I love how much "worldbuilding" a mail system adds to hermitcraft, 'cause in a story now you'd have like mail technicians who do dangerous trips to the nether to find lost mail and repair broken portals, and it's just so cool.
my interpretation on why grian has not won another game despite being the only (?) previous victor still trying is that in third life he took a huge fucking chomp of the forever weed brownie to try and save scar and now he is on the worst fucking trip of his life. my headcanone. yeas