Not finishing the back: ❌ Not finishing the roof: ✅

I just know that Etho loves showing Gem his redstone mechanics and Gem loves hearing him talk. They literally make such an iconic duo! 😭

Since your area is supposed to be a moody, slightly creepy fishing village, I think it would really help atmospherically, if you turned some attention to what's *under water* - as in: If you turned some of that dirt and sand into mud blocks, the water would look much darker, greyer, more mysterious.

"Floats like a butterfly, stings when I pee." Literally the most middle age man saying if I have ever heard one.

Gem casually hitting pearl with a sword and then flipping every trapdoor in her reach after taking some resources is the most sibling behavior I’ve ever seen

Etho just going “oh no” when the boys suggested he fight Gem, sums up his PvP history with her very well

"aww they're so cute! and I just kill them? :D" 3:41 that line out of context itself is the perfect representation of what Gem's personality is, I love 'em

I love how involved the hermits are with each other this season. It's really fun to watch

Honestly, at this point Joel, Etho, Impulse, Tango and Skizz need to accept their status as Gem Girls™ and start the official fanclub already.

“I swear I slept in that bed” would be such a good horn

Etho has been a maniac with redstone for as long as it exists and he still blows our minds with it

There should be an etho head hanging on the wall of the bait shop with a little sign under it saying “washed up etho-fish”

10:37 PLUTO YOU STINKY HORSE NOOOO!!!

23:29 the" i don't want etho to have more trauma than he already has"-geminislay and 18:43 " the uh-oh" -etho THE RETURN OF GEMINISLAY!

This episode is a perfect example of why everyone living close together and building slowly has been so awesome.

Some information for you! Ships or just wood in general tend to not rot when deep underwater due to lack of oxygen. Once you pull wood from a shipwreck up it will rot rather quickly as it gains oxygen again. It’s why in archeological research they immediately put pieces of wood under water again if they find it. (They will slowly replace the water with chemicals so they eventually don’t have to submerge it and can actually reconstruct and all those things.) It’s also why docks are more rotten above water than underwater. Maybe you could do something with that!

Hermitcraft itself is becoming a PvP arena.

I love how central Gems base is. It’s so fun seeing her with all the other hermits randomly showing up. It’s also extra wholesome when you remember Gem was a hermitcraft fan, and now she’s such an important part of it

GEM, your turning into Mythical Sausage with your barrels!!!

Honestly thought when Joel showed up, he was gonna go, "Did you do Fight Club without me?" xD

AKA The episode where Gem's base is absolutely swamped by her swathes of dedicated fans.

The beach really ties both base spaces (the village and the skull) together! Love how impactful it is without needing to be comoplex

Etho showing up at Gem’s base and asking what SHE wants was so funny!! Gem brings out the best side of Etho and vice versa! I love it

Even when she's not trying to be GeminiSlay, she builds a perfect beach PVP arena for training.

28:38 NEW HORN “Yeah, Etho’s a genius” - Gem

Holy crap, watching the Tango training with the spooky shaders was incredible and made a VERY different impression that I LOVED.

I like the idea that a giant died here a few thousand years ago. You’d see the skull formed into rock, but you’d also find more giant fossils in the area. So I like to imagine you have a rib cage or arm or femur (or just the suggestion of one) nearby where it could have realistically settled. The fossilized remnants of neck and spine could make a really visually interesting entrance that frames the doorway very tightly, but would make skull mountain feel less floaty/physically impossible, while forcing the eye to look through the portal. Especially if the inside is dark but with pops of magical color and sparkle, such as like amethyst with crying obbie and respawn anchors, purple glass, pearlescent frog lights, etc

Really loving how much more social Etho is this season.

Watching that little PvP brawl is one of the reasons I like the Life Series. Because there really does feel like the chance that anyone can win. Gem is generally considered to be pretty scary at PvP. And there was a moment in that where Scar bested her and went on to loose to Skizz. There is enough similarity in the skills of all the players that one extra crit here and one extra miss there, and it’s possible any player can best any other player in combat. I like that more random element to it.

"I miss Joel" Gem Says. "But your aim is improving!" My brain fills in silently.

Etho is such a mad scientist! His understanding of the game mechanics and his creativity in exploiting them is unmatched! The "accidental" arena is absolutely amazing Gem!!

with every episode she breathes more life into the terrain, the atmosphere around her land is incredible! :D

The hermits all love Gem and want to hang out with her. And are prepared to die for the privilege.

Pvping before the giant skull seems very fitting💀 and an ever-mounting pile of heads😈

I have to admit, I'm glad you got rid of the deepslate because it really did look like the skull developed a severe, upper-jaw tumour. I was sitting here saying out loud, "No, Gem... that's awful... your skull has cancer!"

You're going to need to change some of that sand for red sand from all the blood you've stained your beach with.

Timestamps that made me smile :) 1:02 Etho!

I'm having a blast watching Gem, the menace! Enters Pearl's home, takes stuff, hits her, slams the door, thanks her then flips all the decoration trapdoors. It's what friends are for xD

I really like the idea of the trident pvp arena being underneath the trident shop statue. Fits the theme really well and would get more people over to the shop to buy them

21:34 I really like the idea of a shipwreck/changing room/resting room. Would blend really well with the theme and make an excellent space for when the hermits want to spar and make it easier to set their respawn point

The accidental training arena (TATA) is also just compositionally a really cool space. The way the skull sits in the middle and the arena is framed by the beautiful guard shack on the right and the shipwreck on the left. Such a cool space.

Skizz's pyramid actually looks really nice in the background, feels tropical

6:39 You absolutely owe Etho a new roof. He invented a whole farm for you to utilize.😂

Oh, you have to place those PvP heads hidden around the cove and skull for the Hermits to find randomly. Like a "Hide and Seek" Game... :0

Love how your base is a community haven. Great terrain gem 👏👏

A gem episode a day makes sadness away

This is the best season of hermitcraft! I love all the hermit interactions, such wholesome positive vibes ☺️

I love your brotherly/dad relationship with so many hermits! It’s like they’re all your dad!

Only OG's will remember this video was called Let's Play Minecraft

"Let's Play Minecraft" best video title

I love the collaboration this episode! So many hermits it was a treat. I feel like ever since Pearl and Gem joined the crew everyone has been connecting more and I love it.

Its hilarious watching Gem dodge 90% of Scar and Skizz's attacks, and they land a single crit and she's like "that was a good crit!" Also I love how at 16:50 Gem is just giving PvP advice, and Scar is just in the back playing with the salmon note block. XD

Honestly, all this training that Gem is giving is giving me a sliver of hope that team TIES has a prayer in the PVP games in MCC this weekend, I'm so hoping that it works!

23:30 “I don’t want etho to have more trauma coming to my area “😂

I love Gem being a PvP trainer for the other hermits for MCC

I’m in love with the fighting club concept for this season 😅

having a pvp area right in front of the skull looks so cool!! the skull gives such a fitting atmosphere for pvp training ^-^

I'm loving all the interactions this season. There's so many more than there's been past seasons and I'm all for it. The terraforming is looking fantastic as well.

With all the incredibly fun interactions, with the slower pace, and with the awesome awesome builds season 10 is very very quickly becoming my favorite yet :)

Grian: I don't wanna do the back of my base... Etho: I don't wanna do the top of my base...

the texturing around the skull is looking great! i think the reintroduction of brown really helps highlight the contrast bedtween the backdrop terrain and the main thematic skull. could deffo benefit from even more contrast if you introduce muted whites extremely conservatively like diorite/birch/calcite/clay/gravel/mushroom stem to the points of the skull which would essentially be hiighlighted by light and transition it back into the main grey colors with lichen and your block palette gradients. The natural shadows created by the block topography provide some contrast between the skull and backdrop already, and your block palette has really great shadow blocks, just needs a bit more highlight blocks to really amp the contrast and emphasize the topography

"Floats like a butterfly. Stings like when I pee" - Skizz 2024

Can I just say- THE DETAILS! Oh my goodness, the big ferns, the Redstone ore, the texturing, the coral, the shipwrecks! This is the time of the season when I'm really excited, for everything! 😆 (btw, I would love to see a giant hermit crab from dredge somewhere, I loved that idea xD)

It would be funny to put some blocks on the electric lines as if they were birds. Anybody remembers that Pixar short "For the birds"?

That trident farm is an awesome idea.

Perfect spot for a crafter filled with the recipe for wooden swords - nice and compact way of storing them

This season of Hermitcraft is like the one year in college when you and all your friends manage to get assigned to the same dorm and just live in each others' pockets all year long, but without all the drama over laundry. I love the accidental arena and the rest of the new terrain!

I love the splashes of red in the terraforming. Some netherwart might look great in there, too!

Gem storing things in every single barrel in her base is triggering my perfectionism

Gem is trapped in a cycle of "Gem has to clean up the beach -> people come to pvp Gem at the beach -> GeminiSlay makes a new skull pile at the beach -> Gem has to clean up the beach" 😆

Honestly, Hermitcraft is the best thing to watch while I'm sick. I absolutely love watching Gem's videos especially

Gem: who's horse is that? My brain: stinky horse

Yes, yes! An excellent training arena. From there you can observe potential candidates and the best of them can be told about.... where to go to find out about the thing we don't talk about.

The animal crossing music for terraforming is an amazing choice

The way gem said "borrow from a neigbor" and then proceeded to enter pearls house with asking, smack her with her flaming sword, open every sinlge gate and trap door and then just go "thanks pearl! :D" 12:20

Gem: creating unintended PVP arena Gem: messing with Pearl and her base Just remember it's all fun and games.

I love when Etho visits!

If Gem was this confident in mcc she would be more feared

love how gem's bases now consistently have a pvp arena and a display of kills, it's very on-brand

You all are producing some amazing entertainment! Making some progress, shenanigans with friends, dropping some blocks and most importantly, having fun all along the way. Thank you so much for bringing us along for the ride. It's such a treat.

Ooooh you know what would be super cool? Like, giant ribs sticking out of the water to make it look like the skull is part of a ginormous skeleton

Gem's storage system just screams Grian!

I love how a bit of cleaning turned into a new little community area! Also, saving the darker palette for the inside of the skull is gonna look so cool

Ref PVP arena, it really reminds me of the beginning of the game Kingdom Hearts I on destiny islands! You get to play with wooden swords on a beach. Great vibes, and loving your series so far! ✨✨✨

I love how the Tango heads look like a little pile of gold on the beach.

Day got 10 times better❤

Master Gem and her students training on a beach beneath skull mountain is such a vibe

Great video. Excellent PVP bits. Impressive landscaping. Fun interactions. A+ outro.

Well timed. I literally just caught up in my binge of your episodes lol

ITS SOO GOOD I LOVE IT!!!! ❤ HAVE AN NICE DAY EVERYONE! 0:38

A bunch of people showing up and just watching you build is a quintessential Minecraft experience

I just want to day it's no doubt heartening for a lot of hermitcraft fans to see mistakes happen, builds don't come out perfect first time and things evolve through trial and error. I love that we're seeing less litematica 3d printed megabuilds and enjoying the more natural process of design, draft, edit etc

Yay! New gem video!

Skizz: "etho and gem.." Etho: "Uh-oh" 🤣 later on, also skizz: "that was a tuchas whooping.." 🤣🤣

Honesty just those couple rocks and terraforming as extreemly brought everything together so well like it really connected the whole area and made the skull so much cooler, skull definitely needs and an askew bottom jaw and a throat leading down into a deep dark cave, great job Gem, LOVE IT!

All the boys coming over for Gemini Slay lessons is the cutest thing

Yippee!!!! A new geminitay video!❤🎉

I was here when it was still called "Let's Play Minecraft"!

Joel being jet lagged is so funny

Etho never fails to impress! That trident farm is absolutely genius lol