Villagers can RIDE Chickens!!! - Hermitcraft S10 #6

We build a special Chicken Jockey Farm specifically to get Villagers that ride Chickens!!!
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Season 10, Episode 6.
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[@mousemuse]

You are a unique joy, Zed.

[@Zedaph]

Thanks so much! :) I appreciate the support! Glad you get a kick out of my weird experiments haha!

[@m-edesharnais5409]

​@@ZedaphHow about naming him "Cluck Norris"?

[@cheetahman515]

@@m-edesharnais5409 Not the villager, the chicken

[@DoubleTrouble-li5wi]

I could not agree more!

[@xisumavoid]

So cool Zed! You've got a mega rare novelty! :-D

[@riztiz]

I liked your line delivery in the bit

[@cornerstatue8167]

Hey Xisuma, tell Zed not to zombify that villager again because the adult will dismount the chicken.

[@LoZazaReverse]

@xisumaviod how is it that you're running 1.20.4 with the experimentals but don't have the new viliger trading system where you need a swamp one for mending?

[@frostking5676]

@@LoZazaReverse I'm pretty sure there are separate toggles for the villager balance and the 1.21 features and other stuff

[@jrogey]

Zedaph here just casually solving the whole moving villagers problem like it’s just another day at the blockffice.

[@CheeseMiser]

With 7 irl days of afk required

[@zockingtroller7788]

While effective, this solution lacks in efficiency on account of the rarity of it. Further research will be needed

[@jsw973]

I wouldn't say "solving"... more like, replacing it with another problem

[@Aguywandering]

@@jsw973it’s the zedalph way

[@Fragath1]

​@zockingtroller7788 it is just a matter of more efficient mob farm. If you build it low and kill/remove mobs faster it whould be much much better.

[@PhilRose14]

This episode is the perfect encapsulation of Zed. Doc is the mad scientist who makes you ask "How!!!!" Zed is the mad scientist who makes you ask "but, why?" And it's amazing.

[@alannadena]

Zed needs to invite Doc to come see his villager XD, Maybe the hivemind could help with improving Zeds baby zombie villager chicken jockey farm.

[@StylishHobo]

​@@alannadenaThe Hivemind has a long way to go before they get to Zed level of mad science.

[@alannadena]

@@StylishHobo I mean, there are certainly ways to optimize somethings, Zed is The mad science idea generator but the Hivemind are pretty good at running away with things once they get their hands on an idea. 😆

[@cookie856]

​@@alannadenaWell if you did the same but combined it with some killing machine for the NOT zombie jockeys you may not need to despawn them. If zombies reinforcement also use baby you could also just use that

[@ritasonka330]

It does have a few practical benefits. Leading the chicken around is way easier than minecarts for moving villagers. The immunity to fall damage also makes moving them (A.S.S. style!) more practical. Of course, the main benefits are aesthetic. :D

[@bleachbleachBLEACHER]

Hermits: "Whatcha' got there?" Zedaph leading his Villager Jockey: "A smoothie."

[@Nestoras_Zogopoulos]

this comment needs to blow up right now.

[@bvsteamtst]

Someone needs to make the icarly bit gif with the villager jocky RIGHT NOW!

[@smolbluegoblin]

"I'm the chicken, quack" Beautiful.

[@TheHerrDoctor]

"I'm a chicken, hear me quack!"

[@Shortnamesareoverrated]

😂😂😂😂😅,

[@YetAnotherJenn]

Tears of laughter! 😂

[@Rouverius]

Exactly To be fair, they do look like ducks.. just sayin' 😂

[@WackoMcGoose]

It's proof that Poultry Man and Grian are _not_ the same person!

[@psbpaladin]

The absolute joy and confusion of the other Hermits seeing this is so beautiful. Love that Xisuma clocked exactly what you'd done straight away. If anyone would it would be him.

[@TechnicallyLogical2009]

Don’t you mean Xisuma *clucked* what he did?

[@AtomikNY]

I bet Etho figured it out pretty quick too.

[@mloxard]

I mean... what else would it be

[@chizzicle]

@@mloxardI mean sure, there is like exactly one possible explanation to this in vanilla survival, but the thing is, if you do not know it's even possible, you might not immediately think that "ah, he managed to spawn a baby zombified villager riding a chicken and cured him and he grew up"

[@dying2survive298]

I think Cub would be pretty quick to figure it out, too

[@YouTube]

if they aren't riding a chicken then I'm not interested 🤣

[@daggieYT]

I am surprisingly shocked and impressed. This is seriously the most beautiful, well formulated video ever. I can’t believe how magical it felt at 1:20. That part truly made me shed a tear. Multiple teara, actually. And especially at 42:29 that part was just so truly heart touching words can not describe the series of emotions I felt. I absolutely loved the climax it had insanely excellent detail. Oh, and we can’t forget the conclusion. The conclusion was the greatest and saddest conclusion I have ever seen better than any of the videos I have watched. The piece lf bacon spinning in the dishwasher was incredible and mind-blowing. Thank you so much for creating this absolute masterpiece. This is essentially the most important masterpiece of KZbin history. It is a tragedy that this, it can’t be called a film, but a transcendent emotional experience, will be inaccessible for most. It beautifully encapsulates the human struggle to its basics; suffering, pleasure, faith, despair. It connects with the characters within the viewers, individuals suppressed within our own subconscious. It stays vibrant, fresh, and revolutionizes the art of storytelling and filmmaking while making a damn of statement on what it means to be human. Entertaining, gripping, and simply exhilarating. This might be the most impactful piece of art I’ve come across in my life, and I’m definitely coming back to it in the near future to study it more deeply. this is an absolute masterpiece , it absolutely moved my soul , and I don’t think I can ever be the same. This essay balanced my life forever. I have stopped thinking about horrible things in our lifetime, and I can’t thank you enough. Thanks for your comment, KZbin

[@hackercow211]

KZbin out here with 12 likes

[@Ironsight_Army]

@@daggieYT ummmm, what?

[@FellowInterneter]

@@hackercow211fell off tbh

[@arkaneforyou]

​@@Ironsight_Armythat's a chatgpt response 😂

[@Maestr0ne]

What an iconic catchphrase "Send stuff in the mail! Whuuuhiii" - Etho, Mail-engineer

[@thebatwalrus6776]

My dig down!!! Aw man there could have been diamonds.. but I’ll take 2 coal and no death :)

[@mamatanathey9639]

it wase 69 i made it 70 ❤

[@CheeseMiser]

@@mamatanathey9639 boo

[@PhantomLazarus0]

Think I missed an episode on how the Dig Down Of the Day works, so how does one get one?

[@nolanbaker2360]

​@@PhantomLazarus0 patrons I do believe

[@daniel-mk5lz]

You need to be a patreon on a high level I think​@@PhantomLazarus0

[@jonathonsas1607]

This is giving 'Whatcha got there?" "A smoothie"

[@justicefool3942]

Nice ICarly reference. Totally fits with this.

[@Marialla.]

Zedaph, you know you can equip villagers with enchanted armor, right? It doesn't show, but they do benefit from its protection. You just splat them with a dispenser to equip it on them.

[@mishirish]

I've never wanted to bubble wrap a baby more. I gasped when they inhaled your mail system. Audibly!

[@schmingbeefin4473]

This is the most wonderfully out of context comment.

[@grutarg2938]

I saw them walking past exposed wiring and I was deeply concerned.

[@fjolliff6308]

Yes. The true panic I felt was equivalent of seeing a real baby in mortal peril. Definitely a surreal experience.

[@iamanonymous23]

This sentence makes zero sense before you watch the video. That being said I now understand it after being utterly confused by it.

[@tomj819]

It's a testament to the scale of accomplishment that he didn't even blink before wrecking a technical build someone else spent several hours setting up for him lol. That villager has some real time invested in them! 😂

[@erikthep6308]

People say that Doc is the king of minecraft science, but he could only dream to do what Zed can figure out. Zed consistently does things that make me say, "This is so cool, I've never seen this done in Minecraft."

[@randrazor]

One makes doing things faster while the other does something no one else is insane enough to do

[@CheeseMiser]

I get that you love zed and I enjoy his content too. But doc is a different breed

[@dfined3630]

I'd still say Doc is king of minecraft science. Zed is king of minecraft magic

[@EuanBCFC]

Doc is certainly the king of useful Minecraft science, Zed may very well be the kind of useless science though

[@arthemis1039]

@@EuanBCFC now we need them to work together to make mildly useful Minecraft science

[@ThornMu]

Zedaph should induct Grian into the 'pointless waste of time to achieve simple things' club with how they both used such round about ways to get their mending books this season.

[@jesselauch]

My favorite part of this video is Xisuma popping around the corner in character and then completely losing all train of thought and delivering the most genuine reaction imaginable.

[@kubrickie]

Just a suggestion, but if you really are going to grind a bunch more you should grow them up while in the sky and then lead a whole army back to your base like the head goose in a giant flock while playing “The ride of the valkyries” - most epic flight in Minecraft history

[@Missmori]

get Etho to build Ride of the Valkyries in notes blocks for the inaugural flight.

[@radnbad95]

I would Love this

[@jstarrett0193]

What if you made a villager breeder and turn baby villlagers into baby zombie villagers to then put on a chicken?

[@jamesjuld]

Seeing Joel react to the absurdity of your creations is so funny, because usually people already know how astonishingly insane you can be. And he's always so impressed and confused at the same time, it's hilarious

[@Jason-sm4oc]

Another "Welcome to HermitCraft" moment for Joel

[@Zeldrake]

@@Jason-sm4ocNothing beats Cub's skulk catalysts xD

[@samschellhase8831]

Even then, Tango’s genuine bewilderment is always funny to me

[@GforGForce]

When Zed saw the baby zombie villager, his panic and rushing to get materials reminded me of a dad whose wife just went into labor, going “The baby is here! The baby is here!!”

[@LolaGume]

I had the same thought!

[@TehKazlehoff]

when TANGO says "how did you do that, i have so many questions" you know you've done something special. The fact X knew what was up was actually pretty impressive. Especially how impressed he was

[@ca-ke9493]

I think its cos Zed asked X for permission to use his pumpkin villager

[@Nyerguds]

I had the impression Xisuma knew about his plans to try this.

[@Morgoth_Ariendi]

The hermits questioning everything they thought they knew, and hearing their brain-breaking responses had me clucking with laughter...I mean chickening...no wait.. chuckling with laughter.

[@AjaxXavior]

As Mumbo would say Clucked to bits

[@TheJaredHarris]

you mean it had you quacking up!... i'll leave now

[@AjaxXavior]

@@TheJaredHarris why leave can’t think of another one or are you a chicken

[@ratzeputz6729]

Grians bestest friend is rumored to be poultry man. At the same time Grian has a complicated relationship with mending books. Maybe you could introduce him to your wandering book shop.

[@bonniekeyworth3123]

Yes I so want a Grian reaction

[@Corlathant_Solfyre]

I was hoping for Grian react where he's more impressed or upset with the Mending book than the villager on a chicken. Only took a few days of "fishing" for the right combo.

[@ImminDragon]

Mumbo is Poultry Man?! He hid it so well!

[@Rarity36Rage]

@@ImminDragon 😂

[@derekhamilton7451]

"A complicated relationship with mending books" is not a phrase I'd ever have expected to hear, understand, or sympathize with, yet, here it is.

[@another_jt]

I've always suspected Zedaph would be up to fowl play. I'm sure he'll get a peck or two of glass. Truly a feather in Zedaph's cap.

[@itskhro]

This is peak mad scientist. Absolute banger idea, that villager for sure is one of a kind in MC history with those godly trades and traversing as he does.

[@BloomingPrime]

The reactions of the other Hermits to the first of the chicken riders is amazing. I can't wait for them to at one point come across the trading hall of hens and see all the villagers riding their chickens. If they think 1 is good, their reaction to many will be amazing. And as always, praise to Zed for finding things in Minecraft never seen before

[@thenopequeen]

Poor Joel getting his first Zed experience. He may never recover

[@IllusioneTempus]

​@@thenopequeennot his first, he was there for the furnace minigame.

[@thenopequeen]

@@IllusioneTempus you're right, he was! Well, let the madness continue, I guess

[@olivermuthu4243]

Xisuma's "Oh my god Zedaph you've done it" is absolutely iconic

[@brantmclamb9152]

You could walk all of them too

[@storyspren]

Saw Impulse's video first, I didn't even realize how rare and difficult to acquire that villager-on-a-chicken would be because Zedaph showing up with some oddity in tow just makes so much sense that I didn't even question it xP Seeing now that it's basically shiny-hunting with villagers except you can accidentally un-shiny it with a misclick, I'm in awe

[@toamastar]

ikr?? I commented on impulses video like "that is the most Zed thing ever" lmao

[@RokonShimo]

*twice* the rarity of a full-odds shiny (gen 6)

[@LilChuunosuke]

Fr I was confused, but I was just like "yknow what? This is typical Zed behavior"

[@sambuma]

The villager was sitting in Impulse's perspective which was interesting. Could be the mobs mod a bunch of people use, though.

[@Nyerguds]

@@RokonShimo But at least they can be AFK-farmed.

[@samstone8674]

The absolute panic when the baby villager started taking damage lol XDDD He wasn't about to let literal days of irl progress disappear down the drain. The mailbox had to be sacrificed for the greater good and for his sanity.

[@monarcane]

You gotta store the villagers in a room that looks like a chicken coop at the bottom, but abruptly just becomes a villager house to really sell the uncanniness of the situation.

[@Cheesius]

I feel like half the videos you make, I wind up saying out loud "OH MY GOSH, that's brilliant" - this is no exception, I had no idea you could do this. This is fantastic.

[@jamesmcgee157]

The villager sitting on the chicken in Impulse's video is like one of those costumes that makes it look like you're riding a horse or something

[@Shortnamesareoverrated]

OMG yes!

[@amaryllis0]

You should make a special village that's perfectly safe (walls, spawn-proof inside, no overhangs that could suffocate) so these chicken villagers have a space to run free in and move around! It would be a shame if they ended up just locked away like regular villagers usually are, when their locomotion is their whole appeal!

[@sparrowswift9688]

Joels introduction to the baffling presence that is Zedaph up to his usual nonsense (hard-earned nonsense, let it be said!) is so good 🤣

[@erical634]

All you need is a little bit of water and your villager has his own pool floatie

[@FilAsians]

Meanwhile, the little chicken would be swimming for its life 😂

[@DuelScreen]

DON'T DO THAT. It would separate the villager and chicken. ;)

[@alavender6929]

i was so worried he would do a teleport to the nearby bed at night and separate from the chicken then

[@LisaMiza]

Zed.. this is _too_ dumb, even for you. I love it.

[@jjl2143]

Fun fact, zombie villagers spawn almost 5 times more often in Old Growth Pine Taiga than in other biomes, so there your farm would be 5 times faster

[@QwsdCwni]

It's said that Grians best friend is a chicken farmer. Grian has a complex relationship with mending books at the same time. Perhaps you should introduce him to your mobile bookstore.

[@erichvereen1988]

Random KZbinr: Minecraft is getting too complicated... Zedaph: Um... Chicken Jockey trading hall anyone? Zed...never change. Please, never change.

[@CopeML]

At least we don't have to sit out the wait for naturally sourced organic emerald farming trading only.

[@evilshews]

Leave it to zedaph, to find a game mechanic so obscure that no one on hermic craft knows about it.

[@bearpawdgamr2785]

Getting all the hermits to just go "Um... what?" is pure unfiltered gold. Hearing Tango laugh at chicken villager was so wholesome

[@2BrainCellsWriting]

How to make Etho speechless: not with a wandering chicken villager, no. Just tell him " you have to say something cool". 🤣

[@ashgcy]

I have an idea how to make the zombie villager chicken jockey farm more efficient, buckets of axolotls! After a quick look on the wiki, it seems only regular zombies can be converted to drowned if they’re submerged. Zombie villagers stay the same (and don’t drown). If you use a shorter block than a slab for the chicken container (like a daylight sensor, cake or trapdoor), then put a water source block with a few axolotl in it, they’ll kill any regular zombies that turn into drowned and “reset” the chicken for a new jockey. The main thought behind this is, as the farm fills up with regular jockeys, they might be taking away the chance that a zombie villager chicken jockey spawns Edit: after some testing by other people in the thread, it was unfortunately found that submerging any mob will force them to dismount. It seems the best way to clear out the farm is dispensers aimed at the rider, while the chicken sits on a trapdoor so it’s low enough (thanks to jupitisms for the testing!)

[@Mira-bt3zx]

That is one of the most creative solutions I’ve seen in a while

[@jupitisms]

You could also add a cats in a radius under where you afk and the classic trapdoor dropping mechanism around the outside to get creepers to move out of the spawning zone maybe increasing your zombie rates! Not sure by how much but should give a little boost!

[@imaginarym00n]

this is a hella good idea!!

[@lurkyb0i602]

You know those ransacked infected villages that can spawn zombie villagers? Do those villagers respawn?

[@Surtwo]

Unfortunately, zombie villagers still take drowning damage, so any setup that would turn regular zombies into drowned would just kill any zombie villagers caught in it. That said, I do think it would make sense to have some sort of manually activated mechanism that would kill all the baby zombies on top of the chickens, thus resetting the farm.

[@statelyelms]

I love how the server is compact and walkable enough that you can tour your chicken librarian around the entire place! All the bridges were worth it! (They were worth it anyways, but now they're extra worth it)

[@CrimsonCateye]

Zed revolutionizing villager transport. Not making it easier, but definitely revolutionary

[@BleddynsStudio]

This is my favorite Zed shenanigan to date. This theoretically could have been over a DECADE ago when baby zombies could ride chickens in 1.7.4. And yet, despite this game having over a trillion YT views and being picked apart to it's very end, this is the first time so many of us (even veterans) are getting to see it. You are an absolute treasure to this server, Zedaph.

[@TheGrumpBunny]

I adore how you view Minecraft: ridiculously silly, and ridiculously intelligent!

[@Inokiulus]

"You're not in prison... The WORLD 🌎 is in prison from you." - Zedaph 2024 What a quote! Lol. I snorted laughing. 😂

[@box3y]

Another episode that further solidifies my belief: Zed plays Minecraft in, truly, the most delightful way I’ve ever seen. That brain is a wonderful thing.

[@justcallmeness]

Finally a way to lead villagers around! Thank you for the smiles; you absolutely made my day! Obviously they should be LibrariHENS.

[@bubblevader]

Zed, always coming up with the unthinkable. Getting the technical guys' reactions were gold because you can see that they're trying to logically think about it. Hopefully you get Gem, Grain, and Cleo, because they make cute squeaky noises.

[@Mekmassimochannel]

Who is this "Grain" character that you speak of?

[@hermitwatcher8997]

I can already hear grian’s reaction in my head

[@bubblevader]

See season 7 for the joke. It's been an ongoing thing that hermits keep spelling his name wrong on purpose lol@@Mekmassimochannel

[@Hufflepuff_cookie]

14:59 Let's Go- Fly a chicken! Down to the hermits base, oh lets goooo fly a-villager-chicken!

[@atwistedsky9169]

of all the amazing reactions of the Hermits I feel most in tune with Skizzleman's. "HOW, How do you guys do the things that you do?" is probably among my thoughts most of the time when watching Hermits vids lol.

[@giannademaio6241]

Zedaph: just taking my villager for a walk... Everyone else: H-how!? *laughing excessively*

[@shunnedtomcat]

Poultry in motion. Love it!

[@FilAsians]

Absolutey genius pun 😂

[@NotAnotherDouc-]

You know Zed has really accomplished something when professional Minecrafters are legitimately flabbergasted and speechless

[@MrVoyager95]

Absolutely the best start for a villager trading hall... well coop

[@jamietimon9899]

Zed, I gotta tell you, during your intro I was following along mentally like "yeah, mmhmm, right, right" and then you dropped "the ONLY WAY I want to do my trading from here on out!" And I just burst out into a fit of laughter! I love the way you think my guy

[@colliewolf]

I can ride on a chicken too! Sadly they won’t let me back in the petting zoo anymore

[@infernotitan1158]

I love the idea of naming the chicken "Heavy Load" and the villager "Cluckiest Man Alive"

[@eledatowle8767]

Zed, not only do you bring joy to all your viewers, it's evident how much joy you bring to the other Hermits as well. You're one of my favorites to watch, and you deserve way more subscribers!

[@Xigzagamer]

Zedaph is out here shiny hunting villagers, though for the best odds, I would have recommended building the farm in an Old Growth Pine Taiga, which spawns 5x more zombie villagers than usual. Don't ask me why this one oddly specific biome variant has much higher zombie villager spawn rates, it just does for some reason.

[@humourlessjester3584]

You do not want to know what goes on in the old growth pine taiga...

[@davidtauriainen9116]

Wendigo reference perhaps?

[@chickenfarmer321]

That sounds like a useful little fact to know.

[@Diggity42]

Awww, you had the perfect opportunity for the villager to sell feather falling since he’s riding on a chicken.

[@ErikErosa]

😂😂😂😂 omg I hope this happens. A most eggcelent idea!

[@nikkibrowning4546]

Maybe next time.

[@Nyerguds]

@@nikkibrowning4546 Just another four days in the AFK chicken rider spawner.

[@La_CaLiGoS]

Honestly, the way Skizz and Joel reacted... It almost solidified them into the wonder that is shown by the imagination and capabilities of the hermits.

[@renrawbigmovies1640]

Zedaph admitted to having chicken related powers, he's the man in the chicken costume!!

[@bunyan4.20]

i love the fact a lot of the Hermits have been playing Minecraft for like 10 years and Zed can still find a way to dumb found them they are so confused on what is happening with the villager riding the chicken so freaking good LOL🤣😂

[@Obi-Wan_Kannoli]

"My skills are chicken related only. Poultry and no further" Zedaph is poultry man confirmed???

[@Chichi1612_]

going on a walk with the chicken villager at 19:43 is the best thing you could have done loved seeing the reactions

[@MusictagJazz]

Who knew adult villagers riding chickens would be my new favorite thing? 🐔🏇 Zedaph, you're a genius!

[@Honsejpeg]

21:11 A grown villager riding a chicken... and Perry the Platypus looking shifty on Beef's house. Just normal hermitcraft things

[@bennettlewis5495]

You need to visit the other hermits (maybe crash a Neighborhood meeting) wearing a wandering trader skin, maybe transposed into Zed colors.

[@sabrielandoj5748]

I think this might be my favourite episode of anything I've ever watched... ever. The glee in everyone's voices, the disbelief from the other hermits, the amazing achievement of gettnig it to happen in the first place... Amazing

[@ritasonka330]

Have you seen Zed's season 9 episode on catching arrows in his teeth? It has similar energy and exploits an even more obscure mechanic.

[@lucianoariasduval]

I had this thought a couple of weeks ago when I saw a zombie piglin jockey and I'm SO MAD you beat me to it, but you also doubled it up by blowing my idea out of the water with your chicken jockey farm! Bravo, Zedaph. This is the SECOND TIME this has happened, as you also did an absolutely BRILLIANT auto-brewer with the ingredients flying everywhere while I was waiting for an experimental combat snapshot to go live in the full game making potions stackable up to 16, among other changes (which it never did, but oh, well).

[@papathiqq3849]

I'm gonna need to see fanart of the incredibly buff chicken carrying the villager.

[@BlahCraft1]

4:30 Calling your yellow sheep "Snowcone"... I see what you did there.

[@ryno_io]

this may just be the best hermitcraft video ever made. he skips past a week of progress in a drum fill, explain an interesting mechanic, shocks the other hermits for 10 minutes and still has the most fun. the pace of this video is perfect

[@TheJaredHarris]

Thank you Zed. you never fail to amaze us with your quirkiness. There is a "free range" villager joke somewhere in here but i digress. I do think you should make a graffiti of this for the wall. Just an adult villager on a chicken would look amazing

[@MagnorCriol]

The montage of hermits being absolutely flabbergasted at your chicken-villager was absolutely glorious. Peak Zedaph.

[@fluffybuht5936]

When I saw your checkered platform I was envisioning chicken riding villagers with custom pumpkin heads (King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook, Pawn) and them being used as chess pieces on a giant chess board.

[@Ironsight_Army]

This is such a great idea for a mini game!! Everyone needs to thumbs up this idea so hopefully Zed sees this!!

[@MuljoStpho]

Yeah... It could work. Hitching post at the center of each tile. Free and re-lead the one you want to move and hitch it in the destination tile. Drag the captured pieces into a holding pit off to the side of the board. Get some extra pieces held in reserve just in case someone gets to promote any of their pawns. (I forget the rules. They can become rooks, knights, and bishops too, right? It's not limited to queens?) The monumental AFK grind to get 32 of them (plus however many extras for pawn promotions) spawned to be able to set this up though... I wonder how many he's hoping to collect for his trading hall anyway? Perhaps the chess board and the trading hall should be the same build.

[@dojelnotmyrealname4018]

@@MuljoStphoI mean in fairness, you don't /need/ them to be visible to be chess pieces.

[@ritasonka330]

Last time I tested, villagers didn't keep armor they wore as zombie villagers anymore, unfortunately. But that was a few years ago, maybe it's changed?

[@Ironsight_Army]

@ritasonka330 you cam equip armor with a dispenser to villagers, it just is not visable.. might have to use a resource pack. Or get different types of villagers, like jungle, swamp, plains, ect

[@mtnbkr5478]

Now you just need to name them dinnerbone and make an upside-down trading hall, preferably hanging from the roof of something.

[@lujixcjml]

Omg

[@Sganarell]

I've only started watching Zed this season but this type of episodes makes me wanna go watch his previous seasons, because holy cow his creativity and Minecraft knowledge is vast and never where you expect it

[@Yirggzmb]

Zed is 100% a delight to watch in every season

[@samuelspringer8236]

You know. "Zedaph was impaled by a bamboo shute" would be a pretty interesting death message. Ps: Have a great day Zedaph. Thank you for bringing joy into our lives for so long.

[@loops8274]

You can probably actually get this by renaming a drowned with a Trident to "bamboo shoot"

[@mathiasandersson4153]

Zedaph, I basically ran into a brick wall, mentally that is, at work. This was about 4 weeks ago. Have not felt any energy to be happy or actually doing anything. This is the first Hermitcraft episode (of any hermit) i watched in this time, and you made me burst out in laughter. Thank you, good sir. From the bottom of my heart.

[@Karrikua]

Aw ❤

[@agentgauntlet4092]

I hope it gets better mate!

[@Kvarkki]

I know the feeling. Take a break from work, if you possibly can. Hope it works out, stranger!

[@TheLefty5o2]

The idea of having one or two that sell food and running around as a food truck sounds incredibly funny. Also, if there's any use for it, having one that sells feather falling is also really on brand for that specific villager.

[@vinshoken]

The moment the villager grew up my brain expected the fanfare of Zedvancement music to play

[@HarmsFootball]

When it found a bed and started to move towards it I got so worried! Figured that lying in it would for sure dismount him.

[@thenopequeen]

Yeah, I came here to see if anyone knows for sure what would happen if he slept. It would look beyond hilarious if the chicken was still stuck to his feet in the bed

[@ZeeZeeWee]

every single season Zedaph just decides to do the most stupidest thing when there’s a MUCH simpler solution but I am still very amused. what a fun episode :]

[@Thigmomorphogenesis]

21.47 with the chicken, the villager, and PERRY THE PLATAPUS!?! In the background, kind of sums up the amazingness of a Zedaph episode!

[@SirLaughalotMC]

Everyone's always talking about how doc breaks the game every episode in mind blowing ways and Zeds just here with a chicken like "am I a joke to you?"

[@Zablan14]

Good on you Zedaph helping to inform the new hermit Joel on the super obscure Minecraft tech the Elytra. This is why I love the hermitcraft server. Everyone’s just so nice and helpful

[@-N0V4-]

Zed, the embodiment of "Peace was never an option."

[@goremyst]

Here's the names for your villagers: 1: clucky drew 2: clucky stu 3: clucky buu 4: clucky Hugh 5: clucky yu 6: clucky dew 7: clucky gru 8: clucky nu 9: clucky sue 10: Bob cluckington On a side note, you and a few select hermits need to hook Joel up with one or 300 chickens.

[@Zedaph]

I love how you have things like Gru before Sue! 🤣 Thanks for the support :)

[@bluespellmaster8592]

In the chicken jockey villager farm, you will get reduced rates over time as chickens become occupied and dead ones form where there is not a chicken close enough. You should add a way to kill the baby zombies easier (a half slab at head height?)

[@DJDarkDarsi]

I love your Battenberg MobSpawner, all Mob Farms should be Cake Based in design, It makes my Baker heart happy : )

[@metaKnightSpamer777]

sounds like X knew EXACTLY what was going on; and honestly, Knowing what had to be done only makes it more impressive;

[@brujosol]

I ... I feel like Zed plays a game that looks like Minecraft ... but manages to play the Minecraft from some parallel universe where villagers ride chickens, you win prizes when you guess whether or not a sheep is looking at you, and pigs are used in synchronized diving events

[@SmerkyRandomised]

Zed, i am in awe once again, this is amazing!! Idk how you manage to come up with so many crazy barely known minecraft mechanics, but this is the best one yet- And not enough people are talking about how you got the perfect trades first time too, the minecraft gods must have wanted to make up for how long you spent getting the villager in the first place lol And instead of a chicken jockey, i think you should name it something like the Jock Chicken, because it must be strong to carry a whole villager lolll I also reckon Grian has a bunch of name tags from all his fishing, instead of having to buy them, maybe a deal could be struck with him

[@TheRockLlama]

The beginning of Zeds villager eggs-pedition 😏

[@coyoteeth]

Zed is really the definition of a mad scientist. not harmful in any way just doing stuff that would occur to no one but a madman

[@janwitkowsky8787]

00:50 "Well, we're just gonna wait for one to spawn." I immediately looked down at the timeline and saw 28 minutes video. xD

[@sirtainlee8725]

20:46 Dragging a poor chicken around the server with a mid-40-year-old jungle creep on her back, and her burnt to death sister in your other hand, to further add to her stress, is just plain foul.

[@samspenguins8975]

This was the best server tour ever!