This one opens with a show-and-tell. A mob grinder went up between episodes, two more emeralds go into the chest, and then it is back to the water area, where a lake turns out to be ringed with creeper spawners.
The grinder
The grinder sits in a spot they have seen before, near the old lava and a troll book that made you read a bunch while zombies came down from the ceiling. There are two skeleton spawners and two zombie spawners. Now that they finally have water, the mobs get washed down into one spot. The map is still on 1.10, so they do not die from being stacked on top of each other.
Plain swords sit on the far right for the killing, and there is a chest full of arrows, a chest full of swords and a pile of enchanted books the mobs drop on their own. Mobs spawn in so fast you cannot really leave it alone for long. The chests kept filling up until whoever built it decided that was enough.
One catch: zombies here do not drop iron. That keeps anvils scarce, so for now they are rationing them. The nearest ender chest is back at the start of the rail ride, so they haul a load back to the real base first.
Eighteen and nineteen
Then it is time to celebrate with a little emerald action. Emerald 18 goes in, then 19. Ta-da. They add some blue glass too. That leaves one more from this set somewhere in the water area. If the emeralds go in sequence, they may already have walked past it.
Not an Enderman spawner
Back across the water, a guardian spawner comes out first. Do they skip it or take it out? Take it out. To dinner, as the joke goes.
Past the blue glass, one of them calls an Enderman spawner on the right. It is a creeper spawner with an Enderman that just happened to be standing next to it. Torches go down on one spawner after another, and the creepers keep coming anyway. One of them takes a full creeper blast to the face while holding a shield he did not think to use, and loses the shield.
There is a running bit, too. Getting shot from behind turns into a theory that the other guy is secretly trying to kill him. No conspiracy, comes the answer.
Around the lake
From high up, the cave opens onto a lake, and there are creeper spawners all the way around it, plus guardian spawners in the water. They split up and work both sides. There is a witch, a few guardians, and a spot where everything blew up at once while one of them was shooting a guardian. Somebody is also still getting used to a new mouse after a week and a half.
Near the far side someone spots a row of bars, maybe the area's victory spot. It is not lit up, and they are not sure.
Blown up
Then a creeper nobody saw. Chat reads BasketMC was blown up by Creeper. Scoti runs in, grabs what he can, and stashes it in a chest well away from the spawner. Basket only cares about one thing: Silver Light, his sword. Silver Light is safe, the armor survived, and the Power I bow is there too.
Basket heads back to gear up, and they say they will be right back.
