Fumi Hausu Restarts Stream Over a 40,000 Bitrate Setting, Then Builds in Minecraft

POLYGON — Fumi Hausu, an ALTER talent with Polygon, restarted her Minecraft stream on Monday after noticing that her broadcast bitrate was set at about 40,000. She said it had been that high the whole way through, and that viewers on the other end could only watch at 1080p, with one reporting 480p on a phone. She stepped away to change the setting and came back a few minutes later.

Back in creative mode, she said she had been short of ideas for Minecraft and wanted to make something creative. She took up a viewer’s suggestion to build a warp point, a room for teleporting. The design relies on an ender pearl stasis chamber, which works by keeping a chunk of the world loaded. She said it only works when nobody stands close enough to load the area, and that it also returns the player if the game is restarted. After several broken attempts she got it working, and she said she would not forget how it was done.

“Playing Minecraft like this is good too. Why should I be stressed about going off to fight all the time?” — Fumi Hausu, while building

She suggested the setup could be used to prank friends, or as an escape when a fight in a cave goes badly. A viewer also explained how the game’s tick speed could be raised, a setting of 2,000 against the default of 20, and she asked about turning on hardcore mode.

For the rest of the stream she worked on a figure of one of the “humans”, her name for her viewers. She picked a skin tone from terracotta blocks, worked on its arms and head, and gave it eye colors and a bow. Chat’s first reaction to the head was an orange cat, and one viewer told her she had joined the builder type of Minecraft player. She said the game had a calm side that suited her at the moment.

She closed by announcing a 3D stream the next day at 7 p.m. for exercise together with viewers, and said she would post an update if an appointment ran late. She also thanked the viewers in the game and in chat, and took a screenshot with the figure before signing off.