Episode 3 opens with the same "GopherCraft UHC 8" title and seven team cards, again with no episode number. Team Citrus Sensation is still down in the caves, and the first worry is other teams. "We should probably start watching for people coming to kill us."
Endermen in the ravine
The team splits up to search a ravine. One end turns up no diamonds. Someone grabs water: "I prefer water in a bucket rather than lava." An enderman wanders nearby, and it gets a nervous greeting: "Hi Enderman, pay no attention to me." One spot gives up seven gold.
A creeper takes out two
Chat reports that Gopherboy and pulse2010 were both blown up by a creeper. TopStiGear posts "DOUBLE KILL," and pikerize writes "I nominate that creeper for MVP." Not long after, creepers and zombies close in on Basket too. One explodes, and a teammate says it went off right over Basket's head. "I'm okay." Then someone spots a name through the stone and tenses up, until it turns out to be Basket. When block lag hits, Basket types "block lag right on queue" in chat, then fixes it to "cue."
Five diamonds
Exploring a small grotto, someone finds diamonds and walls the spot off before mining. The count comes out at five. The plan changes: set up a workshop right there, harvest obsidian and enchant. Basket follows pikerize back through the tunnels.
Meanwhile Frank_n_Honest earns the DIAMONDS! achievement, and Scoti_Garbidis asks in chat, "does everyone but us have diamonds now?" Sayulily answers "Yes." Basket replies "what are diamonds."
A workshop by the lava
The shop goes up next to a lava pool, part of it already turned to obsidian. PsychoSFK stands at the edge where water meets the black floor.
Iron goes into a row of furnaces. "I am cooking up another 19 iron and I'm gonna start making an anvil." Iron ingots get tossed around until there is enough for the three blocks an anvil needs, and an enchanting table goes down beside it.
Enchanting
Levels are short, so every enchantment is small. Basket's screen shows Protection I on an iron chestplate, Sharpness I offered for an iron sword, and two iron swords combined at the anvil. The rolls around the room include blast protection, fire aspect and knockback. "Right now my sword is Fire Aspect 1, Sharpness 1." Someone has a badly worn bow from a skeleton and enchants it anyway, since there is lapis to spare. The diamond pick gets a low enchantment too. The verdict: "We need levels and iron."
Thinking about the border
Then the shrinking border comes up. "Should we start thinking about borders?" The team agrees to start heading toward the surface soon. Someone packs up the anvil, and the last one out is asked to grab the enchanting table. Basket keeps mining coal in a side tunnel. Chat reports that Sayulily burned to death, and Basket posts "gg" with the others.
The server posts "Mark 60 Minutes, End of Episode 3" and a list of 16 current players. Basket ends the episode alive, at full health, mining underground.