I think Gem should make a series of short 1-5 minute long documentaries on all the hermits as Anthropologist Gem, talking about their quirks, bases and hobbies. It would be a really good introduction to the hermits while building on her lore!

Gem: "Stop asking for pickles! You don't even need them!" Pearl: "Nice argument. Unfortunately, I'm in your walls."

Capturing Pearl die to a tree without her noticing is pure gold

I love how Grian's fisherman craziness actually fits perfectly with your Dredge lore! He's basically one of your NPC's come to life.

The bit about Etho “who seems to be washed up on shore” Was genius and made me laugh out loud. That was an amazing pun.

Grian in the Rain: Fishing Grian in the snow: Fishing Grian in the Sun: Fishing Grian on Sunday: fishing Grian on sunday between 12 and 1 PM: Working at the permit office.

Gem says grian has lost it but seeing gem lose her mind over pearls need for pickles was the highlight of my day

I will never get tired of Hermits studying each other like zoo animals. They each think _they're_ the normal one. 😂

Gem: This horrible weather! Grian: *THE ELEMENTS OF GOD WILL NOT CONSTRAIN ME FROM MY FISHING*

Grian hasn't lost it, he never had it in the first place.

HELP THE BEGINNING I love seeing the behind the scenes of hermit's videos through other hermit's pov, they always look so silly.

The artist being a little deranged is very much a classic Lovecraft thing. Which I imagine Dredge pulls on to build atmosphere. Since most of the Cthulhu mythos was spawned from Lovecraft’s absolute terror of the ocean. Maybe you could give them a diary in the house that builds on what kind of creature of the deep is out there.

That's just normal British weather, summoned by the British fisher

The shiver down Pearl's spine when she discovered the Etho in the observation cage was hilarious

Pearl literally is just losing diamonds by leaving the pickles she bought. I love it. She's screwing herself over!!! LMAO

I’ve been doing permaculture for years! So glad you’re into growing your own food. Some tips 1. You can reuse soil for a different type of crop in the following years to save money and get more out of your soil. 2. You can layer your crops! Try growing peas above, and carrots below to get some extra space. 3. Trimming the bushes and vining crops at the perfect time can encourage more branching which means you will get more produce once the plant transitions to flowering and fruiting. 4. Save your seed. It may mean leaving a little bit of your crops unharvested, but then you will get free plants in the following season, and those plants will be genetically predisposed to growing in your pots in your home. Your plants will get better and better over time if you save seed. 5. Compost your waste materials and use them to boost your plants at fruiting/flowering times. This also means that when you weed, just throw the weeds back onto the pot to give the nutrients back (weed stuff before it starts to seeds if you’re gonna do this) 6. Hand pollinating flowers may help if there isn’t a lot of plant life to support insects in the area. It’s a very fun and cute activity.

Gem: You know what would really finish off this build? Me: Sea Pickles

Gem: Ugh what a horrible weather to log on to the server Also Gem: I wish I could keep this weather all the time! :D

I love Pearl and Gem's dynamic so much! it's so very easy to tell they're great friends and I love that. The pickles bit has killed me so many times already! 😂✨

The way Grian’s crazy fishing lore could fit into Gem’s dredge aesthetic

A small tip for the keep out signs on the door, if you use unicode squares or circles on the ends/ corners of the signs, then put grey dye and glow ink it looks like you have nails in the signs holding them up. Doing them slightly uneven make it looks like it was quickly and lazily put up.

Custom audio has been one of my favourite things this season. Ren's horns, Pearl's pickle pranks and the ambience custom mob heads provide to areas is just incredibly fun.

"Washed up on shore" is the best joke in this episode, which is already full of great moments

I would add a couple of mud brick half slabs to the roof of the beach house, it’ll give it a bit less of an “island getaway” look and more of a “this is straw being held together into roof form by mud” look! 🧡🧡

0:10 I don’t think Grian was ever normal, he’s just getting progressively weirder and weirder.

Gem gonna be a pickle made millionaire by the time the season ends lmao

A rancher here with some horticulture tips (especially for peppers). Anything tropical or sub-tropical aligned such as peppers, avocados, melons, güisquil. Since you’re gardening growing these is best inside; either in a pot or another container of choice. Eventually the leaves for them will toughen up enough that they can resist the cold or frisky weather (as long it’s not too extreme, of course). Then once they’re mature enough they’ll be safe enough outside. If it’s near a window or an area that gets enough sunlight that’ll be perfect for the seedling to sprout and grow. I live in an area where the weather is pretty unpredictable every year, and this strategy has saved me hundreds if not more from buying new seeds and plants constantly. I’d recommend growing herbs like mint, thyme, and sage. They’re great in tisanes and they are pretty tough plants. They’ll resist very abrupt weather. Anyway Gem love your vids. Keep up with the amazing content!

I think a tavern would be a great addition to the village! A place for drawn up sailors, travellers, adventurers and merchants to rest their heads overnight as the waters are too treacherous to navigate in the dark.

A pro tip for your peas. Harvest them when they are still on the small side. They are always sweeter and much tastier! If you let them get too big they can get a bit bitter and too dry. But I do agree growing things in your own garden and eating it is the best!

"Is he fishing?!" Que ominous lightly strike.

I love that Grian is just finding in a thunderstorm, unaware of the lightning striking around him😂😂😂

I love how Gem, Skizz and Grians builds all compliment eachother so well. Skizz' pyramid will be like a cool temple next to Gems horrible village and Grian is a great example of a citizen in a horrible sea village. Weird old fisherman outside the village if you will. Everything just looks so good together.

A jungle is slowly creeping over Gem's base and I love it. A rainforest pirate cove is such a vibe.

8:15 you know what I love? When there's an official path, built with stones and all or whatever, but it's so inconvenient that people just take a straighter line until it's visible as a path in the grass. I think that would make for a really nice detail for your paths!

I love the tropical vibes of the fishing village! Also, I had a good laugh when seeing your reaction to Pearl's prank! And finally, thank you for sharing with us your IRL summer adventures!

23:05 I think a little vendor cart on the other side of the path would be super cute! Like a shop keeper having a sale cart or something!

gem creating a base chock full of unknown horrors and creatures of the deep, failing to consider that the real horror was there all along........grian

Struggling to decide whether or not gem knows it’s an actual tradition to hide a pickle in your Christmas tree

Tips for your garden: You can grow peppers in the windowcill if you want Dont forget to put a lage climbing stick in the pot with the peas! They can grow up to 2 meters

Something to add to the side of the house could be some sort of line extending to the tree with banners hanging from it that are half destroyed, like it's the artists work that they used to display there before going crazy. Something to hang ominously overhead and ground the space while not being too enclosed like another roof/balcony

Boat: exists Lightining: why won't it SINK

Grian fishing in a thunder storm is EVERYTHING

The look in Grian’s eyes at the beginning is so Dredge! Reminds me of the comments people will make in that game when you’ve gone mad from being out on the sea too long.

Not advice but when I was young I grew peas and we had a big pea trellis on the side of our house. My dad made up a song about it that went like “Pea trellis, pea trellis, everybody’s jealous of our pea trellis.” XD

green glass for the head jars would make it look like its floating around in green liquid, plus white glass can be like bubbles

Honestly, Gen's mic being pushed away during the second pickle part is super funny.

"I'm going to lose it" - Gem. I'm already losing it laughing without waking others up.

Gem cosplaying the scientist from dredge that looks like Gem is just gold!

2:50-4:20 “Hey Gem, u got any pickles” Gem: 🤦‍♀️ 🤣🤣

Gem's little village: Artsy, quaint, anthropological(?) Mumbo's little village: Eclectic, business-y, BIG RON

I was fully expecting Gem to go pvp Pearl for the pickle shenanigans, not begin a case study XD

I don't think Gem will see this but there is actually a type of orchid that flowers on top of jungle trees because sunlight doesn't get through the thick canopy!

I think a cool thing to add to the base in order to make it creepier would be missing posters. Maybe the archeologist came across a curse and their house is more abandoned looking and there’s missing posters of them scattered around?

Gardening wisdom: 1. Leafy greens grow great in climates with a shorter growing season like Newfoundland. They grow quick too! You can easily fit two harvests in a season, one from May to early July, and one from mid July to September (you can still plant some now!). 2. Next year, to take your potted plant game to the next level, start studying soil acidity, drainage levels, and NPK requirements of plants (it sounds super intimidating but it's rather simple once you understand it!). This opens up the world of potted berry plants or other picky plants as well as making your own compost, which I find very rewarding.

You know what else you could add to your foliage? Pickles!

A tip for your garden if you don’t already know is that you always want to alternate your plants, your peppers might be doing bad if you planted them in the same soil/pot as last year ❤❤ hope that helps 😊😊

Gem: I think there may be something wrong with my neighbour Me: you just realised this now??!!

Hooray! An update to the creepy fishing village 😂 My tip for growing peas--don't let the actual pod/peas get too large. They're tastier in my opinion when they're smaller and younger. ALSO, peas are really easy to propagate by letting a couple pods dry on the vine and then saving seeds for the next year. There's something extra special about growing something from a seed you harvested yourself! 😊 GOOD LUCK 😊

Peppers are perennial! They can be overwintered in colder climates by cutting back the branches and roots and bringing them inside. We have a habanero that's 4 years old now! I highly recommend looking into it since you already grow them in pots. Also, some greenhouse plastic draped over tomato cages may work as a cold frame for your potted stuff. Depends how big the pots are, I suppose

gem in hardcore: UGH RAIN gem in hermitcraft: ah i love the rain :]

GRIANS FISHING ARC CONTINUES

0:25 Well, of course, he is anxious about his acceptance to the Council of GRAIN

I love to hear about peoples experiences with gardening! Especially with sugar snap peas since when I was growing up my grandparents lived in the country side about 20 minutes away and I remember I would walk along their gardens with my sisters and their old dog and pick and eat the peas straight off of the plant! A few tips for them is to make sure that they get quite a bit of sunlight and make sure the soil never fully dries out! They also might not be growing as well because there needs to be a bit of space in between each plant but I think that if they are all in individual pots they’ll be fine! I hope that your gardening goes amazingly! ❤️ Edit: I saw someone say something about when to pick them and I’d like to add that ripe peas are bright in color as well as crisp and sweet. If you wait until the peas are too large inside the pods, the pods get pretty tough and stringy. Harvest any over-ripe pods you see, as well, to encourage your plant to produce new peas. ❤

Your "Scientist Gem" skin is incredible! Props to the artist. :3

WAKE UP GUYS GEM POSTED

Love the new buildings. I have 6 raised beds and several pots for vegetables this year as well as a flower bed that wraps around 3/4 of my house. Growing tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, watermelon, peppers (also not doing well), onions, garlic, corn and giant sunflowers. If your peas are of the climbing variety, you'll have to trellis them so they don't collapse under their own weight.

Gem: Is he FISHING?! *thunder crashes and lightning flashes*

One thing about growing peppers is that you can get two years out of a lot of the plants, which definitely gives them a head start in their second year! Look up overwintering peppers--when they're in beds you have to dig em up, heavily prune, and replant in a pot to move into a cool spot indoors (in zones that freeze) but maybe if you're already using grow bags you can just prune? I put mine in the garage over the coldest months and had 2 out of 3 survive this year! The 2 year plant is 2.5 ft tall and around (it was printed back to 2 10" branches) and I've gotten 2 dozen peppers off it. The new starts (same variety) I put in this spring are barely a foot tall and have maybe done 2 peppers each.

I grow tomatoes, peppers, squash, leafy greens and herbs. I also can and preserve a lot of my crops. My biggest tip is don't try and do too much at once. Add a little bit each year and know exactly what you are going to do with the produce. That way you don't have 10 lbs of harvest and nothing to cook

The irony of gem doing a mission possible task without actually pulling the task, is quite funny.

"Hey Gem, you got any pickles?"😂

Im from BC (i had no idea you were also Canadian!) and one of my favourite things to grow is strawberries. I don’t have to replant them, they come back every year. I actually remember my grandmother telling me to pile on snow if there wasn’t enough on our strawberry patches because it keeps them insulated through the winter. Its just so satisfying seeing them grow bright red 🥰 And basil i have never gone wrong with. Its pretty easy and nice and pretty

Pearl’s prank had me laughing out loud. Especially the quiet mic at 16:21 with Gem’s exasperation really had me 😂

The pickle mystery of pearlescent moon has stumped the great scientist gem… 🥒

The cold open was gold! I love that Gem's whole Dredge themed base comes with her own spooky fisherman neighbor

this is by far the most peaceful episode ever. gem got to really work around her base without any visitors. LIKE, that is so rare compared to the other episodes 😭

I just bought Dredge and I don't think I've had this much fun playing a video game in YEARS. The art style, the perfect mix of comfort and horror, the ambiance, it's no wonder why you chose it as the inspiration for your base! I'm obsessed with everything you're doing! ⚓️

I love how if anything odd happens on the server it's either Doc or Zedaph.

You know what would go great instead of air blocks inside your leaves? Pickles.

So Gem is an SCP scientist, Etho's washed up, Bdubs has pulled a Judge Judy, Doc's playing Skyblock in the Hermitcraft server, and Grian is being Grian, but the Permit HQ is haunting him..

I loved the anthropologist/scientist bit, always fascinating to observe hermits in their natural habitat and to study their behaviour. The pickles though…she got you good there 😅😅😅

5:13 this man is washed up... on shore 😂😂 gem you genius!

the entire horror boating village project is probably my favorite thing you've ever done and seeing it evolve over this season has been such a treat. Truly inspiring and fun

For gardening sometimes its helpful to have your plants in pots so you can bring them inside if theres a cold snap. Overwatering was always my biggest problem so I set some alarms on my phone and kept a watering journal. This was such a good ep. The Pearl shenanigans and some new builds.

I love the scientist Gem studying Pearl

My dad can no longer get down on the ground to weed or take care of his plants, so his whole garden is in raised beds and pots! I know you talked yesterday in your stream about not having room for raised beds, but the pots still work great! My biggest tip is make sure the pots are tall enough to let the roots grow. He does have a greenhouse, but he also uses clear plastic containers as starters for his plants, throw away containers like what cakes come in from the grocery store (at least here in the US). They work great to get his plants started from seeds. Things will get better year after year, his didn't start out great when he moved plants from the garden to the raised beds and pots. He has also used buckets in the past for tomatoes, hang up a 5 gallon bucket, cut a small hole in the bottom, put the seedling stem through the hole so it's facing down, fill it with dirt and they worked great.

if you want to make the base even darker, you could maybe hire Cleo to do some armorstands that look like bodies underwater, or maybe some creepy fish from the game. or maybe even some skulls or skeletons on spikes or hanging from trees, if you really want to go into those darker elements.

The pay off for Pearls prank was glorious 😂

Scientist Gem studying Pearl and her pickle obsession is giving me life :D

Last year i grew some basil plants on my balcony, and i was not expecting how huge they got! definitely a good plant to start out when youre getting into gardening as they dont really need a lot of work

It’s be cool to do some ambient sounds of insects and stuff once you get into the jungle area. I think it’d make it feel like the jungle is slowly come up around you as you get deeper into the brush. Good for spooky vibes!

omg you were actually watching him! I thought he just added a screenshot of Gem there for the drama for his intro but she really just joined and saw that XD

I love how the hermits are so lucky when digging into the ground to find hidden shulkers/jukeboxes/etc

I GROW SO MANY VEGES AND FLOWERS IN MY WEE RENTAL GARDEN ! if u can't keep up w watering fill wine bottles w water and shove em upside down in the soil, also use tons of mulch! also! garages normally have to pay to dispose of old tyres, so ask for some and they will give em to u for free! perfect slight size upgrade to pots! Also wool/potato/coffee bean sacks are great growbags that you can get for free from the right people !

A cool building trick you can do is having a map in an invisible armor stand's hand and it's just a piece of paper with writing on it, maybe you can have them laying around in the artist's and ornithologist's houses

I love how Gem imbues the builds with character and lore... The paranoid artist storyline makes such a small build feel so meaningful! ❤️❤️

Im so glad ur enjoying gardening Gem :D im a village 'kid' so we have a huuge garden, its great. Here are my tips: give peas, tomatoes and any other taller plants support sticks! Peas will grab on by themselves but others might need to be tied. Also i think other types of pumpkins and squshes might do well in ur ground! We grow Hokkaido and they are great!

The flowers in the trees remind me of bromeliads and other colorful plants that live in trees! They grow in the trees to catch the sunlight that would be completely blocked out on the ground. The wonderful adaptation that allows them to do so is super sensitive, almost tissue-paper-like roots that absorb even the lightest mist! Lovely video as always, Gem! Thank you for making it!

Maybe, just maybe, Grian works like a werwolf but instead of transforming on full moon nights, he transforms during thunderstorms.

when gem said "maybe its like christmas decorations... but with pickles" it reminded me of this old tradition, i think its either irish or german but you have a pickle shaped ornament and you hide it somewhere in the house and the first person to find it gets to open their presents first