This is probably the most we'll ever see of X in a HC episode

The fact that you were faster than a script is honestly very funny

First we got an Etho Setup, now an Xisuma Hand, damn we are blessed these days!

I love the "as long as I don't TOUCH the profits, it doesn't count as selling it" approach. The next step is a hopper that takes out the diamonds and stores them nearby - for when the proper owner of the permit comes along, of COURSE. You never touched a single shiny rock. Wink.

I prefer the audio from the headset, it feels a bit more vibrant, while the phone audio feels a bit more dull

I love the "wool street" idea. Such a clever pun.

Hey X, I’m a sound engineer and figured I’d explain why. First of all phone’s have insanely high quality mics now a days. The other thing is the phone caught a lot more reverb that was probably being cut in OBS and made you voice sound more full.

I love how season 10 has seen the builders like grian and pearl try redstone in one way or another, and the redstoners like you and mumbo try to up their building game

Maybe the exclamation mark can become your signature element in the shopping district! It is an X-clamation mark, after all! Also, I like the little book of lore in your new shop :)

You gotta get a wolf onto the side of woolstreet and name it The Wolf of Woolstreet 😂

you’ve got an advantage to the clicking game as a guitarist/bassist! as a cellist myself, the minute I saw you switch to the left hand, I was like oh yeah, he’s TRAINED for this with quick finger changes in music 😂 absolutely love the shop! it makes a perfect little corner to that street, and the earthy vibe made it feel nice and cozy. it’s given me inspiration for my own world! thanks for a fantastic video!

The Hermitcraft squad will go down in history. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication. I love seeing all of you create a beautiful little universe all together. I can’t wait to revisit these videos years in the future, X. Have a nice day :)

phone audio is better but it also is picking up what bounces off your walls. im surprised you dont have a "streamer mic" set up but then again Grian bought out the stock for his cruddy headset so his audio is always consistent. i know another youtuber h2o delirious has pretty much done the same because his regular voice sounds so different on a professional mic set up.

I just loved how the building “flows”. Nothing is crammed and the block palette is really beautiful

I love that you and Joe both immediately thought of the same ways to warp the intent of the permits in a way that didn't directly benefit yourselves

forget Etho lore... we got Xisuma lore!! Love the new shop :D

i love how bdubs’s one shop popped up an entire neighborhood in the shopping district. this season might be on the track to having my favorite shopping district

Your phone definitely sounds deeper, but I wouldn't call it better because of the reverb. You might be able to get your headset sounding better if you mess around with an audio equalizer, maybe boosting the bass a bit to get it sounding closer to what your phone sounds like. It can be a bit of a process, but making lots of small changes and deciding whether each change makes it sound better or worse can really make a lot of difference with that sort of thing.

9:33 i am so glad that you manage to pick up on the futuristic vibe pearl was going for

I gotta say, I LOVE how the Hermits are approaching the shopping district this season! You all make sure to incorporate the thing you're selling into the build, which leads to a lot of unexpected designs that most people would never consider (such as using rooted dirt and hay bales for a building roof, for example)! Its just so cool to see you guys make obscure blocks look good in such unique ways! I especially like how Gem used Birch Logs (one of the most hated logs that nobody ever uses) in her moss shop. :3

Xisuma, I love the logical way you approach building. It makes it easy to follow your thoughts, and also as someone who is trying to improve my building it is an interesting perspective.

For audio, I would definitely get a standalone microphone like a Shure SM7B. Headset microphones are often worse in quality compared to phones, but phones pick up the echos from your wall since it is further away from your mouth. The sound comes across as more natural from your phone, but having the echo makes it worse for the listener, even though your voice is higher quality. TLDR: Don't use a phone since it adds a lot of echo. A standalone microphone is much better as it will have good audio quality and reduce the echo.

Your phone audio sounds a little messier with the echo, but it is also highlighting the deeper tones in your voice more. I slightly prefer the cleaner audio from the headset, but it is missing some of the richness of your actual voice. Your phone is also probably much closer to the way you hear your voice in your head. It's hard to get good audio from a small microphone, but phone manufacturers put a lot of research and development into specifically capturing voices clearly. You could probably use an equalizer to get a similar tone from your headset, or you could look into different microphones and their dynamic ranges. Your headset mic may be designed to make your voice clearly understood even over a bad connection, which would put more focus on higher frequencies to make sure your consonants come through. There is so much depth to understanding microphones and how they give a particular tone or sound to what they are recording. I only know a little bit about it, but enough to know that it can get very, very deep.

Pearl sells those too at her truck, they are a little bit more in the back area of the truck sell space :D

absolutely loving the vibe of Market Street with your addition makes the place feel so much more alive like shipments come in through rooted to supply the other shops via river too

Headset audio is 1000% better. Phone just has to much echo and will get annoying very quickly

I love how the shops Bdubs created have inspired so many Hermits to add to it in their own styles

Should defnitely incorporate a wolf into your later Wool street build. A wolf in sheep's clothing (wool) makes it double relevant!

i personally think your phone makes you sound like a completely different person hahaha also, your rooted dirt shop is so cute! love the colour palette!

X, you should display your permit on the lectern with an armour stand!

The Wolves of Woolstreet is so dang good!!! I need Zed and X skins wearing high end custom suits.

x you have truly improved a lot in building throughout the years and this build might be my favourite from you of all time (so far!) it adds such an amazing new feeling to that shop neighbourhood while still fitting in perfectly. it has been a joy seeing you discover new ways of looking at building and taking inspiration from so many different place. keep it up!!

I love how all the hermits are adding to the shopping street. We can easily distinguish the building styles but they all work together to make those streets beautiful and cozy.

Gonna be honest...I initially thought the fingers in the thumbnail were breadsticks. Guess I'm hungry (it is almost lunchtime). Time to watch the video.

At my home we truly thought you were trying to have bad audio all these years so it would sound like Doomguy. And the phone sounds really bad too because of the room reverb. Nope, the solution would be a high quality dynamic mic (not compressor) on a mounted boom arm. And some panels (or shelves of rough/soft things like books and plushes) to the left/right of the recording area.

I love seeing how proud all the hermitcraft members are of their builds, and how most of them are really trying hard in them. Your rooted dirt shop looks awesome!

Cool to see you only use one hand. I'm also a guitarist but Ive done a lot more drumming so i alternate clicking between my two hands when i butterfly. So regarding sound, phone is better cause it has a wider frequency response. you can hear the lower parts of your voice, but their is a lot of echoing because of the phone.

what a gorgeous Rooted! shop, the lore, the variation in blocks but it also ties each piece well. the booshes and plants too, ah so good!!!

9:32 thats actually the intention, her build style this season is "solarpunk" which is kind of a blend of futuristic and nature

Love how the shopping district is turning out such an awesome conglomerate of building styles

X is getting to some cheeky bussiness with The Wool street. I hope he and maybe Ren start more underground trades with their Log Land

I prefer the audio from the headset because its more of a calming sound and I dont have to turn anything down. The phone audio yes is louder but catches every sound.

Can we just appreciate that X actually beat Hypno’s script? That's impressive as heck.

20:05 The phone audio sounds so much more realistic, like it went from 2D to 3D

Regarding the audio. I wanted to comment to say i have no preference one way or the other. Some people might then say "why comment?". I think it's important that you know that some of your audience have no preference. Great video! Loved the build. :-)

Cheaty guitar fingers LOL yup that has to be it. Nicely done. You've got the skills to shark fellow hermits at this game but you don't got the game to get fellow hermits to wager haha. A very Xisuma sort of problem. ^^ I think the phone is fuller sounding but it's not great. I'm not a sound engineer though so I can't explain it. I still prefer your regular audio!

Phone sound has too much reverb - understandably, because it's much further. It will also pick up too much keyboard and mouse Headset sound has too much compression, which makes it flat, but overall I prefer it

X: "my finger action" Perverts: "Oh great he finally said it"

So fast you beat a script!! Legend

Xisuma butterflyclicking in 1.20 wasn’t smth I expected lol

dang xisuma can click fast!! he sure would be good at something like oh idk bedwars maybe??

The shop looks phenomenal, X! I love the docks in the back and the leafy overhang and the rest of the details. My favorite shop design so far this season!

Me having to click and find my place again

The phone sounds cleaner (your voice) but also messier (ambient, reflections)

"Finger action" X be careful, Cub is listening at all times now.

14:20 if you put the exclamation mark at the beginning of word, it would look like some root-related console command (changes absolutely nothing, just a small easter egg for some pc enthusiasts)

loved the video keep it up

I'm a new viewer and I recently started watching your content, x! I really enjoy what you do and its so fun just watching how you create and build, including all the fun interactions you have with the other hermits! I just wanted to say that I think you're super cool!

Using the Hay Bale was really clever it blends perfectly with the other blocks I think your a very good builder but your definitely getting better absolutely love the shop

The headset sounds better in my opinion

Honestly X, what sounds better is probably setting a mic stand on a tissue box from costco. (Actually they both sound fine but I wanted to do a silly)

I loved the building segment. Brilliantly done, easy to follow and felt great to see each logical of your design!

I love the mix of timelapse and cuts for progress in this video. It makes it feel as if the viewer is present at every stage but not dragging through the monotonous details. Well done, I have enjoyed it!

It's back finally

Funny how inflation is even making its way to the hermitcraft server

i actually love that stall setup for the wool, it's really cute

Fantastic build X, really enjoyed your thought process behind it

What happened that xisuma reposted the video?

I'm super early that almost all comments were from bots with explicit pfp.. why is this still a thing on YT smh

In order to pass through these woods, you must bring us some Shrubbery!!!

Seeing X's hand is like seeing something forbidden you're never supposed to see.

Reupload….ok

Idea for a shop design: explosion of colored wool with giant sheep flying out of it like superman

I love the headset audio more because it sounds more clear than the phone audio, and i feel like the phone audio captures more of the background noise

Classically trained bass player here: rotating your wrist in the sort of hammer-on/pull-off motion to alternate between 3 fingers is the way i max out my clicks, larger the muscle groups the faster and more precisely you can move :)

Why did he upload the video then put it on private, then reupload it

I think the headset sounds a lot better. As well, with the phone, it sounds like it's only in one ear or at least much more in one ear than the other while the headset is balanced. The phone audio is definitely louder, but with the tradeoff of quality.

Beautifullll build X!!! Love how you walk us through the thought process behind each step gg's man!

Rooted dirt shop looks awesome! Love the vibes!

12:10 in the Netherlands a lot of older houses near a canal used those cranes on their houses to indeed lift goods from the water into the building. It’s actually very common for those kind of buildings to still have the cranes. If possible I’d say to try and see if you can do something similar! Just google canal house and you should get plenty of examples!

Really love how deep you get into describing the other's build styles!

the rooted shop is beautiful! i love all the work you put into the environment around the shop, it's really a highlight of the market street now

Geez X, that rooted dirt shop is wonderful! There is so much detail and compliments the other shops, X really is getting better and better at building :D

Watching the movement of your mouse to “talk” to Hypno is actually kinda cute. Like, when we don’t see that mouse movement, obviously you just see the screen movement and it makes sense because you would move your head when talking to people, but I think it’s really interesting to see how that mouse movement corresponding to the “talking” movement from the hand and mouse to the “head” of the character. It’s a strange translation of how you connect to people.

CLOSE UP HAND mouse & fingers reveal lmao I didn't think you were actually going to do it. Super cool :) Love the Woolves of Wool Street motif! And a very cool ROOTEDW (I can't see the exclamation mark before I see a W...) shop. I like that you're wanting to become a better builder this season. Trust me, it's happening and I'm excited to see it! Having all the blocks in your enderchest really helps out with that, I remember Etho saying something about his own enderchest. I should say though, just because Joel/Bdubs go super detailed with their builds it doesn't make them "better" than another builder. Obviously they're beautiful but that street is starting to blend together and become a mish-mash of every single block in the game. At least Stress' neon shop still stands out.

The 2 towers look like 2 Diglets with hats on.

Love the shop X!!! Adding a yellow outline around the banners if you can would probably make them pop more, I believe thats how Bdubs did his. Keep up the great work this season

love that building X it looks great! I would say the headset sounds better audio wise, whilst I think I can hear some slight clipping, it is much more condensed and warm compared to the phone which feels more echoey

The build looks gorgeous!

I am in love with that shop build!

I like the pergola! I play a private LAN with my daughters. I’m going to borrow your idea. ROOTED!😂

Right now I would say no to the phone but I think it's because it's giving that hollow room sound. Maybe some more sound absorption in the room is all it needs.

the shop is absolutely gorgeous

That build is really cool! Kind of makes me remember your season 8 base somehow. I look forward to more builds from you this season!

This season has been best season yet. Love all the collaborative builds

I just finished watching Cubs episode of making the shop, so you intro was quite literally a seamless transition!

X!! this shop is so pretty! your building was already amazing but is definitely approving :DD

X, I love following your journey to becomming a better builder, and as such have a some notes about your shop. (All of it of course just imho). - First of, the ideas behind all of the elements in the build are great, they build lore, tell a story, and make you more invested and interested in the build. You love to see it. - That said the piglin armor stand is a confusing element because it's a piglin, which has nothing inherently to do with rooted dirt or your shop. But if it was, say, you (as with Doc in the wood shop), then it would suddenly have meaning: Here's X, who's discovered the magnificence of rooted dirt, he's holding it up for everyone to see, and selling it because he must share its wonder with the world. The piglin could of course still work, but it would need some sort of intergration/tie to the shop to do so. - The area of your build that could improve the most is the palette. The other builds in the area share one thing, a destinct bottom and top palette, whereas your build is only brick. This makes it a bit one note to look at. So I'd suggest experiment with replacing the top with a different block palette. The same goes for the top garden area, the floor is almost all rooted dirt, which sort of makes it lose its significance, and doesn't really display why rooted dirt can be such an effective block to use in your builds. And also the dock area, the rest of the build has delapedated and run down features, so the dock being in such a prestine condition is a bit of a clash, it's supposed to be used frequently, so tell that story! - Which bring us to the last note, details! Your build could use more of them. Of course, placing the right details in the right place is a tricky skill to master, so getting ideas and insight from the master builders on the server is highly encouraged. A few things I would do would be: Add ladders at the end of rails, maybe signs in between those ladders and/or trapdoors under them, so as to envelop the haybale roof more. Replace one or two of the fences in the wall with a sign, or maybe a trapdoor. Make the dock more busy with barrels, shipments of rooted dirt and other fun stuff I haven't come up with while writing this. And things that would make the roof more interesting to look at. Keep it up X, you're already a good builder, and with dedicated effort, you're gonna be a great one in no time. Also, headset audio is definetly better in this case, because your phone picks up ambient noise from your room due to it being further away from your mouth. For a true comparison, you would need your phone close to you, as though it were a mic. Also also, if you really want to get into making your audio sound better, you can always talk to your resident expert Impulse about it ;)

Glow lichen and vines could be a nice touch on the water exposed sides of the rooted dirt shop.