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The Portal to Spawn: GopherCraft UHC S1 Episode 6

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The team cards and the "Season One GopherCraft UHC" title roll, and Episode 6 picks up in the sandstone hideout at the 100 minute mark. Last time the Nether was put off for a new episode. Now it's daytime outside, so the plan changes: travel a little while it's light, and head underground when night comes. Basket mines up the obsidian to take along.

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Out across the mesa

The team leaves the hideout and walks the edge of a swamp, then plains, looking for a village. Scoti_Garbidis asks in chat, "is there no gold in this map," and derpguru answers, "Yeah steel took it all and died :p." Past the desert the ground turns red and orange. "Mesa. Nice." Somebody wishes for melons, since brewing would need them, along with ghast tears and slime.

Red and orange clay ground of a mesa biome with a striped terracotta hill on the right and trees on the horizon

With a water bucket, Basket makes "a little waterfall just to make it easier to get down." Some lava gets scooped up too, since it's "decent for fighting" if a retreat is needed. Horses in the plains give leather and a little XP, and chat shows lostinthefort earning Cow Tipper.

A portal in the cave

At sundown the team ducks into a small cave in the side of the mesa. Bones become arrows, "26 arrows," and they get split up. Before anyone goes through, there is one more job. "We can't go in yet. We need to fill water bottles." Sand goes into the furnaces for glass, and Basket fills glass bottles with water. Chat brings the night's other news: "derpguru was slain by Cave Spider," and the gg lines follow, BasketMC's among them.

Out at spawn

A teammate goes through first, and it goes badly fast. There is a crafting table on the other side, then pigmen. "Oh, they are violent." The teammate comes back out somewhere else: "I'm at spawn." Basket follows through the portal and comes out at spawn at night, next to a beacon.

A beacon beam rising from a stone block platform at spawn at night

Basket opens the beacon. Resistance and Speed are on the menu, but regeneration isn't, because "it's not a full pyramid." The team settles on speed.

The first PvP death

Then a nameplate shows up across the grass: Scoti_Garbidis. The team chases into the trees. "I'm on your six." In the dark, PsychoSFK and Scoti_Garbidis trade blows, and chat reads "Scoti_Garbidis was slain by PsychoSFK." The gg lines roll in, and TopStiGearGaming types "GG first PVP death."

Scoti_Garbidis, nameplate showing 17 health, holding a diamond sword in a dark forest at night

"Keep your eyes open, guys." The loot goes into a chest: diamonds, an enchanted book with Sharpness I, and two player heads. Then "Scoti_Garbidis left the game."

Anvil work

An anvil goes down by the chest, and the team starts combining gear. Basket puts two diamond swords into the anvil, then the Sharpness I book. Somebody wants to combine boots too, which will have to wait. Furnaces get lit at the edge of the forest to smelt gold.

Two lit furnaces at the edge of a dark forest, with teammate lostinthefort standing just behind them

"120 MINUTES" comes up in the corner while Basket sorts the chest, and the credits follow. Basket is alive, near spawn with lostinthefort and PsychoSFK.