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Pig Pen: Uncharted Territory 3 Episode 61.5

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Another half episode, and this one is Basket alone. "This is a .5 episode... Scoti isn't here right now." Scoti is back at home base with no death chests to go get, so Basket wants to clear some spawners and work back without dying. The talking stops after about four minutes and music takes over. The counter sits at Scoti 57, Basket 51 the whole way through, and nobody dies.

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Brewing with the nether wart

After the last episode, Basket used some of the nether wart to make a brewing stand and brew a couple more fire resistance potions. There was supposed to be a loose healing potion in a chest somewhere. "Oh, it's gone. Interesting." That still leaves two empty bottles for more fire resistance later.

A large chest of potions, pickaxes, swords and steak, with the tooltip Nether Wart showing

The plan

"The main thing I want to do is take out the giant spawner." Basket isn't sure exactly where it is, and there's another spawner along a wall that "looks like a skeleton, but I'm not really sure." Getting up there takes blocks, and Basket is low. A cobblestone generator is on the table, since there's water and lava around, "it would just take a while."

There's one more idea. If another pigman spawner turns up, Basket wants to keep it. The pigmen wear diamond armor, so "it might actually drop," and that could save some trips back for death chests. Then: "I will stop talking now... if I die you'll get to see me die."

Up into the dark

The rest is told by the footage. Basket pillars up in cobblestone through the dark, then builds a wooden plank platform up near a ceiling of diamond ore. Pigmen in diamond armor show up around it, and the Flame bow (Power V, Flame, Infinity) gets a lot of use. Basket drinks a fire resistance potion while working up there. The footage doesn't make it clear whether the giant spawner comes down.

A zombie pigman in diamond armor beside a wooden plank platform in a cave of diamond ore, seen over a purple bow

Building the pen

Back on the diamond floor, Basket builds tall cobblestone walls around a sunken stretch of it, with a water channel running out through a gap at the bottom. Mobs end up in the water and Basket fights them at the opening. The title says what the pen is for.

A tall cobblestone wall rising from a torch-lit floor of diamond ore, with a stack of cobblestone selected in the hotbar

A diamond sword

The idea pays off. A gold nugget, a Diamond Sword and Diamond Leggings end up on the floor. The sword's tooltip reads Unbreaking III, Knockback II, Fire Aspect II, +7 Attack Damage. The sword and leggings go into a large chest with other diamond gear.

Minecraft inventory with the tooltip Diamond Sword: Unbreaking III, Knockback II, Fire Aspect II, +7 Attack Damage

The last stretch is tunneling through stone and netherrack and placing ladders. The episode ends there, with the counter still at Scoti 57, Basket 51.