The episode opens with relief that the emerald was not lost in last time's fall. Then there is a castle sitting on a lake of lava, and for once they decide to knock.
Behind the cactus wall
They split up across two hills. One lights a blaze spawner, the other takes out a skeleton spawner. Somebody finds a strange fortification made of cactus, a whole wall of it, and behind the wall is a treasure chest. Arrows, bread and leather. All of it gets taken.
Through the front door
How to attack the castle? They could pillar up, or they could try the front door, which feels like bad news. They have not used a front door in a while, though, and this castle is lower and smaller than the last one. There is a lot of lava underneath it. Front door it is.
It goes badly right away. A baby zombie, then more zombies, then the chat reads Scoti_Garbidis was slain by Zombie and, not long after, Scoti_Garbidis was shot by Skeleton. His stuff is scattered almost off the bridge. It feels like that Tom Cruise movie, Live Die Repeat, except not very fun. His armor is all gone, so he crafts what he can. I made two pants, I'm so good at Minecraft.
Spawners on the catwalk
Inside is a courtyard, with spawners on the ledges and catwalks above it. Creepers walk off the edge and drop in. One of them gets pushed through a gap, or says he did. Then it is Basket's turn: BasketMC was shot by Skeleton, right next to a creeper standing on his stuff.
They regroup outside and sort it out. One chest is Basket's stuff, the other is Scoti's. Arrows get shared until they both have more than a stack, chicken gets split, red sand gets turned into blocks, and the water bucket goes along.
One, two, three, go
The plan is to get up on the ledges, one going left and one going right, and light every spawner. One, two, three, Scoti, go. This was a really not good idea, someone decides almost at once. They end up together on one side instead, taking down a zombie spawner, then a corner full of creeper spawners. Run, run, run.
Below that level is a room of blazes with a chest. The only blaze spawner goes down, and the chest gives up a record. It's purple. They are not sure which purple one it is. We should go through the front door more often. One of them also manages to put his sponge down by mistake while scrolling through his hotbar, and cannot believe it.
The chest that blew up
Upstairs there are more spawners. Wreck one, wreck two, wreck three, and then something blows up a chest, leaving someone on two hearts and gear all over the floor. In that gear is gold armor, all four pieces, all of it Duragold with Mending. It gets carried out across the bridge to safety.
That turns out to be the end of the episode. Very exciting.
