Etho MindCrack SMP - Episode 57: The Underside

MindCrack is a server Guude started in late 2010. It is a private (whitelisted) server. We are currently not accepting applications.
Planning and construction begins on the storage room.

[@StaccatoLegato88]

20:41 A once in a lifetime chance and all Etho says is, "hehe that was awesome"

[@bluemozes6570]

The 'ding' from the anvil followed by the "oh god!" XD That was too perfect

[@supremcrazyman]

I know it's late, but genny's flamingo works exactly like the origami ones 0.0

[@bminas]

7 years ago wow

[@danielyu8430]

Etho: "We're you the one in charge?" Chicken: "Turns toward Etho and stares at him. Etho: kills chicken

[@RCthunder98]

Etho: "We'll continue on this . . . uh . . . maybe next time?" LOL

[@damian5941]

Swings sword at invincible skeleton and says "he's fine" and leaves cause he can't kill it.... Lol. (Skeleton not actually invincible, vines were covering it's hit box).

[@jamesparsons8155]

12:00 -- Old topic, but I dig how you counter-proposed that any montage-battle only use VirtualDub, to keep the playing field level. Ever heard of Blender, Etho? It isn't only for 3D modelling.

[@rekozma]

Mr. Etho I love the fact you are so creative. And you let the hermit stay with you a spell. Your a blessing to the minecraft community. Can't wait for you to a million subs you deserve it.

[@taylorwhatley4048]

the moment etho saw that chicken and just stared at it was the funniest thing iv ever saw in a video

[@Thryfte]

Great idea with the storage area - and FYI for Beacons, the beams can go through Covers so you don't necessarily need a hole if you don't want one

[@DrKSnipez]

I love the Spider Jockey that just randomly spawns, shoots at Etho then dies falling lol. :)

[@southsidehero]

I really like the piston activated sunlight idea. Natural light in your cave would really give it a cool feel.

[@RagingLion]

This is where the action is at at atm with Etho - more excited by this project than the singleplayer world currently. Can't wait to see this when it's complete.

[@foshofauchon]

Hey Etho! I think I cool idea would be to make it look like your beacon was being held up by vines. I think it would look great and go along with the grass and leaves nicely. Keep up the great work!

[@smslayerduo2098]

I think it would be really cool if u made the storage room hourglass shaped. The beacon would be the center of it and u could possibly figure out a way to have sand fall through it. Anyway I love your videos. I spend as much time as I can watching. Keep up the good work.

[@qcman101]

Éloi Hurtubise de Brouin, de Séguin de Bonne Entente et d'autres Lieux fut toujours à la hauteur de ses nobles origines. Animé par des idées farfelues, frôlant bien souvent la déraison, il sut remplir nos 5 années de plaisir... et de folie. Il devint célèbre grâce à la co-invention du "Brouinch", dialecte émanant des rues de Villeray mêlant classe et déséquilibre mentale. Cette invention est tout à fait à son image.

[@TheTubeVault]

"PPS It's not that simple" I expected some complicated redstone somewhere.... but it was just a chicken on a pressure plate, made me laugh so hard XD

[@damnit1234pop]

The void fog with the light from the beacon makes a cool effect

[@HeyLookItsThat1Guy]

One possibility would be to have water flowing down from the four corners of the underside into a central pond for the forest below (that is, if you're going with a forest on the cave floor; I don't know if that was ever determined). Even if you're not, I could see that being a nice addition to the place.

[@DarkVoidIII]

I like that RV of GennyB's! Although I think Etho should hook it up to a tow-truck to make it look like it's got a limited time there! :D

[@188Trickster]

Well i still can't belive how many good ideas etho has when decorating and all the building stuff.

[@nullclassarcs]

Laughed so hard at the end, I think my roommate might have heard it from across the hall. Dang, Etho, so close!

[@MrQuickLine]

The anvil drop at the end made me laugh.

[@TigerRocks123]

Etho, for your main food source, I think you should eat pumpkin pies. They're so easy to make and you have so much sugar cane (lol), a pumpkin farm and an egg farm.

[@FruityLutte]

Its so hilarious when he laughs because the mouse goes all over the place!

[@bobthejeffmonkeys]

The storage room is looking great so far! Maybe you could have jungle leaf floors and jungle log walls or something? (Just suggesting ideas, I'm sure whatever you end up doing will look great)

[@kohlcourbats8594]

Etho, you should use the new corner stairs where the stairs connect more often! I think it would look real nice! Keep posting the awesome vids!

[@imTypicalT]

Hey Etho, I got an idea for the three rings. Make some of the leaves go over the edge to make it look as if they have hanging vines. Like I said, it's just an idea but I'm pretty sure that would make the whole place look a little more natural and just overall awesome. Keep up the good work!

[@panxox1231]

I think being in the Mindcrack server is a lot more amazing that having a dinner with all world leaders,but people really need to understand that they can´t just say please for entering this amazing server.

[@biobiowar]

OMFG This video gave me a great idea, make a trap that leads to a room where iron bars allow you to look out into a following room The room it is littered with pressure plates and 1 chicken that decides the fate of all as it walks around >:D

[@xer0dude]

Don't forget the witty quote for the posters. "Cutting corners ain't what it used to be"

[@GeneralOfThe212th]

The Hog Rider card is unlocked from the Spell Valley (Arena 5). He is a very fast building-targeting, melee troop with moderately high hitpoints and damage. He appears just like his Clash of Clans counterpart; a man with brown eyebrows, a beard, a mohawk, and a golden body piercing in his left ear who is riding a hog. A Hog Rider card costs 4 Elixir to deploy. Strategy His fast move speed can boost forward mini tanks like an Ice Golem in a push. At the same time, he can also function as a tank for lower hitpoint troops such as Goblins as he still has a fair amount of health. Most cheap swarms complement the Hog Rider well, as they are nearly as fast as him and usually force more than one card out of the opponent's hand. The Hog Rider struggles with swarms, as they can damage him down and defeat him quickly while obstructing his path. Barbarians in particular can fully counter him without very strict timing on the defender's part, though be wary of spells. A Hunter can kill the Hog Rider in 2 hits if placed right on top of it. However, if you place something in front of the Hog Rider, the Hunter's splash will damage the Hog Rider and hit the card in front of it more. The Hog Rider in conjunction with the Freeze can surprise the opponent and allow the Hog Rider to deal much more damage than anticipated, especially if the opponent's go-to counter is a swarm, or swarms are their only effective counter to him. Skeletons and Bats will immediately be defeated by the spell, while Spear Goblins, Goblins, and Minions will be at low enough health to be defeated by a follow up Zap or Giant Snowball. However, this strategy isn't very effective against buildings as the Hog Rider will take a while to destroy the building, giving the opponent ample time to articulate another counter. Against non-swarm troops, it can deal a lot of damage during the freeze time, but this can allow the opponent to set up a massive counterpush. For this reason, players should either only go for a Hog Rider + Freeze when they have other units backing it up from a counterattack, or if the match is about to end and they need to deal as much damage as possible. It is not a good idea to send in a Hog Rider simply to destroy a building, especially if it is the only building targeting unit available, as defeating Crown Towers becomes substantially more difficult. Spells or simply waiting out the lifetime of the building are more effective. The exception to this is an Elixir Collector placed in front of the King's Tower. If a Hog Rider placed at the bridge, he can destroy the Collector for a positive Elixir trade, though the damage from both Princess Towers will usually mean he does not survive to deal any damage to them. However, if the opponent sends in defending troops, it can be an opportunity to gain spell damage value. In a deck with several low-cost cards, it might be worth it to simply send the Hog Rider against one building. These decks shuffle their card rotation quick enough, that they will arrive to their next Hog Rider before the next building arrives in the opponent's card rotation. Long-ranged troops like Musketeer and Flying Machine can snipe those buildings, preserving some of the Hog Rider's health, possibly allowing it to get some Tower damage. When there are buildings placed in the middle to counter the Hog Rider, understanding the placement of the Hog Rider and the type of building placed can help the Hog Rider to bypass certain buildings. Passive buildings such as spawners and Elixir Collector have a larger hitbox than defensive buildings; which means that if a passive building was placed 3 tiles away from the river in the middle of the opponent's side, then it is impossible for the Hog Rider to bypass that placement as the Hog Rider will get pulled to that building. Defensive buildings have a smaller hitbox than a passive building, which means if that if a defensive building was placed three tiles away from the river in the middle of the opponent's side, a Hog Rider placed at the very left or right side of the Arena may be able to bypass it due to its smaller hitbox. If the player has a building already placed down in the center of the arena, and the opponent tries to bypass it with a Hog Rider at the edge of the arena, they can use certain air troops to push the Hog Rider towards the building as it jumps over the river, effectively denying the bypass attempt. They must be already hovering over the correct placement, as very quick reflexes are required to correctly perform this technique. For Bats, Skeleton Dragons, and Minion Horde, they should be placed right in front of the Hog Rider as soon as it is deployed. For Minions, Skeleton Barrel, Mega Minion, Flying Machine, Electro Dragon, Baby Dragon, Inferno Dragon, Balloon, and Lava Hound, stagger the above placement one tile to the right if the Hog Rider is placed on the left side of the arena, and vice versa. They can also use ground troops to achieve the same result. Something like an Ice Golem deployed at the Hog Rider’s landing spot will obstruct his path and force him to go around the unit, which causes him to be closer to the building instead of the Crown Tower. The Hog Rider can kite Very Fast non-building targeting troops due to his own Very Fast speed and building only targeting if he is placed on the fourth tile from the bridge, slightly into the opposite lane. He can also stall grounded units when placed right at the bridge. He will pull them towards him while deploying, and then be untargetable by them when he jumps over the bridge. After landing, he will pull them back. This can be useful when the player needs to deal damage in the same lane they are defending. It will also help separate troops behind a tank in a large push. A Tornado placed on the second tile front of the player's King's Tower and staggered two tiles towards the Princess Tower will activate it without any damage dealt to the Princess Tower, helping them in defending future pushes. This can also be a method of mitigating all damage dealt to a Princess Tower, but doing this more than three times may result in the King's Tower's health being low enough to be targeted directly, opening up the possible threat of a back door three crown. A better alternative is to pull the Hog away from the Princess Tower into the attacking range of all three Crown Towers, which will negate all damage as long as none of them are already distracted A very powerful combo is the Hog Rider, the Musketeer, and the Valkyrie, typically referred to as the Trifecta. The Musketeer will defend against most troops, while the Valkyrie can protect her and the Hog Rider from swarms or high damage units. The Hog Rider is used to deal damage to the tower. This can be effectively countered by Lightning, one-shotting the Musketeer and severely damaging both the Valkyrie and Hog Rider. The Minion Horde is also effective, but the enemy can Zap them and the Musketeer will one-shot them all. Even if the Musketeer is defeated, the Hog Rider and Valkyrie will have enough time to severely damage the Tower. The Hog Rider should be placed behind the Valkyrie to give it a boost so that it stays in front of the Hog Rider, protecting it. A Hog Rider combined with a Goblin Barrel can be awkward for the opponent to defend against. Timing it so that the Hog Rider is tanking the tower shots for the Goblins is the most effective way to deal damage. However, a Barbarian Barrel can shut this down with minimal Tower damage for a positive Elixir trade, as long as the Goblin Barrel was placed directly on the Tower. Pairing the Hog Rider with the Balloon can deal devastating damage. If executed properly, the Hog Rider will act as a tank while the Balloon threatens to deal massive damage. The Hog Rider can also destroy any buildings attempting to slow down the combo. However, this combo is very vulnerable to swarms and anti-air cards as neither of the troops target anything but buildings. Additionally, they are easy to separate, due to the disparity in move speeds. Alternatively, the Hog Rider and the Balloon can be played in different lanes to spread the opponent's defenses thin. However, a building or Tornado can bring them back together for an easier defense. The Hog Rider can be paired with the Lumberjack as both a swarm bait and damage combo. It is a very fast combo with an extremely high damage output potential, so the enemy will likely try to counter it with a swarm. If this happens, use a spell like Arrows to render the opponent defenseless. If they manage to defeat the Lumberjack, the dropped Rage will make the Hog Rider even more dangerous than it normally is. A fast and deadly combination is the Hog Rider and Mini P.E.K.K.A. combo. Both units are fast but the Mini P.E.K.K.A. does much more damage and does not attack only buildings so the Mini P.E.K.K.A. can deal with troops like the Executioner and Musketeer. However, this combo can be defeated with swarms like Skeleton Army, which will defeat both of them since neither of them can deal area damage. They are also unable to target air troops, so the Minion Horde can stop this easily. A risky play is to deploy the Hog Rider at the bridge as soon as the match starts. If the opponent does not react fast enough, the Hog Rider will deal a significant amount of damage to the Princess Tower. This can also allow the player to quickly scout the opponent's deck if they happen to react to him fast enough

[@rzrzDuBsTePrzrz]

I have been sick for a week now, and i decided to wach some of your older videoes.. I started waching mindcrack at episode 1 and now im here... Still got more to watch though! Love your videoes Etho!

[@AngelicDirt]

The center of the shell on the beacon looks eerie in the void fog. Looks like a descending UFO or something. :3 HAHAHA... Anvils from above!!!

[@pennypedalpounce]

You give me hope that society won't curse each other out if they have the wrong information. This was the best comment chain ever :D

[@BasiltheBatlord377]

I'm going to start calling stone slabs "Etho-Slabs" Both a great pun, and a great truth!

[@Drybob124]

Chivalry is like Call of Duty and Skyrim put together, neither of which I have ever heard Etho ever liking, or even playing.

[@RedSilverKnight]

For some reason, i envision the Undercity bank from WoW when you described how the storage is going to look. Which isnt a bad thing, sounds neat!

[@RocMerc]

Literally blows my mind how mant views these videos get each time they are uploaded. Props man.

[@Phenoxiz]

Great job etho for some reason I really like this project more than any project you've done on the mind crack server. I think it might be interesting and a challenge to have hanging cages wit. bats and skeletons from the spawners

[@spyman09999]

The guy was crying like a little girl when you dropped the anvil I watch that like three time and I'm still laughing

[@AgentPlatypusGLC]

Etho~ With the mob spawners you have protected with water, you should make spawning pads and force them into and move them around in ice or glass tubes that move in circles around your base, then hook them up to EMP units.

[@H2OTeddyBoy]

Etho, just got an idea and I am not sure how it will work out but I think it's pretty cool if it did. The idea is turning the ceiling of the cave into an artificial night sky with glowstones as stars or something. The entire place will looks a artificial environment sphere of a forest and with the gadgets that you are going to make, it will look cool for sure. Just a suggestion :)

[@basJonas]

Really beautiful base you are building Etho! Could you maybe build an E.A.T.S.-road inside or on top of your hanging storage room? That would be soooo cool and nostalgic!

[@Drotttin]

These projects looks so much more ambitious then now days! =p

[@SamAlton]

lol, "The storage room is the main focus of this BIG room I dug out, so, we want it to be cool if possible" *pulls out dirt :P

[@Luk3AndTim]

thank you for replying to my question it helps alot to know what and what i can use for projects in the future thanks.

[@bobthejeffmonkeys]

Go inside their house with a bunch of signs and label everything. Put a sign saying "door" above the door, a sign saying "bookshelf" (or the names of books) on any bookshelves, Choose random blocks in the walls (or all of them) and label them "stone brick," "oak log," etc. (you could even mislabel one if you want). Also, a sign on the ceiling saying "ceiling" or something would work (or "gullible"). If they have signs already laying around, you could make all the text backwards if you wanted too

[@jmbw225]

ethos creativity is unmatched. Period.

[@GambitPit]

The chicken was the mastermind behind it all :D

[@GambitPit]

Etho you can have 2 buffs on at the same time from 1 beacon, just select something like haste II and then select a different buff such as jump boost I and you will have Haste II and Jump Boost I at the same time. Level 2 Buffs belong to the secondary box on the right side and level 1 buffs belong in the primary box on the left which is why you can have 2. Just saying so you can get the most out of your beacons

[@ungodlydestroyer]

The rings look good etho! They remind me of wreaths that you would put on your door for christmas! Aha that's not a bad thing btw.

[@TheSuperCommentGuy]

Guude had said that he doesn't invite people that are popular, just people that he would like to hang out with.

[@KorgReyes]

Lawl I was like playing from 6 to 3 AM with my friends (Minecraft) after we played. They got to bed ang I still watched your vids. XD

[@MCwiiplayer]

you should put redstone lamps in the ceiling and have snow golems up there so that it looks like twinkling stars!

[@Ginjaninjaable]

Etho, you're so smart and creative. I am going to start a Minecraft channel next week sometime, and I hope that I can be a fraction of your awesomeness.

[@btkw]

Etho, make chandeliers out of those monster spawners hanging in the air, it'd look cool.

[@Moola868]

I suggest against ice, it is a jungle after all. And you should make the whole anvil killing thing a competition similar to pranking: see who can get the most anvil kills, if any.

[@MrQuickLine]

Obsidian doesn't get pushed by pyramids, so that's one minor flaw. I hear what you're saying though! Good idea :)

[@OrangeSunnGlasses]

You should make the cylinder out of wood and make it look like a giant tree for the storage center :D

[@xXHDMinecraftProXx]

Hey Etho, you should do a snowflake in the middle of your rings. Also if you can do a fast motion or montage of building the giant snowflake!, it would be epic and looks nice when you come through the area.

[@XFile2708]

Really looking forward to seeing the storage room come together - love the ending as well matey... lol

[@pennypedalpounce]

Ahaha! A virtualdub montage challenge between Etho and Zisteau! Dang I hope Zisteau accepts, this would be awesome!

[@Enigura]

The problem with doing that is that the villager trading is no longer exploitable. So trying to get THAT many emeralds would be a HUGE pain. You would eventually have to start trading your emeralds just to get more emeralds. It would be a very slow, painful process, and probably not worth it. It would just be easier to cover the beacon with leaves, or wool.

[@radiskullax]

6:00 looks like a flattened snowman :D (obsidian = head, pyramide = body, soil = arms)

[@iamfuturetrunks]

13:50 I was going to suggest putting half slabs with ice that way you would be even faster (like in your LP) but I know you like the green grass look more. :P

[@channelkazuldra]

Stalagmites "might" reach the ceiling from the floor someday, while stalactites hang on "tight". Sorry about the puns, but that's the mnemonic for how I learned the difference.

[@IGame4Charity]

Etho you were hilarious during GenerikB`s live stream last night,I started to cry cause I was laughing so hard when you dropped that anvil from the top of the arena and it almost crushed him,Your by far the funniest on the Mindcrack server :)

[@TheNotchnik]

I know a perfect prank for etho, just leave empty signs around his place and he will keep relogging. [Insert evil laughter]

[@Rhaknam84]

I'm pretty sure it's the sparks from the lava that catches things on fire, so make sure you take that into account.

[@Elegiafy]

"lets make a storage room with a lava roof" cant see how this will go wrong ^_^

[@hilamary]

Etho, I don't know if the idea has been given. But you should make a Mother Tree with the beacon as the center! The trunk could easily encompass however many beacons you end up with!

[@frenchexpat5601]

It's bird, it's a plane! It's... Oh no you're right it's a turtle.

[@Amblydoper]

You should put glowing trees all over the floor of the base. They would look cool in the void fog. A Forrest of underground glowing trees.

[@WikidBlock]

That anvil drop was so epic and so precise XD

[@Dracorsen]

keep the eggs, bake a bunch of cakes, and lay them all over baj's place with a sign 'your chicken army is no more'

[@MyGreenAsh]

i suggest to put some units that others can invest for their self as what Bdubs did in his village. since you are having your storage room, i think it might be a good place for exchanging goods :)

[@Speedy74700]

Etho's smp base is like when Docm and Nebris fuse together

[@Timoxhy]

Etho is a ninja, You will never know when he strikes. >:D

[@BenCarnage]

Etho, you could make a day/night system that opens for the sunlight during daytime and closes up for the night. Think that'd look quite fancy.

[@alexmikhalev]

Etho, to get Regeneration, Speed II, Haste II, Resistance II, Jump Boost II, and Strength II, you need six beacons, which will still work with the plus but it will be asymetrical

[@SteelyGlinter]

that clip at the end was hilarious, I wish I was there to see it on the stream. hope boo uploads the stream to the tubes.

[@PhotonManFool]

This has more likes then Views... Just to show how epic Etho is!

[@NoisyGaunt]

its a good idea, but it would take alot of wood. what he's meaning for you to do is put a sign on every possible block, like on a peice of dirt, and it would say "dirt"

[@Tehfinality]

I couldn't help but notice that GB's van is almost directly below the (soon to be) storage room. Wouldn't it be a shame if the glass 'accidentally' broke and lava poured down, completely encasing it.

[@aroespinosa]

that anvil thing was awesome!!! next try hahahahaha

[@MrLinkDay]

you trying the anvil kill was so ACME lol

[@Eurochew]

Golden Apples? not really something he needs but hey, they can come in handy when you're in a pinch.

[@arrowfluxx]

Etho, put a big tree in the middle then have roots branching out to the different rings, that would be sweet

[@qumbug]

It'd be really cool if he shaped the lava under the beacon like the bottom half of a sphere so it looked like a mini sun.

[@asdsadasdasdadsa]

for the storage room if you do the multi level idea you could do an elevator kind of thing by having a slight delay on a row of pistons attached to a t flip flop, just an idea for maybe later into the build

[@DJnutgaming]

instead of getting rid of the void fog you could put glowstone to look like stars and even a way to switch it to something that looks like a sun.

[@Impleione]

they give you several potion effects, depending on how large the Iron/Gold/Diamond/Emerald pyramid underneath it is.

[@JustToSubAndComment]

Ive done that a few times and couldn't get it to work, and I had my volume all the way up just to make sure, i finally got it yesterday after a few more tries

[@raecool2]

for the rings, you should have put half of it in the wall, so the room will look bigger and the rings wont stand out as much. my opinion

[@Treyzania]

Etho, you can do a HELL of a lot with VirtualDub. Even I know that and I've only spent a few hours using it to edit footage.

[@THECrAzYKNIFER626]

Etho I love your videos and I can never wait for you to upload next videos :)

[@TyphoonBlizzard]

The anvil drop was my favorite part lol :)

[@rogerwilco2]

I like the pink flamingo, nice addition.

[@HalfInt]

I think it would look good, if the storage room was kind of open, so that you can see in and out from and to the rings.