HermitCraft 9 ep 10: The Guppy Geyser! Mega-base location!

[@jamesthenabignumber]

“I built a perfect tropical fish farm. Ilmango is not as good as me.”

[@1ightcap]

This was the moment for me, I broke out into peals of laughter. The most elegant mob farm there has ever been

[@Watchingsteelersispain]

I skipped the video to this exact moment, Im living in a simulation

[@Homie_1111]

The way Tango just froze in place while trying to come to terms with what he was looking at while Cleo just stands back and laughs. I'm so glad I found Hermitcraft.

[@vinshoken]

I appreciate the transition at 6:32 from “let's go make some other sorts of mistakes” to Cleo shrieking “What did you DO??!?”

[@Awntry]

Yes Joe! You did impress him at least once when you advertise Scar's attic to Tango in Season 7! I think it was the first Hermits Helping Hermits stream.

[@bumblebeerror9019]

“Expected behavior: the fish that live fast and die young should have beautiful corpses” is such a good line

[@Caerigna]

Tango: I'm about to witness the glory...*silence*...*giggle*...*happy horror sounds*

[@Kiever_Sloane]

Ok we can rap up season 9. The Guppy Geyser is absolute peak hermit craft no one will top this.

[@birdbird5337]

Pretty sure the arrows glitch sometimes happens when someone shoots arrows into an unloaded chunk. When the chunk gets loaded much later, ghost arrows appear. And the game shows the flight of the same ghost arrow multiple times - it's not actually that many arrows, but a much smaller amount that gets repeated a couple times before it stops. There have been a couple times in the last few weeks when people did mid-air bow duels over the spawn village, that's probably when it happened.

[@isometricspace4348]

That would actually make a lot of sense

[@Nakaska]

Maybe you're right, first I thought it must be Doc's doing

[@birdbird5337]

@AnonymousNoname If they had been real arrows, Joe would've been harmed by them - he walked into that arrow rain and nothing happened. Pearl and Scar having been in that general direction was clearly coincidence I do agree that it might still be be worthwile to test that using the camera account

[@volbla]

That does make sense. It looks just like when you tick freeze with carpet mod. The client shows some animation based on the arrow data, but server time doesn't actually progress, so the rendered arrows are constantly rubber-banded back to their official position. Although i don't get why Joe's client would think there are arrows there when there's obviously not.

[@__leeloo__]

When you build a haunted mansion and then it actually gets haunted. Amazing XD

[@melaniep.]

Joe is like an excited child showing everyone the beautiful painting he did 😊 "Look at what I did!! Isn't it awesome!!" and all the other hermits are actually impressed and proud of his artwork. That's, to me, one of the greatest things about this server, the supportive culture!

[@CanidRose]

When Joe was going off on his rock and moss tangent, I'm pretty sure Scar was just possessed by Cleo momentarily and that's why he fired the arrow.

[@briarpelt2333]

The guppy geyser is this beautiful shower of colors, except the beauty is then completely undermined by the fact that it's _fish_ and they're now _flopping around on the floor dying_

[@MuljoStpho]

24:20 "and whatever that thing is" Slime farm, sorta. Built by Mumbo before the seed was known and before anybody had any clue where any slime chunks were. He just laid out a platform in a swamp and hoped for the best.

[@madman2572]

Slimes naturally spawn in swamps at any time other than a new moon, and the daytime before a new moon. Why he didn't want to put a roof on it for daytime use I have no idea.

[@StarkeeperLen]

@@madman2572 pretty sure he said they would only spawn at night, and possibly at full moon too? I don't remember lol

[@madman2572]

@@StarkeeperLen they spawn more often in a full moon and the day before. But still spawn unless the moon is gone. They spawn in the day as long as it's light level 7 or below.

[@StarkeeperLen]

@@madman2572 I see Well I've no clue about most game mechanics lol Just said what I was pretty sure I could remember Mumbo to have said

[@bleachbleachBLEACHER]

Well Joe, I think we found the culprit behind the phantom fire arrows - Zedaph was working on an InterDIEmensional Zedvancment that required him to shoot a lot of arrows through portals. I've seen things get wacky wherever entities and portals intersect, so you are most likely seeing the glitchy aftereffects of Zedaph's experiments.

[@SweetSassyMuffins]

The idea to sell this to Keralis as a gambling thing is hilarious. You could build a small slot machine type housing around the column and call it the gambling guppy geyser 😂 I can't wait to see the progress of the pinball base, this is going to be beyond epic.

[@Tilda_the_mage]

So, I’ve had a simular thing to the guppy Geyser happen on a multiplayer server I was on. Built my base above a lush cave, only found out when digging down to make a mine. Used a water bucket to get down into the cave itself before I installed my ladder, and left the water stream running into a hole. A week later I had like 6 stacks of tropical fish cause they kept spawning in the water column, swimming up and then falling out and diying. My guess is that although tropical fish can spawn in lush caves, they can only spawn in water which is at least 2 blocks deep, and the state of the water dosnt matter so it can be flowing, source blocks or bubble column. And since they’re part of a separate mob cap for fish, they will spawn in large numbers where avalible.. in this case inside the bubble column where they get flung out the top after

[@TunesByAI2024]

I think its 3 blocks deep now from what i remember. so its very rare to actually find naturally in a lush cave.

[@Ajlez]

Aaaah, I love collecting tropical fish and I knew there was a height limit for spawns in the ocean, but wasn't sure about the depth. I really miss the old Minecraft wiki for this kind of information... 🥺 Thanks for the info guys I am sure it will help me a ton 🥰

[@Ajlez]

@AnonymousNoname I was referring to this statement "In ocean biomes tropical fish will only spawn at Y levels between sea level, and 13 blocks below sea level." At any rate, I don't know of a definitive source for any of these details, but I personally found them VERY rare in the lush caves so am curious to take another look. (:

[@TunesByAI2024]

rays works made a video on this. They can spawn in any water type in lush caves(bubble, flowing, source). It just needs to be two blocks deep.

[@agentcimorene]

@AnonymousNoname Yes!

[@siegesquirrel42]

6:38 I feel like that reaction is something Joe strives for. Not constantly, but, like, on a regular basis.

[@TolumniaMC]

You breed axolotls with buckets of tropical fish. The geyser is honestly quite useful because tropical fish are a pain to catch in the big ocean.

[@abkestudio]

Joe, in Tupi language (Brazilian indians language) there is a river in the city of São Paulo that is called PIRATININGA. And the translation mean rotten fish or dead fish. This is because of the amount of fish that were left dead on the drought season in the past. Today the city grew and there is no more dead fish, but the name remained...

[@kellydolan9717]

Do you know what paraiba translates to?

[@abkestudio]

@@kellydolan9717 I checked here and Pabaiba comes from the tupi word paraiwa that translates as "Bad River", meaning: a river that is no good to travel with boat. Thats is actually understandable, because the river Paraiba flow on a region of mountains and hills with lots of rapids and falls.

[@abkestudio]

@@kellydolan9717 I forgot, there is also the state of Paraíba, but i never visited, so i don't know about the rivers there

[@kellydolan9717]

@@abkestudio Ok awesome I have been trying to figure out what it means for a while now. Thank you so much

[@MetricJester]

I had always thought that Tango was permanently impressed with other aspects of your existence, but this one came out of left field.

[@anothergeekychannel8384]

The guppy geyser was already hilarious, but the sign right next to it that says "nature is healing" made it so much funnier to me 😂😂😂

[@yawnberg]

Ghost arrows is just the cost of living in a haunted house.

[@fiasomething]

part of me wants to build a pond around the top of the bubblevator so the fish wouldn't die. other part of me is infinitely amused by all the death that happens there

[@alysoffoxdale]

Plus, with a safety pool, the geyser would end after 20 fish _don't_ die.

[@garnetleaf8050]

The guppy geyser is continuously bringing me joy, every time I see it. I can't explain how or why. It is the greatest thing ever made.

[@redfeatheredreptile]

The mechanics inside the pinball machine sounds really cool, theres a lot of blocks like grindstones etc that can look very mechanical. It would be net if the housing had windows built in so you can see the innards on a fly-by.

[@e_m_m_a_0122]

There are over 5000 variations of tropical fish. Can you imagine every single one having their own sprite 😳

[@MermaidHair5091]

Fish Squish ASMR is something no one needs, but Joe provides.

[@KeychainWolf]

Ah yes, nothing quite like The Haunting of Hill's House to start of a Joe Hills episode. Plus I love the befudlement in Joes voice near enough anytime he talks about the Guppy Geyser with someone.

[@agentcimorene]

Joe decided to build a haunted house for a Minecraft Pinball Machine and now he has been haunted by phantom fire arrows twice and a poltergeist-geyser of fish. (I've been reading Mothman Prophecies and binge watching Hellier)

[@alysonnicolehunter]

You should build a small pool around the top of the guppy fountain to keep the fish to sell. It could be like a exit gift shop.

[@CaineDM1955]

@Alyson: Hey - do you think that such a pool might fill up with too many fish, & start to kill them with entity cramming? That would be an incredible sight!

[@briandudley4637]

So for the guppy geyser, maybe make the top a 5x5 half block deep pool, so hermits can wade among all of the tropical fish?

[@32Loveless50]

imagine having an Axolotl tank with one of these under just producing fish for them to hunt :D

[@maltice6022]

Hey Joe! I did a tropical fish farm recently and learned way too much about the mechanics. You did make a really great farm in terms of the player distances from the spawning spaces! Watch out though, I don't know what version Hermitcraft is running, but the bubble-column spawning thing is supposed to have been fixed in 1.18.2. Also, there's a resource pack available for giving all 2700 of the tropical fish unique textures in bucket form.

[@Whitefish41]

Your fish gambling game could be "scales of fate"

[@somemagellanic]

the guppy geyser is amazing. nature is so beautiful

[@TackerTacker]

This is Joe's best season so far in my opinion, I just love how much interactions with other Hermits he adds in his episodes.

[@NuclearVera]

Hey Joe! I love that you are making a giant Pinball machine! I used to have Roadshow by Williams at home and i remember it was so much fun to play! Can't wait to play the machine you are recreating at the "Nederlandse Flipper Vereniging" wich is the pinball club from the Netherlands. (They are all on freeplay for €10,- for the whole afternoon and evening) If there are any Dutch people reading this, this hall is in Veenendaal, worth checking it out! Keep up the good videos Joe!

[@dlewis1701]

Old Faithful? Old Fish-Full!

[@jclars8324]

i was laughing so hard at the guppy geyser i started crying, this is amazing. i watched the stream that created this monstrosity and laughed so hard, and i haven’t gotten over it it’s hilarious

[@CommanderWiggins]

So I think the reason why tropical fish spawned in like crazy is because fish need water that is at least 3 blocks deep (although there's some weird caveats with waterlogged blocks and such) and a lot of the water around the shopping district cave is only one block deep. They actually aren't supposed to spawn in bubble columns, that was fixed recently.

[@FDJUwe]

Somebody once told me the seas are gonna roll me I ain't the sharpest fish in the pond She was looking kind of dumb with her fin and her gills In the shape of an "L" on her forehead Well the fish start coming and they don't stop coming Fed to the sharks and I hit the ground swimming Didn't make sense not to dive for fun Your brain gets smart but your head gets numb

[@aureaux]

I wonder if Sean, Joe’s sibling, would be up for the challenge of making a Guppy Geyser song... they’re definitely super talented!

[@dumbideas3361]

Ghost arrows! It’s almost like your house is haunted.

[@Denkar11]

Oh man, when I first saw this in Tango's video, I totally missed Cleo's 'It's an Easter Mackerel!'.

[@PixelM35]

I think the reason why the fishes are spawning a bunch is because the water column is made of a bunch of source blocks, so the chances of a single fish (or school) spawning in one goes up with each block. Therefor, the best Guppy Geyser is from Bedrock to max height… if this theory is correct after all!

[@jonathangaming7510]

Fun fact: there are over 800 varieties of tropical fish

[@samihiggins]

lmao you told me Tango's reaction was great but like, I didn't expect this! I love it, I'm crying with laughter. :D

[@samihiggins]

Also, the fact that Lil Sebastian made it into battle warms my cold dead heart.

[@jellybeansmud7363]

A thing of utmost importance: looking at map around 4:22 you can see that a huge lake at bottom-left of the island looks like a beetle :^) pincers looking to the right

[@radiantfalinks]

beetle lake my beloved

[@briarpelt2333]

At some point, Scar is going to discover 4 stacks of dead tropical fish sitting in the cookie monster, and he is going to be so baffled.

[@han-dell]

Isn't there an advancement to catch every single variant of tropical fish? You've made a farm that makes it possible.

[@knitterknerd]

"It's an Easter mackerel!" I instantly paused the video, laughed like a mad woman for probably a full 30 seconds, ran to tell my husband about it, then got to laugh again at his disappointment. Then I unpaused the video and laughed at the fact that nobody reacted to it at all. 287/10, would buy again and again.

[@aligalad9907]

The ghost arrows are very fitting for a ghost house

[@blockstacker5614]

for the big pinball machine you could probably use water streams, ice, and slimeblocks to make stuff you put in it actually bounce around. I'm looking forward to seeing the design of it!

[@nicholaus3248]

Joe is the Isaac Newton of this millennium.

[@SaKaBi0]

That geyser is just awesome, second to cleo's snort and tangos joy at the fishi dying! XD Joe accidental inventions are the greatest!!

[@eveningshade9296]

The guppy geyser is both an abomination and a true natural wonder. I expect nothing less from a JoeHills discovery. Hopefully when the server updates it'll stick around

[@2raddude]

Make the dead fish a new currency. Diamonds are clearly being inflated away by everyone competing to mine more. Call them Gups, although someone will probably come up with a brilliant name I can't think of for them haha

[@Maahes0]

The Guppy Geyser is just pure Joy at this point. So sad 1.18.2 is gonna kill it.

[@TequilaToothpick]

Wait why will it kill it?

[@mabcap124]

now all you need in an infinite bread miracle and you can have your own sermon on the mound

[@Lumpypillowcat]

I spent like an hour recently making a tropical fish farm in a lush cave. I feel so cheated of my lifeforce now.

[@raemckay]

Joe, you've completely outdone yourself with this episode. It was so exciting and action-packed! So many interactions with other Hermits. I never wanted the episode to end.

[@hcfan109]

"Joe's kind of losing his mind with his imaginary fire arrows isn't he..." - the other hermits 😂

[@exintrovert1337]

You are going to have to get the other Hermits to watch your videos or they are going to start to think you are hallucinating. Have you been eating random glistering foods perhaps?

[@Squilly4]

the guppy geyser has baby sensory video energy

[@emmaparkin8543]

I’m pretty sure Tango was impressed by your Decked Out tribute in season 7 - maybe he visited in a live stream or something though so you didn’t know? Xx

[@madman2572]

I believe tropical fish need either 2 high or 3 high water sources to spawn in. So your bubble column must be the only place within 64 blocks where that applies. Tropical fish can no longer spawn in bubble columns in 1.18.2 so you guys must be on 1.18.1.

[@NastyIrishPotato]

I would literally sit up here with a full inventory of buckets and pick out my favorote color combos

[@sheryali4904]

Those ghost arrows would be a great addition in this haunted mansion.

[@JessopsBezar]

You're alright JoeHills!

[@aidanlanz3114]

The Guppy Geyser can be a great source of tropical fish to breed your axolotls! 🐠

[@bethm7964]

illmango is not as good as me - joe

[@awesomehawkins]

8:59 :)

[@awesomehawkins]

lol it was too funny, I had to suggest it to Hermitcraft quotes lol

[@Daniel-rd6st]

you know, if Ilmango sees this he will make an industrial sized tropical fish farm :D

[@wearymelancholy]

It's so morbidly fantastic..

[@Luscitrys]

Joe, there are like two thousand different tropical fish in Minecraft. About 20 of them are very common, but like 5% or 10% of tropical fish that spawn are completely randomized. You can distinguish them when you pick them up in a bucket (careful, they won't despawn after that so you will want to keep or kill them): The common types only have a name when you hover over it, while the randomized ones have a pattern name and below that their one or two colours. If you see two of the same type, they are very likely to be one of the common types.

[@mikehughes4969]

The Guppy Gyser is simultaneously horrific and hysterical.😮😮😮😂😂😂 RIP guppies.

[@AzureLupine]

This is the dumbest thing ever and I love it so much. This about how VR chat has been the last couple days with the avatar dynamics update that we can actually boop each other and grab tails.

[@benjamindebo9283]

there are no words for the guppy geyser it's beautiful to watch nature heal

[@DuelScreen]

0:43 Did you cross a chunk boundary? I would ask some of the more technical players to watch both videos and see what they think. Doc, Tango, Xisuma, etc.

[@defeatSpace]

Scar: "Here's another one Joe, here's another one Joe..." Joe: _immediately eats..._

[@caerysnyx]

This means Joe can easily get a blue axolotl with the guppy geyser!

[@alysoffoxdale]

"Easily"? The chance is 1 in 1200, and who's got time to stand around breeding that many axolotls?

[@harayaalirak4040]

@@alysoffoxdale well considering bdubs spent days upon days breeding llamas in s8 to get the mythical 15 slots of storage space, i'd say it would be pretty on par for what the hermitcraft server is willing to do!

[@KorthalMaiyn]

Omg I saw this briefly in one of the other videos, I am way too keen to watch it being crafted. What a perfect name lmao

[@AlloAlloRocks]

For the record Joe, you are smart, clever and cute, and I really enjoyed this episode^^

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

What a fabulously fish-filled episode! Thanks, Joe!

[@secondfifth]

between the geyser and the arrows I’m beginning to be pretty sure joe’s just haunted more than usual this season. delightful episode!

[@TequilaToothpick]

The fish spawner was absolutely hilarious!!

[@601salsa]

Joe...... seriously thank you.... today has truly sucked but you helped give me a few minutes of respite. Thank you for being amazing.

[@crimulusmc]

I can't wait to see this base progress ... such a great idea!

[@CaineDM1955]

@JoeHills: If I may suggest... ... perhaps you could put a wall on 3 of the 4 sides of your Guppy Geyser, 2 blocks tall, of glass? Not only would you be protecting people from accidentally getting projected back down the hole, but it also makes it easier to collect specific fish into buckets, when the time comes to start an aquarium collection. --- As a challenge, you might enjoy trying to be the first on the server to acquire at-least one of every type of fish --- I'm sure that other useful ideas will occur to you in the future

[@TheSupaLuna]

You might be able to make a slime piston minecart launcher/pinball machine. You could even randomize it a bit. But of course that type of machine works better vertical than on a 30o angle.

[@GaudyMarko]

I think Tango was a fan of his exibit in the hermit zoo

[@issaach]

The arrows are probably from Zedaph's inter-dimensional experiments. I bet those two overworld cords where the arrows were correspond to Zedaph's portal nether cords and the stronghold portal Nether cords.

[@sannepedersen3649]

Love the sidepart on the portal. Good work as usual!

[@bleachbleachBLEACHER]

Is that fish farm a glitch? I swear I've seen Hermits make fish farms in the past that explained fish couldn't spawn in bubble columns. As far why it's working at all - I assume it's because when you're standing at the top, your spawning radius doesn't reach the lush cave below, so that water column DOES end up being the only place anything can spawn. And then when you're at the bottom, your anti- spawn radius is covering up the immediate lush cave pools, so the bubble column is STILL the best spawning location.

[@rosaliamoon4525]

It’s a 1.18.1 glitch

[@ginsuneko]

Weird phenomenon just seems to be following you around this season Joe, lol.

[@LucyTheBox]

I loved how the ocean temple raid turned into a name contest.

[@duality4y]

Here is my thoery and hear me out Doc had his update suppressor turned on and joe fired some arrows from near the window ...

[@hiwaga7399]

Update suppressors only works on the chunk it's connected to though.

[@hephaestus_workshop]

@@hiwaga7399 he has the chunk loader for it in his house though, which is right next to Joe’s. I think they’re in the same chunk

[@michaelcraig2987]

Subscribed for the guppy geyser. Lets help protect our naturally forming hermitwonders!

[@janaki3829]

I've been meaning to rewatch this. No better time than now!

[@sargranny]

Morbidly impressive but you really could just stand there with buckets of water and collect them.

[@Haplo-san]

What if make your geyser bigger and redirect to all over shopping district from above which it will constantly rain from top of the cave all the time whenever a hermit is there shopping. There should be a way to split them randomly into different water streams and randomly drop them off along the way here and there. lol