Day three of the Lorax Challenge, Michael Deering's September 2014 Minecraft Hardcore Challenge, where trees and leaves are off limits and the only animals on the menu are fish and zombies. Basket picks up in the dungeon found at the end of last episode, with a full set of iron armor, an iron sword and nothing to eat but rotten flesh. The same guest voice is back on the call, playing the seed in a separate world.
Chest time
"It's chest time!" The double chest next to the spawner holds string, gunpowder, a name tag, a music disc, four wheat, two buckets, iron ingots and a loaf of bread. "No melons. Interesting." The bread matters more anyway. After two days of rotten flesh, "I'm not starving anymore."
Into the ravine
The mineshaft tunnels open straight into a ravine with water running through it. On the call the worry is poison spiders: "Block it out, block out, block out the whole thing." Basket makes more torches, mines coal and starts picking up rails along the old tracks.
Deeper in, lava sits among the cobwebs, and a dirt room turns up with no shovel to dig it.
Spawner after spawner
This mineshaft is full of dungeons. Another spawner room turns up with skeletons around it, and Basket lights it up and goes at it with the sword. Cutting a way up into one room goes badly. "There was a band of misfits just awaiting me." Basket gets out of it alive.
Then comes a plan for a music disc: get a skeleton to shoot a creeper. A creeper waits at the bottom of a pit, but the skeleton won't cooperate. "Oh no, don't blow up. Ah, you stupid creeper." "What a waste."
Melon seeds at last
Talk on the call keeps coming back to melon seeds, which the castle's melon farm needs. "There's no seeds in mine." Then, along the rails, a minecart with a chest in it. Basket breaks it, and the loot spills out across the tracks: lapis, seeds and more. One look at the inventory shows Melon Seeds. "Chests are sort of a valuable resource right now," so the chest comes along too.
Up into the sun
It might still be night up top, so Basket waits a little before pillaring straight up from the skeleton spawner with cobblestone. Pigs are grazing on the grass at the top. "I can eat them. Not really." It is day.
Basket switches to third person for a look, standing on top of the cobblestone pillar beside a lake. The experience level has gone from 14 to 19 over the episode.
Basket is alive with full hearts when the credits roll, with melon seeds in the inventory and the castle still not started. After the credits there is only a one-second flash of the intro.