Is my memory failing me... Blue River Raceway is BRR as in Burrrrr I'm cold. Was this intentional? And yes, False is awesome. Has anyone tested raft vs boat speed?
Yes, yes! A GigaCorp blimp at the raceway and something similar over ScabLand which actually functions as a mob spawner that drops them into ScabLand. #UncleScabby
You need to scout out good positions for catching the action of racers moving through the course and position some small camera drones. These could tie in to your cyber bot storyline and be used in the editing process to look like that is where you get some of the footage.
Like a blimp from a sponsored company Sponsors could be GigaCorp, or TCG, or Decked Out, maybe he could get someone else to help build blimps and they can advertise their store like if Impulse helped he could have an iBuy Blimp? That definitely would feel very much like a Racing game
Scabland Ideas: 1. You should make one platform striped instead of the mosaic pattern, and the stripes should be just slightly misaligned 2. The quarts barriers around the platforms should be different levels of thickness for each platform. platforms could even be off center from the barriers.
One thing that would be cool to see, is a toxic green sludge river running through scab land. Surrounding it would be dead and dying plants and trees. And then I would add a couple of guppy geysers in the middle, so that the patreons to scab land can watch as the fish die. all of the toxic water would come from pipes on the sides of the various platforms draining down and emptying into toxic green sludge river
I do have a couple more ideas of things you could add as attractions for the little kids that come to scabland so that it is kid and family oriented and friendly. A Ravager petting zoo, a zombie horse riding arena, and then a game of keep away in the crypt of the dead and undead. The crypt could be zoned into various chambers and rooms with zombie villagers and zombies chasing you from one end to the other. the goal would be to get out unscathed while wearing no armor. One section to get through would be a corridor of skeletons trapped in alcoves on one side of the wall shooting arrows at you while dispensers are pelting you with slow potions.
Ren you do know you cant buy a card twice in the same run right? So when you went to buy 2 sneak cards it'll only give you 1 and you probably won't gey refunded any frost embers
@@chris050987I think that was for 2 Treasure Hunters. So he did this twice and either didn’t question it till the TH or just forgot that he didn’t get a 2nd Sneak. He also would have had 6 embers to spare if it did work🤦🏾♂️
A fun idea could be to ask the hermits to bring their own boats when you open the raceway, so there is a nice variety of 'cars' on the track. Just imagine some hermits bringing along cherry or bamboo boats!
Was thinking your rocket sounds sounded different, like you were firing two of them instead of one... only to notice a bit later that when you placed slabs at the polar bear express even that sound was doubling. Possibly recording the sounds from 2 different lines and causing an echo?
I'm glad other people heard it as well! I thought at first that his mouse was having trouble with double clicking, especially with the echo on the rockets, but then I heard the echo with the shulker boxes being opened and closed.
I am so happy to see you lighting the place up, most anti-Scar thing you can do is to make sure when folks go under their platform to do redstone there are no mobs (doubly creepers) waiting to greet them.
A few scabby ideas: 1. Make one of the sides of one of the mosaic platforms have 3 blocks of diorite rather than the typical 2 2. Remove the torches underneath the mosaic platforms so that there's a bunch of mob noises coming from below.
You should put a bunch of armor stand in the grand stands as well as a looping music disc with a crowd cheering audio track (the same truck the tango used for decked out)
3:42 you should set up some custom music discs so that you can actually hear the crowd cheering when you are near the grandstands. Would sound really cool when you drive by and at the start of the race.
Another Scabland idea: if you're worried about getting it finished in time, just don't finish the buildings. Scars' functional bits in Scarland are all nicely tucked away, I'm suggesting you leave exposed redstone all over. And no finishing any backs! Just leave scaffolding allll over the place, have random holes in the platforms (preferrably right before the entrance/exit, so people can stumble and fall downwards into a spiky pit of sorts).
During the first 30 minutes of the video, I think that the in-game sounds were double, we could hear it when you've used fireworks or when pistons opened the door to enter Decked Out 2.
Ren went to the Scar school of using compasses. The block the compass is pointing to is the one where when you cross it, the compass swaps directions by 180 degrees. Being close to the right block isn't good enough. Walk in the directionthe needle is pointing, until the needle suddenly moves, and drop it straight down.
Scabland just goes to show that everything is a matter of taste, because I quite like your platforms! I think they're pretty. They look like quilts. I love all the red in them. They remind me of heirloom quilts, made from scraps of clothing and other things that only have in common that they were once used by someone in the family and are no longer good for anything but scraps. There's a bit of those crazy '70's pants your Mom remembers wearing as a teenager, and there are pieces of some old bedsheets you can remember from a childhood bedroom full of slumber parties and bedtime stories, and there's your little brother's security blanket that he kept until he was 8, and there's a bit of the dress your sister made in junior high as her first sewing experiment, which she thought was cool but actually was totally crooked and rather fugly. There are pieces from your dad's favorite pants that you thought he would never retire even though they were worn thin, and there's what remains of the black pants and red shirt that served as your uniform at your very first real job. Sure, the pieces don't match each other the way an outfit would match, but they all fit together perfectly as parts of your family's history.
I reackon the "sclabform" (just thought of that now lol) digging into the mountain should go all the way down to y=13. Mainly because it's apparently an unlucky number, and it'd be a pain to get to. Oh, and don't you dare even think about covering any caves up or making it look even somewhat decent!
*@rendog* 3:33 You can do better than imagine the cheering from the grand-stand.... Hermitcraft have that plugin with custom record sounds.... and you can set the range of that sound... ( More info v v v v v ) Put some jukeboxes at the grand-stand, some redstone to randomly enable them, and some random sound disks. if you "simplify" the cheering audio, into separate slightly different audio-tracks, then you can dynamically create a richer sound by enabling different sounds at different time, (like how you can overlay different sound-tracks in an audio-editor program). Eg. You have a track with "YEEEEEAHHHHH!", & "AWESOME", "WHOHOOOO".... Then you can create a new audio (that doesn't normally exist) by "overlaying" (playing at the same time, or some time-offset) the "YEEEEEAHHHHH!" & "WHOHOOOO" tracks over each other. In this way you can create thousands of unique sounds with only like 5-10 music discs (or something like that, haven't math'd it) and you can make even more variations by (randomly) changing the offset-delay.
Hey Ren idk if it was a RUclips compression problem with your in game sounds but the whole video especially in DO you can tell your sounds are stretched like an immediate echo of the same sound, like they didn’t compress right or something Also I love your scabland and it would be cool if each Hermit’s build was mascot-ed by their evil version
20:54 quick correction that might be important: alternating Blue Ice and Packed ice is actually slower than just Blue Ice, but still faster than packed ice. TLDR is that Blue ice is 77% faster than packed ice, but alternating blue and packed ice is only 27% faster than packed ice. Here's the numbers if you want: Pure Packed Ice: 40m/s Pure Blue Ice: 71m/s Alternating Blue and Packed Ice: about 51m/s Funnily enough, just alternating Blue Ice and Air gets you to 71m/s. You're correct that the boat is two blocks wide and is always touching blue ice, but its also always touching packed ice. If you want to experiment for yourself, I recommend installing MiniHUD and enabling "infoSpeed" and just going in a straight line
That racing track takes me back to the good old C64 days (not N64, C64! I'm old lol). I totally got a Pit Stop/Winter Games vibe out of it, both of which really kept me busy back in the day. Thanks for the memories!
Idea for Scabland - everything is lit by torches. But not only regular ones but redstone and soulfire as well - at least it will have a lunapark feeling.
I love how you showed off that grandstand with the cheering noises! I imagined an end-of-season final race, with some Hermitcraft fans in adventure mode actually cheering you on, it would be so cool. Maybe you could see if ZombieCleo would help you put some armor stands in there?
Since the scab land is about "scabinnes", the hermits who make the mini games, could make their games look ugly from the outside. Also stairs can be given to reach the platforms which ends halfway or may lead to somewhere else entirely.
you need a custom record disk at the racetrack platform of a cheering crowd. That would just add so much ambience. Also maybe a cool Mario card start sound would be awesome
I think the red terracotta bollards in Blue Rock Tunnel is going to punish players at the back a lot more than players at the front just because they don't generally have the same movement skill. I think you'll find that players may find this part of the track really frustrating. They could however be operated by pistons so when players further back can execute a shortcut, the bollards will be pushed in for about 5 seconds (just make sure that they're not open when the player who runs over the pressure plate gets there.)
For the randomization in making the mosaics, you might want to ask Mumbo what he used for his season 7 base. He was initially randomizing by rolling his scroll wheel back and forth, but ended up finding something that simulated that for him.
Dang. I feel like season 9 is truly the season of amazing games. TCG, Decked out 2, all sorts of different mini games including those made for the charity stream, blue river raceway, and scabland. The list goes on!
27:00 You can keep your work from the first done floors if you're open to having two floors. That might work quite well. Sharing hight instead of being neighbors.
Just an idea for some efficient impractical walls at scabland, use water and lava to make the walls on some building, it will be large, efficient in a terrible way, and hideous :)
i think at scabland instead of having those clean diorite borders, you could have one block go astray and stick out, or have the scab mosaic extend one block like where you were missing that one piece of diorite about halfway through the video. just random blocks missing or ocd-infuriating bits; but don’t overdo it, just one or two here and there will be *chefs kiss*
Trust me when I say it, a project will come to an end when you finish it, and I believe in you Ren! All of you Hermits are all so talented, with all the different games and things you all make. The thing is, they all take time. Decked out wasn't made in a day, and neither has the race course, don't say you feel like it will never end. One day you will look back at these days of playing Minecraft and think, 'wow those were the good days'. Keep doing amazing things, always love watching!
Oh man the Grind on the Race track is really amazing sir Rendog! I know that it will be fantastic when it's done. I'm getting excited for the coming race event. Keep up the Good work sir Ren! Edit: the Scabland floor or roof may looook hideous, but I'm seeing it a a Abstract Build or something. And it inspire me for my own build. You really are one of a kind Sir Ren, two grinding project but you never seem to get tired. Hope you taking care of yourself much.
Love the editting of the crowd noise when showing off the stands! It would be really cool if you used some custom record disks with crowd noise to play during the race!
So, there is some interesting stuff with bird psychology. According to some researchers, vertical straps on walls make birds fly slower. However, horizontal straps encourage being faster, or, at least, don't make them slower. If that same logic applies to Hermits, than Polar Bear Express unique pattern can be very logical
your dedication two the raceway and scabland is amazing. It is so cool to see you swich between and balance two large gamebuilds simultaneusly. Don't overwork yourself tho
In order for people to get up at scabland, use could use the steepest staircase variations for some extra hideous efficiency for people to get up to the different platforms
I've noticed that all of the platforms in scabland are perfect rectangles, maybe you could change it a bit so it is slightly off on one side or something? Also, you should add streetlights on the road with redstone lamps and daylight sensors, except it would only turn on during day, making them useless
Scabland idea... if there are minigames that involve dying, there should be a spawn-setting bed somewhere on road level, alongside a chest full of random blocks. So elytra-less respawning hermits will have to make their way back on the platforms by pillaring up to them. Caveat: the block pillars will not be removed
Some of my thoughts and ideas for scabland 2 ways to take the scabland platforms, scar has stated he wants Scarland to be a no flying zone, so making flying mandatory to access the rides is very on brand but if you deem a actual method up is needed i recommend randomly spamming ladders and vines on the climbable surface, the combination of the two should be simply dreadful to climb to further pressure hermits into flying maybe stashing a few pet skeletons on the ground level brings a general danger to the area unheard of in scarland, possibly make them togglable so the park can be usable on the other hand if you want to pressure hermits to experience scab land on the ground, randomly adding panes of glass in the air for people to fly into so people would prefer walking and climbing up ladder/vine monstrosities If and when redstone is used it should be clearly visible and not hidden, no scarland magic here Maybe let a chest monster form in the middle of Scabland instead of hidden away behind the scenes, any confectionaries sold should be hard to find and hidden away instead of paying for entry patrons of the park should have to pay to leave, penalty minigame must be played if they cant pay Planting berry bushes and wither roses around would really unaliven up the place have some awful music play every day (those creepy music disks would be great candidates for this) other noise pollution creating devices would also be great have signage and messages clearly signing everyone to leave the park hope these ideas spark some inspiration of your own, love your videos :)
Another idea to make scabland more messy: Turn the paths into stairs, coming up to the platforms in the Most ridiculous ways with some kind of M.C. Escher touch.
The most dastardly thing you can do in ScabLand is put a little hut on top of a pillar with no way up labeled the "Accommodations Office". Everything in Scar Land is accessible and welcoming, Scab Land is the opposite
One little idea I had that I thought would look cool is big signs over the track for each section of the race, with banners listing their names, kind of announcing each section as the Hermits race through them 🤓 I think this would look particlarly good at the start of Polar Bear Express, that's what gave me the idea
Add slanted ladders to the side of your platforms to give people without elytra the chance to get on. Stacking them like that means they cannot easily go up, nor can they use it to parkour, but they'll have to either be really good at diagonalle transfering every two ladders, or they have to go up and do awkward parkour jumps to get to the next layere. As a bonus, it will look ugly and be damn annoying to use while still leaving the place 'accessible'!
Had a thought regarding the roads and paths of scabland: dont use any half slabs or stairs if you need to go up a block. Nothing more scabby than forcing patrons to expend unnecessary energy jumping. :-)
Random idea for Scabland: for the broken chunk border 'terraforming' what if you patch up any mistakes with whatever block you have in your inventory that isn't a part of the natural terrain? Especially on the sides of the roads lol, I just think it'd be hilariously infuriating to have the most random blocks out of nowhere
Amazing work indeed! 😮 🤔 I'm wondering if you could have armor stands on the crowd platform, dressed in different ways and bouncing up and down with Pistons and slime blocks? To mimic that they are cheering.
To, Ren Diggity Dog. Hi, Ren. Hope everything's going well. This letter to the Crastle and Blue River Raceways on the Hermitcraft server is just to ask how the plushie is doing. Is it coming to Hermitcraft too? Miss the king so much and know you do too! Grian's whole thing during that was being against war and then he started the Buttercups. I will hold on to that forever. I hope you give the people another massive lore drop when you go to HC-10 and get into double digits. From, Edward and Jess
For scabland: Since it’s intended for the hermits to build mini games and such on, if scar ever wants to build one, he should get a special platform that includes some magenta glazed terracotta!(the arrow one).
Oh my word, I didn't know there were any hermits who knew to light up dark area's in their builds! Scar's endless mobfarms and Mumbo, bless him, just never quite remembers. Tango tries, but every time he makes one little change in his Citadel he somehow manages to shift the block he put glow lichen on... -_- and next thing you know there's a bit BOOM and he has to rebuild something while desperately trying to figure out where the spawn location was ROFL. Thanks for the Decked Out runs, I love them. This is the closest I'll ever be to a stalker, as I am scampering around Twitch and RUclips trying to run down all D.O. content. I have been ending up seeing most runs about three times, once on Tango's stream, once in each hermit's episode and often also through a stream the hermit posted. :P
Scabland is a vial affront to builders everywhere and I'm totally down with that. Not only will Scare hate it, but Grian, Gem and Perl will who I believe also helped cover the perimeter. One thing though that 2 block wide Polished diorite needs to have some boarders 3 wide and some only one and with the different heights you can do some thicker than others too.
I think a brick face on the opening to the tunnel near wizards hat straight… I also think that maybe you could name tag some witches to throw potions at passing hermits and maybe dress up the wizards hat hill a little too to make it look more wizardy 😵💫
You could leave the ground below platforms un-lit :D Nothing soothes the happy minigame player so much as the growling of zombies and rattling of skeletons. Then the minigame creators could also add some extra spice by adding the real risk of falling through the floor, pitch black into whatever is down there...
For Scabland, Ren should look into stuff like Escher and the "alien geometry" trope to make things look and feel unnatural. I think he's already on the right track, but just looking at the angles and buildings and perspectives should be upsetting. :) (Those platforms should not even be squares or rectangles... I know Minecraft has limitations, but imagine if platforms were weird shapes, or even changed heights halfway through!)
loving the race track it's looking fabulous! an idea for a charity event - invite on fans to actually fill the grandstands for the grand opening races!
You should add blocks that slows the players down for some parts of the path. Also mud blocks would be a nice addition since they sound awful when you walk on them.
scabland idea: the way to get up to the platforms could be a fragmented 3-way path. As in: take a ladder 3 blocks, then slab stairs for 6 blocks, then a ladder on a block, then 8 blocks of normal stairs
If HermitCraft has a charity coming still in Season 9 you could sell off seats in the grand-stands. A fan pays for the opportunity to log into the server, do a lap on the course, and be killed by their favorite Hermit to offer their head to be placed on an armor stand in the seats.
Since scarland looks lovely and always complete, i think it would be fair to say scabland should have major unfinished sections right up front and all over the place.
Now that the platforms are at such different levels, you need a way to get up and down. Spiral staircases are the most annoying "normal" way. But of cause nothing keeps you from changing the direction or switching to ladders part way. Maybe even go outside the platform-block when you are almost up and have to balance or parcour a bit.
Loving scabland ( I see the humor and its awesome)! ***Idea might be silly but since the rides will most likely have a high death rate lol you could maybe make a bathroom facility just full of beds and chest for a speedy recovery lol. Plus broken toilets, poo, and broken sinks.😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤ #longlivekingren
Ren, since strikebreakers were often called scabs back when unions were actually strong and effective you should copy some of the armor stand models protesting outside of hOtGuY Headquarters in the shopping district and put them as employees in Scabland.
I had a cringe idea, for the stairs between levels you could use solid blocks as the stairs so hermits have to jump up every block and can’t just walk it. Then as a tease you can make the edges of the stairs stair blocks, but put blocks as handrails above them so they can’t be used
Scabland "attractions" should be called "repulsions" instead
Distractions, maybe? :D
😂
I love this.
detraction, retraction, maltraction
ohhhh thats a good one :D Vote this up so Ren sees this !
So much awesomeness from @falsesymmetry, many huge thanks to her for the Blue River Raceway billboard, it's amazing!! RD
that sign is badass, false nailed it
Nice
The sign IS epic. I keep thinking how it can be put on a trophy somehow! False and Ren, I could make it onto a shirt or hoodie for you! Xoxo
UncleScabby, I agree with a fellow poster, the raceway needs a GigaCorp blimp overhead possibly with a large "Visit ScabLand" banner in tow.
Is my memory failing me... Blue River Raceway is BRR as in Burrrrr I'm cold. Was this intentional? And yes, False is awesome. Has anyone tested raft vs boat speed?
Every race track needs a corporate sponsored blimp to provide aerial coverage of the race! Perhaps the GigaBlimp?
Genius
Yes, yes! A GigaCorp blimp at the raceway and something similar over ScabLand which actually functions as a mob spawner that drops them into ScabLand. #UncleScabby
YAHSSSS!
You need to scout out good positions for catching the action of racers moving through the course and position some small camera drones. These could tie in to your cyber bot storyline and be used in the editing process to look like that is where you get some of the footage.
@@mr-pickles #UncleScabby #VisitScabLand 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
SO wrong out of context here it works.
How about some brightly colored hot air balloons at the raceway? Everything is really coming along. Can’t wait!!
And maybe signs on the side of the track for sponsors
Gig Corp hot air balloons/blimps/drones with cameras covering all the race.
Like a blimp from a sponsored company Sponsors could be GigaCorp, or TCG, or Decked Out, maybe he could get someone else to help build blimps and they can advertise their store like if Impulse helped he could have an iBuy Blimp?
That definitely would feel very much like a Racing game
Bright yellow road signs with a silhouette of a polar bear!
Scabland Ideas:
1. You should make one platform striped instead of the mosaic pattern, and the stripes should be just slightly misaligned
2. The quarts barriers around the platforms should be different levels of thickness for each platform. platforms could even be off center from the barriers.
Ren being perfectly safe but being so panicked he walks into lava is like a metaphor for my life.
One thing that would be cool to see, is a toxic green sludge river running through scab land. Surrounding it would be dead and dying plants and trees. And then I would add a couple of guppy geysers in the middle, so that the patreons to scab land can watch as the fish die. all of the toxic water would come from pipes on the sides of the various platforms draining down and emptying into toxic green sludge river
Sounds like an Iskalium river?
I do have a couple more ideas of things you could add as attractions for the little kids that come to scabland so that it is kid and family oriented and friendly. A Ravager petting zoo, a zombie horse riding arena, and then a game of keep away in the crypt of the dead and undead. The crypt could be zoned into various chambers and rooms with zombie villagers and zombies chasing you from one end to the other. the goal would be to get out unscathed while wearing no armor. One section to get through would be a corridor of skeletons trapped in alcoves on one side of the wall shooting arrows at you while dispensers are pelting you with slow potions.
Ren you do know you cant buy a card twice in the same run right? So when you went to buy 2 sneak cards it'll only give you 1 and you probably won't gey refunded any frost embers
This was recorded a while back, and Ren did get... I THINK a tome for the extra embers he had. It's in one of Tango's streams
@@chris050987 ah fair
Ah yes this.
@@chris050987I think that was for 2 Treasure Hunters. So he did this twice and either didn’t question it till the TH or just forgot that he didn’t get a 2nd Sneak. He also would have had 6 embers to spare if it did work🤦🏾♂️
A fun idea could be to ask the hermits to bring their own boats when you open the raceway, so there is a nice variety of 'cars' on the track. Just imagine some hermits bringing along cherry or bamboo boats!
Or just provide some of each type
have one or two with chests to make even more style differences
Was thinking your rocket sounds sounded different, like you were firing two of them instead of one... only to notice a bit later that when you placed slabs at the polar bear express even that sound was doubling. Possibly recording the sounds from 2 different lines and causing an echo?
even in decked out. You definitely have 2 audio lines in editing going on for the game for this video
I was getting flashbacks to Ren's tweakeroo rocket incident where he fired all 64 rockets in one click when helping Doc with the dragon eggs
Yeah you could even hear 2 click noises when he was using the stonecutter.
I heard it through all of the Decked Out runs and thought I was going crazy! Glad it wasn't just me hearing the double audio 😅
I'm glad other people heard it as well! I thought at first that his mouse was having trouble with double clicking, especially with the echo on the rockets, but then I heard the echo with the shulker boxes being opened and closed.
It would be awesome if you added a polar bear crossing sign as you enter that section.
Yes, a sign--written or picture? If he named-tagged a baby pb "SpeedBump" would it stay a baby?
Oh that be cool to
I am so happy to see you lighting the place up, most anti-Scar thing you can do is to make sure when folks go under their platform to do redstone there are no mobs (doubly creepers) waiting to greet them.
Scabland should be obnoxiously well-lit!
A few scabby ideas:
1. Make one of the sides of one of the mosaic platforms have 3 blocks of diorite rather than the typical 2
2. Remove the torches underneath the mosaic platforms so that there's a bunch of mob noises coming from below.
Ye but Scar would have mobs under his builds so it wouldn't be very anti-Scar to do that
False and Joe are always just unsung MVPs....doing things all over the place....
You should put a bunch of armor stand in the grand stands as well as a looping music disc with a crowd cheering audio track (the same truck the tango used for decked out)
Might have to ask cleo but that be cool
3:42 you should set up some custom music discs so that you can actually hear the crowd cheering when you are near the grandstands. Would sound really cool when you drive by and at the start of the race.
I paused to read this and the video was at 3:42 . That's never happening again.
Also, add some discs at turns with Ren's voice saying "wheeeeee". 😊
Oh custome music that be cool
Another Scabland idea: if you're worried about getting it finished in time, just don't finish the buildings. Scars' functional bits in Scarland are all nicely tucked away, I'm suggesting you leave exposed redstone all over. And no finishing any backs! Just leave scaffolding allll over the place, have random holes in the platforms (preferrably right before the entrance/exit, so people can stumble and fall downwards into a spiky pit of sorts).
During the first 30 minutes of the video, I think that the in-game sounds were double, we could hear it when you've used fireworks or when pistons opened the door to enter Decked Out 2.
Ren went to the Scar school of using compasses. The block the compass is pointing to is the one where when you cross it, the compass swaps directions by 180 degrees. Being close to the right block isn't good enough. Walk in the directionthe needle is pointing, until the needle suddenly moves, and drop it straight down.
Scabland just goes to show that everything is a matter of taste, because I quite like your platforms! I think they're pretty. They look like quilts. I love all the red in them. They remind me of heirloom quilts, made from scraps of clothing and other things that only have in common that they were once used by someone in the family and are no longer good for anything but scraps. There's a bit of those crazy '70's pants your Mom remembers wearing as a teenager, and there are pieces of some old bedsheets you can remember from a childhood bedroom full of slumber parties and bedtime stories, and there's your little brother's security blanket that he kept until he was 8, and there's a bit of the dress your sister made in junior high as her first sewing experiment, which she thought was cool but actually was totally crooked and rather fugly. There are pieces from your dad's favorite pants that you thought he would never retire even though they were worn thin, and there's what remains of the black pants and red shirt that served as your uniform at your very first real job. Sure, the pieces don't match each other the way an outfit would match, but they all fit together perfectly as parts of your family's history.
Scab Land should also be well lit and be safe for hermits at night
You should do a "super fast build mode" parody that is epic music and placing blocks at normal speed!
I reackon the "sclabform" (just thought of that now lol) digging into the mountain should go all the way down to y=13. Mainly because it's apparently an unlucky number, and it'd be a pain to get to. Oh, and don't you dare even think about covering any caves up or making it look even somewhat decent!
*@rendog*
3:33 You can do better than imagine the cheering from the grand-stand....
Hermitcraft have that plugin with custom record sounds.... and you can set the range of that sound...
( More info v v v v v )
Put some jukeboxes at the grand-stand, some redstone to randomly enable them, and some random sound disks.
if you "simplify" the cheering audio, into separate slightly different audio-tracks, then you can dynamically create a richer sound by enabling different sounds at different time, (like how you can overlay different sound-tracks in an audio-editor program).
Eg. You have a track with "YEEEEEAHHHHH!", & "AWESOME", "WHOHOOOO"....
Then you can create a new audio (that doesn't normally exist) by "overlaying" (playing at the same time, or some time-offset) the "YEEEEEAHHHHH!" & "WHOHOOOO" tracks over each other.
In this way you can create thousands of unique sounds with only like 5-10 music discs (or something like that, haven't math'd it) and you can make even more variations by (randomly) changing the offset-delay.
Hey Ren idk if it was a RUclips compression problem with your in game sounds but the whole video especially in DO you can tell your sounds are stretched like an immediate echo of the same sound, like they didn’t compress right or something
Also I love your scabland and it would be cool if each Hermit’s build was mascot-ed by their evil version
20:54 quick correction that might be important: alternating Blue Ice and Packed ice is actually slower than just Blue Ice, but still faster than packed ice.
TLDR is that Blue ice is 77% faster than packed ice, but alternating blue and packed ice is only 27% faster than packed ice.
Here's the numbers if you want:
Pure Packed Ice: 40m/s
Pure Blue Ice: 71m/s
Alternating Blue and Packed Ice: about 51m/s
Funnily enough, just alternating Blue Ice and Air gets you to 71m/s.
You're correct that the boat is two blocks wide and is always touching blue ice, but its also always touching packed ice.
If you want to experiment for yourself, I recommend installing MiniHUD and enabling "infoSpeed" and just going in a straight line
That racing track takes me back to the good old C64 days (not N64, C64! I'm old lol). I totally got a Pit Stop/Winter Games vibe out of it, both of which really kept me busy back in the day. Thanks for the memories!
Seeing ren put 20 ember in the shulker hurt soooo much when you now that ren only gonne get one and wasted 13 ember
Idea for Scabland - everything is lit by torches. But not only regular ones but redstone and soulfire as well - at least it will have a lunapark feeling.
You could also add circles in the sky above the tracks to double as an elytra course!
Ren, you need to add some Escher type stairs at scabland everywhere, each staircase a different color
3:10: that is such an awesome sign!
Just remove the two blocks of dirt, on the last A, and it will be perfect!
I love how you showed off that grandstand with the cheering noises! I imagined an end-of-season final race, with some Hermitcraft fans in adventure mode actually cheering you on, it would be so cool. Maybe you could see if ZombieCleo would help you put some armor stands in there?
Scabland needs random holes and pieces of floating dark oak if you want to make it even worse. Oh, and ads.
Since the scab land is about "scabinnes", the hermits who make the mini games, could make their games look ugly from the outside. Also stairs can be given to reach the platforms which ends halfway or may lead to somewhere else entirely.
You just need to slow down, when confirming the compass location. You kept missing because you kept rushing past the spot. Good run! 👍
On the scabland walkways you could have random single water sources placed on them for added annoyance while walking through against the water flow
you need a custom record disk at the racetrack platform of a cheering crowd. That would just add so much ambience. Also maybe a cool Mario card start sound would be awesome
Yes this.
I think the red terracotta bollards in Blue Rock Tunnel is going to punish players at the back a lot more than players at the front just because they don't generally have the same movement skill. I think you'll find that players may find this part of the track really frustrating. They could however be operated by pistons so when players further back can execute a shortcut, the bollards will be pushed in for about 5 seconds (just make sure that they're not open when the player who runs over the pressure plate gets there.)
Soooo, whose gonna tell him he'll only get 1 sneak instead of 2(im pretty sure)
For the randomization in making the mosaics, you might want to ask Mumbo what he used for his season 7 base. He was initially randomizing by rolling his scroll wheel back and forth, but ended up finding something that simulated that for him.
Dang. I feel like season 9 is truly the season of amazing games. TCG, Decked out 2, all sorts of different mini games including those made for the charity stream, blue river raceway, and scabland. The list goes on!
27:00 You can keep your work from the first done floors if you're open to having two floors. That might work quite well. Sharing hight instead of being neighbors.
Just an idea for some efficient impractical walls at scabland, use water and lava to make the walls on some building, it will be large, efficient in a terrible way, and hideous :)
i think at scabland instead of having those clean diorite borders, you could have one block go astray and stick out, or have the scab mosaic extend one block like where you were missing that one piece of diorite about halfway through the video. just random blocks missing or ocd-infuriating bits; but don’t overdo it, just one or two here and there will be *chefs kiss*
Trust me when I say it, a project will come to an end when you finish it, and I believe in you Ren! All of you Hermits are all so talented, with all the different games and things you all make. The thing is, they all take time. Decked out wasn't made in a day, and neither has the race course, don't say you feel like it will never end. One day you will look back at these days of playing Minecraft and think, 'wow those were the good days'. Keep doing amazing things, always love watching!
Blue River Raceway looks great! I will never forget the stream which we were timing the polar bear express, that was such a pain but so fun to do!
Oh man the Grind on the Race track is really amazing sir Rendog! I know that it will be fantastic when it's done. I'm getting excited for the coming race event. Keep up the Good work sir Ren!
Edit: the Scabland floor or roof may looook hideous, but I'm seeing it a a Abstract Build or something. And it inspire me for my own build. You really are one of a kind Sir Ren, two grinding project but you never seem to get tired. Hope you taking care of yourself much.
All this random block placing...
Bundles are THIS close to greatness. All it needs is a version that places a random block from within its contents.
Love the editting of the crowd noise when showing off the stands! It would be really cool if you used some custom record disks with crowd noise to play during the race!
So, there is some interesting stuff with bird psychology.
According to some researchers, vertical straps on walls make birds fly slower. However, horizontal straps encourage being faster, or, at least, don't make them slower.
If that same logic applies to Hermits, than Polar Bear Express unique pattern can be very logical
The raised platforms of Scabland reminds me of how in ZooTycoon or RollercoasterTycoon you were able to raise and lower a square of land.
Love the Scabland project and the Racetrack is amazing. I don’t know how you do it. Awesome video as always!!!
your dedication two the raceway and scabland is amazing. It is so cool to see you swich between and balance two large gamebuilds simultaneusly. Don't overwork yourself tho
In order for people to get up at scabland, use could use the steepest staircase variations for some extra hideous efficiency for people to get up to the different platforms
I vote slime launchers vertical and horizontal :)
I've noticed that all of the platforms in scabland are perfect rectangles, maybe you could change it a bit so it is slightly off on one side or something?
Also, you should add streetlights on the road with redstone lamps and daylight sensors, except it would only turn on during day, making them useless
please don't make him redo them again. Give this man a break! :'D
Scabland idea... if there are minigames that involve dying, there should be a spawn-setting bed somewhere on road level, alongside a chest full of random blocks. So elytra-less respawning hermits will have to make their way back on the platforms by pillaring up to them. Caveat: the block pillars will not be removed
The racetrack is looking awesome Ren!! GG’s to False! Also I’m LOVING the Decked Out content!!!
Some of my thoughts and ideas for scabland
2 ways to take the scabland platforms, scar has stated he wants Scarland to be a no flying zone, so making flying mandatory to access the rides is very on brand
but if you deem a actual method up is needed i recommend randomly spamming ladders and vines on the climbable surface, the combination of the two should be simply dreadful to climb
to further pressure hermits into flying maybe stashing a few pet skeletons on the ground level brings a general danger to the area unheard of in scarland, possibly make them togglable so the park can be usable
on the other hand if you want to pressure hermits to experience scab land on the ground, randomly adding panes of glass in the air for people to fly into so people would prefer walking and climbing up ladder/vine monstrosities
If and when redstone is used it should be clearly visible and not hidden, no scarland magic here
Maybe let a chest monster form in the middle of Scabland instead of hidden away behind the scenes, any confectionaries sold should be hard to find and hidden away
instead of paying for entry patrons of the park should have to pay to leave, penalty minigame must be played if they cant pay
Planting berry bushes and wither roses around would really unaliven up the place
have some awful music play every day (those creepy music disks would be great candidates for this) other noise pollution creating devices would also be great
have signage and messages clearly signing everyone to leave the park
hope these ideas spark some inspiration of your own, love your videos :)
Make the outside of the barrier of Polar Bear Express one block high, so that random bears can wander in, but not out again.
Ren has been doing an amazing job this season. I wonder where things could've went if the rebellion didn't happen and the quests continued
Another idea to make scabland more messy: Turn the paths into stairs, coming up to the platforms in the Most ridiculous ways with some kind of M.C. Escher touch.
The most dastardly thing you can do in ScabLand is put a little hut on top of a pillar with no way up labeled the "Accommodations Office". Everything in Scar Land is accessible and welcoming, Scab Land is the opposite
One little idea I had that I thought would look cool is big signs over the track for each section of the race, with banners listing their names, kind of announcing each section as the Hermits race through them 🤓 I think this would look particlarly good at the start of Polar Bear Express, that's what gave me the idea
Add slanted ladders to the side of your platforms to give people without elytra the chance to get on. Stacking them like that means they cannot easily go up, nor can they use it to parkour, but they'll have to either be really good at diagonalle transfering every two ladders, or they have to go up and do awkward parkour jumps to get to the next layere. As a bonus, it will look ugly and be damn annoying to use while still leaving the place 'accessible'!
reminds me of Oxygen not Included :)
Had a thought regarding the roads and paths of scabland: dont use any half slabs or stairs if you need to go up a block. Nothing more scabby than forcing patrons to expend unnecessary energy jumping. :-)
Saw the sign first on hypnos stream. And I agree, that it totally catches the N64 vibe. I love it 💗
The Racestart needs lights and sounds.
make one platform at a 45% angle? would be an interesting challenge to build a mini game on. One of the hermits is bound to be inspired by the idea...
Random idea for Scabland: for the broken chunk border 'terraforming' what if you patch up any mistakes with whatever block you have in your inventory that isn't a part of the natural terrain? Especially on the sides of the roads lol, I just think it'd be hilariously infuriating to have the most random blocks out of nowhere
I think the tunnel needs arrow banners or something at the curve to make it clearer how far away from it you are.
Amazing work indeed! 😮
🤔 I'm wondering if you could have armor stands on the crowd platform, dressed in different ways and bouncing up and down with Pistons and slime blocks? To mimic that they are cheering.
I'm impressed with your ability to place all those slabs without doubling any of them!
32:41 "keep on scabbin'!" Might be a fun outro when there
To, Ren Diggity Dog.
Hi, Ren. Hope everything's going well. This letter to the Crastle and Blue River Raceways on the Hermitcraft server is just to ask how the plushie is doing. Is it coming to Hermitcraft too? Miss the king so much and know you do too! Grian's whole thing during that was being against war and then he started the Buttercups. I will hold on to that forever. I hope you give the people another massive lore drop when you go to HC-10 and get into double digits.
From, Edward and Jess
I can't express how much joy your intros make me feel... how is it possible?
Scabland is the best Hermitcraft project this season so far.
For scabland:
Since it’s intended for the hermits to build mini games and such on, if scar ever wants to build one, he should get a special platform that includes some magenta glazed terracotta!(the arrow one).
Oh my word, I didn't know there were any hermits who knew to light up dark area's in their builds! Scar's endless mobfarms and Mumbo, bless him, just never quite remembers. Tango tries, but every time he makes one little change in his Citadel he somehow manages to shift the block he put glow lichen on... -_- and next thing you know there's a bit BOOM and he has to rebuild something while desperately trying to figure out where the spawn location was ROFL.
Thanks for the Decked Out runs, I love them. This is the closest I'll ever be to a stalker, as I am scampering around Twitch and RUclips trying to run down all D.O. content. I have been ending up seeing most runs about three times, once on Tango's stream, once in each hermit's episode and often also through a stream the hermit posted. :P
Scabland is a vial affront to builders everywhere and I'm totally down with that. Not only will Scare hate it, but Grian, Gem and Perl will who I believe also helped cover the perimeter.
One thing though that 2 block wide Polished diorite needs to have some boarders 3 wide and some only one and with the different heights you can do some thicker than others too.
Also the platforms could have scabby sales posters with banners on them selling scab land rubbish food.
I think a brick face on the opening to the tunnel near wizards hat straight… I also think that maybe you could name tag some witches to throw potions at passing hermits and maybe dress up the wizards hat hill a little too to make it look more wizardy 😵💫
You could leave the ground below platforms un-lit :D Nothing soothes the happy minigame player so much as the growling of zombies and rattling of skeletons.
Then the minigame creators could also add some extra spice by adding the real risk of falling through the floor, pitch black into whatever is down there...
"Polar bears can come and go, that's perfectly fine"
Proceeds to build fence to keep them in
For Scabland, Ren should look into stuff like Escher and the "alien geometry" trope to make things look and feel unnatural. I think he's already on the right track, but just looking at the angles and buildings and perspectives should be upsetting. :)
(Those platforms should not even be squares or rectangles... I know Minecraft has limitations, but imagine if platforms were weird shapes, or even changed heights halfway through!)
loving the race track it's looking fabulous! an idea for a charity event - invite on fans to actually fill the grandstands for the grand opening races!
On the minigame platforms in Scabland you should have an occasional random block in the polished diorite border
You should add blocks that slows the players down for some parts of the path. Also mud blocks would be a nice addition since they sound awful when you walk on them.
the blue river raceway sign looks like the ones from the arcade games back in the day, looks fantasticical
scabland idea: the way to get up to the platforms could be a fragmented 3-way path.
As in: take a ladder 3 blocks, then slab stairs for 6 blocks, then a ladder on a block, then 8 blocks of normal stairs
This build is so cool, makes me wish I could go to France for the 24 hours at Le Mans race.
If HermitCraft has a charity coming still in Season 9 you could sell off seats in the grand-stands. A fan pays for the opportunity to log into the server, do a lap on the course, and be killed by their favorite Hermit to offer their head to be placed on an armor stand in the seats.
Since scarland looks lovely and always complete, i think it would be fair to say scabland should have major unfinished sections right up front and all over the place.
You can add cloud cheer sounds with disks it would be great to hear that while racing
Now that the platforms are at such different levels, you need a way to get up and down. Spiral staircases are the most annoying "normal" way. But of cause nothing keeps you from changing the direction or switching to ladders part way. Maybe even go outside the platform-block when you are almost up and have to balance or parcour a bit.
Loving scabland ( I see the humor and its awesome)! ***Idea might be silly but since the rides will most likely have a high death rate lol you could maybe make a bathroom facility just full of beds and chest for a speedy recovery lol. Plus broken toilets, poo, and broken sinks.😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤ #longlivekingren
Ren, since strikebreakers were often called scabs back when unions were actually strong and effective you should copy some of the armor stand models protesting outside of hOtGuY Headquarters in the shopping district and put them as employees in Scabland.
Loving the blue ice strips additions! It looks awesome!
I had a cringe idea, for the stairs between levels you could use solid blocks as the stairs so hermits have to jump up every block and can’t just walk it. Then as a tease you can make the edges of the stairs stair blocks, but put blocks as handrails above them so they can’t be used
You know how Scarland is always infested with mobs at night? Scabland should be obnoxiously well-lit!
it wouldn't be a rendog project without a rediculous total rebuild episode :)