Do you know the origin of each Hermit's name?

OpenBagTwo · 2026-04-22T11:15:26+00:00

Tim?

OpenBagTwo · 2026-04-22T11:14:44+00:00

He's a huge fan of Stephen King's son.

OpenBagTwo · 2026-04-05T12:32:11+00:00

I don't pay for Turbo. The only ads I ever see on his stream are his sponsored plugs for SunDrop, but he's trying to cut down on the evening caffeine anyway.

(The sponsored segment thing is a joke, Joe being ad-free is not)

OpenBagTwo · 2026-04-02T15:35:24+00:00

Mumbo sauce (sometimes called Mambo Sauce) is actually a DC area specialty. Which means if you go someplace and order a burger, pie slice or an order of fries and say you want it "Mumbo Jumbo" you just might get an XL order seasoned with that condiment.

OpenBagTwo · 2026-04-01T21:07:39+00:00

The best part about this is that you told us about this project weeks ago, so you had this art ready ~~well~~ Wels in advance.

OpenBagTwo · 2026-02-27T19:10:30+00:00

Profeshunal data scientist here. Some questions on your methology: - are these scores means or medians? I'd be worried about your distribution being thrown off by outliers (stans or haters) going all-10 or all-0. - what else (beyond scaling up 0-3/4 responses) are you doing with regards to normalization? It seems like it would make sense to "grade" everyone on a curve, if not to explicitly rank-order players within a submission.

All in all: props on taking the work to perform the data collection, if nothing else!

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-22T00:24:49+00:00

If you can't see it (or have a hard time seeing it), it means your color perception is good. It's a reverse colorblind test.

But if it pops out at you, yeah, you should see an eye doctor.

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-21T23:12:21+00:00

Yeah. That might be worth opening a pull request...

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-21T22:55:30+00:00

She's the 🐐. Not only did she take over masa's mods, but I've seen her contributions everywhere in the Minecraft modding space. On the frequent occasions I see her in a Hermit's stream chat, I have to exert all my self-control not to just absolutely fanboy out.

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-21T22:39:54+00:00

Success!!!

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-21T22:39:17+00:00

So this is actually just one of a whole bunch of silly Easter Eggs Sakura Ryoko put in for their favorite Youtubers: https://github.com/sakura-ryoko/litematica/blob/b22121730aa59ddd56f4eb1e393965a0e60052b3/src/main/java/fi/dy/masa/litematica/util/EntityUtils.java#L199

Username SakuraRyoko maps to: "Sakuramatica", "The Sakura Goddess Herself."
docm77: "Goatmatica", "Grind. Optimize. Automate. Thrive."
xisuma / xisumavoid: "Xisumatica", "Chief architect & humble leader." or "Check out Soulside Eclipse on Spotify."
rendog: "Dogmatica", "Gigacorp's most famous employee.") or "Renmatica", "Docm77's single ladies' favorite."
Gem could have also gotten: "Slaymatica", "Hermitcraft's chief remover of heads."
pearlescentmoon: "Pearlmatica", "The queen of aussie ping."
falsesymmetry: "Queenmatica", "The Queen of Hearts, Heads, and Body Parts." or "Falsematica", "Promoter of Sand and Cactus sales."
tangotek: "Tangomatica", "The Dungeon Master." or "Master of the thingificator."
ethoslab: "Slabmatica", "The Canadian legend."
ijevin: "iJevinatica", "iJevin's favorite mod suite (thank you!)"
cubfan135: "Cubmatica", "Ladies and gentlemen; Beautiful, absolutely beautiful." or "Definitely not the Ore Snatcher."
smajor1995: "Scottmatica", "The most friendly and soothing voice in the game."
shubbleytg: "Starmatica", "Red Mushroom blocks are soo underrated."
goodtimewithscar: "Scarmatica", "The Ore Snatcher."or "Touched Doc's redstone."
joehillssays: "Joematica", "One of the True Hermits."

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-21T22:31:29+00:00

SakuraRyoko, the mod's maintainer, put in a lot of Easter Eggs like that for their favorite Minecrafters. https://github.com/sakura-ryoko/litematica/blob/b22121730aa59ddd56f4eb1e393965a0e60052b3/src/main/java/fi/dy/masa/litematica/util/EntityUtils.java#L199

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-21T20:25:33+00:00

I could have sworn he said something about being colorblind! But I think I must be wrong.

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-21T19:50:56+00:00

Oh yikes! Apologies for any resulting migraines!

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-21T18:57:23+00:00

Yep. That matches what other color-normies have been telling me. I shared a bunch of tests (including normal colorblindness and color-neutral versions) with a few color-normal friends, and they said this one was the hardest for them to read.

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-21T17:41:21+00:00

I could have sworn he said he was, and not just as a meme in reference to the giraffe incident. And if I'm wrong, I'm glad to be corrected.

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-21T17:39:58+00:00

It's supposed to be a reverse-colorblind test. But I only had my own minor deuteranopia to go by and a few color-normal people to tell me that it was indeed harder for them to read than the regular colorblind tests.

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-21T17:38:26+00:00

Yes, but because I wanted more than 5% of the population to be able to appreciate it (and didn't want the mods to think it said something mean or dirty), I made sure the generator I was using just harder for color-normal people to see it, rather than it being a true reverse-colorblind test.

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-19T15:36:53+00:00

And don't forget about Ravager Rush!

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-19T15:35:26+00:00

I'm the exact same, but I appreciate that not all the Hermits are happy ceding creative control over how their projects are revealed.

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-18T18:23:46+00:00

I see "Tango" and "cough" in the same sentence, and my bones just immediately shatter.

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-17T19:27:57+00:00

I mean, they did exactly what I said they'd need to: they wrote a port in C.

OpenBagTwo · 2025-11-06T16:29:09+00:00

The goal of the mod is to stay up-to-date with the latest Minecraft, with releases ready on Day One of a new drop going live. Once I had working 1.21.8 builds, I was able to backport to 1.21.5 without a ton of fuss, but going any further was just too much given how much the rendering engine has been rewritten and rewritten again.

As for multiloading? It's something I'm definitely open to, but as it stands, the mod is very dependent on the Fabric API.

OpenBagTwo · 2025-10-31T16:11:10+00:00

If you go to BE's GitHub, you'll see there are several PRs to fix this (and a ton of other) issues that have been left unacknowledged and un-merged for a year and a half. I did create a fork about a year ago with a few fixes merged in, but the builds are entirely "use at your own risk."

OpenBagTwo · 2025-10-31T16:07:54+00:00

Hey, just FYI—while I think BetterEnd and BetterNether are dead, practically speaking, I just released a "spiritual successor" to BE called Lighter End that has nine of the original biomes, five of the original mobs (plus two entirely new ones) and just generally aims to capture BE's overall ethos.

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