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Capricious Caves: Minimalist Episode 5

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Episode 5 of Minimalist, Team B.S. on Kaladun's complete the monument map, has three stops: a cave they had skipped, a sandstone side room off the path to Miniature Mountain, and the dungeon Capricious Caves. Scoti_Garbidis dies twice along the way. By the end Basket is carrying the Orange Wool, and the pair head back to the intersection.

The cave they skipped

It starts with the two dropping down into a cave. Spawners sit among lava and cobwebs, and one mob drops dirt when it dies. Chests turn up bread, stone swords and a chestplate read out as "Wizard's Ward" with Blast Protection and Projectile Protection. "Should have come down here earlier," says one; the other answers that they had no sword or wood back then. They leave the lava in place for later, maybe for a cobblestone generator.

A side room of sand and fire

On the way past Intersection one, they look for an opening off the route to Miniature Mountain they may have missed. There is one. It leads into sandstone halls streaked with coal ore, "like a bonus resource spot," with zombies in the corners and fire on the floor. "I'm on fire. This is no bueno." A spawner sits high in the wall, and a blaze rod comes out of the fight. A chest holds potions, and a splash potion of healing gets thrown to Scoti. Basket mines the coal blocks and takes the chest itself for the intersection.

A mob spawner with flames inside it, set high in a sandstone wall next to dirt blocks, with a stone pickaxe at the bottom right

Into Capricious Caves

A sign by the waterfalls marks Capricious Caves. At the entrance, flowing water gets patched with dirt. Inside is an arrow trap, and blazes. Scoti_Garbidis is slain by a blaze next to lava, and some of the dropped gear burns; the commentary agrees it was a bad place to die. Lapis and an iron pickaxe turn up, and a Power I bow sits in Basket's inventory. Then a creeper gets Scoti_Garbidis too, the second death of the episode.

Scoti_Garbidis, in a green shirt and holding a stone block, stands under the nameplate beside a blue waterfall and a glowstone pillar

The wool behind bars

The last room has a floor of lava, gravel and obsidian, with a chest behind iron bars. Basket pours lava to deal with the mobs, with Fire Resistance running, and a sign nearby reads "Emergency Fire Resist." A tool called the Survivalist, with Fire Aspect II and Efficiency II, shows up in Basket's inventory. Behind the bars is the Orange Wool, "From Capricious Caves." On the recording it gets called brown wool first: "It looked brown to me."

A chest window with a tooltip reading Orange Wool, From Capricious Caves, above a player inventory with an orange wool block in it A chest behind iron bars at the edge of a cave floor of lava, gravel and obsidian

Where it ends

"Let's get to the intersection, we'll end this episode." Basket walks back along the stone path between the waterfalls. The lesson, on the recording: "Don't stand next to lava." Team B.S. sign off.