History YMMV / HermitcraftServer

** Señor Bumbo Cactoni, a cactus sculpture with a sombrero, beady eyes, and a mustache. The build was created by Iskall in the likeness of fellow Hermit [=MumboJumbo=] during Season 5. Currently has pages on Urban Dictionary and Know Your Meme, and once made the front page of Reddit.

** For Hermit-made characters, Helsknight, a villain created by Welsknight as a character that exemplifies his own negative traits. He has only appeared in a single episode in Season 7, but he still has his fan following. It certainly helps that he got involved in a rap battle with Wels in his introductory episode. [[spoiler:He next appears at the end of Wels's first episode of season 8 and fully intends to cause chaos and destruction in the server.]]

** In the game of Demise, Cubfan sets up a TNT trap in the End, which he is looking forward to killing a still-living Hermit with. He even makes a deal with Doc to have the latter lure an alive Hermit there. Meanwhile, Grian mentions how he'll eventually need to travel to the End to gather more dragon heads [[ItMakesSenseInContext so he can add more members to the Dragon Bros]], setting up Grian's potential demise even without Doc's shady deals. So what happens? [[spoiler: Jevin, who had already Demised several episodes prior, wanders into the End and triggers the trap, meaning the trap is effectively disabled unless Cub possibly sets it up again and ensuring that neither Grian nor anyone Doc sends will die to it. This happens off-camera, no less. Even when it does catch two alive hermits, Iskall and Mumbo Iskall logs out, and Mumbo survives with at totem]]. A similar case happens when [=TinFoilChef=] is trapped with 30+ zombies in his own base... [[spoiler:and he deals with them, initially unaware that it was even meant to be related to demise, again, off-camera]].

** Honestly, every grand project that is finished by a hermit could be considered a moment of awesome, whether it's a base, a shop or a minigame.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The hermits has through the years created a few songs.

** [=TinFoilChef=] is often considered ''the'' underdog of the server. Despite generally going overlooked due to his limited-contact playstyle, this very choice often works out in his favor. He's perhaps the richest Hermit by proxy of rarely ever spending his diamonds he mines, to the point where many people joke that the only thing preventing a full-on economy crash in Season 6 is [=TFC=]'s frugal playstyle. Due to these factors, He was even expected to win the game of Demise, [[spoiler:managing to completely nullify a trap consisting of a hoard of over 30 zombies sent to his base [[AchievementsInIgnorance without even knowing it was meant to be a Demise trap]], and only lost due to a trap in his own base that he decided to trigger willingly for the sake of humoring it, and his immediate reaction was to laugh about it]]. Not bad for the hermit who [[TheHermit has the most hermit-like playstyle]]!
** For hermit-made characters, Helsknight, a villain created by Welsknight as a character that exemplifies his own negative traits. He has only appeared in a single episode in season 7, but he still has his fan following. It certainly helps that he got involved in a rap battle with Wels in his introductory episode. [[spoiler:He next appears at the end of Wels's first episode of season 8 and fully intends to cause chaos and destruction in the server.]]

** Señor Bumbo Cactoni, a cactus sculpture with a sombrero, beady eyes, and a mustache. The build was created by Iskall in the likeness of fellow hermit [=MumboJumbo=] during Season 5. Currently has pages on Urban Dictionary and Know Your Meme, and once made the front page of Reddit.

* TearJerker: [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiO38uHZ5wFF26KTHoDaIYEXwKgPj_O0a Some of the hermits' tributes to TinfoilChef]] after his passing.

--->'''[=GoodTimesWithScar=]:''' I have so many balls in my face.

* TearJerker: [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiO38uHZ5wFF26KTHoDaIYEXwKgPj_O0a Some of the hermits' tributes to TinFoilChef]] after his passing.

* TearJerker: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZxi3UxZ0C4&ab_channel=ZombieCleo Some of the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSRi7RmTXAM&ab_channel=JoeHillsTSD hermits' tributes to TFC]] after his passing.

* CreatorBacklash: Inverted, in that the original creator of Hermitcraft faced heavy backlash from its current members. Near the end of Season 7, Generikb, the creator of Hermitcraft and the one the series was named after, made a series of tweets hinting that he'd be back for Season 8, and shortly after Season 8 kicked off, went live on Twitch on a fake version of Hermitcraft. He even went out of his way to make a fake in-game chat, to make things seem even more legit. Generikb did ''not'' leave Hermitcraft on good terms (to the point where, when he expressed a desire to come back, the active Hermits at the time voted him down), and accepted money in the form of gifted subs and bits via Twitch from people who genuinely believed he was back on the server. Several (ex-)Hermits, including Hypno, Wels, Jessassin, and Cleo all voiced their distaste for his actions, with Jess saying that while the prank was funny, taking money from the people he fooled was too far, and Cleo saying that appropriating their identities for a joke results in the Hermits having to pick up the mess.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2cIf3UaTNA Hermitgang]] a song made by STAR-team during season 6 civil war. It has since been used in other situations such as during [[WebOriginal/MinecraftChampionship MinecraftChampionship]] when cheering on the hermits [[note]] Including Grian who is mocked in the song [[/note]].

** "Come watch ''Hermitcraft''," they said. "It's a lighthearted building SMP with no big lore," they said.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hermitcraft has something of a reputation for being a LighterAndSofter alternative to other popular [=SMPs=] (mostly the famously dark and lore-heavy ''WebVideo/DreamSMP''). As a result, the events of season 8 (involving the moon [[ApocalypseHow crashing into and completely obliterating the world]]) have shocked many people who are used to it being lighthearted, leading to them responding with variations of this phrase. Season 8 is also when Hermitcraft got a full lore-based WebVideo/GameTheory episode.[[/labelnote]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6WsIZCwFVE The Hermitville Build-off wasn't the first time Grian participated in a Minecraft house-building war that ended with a stalemate;]] the first time is in a Webvideo/{{CraftedMovie}} short. His house was even the same type as the one in Home Improvement Battle, both of them being wooden fantasy-style rustic houses with twisting layouts that clump together rooms of different sizes.

** Hermitcraft exile arc? [[labelnote:Explanation]]After fans discovered that Grian was wearing a few very tired and disheveled versions of his own skin, the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'' fans among them immediately started drawing comparisons to the Exile arc, where Tommy looked similarly exhausted and ragged.[[/labelnote]]
** "Come watch ''Hermitcraft''," they said. "It's a lighthearted building SMP with no big lore," they said.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hermitcraft has something of a reputation for being a LighterAndSofter alternative to other popular [=SMPs=] (mostly the famously dark and lore-heavy ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP''). As a result, the events of season 8 (involving the moon [[ApocalypseHow crashing into and completely obliterating the world]]) have shocked many people who are used to it being lighthearted, leading to them responding with variations of this phrase. Season 8 is also when Hermitcraft got a full lore-based WebVideo/GameTheory episode.[[/labelnote]]
** "Gem behind you!"

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The opinion of some fans with regard to the end of the crossover with LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP. While the hermits had a month on the Empires server, were involved in many storylines and built the impressive Hermitopia tower, the Empires members who came to Hermitcraft barely had two weeks and didn't build much beyond a (admittedly very pretty) Christmas-themed area near to spawn before having to return to their server.

* FanNickname: Grian is frequently referred to as the "Pesky Bird" on the Tumblr side of the fandom, due to his mischievous personality and being drawn as a WingedHumanoid with bird wings (often scarlet macaw wings) in many fan designs. [[spoiler:This becomes an AscendedFanNickname in the Season 9 crossover with ''Empires'', as [=MythicalSausage=] notes Grian's "powers" down as this as he heard about it from somewhere.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6WsIZCwFVE The Hermitville Build-off wasn't the first time Grian participated in a Minecraft house-building war that ended with a stalemate.]] His house was even the same type as the one in Home Improvement Battle, both of them being wooden fantasy-style rustic houses with twisting layouts that clump together rooms of different sizes.

* HilariousInHindsight: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6WsIZCwFVE The Hermitville Build-off wasn't the first time Grian participated in a Minecraft house-building war that ended with a stalemate.]] His house was even the same type as the one in Home Improvement Battle, both of them being wooden fantasy-style rustic houses with twisting layouts that clump together rooms of different sizes.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:

* FanNickname: Grian is frequently referred to as the "Pesky Bird" on the Tumblr side of the fandom, due to his mischievous personality and being drawn as a WingedHumanoid with bird wings (often scarlet macaw wings) in many fan designs.
* FandomVIP: The people running the Hermitcraft Recap -- narrator Pixlriffs and writer [=ZloyXP=]. The Recap is a resource used by both the fanbase and occasionally the Hermits themselves to keep up with the happenings of the server, since there are too many Hermits and too many different points of view for any one person to reasonably be able to keep up with. Both Pixl and Zloy's channels have come to rival some of the Hermits in terms of size, and Pixl has gotten the chance to collaborate with some of the Hermits and other big Youtubers on the ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP''.

* FanNickname: Grian is frequently referred to as the "Pesky Bird" on the Tumblr side of the fandom.

* FandomVIP: The people running the Hermitcraft Recap - narrator Pixlriffs and writer [=ZloyXP=]. The Recap is a resource used by both the fanbase and occasionally the Hermits themselves to keep up with the happenings of the server, since there are too many Hermits and too many different points of view for any one person to reasonably be able to keep up with. Both Pixl and Zloy's channels have come to rival some of the Hermits in terms of size, and Pixl has gotten the chance to collaborate with some of the Hermits and other big Youtubers on the ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP''.

* MemeticMutation

** Xisuma wearing [[Film/Scream1996 a Scream mask]]

* AccidentalInnuendo: While caving during Season 7, Mumbo Jumbo ran into a large slime and a creeper, and managed to slay the former. However, the creeper blew up his slime balls, and he promptly remarks:
-->'''Mumbo Jumbo:''' The creeper blew up my balls!

* GrowingTheBeard: As the number of main page examples on Wiki/{{ThisVeryWiki}} might indicate, Season 6 is where the series rose in popularity. It probably has to do with the debut of Grian, who added his already sizable fanbase to the Hermitcraft fanbase as a whole.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Many of the early seasons of Hermitcraft are quite different. First of all, almost all of the most popular hermits are missing from the first season - Mumbo Jumbo joined in Season 2, [=GoodTimesWithScar=] in Season 4, and Grian in Season 6. Secondly, there's very few "mega-builds", which would only come once the Hermits gained years of experience with the game and server. Finally, some of the early episodes of Hermitcraft actually include profanity, which you certainly won't find today, as the server has taken an entirely family-friendly direction.

--> '''[=GoodTimesWithScar=]:''' I have so many balls in my face.

-->'''[=GoodTimesWithScar=]:''' I'm quite the stripper, aren't I?

** "Come watch ''Hermitcraft''," they said. "It's a lighthearted building SMP with no big lore," they said.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hermitcraft has something of a reputation for being a LighterAndSofter alternative to other popular [=SMPs=] (mostly the famously dark and lore-heavy ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP''). As a result, the events of season 8 (involving the moon [[ApocalypseHow crashing into and completely obliterating the world]]) have shocked many people who are used to it being lighthearted, leading to them responding with variations of this phrase.[[/labelnote]]

** Rendog, [=FalseSymmetry=] and Cubfan winning in the Minecraft Championships. Not only that, False was the first person to win MCC twice in a row.

** "Come watch ''Hermitcraft''," they said. "It's a lighthearted building SMP with no big lore," they said.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hermitcraft has something of a reputation for being a LighterAndSofter alternative to other popular [=SMPs=] (mostly the famously lore-heavy ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP''). As a result, the events of season 8 (involving the moon [[ApocalypseHow crashing into and completely obliterating the world]]) have shocked many people who are used to it being lighthearted, leading to them responding with variations of this phrase.[[/labelnote]]

** Grian's AFK Song, which features him singing about removing Mumbo's mustache.

* NightmareFuel: ''Everything'' about Season 8's Big Moon plot. It's like if your favorite kid's cartoon suddenly became a CosmicHorrorStory.
** Tango's investigation reveals what's actually going on; the moon isn't growing, it's ''approaching''. Somehow, it has been knocked out of orbit, [[ColonyDrop and is now on a collision course with the server]], set to vaporize everything as soon as it hits.
** The fact that, when people first took notice, ''[[ParanoiaFuel the moon had already been getting bigger for weeks]].'' The change was so gradual, nobody could tell until it had become nearly ''twice'' its original size. And from there, it only continues to get bigger and bigger, until it doesn't even fit on people's ''screens'' anymore. Seeing the gigantic moon hanging in the sky at night is an ''incredibly'' uncomfortable and horrible feeling.
** The effects of the growing moon are similarly unsettling, starting off small but slowly ramping up in intensity, until they're a constant, terrifying reminder of what's happening.
*** The first effect was the earthquakes. They started off small and subtle, but slowly grew in intensity and frequency, until they were occurring at least ten times per hour, lasting around five seconds each. And they are ''violent'', enough to force Hermits to stop moving and wait for the quake to pass to avoid accidentally hurting themselves. In the real world, they would likely be strong enough to level buildings.
*** The second effect was the floating. At first, Hermits would briefly float off the ground before dropping back down, something so small and infrequent that the first few instances were chalked up to server lag. However, Hermits then started floating more frequently, and much, MUCH higher, to the point that it actually started to disrupt things like building sessions. Eventually, gravity got so messed up by the moon's approach that every Hermit gained a permanent slow falling effect, while still intermittently being pulled up into the sky.
*** The third effect, also related to gravity, was the floating blocks; the moon's gravity pulling blocks out of the ground before letting them fall back down. The first few instances were hard to spot without pausing or rewinding videos, with the first few Hermits to spot them wondering if they were seeing things. However, the blocks got pulled up more and more often, higher and higher, until the earth itself almost looked like it was ''boiling''... '''''And then they stopped coming back down.'''''
** The fact that, despite many of the Hermits making efforts to stop the moon, there is absolutely ''nothing'' that ''any'' of them can do. Gem and False's Doomsday bunker will make them ''feel'' safe, but it won't survive the impact of an entire celestial body. The Mooners and the Order of Octa are both devoted to worshiping the moon, but intentional sleep deprivation and human sacrifices will not help pull the moon back into orbit. Cleo's plan to use TNT to move Hermitcraft itself out of the way, or Tango's plan to blow the moon back out to its original orbit will not work at all, because detonating explosives on the surface of a planet to shift its orbit ''without'' causing a life-as-we-know-it-ending apocalypse is like trying to move a truck by blowing on it. The only Hermit with a viable plan is Scar, and his entire scheme consists of "cram as many people and items as possible into a rocket and bail." As a result, the Hermits just go about their day, pretending everything is just fine, because the only alternative is to hide in a hole and wait for the end of the world.
** And in the end, the moon ''does'' destroy the server. Some Hermits escape (the Boatem crew drops themselves through the Boatem hole, Gem creates an [[LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP amethyst portal]] into another realm, Cleo flees to the End), but those that are left behind can only watch, helplessly, as the moon comes crashing down for real. We get treated to a ([[AnimationBump frankly stellar looking]]) animation of Boatem's portal being ripped apart, Gem's base being obliterated by space debris, and Grian's villagers panicking, all the while the server is cast in a bright orange glow as the atmosphere creates enough friction for the moon to start to burn. [[https://youtu.be/OS-8KMtUmQ8?t=2035 And then]]... [[EarthShatteringKaboom kaboom]].