I Have a SECRET?! Empires x Hermitcraft 

Thanks for watching!! Still working on subtitles for this one, hopefully they will process for tomorrow. Sorry for the delay!

I love how everyone tackled this scenario differently! Pearl ended up in her season one outfit, Empires False is on an adventure... and Gem is a LARPer who doesn't want one of her friend groups to realize she goes to Renaissance Fairs with her other friends group on the weekends.

Explanations why there are hermits that are emperors -Gem : Has interdimentional awareness powers -False: Has social anxiety and ran away

I love the idea of Gem being a dimension hopper who travels between Hermitcraft and Empires playing whatever role she wishes

I love the bit teaching the Hermits how to barter. Impulse seemed genuinely confuzzled lol

GeminiTay, the Multiverse Strider. This is good lore right here.

i just can imagine pix's head ache when he is going to be doing the recap coming up.

I like to think that C!Gem is an expert costume designer and makes all of her skins from scratch. In all of her bedrooms, there is a magic closet that’s full of all of the outfits she’s worn over the years and every morning, she picks which costume to wear that day. There’s also two boxes in the closet full of old costumes, one is marked “MCC” and the other is marked “Afterlife."

If only Bdubs was on the server, he'd love to join Gem's religion.

I love how gem casually confirms that she's from multiple worlds 🤣 I wonder what false's take on it will be considering she's also from hermitcraft

Has Gem created a church specifically to entice Ren and Bdubs to join it? 🤔 Sunglasses? Must sleep at night? I'm not sure I can think of anyone more appropriate

this episode implies that gem DID remember oli, but just couldn't be bothered to deal with him.

All the Hermits show up on Empires. fwhip: *recruits Tango into the goblin empire* Pix: *blows Impulse's mind with David the Copper farm* Katherine: *immediately sets Cub to work slaying the natives* Gem: *LET'S CREATE A CULT* 😆

I like to think that Princess Gem does her dimension-hopping via dreams; that’s part of why she’s so careful to sleep through the nights. That’s when she’s in Hermitcraft!

Ohh Gem’s going with the plane-walker route!! Epic. Nice contrast to False, who went with the “two alternate versions” option.

i kind of like how each person is reacting differently to seeing familiar faces. it reflects each persons storytelling and the way they view their character! for some people, their minecraft guy is their consistent character across worlds. for other people, their minecraft guy is Them, putting on different outfits. and still others view their minecraft guy as a blank canvas to make a wildly different character each time. it effects the stories they tell and the way the audience is supposed to interact with the story. It's extra interesting when someone thinks they recognize someone from their world, but the other doesnt recognize them at all because they have different ideas of where their character begins and ends!!! i can appreciate ur honesty about what kinda story you want to tell and how you want to go about it!! i for one love uninterrupted roleplay that rarely breaks the fourth wall, but i would never ask someone to do that if thats not their style LOL. it only works if youre excited to do that! i love hearing your perspective on princess gem, it sort of reminds me of ttrpg actual play podcasts, where a lot of meta talk is happening in the midst of roleplay, so you end up with a really holistic view of the character! anyway lovely episode. i wonder if bdubs would be happy to hear about the church of dawn LOL

The idea that Gem plane shifts to another world because she likes being a princess is both adorable and hilarious.

Instead of just pumpkins in the roof try using jack o lanterns. Light source for mob proofing.

The lore implications from everyone’s POV’s is that some people can remember their time in other servers, but others can’t. Notably, Scott didn’t recognize anyone from last life but jimmy and tango recognized each other from last life.

im expecting tons of fanfic and art about Gem travelling realms when she sleeps, complete with weird situations of one version of her being awoken suddenly by something and her other version just suddenly collapsing. it must be done.

you know things are weird when you have two Gems in the one and Pixlriffs is gonna have to recap himself

I love that she remembers her life on hermitcraft and all other servers she played on

I'm sure that Gem's ability to jump between universes will be very helpful for the hermits to come back to hermitcraft. Maybe some dawn princess magical powers.

I kind of love the whole “girl decides to be a princess one day and the land accepts her” thing, it’s really cool!! And the angle of other friends finding out you’re a LARPer is so fun ksjdksh

Ya know what.. small idea, you should make a hidden version of the rift in every base to show the dimension hopping as lore, that's my suggestion ofc, but it'd make sense, one in the elven castle and one in dawn :p

Thanks for the cool shades! I'm off to get my eyes lowered 😂

No matter how their stories come out to reconcile the two worlds, it's good to see everyone together and should make for interesting times.

People like Grian is just straight into the chaos and explaining/having fun, where as people like Gem try and keep the lore and also her Hermit self.

... I get the feeling that with this whole crossover thing of hermitcraft and Empires... that Doc is going to become the enemy of everyone on the server by setting up super efficient farms for everything. Every food type, copper, frog lights, iron, moss, bone meal, every dye color, and then some... only a matter of time.

its really fun seeing which players choose to be dimension travellers and which players choose to be parallel selves, i love the variety

GeminiTay you need an army and villagers to make this beautiful Empire living.

gem actually working and changing her subtitles is amazing. a small thing that makes the video quality so much better and more enjoyable

I love the church roof gradient. It just looks so nice and colorful. The sunglasses are a nice touch as well, though you might be heading a bit closer to Sun cult than church with the rules. Impulse needs a bear in Hermitcraft, whenever he returns to the HC server he needs to take one with him. Great episode and I'm loving the crossover event.

Was waiting to see things from Gem's POV! Its finally here!

I like how Gem is basically canonically an interdimensional traveler

That gradient has to be one of the prettiest gradient i've seen ever, i love it so much! It's interesting that empires gem is just hermit gem and she's just trying to act normal in front of the hermits! I wonder if any of the hermit is going to be a citizen of dawn 👀

I feel like Apollo needs a house or something for when he’s chilling, he’s always standing outside guarding the sheep through sunny days to stormy ones

We better get a hermitcraft episode called Gem alone

i thought gem was going to have a mini portal she uses to get between the hermitcraft world and the empires world. either way you handle this crossover, you will do great

I loved your meta explanation in the end, reminded me a lot of playing DND with my friends, how we sometimes goof and break the fourth wall and sometimes we're seriously in character. Specially at the end of a season just talking about what just happen, what we want to do moving forward, etc...

I love the way you share a little of the behind the scenes decision making that goes on around your different characters for empires v hermitcraft, and empires last season too! Its interesting to see how what we as audience see on screen comes to be

I absolutely adore the idea of Gem not quite living double live, but rather just making her actual "princess lore" being literaly a "princess lore" for character she enjoys RP'ing as with her group of friends. I've been into larping during my uni years, and feeling embarrassed and secretive about it was somewhat a charm of it. Playing a make-believe with other like minded people who didn't judge was in essence an escape from boredom and stress of my "regular" life. And since it was an escape to another world, I didn't want those two worlds to collide as much as possible. "Yeah, no, sorry, I have a... thing... on saturdays" was awkward but also it was somehow fun. A guilty pleasure to an extent I guess. I was never "found out" in a character by the "outsiders", but I did have a hard time explaining to my parents that my vampire get up wasn't a cult or a fetish thing.

Worlds colliding is always awkward, but you're handling it with royal grace! And I love the idea of your princess character discovering her true self. Very much looking forward to how this unfolds!

Your colour gradients are a complete joy! I'm inspired to work more creatively with block palette combinations when I watch you and Sausage build. Loving the Empires/Hermitcraft crossover. Don't worry about the meta. After all, that's what Pixlriffs is doing too. Nothing wrong with meta. We enjoy you be you, with everything you bring to Minecraft. Can't wait to see the fun you all have together.

That roof gradient from crimson planks to honeycomb is inspired and inspiring

Gotta love Gem in Sunglasses! Love hos derpy it looks

Being horrified by your friends discovering your LARP hobby is so relatable. If I stepped through a portal with my friends and emerged on the other side in my gear and medieval world I don't think I would ever stop running

Maybe you could build emergency sleeping points around the server, as part of your church.

dude i love the idea that there is only one Gem. it makes my lore brain buzz. the idea that there are multiple other people who have multiple characters but there is only one gem and she just hops worlds gives me seratonin

Sounds like Bdubs and Rendog should be your first recruits, just based on your first rules.

This is the greatest collab of all time. As a fan of both servers, I love this to bits.

I’m really enjoying seeing how different Hermits are reacting and trying to work out how each of the Empire people stay in character. Gem, maybe just explain away the difference as having found an earlier rift between the worlds. Any elaborately plots will feel contrived.

“Yeah it’s my home. My only home. One home. Just one.”

I just have to say, now that the princess of Dawn is starting the church of the Sun One phrase will likely become prevalent on Empires episodes... and praise the Sun it fits.

Hold on, if Gem is a multiversal traveler, then is empires s2 gem the same as empires s1 gem? Neat!

OH. MY. PEARL. THIS LORE OVER THE MULTIVERSE. WOAH. SO TO GET THIS STRAIGHT: Gem is a rift traveler that travels to Hermitcraft, Empires, and etc.. So this means she ALREADY KNEW HOW TO TRAVEL THROUGH THE RIFT BUT NEVER TOLD ANYONE SO SHE COULD PRETEND TO BE DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT WORLDS. Lore.

been looking forward to your perspective, can't wait to see how you reconcile the two different multiversal Gems!

I love your take on being a world hopper! I'm loving how everyone has their own ways of explaining how this is working (also, i'm having horrible flashbacks to jeremyism. lets hope this doesn't go the same way lol)

i wonder how her empires 1 character fits in the lore… after watching her in the other videos that were released earlier, i thought that she would be going the chavez-like character in the minecraft multiverse.

Terraforming is one of my favorite things to do in Minecraft. It’s also what I’m best at. I can make excellent hills and caves, but I don’t do nearly as well when making houses. I recently made a ginormous geode on one of my private creative worlds. Nice to see another person who enjoys terraforming as much as me!

I hope they have some of the Empires people go over to Hermitcraft too for this crossover.

Ooohhh this looks good!! I was waiting for this!!!

I love your intro. It has a feel for a fun novel which shows your aware of multiple universes you take part in. I've been thinking of 1 or 2 characters that shift between/through universes/worlds. Also it's cool that Pixel is here too because I see him as someone who can see into other worlds on occasion. Maybe he has a viewing window that opens every weekend.

I like this headcannon! A reality shifter Geminitay who can shift to different reality where she can lives as her regular self, an elf hermit or a born princess of Dawn

i love the multiple universes lore! does this apply to season 1 and afterlife too? the idea of it all being one gem is so cool to me.

AAAAAH LORE OMG IVE BEEN WAITING TO SEE GEMS SIDE TO THIS STORY 🤩

Hopefully this crossover lasts through the holidays, doing multiple SMPs has to be very time consuming and a bit stressful. Being able to concentrate on a single set of builds has its benefits as well.

It's consistent with how youve always treated empires ! one of my fav of these episodes :)

I was very curious how the lore would work with False and Gem since they are in both worlds. I must say I love how you’ve done it. 1 is out adventuring while the other knows about the multiverse and is able to dimension hop (sort of reminds me of America Chavez from Marvel) Dawn is looking great now

love the gem world-hopping lore!! great idea!!

The idea of Gem being a dimension hopper seems so cool

Haha I love the "normal" casual approach Gem takes to the whole crossover. Like, yeah, she's just a normal person who plays make-believe with her friends sometimes. No lore, no angst, she's just very dedicated to her roleplaying hehe

This is delightful aaa i actually adore the way gem is handling the character lore stuff

I love the meta explanation, this character really is interesting! I wonder if there's going to be any conflict between princesses, since Katherine needs night time to do her secret monster hunting job...

sooooooo gem is just basically travelling back and fourth through the hc and empire dimension?! a lot of lore has just been dropped🤯

I have a Gem omega statue in my Vault Hunters world and I always love seeing which costume she is in when I sign in - very fun that it’s now “lore”

would be incredible too see gem build a statue of her in the castle doing the praise the sun emote :3

i love this episode. breaking the 4th wall and hearing abt the changes is really cool too. i also feel so inspired after any gem episode to build

The different ways of handling two SMPs--one lore-ish and the other more casual--has been fun to see. Especially Pearl, and Sausage freaking out upon seeing her.

I love Gem taking the position of “knowing about the multiverse” and using it to “jump between worlds” to be in both of them

I totally expected gem to take this route.

I hope being in proximity to the hermits in this world gives gem a split personality storyline.

I really like the lore that Gem is able to live different lives in different worlds in a way, and some realize this (Hermitcraft) while some people don't (Empires) This is awesome to see two of my favourite SMPs colliding for a bit! Awesome video! :D

i really liked the way you handled the lore, basically gem is someone who can shift between different realities and live multiple lives at once which is so cool :D

0:51 WAIT WAIT WAIT... Did she just confirm what I have been saying for months????? That HC Gem and Empires Gem are the same person and she can easily hop between worlds!!!!!!! My head is going to explode with all the Lore going on. 6:33 *Facepalm* She thinks she's so Punny.

gem just making the whole thing so chill

I love how you said "my worlds are colliding together pix" also loving the church

Love that it's the same Gem just casually traveling between worlds😁

I have a lore idea!!! What if Princess Gem became an evil Queen? Perhaps she has become altered by the Rift or something, because she has been jumping between the worlds too often. I think this would be an amazing plot twist because as you stated in the video, Princess Gem is a fun loving and cheerful person who doesn't want too much power and she is just happy being a Princess, but as she hops between worlds, her personality could slowly be altered every-time she changes worlds. And maybe, The Watchers are controlling her, from the Evo series in 2017. Perhaps the Hermits and Empires players have to work together to save Princess Gem and defeat the watchers once and for all. But maybe the players who used to be on the Evo server keep having flash backs to their times on the Evo server, and then remember the Listeners. Maybe the only people or things who know how to defeat the Watchers are the Listeners, and they have to try to contact the Listeners to find the way to defeat the Watchers. I hope this is some good inspiration for you Gem, and I also wanted to say how much I love your videos. You are an amazing creator and I am so happy to be apart of the Gemintay community.

I love that Gem's been using pumpkins on her roofs since I don't know when 😂

Love it!! I wondered how you would work the lore with 2 worlds since you were "left Behind" Its really neat to see all these Minecraft characters all in the same world! I cant wait to see what you all get into!

for the lore, you could create a very small rift somewhere hidden in your base that your character - who is both a princess and an elf - has been using this whole time to travel between the worlds. but she's choosing to keep the still-working rift a secret, because she doesn't want to be blamed for the chaos the larger rift has caused. this way, if you wanted, you could still be playing on both worlds, and your character has an in-universe explanation as to why she isn't stuck like the rest of the hermits are!

No one will know why this has so many likes…

Gem is just everything and everyone

This was an awesome entry level video. I was having so much difficulty digesting the other hermits/ empire members videos since it's my first time watching empires SMP. But your video was like a link from the literal to the roleplay, with clear explanations. And not a lot of craziness going on that overwhelms me from the get go. Thank you so much. ^^

I love how relevant the multiverse is it’s one of my favorite things to write about! And gem it great ALSO I think it’s amazing that gem is just one gem and just switched costumes

Love you gem 💎 keep up your videos

I got the notification and I clicked on this video at the speed of light! Love your videos Gem!

14:30 I actually love when you guys break the 4th wall to explain lore, it was the same when Grian explained the rift when he first built it

Oh my gosh your character is an inter-dimensional LARPer I love that so much, this is absolutely fantastic. Also the gradient on the roof is gorgeous just wooaaaah! :D