Hermitcraft community, I love you, but HOW has no one jumped on the fact that the second track of the next music is called “Watcher” ????

I may know nothing on Hermitcraft and Life Series lore- but HUH????

we love the cobalt core ost

its a shame everything past Void (track 23) is content spoilers because those are some of the best tracks we've heard ever and we do not say that lightly.

...but for non-spoiler stuff, Self-Defense damn near peak OST. It needs to be longer, but the fight doesn't last more than 1 loop (pun intended) for us.

MAJOR finale spoilers below the cut, stop reading if you have not hit the big "future memory" button on the memory screen

(for those wondering why we linked bandcamp instead of spotify, that is a rant for another day, but it is available on both for free)

One evening while I was fully immersed and focusing on the game the music engine started playing a song. The song opened with a piano phrase that reminded me of Minecraft by C418. My first instinct was to think that the track was a song added by one of the many mods and was supposed to be an homage to this iconic piece of the OST of Minecraft. However, instead of just being in the background to accentuate the loneliness of mining, the song managed to completely stop me into just listening.

After the short intro the track took off into a completely different direction from Minecraft, which I thought it was referencing. The melody moved onto a beautifully melancholic waltz played by a solo piano. Eventually the song introduced an accompanying synth, which only managed to awe me even more with the nostalgia it evoked within me.

Turns out that the song was not added by a mod. It is a part of the offical OST called Watcher by Aaron Cherof. I love the old tracks by C418, which have their own style that adds to the surrealness of Minecraft. I also love the new tracks by Lena Raine, which feel more energetic and happy to me.

Watcher is the first track by Aaron Cherof that I have heard. In my opinion this track is a perfect continuation of the work of C418. The intro was familiar enough to grip the nostalgia within me but different enough that it made me listen to it more closely. The song manages to capture the melancholia of the original tracks but it turns down the surrealness, which leaves room for a new feeling.

This new feeling, I think, is longing for the simpler days. For me, the surrealness of Minecraft has diminished. The mysteriousness has been replaced by knowledge and familiarity. The track is more grounded, which fits my current experience. The melancholia in turn makes me want to return to the days when life was simple and familiar but Minecraft was weird and unfamiliar.

Red got distracted by the animals so Purple did most of the trading.

lena raine, as always, did amazing

they also got the guy who made the music for one of my recent favorite games, cobalt core (aaron cherof(great game by the way go check it out on steam))

this is shaping up to be the best update since the nether update in 1.16