A card reads "Episode 03, GopherCraft UHC 10." Basket and pulse2010, the purple Cave Prospectors, are still deep in the caves under the flood, and a creeper is close by. There's a hole right above their heads, and the first job is to find a part of the cave that is "not so willing to kill you."
The border moves again
Red lines come up in chat: "Soul Crusher is coming!" and "The World Border is shrinking 300 blocks over 5 minutes." Basket built this map, and the trade-off shows down here. The high ground is fairly safe because it's all water, but everything farther down is tough.
A bow turns up with two arrows. "We're still a little bit too high. We need to get a little lower. Then we can get the good stuff."
Monster Hunter
A zombie wanders along the water's edge, and a skeleton can be heard below. Basket's Lava Bucket is in the hotbar. "There we go, bam!" Chat reports that BasketMC has earned the Monster Hunter achievement.
The ravine past it is crowded. Skeletons stand on a ledge above, and a creeper is somehow inside a wall Basket built. "I should make iron swords, what was I thinking? I got 37 iron ore." One sword goes to pulse2010. Then comes a change of plan. The ravine isn't giving them what they need, so they head back up to find a new spot to dig a staircase down.
optimus1971 drowns
Chat posts "optimus1971 drowned." The gg's follow, and OjiiOtousan adds "blub blub blub..." The Tab list now shows two names out, optimus1971 and ty750. "So we lost Optimus," a voice says, which leaves Steel_Douglas alone on red. Another "Soul Crusher is coming!" line follows a few minutes later.
A staircase toward spawn
Basket's furnaces cook the iron, and iron helmets get made, to swap with the Diving Helmet when they are out of the water. Food is fine: one has two pork chops, the other five steaks, and both are full. The gaps are apples and gold. "We still do not have any apples." "Nor do we have the gold for it."
The plan is simple. Stair-step down, and see who runs into something interesting first. "By the way, we are heading towards spawn. Always a good thing." Redstone turns up, then bedrock. In chat, TopStiGear earns Benchmarking.
Picked-up items keep vanishing from the inventory. The best guess is one of the commands running on the map, though nobody remembers exactly how it was set up.
Gold at the end of the trail
The sound of water and lava leads somewhere. pulse2010 swims through a flooded passage, and past it is lava "everywhere around me," plus a branch with valuables to come back to.
"Oh, we have gold right there. Don't mind if I do." It comes to six gold, with some obsidian nearby. Basket crafts another iron pickaxe.
A zombie shows up as they wrap up, and they take it on. "Okay, we're okay." The server posts "End of Day 3. Players remaining:" with erynfaith, OjiiOtousan, pulse2010, BasketMC, Steel_Douglas and TopStiGear. Basket is alive underground with pulse2010, and the end credits follow.