A title card reading "GopherCraft TerraFirmaCraft Season 1, Episode 1, Caveman BasketMC" opens over Basket's caveman character on a grassy hillside. "Ooga Booga," Basket says, and calls this "Terrafirmacraft, Gophercraft style." Everyone playing comes from the GopherCraft SMP server, scattered across a new world, and this is the first day. The Tab list shows two players online: BasketMC and Steel_Douglas. Basket's spawn has no trees in sight, and the plan is to gather supplies before night, "because the bad guys are pretty bad."
Stone tools from loose rocks
Basket picks up sticks and loose rocks. Right-clicking with a rock opens a grid of stone, and clearing squares from it shapes a tool head. The tooltips show a Stone Knife with "+40 Attack Damage" and a Stone Axe Head, which goes on a stick to make an axe. Rice seeds and rye come out of the grass, and an achievement pops up: Gatherer. Farther along, a small rock turns out to be Small Bismuthinite. Basket isn't sure how it works yet. Basket tries to eat the rye straight from the grass and can't.
First trees
Trees finally show up across the water. Basket explains that in this mod you can walk right through leaves, and you only attack the bottom of the trunk until the whole tree comes down as logs. The first one gives six. "I should have hit the leaves," Basket says, since that is how you get saplings. A White Cedar Sapling turns up after a few more trees.
A night on the island
At dusk Basket hides out on a little island and starts to get hungry. The grain is no help: its tooltip says "DONT USE ME OR YOU WILL CRASH." A Fire Starter and some sticks get a fire going in a small stone pit, and torches follow. Then zombies come. The stone knife is slow work: "I feel like I can almost punch him faster." The zombie finally falls and leaves Rotten Flesh, which Basket decides not to eat yet. The knife turns rye into straw, sugar cane gives sugar, and Basket waits for morning by the fire. At first light a Stone Hammer Head goes on a stick, because "killing that guy took forever."
Looking for fresh water
In this mod everybody has to drink. Below the hunger bar sits a thirst bar, and the water around the island is not fresh. Basket spots cattails growing at the edge of a pond and hopes standing near them is enough, without a jug. Basket also reports "a wild wolf" that never attacks.
A zombie in the sun
A zombie shows up by the pond, already burning in the daylight. Basket tries the new hammer on it. "This hammer really runs out quicker," Basket says, and by the time the zombie goes up in smoke the hammer is almost broken. That means making another one and carrying "a decent amount of backup gear." Back at the cattails, the thirst bar fills, "very slowly."
Tomatoes and a thatch perch
An odd-looking tree gets its leaves broken in the hope of a sapling, but nothing drops. Then come some plants that "look like they're ready to harvest." Breaking one gives a Tomato and tomato seeds. It's getting dark again, and without a pickaxe there is no digging into the rock. Four straw make a block of Thatch, the thatch stacks up, a torch goes on its side, and Basket finds that logs can be stacked too. Basket tries the rye again, and this time the hunger bar shows how much it would fill. Basket settles in up top to wait out the night, then decides the episode is running long and signs off with "Booga Booga." A last shot shows the caveman under a red sky before the end card.
