Hardcore Minecraft - Getting the Build Started!

[@CopCat]

I kinda love your attitude of "I'm doing my best to protect you villagers, but if you want to go outside and die from your own stupid choices, I will let you do that."

[@ameliawocher1414]

It's very Chaotic Neutral

[@squishymadness1520]

It’s awesome! 👏 What do you mean 😂😂😂

[@warblingelephant]

“Who makes a silverfish farm? Don’t answer that, I know it’s Etho” cracked me up😂

[@PerfectAlibi1]

I did too... Before Etho did it...

[@notbatman24601]

@@PerfectAlibi1 She wasn't saying that he was the only one to ever do it, or that he was first. She said that because they're friends and she looks up to him so thats what all the comments would say if she didn't.

[@wint3rhart]

And Xisuma. X would absolutely make an silverfish farm.

[@Huntracony]

@@PerfectAlibi1 Well, when did you do it?

[@PerfectAlibi1]

@@Huntracony Over a decade ago

[@KenseiMuguruma]

Season 3 idea: Rebuild an abandoned village to it's full glory. Also lovely series, been enjoying it a lot.

[@annalesemills4982]

LOVE this idea!!!

[@solis1171]

Wait I actually love this

[@satana8157]

Season 4 idea: Rebuild an ancient city to it's full glory.

[@zipporahmanga]

nice idea

[@Violetsong222]

i forgot we had abanddonded villages 🤣

[@forgotn42]

The sheep farm outside the wall actually makes a lot of sense. In walled villages, it was common for larger farms for both crops and herds were outside the wall while the core living structures and businesses were inside the wall for defense. Walls take a lot of work and building something large enough to contain the size of farm necessary to feed a village was often resource prohibitive.

[@OrigamiMarie]

Plus, it reduces the amount of poop that you have to haul out of the village.

[@ratsssssssss]

'we can't have anything straight around here' that made me laugh

[@Elle_Ny.]

I found a ghost fan in the wild!

[@AgentEm34]

🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

[@rainbowfire7957]

and it's not even pride month

[@MethiaCanvas]

I was hoping someone would make this comment because this made me laugh as well 😂

[@Peridotiann]

@@rainbowfire7957well.. she’s bi

[@Radar_of_the_Stars]

13:45 "we can't have anything straight" really putting the slay in Geminislay

[@Realistic_Secret]

Gem…those trapdoors are going to be flipping like crazy whenever you use the basalt generator. Also, since part of the lore with the sheep is that they’re using the wool to keep warm with clothes, they’d also need string to put it together if you wanted to incorporate the spider spawner!

[@Oliv3yArt]

True and true We have found a wild genius! Someone get out their pokèball and catch it!!! (🤣🤣🤣)

[@PerfectAlibi1]

Should've just let her find out herself, would be more hilarious. 😉

[@Oliv3yArt]

and now a wild mega mind!?!? what is this luck!?!?!

[@schrodingerskatze4308]

Well, if Minecraft was at least a bit realistic, they would get the string from the wool instead of getting it from huge spiders that are trying to kill you (kind of stupid from Minecraft that wool -> string isn't possible in vanilla). So I don't know if it actually makes that much sense.

[@Oliv3yArt]

okay, i lied before, *THIS* person is actually a wild mega mind

[@Livurochy]

Love waking up to a Gem video! I was a little unsure of the shepherd’s house being outside the wall, but then I thought of how medieval towns were usually built, and it was pretty normal for the farms and stuff to be outside the city walls, and most of the housing and markets and production to be on the inside!

[@lunawolf3645]

Was thinking the same thing.

[@silverwolf28]

I don't know if this is the intent but I love the way the darkening gradient makes the towers look... soot-stained, almost? from the coal the village is burning to keep warm - it fits the lore you established with the coal mine well!

[@yeeoldfriend]

Them attacking each other in sync was so satisfying to listen to

[@ThisMrMister]

lol yea

[@taytertot-quit]

ikr

[@eloquentornot]

I love how you got the basalt biome while searching for the final ingredient to make a basalt generator!! And making the sand into soil by breaking the campfire is a great trick! The castle gradient is so cool, and you're inspiring me to build in the snow now!! Copper vein and mineshaft and geode!! "Who makes a silverfish farm?? Don't answer that I know it's Etho." LOL!!

[@MegaLokopo]

"No Cub thank Goodness" Should be a horn on hermitcraft.

[@PeriwinkleRoseYT]

Pov: sees Cub and then uses the horn

[@tntristan12]

With 1.21 you could totally automate wool production using the spider spawners and route the wool to your sheep pen so it looks like the sheep are constantly being sheered. (Only a select few know the deep, dark secret of where the shepherd *really* gets his wool from)

[@Begler1]

H.P. Lovecraft designing a sheep farm be like:

[@chloeeeezy]

A cozy Sunday morning with a Gem video? Yes, please.

[@CrazyCass]

True. And the fact that I’m on a vacation in my paradise; a beach in Maine; makes this just so happy.

[@Nyaarys]

I get not enjoying spider farms, *but*, you could totally lean into it and make the entrance down to the spider spawner into an apothecary/alchemist hut! If you include mushroom and sugar cane farms there as well, you can have a farm making harming potions to use on the wall for the raid.

[@lukapainter9038]

I agree, I already mentioned this is in my own comment but I think she should lean into the fact there are three spider spawner (2 regular 1 cave) and make it part of the lore of the village

[@fleurcristal2697]

Gem: I don't want to destroy this place Also gem: * takes three blocks *

[@froggybecca]

The pillagers attacking each other at the same time was so funny 😂

[@RryhhbfrHhgdHhgd356]

They have no loyalty, not even to each other. 😂

[@ImZyphen]

I’m not sure if you’ve already done this but if you haven’t I suggest doing it. Make a small box with two named tag villagers and just never let them out, the reason I do this is because once a zombie once managed to get into my village and turned all my villagers into Zombies. Yeah, I just recommend having a failsafe in case the villagers get infected.

[@izzytodd4242]

I don’t know, this is a Hermit we’re talking about here. Curing villagers is child’s play to them, whereas us mere mortals simply have to find a new village.

[@ImZyphen]

@@izzytodd4242 Yeah I know you can cure them, but it would just be a waste of time when you can prevent it from happening in the first place

[@kirstenbrokaw367]

Probably good for content if it were to happen, then she can show viewers how quickly she can cure and fix the problem . But as a regular player I would fs put two villagers in a box

[@ImZyphen]

@@kirstenbrokaw367 True true

[@FluffyGriffin]

I love this series so much! Thank you gem for making this chill series. Have a good day! Also did a little lore thing, hope you don’t mind :> The haggard traveler has been doing well since the village medic picked her up, she took up residence in the old house at the edge. It’s been a few moon cycles since then and in that time she has helped us rebuild our walls from last seasons heavy snows. She seemed determined to help, even while slightly injured, it’s as though she’s running from something. I find the traveler suspicious but cannot deny her contributions to our village. Including her work on the walls she has repaired the shepherds hut, built a coal building allowing the coal production to expand; now every house has no worry over how to heat their homes. She has also started to help the weaver, battling the mammoth spiders below to pull more of the important thread we use to make our clothes. The traveler is suspicious and clearly has her own plans, I can only hope they do not bring destruction to our village. She says to call her Gem.

[@HazelDuskeagle]

AHHHH AMAZING!!! ✨🪐🫧

[@mayaelise2311]

Silverfish exp farms are actually really good in 1.21 with the new infested potion! They don't get any drops, but you can get ender ender exp rates anywhere in your world with a really easy-to-make machine

[@xokatibby]

Having the spider farm come up directly by the sheep pen is actually great maybe kinda spooky lore if you had the weaver near the shepard instead of inside the village

[@willfrancomb3203]

A comment about how to make the sheep farms a little more realistic (optional): Sheep typically graze on large amounts of land, especially in cold areas where the grass may not grow back as fast. To counter this, more land is needed to feed the sheep when compared to lush green fields. Also, sheep are typically rotated from pasture to pasture when the grass is trimmed. To translate this into Minecraft terms, make the sheep pen bigger again and have it sprawling across that section of land with gates and walls dividing up the pastures. It will also have the benefit of allowing you to collect wool quite quickly, as you can sheer them, let them eat all the grass then sheer them again and move them to the next field, repeating until the required amount of wool has been obtained.

[@MarioPlinplin]

"Don't answer that, I know it's Etho" should be Cub's next horn of the month!

[@isabelletaylorsvers]

i actually adore this hardcore series!!!! just finished watching ur mcc vod and you did SO well

[@AmenKing1999Gaming]

Considering you can get Soul Sand from Piglin Bartering and breaking a Soul Campfire gives you a Soul Soil is left as a feature, this makes Soul Soil equally renewable as Soul Sand, albeit slightly more expensive due to requiring logs and sticks.

[@platinumhawke]

This town feels like the rare time beets would be a good crop. It's source of red dye is so under utilized.

[@JustinKStrait]

I always get so happy when I hear a hermit reference Wattles... the dude's a beast and deserves any and all attention he gets! Would love to see him venture into SMPs and maybe be a hermit one day. 🙏🏻

[@panda_pls]

Magma Cube spawners are S tier! They are the only way to reliably get a large amount of Frog Lights.

[@TJStellmach]

In principle you can farm magma cubes in basalt deltas biomes, but (outside of special cases like skyblock) getting decent rates takes a huge amount of spawn proofing work.

[@panda_pls]

@@TJStellmach You also have to keep in mind that Ghasts also spawn in Basalt Deltas. So you have to stop them. And you have to not only protect the frogs from any potential harm, you also have to find a way to get Magma Cubes to split, so they can be eaten. Easiest way in my opinion is have them see you and jump into a hole with powdered snow. If it was just about killing magma cubes, the spawners wouldn't be needed. But because you need the frogs to eat them, I will gladly put the spawner in S tier!

[@LuulitaCD]

If you're on Java, you can build a farm on the Nether roof above a Basalt Delta biome. AFK spot above. Avomance has a great one. But yeah, a spawner is also a great option.

[@panda_pls]

@@LuulitaCD Sadly, I am not not on Java. But even for those on Java, not everyone wants to use the Nether roof, or has knowledge how to get up there/break bedrock.

[@nathanmetaal5766]

Great video! At 15:53 I was jumscared by the red sheep that looked like a red polar bear!🤣

[@EarthSpirit.easyzdota]

The lore villagers welcome the raid is hilarious. Wish could give them weapons

[@Raakuth]

Gem doing her gradient from white to black but forgetting about the tuff blocks! the tuff blocks help bridge that cobblestone to cobbled deepslate imo!

[@Shadowdemoninsideyourwalls]

By the way, you can water log leaves. If you put some watery foliage at the edge of a crop plot, it won’t freeze🙃

[@carlthecactus1513]

We need a Gem and Wattles colab. Their playstyles are really similar and I think they would mesh well together!

[@justanotherwideeyedgirl]

Omg its already coming together so nice!! Can't wait to see the transformation!!!!

[@saunlehar7849]

First Grian and now gem using one of my favorite MC KZbinrs tutorial???? @Wattles is winning!!!

[@kath89_]

I know you don't want to disturb the ice spikes biome but having an ice mining set up would be really cool like with sleds moving the ice down the mountain and to the village. Like maybe this winter village can export coal and ice to the cherry village?

[@Missmori]

I'd put regular spiders at D tier. they're not completely useless like silverfish, or poison pests like cave spiders, and once in a while you get a skeleton Jokey. and string does have a lot of uses for builders, plus spider eyes for potions.

[@babybean1162]

The darker stones at the top of the gradient are kinda like snow landed atop of the buildings, melted, and the water makes the stone darker!

[@TicZulu]

I like the way the Village is coming along and like how the walls and Tower is coming along for the roof as well. Since it is becoming like Medieval for the roof color Mangrove stairs and Deepslate Tile slabs I think it will fit nicely.

[@neurospicypisces]

Castle gate with the passage way reminds me of one of my old builds in an old shadownode realm. I love it.

[@ariapimenova2803]

I just know the castle is gonna turn out great, I love seeing your builds with more darker themes

[@subsonicdeathmonkey]

I’m loving this series! I’m not even sure why but it fulfils a quiet need for something less complicated, less grand. More personal. Are you going to start trading with your villagers for gear or does that not fit comfortably with the lore? Thank you Gem! Keeping it not straight 🥰🥰

[@SaylorTwift-mx4mq]

Hey Gem I wanted to say thank you for all you have done for me . I have a strep throat infection which gets me really sick a lot and your videos have given me something to look forward to when I’m sad or to distract me when I don’t feel my best. You always cheer me up so thank you so so so much!

[@J0.3]

Love the video, love the series and this is something that absolutely doesnt need to change but spruce signs without dye or glow is very difficult to read, so they might not be the most readable in video (i loved the presentation so much tho dont stop

[@mcpe-pokemonentertainment2524]

The spider farm goes with the lore, especially under the sheep farm, cause you get string from spiders, which would help make yarn, then clothes.

[@skyequake2554]

You are my favorite Minecraft KZbinr! Love watching your videos! Also, thank you for giving me the light to dark gradient I was looking for!🙂

[@martinneween]

Having Gem do singleplayer again this year revived my own singleplayer worlds as her series are just inspirations for my own world

[@Lemonade-Tree]

13:46 “We can’t have anything straight around here” story of my life

[@davidtauriainen9116]

With the sweet berries, mud, and hoppers, you can turn your spider killing chamber into a passive string and eyes farm. Spider farms (if you don't have a general mob farm) are useful for string and eyes, and eyes are now more useful for early game with armadillos.

[@AislingNightmare]

Really digging that gradient. It really gives me a feel of the white being stains from the snow and the dark being stains from coal smoke.

[@mokieYT]

I love the chill vibes of this survival series. ❤ No pressure, just moving at your own pace and doing things that you enjoy.

[@Leonardo-cw1dd]

24:44 zombie can be in A tier for a couple reasons gem 1: if your lucky you can find a couple zombies spawners in range for a double farm (of course this applies to any other spawner like spider or skeleton) 2: this is the main reason but it's a good early source of copper if you convert the zombies into drowned. now they wont spawn with tridents or nautilus shells but they will drop copper

[@Graveyardteen]

I would place spider higher than zombie because string is extremely helpful resource. From bows and fishing rods to making wool which I love building out of. The only reason I would keep zombies anywhere above f is due to it having so many rare drops

[@HomeSchooledWizard]

9:32 wattles mention let’s go!

[@mayarivera920]

To account for the snowfall you can make piles of them around buildings and paths to make it look like the villagers are plowing it out of the way and the same for on top of buildings, because all the straight lines of snow on top of trees and roofs just doesn’t look that realistic. I love the build so far!

[@LittleLizzia]

Gem, I have a great idea for ice spikes biome/area. You can use the amethyst, and mix it with the ice spikes, and to make it better add the blue soul lanterns to give a nice glow

[@Wiseknight15]

I learned something new today, creating soul soil, 10:50 the way you executed that part was perfect and I lost it when you said I hacked the system 😂 Gem you're amazing!

[@LessBeans]

6:07 soul sand some where? 8:52 soul sand right there!

[@vampirequeen0669]

This is one of the few times in my life I can actually say my kitten put this video on .... and I couldn't have appreciated it more

[@NovaStella_]

Oooh, I think if you’re going with the village being home to a bunch of stone workers, some cool traps should be based around stone and mining! Like pit traps into drip stone or where you can drop lava or drip stone on pillagers with the flick of a lever

[@SPRlNKLY]

I love your videos, this reminds me of the hardcore let's play series you made a few years ago😁💖

[@t0b1ga1l]

I recently found your channel through other hermits and I love that you do series’s outside of hermitcraft! Love the series, keep it up!

[@Liketaknoww]

I love that the spider spawner means you get string AND wool from that area. I do really wish you could turn wool into string, like a reverse of turning string into blocks of wool

[@SilverShadow-x6y]

Hi Gem, I'm a big fan!! I just became old enough to send comments, so I wanted you to be the first. Thank you for making me smile❤

[@rodimussupreme2329]

I love it when one of my favorite Minecrafters references another Minecrafter that they aren’t connected to in some way.

[@runic6452]

Fun fact! Silverfish farms are pretty useful now, well, for the early game at least. If you have a silk touch pickaxe, you can "harvest" infested stone and turn them into potions of infestation. Now if you put sacrificial allay/s in a perpetual hurt contraption, you can have unlimited silverfish for a certain duration, but basically unlimited cuz you can always harvest more. Gives so much exp

[@twocheeky]

“we cant have anything straight around here.” finally! a village for me!

[@gisellerubio-limon1554]

I really do love this series. It gives me inpriration for whay i want to try to do if i have minecraft. Oh, I'm also seeing the other hardcore series in the plains biome. Same effect. So inspirational and i love seeing how Gemini transforms the village to her ideal paradise

[@abanana]

i had so much fun watching the ender cup yesterday!! gem and the orange ocelots did so well!!

[@ErzsebetF-tr5nf]

:0 it's a banana!

[@MethiaCanvas]

Oh hey, I see you comment often on False’s channel! Fancy seeing you here XD

[@Violetsong222]

the first thing your gate made me think of was the morannon (for those who don't know, the morannon is the gate to mordor in the lord of the rings) yes i am a nerd, and yes i did have the lotr map within reach to spellcheck.

[@berriesmoothie4871]

Spider farm fits the lore!! Your shepherd villager might be farming spider silk to sell on the village black market. It’s so perfect that it’s right under the shepherd’s house.

[@goinghaydenwire]

I am loving this series sooo much! Also I think the sweet gem berries are a great touch, and would love to see beetroot as well since those actually make red dye. And yes the snow is so magical and pleasant :)

[@eliarae6970]

the little spawner tier list mid video made me smile. watching your little minecraft avatar looking around while you explained, i just loved it 😊

[@SirShtrumz]

The spider farms also kinda fit the lord or story of this village though. Since there are a couple “spider dens” the village can also make textiles from farming spiders. This in addition to the wool farmed from sheep makes a perfect textile based export. Maybe the villagers have made a spider silk wool textile that is a perfect combination of the two materials. 🤷‍♂️ This is such a good series idea. It’s been very enjoyable to watch. 👍

[@trcy9742]

Blaze rods can also be used as fuel, so less coal would be needed. :)

[@littlebugkate]

this was a wonderful episode! i'm loving the lore of how the village functions, and the editing was so fun! (a small detail i noticed that was great was when you said you would have to go back to the nether eventually and the music stopped. then resumed when you kept talking. so good)

[@emmarozo2804]

25:05 can confirm that Etho has not 1, but 2 videos on silverfish farming. Also, that tier list bit was great, amazing video Gem!

[@OrigamiMarie]

Villager moves to a future war zone for work. Truly a mirror of real life.

[@Grue_bait]

Love the rebirth of this series. Thank you.

[@AG-ng1ml]

Perhaps you could put a structure near the spawner! A villager could be using the spider silk to make clothing instead of wool :)

[@tommasomoro9610]

Love that you could farm strings right under the sheep farm

[@NateEsq]

I mean this is the nicest way possible. Sometimes I feel the same way watching you as I did when I used to watch Charlie Brown. You’re like a peanuts character!

[@real-fragments]

Loving the lore and the reasoning behind your building choices. Great video as always!

[@reginaldpolynice902]

She should make a big watch tower. Just an idea 😊!

[@sethorlando]

I love spider frams, you can connect multiple cave spider farms. It gives good EXP and string! I enchant a bane of arthropods on a sword and go at them!

[@MrNesser]

Thinking about the snow - Covered walk ways around the village would look great with the paths

[@izzytodd4242]

“Isn’t it embarrassing when you look up a tutorial and still get it wrong?” I don’t know, you’d have to ask the tank top I crocheted, nicknamed “the world’s worst tank top”. Along with many other things I’ve tried to crochet. I’m really bad at crocheting, but I refuse to stop doing it because I like it.

[@karactr8361]

I loved your last village rebuild and defend series. I don't imagine that this one will be going into the same level of detail as that one did, but I'm liking this arc. BTW, in 1.21 using the new potions for silverfish spawning can result in an extremely efficient, self sustaining mining farm and almost infinite XP farm apparently. Just saying.

[@nekosandmatcha3359]

The villagers may import potatoes and carrots/the majority of their food but it makes sense to grow at least some food themselves for self sufficiency. Beets are a cold weather crop so it makes perfect sense for them to grow a lot and use them for dye, they could also use a smaller greenhouse in the village to grow those watermelon seeds as a luxury and natural sweet since they'll never need to worry for a drought as they can melt snow for water. They may also raise or hunt rabbits for their pelts and meat. I'd expect that their food would include beetroot soup, rabbit stew,and mutton, with watermelon for holidays.

[@TimmyTriesTo]

i miss this series Gemmmmmmm

[@ytuioper]

the building of the gate was so satisfying. A+ editing Gem

[@lyrai09]

I adore watching this little village come together

[@jonnievangenuchten7752]

The spider farm actually fits well with the whole sheep and weavers theme

[@choassassin]

Just a thought. When you are designing the castle, you are in the winter area so think less of your traditional one and more something along the lines of Winterfell from GOT. Wood is going to be used more for interior structure than stone. It is also a 'lighter' material in mass. I wouldn't skimp on the idea of always being warm, so multiple fires throughout or small hearths in the walls, at least within the castle. Because wood is a very needed commodity, you would probably have lumber yards and lumber jacks outside the main walls of protection. Since you cannot enclose all the trees and forests. You also wouldn't be able to sustain the replanting and chopping for the population you have within. Logging and trapping would probably be higher on the list than just wool itself. Because of the risks of fires you may also want to consider almost a fire brigade or at least wells for potential fires and fresh water. I could go on and I know it is just minecraft, but I am trying to help with some ideas that at least logically make sense in addition to what you already have.

[@corhydrae3238]

I love how you boxed the redstone in with trapdoors. As if that isn't going to cause any trouble further down the line.

[@Red81849]

Hi Gem, I love the buildings, and I don't know if you've already thought about it. But the reason many buildings in very snowy places have sloped roofs is so they don't have to go up and clean the snow off them. Snow is very heavy, and with shallow roofs, the roofs could collapse.

[@discoj7112]

You can use packs of silverfish to quickly mine stone and deepslate and leave the ores. You splash them with a poison potion (and maybe a regen potion too?) and they destroy stone blocks when they take damage.

[@dreadskulk]

Ofcourse the video starts with a bunch of kills. GEM BEING ICONIC

[@ttuesdayy1]

I think cave spider spawner deserves C-tier at least. You can't really get them down to a half heart, which stinks, but you *can* find a good double spawner fairly often, and even triple spawners rarely! I'd rather have a Skele spawner, but if that's not available, or not in a decent location to be used, a double cave spider spawner is still decent!

[@OldBeau]

I've been loving season 2 so much! I like the considerations of not making the shepherds house not being alluring to villagers... but at the same time letting your new apprentice leatherworker move in with you! X) maybe you could spare a nametag for them and make them your squire?