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Iron Pickaxe: Ragecraft 3 Episode 41

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Team B.S. is back in the lava cave, making their way to a safe spot. The death counter opens at Scoti 34, Basket 21. The path they built last time is finished, with a gap left where they need to drop down and around, and a second path besides. "We have options."

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The last piece of the outfit

Across the lava there's a legendary item, probably the last part of the outfit, and a little lava platform in the middle where they guess the bad guys are. There are. A skeleton, then blazes, then "creepers are coming, creepers are coming." Some of the spawners still standing turn out to be for blaze hunters. One by one they go down. "All right, spawners are all down."

A dark cave floor of white and black patterned blocks with a stone platform ahead and lava beyond

Something below keeps shooting up at whoever stands on the edge. "Oh, you saved my life. I had two hearts." One of them goes in for the item, trying to grab it from as far away as possible. It's the boots, and boots are in the set. With the pants and the helmet found earlier, they think they have all the parts.

A chest with an emerald

Then: "I think there's a chest in there." Inside that building is an emerald. "We must get it now, dude. That's our bonus thingy." The trouble is what's guarding it. There's a creeper spawner in that space along with skeleton assassin guys. One of them shoots from above while the other jumps across to greet them with a sword. Somebody places bushes right behind the other at the worst moment. "Scared the poop out of me."

An emerald block sitting on top of a chest in a stone brick room, with Scoti at the edge of the frame

The emerald comes out with nobody dying, and getting it home means platforming the rest of the way back. Somebody nearly gets knocked off. "I have the emerald, I will be the reason we fail."

Picking a buff

Back at the upgrade pedestals, they read the books. They already have Frenzy, the strength buff. One healing option gives Regeneration after you kill a mob. The other gives Regeneration I after 15 seconds without taking any damage. "So I have to wait 15 seconds." They lean toward the kill one. "There's a lot of downtime with us trying to heal." They talk it around in a circle for a while. "We're such good deciders."

Upgrade book reading Healing: Basic Upgrade, you gain 2 seconds of Regeneration II after killing a mob; Advanced Upgrade, you also gain 0.5 saturation

I broke it

"Okay, do it." Scoti sets the emerald block on the Life Drain pedestal. "Yay!"

Scoti stands beside an emerald block placed on the Life Drain upgrade pedestal, framed by glass panes and item frames

Then something isn't right. "Oh, duh, okay, sorry. Sorry, everybody." "No, I gotta take that off of there." "Yeah, take that back." A pickaxe comes out, and a second later: "I broke it! No!"

The pedestal is empty again. "You told me to do it." "It's true, I did." Nobody died this episode, so the counter ends where it started, Scoti 34, Basket 21, and the monument stays at 3 of 16 crystals and 2 of 12 emerald blocks. As one of them puts it, "that just wrecked it for us for a while."