Hermit Interactions in Season 10, one month in

This season has been so great already, so many close by basing hermits have led to many cool new interactions and team-ups, while also giving us returning old friendships. Magic Mountain and The Neighbourhood have been central points of new communities popping up, giving us both old and new dynamics.

I've been a part of a group keeping track of hermit interactions, who shows up in which hermit's videos. Some things are big events, like the introduction cutscene or the opening of the Shopping District (every single hermit was there! that's astounding!), but others are just passing interactions that if you blink you might miss. While we're only about a month in, I wanted to share some fun tidbits I noticed in the data, some start-of-season fun stuff for people. I collected this stuff on Saturday, so some episodes opening the Shopping District are included, but others may have missed out.

1: An entire four episodes have had no guest appearances. Out of over 140 episodes tracked when I collected this data, only four episodes have just a solitary hermit talking to the audience alone. Two of these were from Cub, and two of them were from Wels. That's not even 3% of all videos on Hermitcraft - every single other video has a hermit pop in for one reason or another. It took us nearly a week before we even realized we needed a way to indicate that.

2: The most "hermity" hermit award, the ones who've mostly kept to themselves, is a competition currently between Keralis and Zedaph, two folks who weren't able to include the season opener in their videos. Each have hosted ten unique hermits in their videos, though if either releases an episode with the Shopping District opening, given that every hermit was there, that number will certainly change.

3: The Neighborhood is working! All founding members of the Ministry of Ministers feature each other more than most - Beef has Iskall in every video of his, Cleo with Iskall, Beef, Ren, and Hypno, False with Iskall and Ren, et cetra. That said, some do hold others close - Iskall has Mumbo in most of his videos and Hypno has Jev. For some reason, Beef keeps having Skizzleman guest in his videos... I'm sure that duo is all on the up and up!

4: Magic Mountain is similar, but with a larger mix of close and distant friends. Five of the eight hermits who've shown up more than once for Joel are Mountaineers, but Scar has Tango in every video. Impulse's most common guests are all from the mountain, but Mumbo returns the favor to Iskall from the previous point by featuring him in every one of his own videos.

5: For living in a swamp far away, Doc has layers. The only hermit to not make more than one appearance in a Doc video is Wels, who missed out on the season intro unfortunately. Though, for some reason, Doc can't seem to stay out of trouble with Big Salmon - Beef and Skizz have made an appearance in every Doc video so far.

6: Some common friendships are back for us to enjoy! XB and Keralis share each other's top spots, while Gem and Etho appear in each of eachother's videos. Endbusting returns too, with Mumbo and Iskall mentioned above. That said, there are new interactions that have sprung up, Beef and Iskall share the best neighbourhood rivalry with each other, Skizz and Grian have never been further than arm's length from each other, and the Postal Service (Etho, Pearl, and Tango) while starting late have quickly grown strong bonds reminiscent of late-game Decked Out.

For fun, each hermit and which hermit(s) that have shown up the most in their videos so far, across all of their videos:
Bdubs: Ren
Beef: Iskall
Cleo: Iskall, Beef, Ren, Hypno (tie)
Cub: Tango, Scar
Doc: Beef, Skizz
Etho: Grian, Pearl, Iskall, Bdubs, Gem, Scar (three videos, and they all show up in each)
False: Iskall, Ren
Gem: Etho
Grian: Skizz
Hypno: Jev
Impulse: Skizz
Iskall: Beef
Jevin: Hypno
JoeHills: XB, Hypno
Joel: Impulse
Keralis: XB
Mumbo: Iskall
Pearl: Gem
Ren: Iskall
Scar: Tango
Skizz: Tango, Grian, Joel, Gem, Impulse
Stress: Ren, Iskall
Tango: Etho
Wels: Ren
XB: Keralis
Xisuma: Ren
Zedaph: A tie between every single hemit that's showed up in his videos - X, Keralis, Skizz, Etho, Tango, Gem, iskall, Joel, Bdubs, and Mumbo!