Web Video / YogLabs

YogLabs is a Minecraft Let's Play series by the Yogscast.

---

YogLabs contains examples of:

• And Call Him "George": In one video, Simon shows off his world (which has the YoGbox compilation mod pack installed) and meets a pink dolphin. He tries to ride it, but it keeps throwing him off. The eventually end up on shore, and Simon coddles the dolphin, which he accidentally beats to death.
  • A giant Simon does this to tiny Lewis in the Gulliver mod spotlight, after nearly killing him with one punch.
    As Lewis runs away to hide in a small hole.
    Simon: Come here I want to play with you, (Then in a booming voice) I will hug you and squeeze you and call you Lewis.
• Awesome, but Impractical:
  • The Skyrim mod, to an extent. While the shouts are not terrible, they ultimately aren't as powerful as they were in the original game and it would be quicker in some cases to just slay your enemies with a sword or an arrow to the knee.
  • The scuba mod as well. It's initially practical when you get to understand how it works; however, there is no in game indication as to when you will run out. But wait, won't you just get shown the bubbles and have time to flee to the surface? No, you won't. Running out of air in your tank causes the player to start suffocating almost immediately.
  • The explosives mod, given that excessive use will probably render your overworld barren.
  • The All Terrain vehicle that used to come as part of the Technic Pack covers a lot of ground, but it will cause you to jump fairly high as soon as you bump into a block that is higher than you. This can lead to a lot of Amusing Injuries, and if you fall in the water you're pretty much dead unless you bail.
  • The Cinema Mod will cause you to crash your computer or lag like hell, despite its epic appearance.
  • To an extent, the cars mod. While it does serve well as a mode of transportation and the integration of some Garry's mod style graphics and mechanics is pretty awesome, it will cause you to glitch a bit owing to the way it is programmed, and you're pretty much screwed if you fall down a hole, though admittedly when shown falling into the sea Simon didn't drown even when all of the bubbles had popped.
  • An in-universe example with Yoglabs itself. During Part 2 of the Galacticraft mod, Lewis says that Yoglabs wallpaper is retextured gold blocks, meaning the entire facility is made of solid gold. While they more than likely spawned in the gold using creative mode, it would have been a pain to build it in Survival, considering how expensive gold blocks are and how many of them are used.
  • The Battle Pigs mod is an interesting idea, but in practice the titular mobs are best for a support role. Attempting to use them for a purely offensive role only works with smaller numbers of zombies; a horde will simply Zerg Rush the pigs. Similarly, the Pig God will cause your framerate to eventually lag like hell. Simon actually discourages Lewis from using the last part, explicitly referring to it as impractical.
• Bad Boss: Surprisingly, Lewis. It is revealed that the government was trying to reclaim Yoglabs because Lewis blew their entire budget on BMWs.
• Benevolent Boss: Lewis is rather benevolent to Simon when in a good mood.
• Book Ends: At the start of the Block Gun Mod video, Simon clone #27 digs through the floor and falls to his death. After the events of the video with Simon clone #28, Simon clone #29 digs through the same floor.
• Boring, but Practical:
  • This is how Lewis felt about the Backpack Mod, especially in comparison to the previous Awesome, but Impractical Skyrim Mod.
  • Depending on what you build, the Ugocraft mod.
  • The Clear Water mod makes it a hell of a lot easier to see.
  • The trampolines and automated door mods, though of course the former does have potential to be this trope, awesome yet practical or Awesome, but Impractical depending on what you build.
  • The more basic weapons for the Block Gun mod fall into this. They're not terribly flashy, but with experience they are useful for crossing uninhabitable terrain and solving puzzles.
  • The Battle Pigs mod may not be as useful for direct warfare, but the pigs are good in a support role.
• Buried Alive: The fate of the Weeping Angel that managed to worm its way into Simon's house in his mod spotlight of Weeping Angels. Simon's instincts of being a dwarf kicked in and he Diggy Diggy Hole'd a trap that it fell and got trapped in.
• Brick Joke: Odds are if something explodes, Lewis will go back to showcase a later mod in the resulting hole. For example:
  • The nuclear explosion he caused in the Uranium mod spotlight wound up becoming his quarry for the Fossils mod (resulting in weird glitches, such as giving him a permanent awkward position that is hilarious both for the viewer and for Simon). He also decided to test out the explosives+ mod in a recreated Mistral city after blowing it up in a helicopter.
  • During the technic pack mod spotlights, Lewis left after trying out a nuclear reactor that he felt has a dodgy construction. In the very next video, he goes back to look at his house to find out the reactor had overloaded, obliterating his house and most of the cliffside it sat on.
• Canine Companion: Simon gets a damn army of these (around a dozen) when showing off the Biospheres mod.
• Cerebus Syndrome: Yoglabs started as an extension of the old mod spotlights but gradually got larger and more out of control, introducing characters and obstacles, before going into full-blown multi-part story arcs (while still testing mods at that). Notably, Lewis somewhat called this in a Reddit AMA while it was still fairly early on, saying Yoglabs was becoming the new SOI.
• Clone Degeneration: The Simon clones have been getting progressively dumber. Number 27 almost immediately starts digging straight down and falls to his death. Number 28 has difficulty using doors at first.
• A Day in the Limelight: Their Wizardcraft spotlight was done via Fumblemore sending them the video and them commentating on it.
• Dragon Rider: The dragons mod, of course. You have to tame the dragon first, however, otherwise you can be thrown off without warning and take serious damage.
  • The Enderdragon mount in the yoglabs video lets you raise an Enderdragon from the otherwise useless Dragon egg, giving you a mount to fly with and a very powerful and durable guardian.
• Dueling Movies: Discussed In-Universe. Lewis and Simon discuss how disaster movies like Volcano & Dante's Peak, and Armageddon (1998) & Deep Impact always come in pairs.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Lewis describes the Boomstick from the Explosives+ mod as this.
• Explosive Breeder: The rabbits, which causes a massive problem for Simon when he shows off his Single Player map with Mo' Creatures, and finds two, which he keeps as pets in his house. He then leaves for a few minutes, finds another one, and brings it home, only to find a dozen baby rabbits when he returns, ranging from newborn to about 75% grown up. He puts the third adult rabbit in the house while staring in shock at the swarm of adorable critters. This accelerates the rate of birth. When Simon decides to force his way to the door to get them out, he discovers that he can't get through all the rabbits. Then, a few of the oldest children reach full-grown age, and they start breeding too... This got to the point that he just deleted the file, because his world had been infested and that rabbits were pretty much swarming the landscape.
• Flat "What": This is practically a Catchphrase of Simon's, especially during Lewis' mod showcases.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Simon starts punching several penguins off an ice cliff in an effort to see if they can fly (they can). Duncan punches him off straight afterwards, before going off to punch some to death himself.
  • Then Duncan falls off the glacier himself.
• Mathematician's Answer: During their showcase of the Fairy Mod, this is Hannah's response when the boys ask her if the pink flowers are the red or yellow ones.
• Mermaid Problem: Discussed as part of a tangent as to how Oxygenated Underwater Bubbles work in the Coral and Scuba Diving mod.
• Mundane Made Awesome: This is how they felt about gravitational pistons in the "More Pistons Mod" spotlight video. You can make bouncy castles!
• Nominal Hero:In Yoglabs, Simon and Lewis on their good days.
• Record Needle Scratch: The opening music suddenly stops in the Weeping Angels mod spotlight, when Lewis spots an Angel.
• Oxygenated Underwater Bubbles: Lewis notes how implausible this trope is when it appears in the Coral and Scuba Diving mod.
• Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: When they showed the Jurrasicraft mod, and Hannah starts killing dinosaurs indiscriminately.
  Simon: We got it all wrong! An asteroid didn't kill the dinosaurs! It was Hannah and her diamond sword!
• Running Gag: The busted coffee machine, the few times it's been "fixed", it's either leaked lava, alien parasites, or tasted terrible.
  • The brokenness is usually of their experiments. Some include dimensional rifts, having milk supplied by blood-soaked cannibalistic cows, and even worse.
• Simple, yet Awesome:
  • The Ugocraft mod can be used to make gates, drawbridges, and even more. Quite useful for castles and forts.
  • The planes and helicopters mod, when mastered. However, having multiple helicopters allying with you (you have to fire on them once) can cause this trope to be zig zagged. There is a lot of firepower, which is good if you need to clear a large area, and it is now multiplayer compatible. However, if you aren't careful your already fragile helicopter will break a lot faster when it bumps into the other ones. The standard firepower of the helicopter is not that strong either, though it is good for setting wood settlements on fire and still works well as a method of transportation.
  • Smart Movement Mod, which changes the animations while also making it easier to travel certain terrains.
  • The Mind Control mod. This essentially gives you the ability to force hostile mobs away, turn them on other mobs, and eventually blow up near the undesirable parts of Minecraft.
  • The Remote Control Mod, which essentially allows you to use remote control planes and cars. This essentially gives you a Recon vehicle that you can use to scout an area you want to explore.
  • The Horses mod, which allows you to ride in style and traverse terrain at great speed. They're also very handy for battle, though you may want to practice first.
  • Better Than Wolves, integrating ropes, grapples, better industrial facilities and even windmills. Great for revolutionising your town. It does, however, involve a fair degree of Kick the Dog- wolves are not treated well in this mod.
  • Technic pack/Tekkit. Lewis even stated at the begining that he was looking at "Industrial mods that make the game amazing".
  • The SDK guns mod.
  • The Dragon Mod gives you a badass dragon companion and is also a good method of transport. It's very good for hunting too. Just keep it away from your livestock.
  • The Ferullos guns mod also counts, as it gives you a gun with reasonable effectiveness, plus a wide array of other powerful weapons and good armour, though diamond armour is still better.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: In the Zepplin mod video. "That's not Stoneholm or anything."
  • Lewis's constant denials that YogLabs steals any of its stuff from the government, or that the goings-on they sometimes have to contend with are repercussions for doing so.
    • A particular example of this ocurrs in the "Dimensional Doors" mod spotlight, where Lewis takes Simon past a garage placed in a pocket dimension filled with numerous vehicles, including several military, and silently claims Russia didn't provide them to fight the government. "Russia didn't provide these."
• Toilet Humor: The entirety of the Bad Gas video.
• Troll: In "Sunshine of Israpony", Lewis and Simon claimed that the niccolite ore (which looks like diamond from a distance) was trolling them.
• Volcano Lair: Fumblemore builds one in the Mine Little Pony mod.
• Wham Episode: Soul Absorbers and Clone Lab. Two Yoglab employees betray Lewis and Simon and plan to make death permanent. Simon's master clone is killed and has to be replaced by the current Simon. This lets him keep respawning but at the cost of his own memories, all Simons from now on are clones of the selfless Simon.
• Why Won't You Die?: Quoted word for word by Simon as Lewis is fighting the Made of Iron Valkyrie Queen in the Aether mod.
• Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Simon has to do this when Lewis says he's been researching nanomachines that restructure his DNA so he can absorb souls.
  Simon: Okay, I'm going to need to suspend my disbelief, and accept this as something you have been just been working on.
• Wondrous Ladies Room: The one in the YogLabs facility contains a large L-shaped couch, a fully-stocked bookcase, a fireplace, and a pizza dispenser. And a portal to another dimension in one of the stalls, but that's not supposed to be there. Meanwhile the men's room doesn't even contain a sit-down toilet.
• The World Is Just Awesome: The Coral and Water Shader and the Amazing Water mods do a good job of this; the latter is mostly just a couple of minutes of Lewis and Simon going "wow".

---