BasketMC

Cobblestone Fort Ambush: GopherCraft UHC S12 Episode 8

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"Welcome back everybody." Basket is still the only player on team green, still underground, and the fire from last episode is still on Basket's mind. "Okay, so I lit a fire. I don't know what's going on." The Scoti Slayer is still in hand.

Counting who is left

The player list lays out the field. PsychoSFK is alone on blue with about two and a half hearts, and ty750 is alone on yellow. The red team (AngryK9, bjaydubya, thepigglesworth) and the teal team (Bakerbelle, Scoti_Garbidis, nihontiger) both still have three. Basket sits at nine hearts. Basket wonders whether Scoti_Garbidis just ate a golden apple. Chat posts that ty750 has earned the achievement Monster Hunter.

Tunnels toward the fort

The plan is to dig a tunnel, shoot from cover, and "if they start heading for me maybe backtrack, come up behind them, hit them with the sword." A peek at the surface shows what the other team built. "Okay, so it's a cobble fortification." Basket puts the flint and steel back on the hotbar and keeps digging. "Some of them will eventually run into my caves, I think."

AngryK9 goes down

Chat reads "AngryK9 was shot by nihontiger," and the "gg" lines follow from PsychoSFK, ty750, erynfaith, FriarNurgle, Scoti_Garbidis and nihontiger. Then the server warns, "Soul Crusher will wake in 2 minutes!" Basket digs a dirt shaft up to the grass and climbs out into the trees.

Looking out from a hole at ground level across grass toward a birch trunk and oak leaves under a blue sky

The Scoti Slayer's first kill

Near the cobblestone walls Basket spots a name tag. "Oh, there's somebody. Alright, what name is that?" It is nihontiger, in teal. "Alright, I'm gonna go." Basket rushes in swinging. Arrows stick out of nihontiger as the fight runs along the wall, and then chat reads "nihontiger was slain by BasketMC using [Scoti Slayer]."

A player under the teal nameplate nihontiger, in a diamond helmet with arrows stuck in its body, beside a cobblestone and dirt wall, with a purple enchanted sword crossing the bottom of the frame

"Okay, so I did get somebody with a sword, I feel good about that." The "gg" lines roll in, Basket types one too, and nihontiger adds, "Dang it Basket."

Back for the loot

Basket ducks back into the dirt, then heads up again to check the fort. "Did I get anything good out of that?" A pile of dropped gear lies on the grass by the walls, and the server announces "Soul Crusher is coming!" as the border starts another 138 block shrink.

A tall cobblestone building with dark window openings standing on grass and dirt under a blue sky

That is when the hearts start dropping. "Oh no, don't shoot me, stop shooting me." Basket backs into the tunnels down to a single heart, and chat reads "BasketMC hit the ground too hard." The "You died!" screen comes up. Basket laughs about forgetting how low the health was. "Well, thanks for watching everybody."

A pile of dropped items on grass beside a dirt wall, including armor pieces, blocks and a diamond pickaxe, with the tip of a purple sword at the right edge

Out of the match

Basket lands in the glass lobby with the message "Your game mode has been updated," and types "lol" in chat. Basket is out, team green is gone, and the screen does not show who wins. The rest of the video plays the episode back in reverse, from the death screen all the way to the opening title, before the end cards.