The second GopherCraft UHC opens with a title card, "GopherCraft UHC Season II," and then one card for each of the seven teams of two. The first one up is the Bandana Bandits, Basket's team for this season. Then it cuts to the same glass-walled lobby, full of nameplates: Moonwillow92, optimus1971, Scoti_Garbidis, TChels and the rest.
The rules, one more time
The rules come over the call before anyone moves. Vanilla Minecraft only, with OptiFine allowed just to make the game run smoother; OptiFine zoom is off limits. No turning the brightness up to see in caves, and no X-ray. No strip mining or branch mining: "Staircasing down to find a cave, totally cool." Teams stay in the exact block they land on until everyone is scattered. There is no PvP on the first day, which means 20 minutes of walking away from anyone on another team. And no beacons at spawn this time, "unless you can make one. Good luck with that."
Then everyone draws a wool block to find out their team. Basket's is a pale one, and TChels stands nearby.
Scattered into the snow
Basket and TChels land side by side on a snowy slope. A purple bar at the top of the screen counts down the talk time, and a scoreboard down the right side lists fourteen players, each at 100 health. "I like this thing on the side, it's pretty cool."
The plan is to split up so nobody punches the same tree. One heads for a tree and the coal in front of them, the other goes after wood and pigs. A crafting table soon sits next to TChels in the snow. The pigs do not last long; one of them has nine pork chops, the other eleven.
Too close to everyone
The spawn is in extreme hills, and that worries them: digging into the mountain could mean silverfish. They move toward a spruce forest instead. Then they spot two players from another team heading west, so the Bandana Bandits head east. "Wow, I can't believe we're so close to everybody." PvP opens once the first day ends, and a zombie coming up behind them settles it. "Let's dig into this wall here."
A room in the hill
Inside the hill they carve out a small room and put up a torch. The coal gets split, two furnaces go in, and the pork goes on to cook "so we don't start dying of hunger." A chest holds the saplings for later. Then they tunnel off in opposite directions, crouching as they go, so one of them finds something sooner. It works: "Oh, I found iron."
Meanwhile the scoreboard starts to move. pikerize drops to 80, Scoti_Garbidis to 77 and Gopherboy to 70. "Ooh, people already took damage."
Armor before caves
A cave finally opens up, but it is a dead end with a few resources in it. They decide to armor up before they explore anything bigger, and to carry as little as they can. Back in the room, iron comes out of the furnace as ingots.
The episode ends there, with "20 MINUTES" in chat and a line from Gopherboy: "Look at all you people with your 'perfect' health. Makes me sick." Basket is alive in the hillside room with TChels, both still at full health. The end credits thank TChels for being Basket's teammate in the Bandana Bandits and Gopherboy for running and hosting the event.