Episode 3 opens with the season intro and a card that reads "Episode 3, Gold Hunt." The Librarians are still underground next to the stronghold from the first two episodes, and the job this time is gold.
Caves with obsidian floors
Basket starts out scouting caves near the base. "I found a cave... it's fairly low." In this world lava has been turned into obsidian, so the cave floors are wide sheets of black stone. "Obsidian is so dark." Mobs can still spawn on it ("bad guys can spawn on obsidian, yes, it's true"), and soon zombies are heading Basket's way. Along the way Basket mines redstone, finds lapis and spots gold with a skeleton nearby. The world border is visible from down here too. "It's not moving, right?" "No, but it's pretty close, so if it was to move we'd have to leave fast."
Skeletons and creepers
The gold keeps turning up in bad spots. A skeleton shoots at Basket, who digs under the obsidian to get at it and kills it. A creeper comes next, then a baby zombie in armor. "That's exciting." One patch of gold has a creeper waiting right above it: "It's hard to know if I should risk going for that gold or not." Basket gets lost backtracking, comes around again, and decides to leave that gold alone. A chicken drops two feathers, which will help with arrows. Over voice, someone on the team says they are down to one heart after a skeleton.
Three is not eight
The team takes stock. "How much gold do we have?" "Three up here." "That's not eight, unfortunately." Basket goes back for the gold a skeleton was guarding, kills it this time, picks up its arrow ("I have two arrows") and finds a little more gold nearby. The border is to the east, so the team agrees to head west when it moves on.
Golden apples
Back at the base, the iron armor gets passed around until everyone has a full set, and Basket smelts the ore. By now it is night. In the crafting grid Basket rings an apple with eight gold ingots for a golden apple, then makes a second one and tosses it to xmods13. Basket's Tab list shows all 15 players still in. "It looks also like Gopherboy just got an apple," Basket says. Since the border only shrinks after a death, Basket adds, "So I'll have to kill some people to make the border shrink, I guess."
Waiting out the night
"It's really hard to sit still in UHCs." Basket smelts cobblestone into stone, and someone hands over a bow with just two arrows. The team decides to take the sugar cane out of the chest so nobody else gets it, since they already have books. Basket digs gravel for flint, the team talks about taking an ender pearl for a quick escape, and everyone counts coal. "I have two stacks on me." The plan is to head west and go up to the surface at the start of the next episode.
The server posts "End of Day 3. Players remaining:" and lists all 15 players, Basket, TChels and xmods13 among them. "Nobody dies." The episode ends with Basket alive at the base, followed by the end credits.