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Up to the Surface: GopherCraft UHC S8 Episode 4

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Episode 4 opens with the "GopherCraft UHC 8" title and the seven team cards, again with no episode number. Then it is back underground. "We are still down in these caves," Basket says. "Still gathering supplies." The first thing waiting there is a creeper, and it costs half a heart.

Trouble behind the wall

Some water that PsychoSFK had blocked off turns out to have a creeper and a baby zombie behind it, and together they take a couple more hearts. The advice is quick: eat an apple, better safe than sorry. Then the bigger worry comes up. "I don't want to be trapped underneath here and all of a sudden have borders start coming in on me." Before the team regroups, a zombie and a creeper show up in front of Basket with another zombie behind, and one gets a hit in through the lag. "I hate that lag where they still hit me."

About three minutes in, chat reads "Gopherboy left the game," then "xmods13 withered away." TChels, BasketMC, TopStiGear, PsychoSFK, xzosimusx and pikerize all post "gg."

One more round at the table

Back at the workshop, the furnaces are full and the enchanting table stays busy. Basket's chestplate goes from Protection I to Protection II. One roll goes wrong: "Accidentally clicked it and I got Bane of Arthropods and a knockback." Someone has Projectile Protection on a pair of pants. Everyone wants Sharpness, and the table keeps offering Smite. Basket's iron sword already has Fire Aspect I and Sharpness I, and adding a second sword at the anvil is "too expensive at the moment." Basket renames the sword "FIRE!!!" instead. A trip to the Nether comes up and gets dropped, since there was "a good chance that they trapped it."

Teammates pikerize at 17 Health and PsychoSFK at 18 Health in iron armor in a stone cave, beside an enchanting table and an anvil

Digging out

With everyone out of levels, the team starts cutting a path up. Basket mines only the coal that is in the way and inches toward level 5. "There we go, level 5." Then daylight shows through, and it is raining. The workshop gets left behind, but the anvil comes along to be set down again up top. On the surface, pikerize waits by a lake. A quick count of supplies: two apples each, and someone still has 12 pieces of paper and 13 leather for books.

Teammate pikerize at 17 Health in iron armor at the edge of a lake on the surface, with trees and a tree trunk on the right

Night in the hills

The sun sets fast. In a dark forest the team loses track of each other for a minute, then finds each other again in the extreme hills. "My sword is fire. So it'll cook them up when I kill zombie." A light up ahead turns out to be lava, and then the ground turns white. "I love Minecraft snow!" There is still no sign of the border. "I don't see any border at all." A zombie that comes down the snowy slope ends up in flames, and a spider drops string for a bow. A look at the Tab list gets a good review: "Basket's team's looking real well."

A zombie on fire on a snowy hillside at night, with snow falling

Sunflowers in the rain

The team keeps heading back toward spawn and reaches a plain full of sunflowers. "Sunflowers were near spawn, weren't they?" A plain could be good for killing mobs for levels, or might have a village. A crafting table goes down in the wet grass, and someone works on a bow. "Probably not the best place to be making a bow."

Teammate PsychoSFK at 17 Health in iron armor on a grassy plain at night in the rain, with a crafting table in the foreground

The server posts "Mark 80 Minutes, End of Episode 4" and a list of 15 current players, all three of Team Citrus Sensation among them. Basket ends the episode alive, on the surface, in the rain at night.