Minecraft Hermitcraft :: Revolutionizing Building? 

Revolutionizing building? You do that like every other week.

Bdubs is to my knowledge the only hermit to change his mailbox to that extent by removing it’s original blocks. He’s able to do this because he taught Etho and Tango everything there is to know about red stone Edit: Shhh guys for the sake of the joke only Bdubs is smart enough to change the mail box as he is the red stone master

9:44 "I'm gonna borrow this armor. For no reason, okay?" Cuts to 3 leather in hotbar

Honestly if anyone can figure out the dripleaf, it's probably Doc and his hivemind. The guy broke the ender dragon's AI to bring it into the overworld, used update suppression to teleport items between a chest and his inventory, shot an arrow through like 5000 blocks, and this season he's teleporting boats. He'll probably come up with some way to suppress updates on dripleaves or something.

I think some stumps near the cabin could help and give a narrative. Shows the trees that were cut down to build the cabin with.

Hey little guy.

37:01 The interesting thing about Cub's downward rocket is it made the dripleaf instantly fall. There might be other ways to get it to instantly fall, reducing downtime

that newly leafed tree needs a tire swing or something. what a beauty!! you are a true artist Bdubbs!!

The way it cut to Bdubs holding a sword and having 3 leather paired with the fact the horse disappeared is quite suspect..

The forest might be the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in this game. There are giant buildings that people have put much time and effort in to and they surely are impressive. But this feels like actual art, it has heart and soul, it feels alive.

Since I live in a log cabin, I've always lamented the lack of good "log-looking" logs in Minecraft. I'm gonna give the signs-on-logs a try. Our home doesn't use daubing, as the logs are flattened on the top and bottom with tongue-and-groove shaping to add stability. So, I'm going to go with a lighter sign on darker logs, so that the logs become the shadow. That might just work! Thanks, BDubs!

having a fully decorated but non functioning mail box is the most bdubs thing ever

Custom disc with bird sounds would be perfect for the forest. Imagine walking across the bridge, birds are singing, rabbits jumping around. So peaceful

I absolutely love how Bdubs is such a chill guy, but every single other hermit edits their videos so he seems like an absolute weirdo lol

That tree is phenomenal, no clue how bdubs does it. I could swear I've seen one in real life like that except it had one of those wheel swings. (Ohh that could look cool)

Bdubs I just wanna say how next-level great all your episodes have been this season. I know people tend to celebrate longer episodes just for being longer and giving us "more content" but you've really made incredible use of the longer format. You clearly put a lot of care into the pacing and editing, as you have for years now, rather than just freewheeling and letting things run long just because. I'm always blown away by what you come up with.

You invented a triple pulse clock. The observer reliably pulses three times then has a short pause. Bdubs not only revolutionizing building and redstone but leafstone also, truly a legend.

The tree is begging for a swing! That branch that is curving over the path totally needs a swing. I love the forest and the tree and the cabin...all awesome!

I think it would be really cool if you could somehow add a dripstone above the dripleaf. That way the water droplets make it look like its constantly making it fall down.

bsubs magic is that he makes you look at mc through a different lens to see the art that it truly can be.

38:37 Four grown men are silently watching the leaf and having fun. This is the best clip of this season.

For the drip leaf challenge maybe present it to Doc, i could see him and his community coming up with something via lag, basically doing something similar to making frame-less portals that he has done in the past. If you goal is to break the game, seek none other then the goat himself.

I love these builds! The trees make it look like a painting. I also love listening to bdubs radio voice. He would make a great narrator for a Calm sleep story or even Audible.

Chinking: is a type of sealant material that is used to fill gaps between the logs in a log home

Bdubs horsegirl cottagecore era with a creepy cabin in the woods where he keeps Scar in a hole is really peak Hermitcraft content.

it was honestly really cool to watch the four biggest technical Minecraft players (Etho, cub, tango, and ofc Bdubs) work together to figure that out

If you’re still wondering about the grout in the cabin. It’s typically sawdust collected from sawing the logs that’s then turned to a paste of sorts and used as an insulator for the cracks between logs

God as someone who also lives in Michigan I can absolutely feel the exact kind of forest this is and it makes me so nostalgic for the pine forests I used to hike in as a kid, I’ve never seen a Minecraft build that feels so much like a real place I’ve been before it makes me so happy

That "grout" between logs on the log cabin is called chinking! Some log cabins sit log right on log, others have the wide bits of chinking that you discussed and modeled your little one after! It looks great!

One day, we'll refer to these as the "good old days" of Bdubs' amazing Hermitcraft builds and genuinely entertaining, funny content every week or two. Let's all just recognize and appreciate that we're living in them now. Thank you Bdubs.

You should put down some dark green and brown carpeting on the trunk of the big deciduous tree you make, so that it looks like it has bare earth and dropped leaves mounding up a little beneath it. I'd also recommend a Haybale under the mail room fire, so the smoke plume goes higher.

I had to squint my eyes a LOT to make the logs look good, but I finally see what you're going for. From a distance, squinting, chef's kiss.

i rly love bdubs channel cause instead of feeling like youre always being talked down to, or that the general audience is children, it feels just like hes talking to you, like hes just explaining his builds to a friend or something. its a really refreshing type of content that i enjoy a bunch, love this cozy slow paced style

I see the title “Revolutionizing Building” and think “That’s just another Tuesday for BDubs.”

7:32 the lighter stuff between the logs is similar to grout. It is chinking, it basically helps seal the cabin better

I always kinda wondered why Bdubs wanted to live so far away from everyone else at the start.. but my god I'm starting to see it, you've really made your own little paradise.. literally Looks absolutely stunning, like pieces and parts taken from live paintings, gorgeous!

I don’t know why B-Dubs was asking Etho, Tango, or Cub about redstone when he is clearly the best redstoner of all time. If he can’t figure it out, nobody can.

i love the cut between the old horse being 'replaced' and the leather appearing in his inventory

20:28 (the shot of Bdub in the tree placing the leaves) made me wish he would BUILD A TREEHOUSE! He would be so good at that!!!

You may want to talk to Impulse--he built a clay farm in his industrial district last season, and it's a short step from there to a terracotta farm. Still not as fast as mining, but you can AFK it.

In my mind the lore is that more smoke comes out of the chimney because the postmaster is burning Bdubs' mail.

The size of those pillager raiding parties really shows how much time BDubs has spent building at his base. That local difficulty is off the charts 😂

Dude this forest is so amazing! I'm gonna cry it's so beautiful. It is like real one. Even that lichen made out of nether stuff. It is incredible! I feel like i haven't seen anything like that before!

How does this guy keep coming up with the strangest ways of building and turning it into something that looks better than anything anyone will ever make

8:40 bdubs, but he's actually bob ross with happy cabin and happy little trees.

As a fellow sign enjoyer I recommend the "Block Entity Extended Rendering" Aka Beer Mod to resolve the signs despawning at a distance.

I don't have time to watch all the hermits' episodes, so each season I pick one main hermit to follow and watch the other's adventures intermittently. BDubs is my main this season and he's absolutely blowing my mind.

This man is taking the meaning of Minecraft onto another level, with unbridled creativity that redefines the word building more into creating and shaping. Absolute mad lad, been watching from all the way back in the OOGE series, good times!

adding a swing onto the big tree could be pretty cool

Love the dripleaf. Imagine having a field of them and time them so that you have a wave of dripleafs falling and opening! Could almost look like a windy grass field like you often see in animated movies!

the big tree that you put leaves on reminds me of this one tree that was on the culdesac on the street where i used to live. Me and my sister used to play and sit and read in the shade of that tree in summer, but they took it down and we moved away. But i still want to thank you bdubs for all the great memories you brought back of the times we spent under that tree and even though it has been unrooted from the ground it will always be rooted in my memory.

For the terracotta farming: it'd reduce a lot of the labour if you combine the mud making and drying into one step: place dirt blocks and convert them with dispenser, then push them over dripstone with a row of pistons. Can fill a 12x12 area of mud quite easily using bdubs perfect redstone, or even larger if you use some trickery to push items beyond the 12 block push limit

For the terracota, its good to note that the farm will only really be comparable in speed on a much larger scale

Dripleaf options: 1. Update suppression, you overload the amount of updates the game can calculate, making the leaf stuck in the state you desire, with timing should even be able to get the intermediate state for a 22,5 deg tilt, talk to Doc, he knows alot about this. Option two, vanilla tweaks mod, the modding community loves you as do we all, if they havent made it already by the time i place this comment im sure it wont be long, maybe give them a quick ask on twitter. Should just be a matter of setting a nbt tag like how you can do with the invisible item frames today. Also, thanks for the awesome entertainment today, hugs

one thing to remember with the terracotta making is that drying the mud takes 20 minutes (excluding the stray blocks that don’t dry) for 2 stacks, but it also takes 20 minutes for 10 stacks if you make more drying spots. mining terracotta will take more time with more blocks,, so if you’re doing more than probably 20 stacks or want to make terracotta passively it might be worth to make a big drying rack 👍

I gotta say, you have given a feeling to your episodes of utter peace and relaxiation. It feels like a I get to live in a Bob Ross painting for ~40minutes a week and I treasure it.

Going back to your intro, I'm 22 now and am amazed I still watch the hermitcradt series. I know 22 is not exactly "old", but your building style is something I appreciate as being so unique and detailed. So, while there may be some "babies" around, there are also "grown-up babies" as well

Hearing the Bdub's kids are 7 and 9 now just turned my beard hairs grey. I remember watching Bdubs for years before he had kids, and the episodes where he announced the pregnancies. And here I am after all these years still being entertained. Bdubs is truly one of the greats of RU-vid and content creation.

The white "grout" in between the logs is called "Chinking". It is a form of filler/adhesive/sealant for log cabins.

For in the forest I actually like that the drip leaf has a little bit of up time, the movement makes it look like it's moving in the wind which is a really cool effect

Coming from someone whose day job is working as a mailman, your mail room is a great representation of an actual small village post office. The bookshelves work great as mail cases where mail is sorted daily before its delivered. I know there's limited space but a minecart would look good in a corner somewhere to represent the mail carts we use to transport mail and parcels through the office. Maybe even a minecart with a chest to simulate a large parcel in a mail cart. Add some old hanging ceiling fans and a few signs/paintings to represent billboards and it would look even better. Your builds are inspiring to me. You have taught me a lot. Thank you!

The big tree looks amazingly real.

7:15 that's called 'chinking'! It was to seal the gaps from air and water. It's been made of different mixtures of materials over time depending on what worked best for different types of climates and availability.

Bdubs, your forest has inspired me to play the game again in a way and at a pace that I never have. I love every inch of it. The way the view points act like paintings. So much attentiom to detail. To make something not just interesting or cool but genuinely beautiful and atmospheric. The artistic intent to make it feel alive and to guife the player through a small journey where each step has a direction amd purpose. I'm not kidding, the forest has actually revolutionized my love and creative energy for minecraft and myself in real life. I think your forest is my all time favorite build i've seen. And honestly, thank you.

I love the idea of the chimney activating when the mailbox is full!! Have you considered maybe taking it a step further, and attaching it to beehives? That way, when you have a message, you’ll start seeing more bees around, but when you empty the mailbox, the bees go back into the hive

Bdubs in his Redstone era. He puts out this goofy persona, but underneath it all he's a redstone genius. That's not even mentioning that he's constantly pushing his building abilities to deliver these stunning tableaus

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this: The grouting in-between the logs in the cabin by your house is packed mud. There's loads of names for it (daub, cob, etc.) but it's just clay. The logs don't sit flush (as is the case with most old log cabins in America) and so the gap is plugged with clay.

bdubs, I think it would be awesome if you added parrots hanging on the forest trees, and maybe even add a birds nest to give it more life too!

One day my life will be complete if Bdubs ever gets into voice acting and he’s a lead in some sort of goofy animated comedy

It'd be a cool idea to include a fire watch tower for the mailbox. Having it high above the tree tops to scout for wildfires, and notifying you that you have mail. Edit: maybe that'd also be a great location for your nether portal?

So I didn't realize that when the redstoners were powering the dripleaf ( _e.g._ Cub at 30:10 ), they were testing an *actual Minecraft mechanic* that powered dripstone stays horizontal. But once I saw that in the code, it was _super easy_ to write a mod to *lock the dripleaf state, **_regardless_** of tilt* when powered. Anyway, if you can convince X to add it, the mod is called *Leafstone.* Hmu if you have any questions.

I suppose if you got a texture pack to remove the trails from normal rockets, not the explody ones, then set up a cloud in the sky that rained down rockets onto a roof of dripleaf, then you'd get the angle 95% of the time.

LOVE the picnic table! makes the forest feel like a place to hang out, slow down, and enjoy rather than just pass through

I mean regarding the terracotta: Drying the mud is scalable, the more mud you place to dry the more clay you get in the same amount of time Harvesting the terracotta isn't scalable, you can only go as fast as you can mine it (I mean you can scale it with more people mining but outside that). Drying the mud requires passive time, time spent doing other things Harvesting the terracotta requires active time. Passive time can be counted as effectively no time, as it doesn't remove time from other tasks. Imagine you place the mud and start building, the time it takes for the mud to become clay can be ignored, it's the same time cost as if you started building, then stopped and instantly converted the mud to terracotta. The only active time spent is in the harvesting of dirt, turning dirt into mud, placing the mud, and harvesting the clay to put in the furnaces. That's the amount of time that's actually important to compare. Also considering you'd be destroying a mesa biome, you likely wouldn't want to harvest from the closest mesa, increasing the time to gather it directly by a slight amount.

The grout on a timber cabin is to insulate the cabin, the technic was brought over by settlers from the Swedish Kingdom, which as the time included Finland. People started to prefer that building technic over the wattle and daub the English used, much quicker and warmer.

I like the idea of Bdubs adding in one or two trees every so often, gradually expanding the grove over the course of the season

You named Pearl's wolf in Secret Life "Mailbox" now she's the mail lady and the one who forces ppl for mailbox locations. You predicted it or twas planned all along heh. The revamped tree looks amazing and you're right, the shade it casts looks immersive. I had to google log cabin with grout and learned it's called Mortar Chinking learned something new, Tell Etho it exists, and is called that lol

To my knowledge the only way without dropping an item to keep the plant thing down is a debug stick. IDEA: Have like a dropper system up in the sky the dispenses an item every few correct ticks so an item is always weighing the leaf down. Have it high above so it's out of render distance. The items are dropped with a synchronized clock so by the time the plant is up, and item has already been dropped on it. Hope this might be helpful!

I'm glad you also made a little "hmm" noise as you found leather in your inventory, right after borrowing the horse armor "for no reason"... I also was confused how that could have gotten there.

9:04 "Have you ever heard the phrase, 'It's time to meet your maker?' I made you, and it's time.. to meet me"

Dearest Bdubs.. Ive watched your videos for many years now.. Normally I don’t comment on RU-vid videos. But this takes it to new heights. The last year you really evolved and progressed a lot! Everything keeps getting better and better. Your thumbnails is a work of art, the background music, the slight fade when you’re cutting to a new scene. Every episode is worth the wait. I don’t play Minecraft myself, but when I get a notification that you uploaded a new video and I get off from work, completely finish with my day, its time to relax and watch a episode with Bdubs. Really enjoying what you do, keep it up

The drip stone problem could work with Axiom, but that would be a creative thing.

One of the only Minecraft players that can make a video titled "Revolutionizing Building" and everyone just believes it. Mainly because it happens like, twice a week.

Bdubs is on his A-game this season! builds, collabs, redstone, editing. 10/10

love you to death bdubs. btw i think you should cast shadows on your plains using shulker boxes at build limit. dont worry they wont render in but it will still cast shadows

That stuff in between the logs is insulation to help keep the inside of the cabin warm, its sometimes dried moss thats stuffed in between the logs

Love you John. I’m a grandmother and I love your videos. I have now introduced my 5 year old daughter to the game and we have so much fun playing together. She always looks at me with her wide blue eyes and says “let’s go in the darkness!” meaning a fresh cave. She’s a riot.

14:30 Another thing to consider, the Hermitcraft server has the re-dye mod pack. So they can collect white, yellow, what ever terracotta from a mesa and redye it what ever color they need. If you’re strictly vanilla. Smelting clay into terracotta is the way to go if you want large supplies of terracotta you can dye to whatever you need.

The biggest thing about the dripleaf is that it moves. A little bit of movement adds SO MUCH to a scene. Minecraft builds always feel unnaturally still imo

what about an old school pottery studio filled with pots for the terracotta smelting building?

What a trick. Bdubs bringing the redstone community together and focusing all that brainpower on what will most effectively be an audio enhancement in the end. (This is slightly goofy of a comment; the fact that it actually works in a vanilla way is incredible!)

Loving how groups of Hermits are showing up for a tour of his work just to marvel at it

You could also have a sticky piston push a hay bale under the campfire when you have mail, which will make the plumes go even higher!

In my country, the Netherlands, you often see those groves of trees because there are animals with anthrax buried underneath. Cool to see something like that, even if it wasn't meant to be like that

Bdubs' forest is the most beautiful build I've ever seen in Minecraft.

Bdubs, as someone with a longstanding Canadian wilderness heritage canoeing throughout rivers and lakes in the Great Wild (I live in the Netherlands now, not a lot of wilderness left there unfortunately), I would love you putting a little fishing pond with a tiny dock underneath the Great Oak. Me and my grandfather would spend summers on end sitting underneath a large willow tree in the shade, just fishing and reminiscing. Peaceful, sometimes with a fruitful bounty, sometimes just laughing and relaxing. More often than not just enjoying the wildlife on the other side of the pond drinking or hunting little critters. He would teach me which herbs to pick for food, which fish were tasty and which plants to grow to sustain life in and around the pond. And the best thing about that tree: a rope swing from a big sturdy branch into the pond. Childhood fun for years that I now show my own kids. Great vid as always.

38:14 maybe a chicken on a lead that’s JUST dangling in the right spot?

bdubs is slowly doxxing himself by building his backyard and presenting it to thousands of people online haha

Bdubs use of sound is phenomenal

Now that's a BDUB episode/video. I walk away feeling better about things. Thanks man for sharing.