The Joe Hills Hermitcraft Coup, as told by the Juppet Themself, summarized by Enkay
Source: Joe's evening Hermitcraft Stream on January 12, 2025. As Joe only archives his reading VODs, the only way to catch moments like this is to tune in!
During early Season 1, GenerikB called the shots on who was added, and to the rest of the Hermits, new people would just pop onto the server with no consultation with the others
There was no structure of organization other than the fact that GB was in charge because it was his server, and everyone was fine with this
Eventually, GB left to focus on Mindcrack, and the server kinda ran on its own for a while, with people doing whatever they wanted on the server and making videos without any larger plans for the future
Eventually, there had been so many updates to Minecraft that some people wanted to start over with a new world with new people, since there had already been some hermits that had gone inactive
It was very difficult for the group to make decisions because there was no final word on any topics, even though there was a general consensus on a seed and potential new people to join.
Enter Joe "Group organizational structures is my passion" Hills
PS: Joe highly recommends this essay on the importance of group organization if you want to do ANY word as a group
THE DAY BEFORE they had agreed to record the first day of the server, they were STILL humming and hawing over the seed and new hermits
so Joe says "howdy y'all, here's what I'm going to do: I'm staging a coup, I'm going to decide that we will go with this seed that people generally agreed with, and we're going to add these two people that people generally agreed with. If ANYONE wants to disagree and do something different, feel free to step up! I will gladly give them the decision making power!"
Joe says "someone get in contact with Mumbo, I'll take care of Cleo, we get them sorted out, get the seed set up, we're recording tomorrow"
still crickets, but now with nodding
They recorded Season 2 the next day, with two VERY confused and new Hermits named Mumbo and Cleo, who found out potentially earlier that day they were joining the server
And the rest, as they say, is Hermit History.