Metro Mayhem is a minigame built by ImpulseSV under the PixelPulse Valley. It consists of multiple different sections and is inspired by the MC Championship game Ace Race.
Race Times[]
Season 1[]
The season 1 of Metro Mayhem lasted from August 1 to August 15, 2025, after which the minigame was put under renovation. During renovations, some sections were updated to fix skips in order to better match the desired running route. Completed runs were put on a book on a lectern.
| Placement | Hermit | Personal Best Times (stacks/nuggets)[note 1] |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 9s 2nugs | |
| 2nd | 9s 4nugs | |
| 3rd | 9s 23nugs | |
| 4th | 9s 38nugs | |
| 5th | 9s 40nugs | |
| 6th | 10s 46nugs | |
| 7th | 10s 56nugs | |
| 8th | 11s 4nugs | |
| 9th | 11s 8nugs | |
| 10th | 11s 19nugs | |
| 11th | 11s 20nugs | |
| 12th | 11s 49nugs | |
| 13th | 11s 63nugs | |
| 14th | 14s 55nugs |
Season 2[]
Season 2 of Metro Mayhem lasted from September 1 to September 20, 2025. Before Season 2 started, new lockers and campfire death chamber was created to make it as accessible as possible to do a run. It was also the only season to feature the Egg Hunt, where Hermits could explore the course to find all 20 eggs. Any Scores with an asterisk(*), is technically not scored correctly due to lag from the World Tour With Guests.
| Placement | Hermit | Personal Best Score(stacks/nuggets)[note 2][note 3] |
|---|---|---|
| 1st* | *3s 61 nugs* | |
| 2nd | 9s 3bugs | |
| 3rd | 9s 7nugs | |
| 4th | 10s 9nugs | |
| 5th | 10s 46nugs | |
| 6th | 10s 59 nugs | |
| 7th | 13s 38nugs | |
| 8th | 15s 7nugs | |
| 9th | 15s 31nugs | |
| 10th | 15s 54nugs | |
| 11th | 16s 11nugs | |
| 12th* | *16s 34nugs* | |
| 13th | 19s 60nugs | |
| 14th | 20s 7nugs | |
| 14th | 27s |
Layout[]
Entrance[]
The villager is a reference to youtuber Jojosolos, who visited the Hermitcraft server to do a test run of Metro Mayhem with ImpulseSV.
Descending a staircase from the surface level of PixelPulse Valley, players enter a metro station, with a kiosk with a renamed villager called Jojo Jr Shabadoo running the stand. After a set of ticket gates, players go down another set of stairs into the metro platform, where they can start the game.
Metro[]
The first part of Metro Mayhem is an underground metro tunnel segment from one end to the another. The main obstacle is a parked metro (subway train) with obstacles inside, above, and around it.
Water Cave[]
The second part of the minigame consists multiple caves filled with water, with trident-throwing drowned and tight connection points between caves as obstacles.
Sewers[]
The third part of Metro Mayhem are sewers, which the players must navigate through multiple different segments of to progress. In the sewers, players encounter a training cove with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Splinter[2], a tunnel with shooting wind charges, and bubble column water launchers.
Section through previous seasons[]
The fourth and final part is a collaborative piece by ImpulseSV and other Hermits. ImpulseSV wanted Hermits who participated in particular seasons to be the ones building that specific season's segment in the minigame.
Season 1[]
Season 1 segment's entrance takes elements from the season's nether hub along with pumpkin and melon farms designed and built by Xisumavoid at spawn. The centerpiece is a miniature version of Biffa's Bowl, originally built by Biffa2001, along with the rainbow built by JoeHills and Hypnotizd as an apology for pranking the Bowl. Netherrack tendrils grow from the Bowl, mimicking the tendrils JoeHills had near his nether portal. The exit is Hypnotizd's Pyramid, with pixel art of Keralis in a karate costume above it. Both the entrance and the exit have a tripwire to activate a music disc recording narrated by JoeHills that mimicks the narration of a museum exhibit. The segment was planned and built by Keralis, JoeHills and Xisumavoid [note 4].
Season 2[]
As the player enters the Season 2 segment, they are taken up one of the towers marking the entrance to the shopping district. From the tower, the player jumps onto a slime block which bounces them onto a tendril of a green one-eyed monster, which was originally hidden underneath the Museum of Natural History; another build by ZombieCleo. From the tendril, the player has an option to either move on to the Season 3 segment, or take a shortcut by parkouring from Sl1pg8r's amazeballs and TinfoilChef's mushroom onto the frame of Boombox. A downscaled version of shorn Shaun the Sheep is located next to the tower [note 5]. The segment is divided by a road made out of smooth stone slabs and stone bricks, a common road style during Season 2.
Season 3[]
Season 3 segment's entrance is the entrance to Boombox, a minigame by TangoTek and ImpulseSV in Season 3. The game's maze is used as a parkour course, with dispensers dispensing TNT into the water. The right wall is decorated with a pixel art of Shrek, a prank by MumboJumbo to FalseSymmetry as a payback for her building a pixel art of Olaf, the snowman from Frozen. The left wall has the giant letters T and H marking the entrance to Hermit Thrills, the Season 3 gaming district. The ceiling also has the roof of the carousel from said district. At the lower half of both sidewalls, there are 2 witch huts, referencing the quad-witch farms that brought impulseSV himself, the creator of the segment, onto the server. The exit of the segment is the eyeball starter base TinfoilChef built in the Hermit Hills.
Season 4[]
FalseSymmetry built the segment to mimic the clutteredness of Season 4. The segment has the player running through the central mesa[note 6] plateaus, with bases built along with it. From the entrance on the right side Cubfan135's Yellowstone hotsprings and a volcanic biome can be seen with two dead trees in the mix. After that on the ground level there's a garage with impulseSV's formula car from his Stark Mansion in the municipal district. In the corner there is a recreation of GoodTimeWithScar's evergreen trees that he popularized during the season due to using leaves from birch and spruce trees as they don't change colour in different biomes like other leaves at the time. Next is a smaller version of Doom Tower, a tower that ZombieCleo built. After which there is a small llama pen with a sign reading "Llama Rama", which was a store organized by VintageBeef. Near the end there is a Hermitron booster pack as a shulker box encased in purple glass. Hermitron was a server-wide minigame created and hosted by Rendog. On the left side of the segment starting from the start, there is a building from VintageBeef's Mars Base, where he had replaced the terracotta on the ground with red sand to mimic the ground on Mars. MumboJumdrone is the central piece to the segment with an icy power beam coming from the ground. There is a shortcut in the ice, that goes inside of the mesa plateau and has a broken bridge to jump across which leads opposite of the Hermitron Booster Pack near the end. The bridge is designed after some of the bridges connecting different plateaus on the Season 4 server. Next to it, there is IJevin's Wheat Field, along with a block version of a wither, mimicking the destruction they caused on the server. Alongside with the builds in the segment, there is an armour stand of the Hermit who built said build.
Season 5[]
The segment for Season 5 has only one central build; The Big Dig, GoodTimesWithScar's big season long project of building a petrified tree underground. The tree worked as a central hub for the season and its cave walls housed the shops and services provided by the Hermits. The build in itself would have been too big to insert, so ImpulseSV decided to cut a chunk out of it. There are two Christmas ornaments; a tuxedo cat head and a creeper head, hanging from a Christmas makeover that was done onto the original build. To complete the segment, the player has to drop far down into a water pool and then work their way up by zig-zagging upwards using ladders and parkourable blocks.
Season 6[]
In front of the left and right walls are the bases of Team STAR and G-Team from the Season 6 Prank War respectively, former of which has an opening in it for a ghast that was used to shoot fireballs. Entrance to the segment is next to a tall sign for Idea, an interior shop owned by Xisumavoid, Keralis and BdoubleO100. The player must jump onto a shooting cannon; held by a giant GoodTimesWithScar from his own part of the Hermitcraft Build Off, and follow the smoke to jump onto a hippie van. The exit is the entrance to Area 77, collaborative project between GoodTimesWithScar and Docm77.
Season 7[]
Above the entrance to Season 7, there is a Bee-ralis from above a tower in Xisumavoid's base. The entrance wall also has a build from Aqua Town; Snips. The right wall of the segment has a miniaturized version of TangoTek's Toon Towers. By the right wall, there is a small version of Cubfan135's Season 7 Pyramid, the entrance to MumboJumbo's Season 7 Hobbit Hole, the sign from Head Games; a minigame by ZombieCleo. In addition there are two falling TNT blocks to reference The Boomers; a group of TNT-experts consisting of TangoTek, ImpulseSV and BdoubleO100. The center of the segment has two hexagonal platforms from FalseSymmetry's Season 7 Cyber Punk City and tip of the Big Dig-drill from ScarX along with a small drilled hole. On the back wall has a small version of The Button, the sign from Shade-E-E's and a shrine to Decked Out. The shrine is similar to the design that EthosLab got from winning it. The floor of the segment is a mixture of mycelium and grass due to the Turf War. To complete the segment, the player had to jump on floating grey glass blocks and panes to have access to the exit from the segment. The player may also choose to jump onto Cubfan135's pyramid and MumboJumbo's hobbit hole to access a short-cut.
Season 8[]
Season 8 segment built by Rendog and Docm77, depicts the moon hitting the ground with one of the walls showing the Hermits in pods aboard the Hermitheus. The other wall shows the Grumbot aboard the ship. The ground is decorated with Octagon style white tendrils with warped vines and amethyst crystals. Sculk sensors under the ground detect the player making sounds and close a door in order to make them listen to looping sounds of Rendog and Docm77 chanting "His name is Mumbo Jumbo". After the door there is a set of two animated armour stands suited to look like them bowing back and forth. .
Season 9[]
PearlescentMoon built the Season 9 segment as a combination of her alien themed landscape and Decked Out 2 along with The Deep Frost Citadel. The entrance is a faithful recreation of a build she did inside of Decked out 2's 2nd level. A curving path upwards leads the player past a small portion of The Rift, to see the citadel from the outside as well as the orange and green terraforming PearlescentMoon had at her base. Near the center of the room, there is a pedestal with 77 deepslate diamond ore referencing the The Diamond Tower Race at the start of the season. Near the exit there are three strip mine tunnels mined into the wall, mimicking the ones TinfoilChef was known for. One of which has an armour stand depicting him mining.
Dotted around the segment there are easter eggs depicting certain memorable moments from Season 9. These include the easter eggs, which were first used in iJevin's easter egg hunting and then again hidden in Decked out 2. A tamed Jellie cat is sat next to Goodtimeswithscar's egg memorializing her. On the ground, there are some pressure plates that when stepped on will play sound effects from Decked out 2, along with a skeleton skull replaced with Rendog's king head.
The segment is the final part of Metro Mayhem and leads back to the start of the game.
Trivia[]
- Three of the finished segments have a homage to the late TinfoilChef
- Season 2 has mushrooms built by him
- Season 3 has big green hairy eyeball that served as his base
- Season 9 has 3 stripmines along with an armourstand of him mining away
- Even with the Season 4 segment being one of the first segments claimed, it was 4th to the last to be finished
- While being a popular build from Season 4, FalseSymmetry didn't build her jellyfish, because she had already built it as the central piece on Jellyfish Emporium
- Viewers suspected that PearlescentMoon would be the Ore snatcher, due to the deepslate diamond ores being used in her segment to amounting to 77, the number related to Docm77
- She later denied these claims on a livestream, and saying that the amount is just a coincidence
- While touring the Season 6 segment, impulseSV incorrectly referenced Idea as MumboJumbo's shop instead of xisumavoid's, Keralis' and BdoubleO100's. Their shop sold blocks to help interior decorating.
- MumboJumbo did own a similarly named ODEA, a shop selling redstone machines during Season 7
- After GoodTimesWithScar wrote hugs instead of nugs for scores, it made multiple other Hermits runs write hugs instead of nugs.
- In Season 2's scores, Hermits wrote hugs, bugs, mugs, slugs and jugs, instead of nugs.
- After Season 10 ended, a speedrun.com website was made tracking the fastest runs. [3]
- The world record run is 7s 63nugs by Solawr.[4]
Notes[]
- ↑ Player times are recorded by a Minecart Chest of Gold Nuggets.
- ↑ Player times are recorded by a Minecart Chest of Gold Nuggets.
- ↑ Some Times with Astick(*) are affected by lag, making their score not accurate
- ↑ All of whom have been members since season 1, and the latter two have also participated in every season since
- ↑ Originally it was a prank by ZombieCleo towards Spumwack, which was later shorn by ???
- ↑ Currently known as the badlands
References[]
- ↑ ImpulseSV's livestream: Jojo Found SOOOO Many Shortcuts! 🤯 - Hermitcraft Stream, timestamp: 2:48:00
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles
- ↑ Speedrun.com Website.
- ↑ Solawr's World Record Run.