Category: HermitCraft 10 Logs

Howdy, y’all! Joe Hills here writing as I always do in Nashville, TN!

My stream this morning was only an hour, but I got so much done that I wasn’t sure I could top it this evening… until I developed a terrible idea for an illegal shop while mining tuff and calcite.

I already knew that I wanted to build an xB shop at spawn, but after discussing the best angle for all this with the chat, I decided that the funniest possible thing would be to package that as a lagniappe with a pitch to trade Joel a bunch of empty shulkers in exchange for Joel building a silverfish experience farm at the Hermit Holmdel Project.

I had just switched over to an xB skin to sacrifice myself with fireworks to drop player heads when Scar logged in and killed me over a hundred times with his bow. Cubfan135 helped with the slaying and even added some unicode to my pricing emeralds.

The build is pretty simple, but since I’m giving it away if Joel takes the deal, I didn’t want to over do it.

We hung out by that map for a while chatting and choosing points of interest to fly out to, including an X-marks-the-spot treasure chest next to Scar’s base that contained a diamond block we all split three ways.

Scar and Cub had to call it a night, and I did too, so I wrapped up the stream by recording myself mailing a letter to Joel with my offer to trade this shop and 40 shulkers for him to build a proper xp shop. I think it’s a fair deal, and I hope he takes it. It’s too late at night to think of anything else to throw in there, and I’ve gotta get to bed.

Before you go too, just as a heads up, I’ve got some spookier than usual streams coming up for the Halloween season. You can always find my schedule at https://joehills.net/soon/.

Until next time, y’all, this is Joe Hills from Nashville, TN.

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Howdy, y’all! Joe Hills here writing as I always do in Nashville, TN!

Due to forces beyond my control, I had to forego my routine Friday morning HermitCrfat stream in favor of a 1-hour bonus stream, so I jumped right in on a small project that I could see results on quickly: improving my lasertag arena’s storage and workshop area!

The grass ceiling was a huge liability, so my first objective was to give the space more of a bunker feel (and level of security). I ripped out all that grass above it and added a one-meter thick layer of cobbled deepslate.

During that process, I realized I’d made a storage layout mistake by including two chests for wool when one wool’d do. The ten shulkers worth of stone I’d accrued digging yesterday called for me to deposit them in the POE POE impound lot, where I continued to fill in the crater iJevin left when he ripped out his shop with a snailocopter.

After leaving that space better than I found it, I returned to the storage area and installed a few hanging lights to make it feel more like a classy bunker a rich person would have.

The floor still needs carpet or something, but I’ll come back to that another day, I only had an hour!

If you want to be sure to catch my next HermitCraft 10 stream, don’t forget you can always find my schedule at https://joehills.net/soon/!

Until next time, y’all, this is Joe Hills from Nashville, TN.

Keep adventuring!

Howdy, y’all! Joe Hills here writing as I always do in Nashville, TN!

We had a great HermitCraft brainstorming call earlier today, during which I spent hours digging out the LaserTag observation deck and placing glass, so the stream kicked off with me showcasing my progress there. The game may not be ready, but the view from the lobby is much better!

During that call, ImpulseSV reminded us we can come start checking out the HermitCraft History timeline areas of his Metro Mayhem game, so I flew out his way to look for that. It took a while to find the entrance, so I added some signage.

There was also a really cool pumpkin nearby with a pedestal challenging us to make our own Halloween decorations, which intrigued me, but I’ll have to come back to that!

Inside the Hermit History tunnel, I measured out that each plot was 31x31x20H, and realized there were no ender chests! It would be trivial to go get a single ender chest, but there are nine plots, one for each season, so it would be better to get nine ender chests. And, oh, another to-do item I had from our meeting today was that Etho needed 10 stacks of obsidian for mail network expansion. The End was soon in sight so I could gather enough obsidian for both Etho and Impulse.

After harvesting all that obsidian from towers on the main End island, we sent Etho his in the mail and added the ender chests to the Hermit History tunnel with a bit of glow ink for flair.

After that, I excavated a bit more of the arena back at the name tag shop and called it a night after spending ten hours total working on the server today.

It was a long day, but I’m optimistic all my work on my shops this week will leave me freer to jump into Wool Street and Halloween stuff moving forward.

Until next time, y’all, this is Joe Hills from Nashville, TN.

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Howdy, y’all! Joe Hills here writing as I always do in Nashville, TN!

Shop month continues! On last night’s stream, we wrapped up work on our name tag shop for now, and this morning it’s time to get tuff!

The rough plan

As far as I see it, we need to do the following to get our tuff shop open:

1. Review how much space is still available at our planned plot for the shop next to Mumbo’s iron
2. Check out what’s left of the pop-up shop in the POE POE impound
3. Gather stock for the shop
4. Brainstorm shop concept, layout, and materials
5. Gather materials that suit that hopefully brilliant idea
6. Just build the dang thing

Looking back

I had always intended to build a permanent shop where I’d staked my first couple tents at the beginning of the season.

Unfortunately, because I didn’t break ground on a permanent shop there as soon as I struck my tents, Mumbo grabbed a large chunk of that area for his iron mine, leaving me to assess how much usable space was left, which turned out to be 19m x 23m. That’s enough to work with.

After that, I headed to the POE POE impound to see what remained of the pop-up shop I’d constructed in the base of Pearlescent Moon’s shopping district nether portal. I threw together the whole thing in one take back in episode 25, so I wasn’t optimistic.

What remained was mostly nether-themed blocks, which made sense underneath the portal, but won’t as a standalone permanent shop. I pocketed those and 8 diamonds worth of sales for later.

Tuff Brainstorming

I grabbed a few empty shulkers and descended back into the ravine by the name tag shop in search of tuff, and I found plenty! Mining all that out gave me a chance to consider the composition of tuff as a volcanic ash-derived stone and its history as a Roman building material.

By the time my shulkers were full, though, I decided to make a giant sculpture of calcite teeth with tuff gums and to call it Tuff Teeth.

Construction storage and workroom

It seemed a shame to let the hollow under Pearl’s portal go to waste, so I re-dedicated the home of my former pop-up Calcite and Tuff shop as the workroom while constructing Tuff Teeth!

Groundbreaking

I decided to use the entire 19 length of the 19×23 space available to me to create a large circular base for my teeth sculpture. A few polished tuff variants were selected as the building material, as I hope to contrast it against the unpolished tuff for the gums.

After completing that flat circular foundation and trying to envision how to mount the giant teeth sculpture in relation to the shopping area, I realized I could use my work so far as the base of a trophy for “Tuffest Teef.” I quickly set to work on a three pillar design that used calcite for the supporting side pillars and additional polished tuff for the central pillar.

This is only the beginning, though. I’m off to the dentist again tomorrow afternoon, so I’ll try to photograph some models and posters of teeth to use for reference. I’m also probably going to double the height of the trophy’s pillar. I’ll need to examine some trophies for reference between now and then too.

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Until next time, y’all, this is Joe Hills from Nashville, TN.

Keep adventuring!