The Best Worst Pickaxe!? - Minecraft Hermitcraft Season 9 #2

We begin a whole range of new Zedvancements and make some progress on our main soon-to-be-trophy-filled base!

Season 9, Episode 2.
#Zedaph #Minecraft #Hermitcraft

[karaon]

Love the base plans Zed, also beacon beams go trough other beacons so making the ore beacons "work" is a fun idea :D

[-Karma-]

Imagine beating the dragon with all the upcoming best enchanted worst gear. That sounds pretty trophy worthy to me!

[shunnedtomcat]

As Impulse said, "I thought you were insane, but it turns out you're a genius." I couldn't agree more 😆

[rowanhensley]

Zedvancement idea: Be slain by every mob, even the passive ones. The opposite of the Monsters Hunted advancement.
Passive mobs can kill you with entity cramming, or through more rube goldbergesque means.

[trevorsmith]

The reason that the wooden and diamond pickaxes broke at seemingly the same speed was that there is a sort of "plateau" of breaking speed, where if your pick is not fast enough to instamine but _is_ fast enough to break it within one tick, there is a 0.3 second delay before starting on the next block. This means that past a certain point, making a tool faster does not make a difference unless it can insta-mine.

[gladehartdreamer]

hey zed, you could make the leather armor colorful, make them have really clashing and ugly colors to draw attention and to really sell the "worst gear" aspect of it.

[baryonyxyt]

Achievement idea: Trading up!

Starting with a single emerald, trade with other Hermits for increasingly valuable items until you can buy something really valuable, like someone else's base or your face on the moon. The catch is you can't trade for diamonds.

[jvteam]

"Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ" is the classic quote.

[EvesterBee]

Wooden tools with all those beacons are gonna be the new netherite!

[Ani]

those timelapses are actually stunning, Zed - are they stop motion? and if so, how on earth did you manage to position your character so perfectly every time?! incredible work!!

[justcallmeness]

Ness here, reporting on Zedaph's exploits again today. He starts with the odd enchanting request of an uber-pickaxe made of wood. Zedaph reveals that it's part of a larger accomplishment that we'll see come to fruition in subsequent weeks. Leather armor and wooden tools? Madness! We also see a touch of the scientist from last season as he compares the efficiency of his new pickaxe against Impulse's diamond counterpart, with shocking results! As a side note, I think "rowing with your armpits" could be a possible new feat, though it would probably need to have a distance-traveled requirement--it's something that several Hermits have already attempted, so we'd need a measurable component to verify.
After a sad incident where Iskall drops Zed's cake on the floor, Zedaph shows us a bit of a mockup of his base idea, hooks his base to the others, and gives us a preview of some longer advancements he's going to achieve during the course of the season.
In conclusion, there are no completions this time, but I think we've gotten some important documentation for his future endeavors.
Until next time, this has been Ness.

[cosmicreciever]

Thank you for the subtitles Zed! I wish more of the Hermits did this. I appreciate that Impulse is even coloured his yellow

[observancesys]

zedaph's own unique brand of absurdity quickly made him my fav hermit back in season 7 and it looks like that isn't gonna be stopping anytime soon. hype for more !

[HeatherKraafter]

I peeked, I am so sorry! I just knew there'd be something to miss if I didn't HA HA!!!

I love the base plans and am so looking forward to more base build and the crazy achievements.

[TheKazragore]

Zed asking "why?", in the season after he essentially rebuilt Aperture Science, has to be the most wonderfully ironic thing ever.

[pedroumpierre]

What about getting every mob (about 70) and making some kind of zoo. That would take the entire season to achieve, but it would be pretty cool

[mishirish]

To be somewhere safe
Could be its own Zedvancement
With David Bowie

[mondasin]

I know during one of the previous seasons the "If you like hermit X try also watching Hermit Y" Zedaph and Grain ended up getting labeled as Same Character different class, being the same chaotic energy but focused on builds and machines individually.

So it is fitting that they both made boulders for season 9.

[tetsujin_]

2:38 - "Why would anyone do that?" (max-enchant leather armor and wooden tools)

Well the wooden tools aren't much good, even enchanted (even an enchanted wooden pick can't mine diamonds, etc.) but enchanted leather armor is actually pretty good. Having the right protection enchantments is much more important than what the armor is made of... The main limitation is that even with Unbreaking 3 and Mending it won't be as durable as diamond or netherite gear. And you can dye leather armor. You still wind up with the enchantment glow that kind of makes everything look the same, a bit, but it's a way to have a distinctive look while still being fully geared up.

[slimecubeboing]

Fun fact: Because how efficiency works, an efficiency 5 wooden pick is slightly faster than an efficiency 4 netherite pick, but only at mining blocks that are breakable with a wooden pick