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Nebulous Nexus: Minimalist Episode 10

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Episode 10 of Minimalist takes Team B.S. into Nebulous Nexus, a dark room full of floating glass, glowstone and purple blocks where endermites keep spawning. A button by a "Magic" sign sends Basket to a second intersection, a "More Magic" sign hands out poison, and a chest gives up lapis. Nobody dies this time: the Deaths board stays at 7 for Scoti_Garbidis and 5 for BasketMC. It ends back at the base, with Compact Caldera next on the list.

Into the nexus

A sign at the entrance reads "Nebulous Nexus." Past it, blocks hang in the dark over a black floor, and spawners sit among them. "It's a potion in the middle," says one of them. Small purple endermites come out fast and jump everywhere. "They sure do like to jump." When they die, Basket picks up Speed and Jump Boost, both showing in the inventory, and on the recording they drop feather falling boots too. Splash potions add to the mess: "I got hit by one of their potions."

A wooden sign reading Nebulous Nexus at the edge of a mossy stone passage, with glass, purple and glowstone blocks floating in the dark beyond Scoti_Garbidis in a red and white checkered outfit at the left, looking out over glass, glowstone and purple blocks where small purple endermites crawl

Buttons on the far side

The goal is a button on the far side of the room. Blocks go down to make a path, and the plan becomes breaking every spawner they can reach. It gets close. "I'm at half a heart." Basket heads back through the vine cave to the base and the ender chest there, and an ender pearl stack is on the hotbar afterward. The idea, on the recording: get into a hole by the button and pearl in "to see what the button is."

A purple endermite on a patch of grass between water, red and gravel blocks, with green spiral particles drifting nearby and a stone sword in hand

Magic and More Magic

Two signs sit by a wall of purple glass, one reading "Magic" and one "More Magic." Basket hits Magic and lands somewhere else: a quiet hall of dark wood and white blocks with torches on tall posts. "I'm in like another intersection." On the recording there is purple wool, cyan wool, and a sign to "teleport to majestic monument." Then Basket goes back to try More Magic. Poison and Nausea show up on screen. "Hit magic, not more magic." Scoti_Garbidis comes through the right one, and they guess the trip is one way. A chest that was "surprisingly hard to see" holds twelve lapis and a golden apple, and Basket stashes things in an ender chest.

A hall of dark wood and white blocks with torches on tall posts on both sides, leading to a leafy opening in a pale wall

Back for the spawners

They magic back into the nexus to clear the spawners for good. Basket breaks one with fire inside it. One more sits above, and they decide to leave it. "This is more my speed." Then a chest up in the top left corner: a diamond and two feathers, read out as "Descend to the Battlefield," with minus 20% max health, 50% speed and plus two attack damage.

Where it ends

They skipped a wool, so the plan is to go back for it. Basket walks back through the cave to the base hall and the ender chest, where Scoti_Garbidis is waiting. "We will go to Compact Caldera, the pink wool, next time." Team B.S. sign off.