BasketMC

Tower of Light Part 2: Uncharted Territory 3 Episode 16

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The Tower of Light is full of glowstone, and so are the heads of the things that live in it. The death counter starts at Basket 31, Scoti 20 and ends at 33 and 20. Both deaths are Basket's, and most of this episode is the run to get the gear back.

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The glowstone heads

The first fight is with mobs wearing glowstone for heads. They carry swords that set you on fire. "Whoa, flame swords! I'm on fire, I'm dead dude." The spawner turns out to be up in the stone above their heads.

Their drops are the good news. The swords have a name, Light Paladin Blade, with Sharpness I, Fire Aspect I and Looting I. They're gold, so they wear out fast, but nobody minds. One of them is down to two hearts, a sword breaks, and an iron sword comes out. A pair of pants turns up with Fire Protection I, Blast Protection I and Projectile Protection I, and an enchanted book with Blast Protection IV.

Inventory tooltip for a Light Paladin Blade: Sharpness I, Fire Aspect I, Looting I, durability 25 of 32

Spawners in the walls

Mobs keep appearing out of nowhere. "They're popping out of the wall here." The spawners are buried about two blocks deep in the stone, so the room looks safe when it isn't. "It's just to make you feel safe is all."

A chest holds a Potion of Invigoration: Instant Health II and Speed II, plus Blindness and Hunger for 30 seconds and a minute of Night Vision. "So it's bad for 30 seconds and then you get night vision."

Around eight minutes in the chat reads "BasketMC was shot by Skeleton." Basket comes back from the intersection, slowly. "By almost there I mean I'm on my way." Most of the gear is still on the floor, and someone finds a pumpkin pie. "I hold in my hand the bounty of Amlup."

Fools rush in

Some of the gear fell to a lower layer, along with a lot of XP, and it will despawn if they wait. Basket drops straight down and lands next to three mobs. "I guess that was poorly planned." A little after 12 minutes the chat reads "BasketMC was slain by Light Paladin."

Basket respawned by the base chests with the chat line BasketMC was slain by Light Paladin and the death counter at 33

The second try is stairs. One of them blocks the space overhead with half slabs so nothing can drop in, a spawner down there gets smashed, and someone catches fire. "You got that water bucket? I told you to get a water bucket." Nobody has one.

An Infinity bow

The best find is a bow with Power III, Punch I, Flame I and Infinity I. It's at 87 of 384 durability, so it stays put away until it can be repaired, and they carry it up to the chest. A single chest becomes a double chest so they can stop being picky about what they keep.

Afterward Basket is down to 9 levels from the high 80s. "I died a couple times." Scoti has 37.

Inventory tooltip for a bow with Power III, Punch I, Flame I and Infinity I at 87 of 384 durability

The zombie building

Then they turn a corner into a horde. "You'll know when you see it." Zombies pour out of a round stone building, it's raining in one corner of the room, and more mobs spawn outside the walls. One of them blocks an entrance, which mostly makes it hard for anyone to get in, them included. There's a spider spawner, and a skeleton with an enchanted bow.

Zombies pouring out of a round stone brick building in the Tower of Light while Scoti_Garbidis fights nearby and Basket holds a bow

Someone suggests leaving one spawner of each kind. That doesn't last. "Sorry, man. I broke everything." They admit they should have come in from the top. "We're real men, we didn't follow directions." There are chests left to open, and they end it there.