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Down Into the Caves: Server Wars UHC S2 Episode 1

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Server Wars is a UHC between Minecraft servers, and each server sends a team of three. The episode opens on a "UHC Server Wars Season 2" title and one card for each team. One of them is GopherCraft: BasketMC, Scoti_Garbidis and PsychoSFK. Then the match begins in a grassy field, with "- GO -" from AngryK9 in chat and "Timer Started" from DarthTimmanis right after.

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Wood first

The plan on the call is simple: one player makes the crafting tables for all three, and the others punch trees. Chat fills up with achievement lines from every team, and Basket's "Getting Wood" is one of them. Nobody on the call has heard of a grace period, so they assume they can be attacked from the start.

Teammate Scoti_Garbidis standing in a grassy field as the Server Wars UHC match begins

A teammate also explains the border. It shrinks over time, and when someone gets close to it, the screen starts to turn red. Nobody knows yet if it hurts.

The sun goes down early

Within a few minutes the sun is already setting. Chat notices too: Starrlett asks "Plz reset?", rad504 asks "are we resetting to day?", and Sannie6 answers "yea time reset." Then daylight comes back, and Basket is glad of it: "So we're gonna get a little extra time here."

The team uses that time on the surface. There are cows to kill, a few apples from the trees, sugar cane and coal. Two furnaces go up on a hilltop next to a crafting table, and raw beef goes in to cook into steak.

A teammate beside two lit furnaces and a crafting table on a grassy hilltop

Into the caves in a thunderstorm

There is iron in a cave right below them, and the team talks about whether to go down now or stay on the surface. Then a thunderstorm rolls in, and more zombies show up. That settles it, and they head underground.

The caves are busy, with zombies and creepers close by. They light the tunnels with torches and block off openings behind them. The three regroup in a small cave room with a crafting table and a pair of furnaces, and the iron ore goes in to smelt.

PsychoSFK in a torch-lit cave room with a crafting table in the foreground

The first player out

Then a line appears in chat: "RanquestLP was slain by Zombie." It is the first death to show up in chat. Chat fills up with "gg" from almost every team, Basket, Scoti_Garbidis and PsychoSFK included.

Iron on

With the iron cooked, a teammate starts making chest plates, and soon Basket has an iron chestplate on. It comes just in time. In a narrow dirt tunnel, Basket meets two zombies and puts them down with a stone sword. Then a creeper comes around the corner, and a skeleton after it.

Two zombies at the far end of a narrow dirt tunnel underground

The episode ends with "20 Minute Mark" from DarthTimmanis in chat. Basket is alive and underground, with an iron chestplate on and at full health. The end card thanks Darth Timmanis and AngryK9 for inviting GopherCraft to Server Wars Season 2.