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Punch Bow: Untold Stories 3 Episode 45

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Still on the castle roof, still on stream. They take out the blaze spawner, find a chest in the tower, and for about a minute things go very well. Then a skeleton with a punch bow gets involved.

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Top down

There is an icy guy somewhere who probably does slowness. Nobody sees him. The blaze spawner by the bridge goes down, and the tower has a chest in it. We beat the game, one of them jokes. Arrows are already a worry. One of them has 35.

The plan is to attack each tower from the top down. There used to be a bridge here, and doing it the intended way would have been really hard. Silverfish in one spot get taken as a sign they do not need to go in there. Far below they can see chests and goodies, but they decide to follow the natural progression, just in reverse.

A brick bridge leading across to the red-roofed castle towers at night

Ghasts equal ratings

One room has a chest full of magical books. One of them takes them all so the other cannot see, because spoilers. That turns out not to be a joke.

Below them, ghasts. There is a ghast spawner in one roof and maybe another overhead, plus creepers, witches and a skeleton jockey, all fighting each other. Standing around just spawns more. Do they want to keep the ghast spawners? Ghasts equal ratings, my friend. As long as they build with blocks the fireballs don't destroy, fine. They will kill the ghasts and keep the spawners. A witch spawner sits up and around some stairs, so the plan is to torch a bunch and run away.

Looking down from a castle tower at walls and a courtyard full of lava

The punch bow

Then the chat reads Scoti_Garbidis fell from a high place. Something knocked him clean off. I can't believe that mob over there, says the one still standing. It must have a punch book.

Getting his things back means going down into the room full of everything. One of them digs through the floor with no food, gets poisoned by a witch and keeps going anyway, taking out two or three spawners on the way. A record and a healing potion come back up. Then Basket leans over the edge to cover the other, and the chat reads BasketMC fell from a high place. Leaning over the edge, he decides later, was a bad idea.

A creeper walking toward the camera in a mossy stone room inside the castle

Infinite death runs

Their makeshift way down gets blown up, partly because they both tried to use it at the same time. Gear lands in places neither can reach, a ghast fireballs Scoti, and someone asks the obvious question: why do you keep on dying? That is an excellent question.

They disagree about what to do. One wants to grab the important things from the chest up top and go rebuild supplies, because infinite death runs are not going to work. The other wants to keep trying with cobblestone tools, since there is nothing left to risk. TNT dropped on the spawner might do it, if they had more TNT. Then there is a short argument about bread. This is the side you guys don't get to see, they note.

What came back

In the end they sort the chest. A bow with Power II, Punch I and Unbreaking I is there, along with stacks of coal, a pair of magic pants, the magical books and an axe. A lot of armor is not. The last view is someone on the edge of the lava with ghasts overhead, and a run back.

A chest of recovered gear with a tooltip for a bow with Power II, Punch I and Unbreaking I