Everyone knows the classic children game of Tag, where the aim is not to be tagged by "It". What if I tell you there's also a Tag game on Minecraft YouTube... on the Hermitcraft server?
P/S What's Hermitcraft? Hermitcraft is a versatile Minecraft server, comprising family-friendly YouTubers of different skill sets and playstyles. Read my blog post to find out more about Hermitcraft and why it's a MUST WATCH!
This blog post will briefly cover the best moments of the first 10 owners and location of Tegg:
Grian
GoodTimeswithScar (Scar)
Ethoslab (Etho)
Cubfan135 (Cub)
FalseSymmetry (False)
GeminiTay (Gem)
Grian
Scar
Cub
Iskall85 (Iskall)
"Hang on. T-E-G-G? Not T-A-G?"
I'll explain in a sec. Let's start the conversation with my favourite expression...
Tag Game on Hermitcraft SMP? What is that?
This Tag game is introduced by Grian all the way back in Hermitcraft Season 6. It has been re-introduced every season, each with a unique spin.
In Season 8, the "It" is a Minecraft dragon egg. A hermit has to hide the egg in his/her base to prevent other participants from stealing it. The hermit who has the egg hidden for 500 in-game days is the final winner.
Since Season 8 kicked off with puns, Grian cheekily rebranded his mini-game as Tegg. You know, Tag and Egg.
Since Grian is the founder of this traditional Hermitcraft mini-game, Grian is the first owner of the egg.
Grian hid the egg on his base's high-level dormer window. Little did he know, it was immediately found by his neighbour, Scar. Grian relocated the egg in sheer panic and tricked Scar into his drop trap: a deadly fall onto a stalagmite.
Like any decent burglar, Scar waited until the master of the house was gone before finding the egg (again). He thought it would be hilarious of Grian to relocate the egg into the drop trap.
After all, who would return to a trap, yeah?
So Scar jumped and got stabbed in the butt by the stalagmite for the second time. Maybe Grian isn't as crafty as Scar thought. Eventually, Scar spotted the egg in Grian's pumpkin farm and happily took it to his front door-less wagon.
Then came the powerful ninja, the father of redstone... Ethoslab!
Yup, the almighty ninja is also signed up for this mini-game! As expected, no hiding spot is good enough to escape the powerful Sharingan. Utilising his highly-skilled ninjutsu called the ender pearls, Etho teleported to the ceiling and yoinked the egg from the beams.
Etho accumulated over 100 Minecraft days when the reincarnated Pharoah, Cub decided to hunt the egg. Cub arrived at Etho's shattered savanna base with a high expectation, quoting:
"...knowing Etho, I'm guessing he probably hid this quite well." -Cubfan135, S8
I'm not gonna be that guy to tell him he's probably overthinking. But yes, he's overthinking...
because Cub started rotating items on item frames. I expected a montage of him rotating every item on every item frame in the storage area... unfortunately no, we didn't get any of such footage.
"I'm not gonna be that guy to tell you you're probably overthinking. But yes, you're overthinking."
*Using my words against me now, eh? Still, you're right, so shush!*
Anyhoo, Cub scoured around Etho's base for an hour. He then flew up high to give up... and that's when he noticed it. The egg was perched on top of a house, merely covered by spruce trapdoors!
At this point, Cub learned from his mistake of overthinking.
For his turn, Cub decided to pull a reverse psychology trick. Instead of hiding the egg suspiciously like the previous three owners, Cub displayed the egg conspicuously as a lamp.
"Just a lamp? He must have set a trap... or something to stop other hermits from nabbing it!"
Oh yes, he did. He added a sign of "do not touch the lamp."
So five minutes later, the lamp's gone.
"Duh??? Who stole it?"
The Queen of Hearts and Lamps, the one and only FalseSymmetry.
False walked in through the front door... and there it was. The one and only Dragon Egg lamp!
False was so confused seeing the obvious-ness of the egg, she asked herself if there's only one dragon egg on the server.
"Incredible, Cub managed to erase False's 10-year career as a Minecraft YouTuber!"
My point exactly! You can say Cub's psychological tactic failed and succeeded simultaneously. His biggest achievement, however, is proving False cannot read.
Regardless, kudos to FalseSymmetry as the fifth owner of Tegg!
The Hermitcraft PVP master, however, is quickly challenged by the new hermit, GeminiTay.
Gem is great, totally not a large ego; above all, Gem is nosey. She began poking her nose in the game just when her neighbour acquired the Tegg.
False, however, sent her on a wild goose chase by placing renamed chicken eggs around her base. Still, Gem managed to find the egg under False's bridge that led to her base. Ain't that clever--everyone would have walked past it without realising!
Now. The creator of the Tag game, Grian, tallied the scores and realised he was dead last.
The hunt therefore began! Grian arrived at Gem's base and was warmly welcomed by puns on signs throughout.
"Sounds like Grian's Season 6's pickle shop that was littered by puns on signs."
*That's... absolutely true. Karma...?*
Grian isn't as good as a bandit in comparison to Scar, because the owner of the house walked in when he was still on the hunt.
Grian had to remind himself it was totally legal to rummage someone else's house.
He finally found the egg and flexed it in front of Gem.
"Excellent!"
Nope.
"Huh?"
It's "egg-cellent."
The egg was back to the original owner's hand... and was snatched away again. Guess who? Scar, the pesky neighbour!
"Again? I think it's karma at this point... Grian's finally tasting his own medicine since Hermitcraft Season 6 and 7!"
Absolutely! Guess what Scar did again.
" "Shear-ly" not jumping into the drop trap."
...
"... He did not."
He did. Grian was in the house and tried punching him into the hole. Scar had a firm crouch at the edge, Grian had firm left-clicks; in the end, Grian punched Scar to death.
Scar returned to the house, this time with a water bucket. He sank all the way, found nothing, and almost drowned when on his way back up.
Bonus: Scar joined Grian and Cub immortalising themselves as the hermit wither painting.
Scar gave up on the interior and decided to scour the exterior. He spotted a weird opening on the roof and voila, it's a concealed attic of the Dragon Egg!
Just when Scar was done harassing his neighbour, it was his former S6 ConCorp partner's turn.
At this point of the mini-game, every participating hermit loves tell-tale signs... literally and figuratively. The cub was greeted by signs left by Scar. Unlike Gem, however, Scar's signs left scars, such as...
Competitive (and overthinking) as he has always been, Cub squeezed through every opening and even parkoured at Scar's chandelier. Scar happened to fly by just to comment coldly,
"You cold, bro."
Cub should have pointed out it was summer in the US. This aside, Scar gave Cub a hint that he needed to interact with trapdoors. Cub heeded with the advice, found himself at Scar's pipework of bee farm and as you guessed, that's where the egg is.
Cub was the ninth owner of Tegg and even accumulated a hefty score too!
Then came a new hunter... the ninja's housemate, Iskall.
If other hermits were having trouble finding the egg, Iskall was having trouble finding Cub's base. This is understandable because Cub's base is a hole on the ground.
Iskall then kindly labelled Cub's hole. Don't overthink this.
Similar to previous hermits, Iskall was welcomed by trolls on signs. Out of frustration, he weighed himself on a pressure rail that opened one of Cub's secret doors.
Iskall noticed the change in Cub's secret corridor. Unfortunately, Iskall fell through the new snow...
"New snow? Does he mean the powdered snow?"
Yes. Iskall doesn't know that, so shh.
"Okay..."
Iskall fell through the snow and knew instantly he was at the right track. He then adopted his housemate's ninjutsu of ender pearls to cheese through the new snow blocks.
*Drum rolls please*
Iskall is the tenth owner of the Tegg mini-game! Congratulations!
Cool... now what?
That concludes the first part of my blog post. Want to catch up on Tegg yourself? I've got you covered! I've created an edit of all the best moments of the first Tegg 10 owners:
Alternatively, hop on to my YouTube playlist of every owner in chronological order. As this mini-game is still ongoing, I'll update the playlist whenever a new owner uploads.
I hope this blog post has been a help to you! Thank you for still sticking around and see you in my next blog post!
Disclaimer:
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