Hermitcraft Vault Hunters 17 - WINNER TAKES IT ALL! 

I think a catch-up mechanic could make it more intense and fun. By letting players who are in last few places to get like a 30 sec or a minute head start

This event was so much fun, especially the tie breaker vault. Would love to see more team competitive vaults in the future

You should do a "protect the president" scav where, in teams of two, one player cant use wepons but the other player cant break ores or chests

I am cackling at Joe's dad joke and that sweet transition to the vault

The way Iskall be leaving those coins at 7:26 after getting only one pile got me tensed up

Amazing event! My only piece of feedback would be that it would have been cool to have a summary of all the loot collected before the draft began to see how much 4 vaults with that many players trying to race it gets!

if any of those vaults were void vaults the people finishing going for a dip in the void liquid on their way out would have been pure chaos 🤣🤣🤣 maybe next time

You guys need to do this again. The whole hermit vault hunters series has be so fun to watch and this big social event made it even better. Though I have to say, I was hoping for more trickery and sabotage.

This tournament was something new we haven’t experienced before on Hermitcraft and it was thrilling!! All the smacktalk and jokes between all of you, especially getting to see hermits interacting in a playful manner with hermits they would barely see otherwise… you’ve achieved something very special, Iskall!! I’m off to watch every other available POV now!

A duos version of HABBA would be cool, getting to work together and have double the shenanigans.

the dichotomy of the hermit: immensely kind, immensely competitive

I liked the smash and grab! A sugestion for the next event: 1) build a chest monster with all the loot. 2) everyone is limited to say 3 inventory slots. 3) each player has to run back and forth to their own "pile" to store what they grab. 4) depending on your score your "pile" is closer to the big chest monster.

really cool event. I honestly expected a lil bit more trolling involved but it was fun.

This was a much closer competition than I expected it to be! And the loot redistribution was a nice touch. At the end of the day, it was a very fun opportunity to collab I bet.

With all 10 People, you can make 5 pairs of players who can only win if they both leave together! You can have it bracket style too :) It would be a great opportunity to see others collab together who don’t normally have the chance to. This was super fun and exciting to watch! Wonderful job as always

That was so fun!! This proves once again that Vault Hunters THRIVES on co-op events and challenges like this. I'm excited for more events on your SMPs, both completely self-made within the scope of the game like HABBA or something new by the devs!

Everyone: dies Iskall: takes literally no damage the entire vault and wins

I think that by making a certain xp milestone give an extra point, hermits might be incentivised to loot more, therefore providing more loot for everyone to share. It adds risk (finishing later) but potential reward for staying in the vault.

This event is amazing!! Ever since you announced your project about Vault Hunter, I’ve been wanting to play it. But due to my laptop not able to support mc really well, I wasn’t able to play it. When you released sky vaults I finally got a chance to play it for a little bit till my laptop cannot support. It was super fun but I bcs there was too much info and minimal guidelines I was so confused. After seeing you announced hermit crafts vault hunter with the latest update, I’m really excited to get a new laptop to finally be able to play vault hunters with all the quest to guide the beginners. Keep up the good works Iskall and the team.

The frequency of videos is just amazing man keep up the amazing work!

The amount of generosity this man has. Won, got probably nothing at the end, made the event itself, put in time, effort and his own resources. I mean it's just selfless, I love him for that

I love the idea of team scav HABBA being built into the game, where the sav requirements are ALOT harder, and everyone on each team has the same requirements and can turn in to benefit the whole team.

THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN! the comedy of it all combined with how each player scored was fantastic. Absolutely there needs to be another one of these events.

I've been super excited to watch this since it was announced, and it delivered!

This was so much fun to watch, I was smiling the entire video! Definitely excited to see more HABBAs

This event was hillarious! I loved it so much, couldn't stop smile for so long. Especially the moment when Impulse left the first vault last and literaly everybody cheered for him, what a nice energy! ❤️

That was amazing! Just see all of you guys play together and have fun. No sore losers and just a bunch of good times and happy laughter. Love it!

I would absolutely LOVE this as a streamed event

Welsknight’s dog causing his death is fitting 😂

This was so much fun! this is exactly the sort of event that makes me want to watch everyone's perspective. I can't wait for the next big event! If only you could do something like capture the flag in someone's personal vaults.

This is such a smart competition i hope there will be another similar one!

This event was awesome, it’s the first time since launch so many got together to run vaults and have fun. P.S please persuade Etho to fix his chest monster and build an actual base lmao

I wish we had a summary of all the loot collected before the drafts! It was fun to watch

Honestly the best vault hunters video u have seen in a while and the tie breaker between stress and etho was especially fun

I feel like a crystal modifier that can only be crafted that removes the limitation of parties for the vault and instead each party that enters gains their own scavenger objective that is completed as a team could be really cool. So if 3 teams of 4 enter, each team has a single scav to complete meaning 3 sets of items. Could also be of use to servers doing coop as it allows them to just go in as a single party still to do a proper coop scav vault.

Concept of HABBA : Winner gets all Loot IskallMan : Everyone besides the winner gets everything

Probably one of the funniest video I have watched this year! Props to you Iskall for getting all your hermit friends to play this with you.

Man this made my day. Its so lovely to see you guys as friends. This is whats the game is all about imo. Or gaming in general. To have fun with friends! 💚

Another one. Grounded (naming alteration to 'Iron Man'). No fruits (except in vault looted ones if desired), No active abilities, No healing of any kind (so the only banned abilities on weapons are ones that heal health or mana resources, increases are fair game as they are additive and not supplementary/renewable for use during the vault to regain the resource), No completion crate (obtaining one disqualifies you, but you must exit without death through the entry portal). This means your goal is to get as much as you possibly can in the vault before the timer expires WITHOUT getting a completion crate. This also means, you can try to sabotage others by completing objectives (since the vault is random, you could try to increase everyone else's elixer, cap the monuments, etc. ofc you can't complete someone's scav) so being aware of how much you can get out of it is crucial, and if other's went too far you can try to disqualify others as well (think of like how zombie gamemodes work by infecting others who fail, or I guess secret life becoming red also works as an analogy, the fun doesn't have to stop since it's all getting recycled). The placement is scored by how many soul shards your entire looted vault is worth, so you could just dump EVERYTHING into one of those machines, hook the output up to a drawer with trim for that player, and a block for that round (emerald for round 1, gold for 2, etc... cobblestone trim for etho, amythest trim for joehills, etc). Being disqualified in a round nullifies those shards from being counted, but they are still added to the pool of winnings (so the opportunity to grind and be nice if you fail is there for those who prefer to take a graceful and sportsmanlike L) What this allows for, is at the very end, you get to place your drawers like it's a totem on your player podium, which everyone will do to collectively reveal who the winner was for getting the most soul shards.

I got one. Team Elixers (ELIXER RUSH), each team has their own hubs and portal, they use whatever resources they want to complete as many elixers with that portal (as whole team completions, if someone dies or leaves without a completion crate it's game over for that vault crystal) in a given time frame (so if it's an hour, the ideal is to get in and out as quick as possible, so chaos crystals are fair game if anyone on the team wishes to contribute to more spawns for faster elixers to burn through). The process of not delooting between each vault of that hour could become quite encumbersome, so it would be up to each team to strategize how they would handle looting between trying to take all with the highest elixer completion before the global event timer stops.

The vodskall episodes with 2 or 3 people have been great, but I'd love to see more with this many people lol

That was a lot of fun. I love watching Nervous and Nervous play! And Joe. I love watching a group of friends, makes me feel like I am not a... Hermit?

31:27 i had Pogs as a kid too 😂 34:12 definitely need a team Habba next

I just finished binge watching the previous 16 episodes so this is perfect timing

idea, smash and grab between EVERYONE but most of their inventory is filled with sticks (or perhaps boats/unstackables), and their chests are a good few seconds away do you spend time picking out the best loot? or do you grab everytihng you see, and focus on running back and forth?

Very entertaining. Good sportsmanship all around. That is what makes this fun to watch, seeing Iskall's generosity, and everyone having fun.

The only thing that HABBA needed... was more Iskall singing Abba!! Awesome event, and it seems like everyone had a lot of fun, even if they were all super stressed. I wonder how different it might have been if Iskall didn't win. Maybe dividing up the loot at the end regardless of who wins would be a good idea? That way everyone benefits and nobody feels like they missed out?

Maybe you could do a Cake team competition. Run 2 parallel vaults, the team with the most cakes gets 5 points. No fruit is allowed, only the fruit you find in the vaults. Every team goes against each other, and then you sum up total cakes plus "win" points. And you finish with a finale, team nr 1 vs team nr 2. :)

This isn't really all that related to this video in specific, but I just had an amazing idea for a fan animation. The scene is Iskal85's Sahara tower of doom (patent pending), a wideview dramatic shot of the exterier to be specific, the camera center on a high up window and then after a small amount of time (maybe time this next bit with some epic music) we zoom into said window where Iskall sits in his omega evil buisness looking chair, across from him is Etho (or Stress or any other hermit I suppose), when Iskall sits down we flip the shot quickly to the under-side of the table as Iskall presses a button...{dramtic pause idealy timed with equally dramatic music, then as the music haults/crushindos/slows we jump back to a wide view shot of Iskall and Etho across from one another and a cupcake appears as Iskall says "Care for a cupcake?" and Iskall's reaper scythe (or bamboo sword/McHammer/any other funny weapon like item he has if you want it to be sort of comedic) appears in his hand and the sharp point. (the point im talking about would be the pointy bit on the inside. I'm not sure what thats called, but i'm sure it has some name) Now ideally you'd probably want something after this or more than this, but this is all I got. (Also if you're wondering why I don't do something with this, I'm not very good at animating and don't know anyone who is so feel free to do what you'd like with this idea)

That was so much fun Mr. Icecold. Actually kinda glad you won and were able to do the draft like you were planning! Fun day to be together with the gang and boost the lower levels, well done dude! Hope to see more group events. Would it be possible to make an in-game mechanic to do this? Like a Game Altar, where you feed it the crystals and the loot and it takes care of leaderboards and distribution? Maybe overcomplicated, but just a thought

We want raw unedited version of this gem❤

Yet another one. Tried true and classic, Bingo. Don't think I have to explain it other than it basically being a scavenger vault, but all vault loot is included on the cards. It would make things like pogs, trinkets, omega chestplate, echo gem, etc, a very lucky or very daunting thing on your card. The idea is simply just good memory when focusing items in a vault, like Elixer Rush was meant for time efficiency, and Grounded was meant for looting efficiency. If you see core elements to completing the 100 days challenge *not* being learned amongst the majority of Hermits, then it might be worth considering an idea that promotes learning that Vault Hunters skill as goal in a potential future event. addendum: could make bingo spots dynamic too (kill 10 champions). So at the end of the vault your spots completed, and your bingo rows/completions (like getting the x of two diagonals, four corners, golden line, and other bonus-point score boosts) all factor into your score for that round of bingo. Also bonus score for completing a vault (instead of a bingo row) would make it feel more invested as opposed to sorta random like it was in the scav successions.

Hermit Vault Hunters has revitalised my enthusiasm for Minecraft video content c: it's great to see all these super experienced Minecraft players in a world that is familiar yet so so different. And the mechanics of VH encourages teamwork, experimentation, creativity and nice old jankiness. It's good. HABBA rules. We can tell you guys were genuinely having a good time.

My favorite part of this whole thing was that you won. But then gave it all away, so everyone involved likely got something they wanted or needed, which was really nice especially after being able to see a lot of the hermits all in one place having a good time together.

The smartest thing to do in the smash and grab would be to grab the drawers, since they keep thier inventory

This is the best series on RU-vid I've ever watched. I love the VH community and I love the modpack itself. Keep pushing your dream, Iskall ❤

Hey Iskall! I've been thinking a lot about the heal ability in this game and I think it's time it could use a major rework! Now, I know that heal is one of the biggest innovations from VH2 to 3, so I don't say that lightly, and I don't even think that the main ability needs a rework. I think what needs a rework is its rekits. Heal is such a game changer that it feels nearly worthless to choose group heal or cleanse. Putting cleanse as a potion modifier was a great first step but I think we should go a bit further, because as it stands, the game just isnt structured in a way that either is particularly good without major reworks. Group heal would be great in a game where coop meant proper adventuring parties, where different people filled different roles and everyone stuck together, but in VH, the very nature of the game is that sticking together is inefficient. Cleanse, meanwhile, would be great in a game where status effects were terrifying and debilitating but VH purposely avoids doing that because it just feels less fun to do. So, here's my proposed changes. First of all, get group heal out of here. It just wasn't designed with 3E in mind and really doesn't work here. keep cleanse as a vial ability, don't get rid of it there because that addition just feels fantastic for discovery in the archives, and if you have plans to make status effects more dangerous to the player, maybe just keep it as a heal variation, but if not then get it outta here. My first added variation is a healing over time ability. It's a pretty basic RPG decision, do you want to heal a little right now or heal a lot over time. Pretty simple ability too, you click it and get regeneration for a certain duration, at level 5 it becomes regen 2, maybe it becomes 3 at max level. The max amount of healing you get from it should always be around double the amount normal heal would give you at that level, but over the duration. My second variation is called "Stored Power," i'm trying to think like traditional abilities in games and one common thing there is that there'll be a variation that basically reverses what the ability does. So stored power reduces your healing efficiency to 50% for a short time, but you then deal x% extra damage for your next x amount of hits based on the amount of healing you did in that time. Honestly stored power could even be its own separate ability. It could have a "deal extra damage based on the amount of healing" variant, a "deal extra damage based on the amount of damage you take," (call it no pain no gain), a gain mana variant, and the key to making them balanced is that there's always a brief penalty on you when you do it. If it's based on how much damage you do, you get weakness for the duration. If it's based on how much damage you take, mobs do extra damage for the duration. If it's based on healing, you have lower healing efficiency

that was a delightful event! the team event idea at the end was especially fun, but the racing to finish scavs in general turned out fantastic. i'd LOVE to see more! now i'm gonna go watch some other povs of it.

This event was such a great idea! Bringing hermits together is the reason for hermicraft in the first place. Hope to see more events in the future! So much fun watching the craziness of all the hermits in one vault! 😁

it would be so awesome seeing a full team event like how the tie-breaker went! split into even teams, racing the other side and helping each other complete everyone's scavs! HABBA was such a great idea

If there is ever a tie breaker again we should have separate parties for pvp, and have all non team captains have weaker swords and armor to kinda have the captains be juggernauts. It’d involve a lot more strategy in the final scav!

Vault gauntlet - each team has 5 crystals of increasing difficulties (higher level, harder themes, and negative modifiers) (each teams crystals are identical.) Your whole team as to finish a vault before you can open the next one and for every player that dies you have to wait 2.5 extra mins before opening the one after. need a fast delooting system to make it work.

It was really fun to watch :) The whole idea of HABBA was amazing. The only thing that I was missing was that you didn't show what the loot combined was :( I'd love to see everything that the participants got in mby like a giant chest or something so the viewers could see how much loot 10 players can accumulate in such a challange. Would be also nice if you opend all the completion chests separetly and showed the combined loot from those too - seeing so many chests was cool but not seeing what was in them wasn't.

As someone who has a doggo himself... what Wells described is so relatable... my pupper likes to pupper at the most inconvenient of times and flop onto my legs and or chest while im using my keyboard.

Btw, idk what you usually put there, but I think it would be useful to put your scav bag in your backpack slot (then bind a hotkey if you haven't yet) so you only have to click once to check it

A few weeks behind, but yes, this was a fab event. Only other suggestion I can make (that others probably already have) is maybe a chaos vault round and it's a case of whoever survives the longest. I hope that you had a great holiday season, birthday, and that 2024 will be a better year for you. Keep on vaulting. 💚

I'm looking forward to those future team events. You could do a cake race to room 70. You could do a zero to hero race where you all enter the vault without and armor or weapons and have to use what you find. You could do a 5 lowest vs 5 highest where the higher leveled team has 2 or 3 curses applied to their crystals. So much potential for racing and challenging folks.

23:36 When picking teams, the usual way (which was used in this case) is to have teams picking like: 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2. But it creates unbalanced teams (of course it will never be 100% balanced, but there are ways to reduce that). A better way of doing it is to do: 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1 If you imagine that the skill of the players were perfectly linear and assign numbers to them, the first method would have the one team with strength 20 and the other with strength 16 (supposing 8 players and not counting the person picking), the method I proposed would have both teams with strength 18.

I have watched all your vault series not only this but all. so i just wanted to what did you get by winning as rank 1 you didn't show your loot, i thought that the winner will get all the loot like omega rich and he/ she will decide what he/she wants to give to other hermit's

Ooooh Shnap that was a fun time vaulting

Seeing the group standing around with the various ridiculous-looking outfits really shows off how much Minecraft could benefit from a good transmog system.

Something that would be fun is doing team vaults where groups have to complete a vault of each type before the other team. Groups can be split in half or make them 2-4. Also the Groups should be randomly generated by a spin wheel to make it fair for everyone

One suggestion for vaults- Take a chestplate and leggings with high health roll and use it as you are running out of time this will give you more hearts to greed and will add more time to your timer. Make the replacement armour with high health and high armour durability can be compromised as it will be used only sometime in a vault. Love from India!!!

I think a good additional sort of "Catch Up/Greed is Good" mechanic would be to also hand out points based on the number of soul shards each player gets from all the rotten scavenger items from each vault. This can encourage people to stick around a little longer and loot a little extra from the vaults.

Would be cool to see a team event where you need to complete everybody's scav on the team

I think it would be really cool for shields and maybe other offhand to have a low chance of getting a single slot that you could embed a trinket into, basically allowing you to run vaults with 3 trinkets. And you can add this slot to your gear but you are more likely to break that gear piece than be successful.

Thoroughly enjoyable and really funny event. Iskall in his element as vault/ringmaster. Plenty of laughs excitement and fun in this series. Loved vh before but this was a nice aside. Almost finished vodskall vods and all hermitcraft vids for iskall too. Cant wait for next year. Thanks for the fun and efforts iskallman.

Amazing! this is what I was looking for from modded minecraft series. I first watch iskall Vault hunters video when he's playing single player and has wooden wall as base. I've been following his journey playing Vault Hunters since then without knowing he's already playing on multiplayer server before xD He's been teasing us with other player joining his single player to play together unfortunately it hasn't been realized until now with other hermits playing together. It was already fun first episode when they run vaults together but now it's even better when there's competition between them! What an amazing series. I hope you guys finished the vault after 100 days. I only watch Vault Hunters through RU-vid and never actually played it myself so I didn't know what final vault looks like xD

That was fun to watch. Everyone had fun, people died and Stress almost got second place from Etho. I think next time if there is a tie for second place. The teams should be a blind draw. This way it should be more fun and it comes down to luck of the draw. Etho will like the challenge and you like the gamble. Enjoy your Christmas break.

I've been waiting eagerly for this is episode!!! I loved the energy and intense nature of the competition! Biggest thing that I think would be cool is potentially having a loot array that makes prizes more visible or something (Reminds me of how I was as a kid in an arcade lol)

Loved the episode! Really liked the strategy your team had with the tiebreaker. Maybe an additional rule could be that each team has a shulkerbox in the first room, as a sort of dropoff point that only the teamleader can take stuff from before handing it in? The other team could troll you with the handing in process that way

Teams of two with the highest and lowest levels pairing off would be cool, and then meet in the middle... Reshuffle the teams after every vault, players get the same points as their team individually, you end with a best-team and a best-player awards

I love how iskall has more fun running vaults with friends and giving stuff away than he does winning everything

Wait so the winner did not only not take it all, he didn't take anything? 😂

The only thing I would change is some way to mess with each other more. Like lava buckets or turning on pvp, but ideally something more amusing and less death.

I have been really enjoying this series and found this video particularly more enjoyable. I was wondering, what other vault types are there that you could do an ABBA concept with? I think it would be more fun and higher stakes if more loot was collected during the runs rather than be cut off 5 minutes in when people leave the vault. I'm not sure if maybe there's a way to modify it in that way, but I just thought I would leave the suggestion. Keep up the great content!

Absolutely loved this. If you are gonna do more of these, you should do one in pairs. But rule is the highest level goes with the lowest. Also loving this content, im guessing you will be off for the holidasy soon, enjoy you deserve it dude.

Oh i LOOOVED this! I cant wait to watch everyones videos. Can you please put up the whole thing on your 2nd channel like you do with your stream vods? I need more! I cant wait for you all to do it again! I wish this didnt have to end after 100 days 😔 fav series right now!

I forgot to mention: what an amazing thumbnail!!!

What did I think of this?! BRILLIANT IDEA - and - I could not get enough! So VERY well done - inclusive way to play for everyone - no matter their level. The competition was fun in the tie-breaker, and the drafting from your win Iskall, BEST!!!

Frankly, I think you should just always go with the Treasure Draft at the end for the next Events. Feels so much nicer if everyone gets something in the end (which, next time, should include you then as well!) :)

incredible!!! cant wait for more HABBA scavving - maybe there could even be a HABBA for the new cake vaults? 👀 (did you guys know that iskall is changing cake vaults?!)

This was such a fun way to run a vault together. I'd love to see more like this to spice up regular runs, definitely

I absolutely love this series and I hope it continues after this season! Vault hunters is a great mod to play with friends and adds so many more mechanics to the game that is so fun and interesting to watch. EVERY player is so different in their styles it’s amazing.

Would love to see more events like this. Such a good idea and was loads of fun to watch. This whole series is exactly what a lot of us wanted to see.

As someone from Nashville Tennessee, I can say that your accent was literally perfect

HABBA day is here!

may there could be a new type of vault challenge vault it is scav. but only 15 min. 10..5… there is no death if you die or your time is up you just spawn on the outside with all the loot to that point in the inventory dobbles the vault nr. relativ to time - more points to collect - better race no ties … mariocart rules are : who gets the points first have the higher rang i hope my english is good enough😂

What a fun competition :D was smiling thru the whole time especially a big fan of the team tiebreaker round!

I love watching a little competition between hermits, but the big thing I think... is that you should move you vault portal into Pacific.