All Hell Breaks Loose is done, so it's on to the next level. "What are we playing here, Basket?" "We are doing Wildfire Cavern," and they brewed up more potions in its honor. This one is for "the dark green wool." The counter starts at Scoti 57, Basket 53.
Scribbled notes
The first chest isn't trapped. Next to it is a sign with scribbled notes, left as a warning: some creatures in these caverns "encase their bodies in a fiery shield which makes them near impossible to hit with melee attacks and deflects any projectiles." The good news is they "appear to be weak to magical attacks." The note's writer remembers zombies that used harmful potions in a nearby cave.
They don't have to go looking for those zombies. The chest called Box already holds Splash Potions of Harming, a stack of them, plus leather pants with Fire Protection X and Unbreaking X and a sign enchanted with Smite VII.
Fire mites
The cavern is sandstone and netherrack, and the ceiling is full of lava sources that will pour everywhere if they get updated. "Don't shoot straight up." The fiery creatures drop from the pillars, and they turn out to be fire mites. Silverfish are in the walls too. They splash speed and strength and push toward the back of the level, and somebody suggests swimming through the lava. "Oh man, swimming through the lava was a terrible idea, never listen to me." Slow sand makes everything worse.
Basket goes down first
They get split up, and Basket ends up on fire with mites all around. "I'm on fire. I'm dying." The chat line says it plainly: BasketMC was slain by Fire Mite. That makes it Scoti 57, Basket 54.
The trip back in means restocking a death chest that "isn't quite stocked up," with mites trying to blow up their gear and zombies coming in. Things settle once they find a spot where the skeletons can't shoot down at them.
The white pillar
Following the wall around, they find a white quartz pillar topped with glowstone, "almost like a grave marker," and a building near it with spawners on it. Wither skeletons, witches, a poisonous spider and hyper creepers all get a turn. "Do not die, Scoti!" Then a zombie gets Basket, and the counter goes to Scoti 57, Basket 55. "Sorry, I kind of ran in there thinking I'd be okay, and then all of a sudden I wasn't."
Lapis blocks down below hint at special loot, so they wonder if they walked right past the fleecy box. One of them admits the start "might be a little easier if we had actually cleared it out." "Is that a comment on what I did or did not do?"
Found it
Getting back together takes a while, with slow sand and a lot of "back the other way." A chest nearby holds milk and bottles o' enchanting, and not much else. Then someone digs down into a room full of spiders and calls it the worst idea of their life, and that turns out to be the way. "I see the fleecy box. You're right. We need to be in here." The episode ends with the glass and glowstone box right there.
