Oh goodness! When does this promo expire? I'm not sure I have time to switch my server over right now, but that's a very good deal! Even without the promo code, logicserver costs less than what I'm paying now.
@@MrShrog When the world download is available, get some friends together and go nuts! (I can never convince my group to do a month of hermitmaps. Maybe I'll just spring it on them for April Fool's)
The mindcrack clips really bring back some nostalgia. I only found hermit craft after my favorite mindcrack players such as etho, bdubs and doc moved over. Saying that, hermitcraft has surpassed anything any predecessor could have imagined. The originality and creativity of the hermits grows every day and hermitcraft today is a absolute masterpiece
I really relate to this always loved mindcrack when at the end it all just kind off fell a part. Loved seeing hermitcraft grow into wat it is today!🙏🏼❤
In some distant future there will be university lectures or entire courses on Minecraft SMPs, and I don't see how it doesn't all begin with Hermitcraft. We're living through history kiddies!
I remember finding Hermitcraft through Generikb, back when he joined the server and quickly formed the B-Team with Bdubs. (God, the original B-Team storyline was such a fun storyline.)
Not only has HermitCraft lost it's "that MindCrack clone" reputation, MindCrack is now seen by many people as merely a footnote in HermitCraft's history. I've seen so many videos and posts refering to MindCrack as "that server that inspired HermitCraft". It's actually quite sad to see personally.
@@Myne1001 PauseUnpause man. Because his Twitch numbers dropped off so badly, he just accepted a full time job starting the middle of this month so he will only stream once a week now. I will always remember Pause’s big days in the spotlight.
@@BreeZaps I absolutely adore Pause's streams. I watched so much of him growing up and when he streams he is always very attentive, says your name and always reads every chat. Having that interaction while I still consider him a great youtuber is so awesome to me.
I just stumbled onto this video while watching some S10 HermitCraft episodes. Suddenly saw my own face in a recommended video (this one) haha. It's awesome to see how far HermitCraft has come and see the awesome community you've all created! I'm honored and humbled to have played some small part in its origins.
Dude, I really loved your rules that matter series. I even started (never finished) my own rules that matter series. Are you going to be at the marathon next week? Would love to at least see you in the UHCs.
knowing how much impact Hypno and Joe have had on the server really makes me wish they got much more love and attention! I love these videos, a real blast from the past :)
They get plenty of attention but they don't get that many subs because their content isn't mainstream. Hypno pretty much just does normal let's plays and Joe has a special personality and way to play minecraft .
Since you still have a lot of long-standing members currently playing, maybe the next video series (or something within this series) would be an edited round-table discussion of other Hermit's experiences as they joined the HC server and played their first season or two. JoeHills, Etho, Doc, Cleo, Mumbo, Hypno, etc. How they got invited, what they felt like when they started, if they ever thought of leaving, how they feel about old members leaving the server (or new members joining), how their approach to each season changes. I think it would be neat to hear more voices.
I remember Guude did something like that when he was making the UHC monument in, I think, Season 4 of Mindcrack. He talked to certain members whilst building a statue of themselves about how they joined and all. Etho had an episode, from what I remember. It's really well worth doing, especially for the older members of Hermitcraft like Cleo and False.
Oh man, seeing Zisteau pop up in those clips made my heart flutter. Vonsway, the E Prank, Super Hostile... good times. :) After Mindcrack, I stopped watching SMP stuff until a random Grian up years later, about the S6 civil war. Binge watching ensued. I'm happy I found this community.
For anyone wondering, Zisteau hasn't made minecraft content in a long time, but he still streams and uploads other games regularly. His videos are just as over-the-top as ever, if not more so. True Zistonian fashion. I highly recommend the Factorio or Satisfactory playthroughs.
@@IndyJay53 Seconding this. I still regularly watch and rewatch some series. In fact, I'm rewatching his first factorio series again. He's still really fun and I wish he would pick up Minecraft again. But only when he's ready to.
I used to love it. Its upsetting to see some of them never made it successful. Arkas was little known, but his building skills were ahead of their time. His skills 10 years ago rival some of the best to this day. Also Etho = Goat
Really recommend going back and watching all of Etho, Beef and Pause's CTM maps. People have made playlists of them and it's one of the best things I have found through first finding Hermitcraft during the pandemic.
@@riaingalligan8461 It stands for Capture The Monument. It was a popular Minecraft map genre back then which was created and popularized by Vechs, who was a member of Mindcrack. Super Hostile is the most popular CTM map series, created by Vechs.
I still remember Guude having people genuinely convinced that Beef has no legs... I loved Mindcrack when I was in middle school, and seeing some of my favourite creators come back with HermitCraft so many years later and also leading me to new creators has just been the most amazing thing
@@Frostingale I remember some who was disabled leaving a long kind comment on one of VB's videos saying how they were inspired by Beef's success. I wonder how they feel knowing it was all a meme?
Team Canada will forever hold a special place in my heart. The mushroom prank, Guude's Funhouse prank was also legendary, also their playthroughs of Vechs' Super hostile maps. This is what childhoods are built on.
I remember finding Mindcrack when Etho joined in December 2011, not long after the official release of 1.0. I was 17 at the time, and I loved watching the Mindcrackers' escapades. They really did set the standard for an unmodded SMP Minecraft community. It's a shame to see how far they've fallen from the limelight, but as you said X, they were the ones to chart new ground and so had the most risk - and IMO they also just didn't handle the sharp decline in Minecraft's popularity it experienced in 2014 very well. Still, I'm thankful for the memories I have of them - Zisteau was my favorite through the absurd scope of his builds (which are tiny by today's standards!) and the insanity of his pranks. Good times.
@@IndyJay53 I feel like comparing the sizes of bases in Factorio and Minecraft isn’t really fair, especially considering that Factorio lets you have robots build things for you. The base is still enormous, even by Factorio standards, but it’s not a fair comparison to Minecraft megabases
This is such a nostalgic vid. I’ve been watching you X since season one and you are still one of the only few TH-camrs I still watch. It was great seeing you mention old hermits and got me real nostalgic for Static, Generik, Kieshar, Monkeyfarm and the rest
As someone who started watching through Grian in season 6, I was really interested in the history of Hermitcraft, I tried finding out more about it back then but it was too much for me and I got lost. After watching more hermits in season 7 I tried looking it up on your channel but it still was too much (lol) thanks for making this trilogy, it explained (probably) every unanswered question I had about Hermitcraft and even more! Love ya X
im too emotional to comment on the rest of the video, but i will literally never forget how hard i laughed when pause fed that notch apple that cost 1000 real life dollars to the horse in charity uhc
X, props to you man, the amount of editing and work you put into this mini series is impressive. Learning the inner workings and history of hermitcraft has been delightful.
That segment on your favourite moments was such a wild nostalgia trip. Seeking out my favourite mindcrackers last year when I got back into the game is how I first found Hermitcraft, but the old times of the E pranker and dramatic UHC twists will always be incredibly close to my heart.
This was a fascinating journey back in time. For people who have found HC in later seasons, so much context is lost to history. It's absolutely fascinating to learn not only how the Hermits have found each other over time, but also how Minecraft as a game has developed alongside the ideas of the community. And I find it beautiful that the game is still being developed with the community even after all these years and the incredible success of the game. As they always say, alone you go faster, together you go further. Thank you for this amazing Trilogy, I really enjoyed it!
I’ve watched Beef and Etho since the mindcrack days and seeing that the server they came from inspired Hermitcraft is honestly the most random sense of pride ever but I love it, and am glad we still have the couple OG Mindcrackers here to this day ❤️
I remember watching the early days of mindcrack, that’s when I started watching Bdubs and vintage beef. I really enjoyed the dynamic between Bdubs and Generik, it’s sad that he had a falling out and isn’t part of hermit craft.
these days GennyB is a Vtuber on Twitch and he mostly plays Modded when he plays Minecraft he apparently tried rejoining Hermitcraft a few years ago but the server voted to reject his application
@@lamsmiley1944 I've heard that you have to have a unanimous vote of all currently active members to be accepted So all it would take is one person voting no
@@lamsmiley1944 One of the prerequisites to joining is showing longevity in keeping a steady SSP or SMP series. Genny didn't fulfill that requirement. It's not personal, it's practical. Hermitcraft wants their members to be active, especially if they are new.
I literally only discovered Hermitcraft because Beef joined, and I am so happy he did because this community and these wonderful creatives have filled my days with joy and excitement. Thanks for all you do
mindcrack was a staple of my early years as a teen, i'm so glad you guys carried the torch over and i get to continue to watch great smp content well into my adult life
The Taste that xisuma shows by showing the team canada sky mushroom prank in the favourite moments is impeccable. I still go back to watch that and king of the ladder video to this day.
So nostalgic! While I already knew much of this history on the Mindcrack side, it’s been fun to learn the Hermitcraft side and how the server was able to stay afloat even after periods of inactivity. Incredibly inspirational for SMPs of all sizes! Thanks X!
I've never been able to recapture my feelings toward Mindcrack with any other SMP over the years. For me it was a perfect storm. I'm so glad Hermitcraft is there for others in a similar way. While I do still watch from time to time, there was something special about that time in my life and I've never been able to dig in and excitedly wait for the next episodes. Thank you for standing on those shoulders so that others have been and will continue to capture those feelings.
good lord this video really was a trip down memory lane, I still watch Etho, but I also used to watch all of Zisteau's mindcrack series and his Lens was a project that still lives rent free in my brain when I make floating builds. I fell off of minecraft for a bit only really watching etho's content, but eventually stumbled onto Grian, Mumbo, and back onto your channel and have been working my through the hermit craft series. I used to do a lot of building and was really good at it in the past, but since I came back from my break there's so many new blocks to use that I find myself getting lost with building and the hermit's vids have been phenomenal to give me inspiration and ideas for builds.
I am loving these origin discussions, kind of wish there was documentary based on the viewpoint of the different Hermits. Maybe even each member going back and retelling old stories from their current prospectives.
As a Mindcrack Patreon member, it’s great to see Hermitcraft giving it a mention. I hope there will be a day where both servers content creators cross paths again as I think it will bring people like me back to the game itself! Even if it’s a charity event, just to give us some nostalgia, one last time. Great video X, as always!
Its a shame so many people may have missed out on the height of MineCrack. Sure they made some mistakes but they paved the way for future SMP servers like Hermitcraft, Empires and more to thrive with engaging content. I've been watching Xisuma since he joined Hermitcraft, its been great to see the evolution of this server and everyone evolved.
Great video X, I loved Mindcrack back in the day. One thing I wish you talked about more was Zisteau! He was legendary on Mindcrack and kind of pioneered the idea of a mega base for a while with The Lens, and his Arcology. I wish he still played minecraft because he would be perfect for Hermitcraft
Always love a cheeky mention about the Yogscast, people tend to forget about how impactful Shadow of Israphel was back in the day. Especially because they just don't play the game anymore.
I'm getting so much goosebumps from this. Most of these content creators have been there since I was a teen (I'm 27 now) and started watching in the early Mindcrack days. Forever grateful for all those people, especially in recent times where I have been struggling with a strong depression. My favourite Hermits always made their upload days "liveable" for me While there are and were many amazing memories, I think the B-Team is one of my favourite. I also really enjoyed discovering Grian when he joined. Feels like he brought a lot to the entire server and other Hermits
Mindcrack is the reason I play minecraft. Specifically beef. I have been very lucky to have played with beef, making him a museum to all his best builds. Which ironically got me invited onto mindcrack just like he did :)
Even just a few days ago I caught myself humming "Two Baj's" after I heard Bdubs sing something else. Between that and watching some old Zisteau LPs, it's had the nostalgia kicking in well, and this is a nice cap on that wave I feel.
I remember watching mindcrack since etho joined, and then i started watching hermitcraft when dmac joined. Mindcrack did things that kinda helped kill itself. And i was so excited when etho joined hermitcraft as it was long awaited by most of his viewers!
Going through the Mindcrack history hit me with a major wave of nostalgia. All these old people in the video that used to be big, that I used to know off the top of my head. And of course, the same goes for Hermitcraft's earlier seasons. Redeyes, Spumwack, Monkeyfarm... I do also miss UHC, wish Hermitcraft could join together and do it again
@@PuncakeLena not sure who's attending this year in person, but Guude, JSano, Nebris, mhykol, beef, pakratt, arkas, sethbling, Aureylian, sevadus, coestar, OMGChad were all there last year. And usually some play in the UHCs or online in other segments like pause, Kurt, doc, baj, MC gamer, zisteau, and avidyazen. Plus all the friends of mindcrack and new "unofficially official" mindcrack members.
UHC was always super exciting and intense for me though it would always lead to tons of drama the subreddit. The drama is the one thing I do not miss lol
I was definitely recommended this series because i was looking into starting up a server of my own and hoping it would become a small community one day. I pretty much just play solo casually as it is but I've really been yearning to start up something bigger. I really like the idea of how big Minecraft is and how there's so much space for people to come together and work on communal projects and also have enough space for everyone to have a place to call their own in game.
Pretty much the same pipeline for me, though I did separately discover hermitcraft through kingdaddydmac back in the day and watched a few people back then, but only really came back to hermitcraft with bdubs and vintagebeef joining.
I have nothing but adoration in how you run Hermitcraft without pushing for “All the Control” you run a very entertaining server of a lot of very talented people in a way that is clearly and evenly decided by the group. Good going Xisuma!!
It was Paul Soares' Survive and thrive that got me into Minecraft. And it was PSJ that lead me to Mindcrack and then to the Hermits. Funny thing is that Paul's way of story telling and roleplay would fit much better into modern day Hermitcraft than it did Mindcrack back in the day.
Younger me, watching Survive and Thrive Season 1 in 240p after school would be blown away by how far Minecraft content has come, and that it's still around frankly. I agree that Paul's style definitely fits better with Hermitcraft than it ever did in Mindcrack. He really thrives in singleplayer though, where his stories can flourish.
It's so good that you mentioned PaulSoaresJr. even tho he's not a big SMP guy, he's videos were my first introduction to this game, I can still watch them anytime!
This was great to watch! Brought up so many names I've just not thought about in so long (Generik, Guude, Vechs) and reminded me of how cool Mindcrack as a server was to me when I was younger. I never got into watching Mindcrack much (was more the target yogscast audience age) but I remember all the people I watched regularly at the time saying great things about Mindcrack.
A good recap of it all. Its interesting to watch it put together on the timeline having watched Mindcrack's height, decline (video and legal and all) and the shift to Hermitcraft - as I followed the content creators. I really enjoy Hermitcraft content, it's always fun to sit down and see the shenanigans, builds, and increased RP of the server/players these days after work
I kind of miss the Mindcrack server. With the likes of Guude, pause unpause, zisteau and others. (Etho was my favourite tho) anyway I am glad you took inspiration and started this amazing server.
Seeing the Mindcrack logo in the thumbnail after all these years is melancholy to say the least. Thanks for all the great years of content. Glad most of them made the migration to the hermitcraft server. Hope you are doing well Guude you inspired many :)
Those early Mindcrack and Hermitcraft videos were what first piqued my interest in Minecraft. ^_^ Then a friend of mine started a server... I think was on 1.5, as he was all into redstone. Then horses were added in 1.6, and that became my obsession haha! I think it was BDubs or Etho who made a video about how to build a racetrack to measure your horse's speed, and that got me hooked! Unfortunately, that's also when my friend decided that it was more fun to mess with people than to mess with redstone... and when he burned down everything I had spent the last year building, I gave up on Minecraft for a bit. I started a singleplayer world a year or two later tho, and have been a big fan of singleplayer Minecraft ever since. Tried public multiplayer servers a few times here and there, got ganked and griefed a lot, didn't bother going back, and just have no real interest in trying multiplayer SMPs anymore. What you guys have with Hermitcraft and Empires -- the trust, respect, cooperative spirit, and general sense of community -- is a truly wonderful experience that a public server will never be able to replicate :( But I still really enjoy the game and watching all those Hermitcraft, Empires, Afterlife and Legacy videos -- they've kept me interested in playing, even after all these years ^_^
"Content creators shying away from multiplayer" is a relatable mood. I've wanted to play SMP and even pitched the idea of a server to my group of Hetalia roleplaying friends on FB (not necessarily for recording, just to have fun on and rp as Hetalia characters playing Minecraft... it's _almost_ "Empires but with extra steps" 🤔), but nothing came of the idea due to incompatible schedules, some people only being able to play bedrock edition, etc... plus it's really hard to be a multiplayer content creator when you have no control over your own availability and can only "record and edit when you luck into having time to yourself" (which also locks me out of being a streamer, since streams live and die by consistent scheduling). This entire series has been enlightening, and it's nice to get a peek behind the curtain at stuff like this!
Yes, it's hard. Some of the things that got Mindcrack going was that Guude had (has?) money. He apparently used to have some sort of business that he sold, and so he wasn't nearly as dependent on ad income, and he had more time to make and edit videos. He could even try things like the PlayMindcrack server (which was very fun, but not profitable!).
I've been watching since the beginning as I was a Generik B fan early on. Glad to see the server still going even if I don't tune in as much since I have to adult more. 🙌
Great to know more about Minecraft and Hermit Craft history. Looking back, let me just say Thank You for stepping up so many years ago. Hermit Craft probably would not have survived this long, and you would not have brought so much joy to so many people.
Ultra hardcore is not the same game mode as the hardcore game mode in Minecraft. In ultra hardcore, food didn't give you health back! Dinnerbone did add the "natural regeneration" gamerule to the game inspired by ultra hardcore, though!
I think you’re slightly misremembering the mindcrack UHC; hardcore mode was already in the game before mincrack UHC, but the gamerule “naturalHealthRegen” was added to minecraft after dinnerbone played in a UHC. This meant they didn’t have to use a mod for UHC anymore, and it grew the game into the phenomenon which still exists today
It makes me happy to see someone that is apart of one of the currently most popular SMPs acknowledge that Mindcracks influence on not just SMPs as a whole but with Minecraft makes me happy as someone who use to watch that server.
I’ve been watching Minecraft since 2011 and playing on and off since 2012. You reminded me of soooo many good memories that I forgot about. Thank you X for the trip down memory lane from a veteran HermitCraft viewer since season 2!
thank you for this mini series! I have attempted making servers of my own for friends groups in the past and we have decided to try again! your videos have been so helpful to me in learning hoe to identify concerns and advice on how to address them as well as pointing out some much needed quality of life resources. thank you!!
It is the nostalgia of this era yogscast Etho and doc that brought me back to hermitcraft and TH-cam itself very recently. I ultimately became a subscriber to you all the hermits and even empires!
I started my minecraft journey by a friend showing me "Bite-sized Minecraft" from Sethbling, which led me to Mindcrack, which led me to Etho, which led me to Hermitcraft. I haven't been there from the earliest days but I have grown up with it. Very cool video and awesome to see the people you play with now, were the players you were watching.
I am pretty sure Sethbling brought me to Mindcrack as well. he did a thing with 8 bit rom and then he had a thing with a plug in that added video or something 3 way irl and minecraft. It was weird.
Since I've watched bits of all sorts of people overtime. My proper introduction to hermitcraft was from a train of collabs. In that I watched someone play Attack of the B-Team in 2014 which had among other people, Bdubs, GenerikB, Pungence, Skyzm & Keralis. Who all have relations to hermitcraft at one point or another. But from there at the end of that SMP, bdubs started making a Dust2 map from counterstrike, which led to him creating the survival of the fittest series. Which was a battle royal before those were a bit thing. And then created the flyboys server which rivals Grian's Life series interms of my personal enjoyment. That series had Bdubs, GenerikB, Pungence, Skyzm & Etho. But by 2015 I recall that I watched Keralis do a bit of Hermitcraft Modsauce which led me to KingDaddyDmac who did by far the most on that particular server. And it was Dmac were i watched actual Hermitcraft for the first time during Season 3. Watched a bit of him, and then by the time 1.9 came around I lost interest. I did watch the NHO from season 5 for a littlebit but then went away. And it was only until a couple months ago that I watched Grian's Life Series which led me back to hermitcraft again. Not sure why I wrote all this out, but I think it goes to show the interesting ties that people have overtime. And also that i would love to see Dmac, Pungence & Skyzm on the server again. But i also understand that there interest in Minecraft was more temporary than say Bdubs. This was also just one story from 2014-2015 rather than say stories from the Alpha/Beta days of Minecraft on TH-cam.
I'm not sure how I recall finding Hermitcraft. I just remember dropping off of Mindcrack after my faves left and having a gap between watching before I stumbled on people like False and Keralis. I was happy when some of those members came on to Hermitcraft. They're SMP shenanigans were my favorite in their Mindcrack days. This was a good trip back and I was happy to see the connection I always saw between the 2 SMPs.
I guess that _kind of_ goes some way to explaining how Generikb went from founder of the server to persona non grata, just up and leaving the group with nobody in charge, but there's got to be more to that story. Seeing all those old Mindcrack clips brought back a lot of memories. I was one of the Mindcrack fans from way back, watching from the first multiplayer season, and you're right, it really did show how Minecraft _could_ be played, but wasn't. It made people want to play with their friends in more cooperative worlds. It literally founded a genre of video-making and of gameplay in general. I think it's fair to say that Mindcrack was responsible for Minecraft not being a flash-in-the-pan sensation that disappeared overnight, because it really did seem like Mindcrack _was_ Minecraft for two or three years there. Most of us had gotten bored with our 2010 purchases by 2012, and Mindcrack was the life support system fueling interest in the game. That role has passed to Hermitcraft fully, by now. Minecraft, as enjoyable a game as it is, really has no reason to have stuck around for, if you count the Alpha releases, thirteen years now. It certainly wouldn't have without the TH-camrs keeping the interest high. The legal issues that killed Mindcrack are our gain, though, because Hermitcraft has risen up with a much more wholesome culture. It's kid-friendly without being childish, and that's an achievement. The main reason I don't watch Empires is because I feel like the roleplay/lore aspect is a bit too childish for me (or I was never enough of a theater-kid to appreciate it), not a criticism of it or anyone who watches it, it's just not for me, but Hermitcraft has this "just friends playing a game together" kind of vibe. Hermitcraft generally has a lot more time put in per video compared to the old days on Mindcrack, too, with hours-long builds being condensed into 50 seconds of timelapse. I remember watching Guude painstakingly completely clearing out a jungle block by block, just because he liked the grass colour better than in other biomes, while he told stories about his home town. Like, yeah, I enjoyed that. Watching someone clear out a forest has almost the same kind of catharsis as mining out a big area, but I kind of want to get to the part where it's DONE and the build begins, and the Hermits do that. Here's to ten more years of Hermitcraft! (but not eleven more, that would be too many ;-) )
I agree that Hermitcraft has a great balance of wholesomeness without being too childish for those of us who grew up on Mindcrack to watch. I remember coming home from bad days at school and listening to Guude ramble on while grinding away at some hopelessly large project. It was so comforting. I think in season 9 X has done a great job of calling back to those days. Just playing the game and taking us along for the journey, with less focus on the theatrics. Not that there's anything wrong with fanciful storylines, I just miss the simpler times I suppose.
You also got to remember how the game functioned back then to how it does now. With the editions of enchanting, repairing tools, mending, elytra, hoppers, etc stuff was way more of a time investment to complete.
Fascinating! Cool to see so many faces I'm now familiar with from waaay back then. I wasn't even aware of MC yet, & I learned later my son was playing after school at friends, who later urged me to try it after my beloved Farmville fell. I've loved it since day 1, and watching HC has encouraged me to try so many different things! Thanks for this!
Roughly around 2013 and Minecraft 1.7 is when I first started playing. At that time I was unaware of any of the TH-camrs and videos being produce. Minecraft 1.8 comes out and due to my world being corrupted I started a new one. During this time I had a need for a piston door. Though I knew nothing about redstone. Enter Mumbo with his 3x3 piston door. For a time I just watched his redstone videos.. until I stumbled into a HermitCraft Episode of his. This was roughly around the end of HermitCraft Season 2. I continued watching his HC videos into season 3. At first it was only him. Then came the Shrek Prank on False Symmetry. He had me rolling with laughter. I had to go see Her Point of view. They were the first two Hermits I watched on a regular basis. Then came the DocM77 killing machine challenge. Which opened the doors to DocM77, TangoTek, and ImpulseSV. From there I went on to watching more and more Hermits over the years and seasons. Over the years I admit I’ve wanted to pursue having a channel same as those I’ve watched since 2013. I enjoyed this Xisuma. Take care.
Man. I’ve been watching hermit craft for 10 years on and off. Both you and mumbo as well as DMAC and Sl1p back in the day and grian and scar now. I have grown up with you guys and your consistent focus on teamwork and having fun has shaped me and I’d wager a lot of other people. Thank you X. Thank you Generik. Thank you to all the guys and gals we grew up with❤
Hermitcraft has been a part of my life, since season 2 and to this day, I'm still enjoying the content just as much now as I was back then, if not more! It's still as refreshing as ever, seeing new interactions and fun had between hermits, with you guys stepping it up every season, creating new and exciting content for the viewers!
I've adored this little series, it's a really nice blend of your Xisuma says channel and the main channel, and I can really see the passion behind the recent vids. I think you're such an intelligent and well spoken person- I would love more videos like this, just peeling back the curtain to the point where you're comfortable
This almost made me cry lol great time. I remember Nebris saying he cheating in one of the contests to become a member. He would also have all the best gear in like the first few episodes. he was then called cheaty Nebris. UHC was something I always looked forward to and all the legendary moments. If I could have Nebris, Arkis and AnderZel join a server that would be a dream. All three are amazing builders and some of my favorite Mindcrackers Another favorite moment is when bdubs build the mindcrack logo and everyone called it a potato on a stick lol i know he didnt like that, cuz he take pride in his builds but i would be funny for someone aka a hermin to bring it up and see what he says, sorry bdubs lol
Loved the video, but i do think what you said about some smps turning into "single player" on a multiplayer map is kind of what is happening to hermitcraft at this point and why the empire crossover is soo good. Lots of interaction with many people. I personally felt like in hermitcraft a hermit can become so completely isolated and not knowing whats going on on the server. I enjoy that content as well, and I get not everyones scedules lining up. No critism just thinking out loud!
Weird to learn that I started playing Minecraft before you! From what I remember, survival multiplayer simply wasn't considered very "stable" in alpha and beta. Mobs glitching out, "chunk errors" leaving big holes in the world, that sort of thing. I remember digging out an entire chunk to prank a friend, who relogged like 3 times trying to get it to load before realizing what I'd done. (I think carving out the corner of a big tree is what really sold it) There was actually some tension over this in early minecraft development, which eventually led to the "snapshot" system for people who wanted to prioritize new features, and the "releases" for people who wanted to prioritize bugfixes and stability.
One of the most beautiful videos on TH-cam. The impact mindcrack had not only in the game but also in the form of content creation is honestly heart warming.
Great memory trip! I recall finding Mumbo when i wanted to know more about redstone and shortly after his first video on Hermitcraft made me a fan of the server and many like X (or Shashuami), cleo and keralis. I still lament so many hermits have left ether hermicraft or youtube altogether, like red3yz, monkeyfarm and biffa.
It’s funny; I actually found Biffa when watching different City Skylines videos (playthroughs, tutorials, etc) some years ago. Had no idea he played Minecraft, or that he’d been involved with either Mindcrack or Hermitcraft, at the time. Only realized after I watched one of my first Mindcrack UHC videos (years after they were posted). What a small world it is!
I remember a friend sharing a video of Zisteau playing single player ctm. Which led me to pause, joe and Cleo. And I've been watching them since before hermitcraft and Mindcrack. And the growth each person and the whole community have had over the past decade has been amazing. This was so nice to be reminded about the early days and humble beginnings. Excellent vid, X!
Oh this warms the heart, started on season 1 hermit craft and maybe some mindcrack even before that, I’ve stopped watching from time to time but the breaks never lasts more than a few months. Thank you :)
It's amazing how far Hermitcraft and Minecraft have come. I wonder how far Minecraft would have come without the SMP servers and TH-cam? I used to love Mindcrack and the spontaneous king of the ladder bit and the UHC events were awesome! I binged every UHC from everyone's perspective when I first discovered it. Would love to see more UHC events with different SMP servers on TH-cam. Just wanted to add, I think it's awesome that you guys were able to come together and make something so awesome! It has to feel good doing something you're really in to like this, but also doing it with friends that enjoy it also has to feel amazing!
Thank you so much xisuma for making these videos with all this great information on Hermitcraft, servers, origin, players, history, and everything else you added. I found it very educational on one of my favorite subjects: You and everyone else that calls Hermitcraft home. Hope you have a lovely day and I hope your new song is coming along for you. Thanks again
I remember the times the minecrack community tried the feed the beast modpack too. it was the first time i was ever introduced to the mods. etho and everyone would share batteries and would fly jetpacks to get around
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Hello there x, im wondering if i could maybe play on the hermicraft server while the hermits are on Empire's
@@MrShrog I don't think X would allow that since there are still some hermits in the hermitcraft universe such as xb, beef etc.
X is there any expire date per say for the discount or is it valid whenever
Oh goodness! When does this promo expire? I'm not sure I have time to switch my server over right now, but that's a very good deal! Even without the promo code, logicserver costs less than what I'm paying now.
@@MrShrog When the world download is available, get some friends together and go nuts! (I can never convince my group to do a month of hermitmaps. Maybe I'll just spring it on them for April Fool's)
The mindcrack clips really bring back some nostalgia. I only found hermit craft after my favorite mindcrack players such as etho, bdubs and doc moved over. Saying that, hermitcraft has surpassed anything any predecessor could have imagined. The originality and creativity of the hermits grows every day and hermitcraft today is a absolute masterpiece
I really relate to this always loved mindcrack when at the end it all just kind off fell a part. Loved seeing hermitcraft grow into wat it is today!🙏🏼❤
In some distant future there will be university lectures or entire courses on Minecraft SMPs, and I don't see how it doesn't all begin with Hermitcraft.
We're living through history kiddies!
@@itmeurdad yeah, in some obscure contemporary new media history graduate class of a couple people maybe lol.
I remember finding Hermitcraft through Generikb, back when he joined the server and quickly formed the B-Team with Bdubs. (God, the original B-Team storyline was such a fun storyline.)
That’s exactly why I started watching hermitcraft because of the Mindcrack guys moving over to hermitcraft.
Not only has HermitCraft lost it's "that MindCrack clone" reputation, MindCrack is now seen by many people as merely a footnote in HermitCraft's history. I've seen so many videos and posts refering to MindCrack as "that server that inspired HermitCraft". It's actually quite sad to see personally.
It really is quite sad to see, as they are more then that. My memories of Mindcrack is something I will always hold close to me.
@@BreeZaps "Pause...don't do it man....I thought we were Canadians"
@@Myne1001 PauseUnpause man. Because his Twitch numbers dropped off so badly, he just accepted a full time job starting the middle of this month so he will only stream once a week now. I will always remember Pause’s big days in the spotlight.
@@BreeZaps yeah a lot of them are doing it tough sadly.
@@BreeZaps I absolutely adore Pause's streams. I watched so much of him growing up and when he streams he is always very attentive, says your name and always reads every chat. Having that interaction while I still consider him a great youtuber is so awesome to me.
I just stumbled onto this video while watching some S10 HermitCraft episodes. Suddenly saw my own face in a recommended video (this one) haha.
It's awesome to see how far HermitCraft has come and see the awesome community you've all created! I'm honored and humbled to have played some small part in its origins.
There was another video that came out recently that talks about all the former hermits who have played on the hermitcraft server.
Very nice to see you here. You were one of my favorite hermits in S1
No way, you're still around!
That's awesome
For those who haven't been around a long time the old mindcrack videos and series like OOGE are well worth watching!
Where else can you learn about the legend of Von Sway! 😂
Don't forget mind mindcrack's prank wars especially zisteau's
Straight fax, I started watching Minecract with beef on the mindcrack server
Mindcrack UHC Seasons 8, 11, 12, 13, 17, and 20 will always be some of my biggest nostalgia triggers
@@WanderingLostMC zisteau was the og mega base builder. that spyglass was becoming something awesome.
yeah that E pranker thing was pretty good, huh?
Dude, I really loved your rules that matter series. I even started (never finished) my own rules that matter series.
Are you going to be at the marathon next week? Would love to at least see you in the UHCs.
Just a bit of an understatement there, Zedsteau. I'd use words like "it was not just yours but possibly THE magnum opus of psychological pranking."
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Hey just wanted to say I really enjoyed your Every Minecraft Version series
You're a legend
This made me tear up, Mindcrack was so special back in the day! Absolutely loved the series, and it still holds a special place in my heart ❤❤❤
Same here buddy!
knowing how much impact Hypno and Joe have had on the server really makes me wish they got much more love and attention! I love these videos, a real blast from the past :)
They get plenty of attention but they don't get that many subs because their content isn't mainstream. Hypno pretty much just does normal let's plays and Joe has a special personality and way to play minecraft .
@@berndarndt9924 That's the Joe Hills difference.
@@berndarndt9924hypno mainly plays modded minecraft
@@berndarndt9924yeah Joe has a strong personality not my cup of tea and I can tell some hermits feel the same.
What??? He's just a guy
Since you still have a lot of long-standing members currently playing, maybe the next video series (or something within this series) would be an edited round-table discussion of other Hermit's experiences as they joined the HC server and played their first season or two. JoeHills, Etho, Doc, Cleo, Mumbo, Hypno, etc. How they got invited, what they felt like when they started, if they ever thought of leaving, how they feel about old members leaving the server (or new members joining), how their approach to each season changes. I think it would be neat to hear more voices.
Sounds like a podcast...a really cool podcast...
I remember Guude did something like that when he was making the UHC monument in, I think, Season 4 of Mindcrack. He talked to certain members whilst building a statue of themselves about how they joined and all. Etho had an episode, from what I remember. It's really well worth doing, especially for the older members of Hermitcraft like Cleo and False.
Joe rly has a lot of contribution to hermitcraft, send some love to him!
Joe's been around forever. Guude used to mention him all the time.
Oh man, seeing Zisteau pop up in those clips made my heart flutter. Vonsway, the E Prank, Super Hostile... good times. :) After Mindcrack, I stopped watching SMP stuff until a random Grian up years later, about the S6 civil war. Binge watching ensued. I'm happy I found this community.
Lava bucket hoooooooooo!
For anyone wondering, Zisteau hasn't made minecraft content in a long time, but he still streams and uploads other games regularly. His videos are just as over-the-top as ever, if not more so. True Zistonian fashion. I highly recommend the Factorio or Satisfactory playthroughs.
@@IndyJay53 Seconding this. I still regularly watch and rewatch some series. In fact, I'm rewatching his first factorio series again. He's still really fun and I wish he would pick up Minecraft again. But only when he's ready to.
I used to love it. Its upsetting to see some of them never made it successful.
Arkas was little known, but his building skills were ahead of their time.
His skills 10 years ago rival some of the best to this day.
Also Etho = Goat
Seeing Paulsoaresjr getting a mention always makes me happy. He was my introduction to this entire game
Really recommend going back and watching all of Etho, Beef and Pause's CTM maps. People have made playlists of them and it's one of the best things I have found through first finding Hermitcraft during the pandemic.
CTM?
Eyyy Ladders, I go up and I go down.
@@riaingalligan8461 It stands for Capture The Monument. It was a popular Minecraft map genre back then which was created and popularized by Vechs, who was a member of Mindcrack. Super Hostile is the most popular CTM map series, created by Vechs.
@@cheezeburgerfan5263 isn't it compleat the monument? Or are you using the meme because that's what bdubs called it in one of the oog videos?
@@Skypost4ever Oh yeah, I think it is Complete the Monument. I'm not aware of the meme you are referring to.
"Full of trust and full of personalities" I think that is a great description of why Hermitcraft is indeed so great
I still remember Guude having people genuinely convinced that Beef has no legs... I loved Mindcrack when I was in middle school, and seeing some of my favourite creators come back with HermitCraft so many years later and also leading me to new creators has just been the most amazing thing
lmao I remember that
@@Myne1001 oh shit i remember actually believing beef was wheelchair-bound. damn, what a long time ago.
@@Frostingale I remember some who was disabled leaving a long kind comment on one of VB's videos saying how they were inspired by Beef's success. I wonder how they feel knowing it was all a meme?
@@Myne1001 they must've felt annoyed when they found out I'd say
@@Myne1001 I would think that they would be devastated.
Team Canada will forever hold a special place in my heart. The mushroom prank, Guude's Funhouse prank was also legendary, also their playthroughs of Vechs' Super hostile maps. This is what childhoods are built on.
I remember finding Mindcrack when Etho joined in December 2011, not long after the official release of 1.0. I was 17 at the time, and I loved watching the Mindcrackers' escapades. They really did set the standard for an unmodded SMP Minecraft community.
It's a shame to see how far they've fallen from the limelight, but as you said X, they were the ones to chart new ground and so had the most risk - and IMO they also just didn't handle the sharp decline in Minecraft's popularity it experienced in 2014 very well. Still, I'm thankful for the memories I have of them - Zisteau was my favorite through the absurd scope of his builds (which are tiny by today's standards!) and the insanity of his pranks. Good times.
those builds are also tiny compared to Zisteau's modern standards. The new Factorio SE megabase makes the Arcology and the Lens look like playthings!
@@IndyJay53 I feel like comparing the sizes of bases in Factorio and Minecraft isn’t really fair, especially considering that Factorio lets you have robots build things for you. The base is still enormous, even by Factorio standards, but it’s not a fair comparison to Minecraft megabases
@@zutaca2825 I was more referring to the amount of time and planning that had to be put in for it to come to fruition. Regardless, I see your point
This is such a nostalgic vid. I’ve been watching you X since season one and you are still one of the only few TH-camrs I still watch. It was great seeing you mention old hermits and got me real nostalgic for Static, Generik, Kieshar, Monkeyfarm and the rest
What nostalgic feeling, this brought back a lot of memories of seeing all this unfold.
Good to see you my friend! Hope all is well :-)
@@xisumavoid Thanks for asking. I am fine.
As someone who started watching through Grian in season 6, I was really interested in the history of Hermitcraft, I tried finding out more about it back then but it was too much for me and I got lost.
After watching more hermits in season 7 I tried looking it up on your channel but it still was too much (lol) thanks for making this trilogy, it explained (probably) every unanswered question I had about Hermitcraft and even more!
Love ya X
If you have anymore unanswered questions, I'd love to answer them for you!
im too emotional to comment on the rest of the video, but i will literally never forget how hard i laughed when pause fed that notch apple that cost 1000 real life dollars to the horse in charity uhc
#forthehorse
oh my god I remember that TT
It's always important to pay tribute to those who paved the way and inspired the current generation. Thank you X!
X, props to you man, the amount of editing and work you put into this mini series is impressive. Learning the inner workings and history of hermitcraft has been delightful.
That segment on your favourite moments was such a wild nostalgia trip. Seeking out my favourite mindcrackers last year when I got back into the game is how I first found Hermitcraft, but the old times of the E pranker and dramatic UHC twists will always be incredibly close to my heart.
This was a fascinating journey back in time. For people who have found HC in later seasons, so much context is lost to history. It's absolutely fascinating to learn not only how the Hermits have found each other over time, but also how Minecraft as a game has developed alongside the ideas of the community. And I find it beautiful that the game is still being developed with the community even after all these years and the incredible success of the game. As they always say, alone you go faster, together you go further. Thank you for this amazing Trilogy, I really enjoyed it!
What a nostalgia trip! Mindcrack will always have a special place in my heart
I’ve watched Beef and Etho since the mindcrack days and seeing that the server they came from inspired Hermitcraft is honestly the most random sense of pride ever but I love it, and am glad we still have the couple OG Mindcrackers here to this day ❤️
I remember watching the early days of mindcrack, that’s when I started watching Bdubs and vintage beef. I really enjoyed the dynamic between Bdubs and Generik, it’s sad that he had a falling out and isn’t part of hermit craft.
these days GennyB is a Vtuber on Twitch and he mostly plays Modded when he plays Minecraft
he apparently tried rejoining Hermitcraft a few years ago but the server voted to reject his application
@@drthmik yeah I’ve heard that too, I’m sure there were reasons why the application was rejected
@@lamsmiley1944 I've heard that you have to have a unanimous vote of all currently active members to be accepted
So all it would take is one person voting no
@@lamsmiley1944 One of the prerequisites to joining is showing longevity in keeping a steady SSP or SMP series. Genny didn't fulfill that requirement. It's not personal, it's practical. Hermitcraft wants their members to be active, especially if they are new.
i had always wondered what happened to GennyB. I loved his videos with Bdubs back in the day
I literally only discovered Hermitcraft because Beef joined, and I am so happy he did because this community and these wonderful creatives have filled my days with joy and excitement. Thanks for all you do
mindcrack was a staple of my early years as a teen, i'm so glad you guys carried the torch over and i get to continue to watch great smp content well into my adult life
The Taste that xisuma shows by showing the team canada sky mushroom prank in the favourite moments is impeccable. I still go back to watch that and king of the ladder video to this day.
So nostalgic! While I already knew much of this history on the Mindcrack side, it’s been fun to learn the Hermitcraft side and how the server was able to stay afloat even after periods of inactivity. Incredibly inspirational for SMPs of all sizes! Thanks X!
I've never been able to recapture my feelings toward Mindcrack with any other SMP over the years. For me it was a perfect storm. I'm so glad Hermitcraft is there for others in a similar way. While I do still watch from time to time, there was something special about that time in my life and I've never been able to dig in and excitedly wait for the next episodes. Thank you for standing on those shoulders so that others have been and will continue to capture those feelings.
good lord this video really was a trip down memory lane, I still watch Etho, but I also used to watch all of Zisteau's mindcrack series and his Lens was a project that still lives rent free in my brain when I make floating builds. I fell off of minecraft for a bit only really watching etho's content, but eventually stumbled onto Grian, Mumbo, and back onto your channel and have been working my through the hermit craft series. I used to do a lot of building and was really good at it in the past, but since I came back from my break there's so many new blocks to use that I find myself getting lost with building and the hermit's vids have been phenomenal to give me inspiration and ideas for builds.
The Lens was *so* incredible! I still think about it all the time, too.
I am loving these origin discussions, kind of wish there was documentary based on the viewpoint of the different Hermits. Maybe even each member going back and retelling old stories from their current prospectives.
Awesome trilogy, X. Im sure so much work went into these videos, as far as Im concerned, it all paid off. Very enjoyable and informative. Lots of love
As a Mindcrack Patreon member, it’s great to see Hermitcraft giving it a mention. I hope there will be a day where both servers content creators cross paths again as I think it will bring people like me back to the game itself! Even if it’s a charity event, just to give us some nostalgia, one last time. Great video X, as always!
Its a shame so many people may have missed out on the height of MineCrack. Sure they made some mistakes but they paved the way for future SMP servers like Hermitcraft, Empires and more to thrive with engaging content. I've been watching Xisuma since he joined Hermitcraft, its been great to see the evolution of this server and everyone evolved.
The original UHC's were absolutely iconic.
Great video X, I loved Mindcrack back in the day. One thing I wish you talked about more was Zisteau! He was legendary on Mindcrack and kind of pioneered the idea of a mega base for a while with The Lens, and his Arcology. I wish he still played minecraft because he would be perfect for Hermitcraft
Z really elevated pranks too
Mindcrack has their annual charity marathon event on November 14th. Such a great group and lots of fun times.
Always love a cheeky mention about the Yogscast, people tend to forget about how impactful Shadow of Israphel was back in the day. Especially because they just don't play the game anymore.
I'm getting so much goosebumps from this. Most of these content creators have been there since I was a teen (I'm 27 now) and started watching in the early Mindcrack days. Forever grateful for all those people, especially in recent times where I have been struggling with a strong depression. My favourite Hermits always made their upload days "liveable" for me
While there are and were many amazing memories, I think the B-Team is one of my favourite. I also really enjoyed discovering Grian when he joined. Feels like he brought a lot to the entire server and other Hermits
Mindcrack is the reason I play minecraft. Specifically beef. I have been very lucky to have played with beef, making him a museum to all his best builds. Which ironically got me invited onto mindcrack just like he did :)
Even just a few days ago I caught myself humming "Two Baj's" after I heard Bdubs sing something else. Between that and watching some old Zisteau LPs, it's had the nostalgia kicking in well, and this is a nice cap on that wave I feel.
I remember watching mindcrack since etho joined, and then i started watching hermitcraft when dmac joined. Mindcrack did things that kinda helped kill itself. And i was so excited when etho joined hermitcraft as it was long awaited by most of his viewers!
Going through the Mindcrack history hit me with a major wave of nostalgia. All these old people in the video that used to be big, that I used to know off the top of my head.
And of course, the same goes for Hermitcraft's earlier seasons. Redeyes, Spumwack, Monkeyfarm...
I do also miss UHC, wish Hermitcraft could join together and do it again
I think mindcrack plans at least 2 UHC's coming up in their annual charity marathon event in about a week.
@@Skypost4ever Who of the crew from like 2014 is still there for that?
@@PuncakeLena not sure who's attending this year in person, but Guude, JSano, Nebris, mhykol, beef, pakratt, arkas, sethbling, Aureylian, sevadus, coestar, OMGChad were all there last year. And usually some play in the UHCs or online in other segments like pause, Kurt, doc, baj, MC gamer, zisteau, and avidyazen.
Plus all the friends of mindcrack and new "unofficially official" mindcrack members.
UHC was always super exciting and intense for me though it would always lead to tons of drama the subreddit. The drama is the one thing I do not miss lol
@@Frrk Consider myself lucky then that I haven't even done as much as glance at it
I was definitely recommended this series because i was looking into starting up a server of my own and hoping it would become a small community one day.
I pretty much just play solo casually as it is but I've really been yearning to start up something bigger. I really like the idea of how big Minecraft is and how there's so much space for people to come together and work on communal projects and also have enough space for everyone to have a place to call their own in game.
I first started watching Minecraft through VintageBeef, then Etho. It was through Etho I watched Mindcrack and then Hermitcraft. Wow the nostalgia
Pretty much the same pipeline for me, though I did separately discover hermitcraft through kingdaddydmac back in the day and watched a few people back then, but only really came back to hermitcraft with bdubs and vintagebeef joining.
I have nothing but adoration in how you run Hermitcraft without pushing for “All the Control” you run a very entertaining server of a lot of very talented people in a way that is clearly and evenly decided by the group.
Good going Xisuma!!
Great video xisuma and great job on leading Hermitcraft to where it is today. I'm very proud of all of you and what you've accomplished!
❤
I have always wondered why it's called hermitcraft, thank you for the videos!
So keen for this video! First started enjoying minecraft back in the early mindcrack days
It was Paul Soares' Survive and thrive that got me into Minecraft. And it was PSJ that lead me to Mindcrack and then to the Hermits.
Funny thing is that Paul's way of story telling and roleplay would fit much better into modern day Hermitcraft than it did Mindcrack back in the day.
Oh god could you imagine Zisteau on HermitCraft? The devious things he'd get up to.
Same! and it was either him pushing me into Mindcrack or it was the algorithme back then. Ik that's how I found Etho.
Younger me, watching Survive and Thrive Season 1 in 240p after school would be blown away by how far Minecraft content has come, and that it's still around frankly. I agree that Paul's style definitely fits better with Hermitcraft than it ever did in Mindcrack. He really thrives in singleplayer though, where his stories can flourish.
Man, the memories and emotions that this video brought back. Great job, Xisuma, this has to be one of your best. Thank you.
It's so good that you mentioned PaulSoaresJr. even tho he's not a big SMP guy, he's videos were my first introduction to this game, I can still watch them anytime!
This was great to watch! Brought up so many names I've just not thought about in so long (Generik, Guude, Vechs) and reminded me of how cool Mindcrack as a server was to me when I was younger. I never got into watching Mindcrack much (was more the target yogscast audience age) but I remember all the people I watched regularly at the time saying great things about Mindcrack.
A good recap of it all. Its interesting to watch it put together on the timeline having watched Mindcrack's height, decline (video and legal and all) and the shift to Hermitcraft - as I followed the content creators. I really enjoy Hermitcraft content, it's always fun to sit down and see the shenanigans, builds, and increased RP of the server/players these days after work
I kind of miss the Mindcrack server. With the likes of Guude, pause unpause, zisteau and others. (Etho was my favourite tho) anyway I am glad you took inspiration and started this amazing server.
Seeing the Mindcrack logo in the thumbnail after all these years is melancholy to say the least. Thanks for all the great years of content. Glad most of them made the migration to the hermitcraft server. Hope you are doing well Guude you inspired many :)
the old potato on a stick brings a tear to my eye
@@IndyJay53 kurtjmac teasing bdubs with the potato on a stick will forever be funny.
@@ratonbox I watch that episode like every 2 years hahaha
Those early Mindcrack and Hermitcraft videos were what first piqued my interest in Minecraft. ^_^ Then a friend of mine started a server... I think was on 1.5, as he was all into redstone. Then horses were added in 1.6, and that became my obsession haha! I think it was BDubs or Etho who made a video about how to build a racetrack to measure your horse's speed, and that got me hooked!
Unfortunately, that's also when my friend decided that it was more fun to mess with people than to mess with redstone... and when he burned down everything I had spent the last year building, I gave up on Minecraft for a bit. I started a singleplayer world a year or two later tho, and have been a big fan of singleplayer Minecraft ever since. Tried public multiplayer servers a few times here and there, got ganked and griefed a lot, didn't bother going back, and just have no real interest in trying multiplayer SMPs anymore.
What you guys have with Hermitcraft and Empires -- the trust, respect, cooperative spirit, and general sense of community -- is a truly wonderful experience that a public server will never be able to replicate :( But I still really enjoy the game and watching all those Hermitcraft, Empires, Afterlife and Legacy videos -- they've kept me interested in playing, even after all these years ^_^
I still sometimes think of Hermitcraft as Mindcrack's little brother, even though it is now leagues larger than Mindcrack ever was
"Content creators shying away from multiplayer" is a relatable mood. I've wanted to play SMP and even pitched the idea of a server to my group of Hetalia roleplaying friends on FB (not necessarily for recording, just to have fun on and rp as Hetalia characters playing Minecraft... it's _almost_ "Empires but with extra steps" 🤔), but nothing came of the idea due to incompatible schedules, some people only being able to play bedrock edition, etc... plus it's really hard to be a multiplayer content creator when you have no control over your own availability and can only "record and edit when you luck into having time to yourself" (which also locks me out of being a streamer, since streams live and die by consistent scheduling).
This entire series has been enlightening, and it's nice to get a peek behind the curtain at stuff like this!
Yes, it's hard. Some of the things that got Mindcrack going was that Guude had (has?) money. He apparently used to have some sort of business that he sold, and so he wasn't nearly as dependent on ad income, and he had more time to make and edit videos. He could even try things like the PlayMindcrack server (which was very fun, but not profitable!).
I've been watching since the beginning as I was a Generik B fan early on. Glad to see the server still going even if I don't tune in as much since I have to adult more. 🙌
Great to know more about Minecraft and Hermit Craft history. Looking back, let me just say Thank You for stepping up so many years ago. Hermit Craft probably would not have survived this long, and you would not have brought so much joy to so many people.
;-; man I get emotional whenever people talk about mindcrack. I loved that time soooo much.
Does anyone remember Dwares vs Zombies? Part of the team Canada, mindcrack scene. Great minigame with funny videos from Pause and Beef.
Ultra hardcore is not the same game mode as the hardcore game mode in Minecraft. In ultra hardcore, food didn't give you health back! Dinnerbone did add the "natural regeneration" gamerule to the game inspired by ultra hardcore, though!
I think you’re slightly misremembering the mindcrack UHC; hardcore mode was already in the game before mincrack UHC, but the gamerule “naturalHealthRegen” was added to minecraft after dinnerbone played in a UHC. This meant they didn’t have to use a mod for UHC anymore, and it grew the game into the phenomenon which still exists today
It makes me happy to see someone that is apart of one of the currently most popular SMPs acknowledge that Mindcracks influence on not just SMPs as a whole but with Minecraft makes me happy as someone who use to watch that server.
i didn't know that Hypnotized named the server! great historical video!
I’ve been watching Minecraft since 2011 and playing on and off since 2012. You reminded me of soooo many good memories that I forgot about. Thank you X for the trip down memory lane from a veteran HermitCraft viewer since season 2!
thank you for this mini series! I have attempted making servers of my own for friends groups in the past and we have decided to try again! your videos have been so helpful to me in learning hoe to identify concerns and advice on how to address them as well as pointing out some much needed quality of life resources. thank you!!
It is the nostalgia of this era yogscast Etho and doc that brought me back to hermitcraft and TH-cam itself very recently. I ultimately became a subscriber to you all the hermits and even empires!
I started my minecraft journey by a friend showing me "Bite-sized Minecraft" from Sethbling, which led me to Mindcrack, which led me to Etho, which led me to Hermitcraft. I haven't been there from the earliest days but I have grown up with it. Very cool video and awesome to see the people you play with now, were the players you were watching.
I am pretty sure Sethbling brought me to Mindcrack as well. he did a thing with 8 bit rom and then he had a thing with a plug in that added video or something 3 way irl and minecraft. It was weird.
Love that you used a Tardis!
Since I've watched bits of all sorts of people overtime. My proper introduction to hermitcraft was from a train of collabs. In that I watched someone play Attack of the B-Team in 2014 which had among other people, Bdubs, GenerikB, Pungence, Skyzm & Keralis. Who all have relations to hermitcraft at one point or another.
But from there at the end of that SMP, bdubs started making a Dust2 map from counterstrike, which led to him creating the survival of the fittest series. Which was a battle royal before those were a bit thing. And then created the flyboys server which rivals Grian's Life series interms of my personal enjoyment. That series had Bdubs, GenerikB, Pungence, Skyzm & Etho.
But by 2015 I recall that I watched Keralis do a bit of Hermitcraft Modsauce which led me to KingDaddyDmac who did by far the most on that particular server. And it was Dmac were i watched actual Hermitcraft for the first time during Season 3. Watched a bit of him, and then by the time 1.9 came around I lost interest. I did watch the NHO from season 5 for a littlebit but then went away. And it was only until a couple months ago that I watched Grian's Life Series which led me back to hermitcraft again.
Not sure why I wrote all this out, but I think it goes to show the interesting ties that people have overtime. And also that i would love to see Dmac, Pungence & Skyzm on the server again. But i also understand that there interest in Minecraft was more temporary than say Bdubs. This was also just one story from 2014-2015 rather than say stories from the Alpha/Beta days of Minecraft on TH-cam.
I'm not sure how I recall finding Hermitcraft. I just remember dropping off of Mindcrack after my faves left and having a gap between watching before I stumbled on people like False and Keralis. I was happy when some of those members came on to Hermitcraft. They're SMP shenanigans were my favorite in their Mindcrack days.
This was a good trip back and I was happy to see the connection I always saw between the 2 SMPs.
Mindcrack...
Man what a trip remembering that smp.
The nostalgia is immaculate.
"You're watching Guude Boulderfist...."
Immaculate is not the correct word in this sentence. I would advice expanding your vocabulary rather than ramble incoherently.
I guess that _kind of_ goes some way to explaining how Generikb went from founder of the server to persona non grata, just up and leaving the group with nobody in charge, but there's got to be more to that story. Seeing all those old Mindcrack clips brought back a lot of memories. I was one of the Mindcrack fans from way back, watching from the first multiplayer season, and you're right, it really did show how Minecraft _could_ be played, but wasn't. It made people want to play with their friends in more cooperative worlds. It literally founded a genre of video-making and of gameplay in general. I think it's fair to say that Mindcrack was responsible for Minecraft not being a flash-in-the-pan sensation that disappeared overnight, because it really did seem like Mindcrack _was_ Minecraft for two or three years there. Most of us had gotten bored with our 2010 purchases by 2012, and Mindcrack was the life support system fueling interest in the game. That role has passed to Hermitcraft fully, by now. Minecraft, as enjoyable a game as it is, really has no reason to have stuck around for, if you count the Alpha releases, thirteen years now. It certainly wouldn't have without the TH-camrs keeping the interest high.
The legal issues that killed Mindcrack are our gain, though, because Hermitcraft has risen up with a much more wholesome culture. It's kid-friendly without being childish, and that's an achievement. The main reason I don't watch Empires is because I feel like the roleplay/lore aspect is a bit too childish for me (or I was never enough of a theater-kid to appreciate it), not a criticism of it or anyone who watches it, it's just not for me, but Hermitcraft has this "just friends playing a game together" kind of vibe. Hermitcraft generally has a lot more time put in per video compared to the old days on Mindcrack, too, with hours-long builds being condensed into 50 seconds of timelapse. I remember watching Guude painstakingly completely clearing out a jungle block by block, just because he liked the grass colour better than in other biomes, while he told stories about his home town. Like, yeah, I enjoyed that. Watching someone clear out a forest has almost the same kind of catharsis as mining out a big area, but I kind of want to get to the part where it's DONE and the build begins, and the Hermits do that.
Here's to ten more years of Hermitcraft! (but not eleven more, that would be too many ;-) )
I agree that Hermitcraft has a great balance of wholesomeness without being too childish for those of us who grew up on Mindcrack to watch. I remember coming home from bad days at school and listening to Guude ramble on while grinding away at some hopelessly large project. It was so comforting.
I think in season 9 X has done a great job of calling back to those days. Just playing the game and taking us along for the journey, with less focus on the theatrics. Not that there's anything wrong with fanciful storylines, I just miss the simpler times I suppose.
Great comment. I do miss Guude’s stories, and just that style in general, it made them feel more alive.
You also got to remember how the game functioned back then to how it does now. With the editions of enchanting, repairing tools, mending, elytra, hoppers, etc stuff was way more of a time investment to complete.
Why is it not surprising that JoeHills was a primary catalyst for Hermitcraft surviving and thriving in Season 2!
Fascinating! Cool to see so many faces I'm now familiar with from waaay back then. I wasn't even aware of MC yet, & I learned later my son was playing after school at friends, who later urged me to try it after my beloved Farmville fell. I've loved it since day 1, and watching HC has encouraged me to try so many different things! Thanks for this!
Roughly around 2013 and Minecraft 1.7 is when I first started playing.
At that time I was unaware of any of the TH-camrs and videos being produce.
Minecraft 1.8 comes out and due to my world being corrupted I started a new one.
During this time I had a need for a piston door. Though I knew nothing about redstone.
Enter Mumbo with his 3x3 piston door.
For a time I just watched his redstone videos.. until I stumbled into a HermitCraft Episode of his.
This was roughly around the end of HermitCraft Season 2.
I continued watching his HC videos into season 3.
At first it was only him.
Then came the Shrek Prank on False Symmetry. He had me rolling with laughter.
I had to go see Her Point of view.
They were the first two Hermits I watched on a regular basis.
Then came the DocM77 killing machine challenge. Which opened the doors to DocM77, TangoTek, and ImpulseSV.
From there I went on to watching more and more Hermits over the years and seasons.
Over the years I admit I’ve wanted to pursue having a channel same as those I’ve watched since 2013.
I enjoyed this Xisuma. Take care.
Man. I’ve been watching hermit craft for 10 years on and off. Both you and mumbo as well as DMAC and Sl1p back in the day and grian and scar now. I have grown up with you guys and your consistent focus on teamwork and having fun has shaped me and I’d wager a lot of other people. Thank you X. Thank you Generik. Thank you to all the guys and gals we grew up with❤
Hermitcraft has been a part of my life, since season 2 and to this day, I'm still enjoying the content just as much now as I was back then, if not more! It's still as refreshing as ever, seeing new interactions and fun had between hermits, with you guys stepping it up every season, creating new and exciting content for the viewers!
I've really enjoyed this series, X. I love a good origin story!
Loved this video, really took me back to the old mindcrack days lol
I've adored this little series, it's a really nice blend of your Xisuma says channel and the main channel, and I can really see the passion behind the recent vids. I think you're such an intelligent and well spoken person- I would love more videos like this, just peeling back the curtain to the point where you're comfortable
This almost made me cry lol great time.
I remember Nebris saying he cheating in one of the contests to become a member. He would also have all the best gear in like the first few episodes. he was then called cheaty Nebris.
UHC was something I always looked forward to and all the legendary moments.
If I could have Nebris, Arkis and AnderZel join a server that would be a dream. All three are amazing builders and some of my favorite Mindcrackers
Another favorite moment is when bdubs build the mindcrack logo and everyone called it a potato on a stick lol i know he didnt like that, cuz he take pride in his builds but i would be funny for someone aka a hermin to bring it up and see what he says, sorry bdubs lol
I would love to see someone add a custom potato on a stick texture for the baked potato and give it to Bdubs. Seems like a Tango-sized antic to me
Loved the video, but i do think what you said about some smps turning into "single player" on a multiplayer map is kind of what is happening to hermitcraft at this point and why the empire crossover is soo good. Lots of interaction with many people. I personally felt like in hermitcraft a hermit can become so completely isolated and not knowing whats going on on the server. I enjoy that content as well, and I get not everyones scedules lining up.
No critism just thinking out loud!
Weird to learn that I started playing Minecraft before you!
From what I remember, survival multiplayer simply wasn't considered very "stable" in alpha and beta. Mobs glitching out, "chunk errors" leaving big holes in the world, that sort of thing. I remember digging out an entire chunk to prank a friend, who relogged like 3 times trying to get it to load before realizing what I'd done. (I think carving out the corner of a big tree is what really sold it)
There was actually some tension over this in early minecraft development, which eventually led to the "snapshot" system for people who wanted to prioritize new features, and the "releases" for people who wanted to prioritize bugfixes and stability.
What?!? Notch mined a final block in Doc's perimeter? What a legend!!
One of the most beautiful videos on TH-cam. The impact mindcrack had not only in the game but also in the form of content creation is honestly heart warming.
Some of my first and favorite Minecraft vids were guude and Bdubs playing vechs ultra hardcore maps and mindcrack vids
Omg it's two badges they're coming to your town
Great memory trip! I recall finding Mumbo when i wanted to know more about redstone and shortly after his first video on Hermitcraft made me a fan of the server and many like X (or Shashuami), cleo and keralis. I still lament so many hermits have left ether hermicraft or youtube altogether, like red3yz, monkeyfarm and biffa.
It’s funny; I actually found Biffa when watching different City Skylines videos (playthroughs, tutorials, etc) some years ago. Had no idea he played Minecraft, or that he’d been involved with either Mindcrack or Hermitcraft, at the time. Only realized after I watched one of my first Mindcrack UHC videos (years after they were posted). What a small world it is!
I remember a friend sharing a video of Zisteau playing single player ctm. Which led me to pause, joe and Cleo. And I've been watching them since before hermitcraft and Mindcrack. And the growth each person and the whole community have had over the past decade has been amazing. This was so nice to be reminded about the early days and humble beginnings. Excellent vid, X!
Oh this warms the heart, started on season 1 hermit craft and maybe some mindcrack even before that, I’ve stopped watching from time to time but the breaks never lasts more than a few months. Thank you :)
It's amazing how far Hermitcraft and Minecraft have come. I wonder how far Minecraft would have come without the SMP servers and TH-cam? I used to love Mindcrack and the spontaneous king of the ladder bit and the UHC events were awesome! I binged every UHC from everyone's perspective when I first discovered it. Would love to see more UHC events with different SMP servers on TH-cam.
Just wanted to add, I think it's awesome that you guys were able to come together and make something so awesome! It has to feel good doing something you're really in to like this, but also doing it with friends that enjoy it also has to feel amazing!
Thank you so much xisuma for making these videos with all this great information on Hermitcraft, servers, origin, players, history, and everything else you added. I found it very educational on one of my favorite subjects: You and everyone else that calls Hermitcraft home.
Hope you have a lovely day and I hope your new song is coming along for you. Thanks again
I remember the times the minecrack community tried the feed the beast modpack too. it was the first time i was ever introduced to the mods. etho and everyone would share batteries and would fly jetpacks to get around