What is Double Life SMP?
Double Life SMP is the third instalment of the Life series, succeeding 3rd Life and Last Life.
Following its predecessors, the number of lives is represented by the player name's colour: green, yellow and red for 3rd, 2nd and last life respectively.
Red players will become hostile to other members. And when the last life is lost... he/she will be out of the series.
What is the twist?
Partners and Soulmates
Every Life series has its own twist. In Double Life SMP, two players are soul-bound to one another i.e. two members share one health bar. If one player takes damage, his/her partner suffers equal damage.
Likewise, if one member dies... the other partner dies too. You can imagine the chaos already!
Note: the partner list is in the next section.
Only One Enchanting Table
Since 3rd Life SMP, this table plays the most critical role (thanks, Scar). Similar to Last Life, there's only 1 enchanting table on the entire map. This time around, it is located in a very dark, guarded and ancient place...
Is that a hint? Hmm... keep reading and you'll know!
What do we need to know?
Fewer Members, Old Members
Unfortunately, not every member from Last Life SMP could commit to this series. There are 3 players whom we will miss: Skizzleman, LDShadow Lady and Mumbo Jumbo.
The rest of the 14 members are (alphabetical order):
BDoubleO100 (BDubs), BigBst4tz2 (BigB), Etho, Grian, ImpulseSV, InTheLittleWood (Martyn), Pearlescentmoon (Pearl), GoodTimeWithScar (Scar), Rendog (Ren), Smajor (Scott), SmallishBeans (Joel), SolidarityGaming (Jimmy), Tango Tek, and Zombie Cleo.
These then form 7 partner-in-crime:
BDubs & Impulse
BigBst4tz2 & Ren
Etho & SmallishBeans
Grian & Scar (what are the odds? It's the Desert Duo of 3rd Life SMP all over again!)
InTheLittleWood & Cleo
Pearl & Smajor
SolidarityGaming & Tango
The map is a 1.19 Minecraft Update: the Wild Update!
As per the update, expect to see 1.19 Minecraft features like mangrove trees, frogs, allays, boats with chests and goat horns.
Most importantly... the Ancient City, sculk sensors and dangerous warden.
Ancient... dangerous... sound familiar? You guess it right: the enchanting table is in the Ancient City! Facing the warden is impossible even with full Netherite armour, let alone in a survival world with limited resources and life's too precious!
What to expect?
Double Life is essentially Half Life
Given how the partnering works, Double Life SMP will be a shorter series than its predecessors.
This is simply because one death kills two players.
Let's take Week 1 for example... Tango and SmallishBeans' (Joel) death simultaneously cost Solidarity Gaming (Jimmy) and Etho's lives. That's four lives instead of the usual two. So be prepared for a very short series!
Oh and yes, the title's pun intended ;)
That said...
Expect greater cooperation between players
This shared life is a literal translation of "you scratch my back I scratch your back." Members now have a greater need to look after their partner just so they themselves can live.
I know, selfish.
New chemistry between players
By rough calculation, almost half of the Minecraft YouTubers in Double Life SMP is not from the Hermitcraft server.
Looking at the list above, all the non-hermits are matched with hermits. I also noticed the pairings (except for Bdubs-Impulse, Grian-Scar and Pearl-Smajor) do not have much interaction in the past.
This means we get to see new interactions and chemistry between these members!
And you know where this will lead to...
Dramas! Shenanigans!
I mean, duh??? Just look at Week 1 (episode one), we already have...
Oh. Uh... *profuse sweating* I told you! Drama! Haha! Uh, next section, please!
Some uploads from Etho!
This is more of a greedy reason, but hey still an expectation of the series, right? RIGHT???
Anyhoo. If you aren't aware, Etho's upload schedules are as wacky as his Minecraft redstone and building. He was also temporarily inactive due to IRL reasons (sickness and death of a family member) and had been absent from Hermitcraft Season 9.
I would say Double Life SMP is an excellent series for Etho to slowly get back into the YouTube grind. Fingers crossed, he'll be playing and recording (and releasing!!) Hermitcraft Season 9 videos in no time!
What now?
Get into the Double Life SMP bandwagon now! For your convenience, I've compiled each week's YouTube playlist just for you:
And!!! Brand new edits, now on YouTube (via hermitcraft.snippets)!
Wanna have a chat about Double SMP? Let's gossip over my Instagram!! Till then, see you!
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