"Oh man, it's been a while." Team B.S. is back in Little Mines, and spirits are high. Scoti is swinging a wooden sword ("I'm a ninja, man. I use a wooden sword"), which gets a double take. The death counter opens at Scoti 36, Basket 33.
Spawners under the birches
The plan from last time was to take the high road. The stairs in front of them are blocked off, so they charge them and take out what's at the top. Creepers show up, and at first the mobs look like natural spawns. Then a dwarf appears, which means there's a spawner somewhere.
It turns out to be under a tree. The birch trunks in this cave have no leaves on them, and "some of them have spawners underneath them." That becomes the rule for the rest of the area: "just light up all the birches." A shovel helps with the digging.
An enderman drops an ender pearl, a skeleton shoots from underneath a ledge, and the potion-throwing dwarves keep landing hunger and poison. One of them asks the mapmaker, Heliceo, to "call off your dogs," then tries the dwarves directly: "Why are you so angry? We're here to help." The wooden sword doesn't last. "That wooden sword is gone. Now I have my Bane of Arthropods sword."
A ninja in the trees
Another spawner sits on a rail, and nobody brought blocks. One of them jumps into a tree instead ("I'm a ninja"), then remembers they could just shoot it. More birches, more spawners: "there's a spawner right here by this tree. Got one."
They check the chest that had been sitting on top of a creeper spawner. "There's really nothing here to speak of." The chest on a pedestal by the lake was already emptied and broken.
Leather doesn't last
The armor is the problem now. "Leather armor is nice but it doesn't last for long." It's worth an extra four hearts, but repairing it means a trip back to base. They skirt a cobweb pit that has creepers in it instead of spiders, nearly get knocked in, and shoot something off a ledge in a tower with a cheer loud enough to need an apology to anyone wearing headphones.
Then a pair of boots breaks: "My boots are gone." A nest of poison spiders takes a shirt, too. With the worn pieces taken off to repair later, one of them is "down to junk right now."
Deeper, and a likely trap
Past that, two spawners are stacked on top of each other, and the cave keeps going deeper. There's a creeper spawner too. "Bane of Arthropods for the win." They stop at a chest to sort gear, with spare boots handed over and seeds thrown out. A Potion of Agility sits in it.
A fight in the dark gets close. "I'm dead. No, I'm okay. I'm okay." A splash potion helps, and they keep breaking spawners. One of them wants a better pick, and a skeleton and a creeper go down: "One down. Two down." The last thing ahead looks suspicious: "It's a trap, I'm sure." They'll find out next time. The counter closes where it opened, Scoti 36, Basket 33, with the monument still at 5 of 16 crystals and 3 of 12 emerald blocks.