Deadly Dripstone Farm Chase!!! - Hermitcraft S10 #5

Dripstone farming has never been so deadly! Etho helps us test our new farm. Inspired by Indiana Jones!
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Season 10, Episode 5.
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[@KawsMeCal]

Zedaph gave himself a huge 66% off discount for those Mending books I mean the drinks of course.

[@thenopequeen]

Dw, he fixed it

[@Moramany]

FOOL

[@KawsMeCal]

@@thenopequeen I know I watched the video I just thought it was funny.

[@Andreeee75]

@@thenopequeenOf course he fixed. He read @KawsMecal comment.

[@Purrfect_Werecat]

that was pretty funny

[@bluecat2991]

Tango: Etho Tango: Don't help him Etho was skewered by a falling stalactite Tango: Nevermind

[@dbseamz]

Saw that from his end in the VOD, it was very funny.

[@TomSchillemans]

had me in tatters XDDDD

[@moonlit_sky127]

@@dbseamzdo ya know the name of the vod ? or the date lol

[@dbseamz]

@@moonlit_sky127 “Mob Music and Redstone Saviors” or something along those lines

[@arrow_awsome]

the best bit is that 'him' is in refernce to scar

[@theplaneshifter803]

You should sell tickets to this minigame. If the player survives they can have all the stone that dripped.

[@ca-ke9493]

Yes! I would love to see a longer version in the shopping district under the dripstone shop.

[@JeraWizard]

I got my irl friend watching Zedaph. He said, "He is in a prison of his own making."

[@smolbluegoblin]

"If a minigame scares you, you're doing it right" Zed, stop giving Tonestas ideas ! We're already getting tortured enough as it is with Ravager Hill on Zedcraft haha !

[@EvesterBee]

You know you’re true friends when intentional death is involved!

[@karaon4536]

Might be worth changing the blocks under the pressure plates (finish line) to mud/soulsand. Would be the same height as the path blocks allowing both pressure plates and to actually boat on them :D

[@parkerholberton4664]

Was thinking tripwire would work too, might be more aesthetic and a finish line, allowing for races?! 😮

[@tetsujin_144]

3:40 - (Amethyst crystal farm) "Not a very good system yet..." Well, do you know how automated amethyst farms generally work? There's flying machines that sweep through the area knocking out the crystals. If you wanted to gamify that, one game comes to mind: "Hole in the Wall", like on MCC. As the flying machine sweeps through, you have to jump around it to avoid getting knocked off the platform. Of course it'd be the same 2 or 3 flying machines each time but you might be able to find ways to mix it up a bit.

[@Taolan8472]

Doc did one last season in the wall of his perimeter. He could advise zed on such a project.

[@desmondk-o7148]

A flying machine crystal farm only needs two flying machines to work, but I imagine you could do it with 4 (one from each direction) pretty easily, just have to make sure each flying machine stops and turns around before it hits the other direction's flying machine, and with enough smartness, you could might even be able to make it so each time one of the flying machines goes off, only some (randomly selected) parts of it actually move, and then also if you did that right it would make the "game" part of it longer, as you would have to wait for enough parts of the flying machines to fire to actually harvest all the amethyst

[@MatthewWaltonWalton]

Randomise the order they trigger in perhaps

[@CalaCrisp88]

Love how etho absolutely understood the assignment at the end there lol-- "I have a secret mission in this round!"

[@anastasiia_v]

10/10 Etho rating! Well deserved!! I hope you get other Hermits in to play as well.

[@sambuma]

Etho and Joel need to play together.

[@DJDarkDarsi]

Ok, That Crocodile Dentist edit was SUPER well done, including the shake and I had to watch it back twice to discern the Enchanting table was edited onto the Croc and wasn't just a masked hole. Ravine Base Cake Update : I ain't doing caverns in the cake so I'll do up some false perspective fondant

[@TheColorCraftMC]

Etho in a Zed video is always a smash hit.

[@Ms.L.]

So true

[@emmalu55]

pun intended?

[@TheColorCraftMC]

@@emmalu55 you know it!

[@FinalHype]

This is going to be *REALLY* entertaining whenever anyone needs loads of dripstone! Imagine it - *Zed* "I made a dripstone store with a biiit of a twist. =) " *Random shopper* "What twi...?" (sees the mini-game) "Oooh... noooooo..."

[@spacelover4106]

16:47 this is literally that moment from Undertale with one of Papyrus's traps

[@Catastrophic_exe]

that was exactly my first thought when I saw that lmao

[@zachwillett5853]

I think Cub needs to playtest the Dripstone farm so he can reminisce about Total Chaos.

[@randomplotbunny]

The way I was taught was: Stalagmites MIGHT reach the cieling and Stalactites hold TIGHT to the ceiling.

[@rosebrown7002]

and I was taught stalaGmites for Ground and stalaCtites for Ceiling

[@tahunuva4254]

And I was taught that STAlagmites STAnd upright on the floor, while STALactites are STALwart as they hold onto the roof. .. I had rubbish teachers.

[@martijn9568]

In Dutch the trick is to remember that the word stalactites (stalagtieten), has the word for tits (tieten) in it. And tits hang, as do stalactites.😅

[@EmberNotes]

I just eventually remembered mites crawl on the ground and stalagtites are the ones that don't

[@PhilRose14]

@@rosebrown7002 G for Ground and C for Ceiling is just the easiest, by far.

[@mason2678]

When your walking around shocked at how pricey everything is, is reminiscent of a grandparent telling you that back in there day they could go see a movie and grab snacks for a 1.50

[@strawmann9183]

Hey Zedaph, if you're familiar with Ilmango's amethyst farm using flying machines and the MCC game hole-in-the-wall, I think it's worth seeing how you can merge the two. :)

[@tetsujin_144]

Yeah, I had the same thought! With some careful design I bet it could make a good farm *and* a good game!

[@kuro4841]

17:00 why not, instead of a pressure place, use tripwire? its seamless *and* you can finish /start the game at any position you want, giving it a little bit of a strategic element as well :D

[@_.-.]

Zed you are legally obligated to make a gold idol and place it at the end of the legally distinct Indiana Jones. Maybe any joke golden item you can think of. A Zedvancement trophy could also work

[@PeanutwormZ]

13:36 “can i read that writing? It’s too small. too small and squiggly!” Genuinely cracked me up, i love these vids

[@joew1237]

Now, since it's supposed to be a farm, I have to suggest a farm-type improvement: If you replace the carpets with half-slabs, you should be able to run water across the top when the pistons are retracted. That can function as a collection system.

[@LeopardMask12]

+

[@matusbuzgo8366]

@joew1237 some items would still get stuck inside the holes since they are smaller than half block

[@Amdor]

"Buy a drink for 3 diamonds, get book for free" *Zed pays 4 diamonds* oopsy

[@jsw973]

Finishing a video before commenting is nice

[@tetsujin_144]

@@jsw973 I never do. Better to respond to the stuff as I'm experiencing it. It's all "engagement" anyway

[@ethannguyen9638]

facts@@tetsujin_144

[@Erkle64]

It's okay, your comment helped because he read it and went back to fix it in the same video.

[@agarcest07]

and get 4 books lol

[@oxiwan4801]

the dripstone game was genuinely stressful to watch LOL i love it

[@N0Negatives]

Leave it to Zed to make the Hermits do his shop harvesting. True Tom Sawyer fashion. Well done!

[@Cheesius]

Got a laugh out of me literally in the first second of the video, that is some quick laughs!

[@exp8all]

The mini should be put into the shopping district. A diamond block per game. Survive to keep all the fallen dripstone, else walk of shame with nothing. 😉

[@dolphinjersey]

I still see Pop-Up- -Pirate- Zedaph, but love the name! A mingame to make harvesting the farm fun. Love it!

[@justpeachels]

one thing you COULD sell are dripstone installation sercives! a little handyman murder side gig no one would suspect... the game of demise may be over but i bet Big Salmon wouldn't mind a little help running the server >.>

[@OhBenWhyKenobi]

Zed, just move the whole thing in the shopping district and charge them diamonds for the experience, this is one of the greatest minigames I've seen recently. Plus, it gets loaded every time someone is in the shopping district. 10/10!

[@samschellhase8831]

Last season, Iskall made a manual farm for the crystals by flooding the entire chamber so you can swim around and easily grab all the grown crystals instead of having to climb around. Worked out pretty well, at least enough for me to replicate that in my world

[@vinot8374]

15:29 my man, its 3 diamons per... tea!!!

[@catntmeows]

Very few people pointed this out!

[@matias26635]

because shortly after Zed returns and pays

[@user-eu7rd9rf9v]

Bro he went back and paid watch the video before commenting

[@vinot8374]

@@user-eu7rd9rf9v sorry m8 I was too fascinated by zedaphs whimsy later in the video, completely forgot about this comment. oh wait I left me stove on at home ill come back to it and fix as soon as a can Xx

[@aharonvarna5992]

I'm really enjoying how Zed's base is coming together. all the moving parts, including the farms inside of it, whole ravine system. I love it!

[@drleal]

stalaGmites - Ground, stalaCtites - Ceiling

[@Anser_Crystallan]

I have never heard that one before

[@theforestofoak]

love this one, I remember stalagmites because M is two stalagmites pointing up, and stalactites because T is a stalactite pointing down

[@ThatChris24]

I am a simple man. Stalagtites sounds like stalag-titties which also hang. . .fool proof logic

[@dranorter]

Pretty sure this is the whole reason Mojang invented the word "dripstone"... so people wouldn't have to try and remember this.

[@Trauma284]

MIGHT reach the ceiling Hold TIGHT to the ceiling.

[@Craftidore]

"If a game scares you, you know you're doing it right" Ahh, so this is why Decked Out 2 was so good

[@chargoal_games]

The problem with your obstacle course is that there will always be either left or center free on every row, as there is no posibility of 1 1 0 combination (or 1 1 1, but that's intended). It's always suboptimal to go right as you can just weave between left and center. There're two solutions: - either rework the logic, so all combinations (1 0 0, 1 1 0, 1 0 1, 0 0 1, 0 1 1, 0 1 0) are possible (I propose this, but I don't actually remember how to do this, especially with redstone, hope commenters help); - or make every other row mirrored (so 0 1 1 is impossible in them), which is imperfect, but easier and will play its role just fine. It's possible you already did second solution and I missed it.

[@jbear7227]

As soon as I saw the coffee on your head my brain started singing, "Aaaaaa very merry unbirthday!"

[@jamiemunroe1046]

StalaGmites grow on the Ground, StalaCtites grow on the Ceiling.

[@BlueSunYoutube]

Where were you when I was in GCSE Georgraphy 😋

[@lcatwoman13]

Stalactites have a c for ceiling. Stalagmites have a g for ground.

[@tahunuva4254]

Nah nah, it's g for gravity-defying, and c for comfy

[@paronity8024]

Zedaph has an unprecedented amount of skill in the nether. :)

[@monsoonsheep]

The way I learned to distinguish stalactites and stalagmites is that stalacTITEs stick TIGHTly to the ceiling whereas stalagMITEs MIGHT reach the ceiling one day

[@casesandcapitals]

Zed casually demonstrating why humans can't be random. Having those two blocks go up together three times in a row IS random, but we see a pattern because seeing patterns is the human brain's favorite past time lol. I think Spotify had to make their shuffle less random, because of the same thing happening

[@Sergkx]

You could use allays for collecting the amethyst shards!

[@goldenwilliams]

You could use a tripwire hook at the end so you don't have to get out of the boat to not die

[@arthaiser]

the concept is great, but i would try to make it so that is certain that 2 out of the 3 in each section are going to always pop up, that way is almost sure that some maneuvering needs to happen if you want to end up alive. also, at the end would actually make a safe place for the boat to reach instead of it being a "when you are there just leave the boat" thing. other than that this is actually an interesting minigame.

[@Eggshellrabbit]

I love how passionately Zed explains his game, knowing that none of us have any idea how redstone works

[@SmerkyRandomised]

Ooooh, i was just catching up on the livestream where you upgraded the crocodile...i mean enchanter!

[@bluenono3821]

I think using some grey candles and taking one or two lanterns out to make a little more dark ambience would be cool, especially at the end. No one can get down there to change the light, if you know what I mean...

[@BlahCraft1]

You probably should remove the final pressure plates, or move them down a block, so the final area is safe to park your boat.

[@blaz2892]

Maybe a tripwire

[@Cykotiq]

how I remember stalactites and stalagmites it is "mites crawl up (your legs), tights come down"

[@eledatowle8767]

Don't know where you live, but I'm not visiting, LOL

[@phasorshift4676]

I came here to say this. This is how I always remember it 😂

[@rosebrown7002]

@@phasorshift4676 and I was taught stalagmites have a g for ground and stalactites have a c for ceiling

[@MatthewWaltonWalton]

I think I prefer the might/tight way!

[@Jacob-us5sz]

I'd love to see an interactive shop of sorts where you pay-to-play and receive whatever blocks you were trying to buy as a reward. Also for the drip stone shop you could sell tickets for your new mini game and players get to keep the dropped drip stone (maybe even only half if they die to raise the stakes)

[@sxesmwhtfld]

Probsbly much more complicated, but since the random piston setup is the way it is, technically going left (so toward firdt or second that are linked) is always correct which reduces the zig and zags needed. Dinno how compact a true only pick 1or2 of the three randomizer would be tho. Nvm, what i get for commenting before finishing lol! See you swapped bsck snd forth the randomizer on each row which is good enough(tm)

[@natewilson1718]

I'm a simple man. I see Etho in a video, I watch it

[@marshmiillow]

zedaph and etho is SUCH a good duo. minigames duo. i love them together

[@monsieurlimpet]

I think you'll find it's neither Crocodile Dentist, nor Buck(Book)aroo. You've made Pop Up Pirate.

[@santiagoruiz7490]

I love Zed's redstone. Such clever solutions for compacting stuff

[@emmaparkin8543]

If Etho gives a game 10/10 you know you’ve done well! Xx

[@ryanchasen5419]

Maybe your deal with Doc will actually be helpful. You can use the sand "profits" for your tinted glass

[@CubeInspector]

Lol i love the slime block boop out of the minigame when you lose. It adds that final touch that you didnt know was missing but which really ties it all together

[@glitch_infused]

3:52 take a look at the geodesy it's a tool for minecraft that shows you how to make flying machines to farm geodes

[@sebbes333]

*@ZedaphPlays* The mini-game, you can have a *"rising edge detector"* (detects a signal CHANGE: 0 --> 1, plenty of build tutorials available) that triggers the obstacles to start generating, and a "falling edge detector" (detects: 1 --> 0) that triggers the sweeper machine. of used normally, this will give a slight delay based on boat speed between the obstacles & sweeper start, however it is possible to cheese it by staying on the pressure pads (probably feels like stepping on a movie landmine...).

[@smugless191]

"mites crawl up, tights fall down That's my mnemonic for stalactite slash stalagmite" - from Deltron 3030 -Meet Cleofis Randolph the Patriarch. I will always remember my dripstone terms after listening to that song so many times. Although, I do like the "Stalactites are holding on nice and tight to the ceiling." for remembering it as well.

[@srekcuf5]

I've got an idea for a minigame! Operation: Sheep Sheerer. You set up a ton of sheep throughout the cavern and put them in really tight spaces behind interactable blocks like fence gates, Chests, and buttons. The goals it to click precisely so that you sheer the sheep without touching the interactable block. if you do, awesome you got wool! If not you are punished. it could be a loud unpleasant sound operation's buzzer or it could be a dispenser with arrows. Maybe add a time limit to try and get all the sheep's wool in hoppers.

[@d00mster53]

You could allays behind the side walls. They'll be released when you reach the end pressure plate and collect the dripstone so you don't have to

[@AngiLong]

For how to remember the stalagmites/stalactites: When I toured a cave once, long ago, as a child, I was told by the tour guide: "The 'tites cling tight "And the 'mites just might!" (Might grow up tall enough to join the 'tites and make a column, that is.) As to how to remember which one has the C and which has the G... C is on the ceiling, G on the ground! It took me longer to figure that one out.

[@Saturday_Jones]

This was a lot of fun to watch, thanks Zed

[@mac5565]

I always remember the distinction by the sounds of the words themselves: the "ct" sound in "stalactite" sounds crystalline and brittle, a bit like an icicle (and stalactites are basically just stone icicles), while the "gm" in "stalagmite" sounds heavy and strong, like the sort of domey mounds rising out of the floor which are stalagmites

[@colliewolf]

The amount of work you put into these never ceases to amaze! This is definitely a game I’d want to play in general, love Indiana Jones style chases!

[@djbabymode]

I love Zed & Etho interactions!

[@boudicaastorm4540]

Zedaph, you're on a roll with these game-ified projects, I absolutely loved the enchanter randomizer and I love this new dripstone game as well 😂❤ The only thing is, I'm thinking you might need to make it bigger if you're the sole seller - I know at least a few Hermits have been using the compressed block of dripstone in their builds. It has an interesting texture and makes for a good "gradient" in color schemes, and with it still being sort of new I know it's popular.

[@dreeph]

That’s true and also it would probably be way more fun like twice as long

[@frogmouth2]

I wish instead of making the stalagmite collection system a minigame, you made the stalagmite shop itself a minigame and forced hermits to play it.

[@tetsujin_144]

Imagine if Total Chaos were a dripstone shop...

[@brandenkadunce1933]

Was doing dishes while watching. Some water hit my phone just right to double speed just the red stone portion and after being really confused I couldn't stop laughing. Another amazing video!

[@oliviergirard24]

Hey Zed, maybe you should replace the ending line with a tripwire so that we wouldn't need to exit the boat to end the minigame ! This is a very funny minigame

[@CSchribbzzz]

I love the drip stone mini game. Reminds me of the jungle Crash Bandicoot levels and is genuinely intense!! So cool Zed!

[@erichvereen1988]

Harry: I can never remember what the difference is between a stalactite and a stalagmite. Hagrid: Stalagmites got an M in it. I always love that line in The Sorcerer’s Stone. Great game, Zedaph!

[@hiveinsider9122]

Alternatively, "stalactite" has a C for ceiling, and "stalagmite" has a G for ground. Or you can think of hanging on tite and growing up mite(y)

[@jabrow7135]

You could have set a random output for all of them but a locking repeater on the middle one if both the right and left active. Or you could have had a a bunch of animals on pressure plates and a circuit to alternate the middle line on a nore gate.

[@Voix1000x]

I’d love to see physical block storage. Like where you place sand into the system and grab it by letting it fall onto a torch!

[@TruthIsTheNewHate84]

You can probably use a tripwire at the finish so you don't have to get out of the boat. Although having to exit to boat adds a little more time for you to be struck.

[@rain596]

I don't really know where to comment this but I want to appreciate your podcast. it's quite fun and I love listening to it when I'm doing my chores

[@liamkampff1]

The way i remember Stalactites and Stalagmites is StalaCtites has a C for Ceiling and StalaGmites has a G for Ground :)

[@MatthewWaltonWalton]

The problem with that one is that you have to know how to spell

[@Wyrnikh]

@ZedaphPlays For your amethyst geode farm: If you use sticky pistons with chains attached and a small pulse extension on the pistons, more of the shards will be knocked free to fall or float instead of being caught by the budding blocks. Alternatively, if you submerge it, the shards will float to the top and can be swept along with a moving water layer to a collection point. (Only if you want to fight the water-red stone battle or prefer to collect “by hand” for better results with looting)

[@justonechessguy]

zed it looks like there is one random state that your random obstacles can't be in and that is having 2 pop up on the left. you can fix this problem by having two 1 to 3 randomizers because the first one will guarantee one goes up and then the second one will either overlap the signal from the first one making that set only have one obstacle or it could activate a different one giving 2 obstacles. doing the statistics in my brain says that their is a slight bias toward 2 obstacles instead of 1 but I think that would make your game even more fun. again this is 100% easier said than done but I think if you tried, you could do it.

[@andrewchapman2039]

You could swap out the line of pressure plates at the end for tripwires, that way you wouldn't have to get out of the boat (or tell people they can do that!)

[@joew1237]

Huh. This is the first time I think I've ever had someone explain a flying machine in a video. I've never gone and looked for that info, so I guess I know how to make flying machines now!

[@matrickjohnson6246]

Same. It's so much more simple than I expected.

[@apexbrachydios5385]

Tango in the chat at 22:54 is amazing

[@lilpixie25]

Love it the drip stone farm! Such a cleaver idea to make a boring task fun🎉 Can’t wait to see the end product of the blaze farm :)

[@marpheus1]

That solution at around 13:00 is EXACTLY what Tango needs for DO3! That way the safe way home would not be predictable anymore

[@notagoat281]

There's a slight problem with the random selection of obstacles. Specifically, we know that the leftmost one and the center one will never be up at the same time. Because of this, we know there will always be a path in one of those two lanes. This means you never want to be in the rightmost lane because there is a chance that both it and the center lane right next to it could be blocked and you'd need to go 2 lanes over to get by. Meanwhile, if you're in the leftmost lane, you know if that's blocked you just need to move 1 lane over to the center and vice versa. Edit: actually it's kind of a major problem since it makes it so you can pretty much ignore 1 lane entirely. You can _kind of_ mitigate it by changing which one's a 50/50, but it's still biased.

[@notagoat281]

One way I can think of to fix this would be to still have 2 randomizers, but the first randomizer determines if the second outputs 1 or 2 items. The second randomizer would be filled with 3 different items, with each one corresponding to one of the 3 obstacles. The problem is figuring out how to do it in a way that fits under the game.

[@Yamin_yasmijz]

great job on the 10/10 etho rating!! amazing video as always

[@jonathangreen6707]

I regret not watching you in previous seasons. Youre amazing!

[@Bee.Marsh31]

Ive been binging your solo series from years ago and the fact youre now a hermit playing with etho is just so great and wholesome. Well done zed !! Youre awesome 😊😊

[@desmondk-o7148]

Love the dripstone farm minigame!! I also feel like it has the possibility (if you aren't getting enough dripstone production to stock your shop) to make it a lot longer (double or triple the length or maybe even more), maybe with a bit more variation in different kinds of hazards as well

[@subsonicdeathmonkey]

Etho would like Zedaph because Zedaph pushes the boundaries and experiments with Minecraft. A wonderful hangout.

[@hiveinsider9122]

A slightly extended version of this would make an excellent minigame in the minigame district methinks. Or at least slightly harder somehow

[@Shortnamesareoverrated]

This was amazing!

[@jrogey]

Another fun, if a bit sharp, adventure. Zediana Jones and the Dripstone of Pointedness could be a good, though long, name.

[@ExaltedDuck]

for the amethyst crystal harvest, doc had an interesting approach last season... 3 flying machines that were basically moving walls in each of the x, y, and z directions but with holes for each of the amethyst seed blocks so they would shave all the shards off as they passed. Not a perfect 100% harvest but pretty reasonably thorough for the amount of time saved.

[@tetsujin_144]

Yeah it's a pretty common design for amethyst farms. The tricky bit is that every geode has a different layout, so the farm has to be designed around the geode you've got.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

I've been enjoying this season's shenanigans so much! :) Great concept and execution.

[@miniciominiciominicio]

great episode! i remember commenting on an etho episode back in season 8 where he trolled us straight up by hitting tab and remarking that both you and mumbo were on teasing the audience with a potential collab… then he just laughed and said it was a sign he was way up past his bedtime. i laughed but was so sad lol but then in season 9 we got your creeper music collab and now in season 10 we already get a minigame collab!! love it!

[@matthewziemba7526]

The m shape and "tite" trick is new to me! When I was a kid, I was taught that it's "stalaCtite" for ceiling and "stalaGmite" for ground.