Before anything else, Basket and Scoti split up the supplies: water buckets, then potatoes, counted out and shared "right here on camera." Then they head for the Summoner's Lair, worth five emeralds. A teleporter takes them in, and a chest of hints and lore tells the story: the summoners' guild once ruled a network of caves until their own minions turned on them and banished them to a small cave at the edge of their old empire. Now, with the great darkness spreading, they see their chance. The death counter opens at Scoti 57, Basket 50.
Rise up, my minions
Creepers come across a bridge by the lava, and then the boss shows up. "[Summoner] Rise up, my minions! Kill the intruder!" The plan is to use the frost bow on it, but the summoner keeps making more little guys, and the little guys keep teleporting them back. "They put me back again." A smite sword finishes the job. One of them comes out of it at two hearts. The spawner nearby looks like a slow one, so the creepers may have walked in from up the hill.
Blazing creepers
Next come creepers that are on fire. What do they do? "Die quick." Nobody made them immune to their own flames. Inside a building there's a potion that "removes poison," and from up top a frost trap slows the crowd below. A blaze spawner sits nearby, and a turret by a cactus keeps shooting back. Arrows seem to bounce off, and one of them is down to 14.
![Basket drawing a bow on a cluster of burning mobs caught in frost particles beside a cactus, with the chat line "[Summoner] Rise up, my minions! Kill the intruder!"](https://www.basketmc.com/images/2596/conversions/basket-drawing-a-bow-on-a-cluster-of-burning-mobs-caught-in--c0f1e3ca-content-image.webp)
Gear in the lava
Then something hits Basket with wither, and it's fast. "BasketMC withered away." Getting across the lava first would have been the better move. Scoti grabs what gear was sitting at the edge of the lava, including the good bow, but the rest went swimming, Basket's cool pick with it. Basket is left with an iron pick, so Scoti hands over nine potatoes, wood for a crafting bench, some iron and two stacks of torches. Somewhere in all this the episode gets its name: "bows before witches."
Witches and zombies
The building by the turret holds a whole room of witch and zombie spawners. The witches drop three or four potions each when they die. One of them heads in to break the spawners while the other moves slowly behind with a bow, still carrying slowness, weakness and wither. The loot pays off: health and healing potions, speed, absorption, wither potions, pumpkin pie and another water bucket. A secret chest that looks trapped turns out not to be.
The redstone mines go up
Past the spawners, the call goes out: "Redstone mines ahead." One of them follows the rail and gets "way deep in the redstone mine" before a creeper goes off and sets off a chain reaction. "That was all the goodies blowed up." The chat confirms the quest step, and the cost.
They call it there. "Poison potatoes for everyone." The counter closes at Scoti 58, Basket 51. The monument isn't shown, so it stays at 9 of 16 crystals and 6 of 12 emerald blocks.