Episode 4 of Zombie Life, Michael Deering's July 2015 Minecraft Hardcore Challenge. The rules still hold: eat only zombie flesh, kill villagers, craft only wooden things, and break nothing but dirt, gravel, sand and coal ore, with the village to fix up in the end. Two players are left, Basket and Scoti_Garbidis, and they start the day in the desert village they reached at dawn. Basket is on half a heart, in an iron chestplate, with almost no rotten flesh left.
Half a heart in the desert
The first thing on the call is a warning. "Just to be clear, I'm at half a heart and low on food. So don't punch me or anything like that." A zombie can be heard somewhere under the sand, and nobody can get to it. The stone rule gets in the way again. "Oh, can't mine stone. This is awful." There's a quick look through a chest before they leave: "some bread and some apples and golden horse armor." The horse armor goes with them. The villagers here get a pass for now. "We won't kill you guys."
Following the creek home
The plan is to retrace the savanna and the plains back to their own village. "We'll know if it's the right one by the creek." Scoti_Garbidis leads along the water's edge, and the wooden houses come into view across the grass. "I see he did some patching with acacia." Back home, a zombie can be heard below a building, but the walls are stone. "That's stone. I can't dig it."
Getting ready for night
Inside the house with the bookshelves, Basket opens the crafting screen as the sun goes down. "I'm gonna make an extra sword out of wood." There's a reminder of what the month is for. "We're supposed to make this place like super nice, right?" The answer isn't kind to the villagers. "These people were jerks."
Hunting from a box of dirt
At dusk Basket walls off a little shelter of dirt on the savanna, with torches and windows to look out of. Zombies are the food, so the shelter is a place to fight from, not to hide in. "Once I slap him around, all of his buddies are gonna come running." The drops are thin. "Oh no flesh, you cheap jerk." The shelter also turns out to sit right beside a deep hole. "Next time don't make your thing next to a big old hole." One zombie turns up with an iron sword, and Basket tries a bow on another. A few pieces of flesh get passed back and forth, but never enough to heal on. "Do not waste the delicious zombie flesh haunches."
A spider through the wall
Late in the night spiders crowd the shelter. "You said you had it spider proof." "I did until you broke a hole." A spider gets onto the dirt walls, and a line appears in chat: "Scoti_Garbidis was slain by Spider." In hardcore, that's the end of Scoti_Garbidis's run. "I don't know how that spider got you through the wall."
The sun comes up over the village soon after, and Basket is the only one of the three still playing, still on half a heart.
The episode ends with Basket alone on the grass outside the shelter in daylight. The credits follow, with no gameplay after them.