Season 4 of the Hypermine UHC starts on a glass platform in the rain. Ten players stand around under their nameplates, and teams of two get picked at random: each player pushes a button, gets a piece of wool, and walks onto the matching color. Basket built the command blocks for this map and runs the setup, so Basket also gets a book of game master commands with lines for Give Food, Clear Teams, Set Teams and Spread Players.
Team orange
Basket draws orange. So does fluentchaos, and on the scoreboard the two names show in the same orange. The full list on that scoreboard has all ten players: albinac, Ballentine17, BasketMC, ectorvynk, fluentchaos, Kondrik, Lapis_Lauri, Recabilly, Scoti_Garbidis and Twinkles.
Then the players get spread out, and Basket and fluentchaos land together in a rainy forest. Before the countdown can start, each player has to click "I'm Ready" in a book. Basket nudges one straggler in chat: "Twinkles, click on the I'm Ready in the book if you're ready." Lapis_Lauri asks in chat whether to just go or wait for an announcement. Then the countdown runs out and the match is on, with a compass in Basket's hotbar.
Trees and pigs
Basket spends the first stretch chopping trees, oak and birch, and picking up saplings and apples on the way. There are pigs all through the woods. Basket crafts a furnace early and earns the Hot Topic achievement.
Nobody had said anything about a grace period, so fluentchaos asks in chat: "grace period?" Lapis_Lauri answers, "1st ep. 20min." Twenty minutes it is.
Digging in at sunset
By the time the sky turns red, Basket has a crafting table and a furnace set up next to a hole dug in the grass, and the furnace is already cooking pork. With night coming, the team heads down from there.
The table and the furnace come down with them. In a narrow stone room a few blocks under the grass, the furnace gets lit again with fluentchaos standing right beside it.
Down the stairs
From the room they dig steep tunnels down through the stone. Basket switches to a stone pickaxe and keeps digging. Chat keeps ticking along with other teams' progress: Kondrik earns Time to Mine! and Getting an Upgrade, and Ballentine17 gets Benchmarking.
No cave turns up on screen before the day ends. Then the server posts "End of Day 1. Players remaining:" and lists all ten names, BasketMC and fluentchaos included. Nobody is out yet. Basket is alive and underground with fluentchaos when the episode ends.