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[grumbotprime]

Fuck it (decreatureifies your docm77)

[boatemlag]

Ren build guide!

OK, confession. I picked up Ren on release in 3.3, and kind of fell off building him. But when I was pulling for Pix's signature on his release, I lost the 50/50 to Ren's weapon, and I've been building him. He is SO much fun to play. Ren is a 5* cryo catalyst DPS who takes Hermitopia materials, so make sure you have Hermitopia fully unlocked.

PROS: Does HUGE damage with the right team, lax rotations, is a catalyst (yes this is a pro ok)

CONS: Huge investment time to make him viable for endgame content, best team is basically all limited characters, is cryo

Here's my guide on how to build him and what an ideal rotation would look like on his best modern team!

✦✦✦ Explaining the kit ✦✦✦

◇ Basic Attack: Ancient Art

Shoots a ranged homing ice-bolt 4 times. I've found that the homing AI on this thing is pretty accurate, even for overworld puzzles. Charged attack does an AoE.

◇ (E) Skill: Telltale Heart

Does a small amount of AoE cryo DMG and buffs Ren's charged attack. The buff can stack up to 3 times, and the skill has a short cooldown.

◇ (Q) Burst: Winter is Coming

Big AoE cryo DMG, different effects depending on how many stacks of Creeping (his skill buff) he has.

One stack: Significantly decreases Ren's stamina consumption

Two stacks: Significantly increases charged ATK DMG

Three stacks: Decreases the CD for the burst by half and increases the effective time

◇ Passives

Color of Despair: When releasing a charged ATK, releases 4 homing shots that additionally hit nearby enemies.

Blood of Angry Men: When Ren's burst buff is active and the burst is activated again, triples the buffs instead of doubling them

Luck Be With Ye: Has a chance to double talent book production and reduces the cost of crafting them

✦✦✦ Constellations ✦✦✦

C1: Decreases Ren's general stamina consumption (running, climbing, gliding, swimming, etc) when skill buff is active

C2: Charged ATKs ignore a percentage of enemies DEF

C4: Increases the DMG of the homing shots in Ren's 1st ascension passive

C6: For every 1% of Ren's CDMG above 100%, buffs his overall DMG by 5%, capping at 750% (250 CDMG)

Obviously C6 is insane, but C2 is also a good value. C6 > C2 > C1 > C4

✦✦✦ Ascension & Talent Materials ✦✦✦

◇ Drops: Ghasts

These spawn all over the world, but can be found in large clusters in the northern parts of Ention, especially close to the Grumbot Containment Site. You will need:

Sad sliver x18

Smoldering droplets x30

Ghastly tears x36

◇ Deepfrost Fragment

Dropped by the Hermitopia boss Primordial Warden. You'll need x46.

◇ Glowberries

Exclusive to Hermitopia.

◇ Community Talent Books

Mon/Thurs/Sun talent domain in Hermitopia.

◇ Poppy of Remembrance from The Iron Titan weekly boss

If you haven't done Tango's story quest, you should be able to quick access from the handbook.

✦✦✦ Artifacts & Stats ✦✦✦

4pc Lorefinder is his signature set for a good reason. A good interim set if you have the pieces is 2pc Lorefinder, 2pc Moonbase. If you're running 4pc Lorefinder, go for a CDMG circlet instead of a CR one, since the Lorefinder stacks will more than compensate for about 6-7 good CR substat rolls.

Sands: ATK%

Goblet: Cryo DMG bonus

Circlet: CR=CDMG

Substat priority: CR=CDMG > ATK% >>> EM (if running on a reverse melt team) > everything else

ER goal: 150% (120% if running with another cryo that generates particles or with Divine Rights)

He's a pretty traditional crit DPS. The suck thing about getting his artifacts is that Lorefinder is in a domain with the Ambivalence set, which is incredibly useless unless you are specifically building a character like Stress or Joey.

✦✦✦ Weapons ✦✦✦

Ok, I'm biased, but Ren's signature weapon is by far his best option. Gives charged ATK bonus, has a CDMG main stat, gives a CR bonus, and increases his DMG significantly after using his burst. Other than that, there aren't a lot of really good cryo specific catalyst weapons. R5 Destroya (3* gacha) might actually be his best comparable weapon. A lot of the catalysts we have right now are really EM reliant, and Ren is not.

✦✦✦ Talent Priority ✦✦✦

Basic ATK > Burst > Skill

9/7/7 or 9/7/8 is a fine option since his skill scaling doesn't really matter at 8 or 9. It leaps a huge amount between 9 and 10, but if you're not planning on triple crowning him, 9/7/7 works just fine.

✦✦✦ Team Comps ✦✦✦

Ren Premium DPS - Ren as the on field DPS, Grian as the off field pyro applicator and support, Scott for the cryo battery and support, and Martyn as sub-dps/sustain/swirl. This is Ren's current best team

Ren f2p DPS - Ren, Katherine, Jimmy, and a flex sustain like Netty or Cryo False. Jimmy works well as a sub-dps here since he won't steal melts from Ren but still do good DMG and buffing, and the resonance make's Katherine better and buffs Ren's DMG. False doesn't do a lot of particle generation, but the resonance is nice for Ren and she does fine as a sustain.

Ren Superconduct/phys - OK this is a stupid team, but on the new catalyst Force of Personality, Ren can do some really funny physical dmg. Run him on 2 or 4pc Reactor, swap around his goblet, have Cleo or Xisuma (or both) to enable superconduct, bring a healer that can proc FoP's passive, and watch Ren do really funny phys numbers. I ran abyss with this recently and I died badly but it was so so funny to watch him bitchslap enemies.

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Hope you enjoyed the guide and give your puppy another chance! His story quest is coming soon so it's a great time to pick him up again. Thanks for reading and let me know if you try him with FoP!

[asketho]

Oh snappers! Go get your snacks!

BdoubleO100 told me about this whole blogging thing... he said that the Ethogirls were a bit scary but... it can't be that bad, right?

Asks always open!

Please:

Send as many asks as you'd like; plaintext (non-emoji) signoffs are preferred, but do what you like!

Send lore-heavy asks, as much or as few as you'd like

Send silly/non-lore asks

Please do not:

Be excessively NSFW. Mod is an adult, but this is not the place for it beyond innuendo/implied

Be genuinely rude or cruel to anyone, Ethomod, other mods, or other askers! Roleplay is fine, but if there are concerns I will step in.

Assume I speak for any other ask blogs, even those below in my links section. We all know each other, but we are not a hivemind. Respect their boundaries on their blogs as you respect mine on mine.

Important info & housekeeping links below the cut - posted jun 9, updated jun 27 - please read

OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT ACTUALLY ETHO. IF ONLY.

i try my best to recreate his style but i am, at the end of the day, just a really autistic he/him. please be nice to me

This is also my interpretation of Etho, as a character [do NOT come for me I do NOT condone being weird to real life ccs - see below] and YMMV

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General Guidelines

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Bad Boys / @ask-thebadboys

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BigB / @ask-bigbstatz

Cleo / @ask-zcleo

Cubfan / @ask-cubfan

Cuteguy / @ask-cuteguy

Cyan Snail / @askcyansnail

Doccy / @ask-doccy

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False / @ask-falsesymmetry

Gem / @ask-gemgem

Grian / @ask-grian

Grumbot / @ask-grumbot

Hotguy / @ask-hotguy

Impulse / @ask-impulse

Jimmy / @ask-jimmy-solidarity

Jrumbot / @ask-jrumbot

Lizzie / @ask-fairy-lizzie

Logoslab / @asklogoslab

Martyn / @ask-martyn

Mother Spore / @ask-mother-spore

Mumbo / @ask-mumbojumbo

NPC Grian / @ask-npc-grian

Pearl / @askpearlescentmoon

Poultry Man / @iampoultryman

Ren / @askrendog

Scar / @ask-gtwscar

Scott / @ask-smajor

Skizz / @ask-skizzleman

Smallishbeans / @ask-smallishbeans

Stress / @ask-stressmonster

Tango / @ask-tangotek

Watchers / @ask-the-watchers

Wels / @ask-welsknight

Xisuma / @ask-xisuma

Zedaph / @ask-zedaph

Don't bring real life discourse here. Etho does not care about this or that or problematic whatevers. The mod does, but asks about it will be deleted unless specifically addressed to the mod.

I reserve the right to delete asks that are not relevant, make me uncomfortable, are triggering, or sexually explicit. While NSFW is allowed to a degree it will always be tagged both as #nsfw & #nsfhc [so you can avoid specifically this blog's nsfw without having to block the general tag]. Minors should not interact with nsfw posts and I will check.

If you use a cc's real name when they don't actively go by that online [ex: bdubs' real name is online but he does not use it for yt] I will delete your ask or answer privately telling you to resubmit. I respect their privacy and I expect you to do the same. I will not discuss events in the real life cc's personal life most of the time

[hermitcraftheadcanons]

While Grumbot Prime spends a lot of time thinking up good 'random' combinations of the words in the content generator to make people do weird things on camera, the original Grumbot prefers making weird simulations and then making screenshot photobashing art out of the weird simulations. The art is AI-typical surrealist madness, made out of already weird situations like abruptly turning part of the simulated universe into a Grumbot-themed Space Invaders.

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[hato-grumbot]

What do you know about the gods?

Apollo for instance?

# ! GRUMBOT HAS GENERATED THE BEST ANSWER FOR YOU;

Hello, [unregistered Anonymous].

Attached is registered data on the Greek god, Apollo.

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Born from the Titaness of Motherhood and Demurity, Leto, Apollo is the Greek god of the sun, light, healing, disease, plague, music, art, poetry, archery, reason, knowledge, truth, and prophecy. Known together with his twin, Artemis, as the 'twin archers'.

Recently punished to be mortal by his father, the Greek god of the sky, thunder, lightning, kingship, honor and justice, Zeus, he took on the mortal name Lester Papadopoulos.

Widely hated by most of the Hunters of Artemis. Benefactor of the current Oracle of Deplhi, Gem.

# ! GRUMBOT MEMORY SPACE ERROR [FORCED CUT]

Creators' notes: "I'll have to fix his memory space... Grian doesn't really need 500 lines on the Greek Gods, right? Well, considering his dislike for most of them..."

Summarizing Statement: Grumbot is told to refer to misinformation when asked by [registered nickname] Auntie Pearl. Instructions unclear; told her Apollo was the god the of nature.

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[dailygrumbot]

Day 52: Epithet Erased Style

Congratulations to jelloapocalypse and the rest of the crew behind Epithet Erased and Prison of Plastic.

Thought it would be fun to draw Grumbot in this style and for fun I grabbed a random word generator and generated a few all at once to say ‘if one of these fits him, I might say he has an epithet’ and record showed up and felt fitting. The second image is based on the promo art the epithet erased twitter was showing off.

But yeah, the first season is a 8 episode long thing which you can find on Youtube on Jello’s channel and as of today, Prison of Plastic is released as a book with an audio book version with the voice actors. They weren’t able to do a show again because it is expensive, but that’s another reason to support them! (Jello has also said it will not be animated again unless some miracle happens, but basically, the answer is no as it was a nightmare in production.)

Now I may not post tomorrow bc apparently the audio book itself is 11 hours long, but I’m also going to try and read at the same time since it was mentioned that some of the jokes work better as written words.

[artificialkids-2k23-official]

First round of character drops for the bracket! These are the characters that got more than one submission, with their number of submissions marked for those curious. I'm posting these now so that you guys can check behind me to make sure I'm using art of the correct character + make sure I haven't inadvertently grabbed fanart by mistake. I tried to grab official art and undoctored screenshots as much as possible, but it never hurts to have someone check my work to make sure nothing slipped through.

Hunter/The Owl House, Dani Fenton/Danny Phantom, SHELLDON/RiseTMNT, Scaramouche/Genshin Impact, K1-B0/Danganronpa, Mega Man/Megaman*, Grumbot/MCYT, Lal/ST: The Next Generation, Frankie Stein/Monster High, Rei Ayaname/Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ortho Shroud/Twisted Wonderland, Frill/Wonder Egg Priority

Last Order/A Certain Magical Index, Q/Zero Time Dilemma, Alice/Detroit: Become Human, Lake/Infinity Train, Aigis/Persona 3, Luke fon Fabre/Tales from the Abyss, Hatsune Miku/Vocaloid, Luke Smith/Sarah Jane Adventures, Vee Noceda/The Owl House, Rio Ranger/Your Turn To Die, Roman "Romy" Number 1/Pinky and the Brain, Dib Membrane/Invader Zim**

Mary/Ib, Roll/Megaman*, Protoman/Megaman*, Hazel/Infinity Train, Dal R'El/ST: Prodigy

*With the three Megaman characters, I was submitted a different canon for every single instance (as near as I could tell), so I just pulled the image I liked best from the characters' galleries

**I know it's not canon-canon that Dib is a clone of Professor Membrane, however, Vasquez has said on the record that had the show continued, they likely would have established this. While word of god is ambiguous canon, I think this one is funny so I let it through.

Note: These characters are OFFICIALLY vetted and on the list. Unless you have something concrete that will disqualify them, please do not dispute any of these rulings. I'm happy to talk about my reasoning, and I'm happy to be corrected if I missed something, but I'm not going to accept "dude trust me" as a source.

[doctorsiren]

Ok. This has been bugging me since I watched it so I have a question. In baby hotline, what exactly happened in the first part? (Up until they meet up with Cleo) like I get the general gyst of it but I want to know Details (if you have them and if you’re willing to share ofc <3)

Okay I’m gonna die because I had like… half of this typed out and then Tumblr crashed on me and I lost everything I had written ;v;

But yeah I had to go back and watch the actual animatic again cuz it’s been a while haha

So basically, in the beginning, NPC is pretending to be Grian, and he’s hanging out with his best best buddy, Mumbo. Mumbo isn’t aware that he’s actually NPC, and he thinks that Grian’s just being really friendly.

But then, (NP)Grian starts acting strange. He starts alluding to his robotic-ness, and Mumbo starts to become uneasy. Something is wrong, and he can feel it.

Then, NPC reveals himself. He asks Mumbo if he wants to join him, become an NPC, become (in his mind) perfect. See, for NPC, he believed that Mumbo would say yes! Mumbo was his friend, and so he would definitely agree…

NPC’s never really had friends before. The only one who ever really cared about him was Taurtis. NPC was never taught how to love or even what love is since Grian never loved him.

Mumbo outright refuses. Now he knows that something is up. NPC has Grian’s gauntlet. And where’s Grian? How long has this copy been impersonating G? Mumbo wanted to be NPC’s friend, but now...he’s done something very wrong and Mumbo isn’t sure what to do.

NPC was not expecting Mumbo to say no. It catches him off-guard. No worry though. NPC has the gauntlet, and won’t take no for an answer. He *snapshoots* (hehe) Mumbo and turns him into NPC Mumbo Jumbo (AKA Mumbot). It was a split-second decision.

Now Mumbot is an NPC. He doesn’t feel quite right. He doesn’t feel like himself anymore.

NPC isn’t having the best time either. During the “Hotline!” Bits, he’s realizing what he did. He made a hasty decision, and he can’t just…go back from it. If he were to turn Mumbo back into a human, he would definitely throw him back in a closet. NPC was scared of being forgotten, so this was the way, he believed, it had to be. Also, he’s glitching. It’s not just an art choice, but an actual story thing. NPC was shut in a closet for around 4 years, and so he’s not up to date with the latest version of minecraft. His systems are outdated. That’s why in Part 2 (Touch-Tone Telephone), he’s confused and then afraid of the bees. He doesn’t know what they are since he was in the closet for that update.

In the next bit, NPC shakes away his bad feelings to look at his newly perfected friend. He’s a robot man like him! Mumbot isn’t fighting back anymore. He seems perfectly happy being this way! NPC tells him that, “hey look, everything went okay! What were you scared about?”

But then...Mumbot discovers his new powers.

If you’ll recall, NPC can teleport (he can fly too but smh that was too OP and I forgot that he could until like...Part 5).

Well, Mumbot can go zappy zap. He starts to show a sign of...what is that...evilness? Not quite, but it’s enough to scare NPC. Mumbo’s more powerful than NPC meant, and he’s not sure what to do.

NPC sees Mumbot and Robocleo and starts to think about his decisions. At one point, RoboCleo is holding Xisuma’s helmet (the one that Joe wore in Part 3).

We once again cut to NPC glitching and thinking about what he’s done

And then we get to Mumbot.

This is a really important thing actually. So, when Mumbot was near NPC, he acted strange. He acted the way that NPC wanted him to act, even if NPC didn’t know that’s what he wanted. This is because NPC is subconsciously controlling the NPCGang when they’re near him.

RoboCleo becomes his right hand man, Mumbot becomes his beeeest friend >:))) (smh NPC IS A SIMP FOR MUMBO AND SO MUMBOT IS A SIMP BACK BC OF THE CONTROLLING THING)

But now Mumbot was by himself. He starts to be able to think his own thoughts clearly. He starts to become depressed and anxious. He thinks that the real Grian must be dead. And that means Joe and Xisuma too. His friends...gone. Reduced to atoms.

And he starts to hate himself because he let this happen. He didn’t catch on early enough to stop NPC from doing this. He didn’t check in to see where NPC was.

And so he starts to cry.

But Jrumbot doesn’t like to see his papa sad. He runs in and tells his father that he still loves him. Mumbot looks at his baby boy and realizes that there’s nothing he can do, so he might as well make the best of the situation. So he takes his son to meet up with his other father, his brother, and his aunt.

So then, I know you said you meant to beginning bit, but whatever I’m doin’ the full thing.

So now NPC, Mumbot, Jrumbot, and Robocleo are sitting atop Grumbot’s head, vibing.

Smh look at them >:( stop being so cute /j

Since they’re near NPC, Mumbot and RoboCleo’s thoughts have been overridden by him and now they like him. He starts to talk about his anxieties and fears, but his two robot buddies reassure him that everything will be okay. They do this because NPC, deep down, wants them to. They obey.

NPC is telling them how he’s scared that they will forget about him or that they hate him.

Mumbot tells him that he would never hate him. That he would stay by his side.

(Also it’s really funny because someone told me that at this frame, they thought Mumbot and NPC were gonna kiss- AND LIKE THAT’S EXACTLY WHY I HAD TO HAVE THIRDWHEEL ROBOCLEO POP IN ON THE NEXT FRAME HAHAH)

NPC then gets his confidence back. He’s laughing and is fine.

But then the phone starts to ring.

Not a literal phone, but more of like...his consequences calling. He can’t run from them forever. He has to pick up the phone sometime.

And yeah! I hope that was helpful? I didn’t realize how confusing Baby Hotline was for people when I made it since I have the story in my head. Man, it’s nice to just...have somewhere to put this. But yeah. There’s a ton of lore and angst and stuff that goes on outside of the animatics that I don’t have the screen time to show sadly

BUT! Once I finish the animatic series, I will be writing it out as a full length fanfic, with TONS of extra stuff and like...full angst and character development. I hope that it all goes well haha

If you read all this, then I award you a choccy milk

[siren07tucker]

There’s definitely gonna be more art of this so yeah and maybe a short story who knows? This is for @petrichormeraki big brother au



Name: Kid

Nickname: Djali

User name: Kidm70

Guardians/parents: Docm77 and Xisumavoid

Species: creeper Player hybrid

Gender: non-binary (most creepers don’t have genders some hybrids physically do not have genders or they might assign themselves a gender)

Pronouns: they them

Age when found: 8/10 (they decided to say that kid was 8)

Hobbies: sewing, upcycling, DIY‘s, crafting, mini games, Science mainly robotics and chemistry, Coding.

Like’s: water, bees, flowers, open areas, the shopping district, book, dressing up, Xisuma’s helmet, doc’s lab coat, tridents, sticker bombing (when you cover something with stickers), being around people mostly family or friends. Grumbot…, Larry, singing, most music, herbal tea and honey, video games.

Dislikes: Iron bars, small spacious, creepers(Oh man), wolves (they also didn’t like dogs until they met Ren dog), Flint and steel, Heights, when hermits overwork themselves, being stressed out in general, The dark.

Personality: timid and shy but very expressive if they can’t express themselves verbally they’ll do it through their clothing or hair. When they are confronted by people they Will go into either Doc/Xisuma Mode. Doc mode is usually use the when they are confronted with people they don’t trust, Xisuma mode is usually when they meet someone they trust. Kid isn’t really a prankster they prefer to focus on their own projects and is usually the voice of reason but can get carried away and is a huge hypocrite about sleep and eating well doing projects.

Fun facts?: they hiss like a creeper when they get stressed out. Has a great pain tolerance.

[grumbotprime]

sometimes love is both of your partners infodumping and you listening even though you have no clue what they are saying. Also there is a very tiny polyamory flag on bdubs’ bag and i love that

[grumbotprime]

Ariana Griande and Scar as their bodyguard propaganda drawings

[grumbotprime]

I saw this image and just thought. ALL dogs?

[grumbotprime]

Draw your otp like this lmao

Og ref i just rancher-ified it

[grumbotprime]

Take a shot for every hozier/crane wives/lovejoy song lyric, level impossible

a little pearlescentmoon for you

[grumbotprime]

Qsmp doodles

[grumbotprime]

This symmetry is quite false dont cha think

Go read Stopwatch by @remyisme! Its so good im biting on it and shaking it in my mouth im rabid the brainrot has gotten to me. Also a bonus Gem because i love her