Season 2 of Hypermine Vanilla starts from nothing. The server has been reset on a brand new map for Minecraft 1.9, and this first episode is a short cut of highlights from day one. Basket loads in among the trees while the chat fills with join messages: jandoncom, Scoti_Garbidis, BenitosLair, LateNightTic, minired101, albinac, Ballentine17, ectorvynk, Brahenic and more. Less than a minute in, the chat reports "voodoobeard was slain by Zombie."
Everyone at spawn
The first job for everyone is the same: punch a tree, take inventory, make a crafting table. Soon the whole group is standing on logs and crafting tables at spawn, with Kondrik, jandoncom, voodoobeard, minired101, Ballentine17, preisi, BenitosLair and Lapis_Lauri all wearing nameplates in the crowd.
Another player welcomes everyone: "This is a whole new world, a brand new map." The plan for the season is to "start a little bit of a community area and then we'll see what the future brings." The spot where they landed is the real spawn, maybe the place for an iron farm one day, but the group is told to head "to the east and slightly to the north," across the water to a valley.
Boats in the dark
By the time everyone sets off, it's night. Basket rows out across a wide stretch of dark water with boats all around, Scoti_Garbidis among them. The voice chat is chaos. Someone points out "two zombies in a boat," and the skeletons have good aim. "Kondrik was shot by Skeleton," then "preisi was shot by Skeleton," and preisi leaves the game. The debug screen confirms it: Minecraft 1.9, day 1.
The valley
The video cuts to daylight as Basket's boat reaches a sandy beach. Past it is a wide, grassy valley with sheep and pigs. "So the new city will be here," someone says. Basket kills a pig for food, sets a furnace down on the grass and starts digging.
A mineshaft under the town
The hole leads straight into an abandoned mineshaft. Another player warns that the one in the ravine is "really not like safe," with a few ravines crossing under it. Basket explores it anyway, with torches and a stack of cooked porkchop.
The tunnels are busy. A zombie shows up, a creeper edges in between the wooden supports, and a skeleton takes a few hits from Basket's sword. Basket sets up a furnace underground, smelts the first iron ingots and switches to an iron sword. Then Basket finds diamond ore.
Late arrivals
Up in the chat, Ballentine17 is blown up by a creeper, twice. When soapthgr8 joins the game, Basket types "spoap!!" and soapthgr8 answers "I'm not here." Basket asks "iron farm done?" and minired101 replies "your late," then "weve already been to the end."
The episode ends in a small dirt room with a bed and a crafting table, looking up a shaft at the night sky. The credits run to the end of the video with no gameplay after them.