#mindcrack 2014

[chloemew]

I did up under my stairs not long ago, and I’m super happy with how it came out :] Wanted to do a lil comparison of how it looked when I first moved in v.s. now

[lorephobic]

ik its cringe to complain about a post blowing up, especially as much as i already have, but i am pretty disheartened to see some ppl in the tags of that post assuming that the message i was trying to convey is “mindcrack bad hermitcraft good” which is. absolutely not the point LOL. and i think thats totally obvious to u guys who know that i love mindcrack with my whole entire heart, but there rly are strangers seeing that post and saying shit like “so glad bdubs got better friends” and “this is why i watch hermitcraft” which just. rubs me the wrong way. idk.

[rachellized]

Just realized how actually crazy it is to be getting back into Hermitcraft in 2024 when the last time I really engaged with it was when Etho and Doc joined in 2014, because I was deep into Mindcrack at the time. They referenced it in Etho’s episode. It’s been ten years. What the fuck.

Seasons change but people don’t?

[concorp]

MCYT Eras Concept

For a long time, I've thought of MCYT as divided into different eras. I've finally decided to refine the idea and write it out. I feel it's a good way to define things, rather than just "old school" and "modern", as the bar for each of those have shifted drastically over time. Please do note that a lot of how I describe these eras is mostly from my own perspective, but I do think the overall divisions work well for MCYT as a whole!

Era 1 - The "OG" Era (2009 - 2011)

The beginning of Minecraft and MCYT. Much content at this point was traditional lets plays, simple tutorials and showing off early innovations in redstone.

Era 2 - The "Classic" Era (2012 - 2014)

This era encompasses what is often considered the peak of many iconic "old school" groups and series. Team Crafted, Mindcrack, the various Yogscast Tekkit series, and many, many more.

It's difficult to describe everything that made up the classic era in a succinct manner. It was the true rise of SMPs, Adventure Maps, Minecraft Animations, Parodies, Mod Reviews, MCRP, and so, so much more. Minecraft was unavoidable on YouTube back then.

Era 3 - The "Gap" Era (2015 - 2017)

The "gap" era is named for the lull in MCYT's popularity. In this period of time, it was seen more as a niche, compared to the massive popularity it saw before and after.

This era saw the "death", or at least massive dips in popularity to many formerly wildly popular groups and ccs, as viewers interests changed and moved onto other things.

Many series came and went during this era, but weren't properly appreciated until after their time.

Era 4 - The "Revival" Era (2018 - 2019)

This era, due to a combination of many factors, was MCYT's return to mainstream. Many people returned to both singleplayer series and servers. Episodic SMPs old and new such as Hermitcraft and Truly Bedrock, began experimenting more with the lines between gameplay, story and improv.

This era also saw the rise of streaming based series, such as SMPLive, SMPEarth, and Minecraft Monday.

Era 5 - The "Lockdown" Era (2020 - 2022)

Much of this era is defined by the new heights reached during covid lockdowns. This era kicked dozens if not hundreds of the careers of those who grew up watching MCYT during the OG and Classic eras.

This era is admittedly very defined by the DSMP, rocketing MCYT and specifically MCRP into a level of popularity unseen before. Second, and as just as important to this era is MCC, bringing together so many personalities from all over the MCYT sphere who otherwise would likely have never interacted on a monthly basis.

A massive innovation in this era was also the introduction of the Simple Voice Chat mod to many servers, now a staple of most multiplayer content.

Era 6 - The Current Era (2023 - Present)

Unnamed as of yet, as it is still ongoing, the current era of MCYT has so far been defined by not only the continued rise of many smaller, younger MCYTs. But largely, and undoubtedly, by the QSMP.

Not only has it redefined what an SMP can be through its gameplay. It has brought the international MCYT community is closer together now than ever, crossing language and cultural barriers previously rarely touched.

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This concept of mine isn't fully solidified, and is up to be more refined. I would love to hear y'all's thoughts and feedback about these divisions and the idea overall!

[lectern-fullcauldron]

do you know your hermistory? hermitcraft debuts in order

Short ID: an infographic illustrating each current hermitcraft whitelist member's hermitcraft debut date by season. Each hermit is illustrated next to an abridged tfc quote that reads 'a great big dysfunctional family'

Long ID below cut

Image ID: a long single panelled infographic on a rainbow gradient background. Down the right hand side reads "a great big, dysfunctional family". The infographic has the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 down the left hand side, each with a corresponding colour on the gradient.

Section one: down the left hand side of this section are the following stats: 'April 2012: Hypno, Xisuma', 'May 2012: Keralis, Joe Hills' 'Jan 2013: Bdubs'. All of the above hermits are illustrated in the section. Keralis, Xisuma, and Hypno stand at the top as founding members of the server. There is an illustration of a leaf block on a two high fence next to Keralis labelled 'booshes' and an arrow points at Hypno reading 'website admin'. Below them, Joe Hills reclines in a Uno wildcard themed bubble reading a book called 'scam'. An arrow points to this bubble that reads 'the original new guy'. Bdubs' appears waving in a small white circle below Joe with the caption '2 eps in S1. Coming soon!'

Section two: a neon green arrow bridges this section to section one. It comes from Joe Hills and reads 'coup!'. Down the left of this section are the following stats: 'June 2013: Cleo, Mumbo', 'Oct 2013: TFC', 'Dec 2013: iJevin', 'June 2014: False', 'July 2014: Tango', and 'Sept 2014: xbcrafted'. Cleo and mumbo sit together with an arrow pointing at them reading 'both too shy to talk to people' - this text also has an arrow pointing at falsesymmetry. Tfc is depicted carrying a pair of binoculars and has an arrow pointing at him that reads 'branch mine advocate' of which the branch is underlined. Ijevin carries a stopwatch and False a diamond sword. Tango holds a minecraft oak door and has two bits of text pointing at him. The first reads 'early iron farm visitor' and the second reads 'redstone genius'. This second text has arrows that also descend down to impulse, doc, and etho in section three. The final hermit in section two is xb, who is lying on his stomach, kicking his legs and looking up at tango.

Section three: the stats down the left hand side of this section read 'Jan 2015: impulse', 'march 2015: etho, doc'. Impulse is depicted falling into a yellow pentagram with the caption 'summoned to help with quad witch hut'. Below this, doc and etho stand side by side (doc a head taller than etho). Doc has a pen and a clipboard and the pair are labelled 'mindcrack refugees'.

Section four: the stats down the left hand side of this section read: 'Feb 2016: Welsknight, Iskall, Scar, Ren, Cub', 'Sept 2016: Beef'. The five hermits for Feb 2016 are depicted in a line with a box grouping cub and scar with a note that reads 'do not separate'. Below them is the caption 'kingdomcraft'. Beef reclines alone below them, with a note beside him that reads 'mesa-ing around' (title of cub's first hermitcraft episode).

Section five: the stats down the left hand side of this section read: 'April 2017: Stress, Bdubs, Zed'. This section is relatively small. Stress is in a GG get gorgeous t-shirt, holding an allium. Bduds is asleep on Zed, wrapped up in his moss cloak. Above him reads 'NHO time!'

Section six: the stats down the left hand side of this section read: 'July 2018: grian'. This section depicts grian t-posing with white wings and orange goose feet. He has two captions, the first reads 'started a war' and has an arrow pointing up to stress as well. The other reads 'horrible goose t-posing to assert dominance'.

Section 8: the stats down the left hand side of this final section read: 'June 2021: Gem, Pearl'. Gem and pearl are depicted hugging with the captions 'moon big' and 'gem is great'. Pearl's face is depicted as a moon and her eyes are craters. She still has blonde hair to match her minecraft skin.

End ID

[mcytblrconfessions]

I recently reblogged some posts from a decade old Mindcrack fanfic blog and spooked the admin into posting "OH SHIT. THIS BLOG EXISTS" after not posting since like 2014

[single-malt-scotch]

nebtho masterpost

alright. alright its time, ive put together enough for this-- this is more so a means to expose/explain to new fans an old era of mcyt thats is kinda hard to access. admittedly i only kept this to nebris/etho because itd just be too hard to piece all missing bits of Death Games together.... its not nearly as wild or in depth as present day things but its dear to me.... old fan art/fic is what got me obsessed w these two back in the day and their dynamic is fun!! and i think its worth exposing ppl to some of this old etho lore :)

nebris+ethoslab was a popular pair back in 2012-2014 era Mindcrack fandom. i assume most of yall know who etho is but nebris was also a member of the server. He was often regarded as cunning and sly, and referred to as "cheaty nebris" for various reasons (whether it was the insane amount of obsidian he managed to acquire for his base, or how he miraculously survived a fight in UHC while barely losing a heart). now why did they become a popular pair?? well.

Death games-- Etho's "game" he came up with in mindcrack s3, is mostly where it took off. They had many interactions in the forms of pranks and whatnot prior (nebris with 'team america', pranking team canada), but this is kinda where a dynamic formed-- Etho's pov starts with him getting back at mcgamer and nebris for killing pause multiple times (streamed here). The game's rules are that etho kills them a total of four times, or they can kill each other to reduce the kill count on their heads. This is definitely where etho gained his reputation of being scary back then lol. Nebris' first perspective on the matter is here.

in both of those first videos, Etho's ganged up on them in a livestream with nebris, mc, and millbee when they went to his base... in which he quickly kills them off with ease. From there is escalates!

s3 death games encounters (from oldest onward) are here:

Nebris pov, july 4th, 2012 - nebris falls to his death when trying to fight etho. a fun fact: nebris tried to keep etho out by blocking his portal with clay... since etho wouldnt break clay.

Etho pov, july 5th, 2012 - same episode as above, also showing how etho had a secret room right behind nebris' bed, which allowed him to die and respawn there without using a portal.

Etho pov, july 6th, 2012 - in which etho attempts and succeeds at killing nebris.

Nebris pov, july 6th, 2012 - same episode as etho's from that day.

theres undoubtedly potentially more bits of interactions out there and that is one of the problems of these old videos... theres lots of them, theyre long, and not all the titles give away if its related. Eventually i will build a more solid playlist but this is just death games!

there is a good backlog of fanfiction out there, i can tell you that. dig into the depths of dreamwidth, even. im sure theres quite a lot of fan art strewn across tumblr entirely untagged. regardless, its was surely one the first popular ships that characterized etho in his exaggerated mysterious self that people do with him today.

[transfemzedaph]

sorry not sorry i have to find new beef content and that means old beef content from old mindcrack blogs that have all been inactive since like. 2014/2015. jdhdbddjdghddg

[old-hermitcraft-fanwork]

url is a bit of a lie, this blog is for collecting old hermitcraft-adjacent fanwork

hermitcraft-adjacent meaning that if there is fanwork of a person who is still or was a hermit than the fanwork goes here, no matter if it is specifically hermitcraft or not. can only really account for tumblr posts. anything that was posted before 2020 and on january and febuary of 2020 goes here, when 6th season ended and lockdown was about to start. also works that were made past febuary 2020 but the author claimed that they are older count too. tags will be added in the list. there is untagged queue that is 20 posts a day. pfp art is by ponibuttsart

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years

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

hermitcraft seasons

hermitcraft s1 ( started 13th of april 2012 - ended on 7th of june 2013 ) hermitcraft s2 ( started 9th of june 2013 - ended 9th of october 2014 ) hermitcraft s3 ( started on 17th of october 2014 - ended on 23rd of february 2016 ) hermitcraft s4 ( started on 25th of february 2016 - ended on 7th of april 2017 ) hermitcraft s5 ( started on 13th of april 2017 - ended on 14th of july 2018 ) hermitcraft s6 ( started on 19th of july 2018 - ended on 24th of february 2020)

other minecraft series

UHC modded minecraft* modventures tektopia mindcrack * used when i don't know what series are depicted at first

type of work

drawing animation modeling* building** craft*** dress-up**** * both for screenshots of armor stand or character model scenes straight from minecraft and 3d renders ** minecraft builds *** handmade things, for example paper-mache figurine **** dress-up games results

hermits tags in alphabetical order

all hermits* bdoubleo100 biffa2001 cubfan135 dinnerbone docm77 etho falsesymmetry generikb goodtimeswithscar grian hypnotyzd ijevin impulsesv iskall85 jessassin joe hills keralis monkeyfarms mumbo jumbo pungence pythongb, rendog stressmonster101 tangotek tinfoilchef vintagebeef welsknight xisumavoid zedaph zombiecleo. more to be added * technically not all in one given piece, but all in one given season which the piece is depicting also this chart by reddit user blueemymind that actually shows everyone who ever was on the server

[bookworm-2692]

hmm you already answered 1 in your tags. so 19 and 4, perhaps, for the mcyt ask game

thank you for the ask!!! :D

19: Have you picked up any vocabulary from mcyts?

Hmm, that's a tricky one? Like. Probably, because I was twelve when I started watching. But it's hard to know specifically. I have started using -ificate, but that's currently more a conscious effort because it's fun to say rather than normal so far. I do remember back in the day feeling like I was picking up vocab but now I can't remember it. "Hadjah!" is also fun to say. I am honestly more aware of picking up vocab from a specific friend of mine, but like. I've probably picked up mcyt vocab because I've watched so much over the years.

4: Do you play minecraft yourself? If yes, for how long have you been playing it?

Well, I don't regularly play these days, but I have played in the past. My account was created in March 2012... so that means my cubito is twelve years old now. My cubito is half my age. My brother got minecraft in Dec 2011, so me and my sister also shared his account for a few months until my sister and I got our accounts, and back then we played a LOT together. I remember not really understanding much, and trying to plan my house down to the block on grid paper while waiting for my turn to play minecraft. I tried to create two portal rooms in my basement because I didn't understand the nether and the end and didn't know you couldn't just build the end portal in your basement.

Friends at school would also play pocket edition minecraft so I joined in but bemoaned that the functionality was worse than computer minecraft. Bedrock minecraft in my head is still like 2012 pocket edition, even though I know it can't be true. A lot of minecraft in the early years and then from 2014 I probably stopped playing as much, and in 2016 when my Mindcrack interest died (because Mindcrack basically had died, and ZPM was all I was watching until it got abandonned), I also lost interest in playing minecraft too (and my friend had gotten me into danganronpa and then zero escape and then I just had other interests).

And then just before whenever the nether update happened again (2019??) I got nostalgic and opened it again and made a minecraft server with my siblings and friends again and it was great fun but then the server stopped working for people outside my network which was frustrating so then that stopped after only a few months and I didn't play any minecraft again for a few years and then I re-entered mcyt fandom in June 2022 with Double Life and I've watched SO MANY videos since then but not played much minecraft.

I opened a new world one day to open it to LAN so I could play with two friends but then one of them, her java edition looked like bedrock and she couldn't find the multiplayer window, and the other one could open multiplayer but her minecraft couldn't find my LAN world. so we instead played new single player worlds for a few hours, and then a couple of times over the next weeks I opened it and did small amounts, but then I haven't touched it in another year or so.

So like. Yes I've had minecraft for half my life now (which is WILD to realise) but I don't play frequently like at all. I would love to play but with a full time job + sportsball 1 + sportsball 2 i don't actually have much free time, and what I do have i instead spend on reading fic or watching videos or cross-stitching while watching a vod or playing dnd with my friends etc. playing minecraft would eat up so much time and i dont think i could just play like ten minutes at a time. plus i currently dont have a desk. or a mouse. so i'd be playing on a laptop on mousepad. which i've *done* but. Oh wait I did also play some MCCI briefly, but got bored on account of doing badly on account of playing with a trackpad and thus having terrible movement. and also being bad at pvp.

so i guess the short answers to those questions are "no" and "for twelve years" which are incongruous answers without the long explanation. and i'm now noticing just how long, so i shall be nice and add paragraphs for you.

[enhancedpartytime]

hold up. you're avivakitty. ive been seeing your art ever since i joined the hermitcraft fandom in 2019 and it SLAPS. hell yeah dude

lol yes hi this is my main, most mcyt stuff currently goes on my sideblog @concorp :)

though funnily enough this url is also an mcyt reference i originally joined tumblr in 2014 for the mindcrack fandom here haha

[concorp]

2014 r/mindcrack time capsule reopened today. man.

[mostlymindcrack]

Missing my Bae, someone help?

Where do i begin.

its 2013 - 2014. Im a part owner of a fan server called 'backwards Mindcrack' as we were all girls and one boy.

Im looking for that boy, I know he lived in England, we use to play destiny on the Xbox together. He had a boyfriend for a while but after they broke up we lost contact.

I found a video tonight that he sent me, asking to come to Australia and how excited he was for that visit. it never happened.

so im looking for anyone who played on the Backwards Mindcrack server and knows Etho (skype display name).

we are no longer friends on Xbox, i tried that route. Along with minecraft friends lists, facebook, skype and even trying their old tumblr url in the Wayback machine.

[tybalt-you-saucy-boi]

Wes: What changes have you guys noticed in yourselves since you started doing YouTube?

Baj: Confidence I 'spose is the main thing.

BTC: I've actually... become a lot more friendly.

*uproarious laughter*

BTC: I know, it's like "So wait, if this is more then what were you before?" You don't wanna know. But no, I was um, I was a very very reserved person, very much kept to myself and... the kind of person like, I didn't laugh a lot, I didn't have fun, you know, like everything--seriously! Everything in my life was-was just... dull. And like--

*Guude laughing*

Pause: Why you laughing at him? Stop it!

Guude, still laughing: Sorry.

BTC: Now that I switched into doing YouTube fulltime and I no longer have any of the restrictions that I used to have I've actually been enjoying life more I suppose.

Zisteau: I personally wear pants way less often.

[single-malt-scotch]

forgot i intended to repost some old old mindcrack art now that i use this blog like normal. zisteau flower crown from 2014.

[transfemzedaph]

2, 5, 9!

2 - what was the first hermit you watched? was it hermitcraft or another series of theirs?

it was beef in like 2014 so defo not hermitcraft lmao, i think it might have been the ftb season 2 series or just mindcrack

5 - favourite duo, trio or group?

i honestly cannot choose, i mean i guess id say evil x & worm man but i dont know if that counts jdbdkdjdjd

9 - since watching hermitcraft have you started saying things the hermits say? if so, what are they? (ex. “core concept”, “-ificate”, “- of doom”)

oh i started saying some like zedaphy ish things bc i watched all his hc - i dont remember anything specifically though but i know i did - and also some beef things but those were not from his hc they were from his mindcrack days so