subscribe if you enjoyed this video! keep in mind that i had a few issues and had to change out the song in the intro so it isn't exactly perfect but anyway sorry for the reupload and the long wait Also i think at 5:49 i got confused with season 3 as thats when etho, impulse and doc were all added, NOT season 6!

Genuinly think its because the youngest players on hermitcraft are the same age as all the oldest DreamSMP, Lifesteal, and all the other Smps. (Exceptions apply) They are just more mature people, and they are less likely to do something that would get the Internet to hate them, therefore preventing controversy

Another thing about Hermitcraft: when people get involved in prank wars or PVP, generally both sides are very clear it’s all in good fun. Like the Turf war, for example. When scar dies in the vault, even though he’s annoyed for losing his stuff, you can hear the audible smile on his face for having been bamboozled. When they covered the perimeter, and Doc is swearing revenge. You can hear the audible grin on his face looking out over the perfectly normal terrain. Everyone knows it’s all in good fun, and even when there’s a genuine accident like the tunnel bore incident, most of the hermits know how to take something like that and turn it into content rather than hold a grudge. On the flip side, servers like the dream SMP don’t really acknowledge the role-play aspects out of character (unless you’re technoblade, which might have been why he was so much easier to watch imo). The story is the server on Dream SMP, rather than the server members inventing the story as the go, which makes for more compelling narratives but sacrifices the humanity and relatability of just playing on a Minecraft server. You could totally have a turf war with a friend over a public area of a server. You couldn’t have revive books, or mind-altering eggs in-game.

the hermitcraft smp is prolly the only smp to be unaffected by drama after technoblade's death

Bro made a video about Hermitcraft and briefly went over the history of SMPs without mentioning Mindcrack, the SMP that inspired Hermitcraft and the SMP that really started that sort of genre. Anyways, amazingly underrated video

I think one of the reasons why hermitcraft lasted so long and is still going is because the members don't take wars seriously. Everything is for fun and games, no grudges on others. Dream smp and other similar smps also have wars, but sometimes it goes too far to demotivating the members, and making the viewers treat the other side as true enemy. It just goes serious so fast. Grian always causes war, but every war is all fun and games. All of the hermitcraft members say to the viewers that the war isn't really serious and that the viewers shouldn't treat this seriously. The wars are also not that insane (like blowing up someone's base, or burning all their items, or killing all their pets). Rather, they're tame and funny (like placing a ton of boats on bdubs's town but still helping clean it up, or fighting doc by making a silly slimestone machine. They're also not violent (killing each other with op weapons, using end crystals, using pearls, cobwebs, and all other pvp tactics).

i might be biased lol but from my perspective, i also feel like season 6 was more of a .... grian's fault. lol. not only did he join and bring with him his massive viewership, but... he went full gremlin mode and created wars ever since.. which just made it even easier for new viewers to get to know others on the server etc. i say i'm biased coz that's how i found hermitcraft, through grian and his collabs with the others. and there's the chill side, definitely, the maturity of the members, and with many being PG content creators i think it's just easier content to view for a wider range of people.. like parents will watch with their kids. and those kids grow with it. and the older hermits mean there's humour for the older ones, but between scar's comedic timing and grian's infectious cackling at his own goofy antics, it's all still entertaining for younger ones too...

The controversies and wars on other SMPs: HE BLEW UP MY HOUSE The controversies and wars on hermit craft: Grian: Mushroom good! Scar: No, grass good!

hermitcraft, a server where a civil war is fun (Grian is definitely not poultry man)

Grian has helped out a lot with this. Many of the server wide drama was started by him, and he always makes sure things are fun and not serious. Along with this, he created the life series, which meant that if there were members of the server that wanted a general fight and survival type thing, they could join that SMP. Because the life series has an end, it’s clear that all of the things that happen are just temporary, and many members end up becoming allies with someone that killed them the season before. Even during these short seasons, going over to the members channel and the hermitcraft videos really show just how much these people are friends, and hold no grudges

another big part of Hermitcraft success are the seasons which gives the players a lot of creative freedom. Like take Grian. Season 9 = Peace love and plants season 10 = rugged fisherman who built a shrine to a mending book + a bureaucrat in the permit office also if I'm not wrong to add someone to Hermitcraft it has to be unanimously approved by all members

Watching Hermitcraft brings me both joy and great sadness. The Joy is that it shows just what is possible with Minecraft, if you're surrounded by people who have that level of dedication... The sadness is...knowing that when I tried to start an SMP, all of my friends bailed on me because they didn't have any sort of dedication at all... I would love the chance to play Minecraft with the Hermits. Xisuma's advice was, "Start your own Hermitcraft." I tried and it failed...It's just a bitter pill to swallow knowing that I'll never have friends like the Hermits... ...That I'll probably never BE friends with the Hermits.

The fact that I recognized every hermitcraft clip and identified which season it was from and whos pov it was and what time period in the season it was :'D Also- Etho joined in season 3, and was absent from season 6, so 😅

How mermitcraft became unstoppable then spends 5/8 minutes talking about other SMPs

I think empires smp deserves a mention! That got a lot of views

I started watching from season 8. And I love the interaction these creators have. It's like just friends hanging out, doing pranks and just making their own thing all in a centralize location.

Grian bring so much to hermithcraft when he joined in season 6. I think he is pretty much the equivalent of technoblade in hermithcraft, being the driver of many events throughout the season.

Doc, Etho and Impulse all joined Hermitcraft in season 3 - not season 6 as this video suggests.

Don't you love when a video named ''How Hermitcraft became unstoppable'' has only 40% of it entire runtime talking about Hermitcraft? That aside, it's a decent and concise documentary video, however I'll mention a few bits of wrong information: *5:27* There were definitely WAY more than 5, plus you forgot to mention GenerikB himself, the founder of the server. *5:48* Tango wasn't added in the 2nd season, the first season he appeared in he was just a guest to build an iron farm. He got added quite a while later. *5:53* _Wrong,_ season 6 only added Grian. But that one addition alone was far more than enough for the server to get the admittedly gigantic boost it got. The three members, Doc, Impulse and Etho were added in season _THREE_ *6:35* No. Hermitcraft _DID_ add a large number of members every season very early on when it was still starting out, but after Season 5 or so, the influx of new members really slowed down, without about one member every two years or so. Heck, seasons 7 and 9 didn't even add anybody! Your points about why Hermitcraft has stood the test of time though, are very correct. Hermitcraft chose stable and consistent popularity over getting _unimaginably_ popular and viral only to die down because it has nothing else to offer.

he starts talking about hermitcraft at around 5:20 . you're welcome

By the way, you show that season 6 was the most popular season in a part of the video, when it is in fact season 7, with Grian’s first episode sitting at 19 million views! Obviously not a big deal, but I think it is interesting how popular Hermitcraft was over COVID. Another interesting fact is that on TangoTek2 (Tangos second channel), there are around 20 multiple hour long livestreams with millions of views of his game Decked Out (a mini game on season 9). Anyway, sorry for the essay lol.

I think another reason they avoid conflict so well is because they're all either builders or redstoners, possibly both. While they can be good at PVP or other competitive aspects of the game, all members seem to share a like of making grand projects. Since they all have projects on the server they aren't inclined to start conflicts which could damage their builds or take away from time they could be making stuff. Basically, they're more builders than fighters, although they can fight... **cough cough** Lord Grian Dreamslayer

Hermits are just some old homies hanging out and having fun while being bit childish at times

I love the small detail with wilbur having sharp teeths

I think the reason I love Hermitcraft so much is that its just a bunch of friends playing Minecraft together, no insane roleplay, no bad blood, (almost) no drama, and the drama that does happen in the server isn't taken overly seriously.

One of the hermitcraft members (Grian) made the "life series" it is kinda chaotic, but its REALLY interesting and funny, there is a 6th season in the works rn im really hiped, and you cant leave the session unless you can't make it, so it has ppl active every single week. (Oh btw when i mean kinda chaotic i mean really chaotic)

Thank you for TfC mention. And another point- even when he died, it didn't kill the server off for good which i think nicely shows how the hermits got together

70%: talking about other smps 30%: hermitcraft great video tho, i quite enjoyed it

the server started with an insane player count in season 1 and was created by generic b. those 6 you listed are only the ones that are still there to this day. generic b went on to join mindcrack where docm77 and vintage beef are from, leaving hermitcraft in xisumas hands. which is a big part why it is still auround to this day. xisuma is just magic social glue personified

Tommy didn’t start the L'Manberg war(though he was heavily involved), Wilber did.

Not only hermitcraft Include grians life series

Super underrated minecraft documentary! I hope you go viral bro, you deserve it

I feel like lifesteal is trying too hard, they keep dying and using revives like its just not interesting anymore

2:23 I’m sorry this is awesome

I think it's worth noting that these gimmick pvp smps like Lifesteal were likely inspired by Grian's Third Life SMP. A series that is intentionally designed to be short-lived fun for both creators and viewers. Grian took what was great about Dream SMP (chaotic pvp roleplay) and made it less toxic by framing it as a battle royale contest: a game that can be equally as chaotic but is all in all just for competitive fun. Where dream smp decided to draw out the conflict to cause more fights in the long term, we weren't really there for the story but for the drama (let's be honest, none of those kids weren't shakespeare). Third Life and its variants hasn't lasted as long as the hermitcraft smp, ofc, because it can only last as long as grian thinking up of a new concept for the next season but there's something about the short season content that doesn't let the conflict simmer or be taken personally by viewers and letting them know that this isn't to be taken seriously. If these conflicts were drawn out to a longer season, it could be likely that the fan base would tskr it out on the players or player's characters due to their impatience of moving the story along. But the fact that the players are at a ticking clock, plus the general consensus that these seasons will only last 8-12 episodes, it's a lot more fast paced while giving the player's clear motivations through whatever gimmicks there were for every season.

Fun fact: hc almost died when the original founder left but xisuma not saved it by taking the role of Admin . Since he is there hc is what it is today so shoutout to xisuma

Another reason I think Hermitcraft is so strong is because it is family friendly but to a point where older and younger people can both enjoy the content. Also, everyone on Hermitcraft understands that conflicts that arise on the server stay within the server and dont let it bleed put into real life affairs.

Hermitcraft is a testament to how friendship holds people together.

I think there's also something to say about how some people do enjoy some more lore-heavy things and dramatics as well....so they can get that with the Life series, since they have a lot of overlapping players. The Life series tends to be a bit more dramatic, but because you have Hermitcraft alongside it, it's easy to see how these people are genuinely friends and having fun with one another, instead of fans getting lost in a fantasy. The Life series itself I think has also contributed in recent years, since I know at least for me, I first watched the Life series and then switched over to also watching hermitcraft because I enjoyed the creator's content. The Life series definitely hasn't been around as long, but I think that both Hermitcraft and the Life series balance each other out in a way.

#1 on trending! Agreed, I see many videos like this with different points and arguments, and we all have to agree that the HC community is one of the best out there. Whether you make Fanart, (like me) Animatics, videos, or just friendly conversations, it grows more and never really falls back. We are lucky to have the hermits :D

Actually GenerikB made Hermitcraft

I feel like one thing that hc did was add grain which actually made it even more fun (imo) yes he is the reason of wars but still those wars aren't dramatic they are pranks like how doc got pranked and most of the hermits act like siblings towards each other even if some of the creators left fans of hc still know how great the smp is :)

Filled with so much misinformation...

The life series have also been very enjoyable, and a lot of hermit craft members are on it.

Consistently is key, really. And they have enough hermit interaction that viewers like myself end up following along with more than one hermit(currently 6 for me) so when a hermit does take an extended leave like mumbo has done, we don't abandon hermitcraft. Season 9 saw mumbo do the least and partake in mostly nothing, never even finish his base... but it was without a doubt the most insane season for me even though I started my hermitcraft journey with mumbo.

The documentary was so detailed and well done. Appreciate the cool video!

THE TEETH ON WILBUR AT 2:23 😭😭 (wonderful and accurate addition to his profile picture)

The Wilbur soot image with sharp teeth was literally funny af LMAO, i also might need to watch hermitcraft, it's kinda interesting

2:23 Not the teeth on Wilbur Soot’s profile pic 😭😭😭 (because he bites)

I love how you took the overused "creep" "ped0" labels on thumbnails and replaces them with positive words like "perfect" and "innocent" bc soo many ppl think drama is the only way to get clicks.

I feel the need to say, Doc, Etho and Impulse didn’t join in Season 6. In fact Etho wasn’t in Season 6. All 3 joined in Season 3. Was that a brain fart where you said 6 rather than 3?

The reason why Hermitcraft is successful because it feels like they are friends who are playing games. Not content creators who are together for just the benefit. I mean you can frequently see them play other games. GIGS js a fine example of their friendship.

Brian joined in season 6 and impulse joined in season 3

I like how it took like 70% of the video to get to the point

people call dream and the dream smp cringe but its probably helped others gain interest in minecraft as well

Yoooo I'm that guy who made that one video HAHA!! Let's goo

This video feels more like a history of smp servers rather than a hermitcraft smp specific video

i do feel like hermitcraft is like the giga chad of smp servers

absolute BANGER of a doco. fr needs to be hired by netflix or sumn

I think another reason for the success is that they are season based so they are consistently doing new things so that it doesn't get boring. There has also been a lot more turnover in their history than the video suggests, you can find a Hermitcraft history video on KZfaq, it gives the scope of who has played and in what seasons and the reasons they left and the speculations if no reason was given.

Hermitcraft became a safe space for me after everything with the dsmp and later the qsmp. No drama, no hate, no creators turning on each other, just fun vibes. I hope it stays that way. Love the creators. Wish it was those creators I got attached to first instead of the other servers.

With the few wars caused (grain)everyone knew it was light hearted fun and not that deep. They wouldn’t go destroying the whole sever just because of it And something else that makes hermitcraft different from other smps is that it family friendly because like the dsmp badboyhalo would try to get people to stop cussing but failed meanwhile hermitcraft I can’t remember anyone dropping an f Bomb. Everyone on hermitcraft are also close and in the eps the hermits would normally chill with the other hermits without an aurgment

" But i doubt that would happen " Let's see how well that ages

This seems to forget GenerikB, the creator and original hermit

I personally enjoyed hermitcraft more than dsmp due to the fact they weren’t actively destroying/vandalizing (blowing it up) each other’s builds, it just made me sad when I see builds others made getting destroyed for the laughs

It's because the people on the hermitcraft smp are adults that live a life and function in harmony with society and fellow humans while remembering to touch grass daily.

bro cooked with this video damn. been watching hermitcraft for years and only stopped watching it cuz irl became busy.

Do you think the fact that there are seasons and restarts plays into why it lasts so well?

You said unique? Lifesteal was based off Grian’s life series, which was based off Demise, a hermitcraft event. I haven’t finished the video. Oh. You don’t fix it.

Yooo #1 trending congrats

I am seeing a slow decline in Hermitcraft. Player dynamics are taking over from building. Season 8 was the most blatant about it, but it's turning into more amateur playacting than it is about playing Minecraft. I got my start with Mumbo's redstone videos around the end of season 4. I binged the season and caught up a few weeks into season 5. It was fantastic, seeing the redstone, seeing the building ideas. I started watching other hermits, some I liked and many I didn't, and this build was interesting, that build was interesting. But these days...there's no building. There's just...boop here's what I built off camera. Here's how it fits into the lore of this build. Here's the story I'm telling. Now let's join up with Hermit X for the ongoing narrative where we take a beautiful mountain forest and blow a giant hole in it. The redstoners in particular have taken to linking to tutorials instead of actually describing what they're doing and how it works. At the same time, a lot of the hermits with the biggest subscriber counts are slowing down, getting quiet. Nothing of the world lasts forever. I'm not sure when Hermitcraft's time will come, but I'd be surprised if it lasts to twenty seasons.

Ah yes a video talking about hermitcraft with less than half the video actually talking about hermitcraft.

Never knew Hermitcraft was created three days before I was born lol

Bruh mogswamp's superflat world has same age as hermitcraft Its so coool

wait, it ends there? what about all the side quest (third life, secret life, ect) all made and hosted by Grian as a break from the main server while still filling the content void as to keep and grow their fan base and audience , you could have mad the video 10 minuets longer I got into hermit craft right at the end of season 6, season 7 was great (lets not forget that if you miss stuff there's a KZfaq channel (Pixelrifs, ect) who goes over all the events that happed during the week called Hermitcraft Recap), season 8 was great as well, Grian cant stop having wars but the way the other Hermits use it as a drive narrative to create lore/plot is entertain as it is interesting see how they try to combat against each other without just throwing swords all the time only watched the first half of season 9, its good but I've started to play other games or watch other youtube vids but one reason I mainly enjoyed watching was seeing them build stuff especially interior decoration they come up with some excellent designs, so hopefully by watching them I'll be a slightly better builder (I know there's tons of great builders but what makes Hermitcraft stand out is the variety of builders ( City, castle, fairy tale, terraformer ect) and seeing how different the style of the builds all on the same word gives an incentive to explore each district but hay that's just a conspiracy , a game conspiracy ( Didn't get the rights to the game theory phrase)

The hermitcraft starting section is wrong. Season 1 had a lot more members than you said, and was started by Generikb, who was actually rejected seasons later after asking to join again.

hermitcraft is probably the smartest and creative smp throughout minecraft

There actually a lot of facts in here that are wrong about hermit craft history and possibly the life steal sap I have to check my dates on that

Hermitcraft is amazing. I only currently watch Grian and Mumbo but there was a point where I was watching Tango Gem and Scar and Joel too.

Bro got through like half the video with almost no mention of hermitcraft

A lot of Dream SMP members are hated while proabably all Hermits having a clean reputation.

The 2 best smps in Minecraft history are Hermitcraft and How to Minecraft and I don’t think they will ever be dethroned

Cool video topic, but for a video that is centered around hermitcraft it's a little weird that you spend half the video talking about other SMPs. Plus, these were all relatively recent. It would have been really interesting to go further back and learn about other, older SMPs such as mindcrack. Also, at 5:27 I think it would have been better to say that these are the current hermits who were in season one, as the way that you have it right now implies that these 5 were the only original members, when there were a lot more. Additionally, I think it would have been better if you showed more footage from the earlier seasons when you were talking about them, instead of just showing season 10 footage.

The first five you mentioned for hermitcraft, they arent the founding members. They are just current hermits that joined in Season 1. Hermitcraft really started with Generikb (founder), Xisuma, Biffa, Kiershar, Red3yz, 777Static777, Hypno, and Sokar.

the teeth on the wilbur pfp are a great touch

“Creators like mumbo jumbo… all creating consistent content” just gonna ignore mumbos months long breaks from content creating in s8 and s9 I guess. But for real I think that he’s able to do this and just come back to hermitcraft speaks a lot for how good of a server and community hermitcraft has. Also I forgot who did create hermitcraft but it wasn’t xsumavoid, he just took over ownership in s2 after the creator left the server, and s1 consisted of a lot more ppl than listed it’s just that those are the only ones who stayed.

the implication that there was only 5 hermits in season 1, when those mentioned were just the ones that are still around today. kinda misleading

Hermitcraft SMP players finding the godlike brainpower to not touch minors (because that’s hard for content creators for some reason)

Everyone in the comment section has been saying this but, one thing about wars in hermitcraft is its for all just fun and games and laughs, no drama, no dramatic story, no nothin', but the wars was just there for the members and the audience have a good time, unlike dsmp on the other hand, the storyline were just based of wars, and the streamers were just logging in the server most of the time because of the, like said "storyline", in which imo destroys the minecraft smp essense, and the wars.. I don't know it feels like rinse and repeat, its like it has a cycle which is " Calm before the storm - The storm" and repeats, i don't know if I'm the only one who felt like that. Like said from a different videk "Good idea, but bad execution". I do admit I loved dsmp when I was younger, but growing up realizing watching mature people is much more enjoyable than watching the.. uhh other group (no offense to them but I think they'd agree with me since they've matured enough). Jeez that was long

7:35 Mumbo did leave the server for a couple months because of a burnout

this is such a funny thumbnail

This video honestly has a lot of misinformation in general, like how it says the server started with 5 members (didn't) and when people joined/left the server etc. Also mindcrack wasn't mentioned at all despite completely unrelated SMPs being mentioned I think you should have done better research before making the video so hopefully in the future these things don't happen

Number 1 on trending, wow great video by the way!

bro did not say grians name ONCE in a video about hermitcraft that is amazing i love this video :D

Genuinely the more I hear about dsmp members being outed as SA’s, pdf files, etc the less surprised I get (with exceptions of course).

i can appreciate this content but it feels as though the main focus of this video was the history of SMP’s as opposed to what made hermitcraft such a dominant force. plus, a lot of the information about hermitcraft seems to need some double checking. in the future, it may be a good idea to go back and forth between the falls of what previous smp’s have experienced and the positives of hermitcraft, instead of waiting until the 5:28 mark to start talking about them when the video is only about eight minutes long there is some amazing potential here and you’ve got a compelling storytelling style, but i encourage you to edit your scripts more in the future so your content can soar

love how they use grian clips almost exclusively but never mention him lol

the audio and subtitles at 7:14 tripped me out lol

When grain joined the server for the first time ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE War Lore Shenanigans Rebellions

Someone really should make a documentary about mianite because that was one of the OGs