That Chief Guy hides a Minecraft base inside a hot dog

Random building prompts send Chief and CodeNeon in very different directions, from a food truck with a concealed switch to a campsite with an oversized excavation.

Channel: That Chief Guy Story of November 15, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 112,246 views a day, 5.2 times a normal first day on this channel (21,587).

Whoever Builds the Best Secret Base WINS!

Next story: That Chief Guy's finale turns viewers into Minecraft rule designers

A food truck is an awkward place to hide a daylight detector. That Chief Guy has to make it work anyway: his Minecraft challenge pairs a randomly chosen entrance mechanism with a randomly chosen building theme, then gives him an hour to connect the two.

CodeNeon, also called Josh, gets a campfire camp and redstone ore. Once construction ends, each builder has to find the other's secret room. Looking convincing is only half the job; the entrance needs to function without making itself obvious.

"Whoever Builds the Best Secret Base WINS!" reached roughly 89,000 views in 15 hours, putting its projected first-day audience at more than five times the channel's usual start. Secret bases already have a substantial place on Chief's channel: "Testing MORE of your Terrible Secret Bases" is among his most-watched regular uploads.

Here, Chief builds a giant hot-dog-shaped vehicle, concealing the daylight-detector switch behind a chimney. Josh goes underground, using redstone ore's changing state to trigger his mechanism. His excavation gets rather less discreet when TNT tears out more terrain than intended. "I just wanted to build a mine, not a crater, not a quarry," he says.

The video includes a sponsored segment for the Minecraft server Wynncraft.

Viewers are discussing the combination of creative building and functional puzzles, with several asking for another installment and suggesting guests including Knarfy, Blockrat and Branzy. The finished builds get their practical test when Chief explores Josh's campsite, before Josh starts inspecting the hot-dog truck for its hidden way in.

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The numbers

The secret-base challenge is on course for a much larger first-day audience than Chief's usual upload. Its opening view count and the channel comparison are below.

the video's first day

usual first day here

21,587

this video

112,246

subscribers

887,000

▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days

total views

127,623,398

views per day

36,576

typical day: 150,658

the video

views

89,357

likes

2,904

comments

128

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

TheobaldTheBird

918,000

That Chief Guy

887,000

rekrap1

875,000

LIGER

866,000

PearlescentMoon

842,000

cubfan135

825,000

As of November 15, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.