HermitCraft S9#6: Starting The Base 

Most hermits: build large, pretty megabuilds with a farm or two Etho, almost every season: builds a chaotic interactive tangle of experimental architecture, probably in a jungle

Just for the record, I would LOVE to watch a 4 hour upload of nothing but Decked Out 2 runs once Tango finishes it

Okay but Cub's lower case scream killed me. Man really went "aaaaaa" while grain went "AAHHAHAHAHAA"

In today's episode: NYOOOM big rock Etho learns to make curved stairs

Etho titling his video “Starting the base” several months after hermitcraft started is really funny to me.

I want to see the POV of other hermits watching Etho run around his base with super speed and hear their confusion

14:30 Prox mod was made for this! Hearing Grian's screaming go from one ear to the other at the speed of light was fantastic! 😂

Just 4 hermits running around in circles laughing like crazy is so hilarious 😂😂

The pure joy in Grian's yell when he tries out your new base concept was hilarious. This is looking to be a lot of fun!

16:00 Try moss blocks around the edge! Green the whole way around, blends in with the grass at the top

With all the use of tridents, soul speed, and elytra, I feel like quick XP repair stations around the city will be immensely useful

Hermits with 40+ episodes out Etho: Hello! Here's my 6th episode guys Glad to have you back Etho

14:30 The classic Grian scream, mixed with the voice chat decreasing volume as he moves away, makes for a perfect clip.

Love Etho crediting Cub, Grian and Scar in his description despite them being in the video for all of about a minute as a cameo intermission

Grian cracking up to Cub flying off of the base had me laughing for a while haha

Skar, Cub, and Grian stopping by just to try out Etho's speed tech had me grinning like a fool. Grian's squeal running by, I swear I heard a doppler effect good lord that is too funny.

A hermit craft upload is like a new years gift, thanks Etho

Etho, it might be cool to put a sewer system inside that 10-15 blocks underneath the city and the actual jungle floor, with a ground entrance into a pipe or something

I love it whenever Grian turns into R2D2. 😂

Etho, I’m not sure if you’ll see this, I know you’ve said that you read our comments, but when there’s hundreds of them, I’m sure it gets overwhelming and impossible. Still, I wanted to take time to thank you for uploading for us and for putting a smile on my face. I don’t know how you do it, but you always manage to upload right when I need a little pick me up! Today was rough. Seeing the notification for you video made me smile for the first time today, gave me something to look forward to tonight when I get home. I hope you know how much the community you’ve built loves your content, and appreciates you as a person. You’re always honest, straightforward, and kindhearted. You give us yourself and yourself is so fantastically amazing! Thank you, From the bottom of my heart, thank you 💜

I love all the childish joy each of the hermits had when they first got the super speed

I love how no matter what, Etho's bases always break the traditional concept of what a Minecraft base looks like

Hey Etho, some advice: The inside edge of a spiral staircase will always be steeper than the outside edge. Also the steps themselves need to follow the curve of the staircase, kind of like what you ended up with. My method is to build the outside edge first as this will define the shape/feel of the staircase, then add blocks inward perpendicular to the outside edge. Keep in mind that if you use the same number of blocks for each step, the diagonal section will end up being thinner than the straight sections.

14:29 That scream Grian did as he ran by was just _perfect._

Something to consider when you start your skyscrapers is Roman and Greek architecture made pillars look taller by having the top bigger than the the base. This might help your skyscrapers look more imposing and will give you more space for decorations as you go up

Grian screaming as he flies off into the distance has had me in stitches for a good 5 minutes 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The little scream when Cub went super speed and fell off the platform made me laugh so hard haha Great episode! I’m super excited to see how the base will turn out, it sounds really cool!! 👀

The Hurtin Hermits speedrun boom was really fun times. So cool you're addressing it to the wider audience!

green concrete powder works great for the grass hanging off the edge of the cliff to help the transition a little :)

Grians howls of giddy excitement just about sent me to the moon

“I don’t know what I am doing but look at me build!” Is a good vibe. I can relate.

Etho finishing by telling us to have a good day as usual... Not realising by uploading he has guaranteed we are all already having a good day. :) Your uploads, no matter how sporadic, always improve our days.

The joy in your voice as you drifted around your base was a much needed mood boost for me. Thanks for the smiles.

Cub, Grian and Scar's screams when trying out the sprinty dolphin thing at 14:10 is the best XDD

I saw the battle bane played out live, it was awsome and the hermits really seemed to love it, some didn’t even stop playing after the time was up, so it was definitely a success even after such a long livestream and everyone being tired it went so well.

I am living for the happy Grian squeals, the man radiates child energy

Seeing Etho in all sorts of hermits' videos had me expecting a new video soon!

Glad to see you back on HermitCraft Etho! Hope you had a happy and restful holiday season.

Watching Etho zip around his base has me smiling and thngking of a striped grey cat with the Zoomies. Your Awesome Etho, can't wait to see how your base turns out!

Watching Etho learn new building techniques always makes them easier to understand!

I love the quality increase in Etho's recent videos. I miss the frequent uploads, but the high quality videos are certified bussin.

Etho just messing around and just having fun really makes my day!

I like the idea of Etho's vision for his base sounds super cool. I think it's neat he's goin outside of his comfort zone a bit I think it'll turn out great! :))

I love everything Etho does but seeing him bring joy to hermits who play this game everyday really brings a smile to my face I could watch that clips 100x and still laugh

Hang in there Etho. Late start just means we had more hype seeing you back ❤

It's always a good day when etho posts ❤

Love how etho always tries to go outside of his comfort zone because he always finds a new and unique way to make something.

I love seeing Etho have so much fun playing around.

using stone slabs and walls could help with texturing! glad to see you back :D

I appreciate you talking about your thoughts while terraforming/shaping up the environment around the base I've been trying to get better at terraforming myself, and hearing about your thought process gives me new ideas :)

Still able to surprise us after all this time. You certainly meant it when you said it was out of your comfort zone! Your base concept is awesome! Definitely not something I've seen done before. This is really invigorating my interest in Hermitcraft after Iskall left for a break. The energy you bring to the server is so needed. 21:08 Oh Etho. That's the easy part. Surely you remember HHH? Hermits Helping Hermits? Remember when Tango got a production line going to make all those crossbows for Among Us? HHH never stopped. Joe and Cleo have been doing HHH for the hermits every single Monday (they took a break during the Empires crossover, of course). Your six hours of work could be condensed into an hour and half, if that. You're not the only one with villagers. Impulse is fully set up as is Scar/Tango/Grian as well as Jevin. You don't have to stream, (Cleo/Joe/Scar/Jevin/X/Tango/Impulse/xB/Gem/False/Pearl etc) could do so. You'd just be managing it in a proxmod group. Seriously, look into it. Joe and Cleo are constantly asking for jobs to do to help out the other hermits yet the hermits never take advantage of their help. Tango has done so occasionally, when his twitch chat has forced him to, especially if it relates to Decked Out matters. Gem did it earlier in the season when she and Stress were draining their shared Guardian Farm. I say any project that is for the good of all Hermits should be a project for HHH, truly.

Hi Etho! I wanted to share something I learned about building stairs since I saw you building them and I’ve been in the same boat multiple times. I started using circles as a guideline when building spiraling stairs with slabs since they help you shape the stairs properly. You’d use a smaller circle on the inside of the stairs to mark out the curvature on the inside and then a bigger circle on the outside to mark out the outside curvature. I usually build the circle a few blocks higher than the staircase so you can see where to place blocks. This might not help with your current build but I know you like to learn new things about minecraft so maybe this could be useful in the future. :) Love you ❤️

Here is the situation everybody. I just got back from grocery store so I am actually prepared with snacks as a etho video comes out. It's fate.

Steampunk towers sound awesome!

the way etho described the base is one of my favorite aesthetics. So excited

Grian's screaming at 14:25 sounded exactly like R2D2. Love it!

The more you describe the vertical shanty town base, the more I think of you and someone else (I forgot) completing Guude's base for him in the Von Sway/von suey style

Etho you should consider using moss blocks along the edge of the cliff so you get to see some of that green from below.

8:45 Put slime blocks on the sides to see if you can bounce around with them? The bit with Scar, Cub and Grian was hilarious. Behind the scenes Etho has so much fun with other Hermits and we never see it 🥲

I bet Etho started playing Hermitcraft again because he knows Decked Out is in production

Etho is like the cool uncle that everyone love and always brings something fun when he visit

I loved the clip of grian and friends coming by to see what ethos up to with his shenanigans

I've watched a lot of those Hurting Hermit speed runs, it turned out to have such an excellent Crash Bandicoot feel to it.

Etho great timing! I have to try stay awake for another 2 hours and this just bought me another 25 mins, you sir are great

Loved watching battlebane during the charity event, it’d be so cool to see it played again. The base is looking really fun!

Thank you Etho for making our days better!

Grian running around at 14:30 sounds like R2-D2. XD Glad Etho knows how to have fun with a base.

One idea to get players to leave their castle: Rename the Golden Apples: e.g. Red Apple, Green Apple, Middle Apple; then you can reward more points for harder apples or give a bonus for collecting them all. Custom textures are optional. If you want more incentive for players to play the game, cut a deal with Beef to occasionally dispense Hermitcraft TCG cards instead of Gapples and let the players keep them. :) Always awesome to see you energized and enjoying playing Minecraft.

Etho I’ve been watching your channel for close to 12 years. I just wanted to say thank you everything you’ve made or have been a part of. Your content has done so much for me and so many other people, and you played a very crucial role early on with the community to get Minecraft to place that it is today. I’m happy you’re sounding well. Seeing an upload from you will improve even the best of days! Please keep being you and I hope this new year brings you many joys :)

I'm sure you get this all the time Etho but your uploads always brighten my day. It doesn't matter how bad it's been, seeing a new upload and watching you figure things out just cheers things up. It doesn't really matter what you do or how much effort went into the video, you just rock! That's all. You've gotten me through some rought times so I just wanted to say thanks ♥

When you've got more of the base's base/foundation built up, it could be a cool collab with Pearl to have her come over and give you some pointers. She's an incredible organics builder (and just saw her stream this morning where she showed us a litematica of the newest build to her base. Jaw dropping spectacular build.) and I'm sure she would be very helpful in a fun way. Or Scar. Or both! Both are S-tier terraformers.

Scar- “Take the diamond or double it and give it to someone else” Everyone- “I’ll take the diamond”

Master of shenanigans indeed. Thanks for the new upload!

Your videos feel so comfortable and cozy, thank you for that. I love how you prioritise just having fun - when you were playing with the super speed, your excitement and genuine enjoyment really showed. The clip with Grian, Scar and Cub was everything 😂

terraforming a big island in the sky above a jungle is bringing back good memories of the modded series =)

So glad you're back to Hermitcraft Etho.. Love watching you missed hearing your voice..

You don't *go* in the direction you're looking in, rather you *accelerate* in that direction like a spaceship. Source: I'm an Astrophysics nerd

Watching you and other Hermits work through challenges is very educational and relatable. Keep up the great work.

Lmao that cut right after the first dolphin died 🤣

14:30 R2-D2 Grian is the best thing I’ve seen today

The hermitcraft server: Introduces a king, starts a resistance, overthrows the king, opens the rift, has an entire crossover with Empires SMP. Etho: Hey guys today I'm building the base

Happy new year etho, I think we all hope you have a more relaxed and joyful year! Good luck for the next 12 months

"Starting the base" 9 months after season 9 started. I love it, best new year gift

You could do a streetlight at the exact place where the jump is with a sound when, so you can aid your flight after hitting the stairs

Love that you're just now starting your base, and it's still more developed than Beef or Mumbo's. 😆

Glad to see you back, and just in time for Beef's HCTCG to launch!

Etho, have you heard of the city project in saudi arabia known as The Line? Essentially, the government is designing a tall, narrow, compact city between two glass walls with a high speed transportation system at the bottom, with the goal of being able to meet your everyday needs within walking distance of your home. Your base reminded me of it a little with the dolphin booster at the base and emphasis on vertical building. Personally I think practically, the design of the Line has many flaws such as it being difficult to scale, and not taking advantage of natural aspects such as the coastline due to its rigid line shape. On the other hand I think the idea for your base is awesome and I cant wait to see how it works out!

Dolphin, Grant and Scar bit was hilarious

I’m so excited to see how the base turns out! It sounds like a great idea! :D

Happy New Year, Etho! Great to have you back on the server. Can't wait to see how this turns out, the skyscrapers are gonna look fantastic I'm sure! Looking forward to more Battle Bane too! For anyone interested, Martyn (InTheLittlewood) has an excellent POV of the Battle Bane match since he was flying around in spectator mode and commentating. Would suggest watching that.

So glad to see some hermitcraft. Etho interacting with the hermits is top content

The fact that you have fun with your builds and others enjoy i think means more because at the end of the day if you’re happy we’re happy kind of corny but true 😂🙌

Y’all wake up, Etho uploaded a new video 🥰

We hope you will never stop making these types of videos. We love it 💕

Can’t wait to see your game be played again! And thanks for walking us through your building process on your base. Would have loved to see more of everyone trying out you water trick speed…that was fun!

Easily 1 of my top favs to watch!Your ideas are out of this world, so fun, and great to see you build.

The King is back!

always a good day when etho uploads

I'm sure the Hermits will be happy to help with getting the gear together!

New Etho video! Can't wait omg!