Funny / Hermitcraft

Given this is a survival multiplayer series by a bunch of friends playing Minecraft, they're bound to share some laughs with each other and the audience.

Unmarked spoilers below!

Seasons 1–5

• In Generikb's first video of Season 1 (the first Hermitcraft video ever) a loud BWOOOOOOOONG sounds every time he says "Hermitcraft".
  • This happens again in his fifth episode after the server is wiped.
• Keralis drowns in the ocean during his second episode of Season 1, and among the responses in chat is a ":D" from Xisuma.
• The "finest" moment of Season 3: "We're supposed to be professional Minecrafters!"
• Right before raiding the Ocean Monument that would eventually become Season 4's Octavoid, Xisuma drinks a few potions to give himself Water Breathing, among other things... before drinking a bucket of milk to get rid of Mining Fatigue. He immediately lampshades this to Ren.
• Mumbo finds a Hermitron within the first few seconds of the episode... But it's not a real one. After laughing it off, he later goes looking for more of them, but only finds more of Cub's fakes.

Season 6

• Iskall's final demise ride, courtesy of Grian and Impulse. Grian and Impulse went through a little play where Grian as a housewife, played by himself, became increasingly obsessed with Diorite, and Iskall (on-stage, played by Impulse) got increasingly fed-up until "the Redstoner" leaves Grian to himself, all of which Iskall laughed through. At the end of the second half when Iskall was beaten to half a heart by a roller-coaster, he showed up at his old hitman base in the beginning of the season with Grian and Impulse in front of him. And Grian just cherry-taps him with a piece of diorite, causing the resulting death message to display this:
  Iskall85 was slain by Grian using [His hatred of Diorite]

Season 7

• Really, anything involving the 12 bamboo.
• During the Boomers' attempt to blow up Keralis' shipwreck per his request, Bdubs decides to demonstrate his manually-controlled TNT launcher that would destroy the shipwreck. However, this goes hilariously wrong as the TNT block not only failed to be launched by the piston, but it also blows Bdubs up, giving Impulse and Tango a good laugh.
  Impulse: (laughing) I don't think it went where you wanted it to!
• Etho attempts to kill Keralis to enact revenge for what Keralis had done to Docm77 prior, but has a surprisingly hard time actually landing the killing blow on Keralis, even after Etho drove Keralis into the lake in the hopes that he'll drown or be a sitting duck. From Keralis' perspective, he spends a lot of the battle making desperate noises and dropping to low hearts, making it look like a borderline miracle that Keralis stayed alive until Etho ran out of food and was forced to retreat.
• Early in Grian's 44th episode, Grian was undergoing a challenge montage. After being challenged to convince someone to buy rotten flesh, he went over to Keralis, promised "something special" if he paid whatever he wanted upfront... and recieved two stacks of diamonds. Grian threw him the rotten flesh and ran.
  • Keralis would later rename the rotten flesh "La Chair Pourrie de Grian-ri", which roughly translates to "Grian-ri's rotten flesh" from French.
    Keralis: Everything sounds so much better in French. La Chair Pourrie de Grian-ri. Love French. Bonjour. Je ma'ppelle Keralis.
• Upon learning he has a new neighbor via his upside-down mansion in the Nether, Grian exploits Bdubs' Really Fond of Sleeping status to get him to blow himself (and his adorable upside-down cabin) up.
  • Before Grian puts the question in chat, he watches Bdubs fail to glide into the doorway of his upside-down cabin. On the 2nd attempt, he's about to fall short again...only to use a firework rocket to land directly underneath the door in a 1-block tall gap which makes him look like he's lying down, forcing him to break a stair block and manipulate a decorative trapdoor to stand on so he can enter the door properly. This of course triggers Grian's trademark hysterical cackle.
• A good chunk of Iskall's 66th episode has Iskall and Mumbo starting a business partnership, with the two friends making fun of each other every step of the way. Highlights include:
  • Mumbo basically barging in moments after he announces himself in the chat, telling him he feels hurt that Iskall didn't directly tell him that he was starting a business empire but telling him it's fine, he understands he couldn't bother to ask, and accepting the partnership.
  • Mumbo suddenly leaving with little warning while they were collecting sand.
  • After Mumbo came back and insulted Iskall's island (which was just getting started), saying it looks like a "chunk error", Iskall proceeded to point out Mumbo's own island-building skills, before claiming Mumbo's unspookificator island as his own and burning the book and lectern in front of him when prompted.
• In one episode, Grian tried to fall through a one block wide hole to demonstrate to his viewers for a minigame in the Mycelium Sporting Event. This caused him to fail. Three times. In front of Mumbo. And what does Mumbo do? He types "watch this" in the chat and also tries falling in the gap... before also failing, causing the music to stop and Grian to burst out laughing.
  MumboJumbo: sick

Season 8

• Instead of Xisuma's usual Episode 1 introduction and explanation of the new season's gimmick, the Hermits thought it'd be funnier to make Mumbo do it. Mumbo fumbles his way through introducing the two new Hermits, Pearl and Gem, then immediately forgets what he's supposed to mention next, and just stammers awkwardly until Joe stage-whispers the info to him.
  • Mid-explanation, Mumbo stops to angrily tell Scar that, yes, he is wearing pants and mocks his tiny hat in retaliation.
  • While Mumbo is trying to remember what he's supposed to mention, an Iron Golem walks up and practically launches Grian into the stratosphere. It does the same to Etho and Tango before the Hermits get the message and disperse.
• Not long after, Scar has a realization about Bdubs's skin: He looks a little like Oscar the Grouch.
  Scar: Uh, hold on, wawawawawait real quick. Um–
  Bdubs: Yes?
  Scar: [giggling] Your pants look like a trashcan, so you look even more like Oscar the Grouch!
• Scar has a small hat. The other Hermits tease him endlessly for it, in ways reminiscent about how someone might talk about a certain small... appendage.
  Grian: (after seeing Scar's massive starter base) I think you're compensating for that tiny hat of yours.
  • Similarly, Mumbo is repeatedly teased for not wearing pants. He is wearing pants, it's just that they match his skin tone so well that some of the Hermits genuinely couldn't tell, and even Mumbo himself admits that he looks like he's got a "reverse tan line".
• After failing to find diamonds underground, Tango, Keralis and Bdubs go to Gem to charm her into giving them some of her diamonds. Gem, amused by their antics, hands each of them a diamond in exchange for some glow ink sacs... except in the confusion, Keralis accidentally picks up two of them, and hands them back to Gem as an act of kindness. The other two don't notice until they make it back to their base, and realize that they spent all that time and effort, yet only managed to get one diamond between the three of them.
• Scar, Grian and Mumbo all find themselves in the same field on the very north of the continent, and decide to mark their territory. Mumbo puts a crafting bench down, Scar puts a torch on top, Grian puts a boat on top, Scar gets in the boat... And before you know it, their marker is a haphazard stack of boats, beds, grindstones and various other blocks, dubbed the Boatem Pole. Impulse and Pearl stumble upon it while looking for a building spot of their own, the former immediately on board, the latter thoroughly confused.
  • Not even five episodes in and the Boatem Pole has some copycats. In addition to the tiny Elop Metaob built at the same time, there is the Goatem Pole and the Skullem Pole. The Goatem is a tower of goats in boats built by Doc and Ren on a small island just off the Boatem village, for the purpose of having a taller pole (not soon thereafter the Boatem Hermits dug a deep pit under the Goatem Pole to decrease its height until it was shorter than the Boatem. Then Doc designed a special "flying machine" to lift it back up). The Skullem was built by Iskall at his own base simply as a means of using the dozens of mob heads he had collected.
  • The Boatem Hole should also be mentioned, being a Bottomless Pit dug beneath the Boatem Pole intended for sacrificing, although it's had more accidental deaths and close calls than anything else. Especially notable is the accidental death of Timmy the Wonder Pig, which occurred when Impulse tried riding Timmy to Grian's house and forgot about the Hole despite Pearl's warnings until it was too late.
    • The Boatem Hole eventually claimed two more victims, those being most of GoodTimesWithScar's inventory, and a whole Mumbo, due to the former accidentally removing the lead that connected his Llama – that dangled over the hole – to the fence, causing him to fall into the hole, and Scar had to buy one of Grian's backup item shulkerbox.
• Mumbo's starter base is a Minecraft version of his VW bus, with a tiny house behind it and a campfire out front. He then spends a full day learning chords and making noteblocks to make a machine that plays Wonderwall.
  HermitCraft Recap: Anyway, here's Wonderwall.
• Mumbo updating his skin to make himself a human potato so he could serve as a mascot for his potato business garnered laughs from many of the Hermits, and fans compared it to the Pickle Rick meme.
• Tango is asked by the mysterious Taskmaster to kill Bdubs for a reward. Tango uses a trail of candles to lead Bdubs to the elevator to his new cave spider farm. Using his camera account to see when Bdubs drops down the shaft, Tango pulls out the water at the last second, killing Bdubs by fall damage.
• The Tree War, a minor war initiated by Grian (of course) against Mumbo, for the purpose of pushing the limits of his goal to replant every tree he cuts down. It began with Grian planting several saplings around Mumbo's base, which Mumbo quickly solved by stating that while he did have to replant every tree, he did not have to replant them in the same place and sapling-bombed Grian's base in retaliation. Grian retried his first attack with even more saplings, resulting in such thick foliage around Mumbo's base that some of the neighboring Hermits were unsure if it was still there. Mumbo's next counterstrike was to line the unfinished back wall of Grian's starter base with dirt and grow a wall of trees on top of it, No Selling Grian's attempt to prevent this by finishing his house's floor and replacing the surrounding grass blocks with green concrete powder and wool. Grian then decided to change the game and test Mumbo's patience via loopholes, and while Mumbo was away he grew a tower of trees on top of Mumbo's tiny house to the build limit, connecting all the trunks so it was technically one single giant tree and leaving a sign at the stop stating as much and that Mumbo could only plant one sapling after cutting it down. This triggered a small Heroic BSoD with Mumbo, who put if off for a while before taking it down and enlisting Scar to build a huge custom tree in front of Grian's base in the hopes that Grian would find it too amazing to destroy. Grian, while impressed by the tree, did not hesitate to destroy it with TNT in front of Mumbo. Since Mumbo now had help in the war, Grian decided to enlist Pearl in building a massive tree monster which held Mumbo's van in the air. Mumbo essentially raised the white flag after this, as he now found Grian and Pearl's build too amazing to destroy, and saw the interior of the build as Free Real Estate and expanded his base into it.
• Impulse's shop "iSoar", an elytra and rocket shop built with aesthetically-displeasing blocks.
  • The fact that iSoar, coming on the heels of the Boatem Pole and Hole, solidified a pattern. Between Bee-serk, the Swaggon, Treesa, Vol-carb-o, the Goatem Pole, Nether Would iEver, Lichen Subscribe, Cheapslate, the Tegg signup room, and the Peace Treety, Boatem is the city of puns.
• "Tango's Bedrock Service", a booby trap masquerading as a store built near the Boatem village which traps its victims in bedrock. Most victims have been able to get out by themselves through the use of an Elytra or water bucket, but falling into it without any of those things will leave someone trapped until another Hermit comes by to free them.
• Keralis' and Pearl's goal to swindle Bdubs into giving them a clock every episode.
• Bdubs having both a video and the proximity chat mod running at the same time. When Keralis and Pearl approached, they heard a sudden "I'll kill you my friend!"
• To stop people making fun of his tiny hat, Scar makes himself a new, GIGANTIC hat. Grian, Mumbo, Pearl AND Bdubs have all tried to run off with it.
• Grian, Pearl, Impulse, Scar, and Rendog try to build a Wither-killing machine. Emphasis on try.
  Grian: WHY DO WE SUCK SO MUCH?!
• Grian losing the Tegg within five minutes of the game kicking off and saying that at least he doesn't have to worry about the viewers telling everyone where the egg is.
• After promising to scale down from last season and not build a mega base, then revealing his base plans, Grian has to explain to his comments section what a mega base actually is. It's certainly bigger than an artificial mountain.
  • Made Hilarious in Hindsight by the Boatem Hermits' plans to turn their bases into a giga base (just their regular and mega bases linked to each other with passageways).
• While Scar is telling his viewers about his Endbusting adventure, he's interrupted by Bdubs trying to get his horse, Lulu, to climb the ladder to Scar's front door.
  Bdubs: Climb! You stupid horse!
  Pearl: (gasp) Well, calling it insults isn't really gonna work too well.
  Bdubs: No, that's its middle name. Sorry.
  Pearl: Oh, is it?
  Bdubs: Yes. Stupid's the middle name. Lulu Stupid.
  Scar: (concerned) ...well, what's the last name?
  (Beat)
  Bdubs: Moron.
• Mumbo somehow getting Ren to be a test subject for his End crystals, with Ren's voice getting cut off mid-shout as he dies instantly due to the voice proximity mod.
• Iskall trying to find the Tegg in Cub's base and skipping the obscure method of accessing the chamber with a simple Ender pearl.
  • And likewise, Impulse just brute-forcing his way through Iskall's various puzzles without actully solving most of them.
• Grian putting powdered snow in Mumbo's base. Romantic music plays as the shiver effect causes a slow zoom. Upon leaving, he lampshades the fact that he edited the music in, assuring us that he was, in fact, hearing something like it in his head in the moment.
• When Tango decided to change his skin from the new "big eye" skin back to his regular skin, he created custom wearable sunglasses to emulate giant red eyes, and not only gave pairs to Bdubs and Keralis, but also to a couple of zombies he trapped for an iron farm, which actually protected them from burning in sunlight.
• Fans in the comments pointed out that Mumbo's base plan was looking a little bit sus. Mumbo had to look this up, and discovered what they meant by this: his base is sustainable! Which it is, since he's making it fully environmentally friendly.
  Mumbo: So I can confirm that my base is absolutely, 100%, fully sus.
  • He went looking for sources that corroborated this definition. He found 2: a doctored screenshot of the Oxford Online Dictionary and Among Us' official Twitter account.
• Bdubs joining both the No Wings Club and the Yes Wings Club Just for Fun.
  • And later, Pearl does the same thing.
• Grian gets his hands on some of Mumbo's End Crystals, and knowing his history with explosives, Hilarity Ensues.
  • First, he sets a trap for Mumbo consisting of four End Crystals around a sign to lure him within range so he can detonate them from a distance. Mumbo sees through it and gets out of the way in time, and then gets back at Grian by sneaking up behind him, placing an End Crystal, and blowing it up in the hopes of startling him... only for them to both be killed when they don't get out of range. Both of them burst into laughter in their respective commentaries shortly after this.
  • They then get Impulse involved when Grian puts one behind Impulse while he's idling and then blows him to kingdom come, and then later places an End Crystal inside his house, prompting a huge Oh, Crap! moment on Impulse's part. He luckily manages to prevent any property damage by putting a water source block above the End Crystal... just in time for Grian to shoot it with an arrow through a window he left open.
  • Later, Grian sets up an XP dispensary in Scar's bedroom and tracks him down to show him a magic trick, which is to make Scar disappear with an End Crystal. After respawning, Scar has to wait several minutes to soak up the XP. He complains about the balls in his face.
  • Impulse attempts to assassinate Grian with an End Crystal, but due to the way he placed the obsidian and his haste in doing the deed, he only ends up killing himself.
  • While Scar and Pearl are visiting Impulse's in-progress base, Scar detonates an End crystal but fails to kill anyone. Impulse, who now has first-hand experience in how End crystal proximity works, is able to blow up all three of them with a crystal, leaving their items in one huge pile around the obsidian.
• Scar getting scared by a Tango plushie left in his bedroom, as he thinks it evokes the appearance of "the scary doll of the horror film variety".
• In an otherwise Moment of Awesome, the Boatem Crew all agree to merge all their bases into one Giga-Base, while doing the meeting with them all (sans Pearl, due to not having an Elytra and wings) sitting on llamas that dangled over the void that is the Boatem Hole.
  • At the end of this meeting, Scar breaks the lead suspending Mumbo's llama, and Mumbo is unable to dismount and use rockets in time to save himself. Scar buys him a Perhaps You Perished Parcel in apology.
• Evil X's "Save the Striders" campaign, which is little more than hostage negotiation. Buy Evil X's Strider coins, and he'll stop yanking them out of their natural habitat.
• Tango creates a custom hat that causes the wearer to appear as a tree. He surprises Impulse first, then Mumbo, who joins him to surprise Grian, who joins the both of them to surprise Cub (which Hermitcraft Recap compares to a reenactment of the final act of Macbeth) and Scar.
  • Scar's reaction to trees coming to life and attacking him amounts to an inexplicable Oh, No... Not Again!.
• After Scar dies in lava while trying to get soul soil for Bdubs, Grian creates a custom Perhaps You Perished Parcel just for him, with everything given sappy but supportive names, as well as a "Subscribe to Grian" pickaxe.
• Grian discovers that Mumbo has installed a failsafe into the Boatem Hole to save himself if he falls, utilizing an Ender pearl in a bubble column activated by tripwires across the bottom. Grian tries to use it by baiting Scar into punching him down the hole, but it fails to work and Grian loses everything.
• During an eight-player ABBA mining session, Hypno dies to creepers twice and fails to recover his items, thereby not gaining any points for his team. He tries to tell his teammate Cleo that they need to carry the team to victory, only for xBCrafted to call the end of the session right then and there.
• Scar going an a spree of scaring other Hermits by using an Invisibility potion, dressing in dyed green leather armor and a creeper head, sneaking behind them and playing a creeper hiss sound.
• The Boatem Crew's second meeting, taking place in a chamber halfway down the Boatem Hole, where each member stands next to an End Crystal which other members can detonate by throwing an egg if they decide that person has a bad idea. Much death follows, but most impressive is when Grian proposes that Mumbo (who is absent and represented by a giant crude face with spindly legs) be made CEO of Boatem Inc. Scar, Impulse, and Pearl all throw eggs at his crystal before agreeing to the plan.
• Zedaph's reenactment of how he was tricked into equipping an elytra, since he wasn't recording when it happened.
• Cubfan nonchalantly setting fire to one of Scar's Swaggons in the Nether because there wasn't an Ender chest on it.
• Mumbo, surprised but accepting of his new role of Boatem CEO, decides that this coupled with his base being a cavern in a mountain with a secret entrance, is the perfect start to his new superhero persona: 'Tatman!
  Mumbo: The only issue is, my parents are still alive. <holds End Crystals in both hands> But that can be changed.
• After Grian finds him stuck inside of a cluster of bedrock, Scar explains he used the last firework rocket while flying down to the hole, accidentally flying into a bedrock cluster. Despite being in desperate need, Scar attempts to shove Grian into a hole, who threatens to leave him stuck. After Grian asked whatever he made a decision about where he would settle down on one place for his base, Scar attacks Grian again twice and Grian threatens to leave him again, leading to Scar putting a cat head on, unaware it has the Curse of Binding enchantment.
  Scar: (wearing a cat head) Wai– wait! Open it up! (Grian destroys a block) Open it up! Look up, a nice little kitty! I'm a kitty cat! You love kitties!
  Grian: Doesn't that have Curse of Binding on it?
  Scar: No, no– (mutters) dang it!
  (Grian bursts out laughing)
• Boatem Inc.'s first marketing campaign, which consists of the five of them terrorising other Hermits by bunny-hopping on donkeys that have been reskinned with flame decals and to make sports car noises, all while blaring uptempo Japanese hip-hop. It needs to be seen to be believed.
• The noise that Grian makes when he sees Mumbo's "Cheapslate" shop.
  Grian: Well, pluck my nose hair and send me to Alaska, I know exactly who's responsible for this, and I don't want anyone to read into what I'm about to do, but check this out.
• Ren and Doc agreed that they would each build half of the Octagon. Ren soon finds out that Doc took this literally and built one half of the structure, divided down the middle.
• During an event where Hermitcraft hosted a Make-A-Wish kid's visit, a statue of a pill bug was built (in honor of the kid, pillbugnine) which claims to grant the answers to the universe. When Mumbo tries to use it, the statue gives him an Ender chest without any context.
• Tiny Zedaph.
• When Grian wants a charged creeper to display in his Magical Menagerie, he enlists Scar's help since he happens to be selling them. Problem is, Scar's method of getting the creeper into the display cabinet is letting it chase him across part of the map, all while Grian watches and cringes in horror on top of nearby trees. Scar fails... twice.
  • The first time, he abruptly stops next to the Pass 'n' Gas shop, which not only causes the charged creeper to kill him, but take out a wall of the building and leave a massive hole in the path.
  • The second time, Scar actually manages to seal the creeper in the cabinet, with Grian exclaiming "We did it!"... until they realise they didn't give it a nametag, running the risk of it despawning. Scar breaks the glass to try and give it a name, only for it to blow up and destroy the entire cabinet, all while Grian lets out a hilarious high pitched scream of "SCAR!".
  • The cherry on top of all this is Scar's complete inability to say "menagerie" correctly.
• Cub wins Cleo's IOU from Horsehead Farms' auction, and he uses it to have them threaten Joe to write a poem about his canyon, giving them the location of a charged creeper to use. Joe, being Joe, takes it up to eleven by writing three poems instead of one, underneath the charged creeper no less which he describes as a Sword of Damocles. The poems themselves must be heard to be believed.
• Grian decides to pretend to be AFK near other Hermits to see what they do to him. He first stands next to Keralis, who is actually AFKing himself. When he comes back he sees Grian and uses a dispenser to put a silly mask with Curse of Binding on his head (for bonus points, said mask is actually Keralis' original head, which must be seen to be believed). Second, he goes to Gem's base, where she builds a jar around him. Grian thinks she's doing this to protect him until she asks in chat if anyone wants a deal, and he realizes that she's put him on display to be sold. Impulse buys Grian and tries to move him away, but quickly gives up and settles for killing Grian with an End Crystal. Finally, Grian sits in a boat on Scar's porch. Scar spends a few hours building a track to a high point as he got Grian's boat into a minecart, then rides with him up to the top before they drop towards the Boatem Hole. Grian surprises Scar mid-drop by asking what he's doing, and they both die on the side of the hole. In trying to get his things back, Scar dies several more times, including a drop through the Hole into the void.
• Mumbo reboots his failed Tater Vendor business as the Vol-Carb-O, to great success!
• As revenge for Bdubs hoisting his Swaggon barge out of the sea, Scar builds a false cake store (Yes. For that joke.) in the Big Eye Guys' property, with several nametagged charged creepers hidden inside. Being Scar, this took several tries to get the charged creepers in without them exploding along the way. One even exploded inside the store causing Scar to have to rebuild it. Once it's "safely" set up though, Bdubs falls for it hook line and sinker and is trapped inside the store while the charged creepers are released. And for added salt in the wound, Scar left a "that's what you get" sign beside Bdubs' bed.
• After Zedaph showcases the Combrewter 2.0 to Mumbo, they decide that Mumbo should take his exit by flying off into the sunset, which Zedaph puts dramatic music over... until Mumbo realizes that his home is in the other direction and comes zooming back.
• Gem and Pearl get together to add some nonconsensual Halloween decorations to many Hermits' bases, most notably putting Tango's giant ogre, Fifi, in a princess costume.
• After Grian realizes just how many advertisements other Hermit groups have planted in Boatem, he ropes in Impulse and Pearl to help (mostly watch) him take revenge. Inspired by the lag generated within Boatem, they use a hopper and smart dispenser to dump roughly a thousand boats into the Octagon, intending to make a giant Boatem Pole (dubbed the Lagem Pole) for advertisement, however the boats spill out to the sides rather than form a uniform tower. Impulse tries to corral the boats to no effect, and eventually they leave with the boats slowly creeping out the entrance of the Octagon, making sure to leave signs advertising Boatem. They strike at the Big Eye group's settlement next, this time dispensing the boats all onto a single block in the sky, so that they appear as a single boat generating a tremendous amount of lag. Since none of the Big Eyes are online, they message Tango to get online and take invisibility potions to watch the show. Tango finds the boat and hops in, and begins taking entity cramming damage until he tries to move the boat, at which point boats explode outwards in all directions, covering the terrace below in a thick layer of boats and leaving boats as far as the helipad on Keralis' island. Tango swears vengeance as the Boatem members show themselves and audibly complain about the mess, citing it as a reason to shop at Boatem instead.
  • Tango finds a way to use paintings in item frames to somehow place a bedrock texture over other blocks, and places a tunnel of "bedrock" in Pearl's storage room and makes a layer of it on the bottom of the Boatem Hole, which actually consists of open fence gates rendering it non-solid. Tango shows it to Impulse, but later Grian and Mumbo find it on their own and are wholly mystified.
  • Grian enlists the rest of Boatem (sans Scar, who is absent for medical reasons) to build a gigantic upside-down boat over the Big Eye group's boat-covered wharf, which displays the message "BUY AT BOATEM" while casting a huge shadow that allows hundreds of mobs to spawn.
  • Tango and Bdubs' counterprank consist of a giant skydiving eyeball above Boatem, with a pair of giant Tango sunglasses on the ground beneath it with a lectern that when read from triggers the eyeball to open up and drop a massive quantity of ravagers into Boatem, whose nametags cause an advertisement for Big Eyes' Shopping District with every kill they make.
  • Doc's revenge is a giant world-eating machine that he deploys to devastate Boatem... in a single-player world copy. His actual revenge? Hide screaming goats all over Boatem.
• Mumbo sees that Grian is selling golden carrots and realizes that they are the epitome of "Peace, Love, and Plants". After buying and eating some, he transforms from a human potato to a human carrot.
• Zedaph discovers the "Prankenstein" that Gem and Pearl built outside his laboratory and is upset at how unprofessional it is for the lab. He then proceeds to give it safety goggles, which brings it in line to his standard of professionalism.
• Mumbo turns into a human pig after eating a pork chop, and uses a mask of his potato form to hide his face before tricking Grian into signing a contract to help him turn back into a human in the same way his other transformations took place, and somehow Mumbo's sketchiness surrounding the deal doesn't throw Grian off.
  • Mumbo finally turns back into a human after pulverizing Grian in his soul-harvesting machine... and he now has a black version of Grian's waffle.
• Mumbo adds a rope bridge to the front of his base, and then notices the red wireframes at the top of the mountain make the base look like it has a smiley face... with way too many eyes.
• Mumbo built a new meeting room with a built-in robotic Mumbo face that occasionally spits out random input, meant to be used when Mumbo is absent. Mumbo is present for the first meeting, though, and can only watch as the other Boatem Hermits ask the robot if it should replace Mumbo as CEO and it responds with "Yaaaasssss", causing Mumbo to be demoted to Boatem's janitor.
• Grian's unveiling of Boatem's name change to BTM is crashed by a creeper that spawned in the wall-dropping mechanism.
• While designing the statues for the Mooner cult, Mumbo shows off a couple of the weird things that still populate his redstone testing world... like a giant toilet, and a design for a TNT shop for Season 4, which Xisuma explicitly banned him from building considering the design includes a giant sphere of TNT above the shop itself, and could blow up the entire shopping district if a flame arrow hit it wrong.
  Mumbo: He was right to be concerned.
• Impulse built his base under Boatem, which turns out to be a mistake as Grian blows up parts of Boatem and breaks into one of Impulse's farms, twice.
  • When joining the Mooner cult, he blows up his bed as a sacrifice, which blows up part of Impulse's honey farm and lets several bees out, attacking Grian. He repairs the roof before anyone notices.
  • After summonimg a wither to prank Mumbo Jumbo, the wither blows the roof off Impulse's iron farm. This time Impulse shows up as Grian is trying to repair the damage, and Mumbo mentions it's the second time Grian blew up one Impulse's farms.
• Cub's news report on the growing moon, especially when he plays the role of "Moon McGee".
• Keralis hears that xB has built a secret room to deal with the moon threat, and despite having already built a space station he decides to go to xB with an offer: he's moving in. Yes, that's the whole offer.
• Although it's Played for Drama, it's still amusing to see Evil X's lightning powers reduced to only being able to produce rainbow confetti.
• Zedaph invites his past test subjects to return to the lab with the roles reversed: they are now the scientists experimenting (and certainly not taking revenge) on Zedaph. Zedaph is made to high-five an armor stand, profess his love to VintageBeef, do various charades, and for his final test lures Bdubs into the chamber with the power of music before detonating a pair of End crystals, killing both of them and destroying the chamber.
• Scar lures Bdubs to the Mooner temple with the lie that they worship sleep, and has Bdubs lay in a bed suspended over fire as he reads a bedtime story... until Scar breaks the bed and drops Bdubs into the fire as a sacrifice to the moon.
• Grian discovers that he's under the effect of a certain glitch that renders him invisible and inaudible to others when Mumbo comes through his base and takes no notice of him. Grian is unable to resist haunting Mumbo and placing End crystals and near-finished Withers around him, until he finally summons one for real. Grian, unable to defeat the Wither on his own, comes clean to Mumbo and ends up calling Cub for help since Mumbo's pacifist ways disallow him from fighting the Wither.
• On his space voyage, Tango encounters a Big Eyes Pass 'N' Gas on a floating asteroid, manned by Keralis who has apparently been there for months as business is booming.
• Tango's adventure later turns into a video game space shooter in the style of Asteroids before switching to Space Invaders where he battles Grumbomb.
• When Keralis shows his secret TNT launcher to xB, the presentation is spoiled by a Creeper that spawned in the launcher due to insufficient lighting. Also, the fact that the Creeper spawned inside a TNT launcher specifically. It must've felt right at home.
• As Mumbo and Grian are falling into the Boatem Hole at the end, Grian asks Mumbo for one last high-five (which has to be done via a punch in Minecraft). Mumbo obliges, but Grian was on half a heart and dies, ruining Mumbo's stats and rendering his entire season of pacifism moot. If you watch Grian's perspective, you'll see that he spent at least ten minutes on half a heart, meaning that it was completely intentional.

Season 9

• Since the Hermits are starting a blind seed, chaos has happened rather quickly in all of their own respective first episodes.
  • In the beginning of the meeting, Ren tells the group that they're going into a blind seed, which he thinks is a terrible idea. Iskall is quick to remind him that it was his own idea.
  • Poor Scar couldn't catch a break throughout his entire episode...
    • Scar dying in ridiculous ways continues to be a Running Gag, as he somehow manages to fall into a giant hole in the ground as soon as the Hermits discover it.
    • This gem during his conversation with Mumbo and Grian.
      Mumbo: Where in the small hole together.
      Scar: That's what she said!
      (Grian starts snickering)
      Mumbo: Scar! (pushes Scar into the pit)
    • Grian and Mumbo openly wonder how Scar keeps dying this many times, racking up more than five deaths within the first hour or so. They conveniently ignore the fact that most of Scar's deaths stem from Grian and Mumbo repeatedly shoving him into a massive pit.
    • Scar has already got people joking about his tree elven skin, with most mistaking it for a matador costume. Scar has also failed to pronounce "matador" correctly, having pronounced it "master door" and "mattress store" during a conversation.
    • This becomes a Brick Joke later in the season when Scar builds a Matador Mattress Store (which sells beds and bed designs, complete with a ravager "bull" on the sign).
    • After Scar's plan to descend into the big cave at spawn using boats failed, Mumbo decides to appease him by placing down a boat and taking them both on a very slow boat ride in the cave itself.
      Grian: What am I watching...?
      Scar: Grian, don't you wish you had a boat?
      Grian: They have eight million subscribers, these two.
      (Scar bursts out laughing)
      Mumbo: Well-deserved subscribers, I think you'll find!

  Mumbo then proceeds to steer them both directly into lava. He later tells Grian that he didn't even notice he was on fire until Scar suddenly stopped singing sea shanties.

  • Scar goes netherite mining to get himself a netherite hoe. He does a test of the bed's explosion radius, but then decides to quickly set his spawn. This caused him to place a sign where he died, never wanting to acknowledge what had happened ever again.

  • Pearl, Gem, Cleo and Impulse try to raid a woodland mansion with stone tools and no armor. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
    • At one point, the group gathers on the roof, and debates the best tactic for taking down the Illagers inside. Gem then promptly smashes a window, runs inside, and starts beating up an Evoker before being killed by Vexes.
  • After the mansion raid, Pearl, Gem, Cleo and Impulse descend into the caves. This also goes about as well as you'd expect.
    • Gem jumps down from a high ledge into a water pool at the bottom of a lush cave, with Impulse shouting that she's not gonna make that jump. She makes it flawlessly, and Impulse decides to follow her down... only to completely miss the water and die.
    • Impulse tries to get Gem to sing the name of the "Isn't it iron pick" advancement, only to realize that neither Gem, nor Pearl, have heard of the song it's referencing.
      Cleo: Impulse, they're babies.
    • During the caving, Impulse has to shout "Behind you Gem!" no less than three times. When she later hires Impulse to enchant her sword, he names it "Behind you GEM!".
• Grian takes two days off from playing on the server.
  Grian:...our neighbors there have got full-on haunted mansions, and houses, and more houses, and futuristic towers — it's just crazy! D'you know what I've got? I've got some fish and an iron pickaxe with Silk Touch. And I stole the fish.
• Scar continues to be ridiculous.
  Scar: I might've just thrown my shield in the lava.
  (Beat)
  (Grian sighs)
  (Scar starts laughing)
  Grian: I actually don't know what to say. I don't even know what to say to that.
• Early on, Gem finds a skeleton spawner beneath the settlement she lives at and marks it with a sign reading "Gem will watch Impulse build a farm here". Later on, Impulse finds a spider spawner and marks it with "Impulse will watch Gem build a farm here".
• Grian spends over an hour trying to fish up nautilus shells (including donations from XB and Scar), only for a wandering trader to show up selling them mere minutes after he's finally gotten enough to craft a conduit.
• Grian and Scar decide to go End busting together. After going the End portal, Grian realizes that he forgot to bring a bow, but Scar tells him that he can bow for the both of them, calling himself Hawkeye. And then immediately shoots Grian off the platform to his death by accident.
• Grian organizes a server event titled "Secret Fools" for April Fools' Day, in which participants draw each others' names at random and do a prank for April Fools' Day. Being the Hermits, you can expect them to go all out for this.
  • Joe draws Iskall. Going to VintageBeef for advice since he wasn't able to sign up, Joe learns that Iskall has recently gotten into the habit of sneaking up on others and singing "Never Gonna Give You Up" to them. Joe decides to translate the song into Swedish and consult Keralis on the pronunciation, then has Beef lure Iskall to his shop where Joe soon thereafter arrives to Rickroll Iskall in Swedish.
    • As a bonus, when being consulted, Keralis mentions that he and Iskall speak with rather different accents, noting that his is Southern. Joe simply responds that he, too, has a Southern accent (as in, Southern US English!)
  • xB draws Keralis. Seeing a familiar shape in the facade of Keralis' starter house, xB transforms it to have a giant Keralis face. Within the mouth he builds a lush underground chamber with a chest of gifts for Keralis, which is rigged to seal the doors and trigger a controlled explosion to scare Keralis.
  • Keralis draws xB. He decides to build a statue of an octopus holding a submarine (all with huge eyes) which serve as the centerpiece to a dropper game. At the end of the drop, the landing platform is rigged to explode when xB lands, killing him instantly.
  • Stress draws Scar. Since she knows Scar is preparing to create a "cookie empire", she buys out VintageBeef's supply of blue wool and builds a statue of Cookie Monster on top of his base, adding elf ears to match Scar's theme. She leaves a chest of cookies inside the statue for Scar, and while he's pleased with it he still manages to kill himself trying to rocket out of the statue.
  • Scar draws Tango. He builds a minigame based on Tango's "Decked Out" games outside his base, titled "Locked Out: Ravager's Revenge". The goal is to collect three Scar heads and bring them to the exit, all the while being chased by a Ravager, many Illagers and some other monsters. Tango escapes after several deaths, and once outside finds a sign marking Scar's "true" prank: he made a chest monster in Tango's yard.
  • Cleo draws Stress. Due to the tea theming of Stress' first base and shops, Cleo builds a giant box of "Hermit Shire Tea" in front of her base, which contains a mechanism modeled after a prank Xisuma played on them in the early days of Hermitcraft which spits "Tea Leaves" out all around the box.
  • Iskall draws Doc. Since Doc wrote "Goat" on his signup paper, Iskall decides to build a giant goat head on the side of a mountain at the background of Doc's village, with a riddle to determine which item to feed it. Any wrong answers result in a TNT being dropped. Even after consulting with SciCraft for hours, Doc still cannot figure out the riddle.
  • Cub draws Joe. After reviewing all of Joe's videos and livestreams from Season 9, he decides to build the ghosts of every Wordle Joe has built for his Wordle wall in his base, then replaces the Wordle wall with glass and put the "Warden of Wordle" (a creeper) behind it.
  • Impulse draws Cub. He recreates one of Cub's past minigames, "Ravager Run", with the requirement to place several Giga Pies in the correct spots to escape, all while being chased by a Ravager.
  • Doc draws Grian. Taking advantage of Mumbo's absence, he builts a shaft hidden by the wall of copper Grian built around his base, putting several ghasts at the bottom, low enough for them to not be heard from the surface, and a bubble column to launch them up and out when Grian presses a button marked "DO NOT PRESS THIS BUTTON!".
  • False draws Pearl. Going with the alien theme of Pearl's base, False builds a UFO abducting the alien statue. Pearl ends up loving it enough to keep it as a permanent addition to the base.
  • Grian draws Impulse. He decides to build a quiz for Impulse, which is rigged so that he can't get any questions wrong, theming it after The Matrix with infinity rooms, and even dressing up as Morpheus with the blue and red pills in the form of dyes. At the end of the quiz, Grian pretends that Impulse has won some diamonds, however the pile of diamonds is rigged to explode. For bonus salt in the wound, Impulse ends up respawning at his respawn anchor in the Nether, which he can't escape due to the mobs and must repeatedly die until the respawn anchor expires and and he respawns in the Overworld.
  • Tango draws False. Since they've recently decided on a location for the shopping district, Tango moves False's copper shop there and replaces it with a giant copper golem, leaving a trail of copper to its cave where she is rewarded with even more copper and the new location of her shop.
  • Jevin draws Cleo. Since he and Cleo have already been having a friendly feud, he decides to create an annoying sound machine under their base which detonates a charged creeper when they try to disable it.
  • Pearl draws Jevin. Going with his theme of slime and his pig shop mascot, she builds a slime pig chef statue atop his house.
• Anything and everything involving Joe's masterpiece of Surreal Humor, the Guppy Geyser.
  Joe, finishing talking about something else: So, anyway, let's go make some other sorts of mistakes, in the process of avoiding that one!
  Smash Cut to him and Cleo at the Guppy Geyser
  Cleo: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
  • To provide actual context: Joe is trying to build a water elevator, but somehow winds up with a bubble column in which tropical fish endlessly spawn and are launched out of the top to their deaths. Needless to say, he and Cleo have a good laugh at the bizarre, vaguely disturbing hilarity (and complete pointlessness) of the whole thing. And then they start trying to find a use for it...
    • First, Joe considers starting a tropical fish store, but rejects the idea because thanks to the layout of the cave the Geyser is in, any customers would have to walk past the Geyser to get to the store.
    • Joe and Cleo convince Tango to visit, but he's initially reluctant, thinking it's a Death Trap. Upon paying a diamond for admission to the "natural wonder," however, he's absolutely delighted.
    Joe: I think that's the first time I've ever actually impressed Tango.
    • Noting the variety of tropical fish spawning from the Guppy Geyser, Tango then has the idea to make a game of placing bets on what the next fish's color will be. Joe and Cleo naturally start gleefully speculating on how they can use it to fleece Keralis.
• Grian's reaction to the Grian Easter eggs.
  Grian: It's so cute! And... kind of cursed? I don't think I've ever been happier. Except for maybe the day I got married.
• Iskall and Stress decide to recreate Jack's death scene from Titanic (1997) at the Easter Egg Hunt signup. It works until Iskall reaches the riverbed and he and Stress can still hear each other talk.
• While hiding Easter eggs, Xisuma uses an Ender pearl to clip through the glass into Cub's cactus farm to hide an egg. Cub unexpectedly logs in while Xisuma is still inside, and Xisuma discovers that there's not an easy way out of the farm. Cub quickly spots Xisuma and has to get him out, finding the egg in the process.
• Scar sees Grian adding ores to his tower of diamonds and decides to sneak-Hawkeye him by swooping past with elytra and shooting him. Not only does Grian get a huge scare, but he actually punches himself in the face IRL since he was resting his head on his fist at the time.
• After weeks of trying to figure out what the hell the answer is to Iskall's riddle, including asking his fanbase and the members of the Scicraft server, Doc is about ready to give up. He enlists Stress's help in obtaining his own player head, then starts punching a chest in frustration once that also fails. Stress, seeing Doc's frustration, collects some wheat seeds and drops them in the hopper... and gets the answer correct first try.
• Iskall and Stress dig up through the Nether roof to get to the bedrock and glitch through, and Stress gets increasingly worried about digging into lava. Iskall reassures her as he places an orange shulker box above her, giving her a huge scare when she reaches it.
• While discussing the gold farm they'd just built, Iskall becomes convinced that Stress has turned into a horse.
• Before building the vault for his base, Mumbo builds a decoy vault to distract Grian, as they have a bet going about whether or not Grian can break into Mumbo's vault. The decoy has two properties: it cannot be opened because the door is purely decorative, and it only contains a lava trap. Mumbo figures that Grian will use chorus fruit to teleport into the vault, but Grian tries to fly into the door with an ender pearl to clip through it, which results in Grian dying from kinetic energy. Grian then tries chorus fruit and after a few attempts makes it inside the vault, and falls right into the lava pit. He tries to use another chorus fruit to escape, but it only puts him back into the lava. In a last ditch attempt to save himself, Grian flies up with a rocket, and splats into the wall of the vault, killing him and dumping all his gear in the lava. On top of two humiliating deaths and losing all his gear, Grian also loses 5 diamond blocks in the bet with Mumbo.
  • Mumbo rebuilds the decoy vault, replacing the lava pit with a boobytrapped chest and some TNT. He also changes the sign to say it's a decoy vault so Grian should leave it alone. Naturally, Grian tries to break in despite it being fake, and uses a sticky piston to pull a block from the door, which is not breaking the block, and thus within the rules of the bet. Grian goes in, opens the chest, and is glad he wasn't wearing his netherite gear.
• The entirety of Scar scaring people with a creeper costume. First, he gets sniped from afar by Cub, then scares Hypno, Joe and Doc while they're using farms. After arriving at Grian's base just as he logs out, he ambushes him outside Mumbo's decoy vault and tosses him a spare costume to double-team other hermits. Their first target is Cleo, who responds with an extremely rare (by Hermitcraft standards) Precision S Strike at the duo, before setting an elaborate plan to scare Bdubs. While it's not outright stated in Scar's video what the plan actually was, part 1 involved Scar waiting inside Bdubs's shop to scare him when it went inside, and part 2 likely involved Grian coming up behind him when he inevitably ran away. However, Grian missed his cue... and ended up frightening the life out of Scar himself when the latter exited the shop. The whole thing truly must be seen to be believed.
  • After Scar finished recording for the video, about a few days later he went out of the way to spook Impulse with the same method during Impulse's stream thus ruining Impulse's tutorial. In retalliation, Impulse shot Scar to death with the bow before he went out of the way to scare Scar back when the latter came back.
  • In Grian's video, he covers up Cleo's swearing with chicken noises.
  • In Cleo's video, they dub over themself with a casual "oh poo".
• After Tango discovers that he can create customized music discs with a mod, he sets up machines that play various sounds in Hermits' bases to confuse them.
  • For Bdubs, he uses various recordings of himself greeting Bdubs.
  • For Grian, he uses the sounds of shulker boxes opening and closing, specifically set up to echo Grian opening and closing his real shulker boxes.
  • For Scar, he uses various recordings of himself saying "Hot Guy" in ridiculous voices.
• Grian decides that he doesn't want to create a resistance aganist the new big power for once, but still decides to cause trouble for the king by setting up official-looking unofficial "Priority Quests" funded with diamonds taken from the king's statue, which include things like leaving diamonds at Grian's base and buying half of the stock at the Entity (Grian's shop).
  • Upon discovering the insubordination, Ren decides to outlaw setting quests by anyone other than himself, then sets several new Priority Quests of his own.
  • Grian's response? Setting a Priority Adventure.
• Impulse takes a task from Grumbot and receives "Xisuma" "Vault" and "Multiply". He combines this with the Priority Quest to hold a royal event by having an Xisuma-themed costume party in the king's vault. Ren is rather unhappy when he logs on to see the shenanigans, and is even more displeased when he sees that Bdubs, his own right-hand-man, was attending.
• As Ren starts claiming shops for himself, Grian starts visibly straining to not start a resistance. When he checks his profits in the Entity and sees that Ren paid him with "Royal Emeralds", he starts hyperventilating, flies off to his base, and eventually flies over to Scar in a panic, telling him to stop him from starting a resistance. Scar, of course, does this by shooting Grian in the face. Weirdly enough, it actually works.
• For a new Zedvancement (titled "Awarded For Knothing"), Zedaph tries to give Tango as many advancements as possible while he's AFK. After forcibly equipping him with dragon's breath, full Netherite armor and a Netherite hoe, Zedaph decides to enlist Grian to help get Tango 50 blocks in the air while under the effect of a shulker bullet, since Grian owns a shulker at the Entity. The two of them end up using fishing rods to drag Tango from his base to the shopping district via the Nether. In trying to get the shulker out of the Entity, Zedaph and Grian inadvertently cause the Entity to become a shulker farm due to the shulker(s) repeatedly hitting themselves with their bullets. After finally getting Tango to the required height by shoving him into a bubble elevator while under the levitation effect, they decide to leave Tango where he is and that the king should be responsible for cleaning up.
  Zedaph: Uh, good wor– no, not good work. Uh, work.
  Grian: Work.
  Zedaph: Work, Grian. Work.
  Grian: Yeah, yeah, work.
• After King Ren's fall, Pearl takes his netherite armour and puts it on display in her trash shop.
• The crossover with Empires SMP Season 2 brings its fair share of funny moments:
  • Grian's first reaction to the Empires rulers crossing over through the Rift is to call for Impulse to play the opening tune of the Hermitcraft Recap.
    Pixlriffs: This week on Hermitcraft... me.
    (Everyone else laughs)
    Pixlriffs: That's right, folks! I made it!
  • When MythicalSausage asks why he showed up on the Hermitcraft side of the Rift wearing a crown^note He had an Instant Costume Change via magic portal to one of his Empires Season 1 counterpart's skins, Pixlriffs asks him if he's won MCC recently. Sausage, still in-character, is completely unaware of what MCC even is.
  • During a livestream, TheOrionSound has Scott Smajor muted and convinces Jimmy Solidarity to reiterate what Scott says to him. Scott jokingly retaliates by threatening to say "the one slur [he] can say" (which Jimmy flat-out refuses to convey back to Oli), and eventually settles with claiming to "hate the gays". At some point during this conversation, Joe Hills flies down and snipes Scott on the spot for saying this, only to immediately be met with the confirmation that yes, he's allowed to say that, while Joe immediately argues that some people aren't aware of that. It's a scene that must be seen to be believed.
  • As Pix is leaving via the Rift at the end of the crossover, he signs off with the ending catchphrase of the Recap.
• Grian draws Pearl's name from his new "Prank or Present" Secret Santa game. Pearl happens to be flying around above Grian since she just helped him build the sleigh housing the game, which leads Grian to express his gratitude that she can't tell what name he drew.
  Grian: Well, good job she can't read. (Beat) No, she can read! She can't read this bit of paper!
• Pearl's Prank or Present gift to Cleo is a clone of Cleo to help them for the day, that being Pearl herself wearing Cleo's skin and using three modified goat horns which play soundbites of Cleo saying "Hi, I'm Cleo!", "Yeah" and "No". After cleaning up Jevin's latest prank, they go on to troll Scar before enlisting him to wear the Cleo skin as well and surprise Tango as a Cleo trio chanting "Hi, I'm Cleo!".
• During a livestream, Ren explains a new way to play TCG, which he has dubbed "handicap mode"... to Scar, who is physically disabled. Scar is audibly suppressing laughter during the full minute it takes Ren to put two and two together.
  Ren: Does that make sense?
  Cleo: (in chat) REN!
  Scar: (desperately holding himself together) Yeah, no, I think that's the perfect game to play with me, this is wonderful, I'm excited. (starts Corpsing)
  Ren: Excellent, excellent. Because I think that my deck might be quite a bit stronger than yours, and then it's just kinda boring, you know, because...
  Scar: Yeah, my deck's handicapped anyway.
  Ren: (laughs as he realises what he's just said to who) No! That's not what I mean, it's from golf! It's from golf! ... Stupid English.
  Scar: No, it's fine, I'm just being an ass.
  Cleo: (in chat) dang it Scar wth
• Scar, Impulse, and Gem stage and intervention after Grian spends time smelting copper for a prank rather than working on the back of his base. Grian manages to distract Scar by showing him Doc's tunnel bore machine... which they proceed to accidentally blow up. And then...
  (Beat)
  Grian: OOHH!! I'm outta here! Goodbye! Ohhh nooo! Oh no, Scar! Scar, we're in so much trouble!
  • Not only does Scar hide himself in one of the Scarland bathrooms in-game, but his episode shows a quick real-life montage of him locking the doors to his house, barricading himself in the bathroom with Jellie and a pile of Lego boxes, and asking his smart watch the distance between Berlin and Portland.
  • The two of them decide to soften the blow by asking Doc to give them a tour of his redstone and complimenting him aggressively the entire time. They also give him a pile of presents as an apology. Doc is nearly persuaded to forgive them by the Jellie ear headband, but also points out that the huge stack of diamonds is worthless to a man who builds with diamond ore.
• During a meeting with Buttercup members, Mumbo and Scar, Grian starts suffering from his game crashing due to falling entities. This becomes chaotic when Scar starts intentionally placing or removing a block to let entities fall (such as an anvil, concrete powder, or sand) whatever Grian says or does something that annoys him to the point of attempting to stop Grian from placing a sign that bans the use of falling entities. Grian even added audio from Windows XP to show he is crashing and coming back on Minecraft.
  Grian: I cannot figure ou– I can't figure out why if it is happening, but is happen, falling sand crashes– (game crashes) NO! (comes back) Do you have any idea how long it takes to get Minecraft loaded!
• While helping Doc cover the Buttercups' bases in dragon eggs, Ren struggles to get to grips with the fast right click mod and burns through an entire stack of rockets while using his elytra. Repeatedly.
• Scar hands out custom buttercup cookies to Mumbo and Grian. What are they? Reskinned raw chicken. Cue the Buttercups getting struck by the hunger status effect.
  Scar: I have poisoned the goat with this.
  Mumbo: You've also fed us the same stuff. That's not like how a poisoning works. You don't just poison everyone, okay? You're meant to poison someone specific!
• The entirety of the Team GOAT vs. Buttercups robot battle. First, a section of the Buttercup's sand wall fails to drop, nearly stopping their robot at the gate. And then the Buttercups run into trouble with one of their plug-ins, forcing them to log out, unloading their robot and causing it to stall, requiring Doc to have to lend them assistance to get it started again. The GOAT robot, meanwhile walks extremely slowly and only blows up the land behind it (which as Doc later concedes, is his own territory). When the robots finally do collide and the Buttercup robot's explosive activates, it only does minimal damage to the front of the GOAT robot (but still enough to disable it), but utterly annihilates itself. After the anti-climax, Doc and Ren mount their butterflies, but all that happens is that Doc does even more damage to his perimeter, before doing infinitely more damage to the GOAT robot than the Buttercup robot did, as a result of the Buttercups' robot earlier stall causing the confrontation to happen much closer to the Buttercups' base than Doc anticipated. Meanwhile, The Buttercups figure out they can stop the butterflies by simply pillaring up... only to miss Doc's butterfly completely, forcing them to place blocks randomly over the butterflies to jam up and stall the flying machines.
  Doc: Their incompetence is their strongest power!
• The ominous voice recordings playing at Doc's base become this every time they startle one of his unsuspecting fellow Hermits.
  Scar: I hate your face, you stupid dic-tator!
• Speaking of the voice recordings, one starts playing while Doc is digesting the fact that the Buttercups have done "the biggest grind of the whole season" and covered the whole of his Perimiter in terrain.
  Recording!Doc: The answer is always: "You could have done more."
  Doc: Oh, please, no!
• Tango designs Decked Out to have an area where players recieve a reward for a completed run by having it shoot out of a trap door in the floor. He completely loses it when Doc of all people is the first person to get stuck in it.
• When a bunch of guests appear on the server to play Decked Out, Joel (Smallishbeans) asks Jimmy (Solidarity) for a kiss on the neck for good luck. He quickly clarifies that he meant to say "cheek", but neck kisses quickly become a Running Gag for the rest of the stream, and even spill into Secret Life.

Season 10

• Near the start of Episode 1, Impulse and Scar figure out that placing a falling entity causes Gem's game to crash. They initally thought Grian also crashed, but he just goes off the server and logs back in as a joke. Scar continues to be a nuisance when he intentionally crashes Gem's game with sand. Even naturally-generated falling sand crashes her game!
  Grian: Was that naturally falling sand?
  Gem: Yes! Naturally falling sand as the world loads! Please kill me! Oh my god...
• During the community mining competition, Iskall offers Mumbo some torches due to him running low. But rather than giving him the pre-assembled torches, he just gives him a stack of coal and sticks instead. Mumbo can't resist making an IKEA joke in response.
  Mumbo: Typical Swede, giving it to me in a flat pack.
• An incredible sequence of events unfolds thanks to Demise. First, Grian gets a kill on Gem by sneaking up above her while she's fishing and using his own fishing rod to pull her high into the air, which kills her with fall damage. Later, Grian, Gem and some other reapers and dead players gang up on Pearl to try to do the same thing to her with fishing rods. (Grian somehow caught Pearl's donkey instead) This then devolves into all the gathered Hermits using fishing rods (and later boats and pigs) to slingshot each other to absurd heights.
• Beef and Skizzleman begin worshipping Big Salmon, essentially forming a cult worshipping salmon. One of their first targets is... Doc. Who has just finished building an "early game" farm that gives him a lot of resources. The boys proceed to kill one of his villagers, and then threaten him to place all a number of salmon heads across his base. Doc responds by tricking both of them into a pit full of End Crystals.
  Doc: You think I will bow down to your lousy fish man?! I'm the GOAT, I don't bow down to nobody, you screwups!
• Pretty much everything surrounding Iskall's starter base:
  • Working off the fan suggestion that all Hermits should build a base together, Iskall goes around visiting everyone else on the server, asking them to pick a number between 24 and 32, then pick that amount of blocks and add them to his base. The end result is a random assortment of blocks forming no coherent shape, including (obviously) diorite, but also a massive dirt windmill with an azalea bush on top, trapdoors placed around the doorway on the vertical wall flapped horizontally, a mob head, and an iron door on the outside propped up against a wall. He also has signs on the inside, and each Hermit's name is written down for contributing.
  • The best addition has to be from Mumbo, though, because not only does he give Iskall some blocks of a roof (out of gravel, which immediately falls down and becomes the floor instead) which he then follows up with a chest, furnace and auto-crafter, all of which he then immediately obstructs with other blocks so they become completely unusable, but Mumbo in fact comes back to Iskall's base later and adds random blocks of his own volition just to see how long it'll take Iskall to notice.^note It took 25.
  • Grian, the last person on the list, is allowed to take blocks away from the build instead of getting to add any, with Iskall hoping he might make the base at least a little presentable (and in particular keeps trying to steer Grian towards a strip of amethyst blocks in one of the walls). Grian instead decides to steal any of the diamond ores he finds in the build.
  • By Iskall's 5th episode, the Hermits have clearly had enough of looking at his base, and Cleo (the Minister of Garbage) surrounds it with a cobblestone wall with a giant black-and-yellow stripe, marking it as condemned. Despite all the grief he's getting about it, Iskall continues to (correctly) insist that he did not build the base when Cleo complains about it to him directly.
  • This then directly leads into Iskall launching "Stage 2" of his base... which he admits he had no actual plans for until he woke up that morning.
  • What Stage 2 ends up being is a massive stone monument with runes carved into it, with said runes incorporating all of the blocks from the previous build to "honor the Hermits" and their contributions to the server (except Grian, who took blocks instead of contributing them). And yes, the chest Mumbo added is still unusable.
• During a conversation about the Mail Delivery System Tango and Etho installed, Scar is instructed to place the paper into a dropper chest to test the mailbox, designed for him to send mail to the other Hermits. Due to his usual clumsiness, Scar instead throws the paper into the hole that is intended for a shulker box. Out of frustration, Tango violently mails Scar by punching him into the hole, which killed him with his stuff being placed into a hopper, with his pants being sent to Etho's mailbox.
  Tango: Well, Scar just got mailed!
• xbCrafted's exit from Demise, courtesy of Joel, with Grian's help after several attempts, completely obliterating his base and Keralis's computer as the latter is blasted into the stratosphere in the process via 74 TNT Minecarts. During his birthday stream, no less.
• In Impulse's 4th episode, he and Skizz are farming wither skulls in the nether, and while both have (in theory) Looting III swords, Impulse has bagged five skulls while Skizz has yet to farm one. Frustrated, Skizz insists they swap swords. In his first kill with Skizz's sword, Impulse gets another skull.
• Grian's 5th episode, out of 5 that he has so far failed to fish out a Mending book, ends abruptly after an hour-long multi-Hermit fishing session, prior to which it was explained that random loot depends on the world seed and technically, any Mending book that any Hermit fishes out could've been Grian's. We see the PoV of Scar's stream of him getting a Mending book, then Grian wordlessly takes out his sword, kills Scar with two hits, and ends the episode immediately.
• In keeping with the theme of Season 10's Hermit Permits, which grants the Hermit who possesses a particular Permit the sole right to sell whatever item is listed on the Permit, Grian has built a Permit Office in which Hermits can request the creation of Permits that don't already exist. Being Grian, he intentionally made the Permit Office to be an absolute bureaucratic nightmare for anyone seeking to request a custom Permit on days that are not April 1st); it is only open on Sunday from 2 PM to 3 PM GMT, the form is filled nonsense terms, and it requires the Hermit to perform a series of random actions that are tedious, difficult, nonsensical, or involve messing with other Hermits. If something wastes his time or if he is asked what any of the nonsense terms on the forms actually mean, Grian will put a Hermit on hold, complete with obnoxious elevator music.
  • Scar is the first "customer" to the Permit Office. He wanted to have a Permit for "all the mobs" in order to expand his zoo. The form in particular, MJYAAFK06, asks if the item for which a permit is being requested meets the criteria of the base blooben test. When Scar asks what the base blooben test is, Grian puts him on hold. Three separate times. And then Grian closes the Permit Office for the day while Scar is still inside waiting for Grian to return while the music is still playing. This experience utterly breaks Scar, driving him to take an axe to the music player just to stop the obnoxious tune from playing.
  • The second "customer", Joel, who wanted to have duplicate Permits for glow berries and glow ink sacs for purely display purposes, decides that Violence is the Only Option so that he can pressure Grian into opening the office on Friday instead of Sunday. He even took out the music disc to cut off the music as well as declaring he's in line first instead of Xisuma. To get back at him, Grian mocks Joel while he was going around the chains at Gem's base before Joel attempts to pressure Grian to come back to the office after he did his MRVSHEPS07 form. Needless to say, Joel did not like the experience at all.
  • The third "customer", Pearl, wanted a Permit for stamps for the post office (despite the fact that, as a fellow governmental organisation, she shouldn't really need a Permit to sell stamps), and had an easy time. Not only was the front door open, all she needed to do for her form was to specify the item the Permit is for and a note that it's April 1st. Not only that, she also got to add Chorus Fruit onto her Purpur permit and trade her Grey Terracotta for End Stone, oblivious to Scar's loss of sanity as he struggles to reclaim his permits in Lost and Found in the next line.
    Scar: You can only see my face right now...
    Pearl: I can see it! There's glass between us!
    Scar: It's a grimace.
    Pearl: What? It's fine, Scar. You get to jive to some good music, man! (continues vibing)
• After years of catching flack for his strange control scheme (specifically the fact that he presses shift with his thumb), Mumbo sets up a contest with every other Hermit who has unorthodox controls to see whose is strangest.
  Keralis: So first of all, thank you for the invite to this freak show, I am just left handed.
  • Etho is the winner, both in the Hermit and audience votes, due to the sheer amount of strangeness in his setup. His desk is so high it's practically in his armpits, his microphone stand is a Kleenex box, his mouse is placed sideways in front of his keyboard, and his entire setup is so old it's practically falling apart.
  • Some other gems include the fact that Grian had a box of 10 sets of comfy headphones from 2008 shipped over from Hong Kong because they've since been discontinued and he's afraid of running out, Joe Hills has his sprint bound to a foot pedal under his desk (apparently he got the idea from Impulse, who is a drummer), Mumbo can use his shift key normally but only if he's hitting the space bar at the same time, and Cleo (whose weird thing was that they record their videos sitting on the couch with their laptop in their lap) keeps adding more and more unhinged details until her setup is ranked up there with Etho's.
    Mumbo: Where does the mic come from?
    Cleo: The– (stammers) The staircase was behind me...
  • Also, False manages to get called "old-school" by Etho, of all people, because she uses "I" (the original default keybind) to open the inventory.
  • Mumbo later released a video with a hand camera where he tried to "correct" his control scheme, and it turned out that not only did he press shift with his thumb, but he also pressed WASD with just his index finger.
• When Grian is finally hooked up to the Mail System, what is the first thing he does? Why, spend one of his last diamonds to buy stamps for Mumbo (which Tango predicted 4 weeks ago), who at the time does not have a mailbox set up, just so he could send a potato, renamed as "Better Than Sahara". Said potato ends up lost in the mail.
• Joel's 13th episode reveals that his shovel is named "Tumblr, stop overanalysing my spotify playlists".

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