Episode 5 opens at the edge of a big ravine. It looks deep, and there is lapis on the walls. The question is whether to go down into it. One voice likes ravines; another points out they are dangerous. The team still has no chickens and almost no arrows, so anything that helps with a bow is worth a detour.
Into the ravine, carefully
They do not jump. Instead they work their way down the side, swapping water sources, blocking off side tunnels and listening for a skeleton nobody can see. "In my opinion, this is a much more controlled situation." A creeper comes over a ledge and goes off close by, and the team comes through it still standing.
At the bottom there is gold, redstone and more creepers on the ledges above, but no diamonds. "We're at diamond height. We should be finding diamonds." The team splits a little, and the third teammate ends up working a separate stretch of cave, out of sight for most of the episode.
A skeleton spawner
Around the seven minute mark someone spots a spawner. "It's a skeleton spawner." Rather than walk in with a sword, the plan changes: go higher, pour lava in, light the room, and clear it. Basket has the lava bucket selected as the lava goes in. "There's a bunch of them taking damage in there." Then the lava gets scooped back out so torches can go down. A zombie wanders too close: "He just died from the lava."
The room has chests in it too, and gold keeps turning up nearby. "Ten more pieces of gold."
Building the grinder
Next comes the slow part. Water goes down to push every skeleton that spawns into one spot, with a fence gap to hit them through. One of them jokes that everyone will remember this as the match where GopherCraft built a spawner farm in the middle of the game.
It does not work perfectly. Skeletons appear where nobody wants them, and the team argues about spawn range. "The activation is 16." "The spawning radius is only..." "Four on one side and three on the other." Still, arrows start to come in. "I've got six arrows now."
Four diamonds
While the grinder runs, a shout of "Diamonds!" comes over voice from the teammate working farther off. A little later the count is four. "We need one more diamond."
Chat stays busy. ImKibitz earns an achievement, Starrlett, kanivatimber and CaptainPhresh cheer, and sneegsnag adds, "he has daimonzzz." Later sneegsnag asks, "meetup when?" and CaptainPhresh answers, "NOW!" Down in the cave, "Everybody is avoiding player contact right now."
Gold by the lava
The grinder is not fast. "I only got 21 arrows. This is not a very good grinder." Basket heads off to mine and finds gold ore beside a lava pool over an obsidian floor. DarthTimmanis posts "100 Minute Marker" in chat.
The last word goes to bows. "I've got three bows." "Are they magic-y?" "No." The episode ends with Basket alive underground, still mining.