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The Descent: Ragecraft 2 Episode 26

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Last episode ended with the two of them deciding the hole near the Nexus could wait for next time. This one starts in the Nexus jungle garden, with a front-view picture of both of them before they go down. The deaths sidebar reads Scoti_Garbidis 39 and BasketMC 32.

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Silverfish warning

Two signs by the hole ask: "Did you know that creepers destroying silverfish blocks can now unleash a horde of silverfish?" At the bottom, under a sign reading "Area: The Descent," sits a chest. It holds vines, boots, a stack of green spawn eggs, 10 Cobblestone Monster Eggs and two swords called Basic Pest Control: Bane of Arthropods IV, Unbreaking I, +4 Attack Damage. Basket takes one of the swords. "Those ten cobble are silverfish blocks, so don't grab those, and beware of silverfish everywhere."

A chest and a sign reading Area: The Descent at the bottom of a vine-covered hole, with Scoti_Garbidis's yellow boots at the edge of the frame

The jungle cave

Below is a huge dark cave of grass, vines, red mushrooms and tree trunks. A spider comes at them, and so do green mobs tagged Zombieling. "They have mad hops." The spiders hit hard too: "Oh, and they're strong! They got strength or something. Ah, regen, regen."

Spawners sit in the walls and tree trunks, and the plan is the usual one: light everything, break the spawners, keep moving. Some of the spawners are for creepers. "We don't want them to blow up because then they'll release all the badness."

A green mob with the name tag Zombieling on the grass of a dark jungle cave full of mushrooms

Emeralds and potions

A chest tucked in the cave holds leather and an emerald. "First emerald, leave it." Further in, past a wooden walkway, another chest holds a set of potions. Basket's inventory shows the Potion of Vulnerability tooltip: Weakness III and Resistance for 0:35, "a potion that weakens enemies and drastically lowers their resistance." Scoti comes out of that room in a yellow chestplate. "I'm going to put on the Hulk Hogan chest plate."

Down to a heart

The next platform goes badly. Mobs keep coming from a spawner, and one of them calls out "I'm down to two hearts right now," then later "I'm down to a heart!" They pull back to heal and eat bread. Basket's inventory now has a Leather Cap with Unbreaking II and Protection II. On the second push a creeper drops in on them. "Fall back, fall back, fall back." Then: "We didn't bring any of our antidote."

On the third try they run in with torches and win the room. "Wow, man, we kick their butts."

Scoti_Garbidis in a yellow chestplate across a torch-lit cave floor of grass, vines and red mushrooms, with the deaths sidebar at Scoti_Garbidis 39 and BasketMC 32

Potion of Frost

The last chest, by the stairs, holds more leather, a second emerald and a Potion of Frost (Level 1): Instant Damage III, Slowness II for 0:20, marked Rare Potion. They decide to stop there and take "our emerald and our other emerald back to the base," then pick up again in "this creepy spider room."

A chest holding leather, an emerald and a Potion of Frost (Level 1), its tooltip listing Instant Damage III and Slowness II (0:20) and calling it a Rare Potion

No deaths this episode, even with the close calls. The sidebar starts and ends at Scoti_Garbidis 39 and BasketMC 32. The monument isn't shown, so wools stay at 0 of 16 and emerald blocks at 1 of 16.