I've Got Invisible Ink For Maps | Hermitcraft X 1184

[@xisumavoid]

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[@TrollHax1]

hey x

[@randomfuldorn]

what happened to express lol

[@kittyshippercavegirl]

@@randomfuldorn didn't pay as much, I assume LOL

[@zero1872001]

@@randomfuldorn Yeah was gonna say.. it's normally express on most peoples vids. >...>

[@TheVindicar]

X, can you please not misinform your viewers? VPN will not help if the servers you are trying to connect are being DDoSed. In that case, it doesn't matter how you reach the server - it's the server itself that is not responding.

[@4Clubs]

Take it easy, Xisuma. You're doing a wonderful job so pace yourself. Also, you might want to tell Scar and/or Bdubs about invisible ink tech because they've been playing a lot with shadows on their builds lately.

[@JustJum]

6:55 btw xisumavoid, the brightness of the colour changes when there's a change in elevation north-south, not east-west (like you do at the timestamp). So making a staircase of, for example, lime shulkers going north *will* change all colours

[@simic0racle157]

yeah its lighter at the top because of the drop in elevation going north

[@CRBenham20]

the map art is cool for making larger logos, but i think it would also be nice to label each hermits main base with a named banner. a combination of big fancy logos for things like the shopping district and gaming district, as well as banners at each base would make the map very informative and easy to find what your looking for. especially when it comes to world download (hopefully a long time from now lol)

[@Dinotymek]

Remember to report the bots in the comments yall

[@killernat1234]

This seems like something a bot would say to pass as a real person

[@Dinotymek]

@@killernat1234 you know what that would make a lot of sense but no lol

[@etorommka]

​@@killernat1234Yes, do report bots, they are bad unlike human me. Beep bop.

[@fdracnc]

BOT 🫵

[@Dinotymek]

@@fdracnc oh no i have been discovered. Beep bop

[@Slymeball]

9:00 Minecraft Wiki actually comes with a dark mode (it's the sun/moon toggle in the top bar) and it renders the snow color properly

[@DahliaInPurple]

Manually turning on dark mode on every site isn’t ideal though. A dark mode reader means you’ll get good enough everywhere

[@michalsimanek6988]

Just FYI maps are really weird with color. They do some funkiness where they take into account bordering colors and y-height. Color accurate maparts look like huge staircases made up of random blocks because if it was all on a single y-layer, the colors would look weird. As someone who attempted making a map picture before, i recommend doing some research so you don't end up with something that has off colors (unless that doesn't really matter)

[@damiynkail616]

And now it's only a matter of time before Scar slams into those 'invisible ink' chests while flying and talking in 3rd person! 🤣🤣

[@wteff8586]

First thing I thought when X revealed it was floating chests :D

[@StrongArmSusan17]

"WOAH! W-w-what in the world~!?😱" -

[@wteff8586]

@@StrongArmSusan17 "someone's placed a bunch of chests in the sky and now i gotta pick up all my stuff and wait, it says xisuma???"

[@daffydj]

@@wteff8586 "Can you people in the comments kindly inform me what any of this means?? I know you guys know everything that's going on, why is Xisuma spelled randomly in the sky~!?" *dies while getting stuff again*

[@zawbones5198]

Instead of crafting “invisible ink” all by hand, you could use an autocrafter and just dump the boxes in.

[@OrigamiMarie]

Yup. Autocraft them, break a chest full of them to get them into your inventory, and middle-click the placed boxes to get matching ones into your hotbar (this doesn't work for boxes that have stuff in them, but it works perfectly for pristine new boxes -- all their nbt data still matches).

[@daltonbishop7305]

When you make the logo from Pearls Base will you be putting the logo upside down?

[@timwoods2852]

Lol, too bad he's just doing areas, like Magic Mountain and The Neighborhood. Otherwise, that would be a great little touch.

[@cannotbeleftblank6027]

10:17 You could have entered the RGB values directly without going through the hex conversion...

[@DapperNurd]

That's three times as much copying and pasting though.

[@miolaika]

@@DapperNurd he manually wrote them down anyways to put them into chatgpt he couldve just gone straight to the image program lol

[@DapperNurd]

@@miolaika He probably just took a picture of the RGB values and gave it to ChatGPT to output the hex as text.

[@itsAldenH]

It didn't make shadows in your testing because you used chests I'm guessing, which are transparent blocks, but shulker boxes are not transparent. I'm sure you probably know this, though. :)

[@saffral]

I'm going to enjoy the random confusion when undead mobs are not burning in the wild because they're standing underneath the shulker boxes. A relatively harmless but fun prank.

[@mkks4559]

9:54 I'm glad you double checked the values since chatbots are becoming increasingly inaccurate, but at this point, I'd say it's better to just use the double-checking tool rather than ChatGPT. (By the way, great video!)

[@TBSxDRUMS]

I wanted to say this, too. For this project, AI can help churn out a large chunk of information to lighten X’s load, i.e., the grunt work. If he just stopped there and accepted it as faultless, it could have caused issues and given wrong codes. I appreciate that X used it purely as a tool and then checked its work himself rather than trusting it to be 100% correct.

[@masoncox1248]

@@TBSxDRUMSisn’t it kinda of a waste of time to use ai then to just check it which takes 5X longer, why not just use the check method and skip the chat gpt?

[@AurelienBouteiller]

With some performance mods these chest are converted to actual blocks for faster rendering e.e enhanced block entities mod. That also removes the view distance limitation. These floating Schulker's would turn into an eyesore in that case.

[@asquare3412]

11:30 - not entirely sure if I understand what you want: you can set up your own LUT or colour map in Gimp and then convert your image from RGB to that map. I used that for pixel art before. I did still do some manual tweaking afterwards though as I'm a perfectionist...

[@mothbott9461]

you didnt use chat gbt though, you had to manually check them all anyways???

[@lorenzogeere1956]

He manually checked 2 colours to make sure it was accurate

[@MichaelUnderwood3507]

Is using chatgtp something to feed the algorithm? It seems like such a roundabout way to get the color values especially because you had to check it's work.

[@23bcx]

Seems kinda useless if you both had to ask an ai and use an online converter to get the colors why not just use the converter or more accurately what image editing SW are you using that it doesnt have both hex and dec input for rgb colors. Oh no wait you editor does have dec input for colors. Why did you even convert here?

[@wteff8586]

I guess in X's mind that simplifies it because you only click one field and paste one value? Not pretending I understood the whole thing but that seems sensible enough to me

[@someguyinamechsuit7062]

Maybe put the chests at build height that way there's very little chance of scar slamming into them while flying in third person.

[@SpaceCadet22]

9:34 - For anyone not aware, converting RGB to a hexadecimal color code is pretty straightforward - not easy to do with mental math, mind you, but easier to understand than you'd think at a glance. Hexadecimal works similarly to how we normally count in decimal (0 - 9), but adds A, B, C, D, E, and F to represent 10 through 15 in a single digit - hexadeca- as a prefix means 16, which is the amount of values (including 0) that one digit can count, just like bi- as a prefix means 2, due to being able to count 2 values in one digit, being 0 and 1, or deca- means 10, values 0 through 9. And just like in decimal or binary, each digit works the same way for hexadecimal. 01 in binary, decimal, and hexadecimal all mean 1 x 1, but each further position you go grows in value exponentially. 10 in binary is equal to 2, since 2 can't be counted to with one digit, but in decimal it's equal to 10, since you can't count past 9 with one digit in decimal. In hexadecimal, 10 is equal to 16, as F (15) is as high as you can count in hexadecimal with one digit. 20 in hexadecimal is 16 times 2, or 32, and so on - up to (16 * 15) + (1 * 15), or FF, which equals 255. Each color channel in RGB is a value between 0 and 255. In hexadecimal, 00 is 0 and FF is 255. Three sets of 2 digits in hexadecimal is equal to the 3 values used in RGB, they're just merged together. #FF0000 is rgb(255, 0, 0), or red, #000000 is rgb(0, 0, 0), or black, etc. If you know the RGB value, you can find a decimal to hexadecimal calculator and put in each color channel one at a time and just string them together in the same order. For opacity it's the same thing, only adding 2 extra hexadecimal digits on the end for the alpha (opacity) channel. No hate on Xisuma for using ChatGPT for the color code conversion or anything, just wanted to nerd out a bit for anyone who was curious. Hope I taught someone something new!

[@SpaceCadet22]

Side note: I think ChatGPT actually did do one thing wrong with the hex colors, but X seems to have caught it. On the notepad with all the color codes, it starts with FF every row, followed by the rest of the values. I'm only guessing here, but I think ChatGPT may have been adding the Alpha channel, the opacity, to the code. It makes sense for it to be the maximum value, since the color values given to ChatGPT were likely assumed to be actually visible, and there's nothing wrong with the capitalization being different - it's case insensitive, so that's totally fine. The problem with that is that the alpha goes at the end of the code - if my assumption is correct at least. To my knowledge though, there's no case where a hex color would start with anything other than the red channel. Like I think I mentioned, RGB and Hex colors are ordered the same way - Red, Green, and Blue. Adding opacity means adding a fourth channel, the Alpha channel, at the end. Hex colors work the exact same way, just adding the Alpha channel to the end.

[@artswithole]

@@SpaceCadet22 really good explanation, thanks

[@rockybocci3547]

@@SpaceCadet22 ☝️🙂I think yes hate (strong word where i should probably use a looser one) to him for using chatgpt/saying he used it seeing as a large amount of his/the hermitcraft community are artist and chatgpt/other ai softwares directly harms us :(

[@SpaceCadet22]

​@@rockybocci3547 While I agree that AI may be harmful to artists, in this use case it's not harming anyone. Let me explain. AI is a tool, just like a hammer or a knife. Hammers can be used to build furniture, or houses, and knives can be used to chop meat and vegetables to cook with. Unfortunately, hammers and knives can also be used to harm people. If we didn't have hammers or knives, we wouldn't be able to hit nails into furniture or cut food into precise pieces for fancy recipes. Similarly, AI can be used for things that are helpful, without being directly damaging to people. Xisuma showed one such case - using it to process a bunch of information quickly like this is something that has been possible with computers for a while, even without AI. I could write software that translates RGB to Hex color codes - it would probably even be more accurate than using AI to do so. When AI is used to generate images, however, it takes away work from artists, while simultaneously using the art created by them to do so. If a image model was created using art without appropriately compensating the artist, and without their permission and full knowledge, that's especially bad. To big companies, AI image generation is fast and cheap. If you can produce 100 images in a few minutes for free, why commission an artist? Obviously, that is really bad for artists who rely on commissions to live off of and should not be supported. Using AI for mass commercial image generation is using a tool in a way that harms people. AI image generation just for personal use is a gray area, and a conscience matter. Using AI for bulk data processing, like X does in the video, is fine. As a programmer, I'm not hurt by it one bit. I just think it's inefficient since there are existing programs and websites specifically made to convert RGB to Hex color - one of which X uses to check the AI's work. TL;DR: Xisuma is not using AI to generate images for commercial gain, so nothing about his use of AI in this video is harmful to artists. AI is just a tool, and is not bad on it's own merit. It can be used, like any tool, in a helpful way or a harmful way. I say this as a programmer who works around large databases and data processing on the regular - bulk data processing, like Xisuma uses it for in the video, is a perfectly valid use for AI.

[@WicketWookie]

I think I'll be a great idea. Put all 4 basic animals and horses underneath the spawn trunks

[@julianemery718]

Im curious why you used a Large Language Model for the simple task of converting RGB to Hex. Hasnt it been seen and shown that tools like C-GPT can hallucinate and make up stuff, which isn't good if you want something definite or true like the hex numbers you were wanting.

[@jossgreen9318]

exactly! i was so disappointed when he mentioned it, it's a really shady (and unethical) thing to publicly use imo

[@pasemek2501]

@@jossgreen9318 What bothered me the most is he did it manually after that anyway. Why bother with AI generated answer to begin with

[@k0w0res]

This. I had to pause the video for a moment to just sigh when I heard it. Waste of power and it's never as accurate as just figuring it out yourself, which takes all of 5 minutes :/

[@Jude_5555]

Speed and readability. You could manually convert them or, alternatively, instantly get the results in a well presented manner. Hallucinations are significantly less prevalent now so the data is more reliable. Throwing shade towards something you barely understand could be considered significantly less ethical so be careful in the future!

[@Dylan_Thomas1]

Honestly I think people's reactions to this are just slightly too harsh, though not that bad. AI like this is definitely starting to be not so new as before, and likewise what we know and understand about it, especially wrt conscience concerns. I bet a large portion of people veering into outright unhappiness with X, though not everyone on this thread in particular for example, learned about the negative things not THAT long ago to have sort of "earned" or "deserve" the almost-hate and in some cases actual shade. A lot of it is the tendency of online spaces to bring out harsher sentiments that would be curbed normally in face to face interactions, for one important thing. The original comment in this thread is an example of a "good" one in my opinion. Informative only, with a little swirl of curiosity.

[@cjrensh]

Hi Xisuma o/ I wonder if placing the shulker box invisible ink higher in the sky would/could hide the shadows better?

[@itsAldenH]

@@cjrensh Nope it wouldn't change anything no matter how high he puts it, that's just the way Minecrafts lighting engine works.

[@xynthymr]

XISUMA - I'm curious. Instead of manually dying each Shulker Box manually, would it be more efficient to quickly build a crude Auto Crafter contraption close to your project that can be doing that chore for you whilst you're placing? 🤔 I would suppose it depends on the scale of the project, and how simple/complicated the contraption needs to be... This is similar to weighing up whether it's more efficient to gather resources with a Beacon, as you have to factor in the setup time of the Beacon/contraption, so it becomes more efficient the larger the scale of the project.

[@robertstilwell398]

Hey X, I really like the way youve been doing youre videos this season, its nice to see individual projects being worked on and not something massive that takes months of time. I do wish that you included a little more chill time with the other hermits. A big part of why i enjoy hermitctaft is the collaborative aspect of it and how you guys are all friends. Anyway, love your work and thankyou for the continued entertainment and art!

[@pogthegrea]

Hey X, if you're using photoshop, you can record workflows using the Actions window then applying them to multiple files using the Batch function

[@moiraauxier8474]

The logos are cool, but you could make the map and lock it, and then take the logo out

[@Asher2Doremus]

I don't think you should use chat gpt in your videos

[@TrollHax1]

Hey x was hoping you would upload today haha

[@TreeFortBuilder1]

2:55 just restart your game that fixxes it most of the time (oh wait 1.12 best version)

[@caioalves8110]

16:23 You can use the new crafter block for that. Just flick a lever or hook it up to a clock :)

[@asdfgdfg]

Video came out just in time to eat :D

[@moyashisoba]

I just searched for new Hermitcraft videos and there you are. 😀

[@BreloomsGarden]

Deleted last comment because Im always commenting way too early. Sorry!! But that rebane site is one that the server I play on uses to create mapart- We have a huge culture about it, theres definitely more than 100 pieces made by different players scattered around. It's so fun.

[@andrewweiker1482]

Instead of having Aerial chests, couldn't you just put up a label, update the map, then remove the label so that there isn't even a vague possibility of lag or visibility.

[@kala_asi]

this would require labels to be done at the very end of the season, which is probably not a compromise xisuma is willing to make

[@dykam]

Diffusion and similar ditherings are mainly good when the pixels will be rendered very small. In those cases they'll visually blend with their neighbours, having the effect of creating more colors. Whereas no diffusion will create banding. But when the pixels are rendered large (like here), no diffusion often looks better.

[@timwoods2852]

You madlad! Your motivation levels are inspirational and daunting, to say the least. Here's hoping people don't go crashing into the labels. Though we all know Scar will probably do it at least twice. 😂

[@DJDroz-gh5nt]

Interesting Info: on Bedrock, maps only render the North West block of each chunk. So you only need one block for each chunk occupied by your pixel art. You can also hide a massive base by leaving the top left corner of each chunk unchanged from the terrain.

[@BlueDavrial]

Hey Xisuma, couldnt you have used a Crafter to speed up the dying process? Just only have two slots active, stick the dyes in one slot and have a hopper inserting the shulker boxes

[@malindarose2842]

Thing I love about Xisuma is that he can be so creative and build amazing things and also so technical that my brain hurts. All in the same video. I love the new way to label the maps. Just hope you glass in it before someone picks one up again.

[@kian1774]

Let Scar and Bdubs know about the shading!! Also love what you are doing (and have done) for the server

[@aaronrdaniels]

I wonder how many hermits will ‘throw away’ items into these floating shulkers

[@emilyhockers1086]

maybe to fix the shadow problem you could add some glass to the words - a few blocks arent that noticable

[@Connor_Conntroller]

You could build a crafter array to auto craft the shulker boxes and dye them depending on your dye input

[@Dabnu]

I sense an autocrafting/auto-dying machine in the close future...

[@davelawri3]

This is epic, I've never tried anything like this, thanks so much

[@Nik-GW2]

Why dont you get autocrafters ready to craft and colour these shulkers ?

[@Foxeyify]

This season you guys don't seem as phased about lag as last season. Armor stands are used much more liberally and you are using chests a lot to. What has changed?

[@iplaymanygames54]

I would imagine they significantly upgraded the server, but I'm only speculating

[@emerald_archer]

@@iplaymanygames54 Mojang has also made Minecraft run a lot smoother recently.

[@DTRedmond]

A lot of Hermits have also adopted use of the Bobby mod and some performance-improving stuff as well. Notably, Bobby allows you to only render a small distance from the player while maintaining the look of a far render distance

[@ponderer467]

I think Minecraft is a lot more well optimised to combat lag in 1.21. Also they have so many mods to help reduce it

[@Ironsight_Army]

Once an armor stand is locked it acts just like any other block, so they don't cause lag.

[@ItsJonBaca]

A genius idea! I just know I’d fly right into those because I’m not paying attention lol.

[@natekarren659]

So will Scar! You’re in good company

[@ImBoredRn11]

You could change the chests to coloured shulker boxes to make it custom

[@qocket]

Why do MC videos attract the worst bots in the comments?

[@flameofphoenix5998]

Why not use renamed banners?

[@xisumavoid]

Isn't that obvious?

[@fisherpriceworld]

this is way cooler

[@kittyshippercavegirl]

because that's boring

[@josip_anton_bilic]

bedrock edition doesnt have banner markers on maps so youd need to use a trick like this, plus its more customizable and adds effort and more challenge to add markings on maps

[@benjamindebo9283]

All of this could of been done easier without the chat gpt garbage. 😂

[@rockybocci3547]

@@benjamindebo9283 yeah, it feels really icky that he used it /and/ acknowledged his usage of it in the video seeing as a HUGE amount of the hermitcraft fandom are artists and ai directly harms us; he's not a tiny creator so he's basically promoting that bs to a bunch of people who may not know better and may see an easy way to make "art" of their characters rather than learning to make art themselves or commissioning a real artist :(

[@benjamindebo9283]

@@rockybocci3547 exactly this.

[@miolaika]

he used it some when it was first getting popular and it was sorta weird then but to randomly return to shout out chatgpt is so weird from an otherwise great creator especially when he said he double checked all of the hex values with a converter... like why not just do that in the first place...

[@rockybocci3547]

@@miolaika and when he went out of the way to say it wouldnt be tolerated for the art gallery so this is frankly just weirddddd.

[@lorenzogeere1956]

Using chatgpt for converting hex values is incomparable to using it for art generation. If you've seen his livestreams, you'll know he doesn't see it as this big bad evil thing, it's here to stay, and might as well use it if it can save you time

[@DaveMillerOldSport]

Dude the map looks so cool

[@Epzb115]

What about barrels?

[@Paleo_Nico]

Damn, thats smart

[@eclogues_]

Disappointing to see you use ChatGPT, since not only is it not correct but it also uses insane amounts of energy. But very funny to see it give you a whole bunch of obviously wrong color codes that you had to double check anyway.

[@Deepseajello]

Correct me if I‘m wrong but couldn’t xisuma have just copied the values from the wiki into the color picker straight away anyway to get the hex instead of putting them into gpt?

[@DapperNurd]

What is bro talking about. It's correct a lot of the time, especially for simple stuff. It was not wrong with the color codes it gave him; he just double checked a couple of them to be sure.

[@TypicalLiam]

You should try to make a macro in order to quick colour the shulkers! I don't know how much you'll delve into this but it seems super neat, and if you do it could be a huge time (and finger) saver!

[@PinnysVids]

If you're using photoshop, you could try making an "Action" to apply a previously recorded set of indexed colors. You could then replay this action whenever you want. Switching between different settings would be harder though. I think I would just record several different indexed-color actions, and "play action -> undo -> play next action" to switch between them, until you find something you like.

[@kestrelgaming554]

When you were gathering all the blocks, I thought "that going to be a big build" and I weren't wrong ....wow Makes me think of all that map art Beef did for TCG (+Doc's card game 🤫)

[@scorchthelost]

At the start, thought ooh shulker boxes for color. Then when you did the Loglands logo, my immediate thought was about the shadow underneath. Etho did that with Shade-e-e's. I think it would be fun to prank someone with a map art done in shulker boxes above their base. Though it would also be cool for adding ambiance to somewhere like Jevin's forest or Impulse and Bdubs cybercity. Though, idk if there is a way to do it without affecting the map. I guess finish the build, lock the map, then place the shadow?

[@AnimilesYT]

The intro song at 0:19 reminds me so much of the Fortress of Meropide from the game Genshin Impact. The user "Super Zombi" uploaded "Fortress of Meropide - Theme II" in case you want to hear the resemblance. It's mostly just the sound of the guitar though xD

[@masoncox1248]

Playing Greg tech new horizons has showed me the forestry workbench is so helpful with crafting with single stack items! Too bad this is vanilla, nice job! That had to be a TON of work for cosmetic content. Appreciate the effort, loved the effects it adds to the maps

[@AspieGamer13]

An idea to make mass crafting easier: a mod called IPN (Inventory Profiles Next) It can be a mass crafting only mod if needed as it does still add many features you may not be enthusiastic to have (such as auto refill) Also, be careful using Minecraft assets in any sponsorships - as I recall it’s against Mojang TOS and I’d hate to see you get in trouble for that

[@sakuraio5514]

Satisfactory is such a good game. I have over 1000+ hrs in it and I still feel like I have tons to improve on! Can recommend. I also like to play with like 20+ mods installed so I'm waiting to see if they'll be updated to 1.0

[@jeffreyblack666]

Different height levels are used quite often, with lots of ASCI art for maps looking like mountains. Don't just use different levels, stack it up really high. And I think it is only north-south elevation that matters.

[@joelgraves9392]

In Photoshop and similar programs, we would typically adjust the color of the image like you're doing with either affects on a layer or adjustment layers. The visibility on these are toggleable so you can set however many variants you're working with and then just toggle all but 1 off and flip between them

[@salamisofdragons4597]

Once you have the color Index, you care carry it over, you can create diffusion for it. I do think you have to save the indexed colors as a different file type. But basically, once you have that, you can use it for ANY image. I don't know much more, but this should give you an idea of what to look for next.

[@mooing_cowmilk]

Any reason for not just clicking on a named banner with the map? (for simple labeling)

[@TCC180]

I like the customization options the "invisible ink" gives as opposed to simply clicking a named banner with the map, especially for something big like the season logo. That said, I couldn't help but wonder if you simply forgot that was a feature since you didn't even mention it. lol

[@moontravellerjul]

i've never really been a fan of sponsorships on content like this (read: hermitcraft) because these videos can feel like a nice break from what most other modern youtube videos are like. that being said, i appreciate the need to support your work, and i'm genuinely grateful that you only take sponsorships occasionally, rather than on every video. super cool idea with the shulker boxes! i realised after you showed off the chests that shulker boxes would also have a render distance limit and be coloured differently on maps; lots of work but what a cool effect!!!

[@DGundelach]

Not gonna lie, haven’t watched your videos for quite some time and actively had to go back to videos a year and older to check if I imagined that your mic quality was way better than. And no, not imagining it. Your mic from a year+ ago sounds WAAAAY better

[@rockybocci3547]

3:04 ive never been more intrigued than I am now . what the hell is "grian server"

[@kroznick1011]

Grian does run an MMO. Maybe he's played it?

[@akr4s1a]

@@kroznick1011 Wynncraft would have an icon, maybe its a testing or creative server

[@Wazuu3999]

THERE IS AN APP FOR COLOR PICKER NAMED "PIKA" FOR MAC OS maybe there is one for windows ?

[@ZackMuffinMan]

:)

[@Nobody-jo3tv]

28th comment. Before I watch the video, I already know: Silverfishes. Oh lol was wrong. Sky works too.

[@Greesher]

16:33 There’s a really helpful mod where you can check a box and enable repeat crafting I forget the name of the mod but it makes crafting single craft items a heck of a lot easier! I highly suggest it

[@squibitbessy7382]

That missing map could have been broken by a skeleton shooting a mob, as that is spawn mobs path find there right? Then the map item would despawn, maybe I’m wrong I just thought it’s a possibility.

[@natekarren659]

That looked so good! Don’t forget about crafters, though. You can set one up to craft and dye shulkers while you place them. That could save you some clicking :)

[@NightcoreBrawler]

If I was that good at art... I'd love to have my art put into this, However I'm not so I can't and won't be able to Submit anything...

[@I_XuMuK_I]

I think the proper technique of making these invisible ink logos would include building two auto-crafters for making boxes and for dyeing which could do work while you place colour by colour

[@kygigni]

Why haven't you build the loglands logo at y 320? Could the logo being so low be annoying for hermits using an elytra if the shulkers only render if they're very close to them? Maybe they could even die because of crashing into it with full speed.

[@amdkillaplays]

One thing I did think as I caught the end of Sunday's livestream was that its a really good thing that block orientation doesn't affect maps. It's already enough work to place down all those blocks, let alone having to ensure the shulkers are all facing upwards

[@jucabnubster]

I hate to say it, but I wouldn't be able to assist on your photo editing dilemma. I'm great enough at the basics of photo editing, just don't have the knowledge of it all. Really hopin you can find a nice solution, the project seems very interesting

[@ppen5258]

X why not use Banners and labels like Cub did in season 6. Seems like a lot of work and a weird eye sore for minimal value added. Not trying to rain on the parade, and I’m sure the other Hermits are good with it. Just seems odd you’d be flying around in the world at a certain height and be blasted by tons of shulkers in your face.

[@swedishfemboy05]

Just a little tip for the future X, you can dye shulkers by simplye sneaking and using the dye on them. Also loving the vids lately, keep up the good work!

[@LED-77]

3:08 what is Grian Server???

[@0topon]

i assume that this is the server for the Life series

[@baziliskyy]

for the map colours, you can either try to create a new gradient map with those 17 colours, or try to apply the "indexed colour" to a 'folder'. if the latter works, you can set the clippng mask to be clipped to the folder, and then every time you add an image inside that folder, it will have the indexed colour applied to it if neither of these work, the only way is manual :(

[@MrHTCLover]

Xsisuma have you tried biomass mod on factorio it makes a challenging world harder unless you like easy gaming then vanilla default probably more your thing....

[@Getsugaru]

Interesting shadows. I wonder how the block height influences the shadows; perhaps placing them nearer to the build limit would remove the shadows? 🐍

[@trendonmccamish6558]

I know I'm not the only one that thinks this but with beef having real life TCG Doc real life playing cards I feel X needs like a blanket or something of the hermitcraft map

[@mikeyallen6758]

I wonder if it would be worth making a mod/datapack to dye uncoloured shulkers by shift clicking with the dye. Just so you can fill out the silhouette of the shulkers then dye them afterwards. Might not be worth it for smaller labels but for the larger ones it might end up being worth it

[@molly_the_spy]

Looks like you already know about the map art generators. Since I don't use them I can't help you there. It looks more accurate than freehand but it just looks so generic. It's literally a low render picture with a limited color palette. Freehand makes it look like I want it to.

[@delta24242]

...Are we just not gonna acknowledge the fact that Pearl was just repeatedly dying during the outro (around 21:40 onwards)?

[@SquintyGears]

The signs wouldn't create shadows for sure but I'm curious about the other options. Do chests and beds block sky light?

[@thundermoon96]

You could possibly just write a quick script to upload everything if your image editing software allows it.

[@blank6184]

Converting images into the 17 colors looks weird imo since the colors are so limited, feels like you should be designing the markers by hand. The hermitcraft logo looked odd too, I feel like it could look a lot more accurate to the actual logo, especially since you're not limited to 17 colors.

[@bibrosko]

why even use a problematic ai tool like chat gpt in the first place if you used the converter manually and you editing program could do that as well...even if it couldn't I think using chat gpt is just bad

[@benjamindebo9283]

Thank you thought the same thing

[@wteff8586]

Good on you to take a break and leave the finishing touches for the next video! You have a reputation of being a grindmonster and I get like that too sometimes and sometimes don't notice I'm exhausted and should stop. Looking forward to seeing the result in your next video!