Mumbo Jumbo brings a brightness test to his Minecraft skyline
Two new episodes pair city-building and horse photography with a resource-gathering chalet project alongside Grian and Scar.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Hermitcraft 11: Episode 31 - i'm scared
Next story: Mumbo Jumbo's chill chalet needs a panic room
Video summary
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- 0:00Mumbo sets out his goal of finishing the city's skyline by the end of the year.
- 5:32Smallishbeans arrives with a secret-location photography commission, offering diamonds for three pictures.
- 12:31An image histogram test puts numbers to Mumbo's argument about cobblestone and stone brightness.
- 14:34Pearl supplies golden carrots when Mumbo runs short of food, then admits harvesting his wheat.
- 18:16Mumbo returns to the brightness debate with an in-game demonstration for Pearl.
Cobblestone needs defending, apparently. While planning his next skyscraper in "Hermitcraft 11: Episode 31 - i'm scared", Mumbo Jumbo takes the question of block brightness out of Minecraft and into an image histogram tool. His finding: cobblestone's texture has a higher mean luminance than regular stone.
It is a wonderfully particular detour for someone trying to finish his city skyline by the end of the year. Later, PearlescentMoon gets an in-game demonstration of the brightness argument, having already supplied something rather more immediately useful: golden carrots. Mumbo is running short of food despite owning a substantial wheat field, which Pearl admits she has been harvesting.
That contradiction has become a running joke in the comments, alongside his increasingly elaborate photography work. Viewers are discussing the horse pictures commissioned by Smallishbeans, with some imagining a ready customer in fellow Hermit Bdubs. The episode is the most watched of Mumbo's two uploads this week, reaching roughly 1.2 million views.
The other upload, "FINAL LIFE: Episode 3 - my dream", puts Mumbo, Grian and Scar to work on the chill guys chalet, gathering resources and trapping players. It currently draws the most daily views on the channel, while the previous episode's enchanting subscription business also remains among the busiest videos.
Across the channel, subscribers held steady and daily views are below their usual level. Nearby in the Minecraft community, Grian's daily viewing is close to normal, while Karl is enjoying a stronger spell. For Mumbo, the week's most distinctive measurement is rather smaller: the brightness of a single building block.
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What viewers say
I can not get enough of Mumbo taking screenshots of Hermit bases and turning them into actual Minecraft pictures.
@EinPseudonymSee it on YouTubeMy favorite type of hermitcraft video are the ones where Mumbo gets kidnapped into another hermit's world and then is just remarkably confused lol
@RickRolledRegSee it on YouTubeBdubs would buy every single horse picture no matter the price. You have to give him the horse on the mountain as well, it's too cinematic not too
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Mumbo using the luminance chart is the minecraft equivalent to learning a new word and using it in every sentence you say
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The videos drawing views on Mumbo Jumbo right now
- Channel
- Mumbo Jumbo
- Subscribers
- 9,790,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,832,178
- Videos published this week
- 2
- Video published
- November 11, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,220,706
- Views on its first day
- 831,426
The numbers
Here is how Mumbo Jumbo's uploads and audience moved over the week.
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Who gives Mumbo golden carrots during his Hermitcraft episode?
PearlescentMoon helps Mumbo with golden carrots when he is running short of food.



