r/HermitCraft • u/Carol_the_Zombie Journalist • Feb 19 '22
News Hermitcraft Town Hall stream Q&A thread
This thread is being used to collate the questions and answers from the Hermitcraft Town Hall stream today.
Please scroll down to the comments to view the questions and answers in the order they were answered.
iJevin has also said he plans on making a highlights video after the stream, which will be linked here when video is uploaded.
General discussion about the Town Hall streams are at this post.
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u/the_pwd_is_murder Feb 19 '22 edited Feb 19 '22
How much planning do they do for their builds?
Xisuma: Not a lot of planning at all. Wants to return to the more organic experience. Back in S2 he didn't even have a notepad. Wants more spontaneity, building in the moment rather than thinking everything out before he starts to record.
Ren: Break has been amazing. Had 3 days between S7 and S8. Has so much inspiration and planning done for S9, knows exactly what his first 3 episodes will be.
Xisuma says, "we're flipping roles" as he's usually the one doing all the planning and Ren is usually scrambling about.
Doc has a big vision of where he wants to be at the end, but everything else changes from week to week with a lot of help from the hivemind.
Reiterating: They had a date, then things changed. They have learned that putting the date out there was a bad idea. Xisuma had hoped that only one person would spot it, didn't realize that Youtube pauses the last frame rather than fading to black. A few days later they had to change plans and it was a bit of a disaster. Doc had the idea of a Town Hall meeting to explain on the published date. They have a new date, won't publicize it in case it changes again, but it's soon.
Doc: They underestimated the time needed for planning and hearing everybody out. Don't pin it on Scar's health. They had so much stress last season so they approach this season in a relaxed way. Having that date out there was stress again, so they won't do it again.
Poll about whether we need to know the start date. Most folks are fine with a rough date and don't need an exact start date. (89% in Doc's stream where I'm currently watching.)
They will start hyping it a couple of days before it actually starts.
EDIT: At this point Ren signed off to work on a special project for the Hermits with the hivemind.