The five team cards and the "GopherCraft UHC 7 Amplified" title open the episode, with no episode number. The server's player list at the start still has ten names, BasketMC and FriarNurgle among them. Basket begins with three and a half hearts, the same as at the end of Episode 6.
Water and a golden apple
Episode 6 ended with the two of them out of the cave without their water. The first stop is a pond, where Basket fills a bucket while FriarNurgle waits on the bank above. A creeper is somewhere in the trees. "Creeper to your right!"
Then the gold question. "What's our gold status?" There is enough gold between them, so all they need is an apple. Basket chops at oak leaves with a stone axe until one drops, sets down a crafting table, and makes a golden apple. Basket eats it, and the hearts go from three and a half to five and a half, with two yellow absorption hearts on top.
Toward the middle
There is not much time left in the match, so they work toward the center of the map, hoping to find people before people find them. A patch of mushrooms makes them think someone else has been here, and that spawn is close by.
Then Basket takes a fall and loses a heart. "Why'd you do that?" Basket's answer: "I just wanted to take some fall damage first." And then: "I felt like I'd even the playing field."
Sheep are everywhere. "So many sheep." The thinking is that "animals will spawn when people are around," so somebody has been through here, even if it was them at the start of the game.
Basket's Sword
The plan becomes the high ground. "People are taking the high ground, so we should probably try and do that too." They tunnel and stair-step up the tallest hill in sight, sealing the way behind them with dirt.
On the way up, Basket explains the sword renamed in Episode 6. "I wanted to make sure if somebody killed me and stole it and then killed somebody else, it would say that they killed so-and-so with a Basket sword."
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Watching from the top
The top is a lookout over floating islands and tall cliffs, and night comes on while they stand there. Across the way, one of them spots a light under a mushroom on a lower hill. "So I was wondering if people are over there." On the back side of their own hill they find dirt blocks stepped up in a way that does not look natural, and a birch sapling that does not belong. Someone may be inside the hill.
They spend a long stretch watching, see no names, and clear away a floating block of dirt. The server posts "140 Minutes" with the same ten names still in the match. The episode ends with Basket alive on the hilltop at night with four and a half hearts, FriarNurgle alongside, and nobody found yet.