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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

Howdy folks!

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

I’m writing this newsletter a day in advance as I am traveling to meet a friend of mine, so let me hurry up and give you the news!

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!

Double Feature in the discord!

Reminder to folks that Joe will be joined live in-studio by Quinn Hills on Sunday, July 16th, for a double film discussion! The films are The Dish and The Shawshank Redemption

It seems like some folks already familiar with the films are interested in the discussions that will take place after, so be sure to join us!

As previously mentioned, nobody will be streaming the films, folks are responsible for obtaining their own copies and playing them at the same time. You can find a schedule under Activity-Sign-Ups > #July-16-double-feature or in last week’s newsletter.

Nashville meetup

Speaking of Joe and Quinn, come hangout with them at a meetup in Nashville! More information on this can be found in the discord under Meet-Ups > #July-17-nashville.

Minecraft Servers

DS9 map art build contest

We’re almost there! This Saturday I will be joined by Joe and guest judge Sfé R. Monster! for the judging of the map art build contest! Folks should be finishing up their entries and submitting them to our designated gallery, The Defiant, by midnight US central time July 14th.

Any questions should be directed to under Activity-Sign-Ups > #July-15th-ds9-map-art-build-contest.

DS9 event schedule

• DS9 Petitions
• Saturday, July 15th, 1pm US Central Time
• DS9 Map Art Build Contest
  • Building is ongoing until July 14th, midnight US Central Time
  • Judging on Saturday, July 15th, 2pm US Central Time

Everstorm obituaries

No obituaries to report, phew!

July Everstorm

The voting window has now closed! Thank you to everyone who participated, the results have been collected and after it is ensured everything works the parameters will be submitted to Joe. He will then spin up the server for folks to enjoy what should be an interesting experience for an Everstorm. You can expect that to go live on Saturday, July 15th.

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

Week 1: Fish Tales

Congratulations to our first winner of the FX tournaments, ToxxicGlitter!

Week 2: Medieval Madness

Folks can join the madness this week by using the code available under Activity-Sign-Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges!

Don’t forget that scoring will be similar to that of a Mario Kart cup. You’ll get points that scale based on your place in the individual tournament, and your 15 best weeks combine to make your final tournament score!

Streams

Upcoming Streams

• Monday, July 10th
  • 1:30pm: Bonus HermitCraft 9 Live!
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Tuesday, July 11th:
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 coffee stream
• Wednesday, July 12th:
  • 8:30am: Cleo Craft Stream
  • 10am: Mario Kart Wave 5 launch with pals
• Thursday, July 13th:
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 coffee stream
• Friday, July 14th:
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 coffee stream
  • No evening stream
• Saturday, July 15th:
  • 1pm: DS9 petitions
  • 2pm: DS9 map art build contest judging
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Sunday, July 16th:
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!

Notable streams

Upcoming conventions

Music City Multi Con tickets sales have still not opened. In the meantime, keep your calendar clear, we have tentative dates for Fall and Spring TGD! Again, the dates are NOT final, as the hotel contract has not yet been signed!

• Tentative: September 14th-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 enjoyed this week’s newsletter. I’ll be back live on stream next week as per usual, and if you didn’t know, I write the newsletters with Joe every monday morning and call in to his coffee and correspondence streams, how exciting! You should tune in so I can say hi to you, I’ll see some of you then!

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 for some news, then here it is! If you’re somehow not ready, why did you open a newsletter?! Either way, let’s begin!

Collector’s Edition Joe Hills TCG card!

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

Joe to host events during PlayOnCon 2023!

If you’re on the fence about attending PlayOnCon 2023 or are already going then you’ll want to hear this! Joe will be hosting two events, I hope you can attend!

• Minecraft Build Competition (bring your own device)
  Friday, July 7th at 4pm, in the Video Gaming Room
• Table Flipping
  Friday, July 7th at 6pm, Outdoors above pool

Folks who will be there are encouraged to use the meet-ups > #jul-6-9-playoncon discord channel for coordinating and communication during the con

Album change!

Fans of the songs Joe plays during his streams will be happy to know that there has been an album title and cover art change! These changes are to better reflect the identity of Quinn Hills, who is the outstanding musician responsible for creating the wonderful pieces featured on both albums.

It is my pleasure to give you these links to Redacted Hills Sings Joe Hills Album 1, and Album 2.

Double Feature in the discord!

Do you like movies? And watching them alongside folks? And having discussions after? If not, skip to the next header!

If you do then you’re in luck! Joe is joined live in-studio by Quinn on Sunday, July 16th, for a double film discussion! The films are The Dish and The Shawshank Redemption

Please note, nobody will be streaming the films, folks are responsible for obtaining their own copies and playing them at the same time. Here’s the schedule for this event! All times in US Central.

• Noon: Meet in Voice and chat
• 12:15pm: start The Dish and switch to text chat here
• 1:55 pm: Dish ends, bathroom break
• 2pm: discuss the Dish in voice chat
• 2:15pm: Start Shawshank and switch to text chat here
• 4:35 bathroom break
• 4:40 Shawshank Discussion in voice chat

New social media accounts

Joe has some new social media accounts for folks who are interested in following him. Here’s his Bluesky and his Mastodon.

Minecraft Servers

DS9 map art build contest

The time for judgement draws near! There is less than 2 weeks until judging, so folks better start displaying their map art at The Defiant on Deep Slate Nine! All of the information is still under Activity-Sign-Ups > #July-15th-ds9-map-art-build-contest. There’s still time to make maps, just don’t be afraid to ask other folks in the community for help!

Don’t forget the judges are Joe, myself, and guest judge Sfé R. Monster!

DS9 event schedule

• DS9 Petitions
• Saturday, July 15th, 1pm US Central Time
• DS9 Map Art Build Contest
  • Building is ongoing until July 14th, midnight US Central Time
  • Judging on Saturday, July 15th, 2pm US Central Time

Everstorm obituaries

No obituaries to report, phew!

July Everstorm

The time to vote has begun for the July Everstorm! Head on over to Realms and Servers > #everstorm-july-2023 to cast your vote in the emoji polls to change how July’s Everstorm plays out!

Folks are welcome to persuade folks to vote in their favor but keep in mind the discord’s rules and be respectful to each other. The voting window closes on July 8th, and the iteration will be opened on July 15th.

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

Week 1: Fish Tales

Our first tournament is here! Folks interested can find all the information under Activity-Sign-Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges to join the tournament!

Pinball FX and the Fish Tales table are free, so this is a great opportunity for folks to try the game out! This is a 26 week series, and scoring will be similar to that of a Mario Kart cup. You’ll get points that scale based on your place in the individual tournament, and your 15 best weeks combine to make your final tournament score!

Will you be our first winner? Come play and find out!

Streams

Upcoming Streams

• Monday, July 3rd:
  • 1:30pm: HHH with Cleo and Gem
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Tuesday, July 4th:
  • Off due to the federal holiday
• Wednesday, July 5th:
  • 8:30am: Cleo Craft Stream, decorating PlayOnCon table
• Thursday, July 6th:
  • No streams due to PlayOnCon
• Friday, July 7th:
  • No streams due to PlayOnCon
• Saturday, July 8th:
  • No streams due to PlayOnCon
• Sunday, July 9th:
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Monday, July 10th:
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 Live! Coffee and Correspondence
  • 1:30pm: Bonus HermitCraft 9 stream
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!

Notable streams

Upcoming conventions

Music City Multi Con tickets sales have still not opened. In the meantime, keep your calendar clear, we have tentative dates for Fall and Spring TGD! Again, the dates are NOT final, as the hotel contract has not yet been signed!

• July 6th–9th in Columbiana, AL: PlayOnCon
• Tentative: September 14th-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…

If you’re gonna celebrate the 4th of July this week have fun, be respectful and also responsible! Otherwise have a fantastic week!

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’m so excited to write to you all again! I hope you’ve enjoyed the past two weeks, because it’s time to get into some news!

Congratulations to Quinn and Cat Hills!

I wanted to start this newsletter off with a big congratulations to Joe’s sisters Quinn and Cat!

Quinn was featured in The Washington Post (yes, THE Washington Post!) in an article about queer beauty in the South US. It’s a wonderful piece and I highly recommend and implore folks to check it out! Way to go Quinn!

Cat was amongst the top 3 biggest movers in the International Flipper Pinball Association’s rankings for May 2023! Her rank jumped 13,908 spots! Joe hopes this encourages folks to get out and play more, because this is incredible!

Wisconsin trip

Speaking of Joe, he competed in IFPA’s main event over the weekend and placed 45th! This means his rank has jumped about 700 spots from a ranking of just over 3000 to just over 2300.

Not quite as spectacular as Cat’s 13,908, better luck next time Joe!

If you’re interested in hearing more about the event, Joe’s assured me that he will have a HermitCraft episode talking about his Wisconsin trip so keep an eye out on his streams for the live telling!

If you’d like to see some of the live posting of Joe’s weekend you can find it in this twitter thread!

TCG Collector’s Edition rare Joe Hills!

Joe has a custom rare card for TCG! The art was done by our community’s own AvivaKitty, so please be sure to check it out!

Sales for the card go live on July 1st at 9am US Central time, so be sure to get yours!

Minecraft Servers

DS9 summer solstice parade

Yet another parade has come and gone on Deep Slate Nine! In celebration of the summer solstice, take a look at this VOD! Joe started this stream off exploring 1.20 features on HermitCraft, so you can check that out too! The parade half of the VOD should be timestamped, but if it’s not you can go to 2:17:27 to see the awesome floats folks built!

Thank you to team SCP for hosting!

DS9 map art build contest

At this time there is less than 3 weeks until the map art build contest! We now have our third and final judge! Sfé R. Monster, a comic creator known for writing the official Minecraft comic! I’m very excited to have someone so familiar with minecraft and art join the judges panel with myself and Joe, I hope you are too!

The host of the map art gallery for Judging is Mantuamaker in our discord server, and she has requested folks begin putting their maps into the gallery for the contest, or at least claim a spot in advanced so she knows how much room is needed if any more is. As a reminder, part of the contest requirements is to have your piece submitted before July 15th. You can find information on this under Activity-Sign-Ups > #july-15th-ds9-map-art-build-contest.

DS9 petitions

Petitions will be held just before the map art contest judging! Folks interested in attending should log into the server on July 15th at 1pm US Central Time and make way to the same location as the map art contest gallery, The Defiant, as built by Mantuamaker! Teleportation may be available upon request.

DS9 event schedule

• DS9 Petitions
• Saturday, July 15th, 1pm US Central Time
• DS9 Map Art Build Contest
  • Building is ongoing until July 14th, midnight US Central Time
  • Judging on Saturday, July 15th, 2pm US Central Time

Everstorm obituaries

• fancytoy was shot by a Skeleton while attempting to start a cave home
• Centuritron was crept up on by a Creeper while trying to transport villagers to safety
• TommyBoii succumbed to the madness of SCIENCE!
• ChefNutmeg Fell to the undead while bringing light to the hills behind spawn

July Everstorm

Do you enjoy everstorm? Do you want to have a say in what the next iteration looks like? Well good news for you! I’ll be acting as creative lead for July’s Everstorm and for it we will be holding a vote!

Folks can check everstorm-july-2023 for all the details, but in simplest terms, whatever the majority of people vote for here will be what happens the July Everstorm. How exciting!

Suggestions for server-side-only mods as well as datapacks are now open! Visit the channel mentioned above to submit!

Create Mod SMP

The short term Create server has opened! Server operator ToxxicGlitter has everything all set for folks, so if you haven’t hopped on the server yet get to it! The server is set to last for about 3 months, so now’s the time to explore the Create mod and all the other things added to his server! All the details to join the  server can be found under SMP: Create Mod 1.19.2 by ToxxicGlitter > #create-setup-guide.

Vanillish SMP

The voice chat mod has officially been added to server operator Yirggzmb’s Vanillish server! She’s linked a very handy guide to install it under SMP: Vanillish by Yirggzmb > #vanillish-general.

Also, the next petitions for the server will be on Thursday, July 20th! These are asynchronous, so be sure to submit them in the #vanillish-petitions channel before then!

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

It’s been delayed! Why, you may ask?

Well, the intention of switching over to Pinball FX was to have tournaments be available with a game that could be run on mac computers, There doesn’t seem to be a mac release yet, which is really disappointing for us.

Joe is gonna try to see what he can do for this, so please stay tuned as he finds a solution.

Streams

Upcoming Streams

Joe is traveling right now, so some of this schedule is tentative  due to hotel internet, thanks for understanding! All times in US Central.

• Monday, June 26th
  • Tentative 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Tuesday, June 27th
  • Tentative 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 coffee stream
• Wednesday, June 28th
  • 8:30am: Cleo Craft Stream
• Thursday, June 29th
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft with Quinn Hills
• Friday, June 30th
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 coffee stream
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Saturday, July 1st
  • No streams planned
• Sunday, July 2nd
  • No streams planned
• Monday, July 3rd
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 Live! Coffee and correspondence with TommyBoii

Notable streams

Upcoming conventions

Music City Multi Con tickets sales have still not opened. In the meantime, keep your calendar clear, we have tentative dates for Fall and Spring TGD! Again, the dates are NOT final, as the hotel contract has not yet been signed!

• July 6th–9th in Columbiana, AL: PlayOnCon
• Tentative: September 14th-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 until the end! I appreciate you! I’ll see you live in chat during next week’s draft otherwise enjoy the week!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

Howdy folks!

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

Next week is a federal holiday, Juneteenth, and as per usual we will abstain from posting a newsletter. I’ll fit as much information as I can in today’s newsletter, so let’s start!

Minecraft Servers

DS9 pride parade

As a member of the outpost hosting this event, I want to say thank you to everyone who participated and watched the event! It was incredible seeing what y’all built, and the music played by guest judge Quinn Hills was phenomenal! If you haven’t seen that parade float build contest or don’t even know what I’m talking about I recommend you check out the VOD.

Thank you to team Gaymers for hosting, Vin you did such a great job!

Deep Slate Nine server update

Now that 1.20.1 is here DS9 has been updated to the new game version! Minecraft tier players can enjoy the new bamboo and cherry blocks, the armor trims, and more!

If you’re not already a member and are interested in joining us you can join Joe’s patreon to support him and gain access to our minecraft servers. I hope to see you soon!

DS9 map art build contest

I hope y’all haven’t forgotten about this contest, it’s been in the event schedule for a while now! I’m very pleased to announce that I, your favorite Joe Hills Community Liaison That Tommy Boii, will be one of the judges!

If you’re not familiar with me or my past work, I joined Joe’s Patreon community back in April 2020. Season 7 of Hermitcraft was going strong, and I made my mark on the patreon server, or rather at the time a realm, with map art! I built maps to share with the server and I even met my partner building them together, it’s all a romantic and silly tale that I shall spare the entire details of but key point is that I’ve been mapping for years so I like to consider it my neck of the woods!

Joe will also be judging the contest of course, it is his server after all! We’re also hoping to get a guest judge into the panel, Joe has been sending out messages to see if we have a fitting candidate available! If not it’ll be up to my expertise and the Joe Hills difference to judge the pieces of art you put before our pixelated minecraft eyes.

I can’t wait! Judging will be held on Saturday July 15th. If you need a refresher on this contest you can find details in this newsletter here or the pinned post under Activity-Sign-Ups > #july-15th-ds9-map-art-build-contest.

DS9 event schedule

• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, June 17th, 1pm US Central Time
• Summer Solstice Parade, hosted by Team SCP
  • Saturday, June 17th, 2pm US Central Time
• DS9 Map Art Build Contest
  • Ongoing until judging on Saturday, July 15th

May Everstorm closes

No obituaries to report, phew!

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

• Kindalas logged in long enough to make sure that the server was running properly and to place signs in Void’s base.
• Centuritron survived as long as they did thanks to a sword from the cursed king himself, Midas
• ToxxicGlitter survived hell of his own creation, got a bunch of loot to help others then noped out of there
• Void built a cozy home and sanctuary, and looted enough gear to fill multiple chests
• MJ built a farm that Void made prettier., gathered some saplings, and swam down to a few ship wrecks.

June Everstorm opens

Everstorm will be reset by tomorrow, June 13th! Joe’s in charge of this one, so be sure to keep an eye out for when it goes live! Joe will post the details under Realms and Servers > #everstorm-june-2023.

July Everstorm plans

Rumor has it that I’ll be in charge of the July Everstorm. Well, these rumors are true! As your community liaison I’ve seen a lot of folks have fun with the Everstorm server. I love that folks enjoy what the staff put out for them but I couldn’t help but wonder… what if the community could decide how an iteration of the server could look like?

Thus this idea was born! I will be creating some sort of poll for members to vote on to add or remove features for the July Everstorm! I’ll be creating all the information and posting it in the discord as well as the next newsletter, so look forward to that! The post, once made, will be found under Realms and Servers > #everstorm-july-2023.

Modded SMP

Server operator ToxxicGlitter will be launching his new short term modded server tomorrow, June 13th! All the information and a handy tutorial will be provided in the #modded-setup-guide channel, and if you have any questions while installing the mods you can ask in #modded-setup-help.

The old modded server will remain up for a week for folks to enjoy the last of it as it is replaced by this new server.

Vanillish SMP

Joe will be adding the simple voice chat mod to the server either today or tomorrow depending on how much time is available after all the other server maintenance occurring! Also as a reminder to folks the server is still on 1.19.4 with no plans to change yet, as the Vanillish SMP aims to be the comfort server and not require frequent updating like our flagship server DS9.

Another reminder, asynchronous petitions are being held on Thursday, June 15th.  If you have any petition requests, be sure to submit them to server operator Yirggzmb over in SMP: Vanillish by Yirggzmb > #vanillish-petitions,

Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament

This is our last Pinball FX3 tournament!!

…Because we’re switching to Pinball FX! This will be the last game of the tournament, and as such the week count will reset with the brand new tournament coming next week!

Week 21: Medieval Madness

Last year’s tournaments had Medieval Madness as a clear winner for most played table, so we’re bringing it back this week for the finale! Who will claim the last victory of Pinball FX3???

Pinball FX Weekly Tournament

Week 1: Fish Tales

This table will be the first of our new tournament, but it won’t be going live until next week! I’m announcing it here now due to the holiday next week, so folks will have time to be prepared to join in once we start!

If you don’t yet have the game, you can find it over here on steam. The game itself is free as is the Fish Tales table, though other tables must be purchased to be played. We typically play the Williams Pinball Volume  1-6 packs as well as the Universal Mosnters pack. Folks should keep an eye on the tournament channel to stay up to date on what table we’re playing!

You can find that under activity-sign-ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges.

HermitCraft 9 Videos

Streams

Upcoming Stream Schedule

For all you schedule enjoyers out there, we’ve got a stream schedule for the next two weeks! Thanks Joe!

• Monday, June 12th
  • 1:30pm: HermitCraft 9 with Cleo
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live! Quarterly planning stream with NJCoffeeJunkie
• Tuesday, June 13th
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 coffee stream
• Wednesday, June 14th
  • 8:30am: Cleo Craft Stream
• Thursday, June 15th
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 coffee stream
• Friday, June 16th
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 coffee stream
• Saturday, June 17th
  • 2pm: Patreon SCP Solstice parade
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Sunday, June 18th
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Monday, June 19th
  • Federal Holiday, off
• Tuesday, June 20th
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 coffee stream
• Wednesday, June 21st
  • 8:30am: Crafts with Cleo
• Thursday, June 22nd
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 Live
• Friday, June 23rd
  • 8:30am: HermitCraft 9 coffee stream
• Saturday, June 24th
  • Not streaming due to a pinball tournament
• Sunday, June 25th
  • Spot Joe among 150 pinball tournament contestants at https://twitch.tv/foxcitiespinball
• Monday, June 26th
  • Travel day, no streams

Notable streams

Upcoming conventions

Music City Multi Con tickets sales have still not opened. In the meantime, keep your calendar clear, we have tentative dates for Fall and Spring TGD! Again, the dates are NOT final, as the hotel contract has not yet been signed!

• July 6th–9th in Columbiana, AL: PlayOnCon
• Tentative: September 14th-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 this information provided in this newsletter will suffice until the next update, which will be on June 26th. Until then I hope you can celebrate Juneteenth in  your local communities!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!