YMMV / Hermitcraft

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • 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!
  • Another incident from Season 8 where upon respawning, GoodTimesWithScar is hit with an absurd amount of XP orbs via a prank from Grian. This leads to this exchange.
    Grian: I'm guessing you can't see anything?
    GoodTimesWithScar: (in slight stupor) No, there's so many balls. I have so many balls in my face, that is crazy!
  • Yet another Scar moment while looking at his giant beacon mine saying this, which could be much worse when put out of context:
    GoodTimesWithScar: I'm quite the stripper, aren't I?
  • From Season 9, when Ren's venting about the party held in his vault:
    Rendog: Not only was my private area violated, everybody, they were also giving out our diamonds at the party, apparently.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: GoodTimesWithScar during the Mycelium War storyline in Season 7: is he a corrupt but slightly well-meaning mayor who's genuinely trying to rid the Shopping District of a disease, or is he a very corrupt tyrant trying to insinuate the idea that Mycelium is evil, creating propaganda and writing false history to further his message and, therefore, his control on the Shopping District? The Mycelium resistance who opposes Scar and HEP^note Hermit Environment Protection likewise can be seen as fighting to protect the environment in less than ideal ways or bio terrorists who are purposefully spreading disease.
• Anti-Climax:
  • At the end of the Area 77 arc, Doc and Scar reveal Area 77 to just be an amusement park after weeks of conspiracy.
  • 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 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? 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... and he deals with them, initially unaware that it was even meant to be related to demise, again, off-camera.
  • Played for Laughs in the final episodes of Season 6. Iskall, the winner of Demise, has challenged the Hermits to kill him anyways, selling the opportunity to kill him to the highest bidder (Impulse, who is bribed by Grian to let him help). The two build a trap that starts with various scenes of Grian and Impulse (dressed as Iskall) depicting an Escalating War between the two over Grian's love of building with diorite, but eventually turns into a minecart-based death trap that fires arrows at Iskall, poisons him, nearly blows him up, and dispenses diorite onto his person. As he appears to approach a cactus at half a heart, he is shot up through a stream of water to where Grian & Impulse wait. Iskall celebrates his survival, only for Grian to promptly punch him with a diorite block named His Hatred of Diorite, killing him instantly.
• Anti-Climax Boss: In Season 7 (mostly limited to Rendog's POV), The Renperor has been a presence throughout the season, always lurking in the back of Rendog's mind. During the events of Stargazer, after Ren was crippled by Darth Ren in a fight, Renbob casually lands on Darth Ren, causing an explosion. The Renperor fizzles out right after that for whatever reason.
• Awesome Moments:
  • 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.
    • Special mention goes to TangoTek's Decked Out, an in-depth dungeon crawler built as well as his own version of Among Us entirely in Survival.
  • What takes the cake, though is in Season 8, the entire Boatem Crew, consisting of Grian, MumboJumbo, GoodTimesWithScar, Impulse, and Pearl all agreeing to band together to make a enormous base!
  • The finale of Season 8 is a gorgeous animation of the Big Moon crashing into the world and destroying absolutely everything. Every single Hermit includes it in their finale videos and it is a sight to behold.
  • In Season 9, the Escalating War between Team GOAT (Doc and Ren) and Team Buttercup (Mumbo, Grian and Scar) eventually leads to Buttercups completely covering Doc's perimeter in terrain, terraforming at trees included. They placed over 250,000 blocks. Doc's first reaction is utter disbelief.
• Awesome Music: The Hermits has through the years created a few songs.
  • MumboJumbo, you are AFK...
  • Hermitgang
  • H.I.B - Hermits in Black
  • When it comes to songs the Hermits didn't make, Scar's use of "Howling" by Lupus Nocte has quickly become the favorite timelapse music on the server.
• Crossover Ship: Etho has been jokingly shipped with Quackity from the Dream SMP as a result of the MCYTblr Sexyman bracket. During Round 4 of the bracket, the 'Ethogirls' proposed an alliance with 'Quackblr' so that they vote for each other's beloved creator-characters in the polls; somewhere along the way, it snowballed into jokes that the two communities were in gay love with each other, and cue the Crack Pairing.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Grian is one of the most popular Hermits on the current server, to the point where the Recap Crew remark that he wins any fan polls that he's a part of, and even the ones where he's not. The rest of the members of the Architechs crew he created, MumboJumbo and Iskall, both also easily qualify for this title, both already being rather popular among fans but getting a ton of spotlight due to their work with Grian and one another.
  • TangoTek's building skills are often forgotten when compared to Grian and GoodTimesWithScar, but he made one of the most complex minigames on the server with Decked Out, a dungeon crawler/treasure hunt/trading card game.
  • TinfoilChef was often considered the underdog of the server. Despite generally going overlooked due to his limited-contact playstyle, this very choice often worked 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, managing to completely nullify a trap consisting of a hoard of over 30 zombies sent to his base 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 had 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. 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.
• Fan Nickname: 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 Winged Humanoid with bird wings (often scarlet macaw wings) in many fan designs. It most likely originated with Grian the content creator referring to parrots as such in Season 7. This implicitly becomes an Ascended Fan Nickname in the Season 9 crossover with Empires, as MythicalSausage notes Grian's "powers" down as this as he heard about it from somewhere.
• Fandom VIP:
  • The people running the Hermitcraft Recap — narrator Pixlriffs, writer ZloyXP and subtitler Lyarrah. 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 Pix and Zloy's channels in particular have come to rival some of the Hermits in terms of size, and Pix has gotten the chance to collaborate with some of the Hermits and other big YouTubers on the Empires SMP.
  • elybeatmaker is a musician well known for making full songs out of the various little ditties sung by the Hermits (and sometimes just spoken phrases). He's even been referenced by the Hermits themselves, with one such remix being prompted by Iskall saying he would make a remix out of something he'd just said, and his music being played on a custom record on the server.
• Fanon:
  • Grian is most frequently drawn as a Winged Humanoid with bird wings, most commonly with ones based on a scarlet macaw, though other bird species may crop up in designs for either comedic or characterization purposes.
  • Scar is almost always drawn to have at least one prominent scar, usually facial, despite his Minecraft skin never depicting him as such. He is also sometimes drawn in a wheelchair because his content creator counterpart uses one in real life.
  • Perhaps due to the Crown of Horns she wears, Gem is commonly depicted as a deer person, though whether she is bipedal or a centaur depends on who you ask.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Empires SMP, Life SMP and the Dream SMP, all four being Minecraft roleplay series that seriously took off in the early 2020s (though Hermitcraft was already popular beforehand). Naturally, there's quite a bit of overlap between fandoms, especially with the first three, as most of the Life series members are also either part of Empires or Hermitcraft. Fans often reassure one another when a particularly painful piece of lore drops, and the different roleplay styles of each server are often compared and contrasted for comedic purposes.^note Hermitcraft puts the roleplay second to actual gameplay and generally keeps things very light, the Life series is very roleplay-focused but doesn't take itself too seriously (unless their name is Martyn InTheLittleWood), Empires takes its roleplay very seriously but sticks to a high-fantasy aesthetic and keeps the tone fairly light, and DSMP also takes its roleplay very seriously, but makes its story incredibly dark, exploring themes of war, trauma, mental illness and child abuse.
• Genius Bonus: The runes on the sides of Iskall's obelisk in Season 10 are actually the Standard Galactic Alphabet (or as Minecraft players would know them, the symbols from the enchanting table) spelling out the word Hermitcraft.
• Growing the Beard: As the number of main page examples on This Very Wiki 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.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • 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 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.
  • Another serendipitous CraftedMovie reference: the end of Season 8 is caused by the moon colliding with the server. CraftedMovie's final short, from June 2015, ends with the moon getting grabbed and pulled into collision with the set.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Different pronouncing of Xisuma and his nicknames. ^ExplanationThe name is pronounced "ih-SOO-muh"; however, due to the unorthodox spelling, many people come up with their own ways to say it. Notable examples include "ex-OO-muh", "ex-I-zoo-muh", "sih-SOO-much", and of course the ever-popular "Shashwam" from Keralis.
  • Xisuma wearing a Ghostface mask. ^ExplanationXisuma has kept his face private, so whenever he has appeared on camera (usually on his music channel), he wears the mask to hide his face.
  • Señor Bumbo Cactoni. ^ExplanationSeñor Bumbo Cactoni is 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.
  • Mumbo Jumbo, you are AFK! ^ExplanationGrian sang this song, which features him singing about removing Mumbo's mustache.
  • Hermitgang. ^ExplanationRefers to this song made by Team STAR during Season 6 civil war. It has since been used in other situations such as during the Minecraft Championship when cheering on the Hermits; this includes Grian, who was mocked in the song.
  • "Shop at Sahara" and related Architechs ad campaigns, both referred to in-series and by fans.
  • The Dragon Bros from Demise.
  • Gem is Great.
  • Moon's big. ^ExplanationA variation of the Moon's Haunted meme, rising to popularity after the moon suddenly started growing during Season 8.
  • Hermitcraft exile arc? ^ExplanationAfter fans discovered that Grian was wearing a few very tired and disheveled versions of his own skin, the Dream SMP fans among them immediately started drawing comparisons to the Exile arc, where Tommy looked similarly exhausted and ragged.
  • "Come watch Hermitcraft," they said. "It's a lighthearted building SMP with no big lore," they said. ^ExplanationHermitcraft has something of a reputation for being a Lighter and Softer alternative to other popular SMPs (mostly the famously dark and lore-heavy Dream SMP). As a result, the events of Season 8 (involving the moon 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 Game Theory episode.
  • "Gem, behind you!" ^ExplanationDuring a group caving session at the beginning of Season 9, Gem kept getting snuck up on by mobs leading Impulse to shout these words several times. Later on, Impulse gave Gem a pickaxe named "Behind you GEM!"
  • You are not immune to the GoodTimes. ^ExplanationAn image◊ of the face of GoodTimesWithScar's Minecraft skin on a light blue background, often used to promote Scar's content among the extended MCYT fandom.
    • [X] is not immune to the GoodTimes. ^ExplanationVariant text form used whenever another content creator [X] makes a reference to Scar and/or his content.
  • Scitties. ^ExplanationThis term refers to some of GoodTimesWithScar's skins, which sometimes has his pecs exposed. Because of this, the MCYT fandom would often either be jokingly exasperated by or fawn over his characters' in-game skin.
  • Neck kisses. ^ExplanationDuring the Season 9 Decked Out 2 guest event, Jimmy had to head out early and offered Joel a goodbye kiss. Joel meant to ask for it on the cheek but said "neck" instead. While he received plenty of ribbing for this in the moment, it continued to be brought up from time to time after he joined the server for Season 10.
  • Fishing for Mending. ^ExplanationGrian insisted that his first Mending book in Season 10 must not come from a villager, and so decided to obtain one via fishing, which has a chance of returning an enchanted book. It ended up taking much longer than he expected, over 10,000 catches over several weeks before he finally got one. It didn't help that Scar ended up catching one in front of him. Grian ended up building a secret underground base dedicated to his fishing misadventures, including an area modeled after the Chamber of Secrets which he named "the Chamber of Sea Critters", complete with a custom painting.
  • Anyway, what? ^ExplanationBeef, Joe and Cleo confronted Doc for various reasons (he had relocated the villagers Cleo was using without telling them, and had misrepresented his deal with Joe to make Beef think he owned the rest of the wood permits). In his defense, Doc ended up going on a tangent about how much he had been grinding and the dog shows he had playing in the background, getting so far off topic that he made himself forget why everyone was there.
• Tear Jerker: Some of the Hermits' tributes to TinfoilChef after his passing.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The opinion of some fans with regard to the end of the crossover with Empires SMP. 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 an (admittedly very pretty) Christmas-themed area near to spawn before having to return to their server.
• Values Dissonance: In his 5th episode of Season 10, Grian talks several times about "manifesting destiny" which, in context, refers to him trying to manifest the Mending book that he has thus far failed to fish out of the river. The title of the episode was "Manifest Destiny" as well, but he changed it to "Manifest Mending" fairly quickly after many comments pointed out the implications of the phrase.

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