Day five of the Lacto Ovo Pacifist Challenge, Michael Deering's June 2015 Minecraft Hardcore Challenge. The title card reads "Day 0101", which is five in binary. The rules still hold: no meat, fish, mushrooms or rotten flesh, no harming any mob, and one gold ingot buys one thing from a village. Today the team leaves the cave base behind and moves out onto the plains, where the house is supposed to go. All four are on screen: pulse2010, Scoti_Garbidis and pikerize by their nameplates.
Bread before breakfast
Basket starts at the crafting table, turning iron into armor. Food is still the worry. "Make some bread 'cause I'm hungry." A chat line says pulse2010 "has just earned the achievement [Bake Bread]", and the next request on the call is "can you dole out each of us a piece of bread?" Then the plan for the day: "Let's all go outside and go to the plains."
Staking a claim
Basket climbs out with a water bucket in hand and follows the others through the trees and onto open grass. "If we're gonna build on the plains we got to go away from the village anyway." A crafting table goes down in the grass, and soon a cobblestone outline marks the spot. "I'm gonna start putting in the foundation." One voice stays behind to keep building: "The house should be in good shape when you guys get home."
No farmer in the village
Basket heads north to the village with emeralds, hoping for a farmer who will trade food. The tool smith has an enchanted iron pickaxe with Unbreaking II, Efficiency II and Fortune I. "I'm three short emeralds on that particular trade." The leatherworker gets less patience: "You're a leather worker. You're useless." The search turns up the wrong jobs: "I found a bunch of guys in brown, but none of them were farmers." The emeralds stay in Basket's hotbar.
Moving house in the dark
Back at the cave, everyone packs. "Just grab everything that's important." Then a worry: "Please tell me you didn't unplant stuff." "I did not." Basket fills up on spruce wood from a chest and takes the enchanting table along. By the time they leave, "it is night." "Yeah, very much night." The walk across the dark grass is tense. "Creepers ahead of us." "I'm gonna try and circle around the far side of them." The new house is waiting, a wooden box with glass windows and torches. "I can't sprint anymore, I'm going into the house. Close the door."
A flooded floor
Inside, water spills across the floor while pulse2010, Scoti_Garbidis and pikerize stand in it. "Spiders can climb this, right?" The fix: "So why don't we put a half slab roof on?" A stone roof goes over the top, torches go up on the walls, and Basket sets the enchanting table down by the windows next to a new crafting bench. "This looks fancy and nice."
Digging under the house
Basket opens a trapdoor in the floor, ladders down, and starts a staircase mine with the diamond pickaxe. "This pick is awesome." On the call: "We're on top of a ravine." Near dawn a zombie turns up in a cave opening at the end of Basket's tunnel, with a block of cobblestone in between. "There's a zombie after you." "I can't kill this." The rules say hands off. "The sun's gonna be coming up soon." A teammate comes down the stairs to Basket, and someone calls it: "It's the end of the day." Basket is alive with full hearts and hunger a little over half, and no death lines appear in chat. The credits follow, with no gameplay after them.
