HermitCraft S9#16: Decked Out - Phase 3: Black Mines Terror 

That's Cleo, right?

​@@sarthakmunda3914Gem for a day. That's why we got the intro, too

Flash back to the Survival of the Fittest series where Bdubs thanks his mother for something and Etho goes “booo”

She is a Saint Bernard, after all

​@@tyhlehr Wow is that the reference? Gotta love Etho.

Ahhh so that was the context. I thought it was just a random your mom joke. Still hilarious lol

i bet he won this phase just to make that joke

Whomever wins next should also thank Bdubs' mom too

another thing to note is in the next clip he was holding his bed named "A Saint Bernard" after bdubs said his mother was a saint lmaoooo

I caught it immediately, but it felt like I was the only one.

When calm, worry about many thing. Mistake. When panic, brain go Unga bunga, no time for mistake. Only run

@@bud856This somehow explains everything and nothing. I love it.

"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition leaving all these opportunities behind"

Oh wow what a pickup, ethos a legend for that that's too funny

Wow, would not have noticed it if you hadn't point it out! You, sir, need more likes!

It's a dog breed, isn't it?

@@thedoodlebunnyyes

@@thedoodlebunny gosh it has so many levels

BIG agree

We need more Tango’s working on exciting projects so that Etho can record more videos of playing with those projects.

@@Questerer I personally want to see Boom Box 3, Boom Box imo is Tango's second best minigame after Decked Out (and an Etho favorite too iirc)

RIGHT

Don't forge to subscribe to his alt channel as well. He posts full VODs and the other perspective (of the DM) there, these runs with Etho from the other side are just as hilarious!!!

What a good guy

rightttt

Time stamp?

@@octopibrothers2574 1:05:10

And, I'm giggling helplessly AGAIN 😂

I'm so glad we got to see it from this perspective, I was really curious about how long the delivery time is. It's ~26 seconds, which is pretty impressive considering how big DO is. (timing it from when Tango first panics to when the bell starts to ring.)

what time

@@jenniferkasprytski7222 about an hour in is when Etho should be finishing that run 🤣

@@jenniferkasprytski7222 I got you! 1:05:00

jeez i forgot about the TCG they really when all in on this season huh

had to rewatch for that lmfao good catch

Beat me to the link haha! Happened to catch that and I was like wait... Sneaky E indeed!

Etho is an absolute legend.

OMG

I was wondering why he was holding a bed... lol

Me too! It's one of my favorite parts of watching decked out

If you're not already watching the streams on Tangos twitch (or the vods his second channel on YT), it's been 90% developer commentary while watching DO runs lately, and its glorious

I enjoy both options. The solo runs are great because it feels like the runner gets very immersed, but the banter between tango and the player is delicious. My favorites with Tango so far are Bdubs, Etho and Pearl.

As well as the moment when he gets his artifact and the Warden is right there in the doorway. Then he just decides to wander away. How

Does he not know killing slimes is the warden's number one priority?

i saw that on tango's channel but his pov is sooooo more menacing

he didnt say boing boing im a slime

​@supernova5934 he said the *essence* of boing boing I'm a slime and it was hilarious

That is Etho in chased mode

Constantly says, "I'm terrible at parkour" too, lol.

Etho is honestly amazing under pressure, that's imo part of what makes him so good at this. Somehow he almost plays _better_ when doing lightning quick thinking.

@@StuffandThings_ He's not bad under pressure but he does get really shaky lol

LMAOO

I thought that base was last season lol so long we haven seen it

​​@@EarthSpirit.easyzdotaI even forgot this was actually a hermitcraft series and not just a decked out series lmao

HAHA

On Impulse’s stream last week Etho was making her shame the hermits who failed as they exited the dungeon and she was going along with it. It was jarring but very funny. Reminded me of myself with my older brothers when we were younger xD

i wonder how old they are lol.. gem gives of fairly younger sister but they still get along vibes LOL

@@pvic6959 Most of the ages of the hermits are public but I can tell you which hermits fall into which age ranges. 27+ Pearl, Gem, and Mumbo are all 27 at the moment. Pearl is the youngest hermit but only by 1 month younger than Gem and Mumbo turns 28 in December. 30+ Grian, Zedaph, False, Wels, Cub, Jevin Stress, Etho, Joe, Iskall, xB, Xisuma, Scar 40+ Bdubs, Ren, Beef, Hypno, Cleo, Impulse, Tango, Keralis, Doc. Edit: I moved Scar from 40+ to 30+ after Etho saying to Scar that he was younger than both Scar & Bdubs.) Bdubs turned 41 this year.

thanks for the thorough answer!@@miniciominiciominicio I realized i could look it up after haha. its so weird you can just look up ages of "internet people" also i didnt realize im closer to age with the younger HC crowd haha

@minoesecond I think scar is around 30'ish according to the imp&skizz podcast.

I would have never noticed that, good catch!

Oh my god that makes the joke 10x better, that right there is a double burn!

Great catch! I didn't see that the first time.

I caught that the second time watching it and I died of laughter ahhahahahaha I love love his comedy sooo much 😂😂😅😅❤❤

i just commented i saw that too. had to see if anyone else caught it😋

I think she's experiencing the exception to the rule. In this case the hero is worthy of the hype (except when he's washed up :P)

Yeah. Etho seems to be exactly what you expect, and he'll find a way to be a fun goof with you

I feel like she just treats him like an older brother, honestly. The vibes I get from her interactions with him are not someone interacting with someone they think is a hero/celebrity, but more of a friendly teasing rival.

Maybe the older brother’s friend that he’s had since he was 5 so is like a brother with siblings there’s that slight taste of spiteful energy to everything but the brothers friend can avoid that

@@junoantaresofficialyes that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking! they have very sibling vibes lmao, i love it

Time?

Someone should seriously animate that part! xD

I was looking for this part, its the best reaction ive heard from etho yet 😆

Etho Recieved 9 but has enough tomes in the beginning that equal 2+ runs. essentially having the same power level as doing 11 runs :)

The minimum? Why?

Thanks for the heads up! Some of us don't have time to follow all the goings-on. Appreciate you!

​@@mightbeahuman3442tango calculates the number of shards each hermit gets through their win rate and number of frost embers taken out of the dungeon. this is for game balance and allow others to catch up so that there isn't a large win gap like last decked out. etho has been doing too well, so he gets the minimum number of shards (knowing etho, he will end up buying more from the store)

@@mightbeahuman3442he won this round. The game is balanced so that the winners of each round get less so that the others have a chance to catch up if there’s a large disparity in tomes submitted. There is a soft cap for the total number of keys you can have tho so you cant just stock up on keys.

To be fair, the original comment was referring specifically to his PVP skills, not to his many other amazing qualities.

@@nochsta Bdubs: This ma.. THIS MAN REINVENTED THE ENCHANTING SETUP JUST TWO WEEKS AGO!!

@@Questerersuch an underrated moment 😭😂

Etho is so freaking cracked, lmao. Amazing reaction time, good at keeping track of the ravagers, knows the layout very well, always plans an escape route… not even mentioning his pretty good luck, and his overall game strategy

By almost every metric--Success rate, extra embers/crowns retrieved, deck cost, points --Etho is dominating. He is truly in a league of his own. Realistically, unless one of the hermits trains and schemes like crazy (some of them are trying, admittedly!), Decked Out 2 is a fight for second place.

Was Etho the first to complete a deadly run or did someone else manage it first?

@@Zillionman2010 Cub might have been first, if I recall correctly what Tango said

No thats not how it works. The 14 tomes secured him the first place. First place gives you 6 points. The tomes themselves do not give you points

He's a master Ravager tamer I tell ya'

Exactly right, I would've never thought of that if I hadn't seen him do it. That's a brilliant use of highly niche game mechanics.

They will track you through blocks for a few moments until they de-agro. Hypno has been using this for a while now. I'm guessing Etho picked the trick up from him recently?!

mobs don't prefer to go forwards when wandering, they choose a nearby solid block and path to that. what's happening is that the pathing algorithm sees no actual way for the ravager to get to etho, so it simply prefers getting as close as possible, even if "as close as possible" means there's a wall, or a floor in between them. then it looses LoS and that's it.

@@Themoonisachees Yeah, but when they randomly wander, they also seem to either path directly in front of them (assuming it's a valid location) if they choose to move immediately, or they stand still for a bit and slowly turn a random direction before they decide to move again. They don't usually whip around and start moving back the way they came right off the bat. So they may choose a random valid block to pathfind to, but I suspect the block chosen is within their line of sight. If so, then if LOS is broken while they are facing a particular direction, there's a high likelihood they'll start wandering somewhere along that direction as well if they don't just sit still entirely for at least a couple seconds.

If reminded me of the moment in season 7 where Bdubs’ gambling machine for Keralis broke 😂xx

Tango's " OH NO " s were the equivilant of the DING DING DING winner noises!

Ahh yes. They thought he was crazy but really he was insane!

he finished with 2 more tomes then 3rd place of this phase, he was also really smart with submitting 14 since it meant to beat they would of had to submit atleast 120 frost embers or waste efficiency (becuase 3 tombs is more expensive per tomb then 5) so people would of had to complete 3 lvl 3 runs to be able to submit as many as etho did

@@7angels844 4 more tomes* not 2. He got 1st* over 2nd place, not 2nd over 3rd. Hypno submitted 10, not 12 and Etho submitted 14.

​​@@7angels844 how are u wrong in every single way haha

100% this lol

except she regularly murders him

@@maris_molotov That’s just cause she loves him so much. It’s like, when you see a cute animal you just wanna squish it. She squishes etho with PvP. 😂😂

Honestly a lot of them are like this. Etho is one of the originals so it makes sense. Who doesn't love Etho?

He didn't tell them because he doesn't want them to know he already has 6 stacked up and lready to submit for Phase 4. That's a major part of the strategy is trying to submit enough to secure a win while going in to the next phase with a leg up.

That's not humility, that's strategy.

OOGE 2.0

@@Tyfire-Network YES O M G

How dare you don't include Cleo.

Thanks a bundle, I had JUST STOPPED laughing when I saw this, 😂😂😂

Run #5 was top Tier, but Run#9 really takes the cake - so much tension! And #10 is a worthy end to the series!

You the MVP 🙏

Yes.

Snacks are gotten

@@crunchevo8974I got popcorn what did you get? XD

​@@crunchevo8974Snack your grabs!

@@StorytellerForeverYT dinner and pizza rings

Tbf he did do the first two phases more towards deck building. Scar for example focused more on tomes and had some terrible luck in phase 3. There are absolutely varying strategies in play.

As Tango said, that's what happens when you have a 70%+ win rate, even with the harder levels

I mean, etho only got 2 uncommon cards this phase (because his deck was already strong I guess)

>it's a fun week! >submits a million tomes

@@RyanEglitis winning is fun

It took me way too long to realize that the level 2 ship and One Eyed Willy were direct references to The Goonies for this reason 😭

@@YaBoiGabe31Yup! In Bdubs' episode when he built the ship, Tango specifically mentions The Goonies as the inspiration

Between Willie and the deck jokes DO2 is sure generating a lot of great out-of-context quotes 😅

I love how many hermits also watch Etho runs live on Tango channel😂

yeah, I had to watch this to see the runs he did when not on Tango's stream. The 6 extra tomes was insane. I thought the 14 submitted tomes was crazy but he acquired 20 tomes in total.

same here! just as enjoyable as watching them from tango's freecam

The Black Mines are more suspenseful in POV, even though it kinda sucks to not be able to see 40% of the time

I was wondering if Etho was going to use that bit in his intro, and he actually did!😆

Almost? Gem be a salt crystal at this point on account of all those keys that keep dripping on Etho. Imagine if Tango let the players keep all the keys they haul with them, Gem would be livid. :))

Got a link to Tango's POV?

@@readingchameleon I don't at the moment, but I believe it's the VOD called "Etho Enters the Black Mines" on the TangoTek2 channel.

Yes, I love the 2 hour long episodes coming from DO. I usually watch while I'm eating meals, so 2 hours is like 4 meals worth of hermitcraft. This has given me so much more meal time content, I'm loving it.

Man is a Canadian with the german efficiency buff

​@jsw973 Canadians def have a Barbaric Rage, lol When they feel threatened, they go on the offensive with the strength of a polar bear lol

@@baseballjustin5 To my understanding, this is the basis for Hockey.

@shipwreck9146 have to coral the energy somehow lol

There are a lot of hermits that have great dynamics with Etho I find. Impulse, Cleo, Pearl, Cub, and so many more

The Gem and Etho interactions have easily made me want to watch more of Gem's stuff

@@karililjendalYea, like Pearl and Joe interactions. Before Decked Out, they were a rarity, but they're so wholesome

That was super funny on stream

@@hokkai3933 Especially Tango's confusion

I loved that tango finally realized it was from Seinfeld, when Kramer feeds the horse rusty like 28 Costco cans of beefarino, but didn’t remember that scene. I love Seinfeld so I recognized it on tangos stream lol.

I love Gem and Etho's dynamic

The two Canadians just chilling

@@SceptilePetile Shipping real people is a little weird

We eaten good tonight

I have just been saying "stumbility" to myself since the decked out 2 runs started, you aren't the only one 😂

Perfect time stamp *chefs kiss*

Split it into 4 episodes :)

ikr, I thought I'd clicked on the wrong video for a second

"minigames"

Did Tago say that on a livestream or how do you know that? I mean, why wouldn't it change back to floor 3rd when you insert another key?

Etho knows, but strategically forfeits the treasure when necessary. He's done it a couple times, been told off by Tango, and been perfectly fine with it lmao

@@tobelix6397 Yes, from many of Tango's streams. It's a "loop" of droppers above locked hoppers, and it's set up in a way that you can't "go back down."

interesting

@@BlahCraft1 Thanks for the clarification. Based on your reply and other comments, I figure it's more of a game design desicion than a technical problem. Because I'm sure Tango could develop a system to handle this type of situation.

fr

You are not a fangirl just a Etho girl

Not just Etho, ALL the hermits.

@@MCSleymourthere is something special about etho. I never watched his content much but I found him again when decked out 2 started and have become addicted.

@@mightbeahuman3442 Oh Snappers!

It would also be really good to grab that with the Silent Runner rare card. Builds Clank Block when you have speed boost.

2:06:03 Bdubs says "she(his mother) is a saint! "

@@Salamander96 Good catch!

Team Canada throwback. I think it was Pause who used that line on Etho originally haha

@@Lucas43434omg yes!! I just commented the same thing trying to find the OG clip! I think it was Ruins of the Miecrackers or Diversity because it was a Vex map?

@@YaBoiGabe31 neither of those are Vechs maps if that's what you meant (iirc Etho's only played those either solo or with OOGE). They're CTM maps though although diversity only technically so

Yeah 2 free evasions, a decoy, x-ray vision (from tango's freecam), 2 cooked pork chops, and 4 splash potions seems like a great deal for 8 crowns