Hermitcraft 11: Episode 4 - The Workshop

Welcome back to Hermitcraft Season 11. In the previous Hermitcraft episode, I built these two wind turbines, which I was incredibly happy with until I looked at them for a little while longer. They didn't look quite right, and I read through the comments of the previous episode and a lot of people were mentioning that they wouldn't actually work. So I popped into my redstone testing world and I designed a whole bunch

of different wind turbines of all sorts of different sizes, eventually settling on this one, which is nice and hollow. Lots of wind could pass through it, meaning that the sails would rotate. The actual sails themselves are traveling at a pretty believable speed.

It feels mildly windy, not gale force windy. I did a little bit of decoration work as well, and it's pretty in keeping with what I initially designed, but just dialed up a tiny bit and I'm super happy with it. Now it's time to get these constructed on the Hermitcraft server. Now, both fortunately and unfortunately, I managed to lose my voice this week, which

meant that I was able to just sit down and lock in and get this thing constructed in one session without doing any talking. So this is seven hours of hard work compressed into about 40 seconds. Now, although I definitely don't want to make a habit of revising things in this way, you know, building something in an episode

and then in the next episode coming along and destroying it and reconstructing it, it's definitely not something that I wanna make a habit of, but it also shows the conflict between the ways in which you could view a Hermitcraft season. You could view it as like a series of creative projects

that kind of stand alone. So each one of the episodes is like a project and you start it and you finish it in the episode and that the project is done or you could view the Hermitcraft season as a whole as a creative project in which case each one of the episodes is almost like a stepping stone or a brush stroke, I suppose, towards a finished piece and it is very natural for an artist to revisit brush strokes, revise them and potentially remove them entirely. Now I say all of this with discomfort for two reasons.

Number one, comparing my Hermitcraft season to a piece of art feels pretty ridiculous. And number two, I fear it could just be me coping with my perfectionism. Anyway, the final piece of the puzzle here is to expand out the wheat field and now we're all done and I decided to go afk to wait for the wheat to grow so I could get a good first look and then this happened. What on earth has happened here? I literally put myself in a hole. Oh I was

just I was just down in that hole over there. I was waiting for my wheat to grow

All over the place! Me too! Oh no! You've nearly killed the both of us! I need a tour of your base. You were over there dude.

Yeah, well I was waiting for my wheat to grow. I had like a little bit of wheat and then I placed it down and I wanted to see what it looks like. And I mean, you're familiar with wheat fields right? They look absolutely horrendous. Until they're fully grown. Until they're fully grown, yeah. Yeah, so I was AFK and wow this is an interesting perspective of my base. It's also made it very clear that something has been wandering around my base and just trampling

a bunch of stuff. Yeah, I don't know how that happened, that was weird. Now Green is doing an early season world tour so I showed him around and then he decided that he could make some improvements.

You need a bridge dude.

I do, that is on the to-do list, that is on the to-do list.

A better bridge, a good bridge.

Yeah, yeah, I need to- The whole server needs bridges. I've done a- I've now- I've now done a server tour, this is out of chronology now because you were afk for 10 years, but the whole server needs bridges. If we get some platform material, anything will do. Luke- Okay. James- I'll use this mangrove planks. Luke- I'm thinking this is looking promising, and I cannot wait to see

Gem's reaction to this bridge. James- Well, it does mean that you need to get a donkey. Luke- I do, I need to speak to Etho. Etho was online when I logged in this morning. He was on until I would say probably around about 12. So that would put him at about 4 or 5am. So I'm not sure when I can next expect to see Etho. I've got my own horse, but I don't know if he's much of a jumper. Your horse won't cut it dude. No. Oh my goodness, my armor is almost gone. CARRIE- Yee-haw! LEWIS Oh, oh my goodness!

CARRIE- Right.

LEWIS I've never seen one of these in person! These things are out... CARRIE- Okay, I don't know if you can make that jump as it stands. LEWIS Oh gosh.

What sort of donkey is this?

CARRIE- I mean, it's... they're redonkulous. How did he breathe this? With an unimaginable amount of spare time. Yeah, I was gonna say this explains why he was up to 4am. What's he doing now? If he's been up to 4am again, what sort of donkeys is he formulating? Well, he's called trash because Etho was gonna throw him away. Wow, this is a bad one. This is a bad one, well, technically, but it's still pretty good. Oh my goodness, he's got speed! Yeah, yeah, he's fast.

You're gonna end up wasting so much time falling down. Yes, I am quite aware that this might not be the most efficient way of getting across. Oh gosh, yeah, no, this block balance is lovely mate. It's just a proof of concept remember. Ready? Yep. Oh gosh! I might have to bring back the old sports horse resource pack. Nice. Nice. Nice. Go on! Oh! Right you you've got to full charge the jump. Yeah, that's, uh, this could be...

Full charge the jump!

Okay, this could be challenging.

Oh!

There we go.

That's it, that's it. You need to do that every time. That's it.

Oh! Yes! Yes! How on earth are you making it back?

Whoa! Oh! Yes! Yes! How on earth are you making it back?

Woah!

This is the way to go!

Who needs an Elysia?

That's how you travel in style. That is so cool.

You play the song every time.

Yeah, that is something else.

Wow.

I just made a cake ladder. Now I've got to make one of these.

Yeah. I mean mean this... what do you think is better looking out of the two? Grian is such a little gremlin but I do absolutely love his idea of doing an early season world tour. I'm just glad he came along when it was finished and not when it was half destroyed because otherwise that would have been a little bit embarrassing. Anyway, the windmills are looking fantastic, somewhat... I literally, I can't catch a break with this wheat. Like

this is the problem with having a wheat field. It is fair game for anyone on the server. Oh my goodness. My viewpoint is completely destroyed. Regardless, regardless of all this, absolutely chuffed to bits with the windmills. It is a significant improvement. Also, I redid the power line here. This is a significant improvement as well. Way less droopy. Super happy, super, super happy with everything we've got here. I'm not going to be revisiting any part of this. It is now time to move on.

Plan number one is to spend a lot of diamonds. My armor is embarrassing. I don't I don't even know. It's like hanging off for dear life. One of these, one of these, and one of these. Now I'm hoping this should be the last time I have to repair my armor before I get mending books. In fact I should

probably check in on the shopping district. This area here is going to be the shopping district because there's a handful of little builds popping up. I can see a sign saying be a hero. I already am a hero. Oh, oh, oh, it's donations. Oh, it's donations to a building project. I thought it was the cool kind of hero, you know, like explosions happening while I'm walking away from them or like demolishing entire cities for like a really cool fight. Not being a good person sort of hero, not being generally charitable sort of hero. Nothing cinematic about me putting some items in a chest. What else have we got here? We've got, I'm assuming,

a rocket shop. That's looking cool. We have, we have Impulse's bookstore, which I don't really even know how to interact with this. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Okay. So there's silk touch books on offer. That's good. And oh wow. Oh wow. Is there any men?

Oh, there's mending. I should have checked this. I should have checked this. All right, we'll do that. But I guess this here is this all prismarine supplies, conduit kits and sponges. Interesting.

I think this one was built by pirate Jeff. Okay, let's get mended. So we need We need four for the tools and then three for the armor I'm also going to get another one for my fortune pickaxe and another one for my eventual elytra We seriously have an anvil down here. It is now time to start chucking mending on every single possible tool and Piece of armor I have and I should never have to spend diamonds on tools ever again. What a time to be alive.

So now it's time to start work on the next major project of this Hermitcraft season, which is the workshop. As I've mentioned a couple of times, I am sort of a scrap mechanic I suppose. I'm cobbling machines together out of various bits and bobs that I find in my workshop But currently I don't actually have a workshop. I also don't currently have much of an interior of a base I mean, I do have an interior

There's a bit of a maze So I'm hoping to fix all of this in today's episode The first thing that I need to do is clear out a large area underneath this farm. You see this sort of Plateau that's making its way along here? I think this is perfect for like a little entrance into the ground and then I can have a big underground area that also connects up to the

underside of my house. This should give me plenty of room to build up sorting systems, little organization bits and pieces, maybe get a handful of villagers in the mix and generally just act as a solid base of operations. I am fully eyeballing this. I'm not entirely sure what sort of dimensions I'm going for or where I'm heading, but this is, this is feeling good. I've mined out a little bit further along and I think this size is good

and then we're going to have a little walkway to the house. I've also chopped out this little space here which is going to be for my sorting system that is going to run on copper golems. Oh gosh this is a little bit scary I'm hoping I can make something that looks cool here. I do think it feels quite balanced. I do actually think it feels quite balanced so that's good. But yeah a lot of work needs to be done on this terrain and that entrance for it to look nice. On the topic of things looking nice, I think it's about time that this bridge goes. I'm sorry, Grian. I will rebuild a better one.

Wait a minute.

Am I able to expose Jem's bridge? Finally, yes, I found a part of Jem's bridge that she definitely doesn't want us to see. It's all being held up by one block. Oh, I'm willing to drown for this!

No, I don't want to lose all of my new mending gear. Take that, Gem. My first livestream is just going to be from down at the bottom there. I'm going to set up a conduit and everything. On that topic, I do actually have an extended videos channel called MumboButMoreJumbo and it will be linked down in since I've played around with Copper Golem So I want to make sure that my technology is not outdated. Oh my goodness, bro. Just oxidized right in front of my eyes Everything seems to be working

As usual the multi golem design also seems to be working quite nicely, but obviously it is a tiny bit larger However, it does also double the output per module which is useful. Plus it means I get to have fun with hopping minecarts. Yeah, I think we should go with this one. It is significantly faster, it has much more longevity than the basic design, and it's fancy. And the fanciness factor is what matters. On the topic of fancy things, I have just had an idea. Okay, I have an idea and it just relies on armor stands being able to pass through trapdoors, which they don't.

Okay, I really want to make a conveyor belt with items on it. Then I was going to do this statically using the armor stand pose and mod, but then I thought that maybe I could have them be moving. Okay, so I've got a fake conveyor belt here. If I have armor stands moving behind it and then Is there a way that I can put the block like on the head of the armor stand?

And then it kind of overhang I have pushed the hitbox right the way up to the edge and this That is that is not good enough. Oh, oh Okay, so wait, hang on. Hang on. I can change this get wait. Hang on I think wait left wait the one what are we talking about here? Okay, we're doing this What is that? This is kind of getting there we're kind of getting there here

Okay, no, no angle there. I just need to do some rotation a little bit of scale maybe maybe 1.27 1.27 1.26 that kind of works you know that kind of works oh my goodness and I can rotate it right the way out I can rotate it all the way out oh we are cooking on gas here that is is, I mean, the block is upside down, but that is absolutely fine. Because if this is invisible,

and then I place some water out the back here, please. Oh, we were almost great. It moved briefly. It moved briefly. Is there, is it just the position?

There it is!

Yeah! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Oh, why am I more excited about this than I am for the sorting? Right, let's build the sorting system and then we can do the really important part which is the fake conveyor belt. My early game priorities are perfect

and nobody can tell me otherwise. Gosh, I'm finding starting this so terrifying. I've mined out a little bit of extra space but I really want to get this right. I want to set things up properly. I'm nervously mining out extra space. I'm nervously mining out even more space. I'm incredibly slowly repairing my tools. I've done more nervous mining. I have now connected up this to the bottom of my base. I've realized I definitely did not

have enough resources to actually construct this thing so now I'm gathering wood. Still mining resources. This is literally all the iron that I've got. I'm concerned that I don't have enough. I spent all of it on stupid stuff like chains and iron bars. Regardless, let's start building and see what happens. Now in my head I thought this would make a super cool time lapse, you know, I'm doing redstone, placing in all the blocks, you're seeing all the things going on, but the reality is I placed in all of the barrels for the build and then that covered up the majority of

things that I was doing out the back, so then you know you couldn't see me placing any of the hoppers and then the majority of the time I actually spent gathering resources so I wasn't really there and then I quickly came back and just placed a handful of minecarts and then and then the build is done. Nice time lapse! Towards the end Cubfan popped over and we made a little bit of small talk before forming a devious plan. My chickens are definitely leaking out of my my chicken farm. I'm not entirely sure what to do about it at this point in time. I feel like he's gotten to the point where I should probably do something, like, with

these chickens, as opposed to just walk along and kill them. But like, some of them have gotten so far away.

I was wondering what was going on over here, I saw like a whole bunch of like, little white specks and I was like, what? What's going on there? And it was like, oh, the birds above have burned these chickens or something like that, you know?

It's like, Pearl deals with fire, but maybe Pearl could also be like, pest control or something, I don't know.

Yeah, maybe. You could ask her. I'm sure she'd be up for something.

Something like that. I'm sure. Animal relocation? to a field far away. That's true. I could actually just move them into someone else's base. That's not a terrible idea. That's not a terrible idea at all. How many things can you attach with leads at any given moment? There's not really a limit, but there's a limit in practice. I mean, if Scar is, because Scar is currently online, and it would be very, very entertaining to drop them onto his build while he's there. I think I think we we max out at a hundred, right?

We max out a hundred. It's gotta be a hundred. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I would imagine there's got to be there's got to be just storage Yes. Yes, we're in business All right, okay, okay, I've taken two stack. I've taken two stacks. So technically we have capacity for what, a hundred and ninety... A hundred and ninety two chickens? Oh my goodness, there's so many.

There is a lot, yeah.

There's so many!

Oh my goodness, all the leads popped off.

I got some of them, I got some of them.

What in tarnation has happened over here don't even go there scar but you are with his chicken friends or what don't worry about it we'll just well we'll be back in a bit we'll be back in

a bit and now what are you gonna do with these fine specimens that's that's for us to know and you to find out I mean that these are good these are good hearty chickens that could provide a lot I I'm glad you like them. Okay, Mumbo, is your chicken dispenser still working? Because that's how I get food these days.

Well, it's working arguably too well. It is working arguably too well.

That's actually a good thing because that's how I eat. Thank you.

Okay, excellent.

He's gonna be thrilled.

He's gonna be thrilled.

He's gonna be so happy! I can't believe we've got this many already, we've only got the ones from the hill! Okay, shall I just do it?

I think so, yeah. I can reach.

Yeah, I should have snowballs. Okay, oh no.

That's attached. Okay, so now you've got the gas detached. What if I... oh, now I'm riding it, okay.

But you've still got the chicken attached to be fair, I think they're attached Right, how did you do that and how do I detach from this this thing because I don't break I had this

I had a shift click. Okay, so now... Oh, they're attacked as well! Let's go! Okay, so now you have just the lead for the ghast, so I think we should probably put this back on the fence.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll put it back on the fence. I'll put it back on the fence.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, science, Mumbo, we did it.

We... okay, this is gonna work. This is so many chickens. detach them from the ghast, but I guess worse comes to worse we could kill the ghast.

This also produces an incredible amount of eggs.

This could be my egg farm!

Yeah!

You could have a hovering egg farm! It kind of has quite a beautiful animation, the way that it's like, they all sort of like balloon out and pool around.

This is amazing.

I mean we have like an annoying egg dispenser just on its own. This is annoying just to hover over someone's face. All right, I've got my last chicken.

Got your last one, okay.

I can no longer contribute.

You got the control, you want me to un, here, I'll undo the.

Oh yeah. You might have to go, oh no, I got it. I got it. I got it. Okay. I'll cut the line. Here we go. We're freeing it 3 2 1. Yeah, we're free All right. I'm hopping on here we go

You got the shears right? Yeah. Yeah

lift off

Let's go. This is this is the stupidest looking thing when you're in f5 mode it looks so ridiculous this is absolutely amazing it's not this is not how i expected to be spending my evening i will be honest

oh there he is

hello

oh what is that you are hanging off of that cast

jude what in the world? Hello Scar! Welcome!

To whatever this is!

You're a big fan of the chickens?

Could be a fan of the chickens.

Dude, you get, they're pooping everywhere man. Yeah, they have dropped so many eggs.

They are pooping. They have dropped a lot of eggs.

A lot of droppings.

Oh gosh! This is much more difficult. This is much more difficult. Fly over to me, Kup. I'm coming, I'm coming. We're curious to see. Oh, it does work. No, no, no, no. You guys just left them all here. What a tarnation. You're welcome, Scar. Oh my goodness. That was a speedy delivery!

I was just hoping for the cooked version of these.

This has gone remarkably well, I can't believe they all sheared immediately!

Oh my god! There's so many chickens!

Yeah, it's about 180 I think. Dude, this one's leading a pack! It's the head chicken! Yeah, there is like small squads of them where we kind of messed up the leads a little bit. I can't believe this worked. This is how I'm going to deal with my chicken problem from this point forth. I'm not going to fix my overflowing farm in the slightest.

I'm just going to keep passing them off to other people.

Good work, BombBomb. Good work.

What do I do with them all? I don't know. Where did all those leads go? There should be like three stacks. I think I've been picking them up.

I've got two stacks if you guys want them back.

Yeah, I picked up about a stack or so.

Oh no way. OK, that's great.

My base is...

They've spread out so much.

It's been an interesting place this season for sure.

Yeah, you have dealt with fire, and now you're dealing with, I guess, avian situations, right?

An avian invasion!

You've got an avian invasion!

Avian calling!

They've spread so far! You had about 15 seconds where there was ability to deal with that situation, and now I think you're going gonna be finding chickens for the rest of the season.

When I saw Cub lower it, there was a, oh no, I was like, oh, oh, oh no, oh no.

Well, I completely botched, I botched every single part of it. I immediately fell off, and then I tried to pillar up to cut off the things, and then Cub flew off and knocked me off my pillar. Dude, it looked like a UFO. Yeah.

It had like a saucer shape on the bottom, like looking up.

So it looked like a UFO was floating over here.

It's a very strange and surreal sight. Yeah. I'm going to have to go up and get my music disc now. Well, that works surprisingly well. And Scar is definitely not going to be the only victim of that throughout this Hermitcraft season. I am now fully set up with a copper golem sorting system but I still have an incredibly ugly hole in my

base. Scar thought it was a chunk error. Scar thought that some of the terrain had gone missing. So we definitely need to fix this up and we definitely need to make it look better. Now initially I was kind of thinking something along the lines of like a sort of mineshaft type vibe so with logs and things like that but i think viewed from a distance it could look a little bit muddy so i think i'm actually going to make use of mangrove i am really liking this combination of blocks at the minute i i

absolutely love the look of mangrove and brick and things so i'm going to carry that into this area oh my chicken population is beginning to increase again. Scar's chicken population has all kind of filtered towards the top of the hill. Amazing. Gosh I really do have like no resources to my name. I definitely need to do some form of resource gathering mission at some point in the near future. Does what I'm doing make any sense at all? I'm not entirely sure at this point in time.

I mean, that kind of looks about right as a way to hold things up. And then if we had kind of a structural brace making its way behind all of these, I think we could be in business. We all have to remember the ugly phase here.

I'm hoping that a whole bunch of shelves will help us. In fact, I actually might chuck some stairs on those bricks. So we get some curvature. I sincerely hope this looks good because I've used up all of my bricks to do this. Currently don't really know how to feel.

What about with like a bunch of fence gates and fence posts and things dangling about? I mean, maybe there's something here Maybe there's something here. I think we just need more stuff going on up at the top more shelves more trapdoors I'm incredibly nervous about this. Oh gosh Okay, okay, I mean, okay, I think it's improving I do think once this terrain gets more natural

We could be working with something. I guess while I'm up here I should explain my plan for the future of this hillside. So I think I am going to have like a little a water wheel type here with some cogs and gears and then all of this edge is going to be terraformed sort of stony formations. I'm also going to expand out all the mossiness and continue some of the dead grass down the hillside So it doesn't look like it's such a ring now because this is a workshop. It does need power

It needs electricity. In fact, it needs more electricity than probably anything else I am going to connect it into that future water wheel but I think I Think just going to town with the wiring might do a lot of work here. It is time to craft four billion grindstones. Normally grindstones improve things, but I don't know if I'm improving anything.

Okay, I think a large part of the problem is terraforming, so I've tried my best to add some blocks in here. I think I'm going to put something in this wall. Is any of this working? Is any of it working? I think it actually sort of is. I feel like we're in a better place now.

I think it will all start to make a lot more sense once I start adding in all of the chains. Now that we actually have some wiring going on, I'm hoping things start to make some sense.

Yes.

Yes. Yeah, okay. It's kind of coming together. I am playing around with the idea of connecting up this windmill here to one of these posts. Does this look absolutely horrible? I mean, it's quite tall, so I probably need to add

some extra details and things to the actual post itself. Maybe even have the wire sort of run down the back of it like this? I mean that kind of makes some sense. The big question is does it look strange having straight wires in combination with the droopy ones? I'm gonna say yes. I don't think that looks good.

At all. What if I take some creative license and imagine that it's been routed underneath the ground? Then craft up a bunch of daylight sensors and pretend that they're sonar panels. Then faff around for a couple hours doing all sorts of weird detail stuff. These oxidize soon. I mean to be honest my gobble golems are almost oxidized. I need to wax these guys.

But finally I think the build is done. I am happy with this. I'm happy with it. I'm happy with it. I'm satisfied. I think it looks interesting. I think it looks cool. I actually really really like the solar panels and that is definitely something that I want to expand upon surrounding this area here with alternate forms of energy. But I think once we get the water wheel and some gear action happening

and a few more cables running across and obviously an actual interior for this thing with conveyor belts, then we will be in business. I'm just happy that I was able to start this. The workshop has begun. There is a new build in the Mumbo Jumbo starter base

and it is looking lovely. So that just about does it for today. I'm completely out of time, in fact I've got a rush because I'm about to run to my 30th birthday party. I'm completely out of time, in fact I've got a rush because I'm about to run to my 30th birthday party. Yep, this is officially me now and I don't want to talk about it.