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Azarian Catacombs Part 1: Uncharted Territory 3 Episode 32

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The minecart from the last episode drops them at the start of a new level, the Azarian Catacombs. The death counter starts at Basket 45, Scoti 31 and ends at Basket 45, Scoti 32. The one death is a fall, and most of the rest is fire.

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Restocking the death chest

First they send the minecart back, with a note to bring carts next time because they keep running out. Then it's the death chests, six of them in a row, where a few empty ones get filled. One of them is a big fan of the splash potions of healing, which "saved me a lot during that mission." They also admit they never found an enchanting table back in the marsh. Nobody wants to look. "I'm never going back."

The Vinesweeper

The first chest inside holds a flint and steel with a name. On Basket's screen the tooltip reads "Vinesweeper, Unbreaking II," and under it, in red: "Amlup is not responsible if this kills your FPS." The catacombs are wall to wall vines, so the hint isn't subtle.

A chest window with the Vinesweeper tooltip showing Unbreaking II and Amlup's FPS warning

So they burn it. "Oh man, I'm loving this. I love fire." They wonder why Amlup would fill a level with vines and then hand over the tool to burn them. One guess is that it hides jungle trees. The other is a trap: everything is bright while it burns, they feel safe, "the fire goes out and we're screwed." Somebody sets themselves on fire briefly. Nobody's computer dies, at least. One of them records with Fraps capped at 30 FPS and it "hasn't budged," and the other sits at 60.

Walls of hanging vines on fire inside the Azarian Catacombs

The vines are so thick the fire doesn't jump well from one to the next, and they keep growing back down. The bought stone swords with knockback are a hit, though. "These swords are really awesome."

A bed and a ledge

They spot a road with a torch on it and a bed below. "We should sleep in it." Then, given every bed so far in this map, "nothing bad ever happens when you sleep in the beds in this place." A creeper waits at the bottom, a spider sits in the bed, and there's a spider spawner nearby. They get around on dirt bridges.

Scoti on a narrow dirt bridge high above the vines

At about 8:45 the chat reads "Scoti_Garbidis was slain by Spider," and the counter goes to 32. "I backed up off the ledge and wasn't holding the shift properly." The death chests earn their keep right away.

The library

Past a tower with a spawner on the other side, they find a sunken library. They don't burn the vines here in case the floor goes up with them, and the vines hide mobs anyway. The furnaces are empty and one chest isn't trapped. Below are skeletons in dyed helmets, pink or white, with what look like "magic bows," and it seems every bookshelf has a spawner in it. One chest has a Thorns III book and a Splash Poison Antidote. Then the silverfish blocks show up. "I hate Amlup so much."

Looking down into a sunken library full of bookshelves, vines and zombies

A zombie picks up some armor, arrows get handed across, and one of them blocks off a bridge so mobs can't come around the side. "Well, this time at least it's not lava that you're going to fall into."

Crafting bench number 72

They find stairs down and put a block in the top to "cork the top of the bottle." Then it's crafting bench number 72 to make an axe, with a plan to bust up the bookshelves and get in. Then they notice the time. "Is this an episode?" It is, and Scoti signs them off with the library still waiting.