Hermitcraft 11: Episode 11 - THE BASE BEGINS!

Welcome back to the next episode of Hermitcraft. Oh boy, we are moving on to bigger and better things. And yep, been doing some work without recording it because I'm terrible at my job. As you can see, I have already started moving some terrain around. I've removed this entire island. In fact, I've done quite a lot of planning, but kind of

on camera. I did a three part series where I learned the mod Axiom by Mulberry, and I have planned out exactly what this is going to look like. Now when I started, I had never really used Axiom. I'd done a few attempts to learn it and I struggled. So I decided to stream it and I just made my way through each of the brushes, figuring out what they did as I went along. And because I had some experience with mods such as Voxel Sniper and WorldEdit, I actually picked it up fairly quickly. As

you can see, I took the time to just go over with some different brushes to create some rugged landscapes, and then I used something called auto shade, which is a feature that basically takes the work out of texturing, and it creates these natural shadows based on where you tell it where the sun is is and it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you. I then spent another hour or two hours texturing over the top of it adding some intrigue adding a bit more and then going in by hand and just fixing it up. I did all this on a backup copy of the current world and this is

the result. This is definitely a bit of a spoiler but this is the result. This is definitely a bit of a spoiler But this is the result of my several hours of live streaming axiom, and I'm pretty happy With what we've got here. It's very very different to what is Currently there and the workload here is Very large. This is where the observatory is going to go. This is our middle island.

This is the direction we are heading with our mega base. But right now, it looks like this. So we're looking at months of work, I think, to terrain this. And as much as I want to hop in and just get terraining, I've already done a little bit of work, as you can see. Unfortunately, we can't just dive straight into the terrain.

We've got another project that I have committed to that I definitely forgot about. So, this river here runs all the way over here somewhere. It's quite a long river. You see that there? And I signed up to create a section of this race course using the Nautilus. If you don't know what the Nautilus is we've used them in our videos before they're these so cub has proposed a race course using these and seeing as Part of the river is directly outside of my cave here. I have inherited a

Section of the course we need to do our section of the course all before next Friday. Now personally, I think that- What? Why did I put dried ghast under my carpet? Oh, this is hot. This is really creepy. I must have been trying to get these particles to go through the carpet and they just don't, and so I forgot. That's really weird what that's a really strange move hold on We got to do something real quick Joel's base

Don't look under the red carpet in greens bedroom No real reason behind that just thought I'd send Joel to have a little look everything's normal right so let's focus up this nautilus run It's it's quite a mammoth task We've got a decent chunk of river to do something with so because my base is here I've been assigned part of the water course Nautilus race thing and my section I believe is from here to

here but cub is on right now so I might just go and ask him to introduce this thing because I haven't mentioned this once and it has been on my radar for a while. This is last minute homework time. Here he is. I haven't been in here in a while.

Cub?

Hello!

What's up dude? Dude, you need some rockets? Check this out.

Click this shelf.

Click, just right click the shelf?

Right click the shelf. Pop up. There you go. Whaaaaat?

Infinite top up?

Infinite top up. What's going on man?

Oh yeah, so I haven't done anything for the Nautilus race, nor have I told the audience what it is. Hmm, okay. So, maybe you could explain? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we can explain me what you basically a race. Yeah. Yeah, come down this way come down this way We got a little thing down here. Follow me. Follow me. You're ready. You're ready. Follow me jump down. Oh, oh my goodness There you go. Yeah, welcome to the Nautilus cave. Oh Awesome. Yeah, this is a little like

Stowing area you can stow your Nautilus down here before the race There should be some Nautilus here. We can hop on and we can see some of the racecourse. Oh, I the netherite armor

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I get that one. That's a good one

Do you have to do you have to upgrade the diamond or do you find find it as netherite?

You got to upgrade the diamond. Yeah There you go, yeah All right, if you boost down this way Graham See this giant gate here. Yeah This is the starting area. This is where everything will start if I open this We'll have a countdown three two one go And then we're into the race course.

So I put down a couple obstacles here. Yep. Just as sort of examples. Get people acquainted with the course.

How do I fit through here? Oh right, the Nautilus has to fit through there, not me.

Yeah, you gotta go higher than you think.

Yeah.

We've got some arrows here indicating where you go.

Okay. So the course is through this entire river, and then my section is just a bit outside my base.

Exactly, exactly.

Whoa. And so it's basically a race to the end.

Oh man, so that's punishing if you don't get the jump.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you might want to come down too. Wait. Might be a little tough to make the jump here.

Okay, there's a ton of lily pads here.

Yep, yep. Dive, dive, dive.

Okay, so this, what I'm picking up from this is that the key is obstacles.

Oh, jump. Oh my god. Oh, Asuma. Drip leaf jump. Oh my god, oh, Asuma! Asuma's starting his section.

That's a cool sign, I like that. Go down, then up!

Woo! Woohoo!

Okay, so X is doing his homework last minute too.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. Most people are still in the process of getting their stuff ready and getting their stuff built

Well, I've got I've got some ideas. Well, I've already got my ideas kind of together I just need to do a feasibility study. So my section starts here. I find it so funny that gem thought that her unfinished pillar would never be seen and And now the Nautilus course goes straight through it

front and center man front and center

oh i love it

uh so mine starts literally here yes yeah you start here and you go all the way to like scars cliff area like just beyond scars cliffs over here yeah with the mud and stuff okay Okay. So it's not a small section, to be honest. It's not, it's not. It's a pretty big section. Okay. Well I've got an idea, but it involves wardens. It involves wardens? Are you kidding me? Yeah. Well this section here I wanted to make entirely black concrete and then give the racers darkness.

Okay, yeah.

But I need to understand how the wardens work first.

I see, yeah, because we don't want the Nautilus to die. That's basically the only requirement. You can't have players die.

Okay, well, I wasn't worried about that. I was worried about them not getting the effect for one reason or another.

Oh, that too yeah you have to have the wardens close enough so they don't shoot players but you also want them to have the blindness effect okay okay all right then thanks curb no problem green be one yeah zombie one I think the zombie one is slightly faster that might

be a problem I think we're gonna allow it though, just because.

See what happens.

Okay, right, we know what we're doing now. So the course goes round here, through this bit. So my plan, as I said, was to make this section a darkness bit, but then have like some lights leading the way. And then just do a small dripstone section here. Now that we've consulted Cubby Wubby, it's time to consult Tangy Wangy.

Okay, I will never, ever, ever say that again. Hey, Tangy Wangy. Okay.

Hi.

I need help of the Warden variety.

Okay, okay.

I just catch my breath, you scared me up to death. All right. help of the warden variety. Okay. Okay.

I just catch my breath. You scared me up to death.

All right.

I need to understand the warden because there it's close to my base. Is it going to kill? Is it just going to constantly kill fish?

Should you want to, you want to darken them, but you don't want to kill the

people and the things. I gotcha.

All right. people and the things. I gotcha. Alright, we'll step up here, step up here. We're doing something very similar here.

So I'm assuming these are positioned perfectly so that the player always has darkness.

Yes, so the idea is that these will, this little sneak peek at the deck top, these will pop up at certain points in the game and apply darkness to the players. Now, the way it works is the basics is the wardens. Every six seconds will pulse darkness to all players within a 20 block sphere. So 20 block radius. OK. OK. So that's why they're kind of like offset at like a like an angle. If you imagine a 20 block sphere on all these, it pretty much connects.

Like there's like a little bit of overlap between each one.

And will these wardens attack me?

Yes, they absolutely will. If you get too close to them. Um, so, I mean, how do you, how do you get into it? There's like wardens have their own like, uh, anger system. There's like a quantitative number that builds up over time and if it gets up to I think it's 75 that's when they when they you know aggro something and they blast it.

So I can walk over to this guy and be like blah blah blah. See I just got like one aggro on him and that every time you do that it adds like 25 so I probably got like 50 now. There we go there's okay now 75 yeah yeah so the third one was the 75 and that's when he starts to aggro me so you got a little bit of time but not too much not too much okay here's here's my next question is there a sweet spot between

the distance for the darkness and the angi zone okay there is, but it's not much. Wardens will blast you up to 16 blocks away and they'll apply the darkness 20 blocks away. So you only got a four block gap there. What I'm hearing is if underground, exactly 16 blocks underground, I pop my warden. Oops, no, wait, wait.

My warden.

Yes.

And I force the players to swim through this four block. He will definitely give them darkness.

Yes, but again, so you've solved the range issue. You've kept them safe without, while still ensuring that they're going to have the darkness, but it's every six seconds. So depending how fast they're going, they can zip right by your warden and you know, not receive the darkness. So you're probably going to want to have multiple wardens in there

and stuff to increase the chance. Or once they get the darkness, they'll keep it for a while, but it's getting that first application. Now the interesting, the other interesting thing is every warden has its own six second interval. They're not on the same global six second. So by adding more wardens to the area, you increase the chance of it applying faster.

So what I'm hearing is I actually need wardens down here. Probably. Final question. Yeah. How did you do this? Do what? How did you get all these wardens here? Oh, well, we've actually got I was actually going to tell you this and suggest that we've got a deep dark that is completely lit up and safe. All of the shriekers are removed and there's a warden farm in there and it's

like it's, it's automatic. That's how I do it. So it's a completely automatic way of just getting them safely into the nether. And it's actually under like X B's base. So right over here is your warden farm. All you gotta do is stand on that. That's the one shrieker that's left in here you stand on that You're gonna get a warden's gonna spawn. He's gonna spawn in this water here and Almost immediately go through the portal what you want to do is stand here with some name tags

Probably a silence one because you probably want to keep them silenced

Yeah

And as they're spawning you want to hit them before the water current picks them up you got about three or four seconds you want to hit so they Spawn well not hit them you know say hit him with name tag them. Oh, yeah, you want to name tag them otherwise

They know sorry tango instructions unclear died to warden just then Okay, so I go through here Then what now the reason for the reason for that is you're gonna have a block set up so the wardens will be sitting there in here basically waiting for you and if you come through that portal you're gonna come

in with them.

Oh I see.

You'd be very very sad so that's why you want to come through here. Um yeah. Now from here you know it's a question of just dig the tunnel wherever you want. It's probably not far. It's probably less than 100 blocks in the nether.

Okay. Alright, I gotta figure this out. Thanks, Dango! Okay, so... We have got some Nether portal wrangling to do. This doesn't seem like it's going to be too difficult, to be honest with you. But... Thankfully, that feasibility study means that... Oh no...

It means that we know that we can do this. So we have the theory now, let's execute the plan. And obviously we are not moving a single warden until this section is physically ready for the warden itself. And I spent some time already gathering sand and gravel and some ink sacs so that we can make the black concrete necessary for this build. And the great thing about this realistically is all I need to do is cover what's already there.

So if it starts down here, I don't need to overcomplicate things. I can just place over the top. Because this whole thing is done in darkness, I just don't have to worry about it looking too good Black concrete has this amazing ability to just mold into one shade So it's quite hard to see them with like that as you get further out. Look that looks like one blob Now all we have to do is get on and build it.

So time-lapse style, we are gonna turn this entire riverbed into black concrete. Let's go! Okay, we have completely turned this place into black concrete. But the effect we need is from the wardens and trust me, it's so worth it. So all the way through up until scars bit has been done. Oh no, I missed a block.

I even made a secret tunnel that will allow possibly I have to test a faster route through this section. Now I'm going to enlist the help of egg. That's etho gem Gem and Grian. I can't look at the ca- there we go. I'm going to enlist the help of some professionals to get some wardens in place. So let's go and grab them. Right, we are going to do a little tunnel from where we respawn to where the wardens are. Just in case, I guess. Just

in case. Because the warden will be sitting in here. This is definitely going to link up incorrectly, I'm going to have to make a portal in the nether for it to link up to. So, right, this is the bubble column that the warden's gonna be in. Yeah, so when the warden gets through here, I will be standing on the other side of this. It will then walk in here and go straight up the bubble elevator. Right, see, that's where this links up. So that's no good. Okay, so this is where the pool needs to be, but in minus one. So we got a, oh, Jam's gonna kill us.

How do I go about this? I'm gonna have to leave this area. How do I get out of here? How do I leave? All right, it's fine. We just need to make it down here.

Here.

Ah!

Everything's fine, cool, just enjoy your beans. It's fine, everything's okay. Everything's fine, everything's cool, everything's great! Everything's...

Get... Get...

So, just over there then. Was anybody worried? Because I wasn't. Uh, it's okay, I don't think we need to go down there. I think it will link up, for the purposes of this, this will link up. I'm 99% sure.

I think it matters a little bit, but in this case if I'm on directly where I need it to be which is Here it will just take the lowest level one. Oh My gosh, what am I doing? I don't even need that one this one at the bottom will do done Okay, right this should link up this should be enough. Yeah. Yes, that's it. That's what we need

I shouldn't suffocate right it's in the bubbles. Okay, so this is. That's what we need. You shouldn't suffocate, right?

It's in the bubbles.

Okay, so this is the next part. Now that we've done that, right, so we need to use Tango's Warden Farm. There's actually a Deep Dark right there, but that would probably be, oh, gem.

I mean, what if we did just use that Deep Dark? I mean, just go into free cam you can see that there is a there is a deep dark right there yeah i mean what if we just use that yeah what if we did just use that there has to be a shrieker to summon them close by

this is proper egg stuff we're doing it all ourselves no tango setup okay so the only

change here really is that we're no longer using the nether yeah no nether no need for the nether

really this just got way easier if you think about

it. Theoretically it did just get easier, but also possibly not. Alright, we're out.

Oh man, the shriekers are right there. Right in front of us. Literally right there, yeah.

Oh man, oh man, okay. Uh, wool. Yeah, I have so much wool. You need some? Etho, I swear if you wake up the wardens, I'm gonna be f-

Etho!

Etho! Bad!

Etho!

Bad!

What's wrong with him?

I can't see.

Oh, they don't always spawn next to the Shrieker, by the way.

Yeah, yeah, I know. We need like an area.

How- what's the area area if there's not talking?

ETHO bad

What what's wrong? What's going on bad?

Stop Bad, I'm trapped here now. Yeah Oh, we better run that's right, too We're not ready. There's no bubble elevator. I got a record. You want me to play the record? I just got no

It might be a good one though. What's the oh? That was it that was Jim, right

It sounded like it came from your direction. That was Jim. That was Jim. That was Jim. How was it me? It's all individual It's fine we need them to follow us. But after we've got the bubble elevator. As long as that's there, we're all good.

Very quiet.

Okay, either you're stressing me out, dude.

Yeah, everything was, is this what it feels like when I turn up?

I actually, somehow, Grian was less stressful than you.

Oh, that's not good. It's not a good look, either.

It's not a good look, Etho. It's not a good one.

Okay, yeah, bubble elevator is nearly ready. I don't think I a warden. Multiple wardens. Wait, at the same time? Etho said you're a loser unless you get multiple wardens.

There is some truth to that.

Oh, he's already here!

Name tag, name tag, name tag!

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.

Dude, I can't see a thing down here.

Oh, that helps.

How did you mark them? It only lasts for a second, it's the name tag. I can't see it.

Wait, name tags do that?

The silence me one does.

Oh, really.

Are you a snowballs Grant?

I can't actually see him. Is he even running towards me?

Yeah, no.

Oh, he's running towards me! I can't see! I can't see! I can't see! It turns out I can't see I can't see I can't see it turns out. I can't see either. I can't see a thing Did you go up? I think you went up

Yeah, I'm falling behind I think you're good. Yeah, oh

That's so scary especially as you can't see a thing cuz obviously I didn't light any of it up. Right, one done.

First success.

Oh, that was awful by the way. Another!

Wait, how do you get out of here once you're in here?

You run!

Get out of the way man!

I just hit him with a snowball. I think you're fine.

Oh no, he's coming!

Yeah, you're not okay.

He's halfway.

He's coming. Yeah He's halfway You get back here Hey, buddy Come get me. Oh He's still head, but me Okay, did my stuff go up the elevator some of it might have went up a lot of it is down

Some of it may have went up right in front of you right in front of you you got him you got him I would run yeah so angry he's not behind you yet I don't think he's you measures actually went up the column yeah well done

name tag fast there you go got speed

you need to make him angry no more yet there you go

I'm really good at making things angry yeah I've noticed

here we go run did a little it a little bit it's funny and watching it that is being chased Here he goes! Run! Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do It's funnier watching it than it is being chased! Still don't...

Did I get too far away?

No no no you're good, you're good!

Keep running, keep running! He's just trying to figure out how to get in, there you go!

Yeah he's in he's in he's in! No, this is not good! ETHO! He's coming up behind you dude! Get out of there! There's a drop! There's a drop! ETHO THERE'S A DROP!

NOOOOO!

I knew somebody was gonna do that dude!

UGH!

It's your one job! It's your one job!

ETHO! I didn't know where to go!

You're supposed to be the one that's good at this!

He's got the name tag, so we're gonna have to get stuff back. This is why we should all have spare name tags.

Can I do it with just an enderpearl?

Should I go back up for name tags, or is that a waste of time?

I think Etho's gonna get his stuff. I reckon I- I don't know if I am.

Okay question, did you leave a two tall space or was that a one tall? Two, mm, two I think.

You don't- you can bubble elevator up and walk out. I'm sure of it. Okay. Yeah you can.

Yeah you can. And then you can just grab your stuff and try to try to drop down. Oh, he's just gone for it.

Oh, wow.

Okay, well that was easy. And then you can just drop straight back down. Etho, turn around, turn around. You don't need to do that. You don't need to do that. Etho, turn around.

He's not listening.

I'm scared. I'm scared. Etho, turn around. Go back down. There's literally a drop. Ethan! Go back down! Go back down!

Go back down!

But they're mad now.

No they're not mad. Go back down.

Go all the way up and go down the bedroom then. It's fine. You don't have to listen to Grant.

You do. He's eating a golden apple.

I'm notching for this one. I don't trust this. How do I get down though?

Yeah look, on the left. There's a hole down the hole See, okay. I think it's gemstone. Did it do it?

Where is he?

He's right there name him you named him come on dude, I don't have snowballs it hit him from there

He's a Bob. He's a boat. Hey stupid. Ah

No, you got him. Here we go.

Is he coming?

Is he coming? Is he coming?

He's running.

He's running.

This is so much funnier when you're not the person being chased.

Hey, dude, come on.

Kapow!

Whoa!

There he goes. Oh oh I like the effect grand yeah hold on I like the effect a lot okay I might have misjudged how low I need to be so anyway this this is the effect it's like space yeah dude I love this it's cool huh yeah I want more I want it to be more yeah it doesn't last very long in fact not long enough more cool huh that is cool I like it a lot I think I I think I might have

pioneered this you know 100% worth it and I do think you pioneered it. I've never seen anybody do this. I

Was trying to think of like how I could do something different with the Nautilus and this is all I could come up with So you come through here. We want to give our first one So the frog light leading there with frog lights, I kind of want to... I want to take them in a direction where it's not entirely efficient, like it's not the best. I might like lead it round to the left.

I want to like, you know, reward people who take risks, but also it might be more dangerous.

Yeah.

But you're not, you're actually kind of safe in this.

I love it so much.

There's not an awful lot of skill here, it's more for the effect.

No but it's so cool in contrast to the rest of the course, I'm so glad you're not just oh that Nautilus is dead.

Mojang if you're not just oh If she went back and forth a few times, oh, yeah, I just got I just got already I just got

I've gotten blasted by it as well. So I think we're just we're just making him really angry

Could you imagine if you get a dolphin there as well get dolphins grace as you fly through you'd fly really fast through space

It's such a good idea. I love it

You get like the particles whizzing by like you're in warp speed kind of yeah you definitely would I mean you can get a dolphin pretty easy right I can get a dolphin I'll go get a dolphin come along dolphins whoa flying this way Grian you're going the wrong way okay which

which way this is R's right here. Where

are you? I cannot see. Oh wait, I can just fly- What? Did you see me on the locator bar?

Yeah, I'm following you. Okay. I can actually just fly out the water. Are you sure? Are they still attached? Yep. I'm going so fast!

Gem, look!

They will suffocate though.

You look so silly!

Woo!

Okay, apparently you didn't need patience.

Don't kill them at Joes!

And upies!

That works. Why is- I- how have I not known this is a thing? Uh-oh, roadblock!

I feel like something's broken. Hold on, going around speed puppies yeah no way this works we're nearly there but still with me how cool is that? Oh my gosh. That was amazing Okay So for the most part We are actually pretty finished since we did that stream and all of this texturing there was new technology discovered and I did focus all my attention on this area down here.

Now if I go in free cam, you can see this is what we spent our time wrangling. But then I discovered new technology called wool, where you can put wool around the wardens and it will not attack you no matter what you do. You'd have to sit there and let it sniff its way to you, which it can't do, and it may be aggro on you after a really long time. So I really took advantage of this and added so many wardens. You cannot get through here on a Nautilus without getting the effect. They're not only there, but I've added them all across the board. Look,

there's a top-up point here. There's another top-up point here. And there's another top-up point, oh, which I haven't done, there. So all along here is darkness, effectively. Even flying through that, I picked it up. Down here at the end is another top-up point. I mean, I've really, really spent a long time wrangling a lot of Wardens to make this effect work for me. So, let's do a test and prove that this works. Yep. You really have to know your base when

you can't see. Right, let's go and grab our Nautilus many many in orderless have died in the in the testing of this Hey, buddy, but in theory nothing could go wrong now All right, so we're racing we go through here I've got the I've got the effect immediately I follow the lights I'm racing I'm racing. I'm following the lights Follow the lights follow the lights. I'm racing. I'm racing. I'm following the lights Follow the lights follow the lights Through space I want to add some sound effects and

Look, we haven't lost our darkness effect because it has topped up as we've gone along Go around this bit and we go out here and by the time we get about to the end, the darkness will subside, and then you can go on into Scar's part. No idea what he's gonna do, but the race is in two days. I have a lot of work to still do on this So that is going to be it for today's episode. I still need to do a few things I probably need to wrangle a few more Wardens. That's for sure and

I need to decorate the last little bit also. Can you get over this? You can but I don't think it's worth trying. Okay, so I've got to decorate this. I'm going to make a cool jump pad, but we'll get to this at the start of next episode, where hopefully this section will be done. I can show off all of the things that we have made, and then we can actually get to making our base. But, you know what? Making this Nautilus race has really forced me to do things

that I wouldn't have and discovered the effect, this like space effect. I didn't know that this was a thing. I didn't know that this effect could be achieved in Minecraft like this. was a thing. I didn't know that this effect could be achieved in Minecraft like this. I just went through there and didn't get the effect. Goodbye!