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The Farm Wall: MHC Save the Village, Again Episode 7

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Day seven of Michael Deering's May challenge, and the job hasn't changed. "Here we are on day seven and we are going to continue to fortify this village because it's very important to save the villagers. That's the entire goal." The first corner tower is done, so "we have a template already for our turrets for the corner."

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Back down the quarry

Basket climbs down the ladder inside the tower and spends most of the day in the quarry underneath it, cutting cobblestone with the enchanted diamond pickaxe. Up top the wall keeps growing. On the call the talk turns to "Tower 2," and there's an offer of supplies: "I have more blocks I can bring up for you if you're running low." The rest of the chat wanders a long way from the village while the pickaxe works.

Partway through, Basket climbs back up and FriarNurgle appears at the tower door by the ladder. "Sorry, I'm trying to bring you stuff, but there wasn't the usual ladder." Supplies change hands, "there's a bunch of stuff," and Basket clears junk out of the inventory to make room. "I can make that into sticks. That'll work for now." Then it's back down the shaft until dark.

A new pickaxe

Basket comes up after nightfall and heads through the village houses to the chests. The good pick is wearing out. "The diamond pick is almost gone, so I switched to iron picks." At the enchanting table in the library, an iron pickaxe comes out with Efficiency I on its tooltip.

"Oh, there's a spider somewhere." It turns up by a fence, and Basket goes at it with the stone sword. "There you go, buddy."

Two walls at midnight

The rest of the night goes into the wall. There are two of them now, an inner wall and an outer one side by side, and Basket evens out the tops. "I guess if the inner wall and the outer wall are on different layers, I'll make it whichever one's the highest." "That's about midnight."

Two cobblestone walls side by side at night, running past a fenced wheat farm with a water channel

Through the farm

The wall line runs straight into the farms, and the crops lose. Basket lays cobblestone right down the rows of wheat. "I'm going to chop down this garden. Goodness, let's not save the garden. That would be a ridiculous quest."

A cobblestone wall laid straight through a field of growing wheat

Near dawn, a surprise on the call: "Our pig just went inside the wall." Sure enough, the pig is standing in the narrow gap between the two walls while Basket clears dirt out of it with a stone axe. Then: "Creepers." "Did he blow up the wall?" Basket checks. "There's just a hole out there."

A pig standing in the narrow gap between two cobblestone walls

Sunrise on the tower

"Let me head over to you." Basket climbs the tower ladder, stone sword in hand, and finds FriarNurgle on top in the morning sun. The tally on the call: "Two towers working on the third." "Nobody died." The pig is still alive too, "in the wall."

FriarNurgle standing on top of the cobblestone tower in the morning sun, with farmland beyond

Both players are alive at the end of day seven, and no villager death shows on screen. A few shots of the tower top come next, then the end card, with no gameplay after it.