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Dusky Grove Part 1: Uncharted Territory 3 Episode 4

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Overgrown Hollow is behind them. This episode opens at the intersection that leads to the rest of the map, and the map gets the first laugh. The death counter starts at Basket 5, Scoti 2. It doesn't stay there.

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A bed you can't trust

Past the hallway is a room with a chest, a crafting bench and a bed. "This is a base." One of them hops in the bed to set the spawn point, and it explodes. The chat reads "Scoti_Garbidis blew up" and "BasketMC blew up," and both of them are back at the start. "Wow, you can't trust anything on this map." Later, when a bed comes out again, it gets a firm "Not there, man. That's rigged."

A red bed on the stone brick floor of the room off the intersection, with the death counter at Basket 6, Scoti 3

Sorting what's left

Everything goes into chests to see what survived the blast. There's a furnace, raw meat, 32 pieces of leather, and a stone pickaxe they save "for the good stuff." A Smite II stone sword turns up that nobody remembers finding. The best piece is the Lacerator, a sword with Sharpness I, Knockback I and Fire Aspect I, and Basket ends up carrying it.

The leather becomes pants and boots. Four feathers and two flint become arrows, and they split 15 torches. One of them has to relog when everything on screen suddenly goes tiny. Five cobblestone shows up in an inventory with no explanation at all.

The intersection

Signs and colored carpet show which wool waits down each path. Overgrown Hollow is done. The others are Tower of Light, Desolate Blast Foundry and Dusky Grove. "Desolate Blast Foundry, that doesn't sound good."

There's a secret first. Gravel in the water hides a chest with bottles o' enchanting, a golden shovel with Efficiency I and Unbreaking II, a stone axe, a wooden pickaxe with Fortune, and a fishing rod. Tower of Light sounds nicer, but white wool usually comes first, so it's Dusky Grove.

The hub intersection, a glass walkway between glowstone pillars with signs pointing to Desolate Blast Foundry and Tower of Light

Rooting for you

A sign at the entrance reads: "Hey, Player! I just want you to know that I'm rooting for you. Good luck in there!" The reply: "Thank you, Amlup, and thanks for blowing the hell out of us." The joke doesn't land until much later. "Oh, I get it. He's rooting for us. 'Cause it's a tree."

Signs on a stone wall reading Hey, Player! I just want you to know that I'm rooting for you. Good luck in there!

Burnt to a crisp

Dusky Grove is dark, with catwalks high up and zombies climbing down the vines. Knocking them off the edge at an angle works. Fire Aspect works less well up close. "Then I set myself on fire." The chat reads "BasketMC was burnt to a crisp whilst fighting Zombie," and soon after, "Scoti_Garbidis was shot by Skeleton." That makes it Basket 7, Scoti 4.

The run back gets the gold helmet back. A pickaxe and a chestplate stay lost. A zombie carrying an iron shovel gets taken down in the hope it drops the shovel. It doesn't. They craft wooden swords and a wooden pickaxe and keep going.

Basket's screen edged in fire while a burning zombie stands in a vine-covered stone hall in Dusky Grove, Scoti_Garbidis nearby in a gold helmet

Charge it next time

The new plan is to block off the stairs and cut the vines so the zombies can't climb up, then bridge across instead of fighting along the bottom. There's a zombie spawner over there, and a skeleton keeps shooting at them. They decide to stop and charge it next episode, and sign off while getting shot.