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Withered Soul: Minimalist Episode 20

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Episode 20 of Minimalist on Kaladun's complete the monument map opens with Team B.S. in an old mining camp full of diamonds. They turn those into a diamond block, then fight through the Nightmarish Nursery, a level of zombies, cobwebs and creepers. It ends with the Withered Soul, an item the map says they need for the black wool.

The miners' camp

The camp has a bed, a cooking station and a chest with coal, golden apples and a book called The Miner's Lament. Read aloud, it says the miners retreated here after their old mine collapsed, and that "the old mine had many, many more diamonds." A chest there also holds a diamond pickaxe named Bluespike with Unbreaking V, plus enchanted books. On the recording, the books are Efficiency 5, Silk Touch and Fortune 3. An anvil puts Fortune III on the pick.

Diamonds for the block

The cave around the camp has diamond ore in its walls, and the new pick goes to work. "I need two more and we have enough for the block." A Block of Diamond gets crafted and goes into the ender chest, one of the resource blocks the monument needs.

A block of diamond ore in a dark stone cave wall, with a torch-lit tunnel and a trickle of water on the left

Signs in the area name the next levels, read aloud as Zealous Ziggurat, Nightmarish Nursery and Ghastly Glacier. "Brown wool is the next one we're going into."

The Nightmarish Nursery

A sign marks the Nightmarish Nursery. Fire resistance got left behind, so potions get handed over before going in. The nursery is all colored carpet, wool walls and cobwebs, with zombies and baby zombies on every ledge. "They're not affected by light." The cobwebs help a little: "They still get caught in the web."

A wooden sign reading Nightmarish Nursery on red carpet, with a hallway of colored carpet and cobwebs leading away behind it

A sign deeper in reads "Restricted Area, Artifact Containment," and creepers wait past it. Then a big hole opens up in the ground. One of them ends up down it, stuck in a web: "this web is killing me." Dirt pillars get them back up, into more creepers. A splash potion and some water steady things, and the spawners get broken one by one.

Zombies on wooden ledges in a room of colored wool walls and carpet, with a baby zombie villager knocked through the air and a purple potion floating above

The Withered Soul

Past flooded white rooms with caged spawners, a large chest holds three Withered Souls. Each has Fire Aspect V, slows the holder by 30 percent and reads "A charred soul of a forgotten god." A note beside them says at least one is required to get the black wool: "Treat them as you would wool." One comes out, and the other two stay in the chest.

Scoti_Garbidis in enchanted armor with arrows stuck in it, standing in front of iron bars in a white room with a prismarine floor

Where it ends

Getting out means another web, and then they are back at the mine camp. The soul goes into storage there, and arrows get split up for next time. No wool is placed this episode. The Deaths board stays at Scoti_Garbidis 15, BasketMC 13.