#hermitcraft x empires crossover

[serv0z]

Erm hi i got attached.

[tango-but-everywhere]

This is a very important video.

Pixlriffs’ youtube short ‘60 seconds of Winchester doing the stampy feet dance’

[ID: a minecraft screenshot from the empires 2 server, taken in Gobland. Tango is riding Pixl’s dodo Winchester. He’s in his deep frost outfit, with Shelby’s witch hat and fWhip’s goblin ear elytra. Both Tango and Winchester are facing left, and Tango’s looking slightly up. End ID]

[r3nrit]

Hello hello !! This is my super long post explaining my Empires / Sun God Bdubs design !! :oD

Here’s the design broken down layer by layer to which I will now be breaking it down with notes on each of the main looks under the cut!

Staring off with his antenna, I made him based off of an Emperor Moth ! In most of my Bdubs designs I try to relate him to some kind of moth like for the design I have for his main hermitcraft season 9 being based off peppered moths and so on! The reason I chose an emperor moth specifically for this design was for 2 reasons: first one being is because he’s in empires smp and ya know… emperor… empires.. you get it. The second reason being the color pallet and wing pattern! The colors reminded me of the colors you’d see during a sunset or sunrise along with the eye-like dots on the wings reminding me of the sun symbol that’s shown on the left of the drawing in the notes.

Now onto his outfit! With his base layers I wanted to keep it simple while also still looking kinda fancy by implementing gold on the vest, shoes, belt, and even in his hair. For his shirt, I wanted it to be kinda plain mimicking his Minecraft skins having rather simple shirts but still keeping it fun and incorporating the sun motif. As the notes say, the cuffs and collar are supposed to resemble cartoon sun shapes which is a reoccurring shape I use throughout the design. With his boots I wanted to also keep them somewhat simple like the shirt but adding a bit of flare with the gold detailing. Derailing from the clothing to quickly point out his hand on the left that’s resting on his hip. I added that symbol to the back of his hands mainly to kind of give him a bit more interest to his hands but unfortunately it’s not clear on either of his hands since I drew both of em in a way where you can’t really see the back of his palms so now it’s just kinda a little small detail my apologies T-T

Before heading into the accessories, let’s take a quick close up of the clock and his face:

For the clock I wanted it to mimic what the actual Minecraft clock looks like but obviously with some changes! I made the part that’s usually blue into what’s supposed to be glass like a little window to the actual clock. (think of a pocket watch) I made it into a moon like shape with a sun engraving implemented alongside it since you can’t really have the sun without the moon

For his face I actually took a lot of inspiration from my Double Life Pearl design with them having similar eyes as well as also having that little crescent moon shape implemented in their hair. For Bdubs eye color, I was trying to hint at the markings on the wings from the emperor moths more so kind of as an easter egg. Another resemblance to Pearl is the poncho ! Like my Pearl design, Bdubs also gets a poncho !! Instead of the moon symbol like the end of Pearl’s, Bdubs has a star like shape like the buckles on his vest but that will be seen more up close in later pictures

Now onto the start of the accessories !

Lets start off with the belts first. I knew immediately the second I started coming up with this design that I for sure wanted Bdubs to have a sun-chain belt PFFF Like most of his accessories, it’s gold and shiny ! I added a lot of gold to his designs since I was inspired by the glowstone Minecraft skin he has but didn’t know how I wanted to implement that glowing/ shining element into my design so I resorted to adding lots of gold. His second “belt” is actually kind of a reference to my Empires season 2 Joel design. I want all of the ‘gods’ of the server to be kinda connected somehow so I like to think they have lil matching green sashes. I also made it green since I also wanted a bit of a pop of color to kinda break away from the yellows oranges and browns of the design as well as bringing backing some green from his mossy cloak Minecraft skin

Here’s a quick close up before I head into talking about the necklace:

For the necklace, I had a rosary in mind when designing it since Bdubs and Gem often refer to it as a religion’. I added a few beads due to the inspiration of a rosary while still making it look like a somewhat normal necklace. Like his hair and clock, I brought back in the crescent moon shape but as tiny beads in his necklace. The subtle/ tiny moon symbols are further implanted in the drawing to kinda further insinuate how the sun and moon really can’t exist without the other or ever truly separate from one another.

Now onto the start of the outer fabrics first starting off with the green poncho:

As I said earlier, the poncho was directly inspired by my Double Life Pearl design but with some obvious changes. For the end of the hood, I added the star-like shape from his vest as the charm at the end contrasting the moon one thats at the end of Pearl’s. For the loose part of the poncho I was trying to go for the shapes that are on his shirt cuffs ya know that subtle sun-ray kinda shape. I have it green to match the green belt/sash thing to call back to his little mossy cloak/hoodie.

Now onto the ‘cloak’:

With his ‘cloak’ I actually just kinda wanted to be this big blanket he uses as a cloak. Since Bdubs is almost always the first one to sleep, I’d like to think he’s always prepared to sleep with his big cozy blanket. I thought to add a more magical kind of feel to his design that I’d have the cloak be kinda whimsical since in movies big cloaks are kinda seen as mysterious and magical. His blanket has 2 sides with one being a reflection of the bright blue sky during the day while the opposite side being a mirror of the night sky where you can see all the stars and constellations. (Also before anyone asks, I bs like,, a few of the constellations on the cloak LMAOO some of them are real though I just absolutely butchered them when drawing them out T-T) For the clasp that’s holding the blanket secure, I brought back that sun symbol from earlier.

Now onto the final stretch !! The second poncho and the sunglasses:

I choose red as the color since I wanted another pop of color but something that was already in the color pallet I had. In the wings there’s a slight tint of red near the tip of them so I incorporated that color into some of the beads on his necklace and in his eyes as well as using it as the color for the final poncho since it wasn’t really used all that much in other parts of the drawing

Here’s a close up of the sunglasses before I dive into discussing them:

I wanted the sunglasses to be fun and loud like the rest of his outfit so I decided “eh why not” and incorporated that cartoon sun shape I was talking about earlier as the actual shape of the lenses. I also like to think he keeps them on his person at all times so he keeps them on a chain at all times to never lose them. Like the necklace, I added little moon beads onto the chain of his sunglasses. One of the decisions I made about the glasses was having them being only half of a sun rather than big circle sun glasses. I choose this design instead since I kinda wanted to emphasize his big eyes along with how in empires the glasses he wears don’t really fully cover his eyes so this was kind of a reference to that.

Alrighty and with that we’re done !!! If you’ve read this far you’re a champ holy crap man PFF Anyways hope you all enjoyed this and hopefully more in-depth designs like this to come since i absolutely LOVE character designing and this project was so much fun to work on!! Let me know what you all thought and if there’s any questions please feel free to send them my way :o]

(Also p.s. shoutout to the person who wrote a whole PARAGRAPH in the tags of the original post from yesterday who literally got EVERYTHING RIGHT ABOUT MY DESIGN AAAAAA if that was you and you’re reading this then you absolutely RULE !!! That made my day !!! <3 )

[scarlethalowrites]

[votederpycausemufins]

Grian’s episode for the crossover had the rift break(?) and we saw it close on the hc side...

I bet this is Grumbot’s plan to make Mumbo mayor. half the server is gone just as Mumbo reappears, easy to make him into mayor in a crisis, right?

[i-got-hit-by-a-planet]

okay the list will grow as i watch episodes but so far

iJevin and Keralis are citizens of Sanctuary

Tango got hired as Gobland's engineer and plans to move there

Scar is torn between Tumble Town and Gobland so he'll stay with whoever gets him Jellie first

feel free to add on!

[lrdmdnght]

JIMMY AND JOEL HAD A SON????

[floweroflaurelin]

Now that Empires s2 is over I was going through my files and found this, a series of roughs I made back during the Crossover and then never posted! It’s my take on the conversation with Grumbot that led to him trying to kill everyone 🤖

[hallowed-animations]

A little bit of Sculk Cub for you guys too~ I love how this came out and the contacts are amazing ✨

[beinghuman11235]

Home Alone but it’s Doc on Empires SMP.

[pinkflames]

get em wood daddy

[tango-but-everywhere]

Creature spotted.

Shelby Shubble, Empires 2 episode 13

[ID: a minecraft screenshot with shaders on, taken on the edge of the mangrove swamp in Great Witch Shelby’s Evermoore home. The viewer is quite high up, looking down on Tango, who has just emerged from the mangroves. He’s in his deep frost skin, a little to the left of the centre of the image, facing left, and looking up. He’s holding what appears to be cooked chicken but it’s hard to tell at this distance. End ID]

[acuteblock]

I'm sure no one meant it to be as heartbreaking as it was, but the whole process in Grian's episode where he dies

Then he respawns back in Hermitopia, and he has no gear and so he has to swim back to the rift

And he's cheering every time that one of the hermits escape and pass through safely back over to Hermitcraft through the rift

And then he sees this

And at first he doesn't realise what it's doing

I'm sure he could immediately recognise it was a tnt flying machine but he pulls himself up to the bridge and watches and realises

It's aimed at his boy

Grian: Why have you done this to my little Grumbot?!

It's heartbreaking and damnit it's just so much that's his son, sure he may be a little evil, but that's HIS BOY AAAAAAAAAA

And he's desperately clawing his way back instead, and he's trying to grab as much blocks he can and all the emperors are calling to hold him down, to stop him, to kill him

And he does die, and he respawns back and he scrambles to the chests to grab anything to pillar up with

And he's building and building and he's panicked and pillars the wrong place but he's getting there and then

He's not able to save him and he throws himself of the pillar to die too and just

WHO GAVE THEM THE RIGHT TO RIP OUR HEARTS LIKE THAT THAT'S JUST HORRIBLE AAAAAAAAAA

[fitzs-space]

My rancher!!!!

I asked on twitter who picked up who, and the agreement came to "Tango spun around Jimmy in his arms, then they both promptly fell on their asses like dorks"

[wren-kitchens]

can't remember if I ever posted this to tumblr so have a silly little snippet from an au me and stiff came up with!

the premise is that every hermit is some kind of hybrid, but is worried about sharing this fact because they all think they're the only hybrid on hermitcraft. empires on the other hand immediately clocks them all as hybrids and assumes the fact they’re hiding it is some kind of lore

jimmy can’t help grinning as scar tries to get him to ‘accept himself’ for the fifth time this afternoon. man, these hermitcraft people are fantastic at sticking to the bit—jimmy knows he would have cracked up way before now if it was him.

“you gotta accept it as part of you!” scar is practically begging him as jimmy leads him to the tavern. “you’ll never get anywhere if you’re left hating something like that about you, tim!”

jimmy turns to look at him. he keeps throwing his hat in the air and catching it again—that’s allay behaviour if he’s ever seen it.

“scar,” jimmy says, dropping the ‘oh no i’m so tormented’ act for a moment. “you do know i’m not actually a toy, don’t you?”

scar blinks at him. “you- no, you are. aren’t you?”

“no!” jimmy laughs at the look on scar’s face. “i’m a cow, scar, have you seen me?”

“wait- but what’s all that about then!” scar exclaims, gesturing in the direction of stratos. “with the ‘little toy man’ and- and the revealing potion!”

“oh that’s just for fun!” jimmy grins. “none of it’s true: the ‘revealing potion’ just makes you short, and joel knows i’m not a toy.”

“gosh, you empires people are odd.” scar says. “why do something that’s not true?”

“well, first of all, it’s funny.” jimmy says. “and second of all, it makes for a cool story! you being human isn’t real, but it-“

“not human?” scar interrupts, looking nervous all of a sudden. “i don’t- I have no clue what you mean! ‘not human’,” scar laughs to himself, unconvincingly offhand. “ah, you never fail to amuse me, jimmy.”

jimmy blinks at him. “is that- do you guys-“ 

and something clicks. the shiftiness of tango, the wide-eyed gazes at their hybrid features that all the hermitcraftians had enacted, almost like-

almost like they didn’t know they were all hybrids.

jimmy suppresses a laugh. wow, okay. now that’s a story.

“scar, I know you’re an allay.” jimmy says. “or a vex? somewhere in between?”

“somewhere in between.” scar clarifies. “how- how did you know?”

“I hate to tell you, but you’re not very subtle about it.” jimmy grins. oh gosh, he’s going to have to tell everyone when he has the time. no wonder all the hermits looked so surprised to see them.

“not subt- how am I not subtle?” scar asks. “I do everything humans do!”

“you’re counting your fellow hermits as humans?” jimmy asks.

“well of course.” scar says. ah, that’s where he’s gone wrong, jimmy thinks. “sure, we’re all a little weird over there, but i’m the only hybrid. and no one has noticed yet, so i think i’m doing quite well actually.”

“must be ‘cause i’m used to hybrids then.” jimmy settles on, because whilst he doesn’t want to reveal the secrets of.. pretty much everyone except the guy in the doom outfit, he also really wants to see how this plays out.

“oh yes.” scar agrees quickly. “must be that.”

“now, I do believe I was showing you the saloon!” jimmy says, putting on his silly accent for the last word, and scar seems to register that he’s back in character.

“yeah, the saloon!” scar exclaims, ever the enthusiast.

as scar starts to ramble about how he doesn’t think you can be classified as a cowboy unless you have your own saloon (which jimmy agrees with wholeheartedly), jimmy smiles to himself as he anticipates the reactions of his server-mates when he breaks the news. 

.. and also he might be smiling at the way scar’s face lights up as he speaks. but that’s a matter for another time.

[michroxs]

THEY’RE TOGETHER AGAIN 😭