History WebVideo / Hermitcraft

** As of the new Demise game, in which 18 hermits compete for '''900''' diamonds by being the last to die, with the addendum that 1) Players who have already died are encouraged to set up traps, and 2) direct PvP is not allowed, this is bound to arise.

Twelve years later, the server is in its tenth season, with upwards of twenty currently active members, and sixty Let's Players (and [[CreatorCameo Mojang devs]]) having been on the server at some point.

** Bdubs always carries clocks with him in reference to the final episode of ''3rd Life''.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The DHP, or Department of Hermit Permits is a parody of bureaucratic offices where the staff uses the bureaucracy to avoid having to do any work. The first task is finding the office, which is located in the middle of the forest. The only door doesn't work (and has a sign that says, "please use other door"). Once you finally get inside, you're faced with monsterously long forms that force you to do nonsensical things like run laps around a lighthouse or place a live salmon in your neighbor's basement. If anything is even the slightest bit wrong, your paperwork is rejected outright. And if you try to ask them for help with the forms, they'll just put you on hold and force you to listen to elevator music.

** Scar spots a trapped chest and right clicks with his binoculars (retextured spyglass) to zoom in on it and point out the obvious trap to his audience ... but is too close and ends up accidentally opening it. Just after he'd been bragging about being a member of the WebVideo/LifeSMP, and thus too savvy to fall for it.
** Joe has the ground opened not quite beneath him to see a puddle of water, which he remarks isn't too deadly ... and then gets pushed in and discovers there are pufferfish in the pool.

** The paperwork that Grian makes for requesting new permits at the permit office are titled "Form [=MJYAAFK06=]" (Mumbo Jumbo You are AFK Season 6).

* ContinuityCavalcade: Mumbo's transition cards contain references to multiple past seasons, including a Mumbo for Mayor sticker, a Sahara coin, a ticket inviting him to Season 2, an ODEA instruction manual, the key to his horse bike, an incident report regarding Grian putting a potato in Sahara's redstone, a letter regarding his application to be the richest Hermit, and binary output from Grumbot which translates to "[[spoiler:I MISS MY DADS I MISS MY DADS I MISS MY DADS]]".

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The DHP, or Department of Hermit Permits is a parody of bureaucratic offices where the staff uses the bureaucracy to avoid having to do any work. The first task is finding the office, which is located in the middle of the forest. The only door doesn't work (and has a sign that says, "please use other door"). Once you finally get inside, you're faced with monsterously long forms that force you to do nonsensical things like run laps around a lighthouse or place a live salmon in your neighbor's basement. If anything is even the slightest bit wrong, your paperwork is rejected outright.

* LoopholeAbuse: Under the Hermit Permit system, Hermits are allowed to sell their wares in shulker boxes, but the only one allowed to sell shulker boxes themselves is whoever holds the specific permit. When Iskall needs a bunch of shulker boxes, he approaches Doc, who has a farm for shulkers but does not have the shukler permit. Doc ends up selling Iskall a stack of logs, but puts each log in a separate shulker box, effectively selling shulker boxes without breaking the rules.

* Angrish: Scar [[https://youtu.be/jjY5eSiiVLw?si=_euyFcJlJKHJj6qj&t=1135 completely loses the ability to speak coherently]] after enduring an episode full of Grian being an ObstructiveBureaucrat.

* CelebrityParadox: One is created in the crossover with the WebVideo/EmpiresSMP, since [=FalseSymmetry=] and [=GeminiTay=] play on both and [=PearlescentMoon=] participated in the first season of Empires. Shubble [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it when she meets Hermit!False and says she reminds her of someone she knows. However, each case of this trope is averted at various points throughout the crossover: Pearl's counterpart on Empires 2, Santa Perla, is a distant god and any resemblance between them is treated as coincidental (with some implication towards Pearl being an AmnesiacGod), Empires!False is revealed to be an EvilDoppelganger banished to another universe by Hermit!False, and Gem turns out to be a DimensionalTraveler able to cross between the servers without using the Rift, and as such there is only one of her.

--> '''Grian:''' It was a disproportionate response. He lost like 10 blocks of a wall, so he... made me blow up Mumbo's base.

** The paperwork that Grian makes for requesting new permits at the permit office are titled Form MJYAAFK06 (Mumbo Jumbo You are AFK Season 6).

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The DHP, or Department of Hermit Permits is a parody of bureaucratic offices where the staff uses the bureaucracy to avoid having to do any work. The first task is finding the office, which is located in the middle of the forest. The only door doesn't work (and has a sign that says, "please use other door"). Once you finally get inside, you're faced with monsterously long forms that force you do do nonsensical things like run laps around a lighthouse or place a live salmon in your neighbor's basement. If anything is even the slightest bit wrong, your paperwork is rejected outright.

''[=GoodTimesWithScar=] was skewered by a falling stalactite''

* MythologyGag: There are quite a few references to the ''WebVideo/LifeSMP''.
** This:
--->'''Grian:''' [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove Pull the lever, Kronk!]]\\
'''Scar:''' No, last time you said that, it didn't end very well!\\
''[=GoodTimesWithScar=] was skewered by a falling stalactite''
** Bdubs always carries clocks with him in reference to the final episode of ''3rd Life''.

* FailedASpotCheck: Invoked by Mumbo, who wants to see how long it'll take Iskall to notice him placing extra blocks on his base.[[note]]Iskall's base being an inconsistent mess of blocks already, courtesy of his idea to have every Hermit contribute to it.[[/note]] It takes a total of 25 blocks over the course of a whole conversation for Iskall to finally catch on to what Mumbo was doing.

** ShootTheShaggyDog: When Mumbo then tells Iskall about the armor he just made [[AllForNothing that he did not need to make in the end]], Iskall takes Mumbo's extra armor... and burns it.