#hermitcraft tcg series 2

[salemoleander]

So Creo has released a Checklist for Series 2, but I'm picky about info organization & it was missing a lot of the things I wanted out of a summary page (such as. being only 1 page) so I made my own :D Yes this took like 14 hours. Yes I had to recreate a bunch of pixel-art from scratch. I regret nothing!

Patch Notes:

Enlarged checkboxes to allow for writing numbers in a printed version, if you want to track quantity vs just knowing you have A Card

Holo cards aren't on their own line, reducing overall document to 1 page rather than 2

Added images for all Alter Egos

'Alter Ego' symbol now indicates if a card is new in the series, as opposed to solely indicating 'Alter Ego' player cards

Card Rows color-coded to indicate rarity, in addition to symbols at end of row

Icons added for Item cards (pixel art recreated based on site box art)

[bucket-hat-tea]

Feel free to reblog if you'd like =)

[inksidze]

very glad to have the opportunity to create these TFC cards for the Hermitcraft TCG series 2!

[ink-ghoul]

All the cards I made for Hermitcraft TCG - Series 2 !

Zookeeper!Scar cards were a collab with the lovely @cocoabats 💕

[joehills]

Here's the new artwork for my Rare Joe Hills alter-ego card!

It takes a special artist to get excited when I ask for something creepier than Jonathan Yeo's King Charles III, and @luigra absolutely nailed this piece!

HermitCraft TCG series 2 is available for pre-order until the end of the month at: https://creocards.com/collections/hermitcraft-tcg-series-2-alter-ego#joehills

[alienssstufff]

The Great HC-TCG Tournament Finale of Season 9

1/2 of a collaborative work betweeen @shirahoshiumi and myself for the Event Section of @hermitseasonzine !

[ notes + commentary undercut ]

This work is a two parter dedicated to the beginning of Hermitcraft TCG by VintageBeef. In this one - I drew the background and Hoshi drew the hermits of the SECOND HALF to this series so be sure to check our other piece FIRST!

[due to size limitations - this is also a compressed version. You can find the full clearer piece in the zine itself]

An slight in-depth breakdown into some of the design decisions when translating Cub's TCG arena from minecraft to proper architecture for our composition!

Drawing the UI of all the screen would be one of the last things added to the bg. While most of the hermit profiles I did to follow Hoshi's designs, designs of other artists and hermits you can find throughout the zine.

Season 9 was my first exposure to Hermitcraft and to be able to see it through to the end not to mention be a part of a such a beautiful tribute to the season I am grateful. BIIIG honours to have worked on two fantastic pieces with Hoshi, huge shoutout to the other contributors, and many thanks to the mod team for making sure everything stays running ^_^

[theminecraftbee]

being in true sexyman nostalgia mode today (on account of. IT'S BEEN ONE YEAR BABY.) i think one of the most fascinating things about it is that we will never manage to do that again. like, not in a "we couldn't organize it better" way; there were better ways to do the spreadsheet, we would just turn off comments on posts and anon asks from day one so that we wouldn't then get people accusing us of censorship while we tried and failed to control the tide of things that ended up in the comments and inbox, we'd definitely have a WAY higher non-hermit contingent, both thanks to qsmp and thanks to the sexyman blog and medusa now having MUCH wider reach to other corners of the fandom and the original spread not all rooting at me, etc.

but the reason we couldn't do it again is that i don't know if we could ever replicate the exact circumstances that lead to it blowing up quite to the extent it blew up.

it was while tumblr polls and doing tumblr poll brackets on tumblr itself was still new-ish, and people were still excited about them. the idea of a mcytblr bracket was basically brand new; i won't claim we did it FIRST (because i have no idea if we did and doubt we did), but certainly we did it big first. so there's that; we can never again invent in real time "shit people are sending us threats about fraud lets legalize fraud because its funny, we can't stop it, and that neutralizes that drama as a thing anyone will take seriously", and then in turn accidentally invent a fandom culture of. um. wide-spread voter fraud.

(i don't know if we should apologize for, uh, causing the specific way mcytblr voter frauds. i still think it was better than the alternative at least, especially after seeing how so many other polls crashed and burned after us. there were MANY things we could have done better but i have seen SO MANY ways we could have done things worse since then so i think we came out looking pretty okay.)

but also: february 2023 was a very different time in mcytblr. we were in a hermitcraft dead period, where most of the hermits were either on vacation or playing tcg (which was fun, but didn't end up generating that much fandom activity by that time in february). the former dsmp crew was very much doing Nothing (and in that awkward space when the entire fandom knew dsmp 2 was never happening, but also people were still claiming it would happen, so it was just... busy waiting). qsmp didn't exist yet. there was no ongoing life series and wouldn't be for some time. i think even the dominioners and lifestealers were in a fairly dead zone. there was very little new for people to be excited about, mcyt content-wise.

enter: our poll. our poll which cleo then thinks its funny to call out on twitter. our poll, which was not only new mcyt content for the fandom to interact with (thanks to the fact we KEPT GETTING CC INTERACTIONS???), but participatory.

for about two weeks, we were the mcyt event de jour.

and like. the thing is. now we're in february 2024. mcyt is BOOMING. a new hermitcraft season JUST STARTED. we came off of vault hunters before that. meanwhile, qsmp just restarted and is, if i'm understanding correctly, booming. they just added a new guy! the two current juggernauts of the fandom are in FULL SWING. i honestly think we'd be somewhat overtaken by the fact things are actually happening in fandom. there's stuff to do that ISN'T go insane about a poll.

and it's not new, and we've seen it all before now, and frankly, it's hard to cause a mass hysteria event TWICE. lightning in a bottle, as they say.

i think part of the reason we all just REMEMBER mcytblr sexyman so much is that we could never, ever recreate it, so it remains crystalized in a single moment in time, impossible to replicate, forever memorable.

anyway: HAPPY ONE YEAR TO THE JOE HILLS SWEEP BABY,

[waaxfeathers]

hey bros and gals and non-binary pals i have smth to say

i like hermitcraft and the lifeseries!!!

i didn’t originally feel like posting about hc or the ls but i realize i want mutuals that have shared interest. if you:

like hermitcraft/minecraft/life series

OR

are an avid desert duo junkie

OR

love decked out 2/tcg

OR

make art based on the block men

OR

all of the above

i want to be ur friend. reblog and i will follow u.

[offline-nobody]

god gives his toughest battles (trying to decide whether i want to spend all my money on the hermitcraft tcg series 2) to his silliest soldiers (a university student who realistically shouldn’t spend all their money on hermitcraft tcg series 2)

[salemoleander]

I was admittedly a little dubious when I saw the 2nd series of the HC TCG wasn't just adding alter egos, but was redoing allllll the card art. It felt like it could just be a way to drive more sales, a la ~oooh this is basically a new card bc of the changed art, so now you want to collect this one too~.¹

And as more and more cards have been announced, it is extremely evident that my initial cynical assumption was wrong as hell. This is a labor of love.

The original cards all being done by 4 artists was completely understandable logistically, but that inherently limited the time & attention any single card could get bc oh my gd that is so much art to do in a short span of time.²

Every single card announced for Series 2 stuns me when I see it, because you can sense how much the artist enjoys and cares about and knows the context of who they're drawing. I know it's cheesy to say that's all visible just from a drawing but it is.

It is a massive undertaking for the Hermits³ both logistically and financially to hire & work with so many artists. It is also a massive display of trust on the part of fan artists⁴, to meet halfway between hobby and profession and work with creators.

The respect and collaboration between the Hermits and the artists/creatives within their audience is the best aspect of this community to me! And the HC TCG (and the Scarland Artbook) really exemplify what's possible when a bunch of weirdos with shared admiration for each others' art go "okay fuck it, it'll be hard but what if we made a cool thing together"

Footnotes below bc of course a Salem post has those

¹ which to be clear if that were the case, get that bag! I have just become too jaded by gacha games to get excited about 'meh new variation on an existing thing'

² I very much do not want this post to imply the OG artists did a bad job; they did an amazing job, that inherently couldn't be as focused when doing ~20+ cards apiece. The series 1 common Mumbo, Etho, Impulse + Cleo cards (each by a different artist) all 100% achieve the quality this post is talking about enjoying in Series 2! I thought about deleting this whole paragraph to avoid the topic but I found 'tacitly implying the Series 1 cards didn't achieve this' to be much ruder than outright saying what I mean & giving context

³ a collective of video artists with no centralized authority. Or country. Or business. Dear lord.

⁴ if you're like 'oh well that's not really risky': yes. Yes it is. Have you seen how People On The Internet Are.

[kikunai]

well i guess i can finally announce that im a contributor of hermitcraft TCG series 2!!! excited to be a part of the team

[foxxology]

Info Masterpost

Carrd with all my Info

Cara | Twitch Tiktok | Youtube Kofi

My ask box is: OPEN [Askbox Boundaries] Commissions: OPEN!!!!!!

Tag Directory

General tags for searching:

#foxx art time - All my art is here #foxx commission - to see my finished commissions #foxx just got a letter - all my answered ask box messages #foxx comm sheet - for my commission info

Series specific tags:

#Skyfell comic - my original comic's main tag #Skyfell comic talks - lore discussions and the like #It Spreads Comic - main tag for my Hermitcraft S9 AU #It Spreads talk/s - discussion of the AU

Notable work:

Emotes and Icons for:

RenDog

MythicalSausage

Reckless

- RenDog's Collector's Edition TCG Card - Hermitcraft TCG Season 2 Artist - Critical Role Chronicles of Exandria Mighty Nein Vol 2 - MCC TCG Sky Battle Artist - It Spreads Comic (Hermitcraft S9 Sculk/Warden Grian AU) [Full series] - Sapphire Stained Cobalt (Critical Role Beaujes comic)

[valoisfulcanellideux]

My 'new Hermit' thoughts and predictions

Might as well record these thoughts here, so people can come back and point and laugh once we know who the new Hermits actually are ;)

So far, we have a few clues from the existing Hermits:

In a reply to Xisuma's tweet, both Doc and Cub made references to Snoop Dogg.

As a result of this, some people are speculating new Hermits whose names begin with 'S' and 'D'. We have a few choices for 'S' but the three that I've seen mentioned most often are:

Solidarity (Jimmy)

Smallishbeans (Joel)

Skizzleman

For 'D' there's only one I can think of (I'm not counting Dream, because there's no way it'd be him) and that's:

Dangthatsalongname (Scott Smajor)

However, Snoop Dogg could be a reference to something else entirely: "Fo shizzle". Which... kinda rhymes with someone's name, right?

Remembering here that the new Hermits are very likely to be people that many of the existing Hermits have interacted with in the past, either through the Life Series, MCC, Clash of the Creators, or other SMPs such as the Empires crossover. We know that new Hermits have to be agreed upon with 100% 'Yes' votes from all existing Hermits.

Two that I think we can discount are:

Pixlriffs

fWhip

Both of them, when asked (multiple times) in their streams, have said they're not interested in joining Hermitcraft. And in Pix's case it would be doubly awkward, since he's also the voice of the Hermitcraft Recap. So, much though I would love to see them both (Pix especially) on HC, it's not likely to be either of them. Of the two (if it were either of them) it would more likely be fWhip than Pix (though I would love to be proved wrong. This is mostly a Pix-centric blog, after all.)

Another outlier is:

MythicalSausage

Much though I love Sausage, and much though I think he'd be a great fit for HC, I don't think it's him. He loves his smaller, modded servers, and he's really into his roleplay, whereas HC is not really a roleplay server. They do have story arcs - and Sausage would be great in those - but I honestly don't think he's one of the two new Hermits.

So then our second clue comes from something ZombieCleo said, which was posted in Tango's Discord server. I'll paraphrase it below:

If the two new Hermits had TCG cards one would be a Balanced type, and the other would probably be Balanced or Builder.

i know there have been other hints (and slip-ups) on places like Twitch streams etc, but given just those two clues alone my predictions are:

New Hermit no.1 - Smallishbeans Joel has the building chops, and he's capable of putting in the grind typical of Hermitcraft. He'd also be all-in for pranks and server-wide shenanigans. He would be the Balanced/Builder type. New Hermit no.2 - Skizzleman Because honestly? Everything's pointing towards him being one of them. Particularly the Snoop Dogg references. Fo shizzle, it's Skizzle. (Although where he would find the time is another matter. From listening to the Imp & Skizz Podcast, that dude already seems busy as heck.)

What are your predictions?

[joehills]

Here's the new artwork for my Rare Joe Hills card by @luigra!

Look closely, and you'll see Hermit Holmdel!

HermitCraft TCG series 2 is available for pre-order until the end of the month at:

[upchuckedgaming]

Sharing Hermitcraft with the Person I Love

Growing up, I never really thought about the person that I would potentially spend the rest of my life with; how our separate interests would interact and coexist. And probably, it was because I didn't think I'd meet someone with those interests or someone who would accept me for who I am. So that just never really crossed my mind, until I met my partner.

Ever since the middle of high school and into college, I always felt my interests were a little 'childish', not necessarily because they were specifically made for children, but rather that it wasn't the 'standard, main-stream' things to like. One of those interest that have been with me for a long time and is very dear to me is the Minecraft SMP server Hermitcraft. As someone who grew up with series like Minecrack and watching some veterans of the Minecraft YouTube space (SethBling, Ethoslab, GenerikB, etc), when I was introduced to Hermitcraft back in Season 2, it was something that I truly felt like I was missing before then. I had seen Minecrack, The Cube, and many other servers rise and fall over my time watching Minecraft content, but no server had ever felt so special to me and, obviously, so many others.

As such, I was hesitant to share Hermitcraft with my partner, who I knew was never in the Minecraft YouTube space much (but likes playing Minecraft), because I was scared. What if my partner thinks this is dumb? What if they think that I need to focus on other things? In retrospect, this is dumb. My partner loves me and supports me every second of every day, but that's beside the point.

At the start of Season 9 of Hermitcraft, I decided to introduced my partner to GeminiTay, one of the newer Hermitcraft players at the time, and started watching her episodes together at the start of the season so they could have a fresh start. And I am so happy I did. We have watched all of Gem's videos this season as they came out, and over the course of the season, we started watching more creators from Hermitcraft and that general Traffic SMP sphere together, and I cannot imagine enjoying this content without my partner at this point. From the start of Beef's development on Hermitcraft TCG to the depths of the Frost Citadel and Decked Out 2, we watched this world develop and I cannot be happier.

What really kicked off this post, however, was the release of the physical version of Hermitcraft TCG. Now, this was actually something that my partner bought for me first, as they ordered me the combo booster box and playbox they had on sale. But within the day or two after they bought a set for me, I decided to get my partner a set as well. So after months of waiting, they finally got delivered about a week ago. My package came a day before theirs, so we waited until we unboxed them together. Since we got the combo, we each received a special slabbed card with the potential for a signed card. As my partner opened theirs, they saw that they received a signed Bdubs card, and they were so shocked and surprised! They knew that I had been watching him for years, but also, he has become a favorite for them (both with the Hermitcraft series, but also Building with Bdubs), and it just made me so happy that they got someone that they knew and enjoyed (for those wondering: I got a signed foil XB card, aww yeah)!

And as we opened up the packs that came in the booster box, my partner was so excited to pull rare Gem, Cleo, and Scar cards (some of their faves) and already started thinking about making a deck with them. I cannot tell you how much happiness I felt in that moment as we shared our mutual love for this silly Minecraft SMP and the people that contribute to it. We joked that we initially were only going to get a single set, but getting one for each of us was so incredibly worth it. Heck, my partner even said, "Well, now we have cards for Hermits to sign if we meet!"

Now, is there really a point to this post? Not really, more so just wanted to both put my experience into perspective for myself, but also to thank all those creators in the Hermitcraft/Traffic SMP sphere for creating a space where sharing my interest of the server not only helped me grow closer with my partner, but also spawned a new fan at the same time! Sorry for the rambling!

[as-de-spadas]

Okay so Idk when 1.20 is coming out, and by that I mean Idk when Season 10 is starting, but I really think it would be better if they just. Kept on playing in the same world and changed season in 1.21 cause there’s just like so many projects that have a long way to go.

I mean, besides Decked Out, there are still so many bases still being early WIPS. Like, Doc’s perimeter isn’t even a quarter done in terms of decoration and farms. Mumbo just got back to his vault and Etho to his jungle base. Cub is still modyfing Total Chaos. Grian is doing slow and steady progress in his base and just started a server wide highway. Pearl has to terraform her whole biome. Scar is gonna do a whole castle, a fantasy AND a sci-fi district. Ren is doing Speedy Pines 2: Electric Boogaloo with Etho and is now gonna cover a whole mushroom island with mud?????

AND OMG DO I NEED MORE STORYLINES AND INTERACTIONS. EVER SINCE THE END OF THE CROSSOVER THE ONLY  FREQUENT INTERACTIONS WE GET ARE TCG RELATED ONES, WHICH ARE FUN, BUT STILL, I NEED MORE.

What’s gonna be the resolution to the Anvil Wars? Is anyone ever gonna poke Doc enough for him to release his Mecha-Goat? Will Grian return to try to infiltrate Mumbo’s vault? 

And that’s not even talking about how many inactive hermits I’m waiting for to return. Iskall and Stress, I love your Vault Hunters series, Zed and Bdubs, I love your Create Series, but please, I miss you on Hermitcraft!!!

I just need a longer season. Please.