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Howdy folks!

It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!

Long time no see, huh? I’m very happy to be writing to y’all again, so let’s get right into the news!

Love Tropics Charity Stream

Once again hermits have gathered to help charity organization Love Tropics! This year they were benefiting Women’s Earth Alliance, to help support women to gain resources and training required to help their local communities. You can find more about Love Tropics here and about Women’s Earth Alliance here.
And if you missed the stream, here’s the VOD!

TCG

With last spring’s pre-order being a huge success, everything is on schedule to be shipped in a timely manner. If you want to order more cards you can sign up for their waitlist or get future updates on their site here.

Quarterly Meetings

2024 Q3

We had another successful quarterly meeting over on the patreon discord! If you missed the meeting or are curious as to how it went, we have the VOD available as well as the minutes of the meeting on this page.

2025 Q1

Our next quarterly meeting will be on Sunday January 12th at noon US Central time. If you have an item you’d like to request for the agenda, please submit it under Joe Hills Meta> #next-quarter-new-business-agenda-requests.

Minecraft Servers

New Modded Minecraft Server

Server operator ToxxicGlitter and Joe are working on spinning up a new modded server for folks to play starting this holiday season! It looks like Toxxic has just about finished the preliminary stages and is looking to launch this week! You can find more details over in Joe Hills Meta> #feedback-next-modded-server.

September Everstorm

Obituaries:

• Cent died trying to be a hero, and was the first victim of the zombie apocalypse.
• Joju joined, tried to do something overly convoluted, and died as soon as he took a break.
• ChefNutmeg died trying to set up tree fort cause there are shulkers in tree tops. got chased by drowned, slain by zombie.
• Kindalas dug a hole and then a zombie got me when I ran out of tnt for mob fighting.
• Michaelssocks had a rough night’s sleep.
• Jvrrxk died fighting two skeletons in the caves.
• Moonroses fell from the trees with horrid screeching creatures after her.
• Magenta toured all the nether biomes before coming face to face with a blaze fireball.

Survivors:

• SuperStone came by to check out the chaos, built a house, and played with modded TNT.
• quilavabucket made a small tower, filled it with necessities, and worked to recall how multiplayer hardcore servers work!
• madelinessocks twerked for food, captured phantoms, and memorialized her fallen friends.

October Everstorm

Obituaries:

• ChefNutmeg drowned thanks to being too curious on finding a shrine.
• Zoey ventured too far into a Nether village and an ornate Brute aggressively made a meal out of her.
• Moon was turned into Vex soup after surviving a fall into a witches pit.
• Lady Oolong set off to make an end on her own terms and ultimately perished assaulting a haunted bathhouse swarming with masked ghosts.

Survivors:

• Joju logged on to honor his fallen friend. He then logged off for similar reasons.
• Salem logged in, puttered around mining for a bit, then left before they could bite the dust.
• WizardOfDocs totally intended to come back and check out that dungeon, he promises.
• Jvrrxk boldly stayed by the side of their comrade, WizardOfDocs.
• SuperStone commandeered an airship from its skeleton owners.
• quilavabucket dug up an improbable amount of diamonds, tried to make a cliff house, attended a funeral, and then failed to log in for the rest of the month.

November Everstorm

Obituaries:

• Lady Oolong got too greedy trying to mine at the top of the mountain and panicked running down to get away from monsters.
• Graehart met his end facing down a hoard of the undead deep in the bowels of the Everstorm. A creeper capitalized on the chaos ensuring his death.
• fancytoy was making a mad dash to the community hobbit hole when a mean ol’ willie with an unknown amount of eyes stabbed her with a trident.
• quilavabucket was building a little hideout in the nether when it got raided by piglins.
• Cent did nothing to the dragon after crashing, found some weird crystals, then got knocked off a bridge by a murder pigeon.
• Mantua bridged her own way to a sky rat island help clear it then got knocked off the bridge by one she missed on her way back.
• moon, after surviving two dragon fights,  fell from a great height in despair for there was no food and there were no wings in the city.
• Joju logged on to fight to the death. He died honorably in combat with skeletons after not having played much this month.
• Mooot decided to log in one day and died the same day to a skeleton in the mines, so sad!

Survivors:

• Kindalas survived the Everstorm to get the wings and the trims and turned Snow into Slime.
• Magenta touched the world’s edges, slayed the dragon, and was the first to obtain the power of flight.
• Zoeykinns enjoyed life and broke bread with fellow Survivors in The Hobbit Hole alongside Oliver, a cat from the Everstorm beginnings.
• MJ survived a dragon fight for the first and second time ever, battled end birds, shulkers, and men, and carried the memory of a fellow adventurer back home.
• Grit helped expand the border and supported exploration, assisted in sponsoring two dragon fights and achievement hunting on everstorm!
• Dotty used her survivor tag to applaud Grit, Seanard, and the whole Everstorm community for all the incredible accomplishments they achieved this month!

December Everstorm

This month’s Everstorm is now live! As always it’s an experimental and temporary server, running until January 2nd. Folks can discover details and share with others or coordinate group logins over in Realms And Servers> #everstorm-dec-2024

10th Oreward Parades

We’ve had some parades after the judging of the company towns on 10th Oreward! I’d like to thank Team 15 Years for hosting a wonderful parade, and a thank you to all the participants who made floats!

We also had a parade to celebrate Labor Day! Thank you to Team The Route for hosting the late celebration, here’s the VOD for folks who missed it!

There was also a parade to celebrate World Nuclear Energy Day, hosted by Team Trident Town! I remember it like it was yesterday, which it was at the time of this newsletter going out. Thanks Trident Town, here’s the VOD!

Our next parade will be on Sunday December 15th, at 1pm US Central time. Team 5280 will be hosting their parade in celebration of the Festival of Lights! Folks can join in under Activity-Sign-Ups> #dec-15-parade-5280-festival-of-lights.

Hermitcraft 10 Videos

There’s been a year’s worth of Hermitcraft since I last wrote a newsletter, so I won’t be linking all the videos! Instead, here’s a handy link to Joe’s Hermitcraft Season 10 Playlist, along with his most recent video!

Streams

Upcoming Streams

If you’re looking for a place to find out when Joe is streaming, have I got the answer for you! You can see a calendar of all Joe’s upcoming streams over at this page over here!

Notable streams

Lately Joe has been streaming readings of Moby Dick, and some Hermit Satisfactory! Stay tuned for future notable streams to be mentioned!

Upcoming conventions and events

Unconfirmed appearances:

• Tennessee Game Day Spring

If you know any convention organizers in your area and think Joe would be great to hire for an appearance, please have them visit this page on his site, thank you!

So long for now…

As always it is my pleasure to write these newsletters to you wonderful folks in our community. I appreciate y’all being patient while Joe and I were both busy, so I hope you’ll join us as we get back into a steady rhythm of updates.

Thank you kindly!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

Howdy folks!

It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!

We took a break off last month’s newsletter for PAX Unplugged and the holidays, thanks for being so patient, now let’s catch up on all the latest!

HermitCraft Season 9 draws to a close!

It’s hard to believe that the season is over! Starting back in March of 2022, the server reached a tender age of a year and nine months before ending. Don’t grieve this loss, and don’t rush forward for the next season either!  Joe is not quite ready to say goodbye yet, as he’s still got some footage to edit and release throughout the month. You can look forward to that, but until then enjoy the world download!

Deep Field moves to stage 2!

While you enjoy the scale model pinball table from the download, Joe will be continuing to build it in real life! If you want to see it you can watch him do it live during his craft streams. Find out what times Joe plans to be live at joehills.net/soon!

If you’re curious about the materials and tools Joe will be using there is a spreadsheet available here for folks to follow along!

Music video release:

If you like seeing Joe in cool stuff, check him out featured in this music video! It’s definitely a fun watch!

PAX Unplugged panel

Speaking of cool stuff Joe has been featured in, Joe held a panel with fellow Hermit VintageBeef at PAX Unplugged! If you missed the event, you can enjoy the VOD of the panel over here!

HermitCraft TCG

If you enjoyed the  PAX Unplugged panel, HermitCraft Season 9, or just like card games in general you can still get some! Booster boxes are still available for pre-orders until January 15th.

If you want a chance to play against other people, you should consider going to Tennessee Game Days! Joe and Quinn will be there, ready to battle any challengers. Do you have what it takes to win?

2023 Q4 Quarterly Meeting

We’ve got the VOD and minutes from the last quarterly meeting of 2023! You can find them on this page here.

Minecraft Servers

DS9 November and December Petitions

The page for the VODs and minutes is right here.

Winter Snow Globe Build Contest

Update! The Snow Globe build contest judging day has been moved! The new date is now Saturday, January 27th! The time is to be determined based on judge availability. I’m excited to see what folks build!

DS9 event schedule

• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, January 20th, Noon US Central Time.
• Winter Snow Globe Build Contest
  • Saturday, January 27th, 1pm US Central Time.

October Everstorm missing reports

The survivors of October’s Everstorm share these final reports:

• Magenta built a lil house on the hill and survived by avoiding the sponges of doom
• SuperStone explored the borderland of the Infernal Deep and the Eternal Storm, building riches in the shore of the river that runs through the rock
• Moonroses built up spawn, attempted an iron farm that then fancy fixed, and survived a close encounter with a sponge.
• Kindalas worked hard to summon the sponge wither without success.
• Void almost died to a sponge due to curiosity and then decided to retreat to the safety of an ancient city
• MJ mined a bunch of diamonds for the surface dwellers.
• fancy didn’t do much but did fix an iron farm
• Dotty will never look at a sponge the same way again.
• Salem mined a lot and lives in fear of sponges now.

November Everstorm closes

Here are all the obituaries reported for November:

• MJ is pretty sure that Husk had a mustache.
• Arthr waterbent himself too far into the deep end and got impaled by a waterbending master (drowned).
• quilava got blown to bits by a creeper while getting jungle wood for the seaside outpost
• Magenta attempted to take on the sky dungeon as it claimed them as its victim
• Moonroses perished by the axe of a Big Danger Castle denizen. She never stood a chance even with full gear.
• Centuritron’s curiosity killed the fox, but ’twas no satisfaction to bring it back

The survivors of November’s Everstorm share these final reports:

• Gritmonger’s curiosity did not kill him, against all odds.
• CheftNutmeg was not sure she could really count it as work wise she only managed to get on for about fifteen minutes all month.

December Everstorm opens- and closes!

The Everstorm has come and gone for December already, folks seemed to not enjoy all the mobs that plagued their winter wonderland!

Here are all the obituaries reported for December:

• ChefNutmeg logged on, got into a building, lagged out of the building, and died to zombie.
• Moon ran into the forest and was never seen again.
• Gritmonger was too confident in their ability to fight zombies, and didn’t remember they have always been a noob.

The sole survivor of December’s Everstorm shares this final report:

• Centuritron logged on, raided a distant village, planted a potato farm, & forgot to log back in.

January Everstorm opens

This month’s Everstorm comes kitted out with lots of structure generating mods! Here’s a handy list for you!

• Repurposed structures
• Incendium
• Towns and Towers
• Dungeons and Taverns
• Lios Overhauled Villages
• Abridged

Check out the mod’s pages linked above if you’re curious about it! It’s all server-side, no need to download anything to play! Just be a Minecraft level patron on Joe’s Patreon and join with the server information posted under Realms and Servers > #everstorm-jan-2024

Toxxic Vault Hunters server

Server Operator ToxxicGlitter is back with a fun new modded server! Using the same seed as the Hermits are using in their current Vault Hunter series, you too can run some vaults! The modpack and server information is available under SMP: Vault Hunters By ToxxicGlitter > #vh-setup, there’s also #vh-setup-help for if you need assistance installing the mods!

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

November Winners

• Week 1: Twilight Zone results are available here and the winner was ButterflyGirlKMC, congrats on 1st place! 2nd place goes to jsparker77!
• Week 2: Hurricane results are available here and the winner was JoeHills, congrats on 1st place! 2nd place goes to Laxmi13!
• Week 3: World Cup Soccer results are available here and the winner was JoeHills, congrats on 1st place! 2nd place goes to ButterflyGirlKMC!
• Week 4: Road Show results are available here and the winner was ButterflyGirlKMC, congrats on 1st place! 2nd place goes to Laxmi13!

The full results are available here, now here’s the November series winners!

Congratulations to ButterflyGirlKMC for taking first, JoeHills for 2nd, jsparker77 for taking 3rd,  and Laxmi13 for 4th!

December Winners

• Week 1: Cirqus Voltaire results are available here and the winner was jsparker77, congrats on 1st place! 2nd place goes to JoeHills!
• Week 2: Tales of the Arabian Nights results are available here and the winner was JoeHills, congrats on 1st place! 2nd place goes to Laxmi13!
• Week 3: No Good Gofers results are available here and the winner was JoeHills, congrats on 1st place! 2nd place goes to Laxmi13!
• Week 4: Indiana Jones results are available here and the winner was jsparker77, congrats on 1st place! 2nd place goes to JoeHills!
• Week 5: Sword of Fury results are available here and the winner was JoeHills, congrats on 1st place! 2nd place goes to jsparker77!

The full results are available here, now here’s the December series winners!

Congratulations to JoeHills for taking first, jsparker77 for 2nd, Laxmi13 for taking 3rd,  ButterflyGirlKMC for 4th, and Mr. Hardluck for 5th!

January Series

Here are the tables you can expect for January’s series!

• Week 1: Whirlwind
• Week 2: The Machine: Bride of Pinbot
• Week 3: Space Station
• Week 4: Funhouse

Vault Hunters

Even though Joe will be releasing his last episodes of HermitCraft season 9 this month, you can still enjoy the Hermits in their Vault Hunters series! Check out Joe’s playlist over here.

HermitCraft 9 Videos

Before the last of season 9 gets uploaded, make sure you’re up to date on all of Joe’s episodes! Here’s the HermitCraft 9 episodes playlist!

Streams

Upcoming Streams

If you’re looking for a place to find out when Joe is streaming, have I got the answer for you! You can see a calendar of all Joe’s upcoming streams over at this page over here!

Notable streams playlists

Crafts stream fans can enjoy all the latest arts and crafts VODs over at this playlist!

Watch Joe play Vault Hunters with his fellow Hermits in this convenient playlist!

Upcoming conventions

• Friday, March 1st – Sunday March 3rd in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days

So long for now…

Wow that was a lot of updating and formatting and editing! As always, if you spot an error of any kind please let me know under Joe Hills Meta > #feedback-newsletter. Thank you, and Happy New Year!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

Howdy folks!

It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!

I hope you’ve had a good month, and that November goes even better for you. Let’s see what’s in the news!

PAX Unplugged panel

I wanted to remind folks that Joe will be doing a panel with fellow Hermit VintageBeef at Pax Unplugged on December 3rd! They’ll be talking about the HermitCraft TCG so if you’re interested you can buy the Sunday badge to check out their 2:30pm panel in the Mothman Theatre (Grand Ballroom A).

Or you can attend the whole convention! Tickets are still on sale on their website here, we’d love to see you there! Yes, that was a “we”! I’ll also be in attendance, I’m so excited to meet more of the awesome people that make up our community!

If you’re unable to attend but would still like to see the panel, it will be livestreamed on this twitch channel.

HermitCraft TCG update

To everyone who purchased the HermitCraft TCG from Creo, thank you so much! There has been an update from the company about the status of shipping the cards! You can take a look at the full notes over here on Reddit.

The main takeaway to share from Creo is the following: “Our revised target is to have everything in the mail by the week of Nov 6th. “

2023 Q4 Quarterly Meeting

A reminder to folks, our next quarterly meeting is on Saturday, November 18th at 1pm US Central time. I will see folks there and as always stream it to my twitch channel for folks to watch it live. The VOD and meeting minutes will also be made available for folks at a later date and time.

Folks are encouraged to submit any agenda item requests to the Joe Hills Meta > #next-quarter-new-business-agenda-requests channel.

Minecraft Servers

DS9 October Petitions

VOD and minutes are available here!

Haunted Mansion Build Contest

With October coming to a close our Haunted Mansion build contest has ended! There were some really great builds from our community, I hope everyone had a great time!

If you want to see the unbelievable skills you can check out this VOD!

Winter Snow Globe Build Contest

This contest will be launching on November 18th during petitions, so if you want to be in the know of the snow, be sure to attend!

A quick summary of this contest is that folks will be making snow globes in marked plots. It will be an ongoing contest until Saturday, January 20th at 1pm US Central time. I’m sure when the rest of the details are released they’ll be very… cool!

DS9 event schedule

• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, November 18th, Noon US Central Time.
• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, December 9th, Noon US Central Time.
• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, January 20th, Noon US Central Time.
• Winter Snow Globe Build Contest
  • Saturday, January 20th, 1pm US Central Time.

October Everstorm closes

Here are all the obituaries reported for October:

• Grit died like he always does on Everstorm, panicking and afraid.
• May died as she lived, among piglin and feeling like her heart was leaping out of it’s chest.
• eclogues was chased by skeletons into a hole, where a zombie ate what little brains he had
• Arthr was too distracted by the prospect of a wolf friend to notice the creeper intersecting with them
• Centuritron got in a bit over their head looking for diamonds, and suffered a fall due to Warden related injuries.
• quilavabucket fell into a larger, less friendly bucket of lava while contemplating spooky mods
• ruffboi was killed by a baby zombie who somehow managed to escape their zombie farm

No survivor’s posts yet for October’s Everstorm!

November Everstorm opens

This month Everstorm is getting a little more hands on! The only details I have to share are that pvp will be enabled and the server will be running the bending mod. Fans of Avatar the Last Airbender and/or Legend of Korra will enjoy this month for sure! Though I wonder what else is changed?

New Toxxic server

If you missed it, server operator ToxxicGlitter was creative lead on a creative server to test out the new building mod Axiom! It was really cool but now we’re getting ready to shut it down and bring you The New Hotness, a Vault Hunters server!

We don’t have an official launch date yet, as Iskall needs to first release the modpack and then Joe needs to spin up the server as per Toxxic’s instructions. I can tell you that it will be up within the first half of November, it will be modeled closely after the Hermit’s configuration, and will even use the same seed!

The end date is also not yet selected, but we guarantee the server will be up until the end of February 2024. A date will be finalized by the 1st of February, so have fun hunting vaults when you still can!

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

After some discussion with some top pinball players, Joe has decided to wrap up the half year series early in favor of a monthly series! This will work similarly to the half year series, but instead of the best 15 standings counting to the final placings, we’ll be using the scores of the 4-5 tournaments per month.

Before we get to the weekly results, here’s the final winners with the full results available here!

Congratulations to ToxxicGlitter for taking first, Joe Hills for 2nd, ButterFlyGirlKMC for taking 3rd, Laxmi13 for 4th, and jsParker for 5th!

October Winners

• Week 14: Star Trek: The Next Generation results are available here and the winner was ToxxicGlitter!
• Week 15: Monster Bash results are available here and the winner was ToxxicGlitter!
• Week 16: Creature from the Black Lagoon results are available here and the winner was Mr. Hardluck!
• Week 17: Addams Family results are available here and the winner was Joe Hills!

Congrats to our winners for their awesome pinball skills! Here’s what you can expect to play during November!

November Series

• Week 1: Twilight Zone
• Week 2: Hurricane
• Week 3: World Cup Soccer
• Week 4: Road Show

Who will be our first winner? Only time will tell!

Vault Hunters

I’m sure folks have noticed the new modded series the Hermits have been playing! Joe’s been having such a great time playing Vault Hunters with everyone that he’s made a playlist for folks to watch! You can find that that playlist over here.

Also, there’s a Vault Hunters website! Did you know that? Cause I sure didn’t! Take a peek over at https://vaulthunters.gg/

HermitCraft 9 Videos

If you somehow have missed all of Joe’s episode the past month, no worries, I’ve got a link to where we left off since the last newsletter! There’s a ton of episodes to enjoy thanks to Decked Out 2 from TangoTek! If you haven’t seen Joe’s runs yet or if you want to watch them again, here’s the HermitCraft episodes playlist!

Streams

Upcoming Streams

If you’re looking for a place to find out when Joe is streaming, have I got the answer for you! You can see a calendar of all Joe’s upcoming streams over at this page over here!

Notable streams playlists

Crafts stream fans can enjoy all the latest arts and crafts VODs over at this playlist!

Watch Joe play Vault Hunters with his fellow Hermits in this convenient playlist!

Upcoming conventions

• December 1st-3rd in Philadelphia, PA: PAX Unplugged
• February 29th-March 3rd in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days

So long for now…

Phew! What an update, huh? Well it’s always my pleasure to keep folks in the know! I look forward to seeing you all next month!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

Howdy folks!

It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!

Welcome to our new monthly newsletter! Old and new readers alike can use this resource as a means to get all the news happening with Joe and his Patreon discord server! Without further ado, here’s the news!

Hermits return!

Joe’s been so excited to play more HermitCraft with his friends! You can see Joe playing Xisuma’s new Bedwars game, and on his team returning to the server is Hypno! I can’t recommend this episode enough to folks, take a look!

Joe’s also excited to see Iskall and Stress on the server again! You can check out their videos linked below, be sure to give them a warm welcome back!

Quarterly meeting and Petition minutes

We covered this already in our final weekly newsletter, but just to be safe I wanted to provide folks with this link to our quarterly meeting VOD and minutes along with this link to our petitions VOD and minutes.

These are worth checking out for information on how we operate the discord and for our upcoming build contests!

A quick update

I also wanted to take a moment to let folks know that since the quarterly meeting the staff have had one of our monthly meetings and have started cooking up our next wave of Minecraft servers.

They will have complimentary but not identical structures for handling complaints and conflicts so players with different play-styles will still have a home here. We recognize that one method of conflict resolution will not work for all types of players.

For more conflict averse players we will have a high tempo resolution system moderated by Yirggzmb on her more relaxed Vanillish server.

More aggressive play-styles will be optimized to problem solve amongst themselves on ToxxicGlitter’s Modded server, with Toxxic stepping in when necessary.

The Flagship Vanilla server with Joe as creative lead will continue in season 10 with a monthly petition approach somewhere in the middle of the previously mentioned servers. There will now be more accessibility as TommyBoii (that’s me!) will serve as a proxy for folks who feel they are unable to raise issues themselves for any reason.

The only confirmed date we have right now is the last day of Toxxic’s 1.19.2 Create Mod server. That will ending on October 2nd. More information will be announced in the near future, so keep an eye out for that in October’s newsletter!

Minecraft Servers

DS9 parades

August had only one parade held, and what a parade it was! In celebration of Independent Worker’s Day, folks built all kinds of floats on the Deep Slate Nine server! Here’s the VOD for anyone who missed it!

We have one last parade to hold at our B’Hala outposts, and it will be for Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day! The parade float build contest is hosted by Team Warden Hunters.

If you’re interested in participating you can join everyone on Saturday, September 23rd at 1pm US Central time. Be sure to bring enough materials to build your float, you only get 1 hour to build!

DS9 event schedule

• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, September 23rd, Noon US Central Time
• Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day, hosted by Team Warden Hunters
  • Saturday, September 23rd, 1pm US Central Time
• Haunted Mansion Build Contest
  • Ongoing until judging on October 21st, 1pm US Central Time.
• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, November 18th, Noon US Central Time.
• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, December 9th, Noon US Central Time.
• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, January 20th, Noon US Central Time.
• Winter Snow Globe Build Contest
  • Saturday, January 20th, 1pm US Central Time.

August Everstorm Closes

Here are all the obituaries reported for August:

• Magenta could not fend off the pillagers and the trident-wielding drowned at the same time
• SuperStone was cornered in a cave by a heavily-enchanted skeleton.
• ChefNutmeg was sniped by a skelly lighting up the nether fortress.
• Ellas died to a tree climbing drowned, they lasted about 20 minutes
• Eclogues withered away due to hubris
• ruffboi died as he lived: ridiculous and easily jumpscared by creepers.
• Beyr33 went out with a bang by falling 1900 blocks after killing the dragon.
• seanard shot the moon and then landed in the void.
• Gritmonger got blown up by a creeper while campfiring-up random villages to provide safe havens for people using return horns from the end.

The survivors of August’s Everstorm share these final reports:

• Centuritron logged on to check out the server, didn’t know what to do, then logged back off alive.
• SalemOleander was briefly enthralled with the random mining gifts, and made it out in one piece.
• DottyMatrix decided that Everstorm was the right place to learn how to endbust for the first time, and returned with her own wings to tell the tale.
• quilavabucket used this Everstorm to get over a fear of hardcore and successfully ran a deep dark city and fought the dragon.
• Kindalas successfully built a starter house on the ruins of Magenta’s Starter House.
• Laxmi13 needs to take more risks because she didn’t die building a house, mining, or fighting the dragon.
• Mantuamaker found a hole and just kept digging.
• MJ missed the Dragon fight because of sushi.
• WizardOfDocs spent several happy hours mining for loot chests, and for all we know is still there to this day.

September Everstorm opens

Since August’s Everstorm was so well received Joe has resumed his creative lead role with more assistance from his 10 year old kid providing creative input! Together they have prepared 2 months of autumnal excitement for you to enjoy!

One feature already announced is use of the Horse Buff mod! With the server-side version you can expect to see fixes to horse movement when running up blocks and inclines. If players install the mod client side as well it will increase the speed at which blocks are broken when on horseback, so that’s cool!

PVP is off but no other details have been released. Joe keeps saying something about this being the most terrifying Everstorm ever, and that things are glitchy and weird. I have no idea what that all means; Can you figure out what’s happening there?!

Better be quick about it too, as this iteration ends on September 28th!

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

If you’re interested in the tournament standings you can find that here. These placings are calculated on a player’s best 15 scores out of the whole series, so come and see how you can do! Here’s how folks held up in August’s weekly tournaments results!

August Winners

• Week 5: Whirlwind results are available here and the winner was ToxxicGlitter!
• Week 6: Junkyard results are available here and the winner was ToxxicGlitter again!
• Week 7: Black Rose results are available here and the winner was ButterFlyGirlKMC!
• Week 8: The Party Zone results are available here and the winner was Laxmi13!

Congrats to our winners for their awesome pinball skills! Here’s what you can expect to play during September!

September Tables

• Week 9: The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot
• Week 10: Theatre of Magic
• Week 11: Safecracker
• Week 12: Champion Pub
• Week 13: White Water

Do you have what it takes to join the ranks and climb to the top of the standings? Play pinball with us to find out!

HermitCraft 9 Videos

If you missed the episode that came out before the Bedwars video, no worries! Here’s episode 69!

Streams

Upcoming Streams

If you’re looking for a place to find out when Joe is streaming, have I got the answer for you! You can see a calendar of all Joe’s upcoming streams over at this page over here!

Notable streams playlists

Joe’s been playing more V-Rising with his betrothed, BadgerSpanner! Here’s a link to a playlist of the VODs!

Craft fans can enjoy all the latest arts and crafts VODs over at this playlist!

If you like to watch hermits playing TCG live you can see the latest VOD at this link!

Upcoming conventions

Update! Music City Multi Con ticket sales are open now! Get your tickets over at their website here so you can join in the fun!

TGD Fall registration is closed but you can still join their waitlist if any spots open up! Spring dates for TGD have been confirmed, so folks interested in attending can start putting that on their calendars!

• September 15th-17th  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days
• October 27th-29th in Lebanon, TN: Music City Multi Con
• February 29th-March 3rd  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days

So long for now…

I hope you enjoyed our first monthly newsletter! I think the structural changes it provides gives a more concise way to access information at once. It’s certainly easier to write it this way!

As always we welcome feedback under Joe Hills Meta > #feedback-newsletter. I look forward to writing for you next month!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

Howdy folks!

It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!

This is our last weekly newsletter, don’t be sad that it’s over, smile because it happened! Let’s not delay the inevitable, here’s the news!

2023 Q3 Quarterly Meeting

Thanks to all the folks who attended our quarterly meeting! If you missed it and would like to see the VOD you can do so here!

If you want the minutes of that meeting they are available for folks to read here!

The next quarterly meeting will be on Saturday, November 18th at 1pm US central.

Minecraft Servers

DS9 August Petitions (and build contest announcements!)

VOD and minutes are available here!

DS9 independent worker’s day parade

Wow what an incredible parade! If you’re interested in the work folks put into this parade check out this VOD! If you’re not already a member and are interested in joining us for our next parade you can join Joe’s patreon to support him and gain access to our minecraft servers. Our next parade is the last one at B’Hala!

Thank you to team Deztiny for hosting!

If you don’t have time to watch the VOD something exciting to note is that Quinn and Joe plan to record a new version of Quinn’s song Lines. This is inspired by server member Phali’s club dance remix, so keep an eye out for that!

DS9 event schedule

• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, September 23rd, Noon US Central Time
• Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day, hosted by Team Warden Hunters
  • Saturday, September 23rd, 1pm US Central Time
• Haunted Mansion Build Contest
  • Ongoing until judging on October 21st, 1pm US Central Time.
• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, November 18th, Noon US Central Time.
• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, December 9th, Noon US Central Time.
• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, January 20th, Noon US Central Time.
• Winter Snow Globe Build Contest
  • Saturday, January 20th, 1pm US Central Time.

Everstorm obituaries

Folks should note that August’s Everstorm will go down on August 31st! This is because Everstorm cycles will now align with monthly newsletters, so be sure to get your obituaries and survivor’s messages sent in a timely manner!

• Magenta could not fend off the pillagers and the trident-wielding drowned at the same time
• SuperStone was cornered in a cave by a heavily-enchanted skeleton.
• ChefNutmeg was sniped by a skelly lighting up the nether fortress.
• Ellas died to a tree climbing drowned, they lasted about 20 minutes
• Eclogues withered away due to hubris

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

Week 7: Black Rose

Congratulations ButterflyGirlKMC!!! First place this week was well earned, fantastic!

Week 8: The Party Zone

Come play some pinball with us! You can join in this week by using the code available under Activity-Sign-Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges!

Tournament Standings

The standings for week 7 are not yet available, but once they are you can find them on this page.

You can also see how your best scores compare and where you place in the full tournament! Take a look at that over here!

Streams

Upcoming Streams

Great news for fans of variety streams! Joe will now have a semi-recurring “Thursday Night Overflow” stream on twitch! If you’re interested be sure to check out the streaming calendar to stay up to date on when those cool streams will be!

You can see a calendar of all Joe’s upcoming streams over at the new page here!

Notable streams

V Rising with Badger!

Crafts stream!

TCG Tuesday!

Upcoming conventions

Music City Multi Con tickets sales have still not opened. TGD Fall registration has closed but there is a waitlist available to join. We still have a tentative date for Spring TGD.

• September 15th-17th  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days
• October 27th-29th in Lebanon, TN: Music City Multi Con
• Tentative: February 29th-March 3rd  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days

So long for now…

I’m sad to see the weekly newsletter go but I look forward to seeing you in the new monthly newsletters! Thank you to everyone who kept tabs and provided feedback and contributed to making this newsletter the best it could be. I couldn’t have done it without your support!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

Howdy folks!

It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!

If you’re ready to hear the news you’re in luck, here it is!

TCG cards update

Joe’s made a post over here on Mastadon about signing his TCG cards! He and the other Hermits have been signing cards like mad and sending them back to Creo, so we’re one step closer to folks being able to get their signed cards!

2023 Q3 Quarterly Meeting

The meeting is this Saturday, August 19th at 3pm US Central time! I will see folks there and as always stream it to my twitch channel for folks to watch it live. The VOD and meeting minutes will also be made available for folks at a later date and time.

Current 2023Q2 Agenda

• Emojis
  • When will be adding the new emojis approved at past meetings? -Tommy
  • /o/ \o\ Animated dance emoji -Maahes0
  • Good point emoji – Nepeta
    • Fair point image created by Quill
• More channels
  • #fashion -Ad-Astra
  • #word-games -Tommy via Dahlia’s suggestion
• No YT stream notifications – Maahes0
  • Stream announcement channel -BadgerSpanner
• Website usability and changes -Joe
• Moderation philosophy review -Joe
• SMART goals – Joe
  • Complete pinball machine by end of season
  • Sustainably meet fans for signings and TCG games in 2024
  • Identify where we are reliant on twitter and move that functionality in-house or elsewhere
    • Website usability and changes
    • Monthly newsletter cross-posted to Patreon
  • Prepare for the 2024 launch of Vanilla SMP Season 10 by experimenting with game design concepts during the final months of 2023
  • Without having to change Corrinne’s schools midyear, postpone having to start at a new day job until after season 10 launches so I can attend the first recording sessions.

Minecraft Servers

Reminder to folks that Joe will be announcing a new long term build contest this Saturday August 19th at the DS9 petitions! Feedback is still welcomed pre and post petitions over in Joe Hills Meta > #feedback-build-contests.

Following this is the National Independent Worker Day parade, starring our beloved musical guest Quinn Hills!

DS9 event schedule

• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, August 19th, Noon US Central Time
• National Independent Worker Day, hosted by Team Deztiny
  • Saturday, August 19th, 1pm US Central Time
• Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day, hosted by Team Warden Hunters
  • Saturday, September 23rd, 1pm US Central Time

Everstorm July closes

The last obituary of the world:

• SuperStone explored the Terralith biomes and died running from skeletons in a forest, having never learned what to break to get armor.

The survivors of last month’s Everstorm share these final reports:

• Laxmi13 joined last minute to die but enjoyed random loot too much to give up.
• SalemOleander had a delightful and spreadsheet-filled time on their first Everstorm!
• Gritmonger showed up late, but survived, and went on to light up one of the new style villages Seanard discovered.
• Void got a headache trying to remember loot-drops and returned in time to get the final hit on the dragon.
• Magenta made a house of chaos and ventured to all four corners of the world.
• ruffboi showed up VERY late, and did little, but figured out how to get the elusive phantom membrane.
• MJ worked through the randomization to build a Zelda inspired house. He explored a desert city, floating sky island, and rescued a villager trapped at sea.
• Kindalas took advantage of the starter kits put to gather by Gritmonger and traveled to the End to help put an end to the Ender Dragon.
• Beyr33 tried to turn the world purple without success after helping killing the dragon.

Everstorm August opens

The next Everstorm is here again! The parameters for this iteration have been selected by Joe and his wonderful daughter Corrinne! It’s up to folks to hop on the server and find out what’s new! If you’re interested the info to join is under Realms and Servers > #everstorm-aug-2023.

Also as a reminder to folks, this Everstorm and all the future ones to come will be synced to the monthly newsletters! The Everstorms will conclude within the last week of the month and the obituaries and survivor’s posts will go up in the newsletter that is posted at the beginning of the month following.

August’s Everstorm is set to end on Thursday, August 31st.

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

Week 6: Junk Yard

Toxxic gets another congratulations for his 6th win in a row!

Week 7: Black Rose

Avast! Come play some pinball with us! You can join in this week by using the code available under Activity-Sign-Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges!

Tournament Standings

Here’s the standings for week 6!

You can also see how your best scores compare and where you place in the full tournament! Take a look at that over here!

HermitCraft 9 Videos

Streams

Upcoming Streams

You can see a calendar of all Joe’s upcoming streams over at the new page here!

Notable streams

Crafts with Cleo!

TCG Tuesday!

Upcoming conventions

Music City Multi Con tickets sales have still not opened. Fall dates for TGD have been confirmed, so you can mark that on your calendar! We still have a tentative date for Spring TGD.

• September 15th-17th  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days
• October 27th-29th in Lebanon, TN: Music City Multi Con
• Tentative: February 29th-March 3rd  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days

So long for now…

Next week is our last weekly edition of the newsletter. We’ve come so far thanks to folks like you who read these and stay updated. Thank you so much!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

Howdy folks!

It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!

We’re getting this newsletter out despite Joe’s internet suffering this thunderstorm season! Woo!

2023 Q3 Quarterly Meeting

Current 2023Q2 Agenda

• No YT stream notifications – Maahes0
  • Stream announcement channel -BadgerSpanner
• Website usability and changes -Joe
• Moderation philosophy review -Joe
• SMART goals – Joe
  • Complete pinball machine by end of season
  • Sustainably meet fans for signings and TCG games in 2024
  • Identify where we are reliant on twitter and move that functionality in-house or elsewhere
    • Website usability and changes
    • Monthly newsletter cross-posted to Patreon
  • Prepare for the 2024 launch of Vanilla SMP Season 10 by experimenting with game design concepts during the final months of 2023
  • Without having to change Corrinne’s schools midyear, postpone having to start at a new day job until after season 10 launches so I can attend the first recording sessions.

Minecraft Servers

Folks should know that at the next petitions, August 19th, Joe will be announcing a new long term build contest! All of the information and discussion will be happening live at petitions, so you should attend if you can! If not a VOD and minutes will be available like always. We also have a feedback channel, so please share your thoughts pre and post petitions over in Joe Hills Meta > #feedback-build-contests.

DS9 event schedule

• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, August 19th, Noon US Central Time
• National Independent Worker Day, hosted by Team Deztiny
  • Saturday, August 19th, 1pm US Central Time
• Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day, hosted by Team Warden Hunters
  • Saturday, September 23rd, 1pm US Central Time

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

Week 5: Whirlwind

Congratulations again for another win Toxxic!

Week 6: Junk Yard

Play some pinball with us! You can join in this week by using the code available under Activity-Sign-Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges!

Tournament Standings

Here’s the standings for week 5!

You can also see how your best scores compare and where you place in the full tournament! Take a look at that over here!

HermitCraft 9 Videos

Streams

Upcoming Streams

You can see a calendar of all Joe’s upcoming streams over at the new page here!

Notable streams

Upcoming conventions

Music City Multi Con tickets sales have still not opened. Fall dates for TGD have been confirmed, so you can mark that on your calendar! We still have a tentative date for Spring TGD.

• September 15th-17th  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days
• October 27th-29th in Lebanon, TN: Music City Multi Con
• Tentative: February 29th-March 3rd  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days

So long for now…

Let’s continue to have a great August! Thanks for reading the newsletter!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

Howdy folks!

It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!

We’ve got plenty to announce, let’s jump in cause there’s no time to waste!

Collector’s Edition Joe Hills TCG card!

Today is the last day to pre-order Joe’s collector edition TCG card! You can purchase a signed or unsigned copy over here!

Monthly Newsletter

Big changes coming up! For those of you who keep up to date by reading the newsletters, we will no longer have weekly editions!

Well, actually August 21st is the last weekly newsletter. After that they will be monthly! So you can expect the first edition of the monthly newsletter (and every month after that) to be posted on the second Monday of every month!

Worry not, everything in the newsletter will keep being in the newsletter! So you will always get the information, just less frequently. The one exception to this rule is the stream schedule and upcoming meetups! Joe has created a new page on his website that will update as changes occur so folks will always have the most reliable and up to date source of stream times!

You can find our first beta version of that over at https://joehills.net/soon/

Synchronizing Everstorm

One of the things that’ll also change is Joe will be synching the Everstorm iterations to the monthly newsletter! This way we’ll still get to include your obituaries and survivor’s posts! July’s Everstorm will end on Sunday, August 13th, with the August Everstorm to follow shortly after.

Patreon Subs

Some of y’all might have heard Joe talk about this on stream, but Joe wanted to share the stats of the new subs he got on Patreon! We want to extend our gratitude to the folks on tumblr who promoted and encouraged folks to join and tip Joe, thank you so much! It’s been so incredible seeing new folks join the discord!

Joe has seen 21 new $1 tier subs, 27 new $5 tier subs, and 34 new $10 tier subs.

That’s incredible! Thank you so so much for supporting Joe, it really means a lot to see folks support Joe’s weird art and other shenanigans. He made a whole post on his tumblr, you can view that over here.

2023 Q3 Quarterly Meeting

Current 2023Q2 Agenda

• No YT stream notifications – Maahes0
  • Stream announcement channel -BadgerSpanner
• Website usability and changes -Joe
• Moderation philosophy review -Joe
• SMART goals – Joe
  • Complete pinball machine by end of season
  • Sustainably meet fans for signings and TCG games in 2024
  • Without having to change Corrinne’s schools midyear, postpone having to start at a new day job until after season 10 launches so I can attend the first recording sessions.

Minecraft Servers

Joe has some more group build contests planned for the minecraft server between now and when season 10 launches! He’s started writing up the rules for the first one, which will be announced and open immediately at the next petitions on August 19th.

Joe is welcome to feedback and would like folks to provide their thoughts on what did and didn’t work with prior contests like the neighborhoods in season 8 and outposts and map art build contests in season 9.

You can submit that under Joe Hills Meta > #feedback-build-contests.

DS9 event schedule

• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, August 19th, Noon US Central Time
• National Independent Worker Day, hosted by Team Deztiny
  • Saturday, August 19th, 1pm US Central Time
• Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day, hosted by Team Warden Hunters
  • Saturday, September 23rd, 1pm US Central Time

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

Week 4: The Getaway: High Speed II

Toxxic takes the win again, congratulations!

Week 5: Whirlwind

Play some pinball with us! You can join in this week by using the code available under Activity-Sign-Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges!

Tournament Standings

Here’s the standings for week 4!

You can also see how your best scores compare and where you place in the full tournament! Take a look at that over here!

HermitCraft 9 Videos

Streams

Upcoming Streams

• Monday, July 31st
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live
• Tuesday, August 1st
  • 8:30am: V Rising with Badger Spanner
• Wednesday, August 2nd
  • 8:30am: Crafts with Cleo
• Thursday, August 3rd
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft with Quinn
• Friday, August 4th
  • 8:30am: Morning Coffee on HermitCraft
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live
• Saturday, August 5th
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live
• Sunday, August 6th:
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live

Notable streams

Upcoming conventions

Music City Multi Con tickets sales have still not opened. Fall dates for TGD have been confirmed, so you can mark that on your calendar! We still have a tentative date for Spring TGD.

• September 15th-17th  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days
• October 27th-29th in Lebanon, TN: Music City Multi Con
• Tentative: February 29th-March 3rd  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days

So long for now…

I hope you have a wonderful day, I look forward to seeing you next time!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

Howdy folks!

It’s Tommy time! Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty!

What a  month it’s been so far! Let’s get into the news!

Tennessee Game Days

From Friday September 15th to Sunday the 17th TGD will be running, and Joe will be there! A weekend of board and card gaming at a hotel just south of Nashville! You can find all the information you need to attend and have a great time at the convention website, the registration is open here, and you can view their game library!

There’s plenty more information available for folks in the discord, under Meet-Ups > #sep-15-17-tennessee-game-days.

Collector’s Edition Joe Hills TCG card!

Pre-order is still open for Joe’s collector edition TCG card! You can purchase a signed or unsigned copy over here!

If you’re interested in TCG games, good news! Joe has started streaming TCG games with Cub and other hermits on Tuesdays at 1pm US Central! Be sure to hop in or watch the VODs if you can’t get enough of the card game!

2023 Q3 Quarterly Meeting

Another quarterly time of year! Our next meeting will be held on Saturday, August 19th at 3pm US Central time.

Current 2023Q2 Agenda

• No YT stream notifications – Maahes0
  • Stream announcement channel -BadgerSpanner

Minecraft Servers

Parade float building contests!

We have our last two parade float building contests scheduled!

In celebration of National Independent Worker Day, Team Deztiny will be hosting their parade on August 19th, at 1pm US Central time.

In celebration of Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day, Team Warden Hunters will be hosting their parade on September 23rd, at 1pm US Central time.

DS9 July Petitions

VOD and minutes are available here!

DS9 August Petitions

The next petitions is scheduled for Saturday, August 19th, at Noon US Central time.

June Everstorm

We have a few last minute survivor entries!

• Kindalas kept logging in to say hello to his friends and managed to survive every time.
• Void did archeology and chilled at home with their Sniffers
• Seanard survived and thrived. Dragon defeated and all.

July Everstorm

Folks have been having a killer time on the Everstorm server!

• ChloeTGaP was 50% sure she was safe around the piglins
• Chefnutmeg was death Bacon’d. Murdered by a piglin that followed her back through the portal.

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

Week 3: Attack from Mars

Another victory goes to ToxxicGlitter, congrats!

Week 4: The Getaway: High Speed II

Race to be our next winner! If you’d like to join in this week you can do so by using the code available under Activity-Sign-Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges!

Tournament Standings

With our new rankings system for the tournament you can see how your best scores compare and where you place! Take a look at that over here!

HermitCraft 9 Videos

Streams

Upcoming Streams

New reoccurring streams are on Tuesday! V Rising with BadgerSpanner in the mornings and TCG with Cub and pals in the afternoons! All times in US Central.

• Monday, July 24th
  • No afternoon stream
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Tuesday, July 25th
  • 8:30am: V Rising with BadgerSpanner
  • 1pm: TCG Tuesday with Cub and pals
• Wednesday, July 26th
  • 8:30am: Crafts with Cleo, pinball playfield design finalization
• Thursday, July 27th
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft with Quinn
• Friday, July 28th
  • 8:30am: Coffee and Catch-up on HermitCraft 9
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Saturday, July 29th
  • Collab stream, time to be announced
• Sunday, July 30th
  • Collab stream, time to be announced

Notable streams

Joe plans to have V Rising be a reoccurring stream, so check out this VOD if you want to keep up!

Upcoming conventions

Music City Multi Con tickets sales have still not opened. Fall dates for TGD have been confirmed, so you can mark that on your calendar! We still have a tentative date for Spring TGD.

• September 15th-17th  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days
• October 27th-29th in Lebanon, TN: Music City Multi Con
• Tentative: February 29th-March 3rd  in Nashville, TN: Tennessee Game Days

So long for now…

Thanks for reading the news! Your kindness, interest, and support mean a lot to me!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around