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Blazes: Untold Stories 3 Episode 21

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The plan is to not die to spiders in a spider web. Instead they climb into a level of creeper spawners and blazes, and the spiders turn out to be the least of it.

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Up through the center room

They come in resupplied with arrows and mention a machine they built off camera, an auto planter. One of them still has the hoe in his hand. After a chest of coal and a poison spider spawner, they decide to see whether the center room goes up.

Getting up there means building a staircase off a vine, which makes it hard to break anything when a creeper spawner turns up right in one of their faces. They get it. At the top is a junction with three ways to go, a lot of zombies, and skeletons that nearly knock someone off the edge. One arrow almost hits the other in the back of the head. They advise against that.

Blazes, in leather armor

A chest holds stone, gold and iron pickaxes, gunpowder, string and coal. Further on there is an ender chest, and up above is another section: 14 to 16, potentially the next area, emerald-wise.

Then creepers, and a lot of them. One of them falls, catches a vine, and survives. Then he hears blazes. Blazes, while sitting there in leather armor. Maybe this is not the next thing to do. Chat reads Scoti was blown up by a creeper, and Basket is back at the bed with an empty hotbar. The creepers keep going off even after they are dead, which takes some of the dropped gear with them.

Basket respawned with an empty hotbar by a rail as chat reads Scoti_Garbidis was blown up by Creeper

Going full Monty

The recovery runs are a mess of suicide runs and chests of half-saved stuff. One of them notes they are tied again. There is also a mystery: an ender chest that was full of stuff is now empty. They're all linked together, one of them explains.

So they gear up properly. One of them goes full iron, ready to give them the business. The other repairs his leather. Up top there are creeper spawners and a blaze spawner, and a zombie wearing some of their equipment.

A blaze floating across a vine-covered cave as an arrow flies toward it

Burnt to a crisp

The blazes are spawning from somewhere inside the gravel. A shield does not seem to help. One of them steps in front of the other's bow, and the reply is: you like to shoot me, so shoot him instead. They find and break the blaze spawner. Chat then reads Scoti was burnt to a crisp whilst fighting Blaze.

The blazes drop blaze powder instead of rods, which they take to mean the map does not want them brewing. They do still have one blaze rod from earlier, a knockback stick.

Scoti in iron armor with a shield standing near a lava pool

A bridge over lava

The next room is lava with paths all over it. A skeleton seems to want to shoot them into it, and Scoti is blown up by another creeper. After that they grab a bed out of a house and set a checkpoint.

There is a rope bridge that looks like a trap and turns out to be a string trap. Neither of them will spend two iron on shears to cut it, so they just break it, and an arrow trap goes off somewhere. A ladder down below is the other half of the trap: coming up from the far side, it would have broken all the ladders. They came the wrong way round and missed it. Somewhere in all this one of them has kept a pile of sticky pistons, and that is where they stop.

A wooden rope bridge stretching over a lava lake in a dark cave