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Bows Before the Border: GopherCraft UHC S7 Episode 6

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The five team cards and the "GopherCraft UHC 7 Amplified" title open the episode, with no episode number. The server posts "100 Minutes" and lists ten players still in the match: Steel_Douglas, Gopherboy, momofminers, technascribe, OjiiOtousan, FriarNurgle, BasketMC, PsychoSFK, lostinthefort and Scoti_Garbidis. No one from Team Kermit is left on it. Basket starts with six and a half hearts.

Spiders in the mineshaft

Episode 5 ended at a skeleton spawner, and this one picks up in the same mineshaft. A creeper comes close, skeletons move around somewhere above, and then the cave spiders arrive. "Oh, poison spider, poison spider! Close it up." Oak fences from the mineshaft go up to block them off. "In a mineshaft in a UHC. Crazy."

There is enough string now, and Basket crafts a bow. It does not stop the spiders. One gets close enough to poison Basket, and the hearts turn green and drain from six and a half to about one. Basket eats the golden apple saved since Episode 4, and two yellow absorption hearts appear. "I killed the spawner."

The dungeon

The spawner they found at the end of Episode 5 sits in a mossy cobblestone dungeon with chests. Inside are a saddle, some bread and the music disc "cat." In chat, technascribe earns the DIAMONDS! achievement. Steel_Douglas writes "you guys are just showing off now," Scoti_Garbidis answers "congrats slow poke :P," and technascribe adds "Turtles win the race!"

A player in iron armor beside an open chest and a monster spawner cage in a mossy cobblestone room lit with torches

Bows and an anvil

The plan is to farm the spawner for bows and arrows. Water goes down so the skeletons spawn in it and get pushed over to one spot. "This is sort of like a quick version of it." The enchanting table and anvil come out beside it, and Basket crafts a second bow. The trap never gets going. "I was too far away from the spawner. I wasn't getting anything."

Basket puts both bows through the enchanting table and joins them on the anvil, then renames the diamond sword. From here on its tooltip reads "Basket's Sword."

The border in the wall

Then the border gets close. "Pack up, pack up." They break down the camp and dig out toward the center of the map, then stop in a cave to enchant again. In chat, Scoti_Garbidis asks "What is your favorite color?" and momofminers answers "blue," then "as in diamonds." momofminers also earns the Time to Strike! achievement.

Teammate FriarNurgle at 12 Health in iron armor beside a crafting table and an enchanting table in a stone cave, with a patch of the red striped world border in the tunnel behind

While the enchanting goes on, a red striped patch shows up in the tunnel behind them and keeps coming. "Holy cannoli. You weren't kidding. Look at that."

The red striped world border showing through the wall of a gray stone cave above a torch, with the tip of a diamond pickaxe at the edge

Out in the dark

They climb out into a forest at night with the border stretched across the sky. Chat gets silly. Gopherboy writes "ET phone home!", Scoti_Garbidis asks "where you all hiding? the boss is ready to rumble!", and when Gopherboy asks "who is the boss?" the answer is "not sure but Charles in Charge."

The red striped world border across the night sky behind dark leaves and a birch trunk

The server posts "120 Minutes" with the same ten names. The episode ends with Basket alive on the surface at night with three and a half hearts and FriarNurgle still in the match. "Oh, that was the end of the episode."