is like 10 times better, can't wait for more, especially from Decked Out 1 champ Etho :) Have a great day everyone !

Love it! More full-length Decked Out 2 runs, please 😄

Hermitcraft should just do a season where they all build the most epic decked out dungeon together with Tango running everything, just because Decked Out as a game could be a whole series for all the RU-vidrs. Like, we could watch an LP style map building, and then when they’re done building, they just transition into all playing decked out. A man can dream..

That hazard door to the face is going to be a DO2 classic moment in everyone's top 10!

I purposely avoided watching Tango build Decked Out 2 because I wanted the entire experience to be blind. Now that it's out and everyone is playing it I'm gonna have to go binge all of the building episodes now.

I remember the last time he played decked out it took over the entire season. Cant wait for it to happen again!

What a treat! Tango is a legend for providing this game. Thanks for a fun episode Etho! Your enthusiasm is infectious.

We all love etho. Etho isn't washed up. He never was. Still the king. the best. The GOAT (I mean, maybe that role is taken on hermitcraft but still)

THE KING HAS RETURNED! You have no idea how stressed and excited I was when I watched your first run and the first EVER WIN of Decked Out 2!

15:30 What a absolute champ! First run and Etho already wrangled the Dungeon!

Would love to see 'all' of your dungeon runs, uncut, together with your thought process behind which cards you take along into the dungeon. Decked Out is amazingly fun to watch, and if you're afraid that it might be too long for a normal HermitCraft episode.. you can always turn it into bonus episodes? Point being... me and most likely many others would love to see your full experience of Tango's amazing game. ^w^ Good luck on your dungeon delving adventures Etho!

It's the Totem trouncer, the artifact acquirer, the dungeon dodger, the ravenger wrangler: ETHOSLAB

I have been so excited to see Decked Out 2 opened. I've been trying to keep up with Tango's redstone and it's just mind boggling. So cool to finally see the Hermits playing the game!

ETHO HAS BLESSED US THIS DAY!

I'm glad that Etho put the footage from the Waiting Room, because I was very interested what was going on in there

Everybody I saw cut the "That's what she said" from Scar. I'm glad I watched this XD

Your runs are the ones I'm most excited for. So thrilled to see you back on the server and playing Decked Out 2! Hope you have a blast!!!

So excited for this, decked out 2 looks so brilliant omg, Well done tango for building it as well

What a wonderful thing Minecraft has become. Back in the day something like Cake Wars or whatever that minigame Sethbling made was it. That was the apex of Minecraft meta-gaming. And now look how far we've come! What more amazing art will people make in another ten years?! What a special thing.

So glad to see you still killing in it 2023 my man! Keep it up!

I’ve been so excited to see all of the hermits play decked out!!!!

Would love to see more Decked Out runs and deck management/shopping.

Props to tango decked out 2 is absolutely stunning

The way you explain things is incredibly therapeutic to me. Between your voice and your cadence it just feels like your a dad explaining something to their child. If I ever have to make a recorded explanation of something I'm hiring you to do it, no matter the cost.

I was skeptical about all the customizations Tango did in DO2, especially because everything could have been done 100% vanilla. it was cool and interesting in DO1 what you can do in pure minecraft having the idea and knowledge. But watching Etho's runs I had amazing time and I wasn't bothered by all the custom sounds or textures at all. the emotions are amazing, I can't wait for more videos from the game. Great runs Etho! :)

I have been checking every single day since Decked Out 2 was release, if Etho uploaded his first playthrough yet! Here it is!!

I love that the dungeon knew Etho had entered and prepped accordingly! Ahahah! Also, I'd love longer videos, more Decked Out 2!

Rewatching this after following through all 9 phases is just awesome. Etho made a strong start, and still he evolved tremendously over the weeks!

Let's goooooooo!!! Can't wait for more Decked Out content! Perfect in game audio balance by the way.

Hey Etho, Considering that sounds can be blocked from Skulk Sensors using wool, what would you think about wool actually dampening the sounds of Redstone machines? I think it could make mini games a lot more immersive, and things like dropper elevators a lot more base-friendly. Besides a better inventory system, which Quality of Life Features would you like to see added to Minecraft? Love your videos! :D

I only watch your videos out of all the hermits - and honestly 😂 I wouldn't have it any other way - the breaks and having the world move on and be like "Here's this thing that this person made" Episodes is fun

7:50 (and later at 28:23) Something everyone seems to be doing is going through this spikey water. There is a hazard door that is currently closed (passageway that closes with hazard) to the right of the water that goes to the same place.