#grind optimize automate thrive

[sunny-and-vicious]

Time to grind for the name of the G.O.A.T.

[bottle-of-allay]

Hey siri, play The Goatfather

Hermit-a-day May #14 Docm77

[void-the-bear]

seems like Doc is taking grian's message well

[top-scar-maverick]

There needs to be a girlboss gaslight gatekeep for autism

Autism!

Assimilate!

Automate!

[musesofthesun]

ooc:// slowly getting my creative mojo back….. here are some yuis

[simplydm]

Kind of rich for doc-“grind, optimize, automate, thrive”-m77 to be hating on motivational posters and tapestries

[doodleshrimps]

Grind Optimize Automate Thrive

[brainrot-has-overtaken-me]

2025 is no longer the year of g.o.a.t. (grind, optimize, automate, thrive) but the year of THE G.O.A.T. God of Automated Terror

[willow-wispwolf]

Docm77 fun fact!

If you know Doc, than you probably know his catchphrase: Grind Optimize Automate Thrive. He didn’t start using that phrase until season 7, where all of his GOAT theme-ing started.

But what’s more interesting is that the goat horns on his skin weren’t added until the finale of season 8, during his and Ren’s finales in which Ren also had the horns. (The season that Goats were added to Minecraft/Hermitcraft)

[rosegoldenatlas]

Docm headcanon/rant

i think a lot of newer docm77 fans don't know how his skin got so complicated. Or how much lore it has because it is intricate.

Originally (as far a I know at least) the skin was a creeper man with a robotic eye and a lab coat. That's it. But then he upset a God (aka dinnerbone) that removed his right arm model. He replaced it with a robotic one quickly though. Around this time he killed three gods, dinnerbone cause of the arm thing I forgot how he killed Jeb but it was on accident then he accidentally killed Notch.

Then he joined hermitcraft a while after the Notch incident. Which I headcanon that instead of being invited he just shows up one day and nobody questioned him.

Season seven rolls around and is obsessed with goats and GOAT mentality (grind optimize automate thrive). Season eight hes breaking Minecraft again and apparently harnessing black magic with his shadow tech. (Headcanon doc doesn't believe in magic even when he sees it right in front of him or been when he does magic himself. It is simply yet to be explained science)

Season nine he is so obsessed with goat he now has goat horns (headcanon that he fucks with his DNA just cause he can. Also I like to think he also got a thicker skull with the goat DNA as well as the ability to just eat anything and developed a minor allergy to buttercup flowers)

Still season nine he's breaking the game and now worships the goatmother aka goat goddess and found an entire dead goat/creeper hybrid society in his perimeter. Then there's that twitter thing where his irl kid and him plate pretend as butterflies and suddenly his character has pink butterfly wings. (And antennae maybe?)

And that I just surface level canon things. Here are headcanons I didn't already say.

-his kid is a nonbinary creeper goat butterfly. And I love them. They usually stay with a friend off server because hermitcraft is not the safest place for a three year old but Doc will let them visit hermitcraft sometimes and goes off server frequently to see doccy.

-Docs hivemind is a bunch of smart people that he can see if they let him and he hears them constantly. Not only I the hivemind his smart friends but also various artists and musicians and cosplayers.

-Docs cam account is his robotic eye that he can control with his mind.

-creepers are covered in green fluffy fur an therefore Doc is fluffy. Also living with Ren in season eight gave him the habit of shaking himself dry after getting wet.

[spookierz]

Assigning each hermit a letter from the alphabet!

i deal with being stressed by making useless lists

A: Gem

Gem is the letter A because she deserves to be first on this list.

B: Gem again

theres only 25 currently active hermits.

C: Pearl

Pearl is the letter C because the letter has the same shape as a crescent moon.

D: Keralis

Keralis is the letter D, as it is easily the most frightened letter. D-: AHHHH!

E: Cub

Cub is the letter E because it is the 135th letter of the alphabet.

F: Scar

Scar is the letter F because he is fantabulous.

G: Doc

Doc is the letter G because he grinds, optimizes, automates, and thrives.

H: Hypno

Hypno is the letter H.

I: Zedaph

Zedaph is the letter I because that sheep is looking at me. with its. eye.

J: Jevin

Jevin is the letter J because I didn't know where else to put him :-(

K: Etho

Etho is the letter K because of his roots as Kakashi.

L: Joel

Joel is the letter L because L stands for loser, something he regularly calls him audience.

M: Mumbo Jumbo

Mumbo is the letter M because it has the same shape as a mustache.

N: False

FalseSymmetry is the letter N because it is not symmetrical, even though it seems like it should be.

O: Beef

VintageBeef is the letter O because it is the oldest letter in the alphabet. Very vintage.

P: xB

xB is the letter P because they rhyme.

Q: Ren

Ren is the letter Q for its associations with royalty. #Queen

R: Impulse

Impulse is the letter R so he can be with Skizz and Tango.

S: Skizz

Skizz is the letter S because he has an S tier personality! No other reason.

T: Tango

Tango is the letter T for reasons not yet revealed to me.

U: Wels

Wels is the letter U because it is a very knightly letter.

V: Grian

Grian is the letter V because he is VERY NEAT.

W: Bdubs

Bdoubleo is the letter W because the both share the word 'double'.

X: Xisuma

Xisuma is the letter X in reference to his evil alter ego, Evil X.

Y: Joe Hills

Joe is the letter Y because it kind of looks like him, if you turn it sideways.

Z: Cleo

Cleo is the letter Z because she is a zombie. Zombies are dead, and you can only become a zombie at the end of your life. This mirrors the letter Z in how-

[hcguesstheauthormessageboard]

anyways, it’s very cool when my course actively provides source for one of my fics! Saves alot of research time. I am Grind Optimize Automate and Thrive!/ref

…perimeter is my favourite base if you couldn’t tell haha

-🥸

always on that grind!

[tweeksandturns]

So...

Scar Impulse and Gem were trying to get Grian to work on the back of his base, but Grian didn't want to, so he grabbed ahold of scars adhd (talked about seeing the tunnel-bore) and the two of them went there. Scar and Grian pressed a button too many times, and it blew itself up.

Doc was angry (of course, he had the rights) so he got back at them by, 1. breaking Grians nether portal so it was one sideways block, and 2. getting wither skulls to float in Scarland.

Neither side did much after this for a while, but eventually, Doc got a purple crown and put it on a Zombie in front of Mumbos base.

Grian, under the assumption that anyone with a purple crown would be Mumbo's best friend, Killed the zombie for the crown. He didn't know that Doc had made a redstone contraption so that when that zombie died, it blew up the entrance to Mumbos base.

Grian physically, spiritually, and emotionally didn't know how to fix that, but Mumbo more or less found it funny.

During this time, Zedaph was trying to find a dragon egg, and had gained some information that Grian had a ton (from duplicating them), so He went to Grian for it. Grian built an elaborate treasure hunt for the egg Zedaph wanted, and at one point, got Zedaph to blow up a wall in docs base (a wall that Zedaph didn't replace) in order to find the next clue.

Grian and Scar(Read: Poultryman and Hotguy) entered the perimeter, and created their own redstone contraption that spawned thousands of chickens into the perimeter (and also unintentionally moved the ender dragon because that area was chunk-loaded I think).

Doc got kinda angry, and Teleported the chickens into Grian's base, which let the chickens roam free anywhere they could. At some point, I think it was proxy honestly, Mumbo got involved. Doc, in his angry, created an insane dragon egg duplicator and dumped all of the eggs onto the three of their bases. (THIS MAY HAVE BEEN AFTER THE ENTIRE BUTTERCUP THING, I DO NOT REMEMBER)

Mumbo, Scar, and Grian team up, and call themselves the buttercups, because buttercups are poisonous to goats (albeit the fact that Doc is a butterfly now, not a goat). They build some camps on the edge of the Perimeter, and Grian writes "Live Laugh Love" on Docs walls. Doc HATES this, and Ren (I don't know when they teamed) builds a secret area underneath the Buttercups camp so that they could hear whatever the Buttercups were planning.

The buttercups plan to put another motivational quote on the perimeter, and Doc outs him and Ren, and the two sides decide, "You know what. Robots." and get their robots to fight for them. The buttercups buttercupbot explodes, and dies, but gets rid of the goat's ability to move.

Ren and Doc, have a backup plan though, and the two of them get on the butterflies that Doc built, and speed toward Grians and Scar's bases. Mumbo, Grian, and Scar stop them luckily, but it was kind of close. Doc and Ren lose for then, but Doc doesnt stand down.

Doc builds an intercom that plays his voice (and that also caused tango to leave because the range was scuffed for a bit) and he also got rid of the "Live Laugh Love" sign replacing it with "GOAT: Grind, optimize, automate, thrive."

He also puts a large target on the button half of it, with 4 target blocks in the middle.

Scar gets the wonderful idea of "Why don't we fly into the target blocks" and so he and Grian do. Neither of them thought that that would actually set off the target blocks, but it does (because apparently, players are projectiles) and the Redstone sets off a little animation that Doc made and blows up the buttercups base.

Doc left to go on vacation before this, but Grian and Scar made a new Base in the form of a Cherry bonsai in the flowerpot they made for the buttercupbot. Nothing has happened since that we know of.

(SOMEONE PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I MADE ANY MISTAKES, THIS MESSAGE HAD A LOWER THAN 100 CHARACTERS LEFT, OUT OF 4000 ON DISCORD)

[musesofthesun]

i think its very funny if i have chaco (yui’s Shiba puppy) on here and his fc is just kenji the Shiba

[icyhotheartwritings]

OKAY SO

At the very start of the season, Docm77 built a world-eater to blast a 500 x 500 block hole right down to bedrock to use as space for his farms and base, called the Perimeter. The Perimeter is right next to where Grian, MumboJumbo, and GoodTimesWithScar settled their own bases. This is all setup for one of the wildest prank wars in Hermitcraft history.

It all started because Grian didn’t want to finish the back of his base. He didn’t want to finish it so bad that GeminiTay, ImpulseSV, and Scar held an intervention to get him to finish it, that he PROMPTLY managed to distract Scar from and they both raced off next door to see Doc’s latest game-defying contraption - a redstone tunnel bore in the wall of the Perimeter. That they managed to blow up. They did their best to rebuild it, but these two are builders and not redstoners and therefore had No Idea how to do that, so they just left a little apology present and got the fuck out of dodge.

Unfortunately for them Doc doesn’t do apology presents too well! So he fired back by setting a trap for Grian that blew up Mumbo’s front door (I still don’t know whether or not that was intentional or a slight misfire), and managed to hang DOZENS of wither skulls (you know, the ones the wither shoots out of its heads?? the exploding ones?? yeah those) in midair over the main square of Scar’s theme park.

So now that there’s three wronged parties (two perpetrators and an innocent bystander), they got together to form The Buttercups to band together and fight the goat. Grian egged the Perimeter with hundreds of chickens, they built a cute little hippie camp on the edge of the Perimeter, Doc made flying butterflies to blow up Grian and Mumbo’s bases, both parties made giant robots to fight each other, Doc enlisted Rendog to help spy on the Buttercups by building a secret room under their camp and stuffing sniffers in there, the Buttercups graffitied the Perimeter with a goddamn Live Laugh Love sign, Doc tore it down and replaced it with a trapped Grind Optimize Automate Thrive (G. O. A. T., if you notice) sign that ended up blowing up their camp and all the sniffers underneath, at some point Doc also covered the Buttercup’s bases with hundreds of duped dragon eggs but I can’t remember when that happened in the timeline, and then like half of the involved parties went on vacation.

Grian came back first and he had the brilliant (“bRiLlIaNt”) idea to just. Cover the entire Perimeter. All 250,000 blocks of it. But not in one flat plane of dirt, no no NO. This man is a BUILDER. And Scar is a builder too. These motherfuckers TERRAFORMED it. Planted trees and everything. But since it was a race against the clock to beat Doc getting back on the server, they hijacked the weekly Hermitcraft meeting to be all “hey anyone wanna help us cover the Perimeter?” AND THEY GOT LIKE SEVEN PEOPLE TO HELP. I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THAT LITERALLY NOBODY EXCEPT MUMBO, GRIAN, SCAR, REN, AND DOC WERE EVER INVOLVED IN THIS WAR AND YET THE SPIRIT OF HERMITCRAFT IS JUST THAT NOBODY CAN RESIST A POINTLESS ENDEAVOR TO FUCK WITH THEIR FRIENDS. I SAY POINTLESS BECAUSE DOC CLEANED IT UP QUICKLY AND EASILY.

Anyway. They threw the Perimeter under a rug and all their videos dropped one after the other like right before Doc came back, and the man lost his shit swearing bloody bloody vengeance on everyone involved on Twitter. Hermitcraft is a family-friendly server, right, and in his latest video he opened it saying it was REALLY hard to not swear like a sailor. This whole thing is wild and you really gotta watch at least the Hermitcraft Recap to get it all, cuz I know I forgot some things

SORRY THIS IS LATE august chewed me up and spit me out but HOLY SHIT THAT IS INCREDIBLE. Oh my god. I have to get into Hermitcraft Immediately

[eviliakv]

GRIND. OPTIMIZE. AUTOMATE. THRIVE!