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Howdy folks!

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

If you’re looking for updates you’ve come to the right place, here’s your weekly news!

Hermitcraft TCG Card Game Live

Have you been watching all the hermits playing the HermitCraft TCG and thought “Wow I wish I could collect and play this in real life!”? Well now you can! VintageBeef and the Hermits have announced a physical edition of the game available for preorder now! You can find that over here! If you’re interested in seeing what Joe’s common card looks like you can take a look at this link here!

The Federal Trade Commission requires that ads and sponsors be disclosed when goods or services are endorsed. Joe does make a small royalty off the sales of the card game, but this is not a true sponsorship as Joe is a Hermit and has been working with the team responsible for having these cards released. Better safe than sorry!

2023 Q2 quarterly meeting VOD and minutes

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 is tentatively set for late July or early August depending on Joe’s availability, we will bring you the final date once we have that ready!

Minecraft Servers

Stay updated on our Minecraft servers!

Deep Slate Nine downtime

DS9 needs to have it’s operating system upgraded! Joe will be taking care of that so you can expect server downtime from May 30th to May 31st.

DS9 Petitions

You can find the VOD and minutes for the April 2023 DS9 petitions at this page: https://joehills.net/petitions-april-2023/

DS9 Yuri’s Night parade

The Yuri’s Night parade building contest was out of this world! Many cool designs were featured by our stellar members of the community, and I’m over the moon with everyone’s creative aspirations! Please be sure to watch the VOD and enjoy the floats!

Thank you to Team Shiny for hosting!

DS9 event schedule

• Earth Day Parade, hosted by Team Earth Kingdom Scouts
  • Sunday, April 23rd, 2pm US Central Time
• Kentucky Derby Parade, hosted by Team Blackwater
  • Sunday, April 30th, 2pm US Central Time
• DS9 Petitions
  • Saturday, May 20th, 1pm US Central Time
• Pride Parade, hosted by Team Gaymers
  • Sunday, June 11th, 2pm US Central Time
• 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

Everstorm obituaries

• ChefNutmeg got yeeted into lava by a sad boy

Modded SMP

Server operator ToxxicGlitter is still taking suggestions for the upcoming modded server restart, we’re looking to have that launched in the back half of June. Stay tuned for more details to come!

Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament

Week 13: Creature from the Black Lagoon

Congrats to Mr. Hardluck for his win!

Week 14: Monster Bash

This table has not been started yet as Joe needs to reset the tournament, but you can look forward to that going live early Tuesday evening.

Upcoming conventions

Music City Multi Con has been announced! You can expect to see Joe there, though tickets are not yet available. Stay tuned for that!

• July 6th–9th in Columbiana, AL: PlayOnCon
• October 27th-29th in Lebanon, TN: Music City Multi Con

Notable streams

So long for now…

Thanks for tuning in, I hope you have a beautiful week and many moments of small joys!

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’re ready for some modest updates, because here they are!

2023 Q2 quarterly meeting

Final reminder to folks that our quarterly meeting is this Saturday, April 15th, at 1pm US Central time! This is your last chance to suggest agenda items, new channels, new emojis, or submit some feedback to go over, so get that in while you can!

Agenda items go in Joe Hills Meta > #next-quarter-new-business-requests channel. Channel suggestions can go in #feedback-more-channels, and emoji suggestions can go in #feedback-emoji.

Minecraft Server Events

We’ve got a few new items to add to the list, along with reminders of the previously announced events!

Deep Slate Nine

• Petitions
  • Saturday, April 15th, 10:30am US Central time.
• Yuri’s Night Parade, hosted by Team Shiny
  • Saturday, April 15th, 11am US Central Time
• Earth Day Parade, hosted by Team Earth Kingdom Scouts
  • Sunday, April 23rd, 2pm US Central Time
• Kentucky Derby Parade, hosted by Team Blackwater
  • Sunday, April 30th, 2pm US Central Time
• Pride Parade, hosted by Team Gaymers
  • Sunday, June 11th, 2pm 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

Lenten Everstorm closes

Survivors of last month’s everstorm have shared their final reports:

• MJ went exploring beyond the safe glow of torchlight. At nightfall he began pillaring up and watched the sunset. It was a good world.
• Laxmi13 survived because apparently her real body doesn’t understand 2D movement anymore.
• SuperStone developed new and exciting ways of not dying, then stopped playing before actually needing them.
• samihiggins helped create a commune below spawn. She leaves behind many farms and many more hours in her pursuit of perfectly enchanted bows for all.
• Magenta spent more time landscaping that she did caving and she build her first double-spawner mob grinder.
• Phali successfully defended Voids’ legacy, then took Deliverance and some supplies on his back and headed for the sunrise in search of new adventures.

April Everstorm opens

A new iteration of Everstorm is here! The reset is planned for May 9th, so come be the first to die! Or rather the next, as we already have our first obituary!

• MJ was shot in the back by a skeleton while trying to escape up a staircase.

Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament

Week 12: Black Rose

Congratulations to Asteri aka Cosmic Goddess for getting first place!

Week 13: Creature from the Black Lagoon

If you’re interested in joining the pinball tournaments you can find information under activity-sign-ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges.

Upcoming conventions

PlayOnCon 2023 sales are now open at http://www.playoncon.com/memberships!

• July 6th–9th in Columbiana, AL: PlayOnCon

Notable streams

So long for now…

I look forward to updating folks with the events of the quarterly meeting this weekend. You’ll be able to enjoy the VOD and minutes as per usual when we can get those available to folks. I hope to see you there!

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 you this newsletter as Joe is currently live from the HermitCraft server! I hope y’all are enjoying the stream, let’s dive into the news!

Important Tweets

If I was greedy I would keep brilliance like this behind a paywall, but I’m going to disguise my narcissism as altruism once more. pic.twitter.com/KjvPLfSHdS

— Joe Hills (@joehills) March 24, 2023

Mercy Road 4

Last reminder! This Saturday, April 1st, Joe will be playing in one of the charity D&D games benefitting Child’s Play hosted by talented dungeon master Saucefire. His session will be at 5pm US Central time!

Minecraft Server Events

Deep Slate Nine

We have a few things to announce for DS9!

Petitions

Monthly petitions will be held Saturday, April 15th, at 10:30am US Central time.

Yuri’s Night Parade Float Build Contest

This parade will celebrate Yuri’s Night. If you haven’t heard of it before like me, Yuri’s Night is an international celebration held every April 12 to commemorate milestones in space exploration. It is named for the first human to launch into space, Yuri Gagarin, who flew the Vostok 1 spaceship on April 12, 1961.

The parade float contest will be Saturday, April 15th, at 11am US Central time.

Map Art Build Contest

DS9 will also be having an extended build contest for map art! There will be three categories, and judging will be based off solo entrants as well at teamed, so there are a total of six evaluations.

The categories are

• Retro
  Limited to a 1×1 map using only wool on a flat plane
• Refined
  Unlimited block palette and techniques may be used for up to five maps that compose a single work
• Really big
  Unlimited block palette and techniques may be used for six or more maps maps that compose a single work

Entrants may begin as of 8:30am Central, March 27th, 2023, and should be completed and on display in the judging area by midnight US central time July 14th for judging on stream the following day.

More information is available under Activity-Sign-Ups > #july-15th-ds9-map-art-build-contest

Modded SMP

Server operator ToxxicGlitter is still looking for suggestions and feedback for the new modded server coming this summer! If you have any ideas or would like to see what folks have suggested already you can find the place to do that under SMP: Modded 1.19 By ToxxicGlitter > #modded-feature-request

Vanillish SMP

Server operator Yirggzmb is preparing to have the server update to 1.19.4! Stay tuned for when that update happens, you can find the info under SMP: Vanillish By Yirggzmb > #vanillish-general

Everstorm

No obituaries to report, phew!

As a reminder, the server will reset on Thursday, April 6, 2023.

Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament

Week 10: Junkyard

The winner this week is Joe, but congrats to all of our players!

Week 11: Attack From Mars

If you’re interested in joining the pinball tournaments you can find information under activity-sign-ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges.

Upcoming conventions

PlayOnCon 2023 sales are now open at http://www.playoncon.com/memberships!

• July 6th–9th in Columbiana, AL: PlayOnCon

HermitCraft 9 Videos

Notable streams

Upcoming Streams

Another week without a schedule, sorry about that! Joe will be having someone over this week to hopefully get that repaired. Thanks for your continued patience!

So long for now…

Thanks for reading the newsletter! I hope you enjoy the rest of your day and 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!

Joe’s back from his social visit to London but it looks like his internet has yet to return! I’ll be your faithful reporter as always, so let’s get into the news!

2023 Q2 quarterly meeting

A not so brief overview

We are approaching that quarterly time of year! Folks joked around last meeting that I live for these meetings and that it’s what I look forward to all year. While highly exaggerated there is some truth to those jokes!

One of my biggest focuses as Community Liaison is making sure folks feel like they are connected to each other in this community, and for Joe to be connected to y’all as well.

For those who are new, every quarter year (or every 3 months) we hold a quarterly meeting to reflect on past changes, review current changes, and suggest upcoming changes.  Change can be a scary thing so we’ll go through it together as a community!

The meetings are available to join for all Patreon discord members and are livestreamed as well by myself. Minutes and a VOD are provided for folks who may miss it, and proxies are allowed to be sent in on behalf of other members.

We follow an agenda during these meetings to stay on topic and not stray too far from the point. If you would like to submit an agenda item request you may do so in Joe Hills Meta > #next-quarter-new-business-requests.  We also are still accepting requests in the #feedback-emoji and #feedback-more-channels channels to be considered at our next meeting.

Current 2023Q2 Agenda

• Patreon tiers and community goals
• Minecraft servers reset schedule and launches
• Discord
  • Additional channels
  • Additional emotes

Great, but when is the meeting?!

Saturday, April 15th, at 1pm US Central time.

Mercy Road 4

Joe will be playing in one of the charity D&D games benefitting Child’s Play hosted by talented dungeon master Saucefire. His session will be Saturday April 1st, at 5pm US Central time!

Minecraft Server Events

Deep Slate Nine

Our March Van Gogh parade building contest was wonderful! The builds were gorgeous and I highly recommend checking out the VOD to see what the creative folks on our server built!

There was also our usual monthly petitions, Joe has written a summary and provided a VOD for folks over here.

Modded SMP

Server operator ToxxicGlitter held petitions as well, though we don’t have a VOD or any notes on it.

We would like to announce that Toxxic plans on restarting the Modded SMP!  We don’t have any official details on that yet, but the current plans are for a shorter term, higher intensity server that would run for 3-6 months.

Don’t worry about losing the current iteration just yet! The restart won’t come until the summer, likely around June. Toxxic is very open to feedback and suggestions, folks can put those in the #modded-feature-request channel. More details on this restart will come as it becomes available.

Vanillish SMP

Vanillish petitions are tomorrow, March 21st! Server operator Yirggzmb uses an asynchronous timing, so if you have a request submit it now in the #vanillish-petitions channel!

Everstorm Obituaries

No obituaries to report, phew!

As a reminder, the server will reset on Thursday, April 6, 2023.

Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament

Week 8: No Good Gofers

Congrats to DarkHorseAsh!

Week 9: Medieval Madness

Congrats to Mr. Hardluck!

Week 10: Junkyard

If you’re interested in joining the pinball tournaments you can find information under activity-sign-ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges.

The pinball packs we play in FX3 are on sale on Steam until March 23rd, so now is a great time to hop in! I hope to see more folks claim their spot on the leaderboard!

Upcoming conventions

PlayOnCon 2023 sales are now open at http://www.playoncon.com/memberships!

• July 6th–9th in Columbiana, AL: PlayOnCon

HermitCraft 9 Videos!

Check out Joe’s most recent episode if you want to see him talk about his trip to London!

Upcoming Streams

With Joe’s internet still working hard at hardly working, we don’t feel confident posting a stream schedule for this week, sorry about that!

So long for now…

Thanks for reading the newsletter! I look forward to bringing you more updates in the future, and I hope you have a great rest of your day!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

Howdy folks!

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

Some of you might be wondering why I’m bringing you this week’s newsletter. Well that’s cause Joe keeps trying to plan around acts of God, but God keeps laughing at him! For evidence of this, check out the status of Nashville’s electric service here!

For clarity, Joe’s been having internet issues thanks to a storm that’s been terrorizing the area, so I’m here as your faithful reporter!

Let’s get to the news!

Mario Kart wave 4 launch

I hope you’re ready for some kart racing action! With the new wave of Mario Kart DLC launching we have a Mario Kart stream to look forward to this week!

Not just any stream either! Featured guests will include ImpulseSV, Oli OrionSound, Martyn InTheLittleWood, Lizzie LDShadowLady, MythicalSausage, and Jimmy Solidarity!

You can tune in to that on the 9th, Thursday morning at 9am US Central Time.

Vacation time

Joe will be going on vacation next week! Some folks may see the word vacation and worry about the discord going into vacation mode again, but worry not! With the trial run of vacation mode being completed and the ModMail tutorial posted in the #actual-rules channel we feel confident in having all the channels stay open while Joe enjoys his trip!

In relation to that, we will not be posting a newsletter next week, so the next edition will be out on the following Monday, the 20th of March.

Upcoming Minecraft Server Events

Some of these have already been announced, but with the lack of a newsletter next week I think it’s good to have a refresher. Let’s see what folks have to look forward to!

• Modded Petitions: March 11th at 11am Central
• Deep Slate Nine Petitions: March 18th at 1pm Central
• Van Gogh Parade: March 18th at 2pm Central
• Vanillish Petitions: March 21st, asynchronous

Everstorm Obituaries

• After completing its own dying wish, Void withered away among roses
• Chefnutmeg fell into the fires of mount doom one block of obsidian shy of opening a portal to the nether realms
• Centuritron met the same fate as John Fitzgerald Kennedy thanks to some skeletons
• Rei died since metal spoons aren’t the incredibly inefficient weapons they’re advertised to be. especially when wielded by a baby

Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament

Congratulations to Forgantly in a landslide victory!

Week 7: Tales From the Arabian Nights results

Week 8: No Good Gofers

This week’s tournament is only 5 days long so Joe will have time before his vacation to roll it over. Pinball while you can!

Find the details to join in Activity Sign Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges

Upcoming conventions

Tennessee Game Days Spring has come and gone! I hope any folks who attended had a great time! If you missed the chance to go you can still catch Joe at PlayOnCon! 2023 Sales will open at http://www.playoncon.com/memberships on March 12 at 3PM Central.

• July 6th–9th in Columbiana, AL: PlayOnCon

Notable streams

Normally we like to include a stream schedule, but with the uncertainty of the internet stability we don’t feel confident making a schedule this week. Should all be fine you can expect Joe at his usual streaming times, let’s hope we still get some bonus streams!

So long for now…

Thanks for reading the newsletter! If you made it this far your dedication for staying up to date and being in the know truly shines!
Or maybe you just skimmed the whole thing and have stumbled across this farewell anyhow. Either way, I hope you have a great 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 hope you’re ready for an overuse of exclamation marks, Joe is currently in what he describes as “editing jail” along with “paperwork jail” so I’ll be bringing you this week’s newsletter!

Let’s begin!

Actually, Some of You May Be New Here!

With a new influx of patreon supporters and other folks who may be browsing this site I realize that not everybody may know what’s going on!

I’d like to welcome any folks who may be new with a brief summary of what the newsletter is. Every Monday morning Joe and I meet to write and publish this newsletter here on his site!

Part of my job as Community Liaison is to help establish a connection between all of you lovely folks and Joe, but also help Joe connect with y’all! I’m kind of like a bridge of sorts.

There’s a lot of information that needs to get passed between people in the community, and the easiest and best way for folks to stay up to date on everything going on is all right here in one place!

You can look forward to a new newsletter each week, barring holidays and any events that can cause delays. If you have any feedback we welcome that in the patreon discord at Joe Hills Meta > #feedback-newsletter

If you’re not already a member but are interested in joining you can check out Joe’s patreon page over here!

Now let’s start for real!

Tumblr Poll for MCYTblr Sexyman

This isn’t really what I thought I’d be reporting on when I first started writing the newsletter with Joe, but I’m excited nonetheless!

Round 6 has concluded, and in the match between ZombieCleo vs Joe Hills the winner is… Joe Hills!

I can’t say I’m surprised! With all the propaganda and support I’ve seen on tumblr as well as discord spaces, it’s no wonder he pulled through in such a tight race!

If you’re interested in more data you can view it at this site here, courtesy of this-glittering-world on tumblr.

The final poll, GoodTimesWithScar vs Joe Hills, will go up tomorrow, Tuesday the 14th. What a memorable way to celebrate Valentine’s day! You’ll be able to vote in that poll once it goes live at mcytblrsexymen.tumblr.com.

Draw4 Charity: February

It’s once again time for Draw4Charity! This charity event will be benefitting worldbuilders. You can visit their site for more information on what they do.

If you’d like to support the cause come attend the livestream event! It will be steamed from twitch.tv/Draw4Charity and is running from Friday February 17th, 6pm CST to Sunday February 19th, 6pm CST.

Joe will be popping in and out of this event all weekend, and will be hosting HermitCraft TCG on Saturday February 18th, 2pm US Central time.

He will also be hosting the Quake segment, on Sunday February 19th, 8am US Central time.

Vanillish SMP

February 14th is the date for this month’s Vanillish petitions! At the time this newsletter goes live, that means tomorrow! Make sure to have your requests submitted for our server operator Yirggzmb to review!

Modded SMP

The Cliffside Competition is over! Server operator ToxxicGlitter submitted the winners, so congratulations to Mantuamaker for winning Best Overall and Best Façade! Congratulations as well to MercurialVoid for Best Lair, and thank you to _R2D2 for your wonderful entry!

If you’d like to check out the judging and walk throughs of the builds, you can watch the VOD below!

Also, to better help folks who want to install the mods to play on the Modded SMP, Toxxic has created a handy channel with a list of the mods and some commons issues. You can find that in SMP: Modded 1.19 By ToxxicGlitter > #modded-setup-guide.

Everstorm Obituaries

• Magenta fell out of this world while trying to escape an enderman

Deep Slate Nine parade float build contests

Celebrating Mardi Gras was superb on DS9 thanks to Team Lotus! Thank you to MeepedCubed for hosting the parade, and to all the entrants who built floats!

You can watch the VOD of the building and judging of this parade here!

Upcoming Parades

• Van Gogh’s Birthday Parade on March 18th at 2pm Central. Hosted by Team Holland.
• More to be announced!

Pinball FX3 Weekly Tournament

Week 5: Red and Ted’s Road Show results

The winner of this table is Mr. Hardluck! Congratulations!

Week 6: Hurricane

Join the tournament via our Patreon Discord in Activity-Sign-Ups > #weekly-pinball-challenges

Streams

Upcoming Streams

Normally Joe would place an orderly and time accurate schedule here, but I don’t have that. I can instead provide a vague summary of when to expect some streams. Sorry about that, but  I hope this will still be beneficial!

• Morning Streams
  • Crafts with Cleo on Wednesday the 15th
  • In studio guest Quinn Hills on Thursday the 16th
  • Draw4 Quake stream on Sunday the 19th
• Afternoon Streams
  • Draw4 Hermitcraft TCG on Saturday the 18th
• Nighttime Streams
  • As per usual
• Bonus Streams
  • Varied and dependent on Joe escaping “editing jail” and “paperwork jail”.

Notable Streams this week

Upcoming conventions

Registration and hotel booking are both now live for Tennessee Game Days Spring: March 3rd–5th, 2023 in Nashville, TN!

So long for now…

Thanks for reading the newsletter! It’s always a joy for me to write. I hope everyone has a happy valentine’s day!

This has been TommyBoii reporting for newsletter duty.

See you around!

Howdy, y’all!

Joe Hills here, writing as I always do from Nashville, TN!

I’m assisted today by our Community Liaison ThatTommyBoii.

It’s been a couple weeks since our last newsletter, and we just had our quarterly meeting, so we’ve got a lot to cover. Let’s jump in!

2023 Q1 quarterly meeting

I also appreciate  everyone in the community who submitted feedback in advance or attended live for shaping the discussion!

Some of the decisions made during the meeting went into effect immediately, others, like re-enabling images on all of the channels will occur as I have time to get to them this week.

Video On Demand

Thanks to Tommy for filming and streaming the meeting!

Minutes

I also appreciate Tommy for taking notes! His full minutes of the meeting are available now at: https://joehills.net/2023-q1-meeting-minutes/.

HermitFan UHC

Thanks to Blug, DaUltraMarine, and the other HermitCraft community and fan server admins for running the first HermitFan UHC event!

Our team of Kindalas, Maahes0, MercurialVoid, and Salem managed to live and die together and claimed 4th place out of eight teams representing different Hermits’ communities.

It was a lot of fun, and congrats to the winners (who I won’t spoil here, go watch the VOD of me flying around and commentating)!

Minecraft Servers

Deep Slate Nine petitions and parade this Sunday!

Petitions for January will be held on DS9 at 1pm Central on Jan 29th, followed by the Groundhog Day Parade!

Modded Server updates

I updated several mods last week, so if you try to connect and get weird errors, please pop into #modded-setup-help for the latest list.

January 2023 Everstorm launches!

This month’s Everstorm showcases the Seven of Mine Server at the crucial junction when I created a manual backup to migrate it from a Minecraft Realm to a dedicated server! Come witness a piece of community history… if you dare!

Obituaries… so far!

• Laxmi13 was impaled to death because she forgot that evil water creatures were a thing.

2023 Pinball FX3 tournament progress

Results so far:

Congrats to Mr. Hardluck for taking 1st place on both of our tournaments so far this year!

Week 1: Fish Tales

Week 2: Theatre of Magic

Week 3: The Champion Pub

Lace up your boxing gloves and practice your Strongbad voice, because this week’s table is The Champion Pub!

See you in the ring!

Streams

Upcoming schedule

I expect to stream at my usual times this week, with a few bonus streams. All times US Central.

• Tuesday, January 24th
  • 8:30am: bonus HermitCraft stream with in-studio guest Quinn Hills
• Wednesday, January 25th
  • 8:30am: Crafts with Cleo
• Thursday, January 26th
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Friday, January 27th
  • 8:30am: bonus HermitCraft stream with coffee
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Saturday, January 28th
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!
• Sunday, January 29th
  • 1pm: Petitions
  • 2pm: GroundHog Day build contest
  • 8:30pm: HermitCraft 9 Live!

Notable streams recently

Dracula concludes

Crafts with Cleo

Upcoming conventions

I hope to see some of y’all in March for Tennessee Game Days Spring!

Registration and hotel booking are both now live!

• Tennessee Game Days Spring: March 3rd–5th, 2023 in Nashville, TN

Until next time, y’all!

This is Joe Hills from Nashville, TN with much-appreciated assistance from ThatTommyBoii!

Keep adventuring!