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Bascowtopia: Team B.S. Server Episode 63

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Episode 63 starts at the iron farm base, which is still in one piece. "Looks like the base is intact, which is good." The plan is a quick check on Basketopia. Basket heard about a chunk problem on the server and wants to know whether the city has one, and how bad it is. It's night when Basket arrives, so the first stop is a bed.

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Welcome to Bascowtopia

Daylight shows a lot of cows. "There's a lot of cows here, lots of steak." Then a wall of signs. The top one reads "Welcome to Bascowtopia," and below it is a city council of cow puns on player names, with "BascowMC" listed as mayor. A smaller sign underneath calls the place "An anarcho-syndicalist commune for cows."

A wall of wooden signs in Basketopia listing a city council of cow-pun player names, with "BascowMC Mayor" at the top left

Around the corner is a list of fun facts. "They can breed through walls!" "They LOVE secret passages!" "They can't walk through single open doors!" Under them, in an item frame, hangs a diamond sword called Steak Knife: Sharpness V, Knockback II, Unbreaking III, Looting III, Mending and Fire Aspect II. "That's my new weapon now. That's a lot better than my other thing."

Cow heads on the hill

A stone stairway climbs the hill behind town to a giant cow head built out of blocks. There's a second one, yellow and blue, on another hill. A viewer in the stream chat owns up to the whole thing: "It is my version of a prank, LOL," and says the idea started with leather for the library's books, then "it just got to be too much fun."

A giant block cow head built on top of a stone stairway on a snowy hill above Basketopia

Steak for the inn

Basket drops off some inventory at storage, then gets to work with the Steak Knife. Fire Aspect means the cows come out already cooked. Leather piles up too, which is what the books need. "There's gonna be a lot of good leather for the books."

The cows are inside the buildings as well, packed into rooms of the tavern and the inn. Basket asks how they got in through the doors, and a viewer explains the door came off and they were led in, then the door went back on. The secret passages turn out to be full of cows too. Basket clears them while trying not to hit the paintings, and stocks a chest in the inn with steak. "It's an inn, people will eat steak here."

A crowd of cows packed inside a wooden room in Basketopia, next to a glass window and a dirt wall

There's a quick test along the way, too. Basket checks whether a trapdoor flipped down still works as a ladder from below. It doesn't, not from there.

The view from above

Running around on foot won't answer the chunk question, so Basket borrows the community elytra and takes off over the city. From the air it's a tour of plans: a tower here, the big keep there, a second keep, a little town and a road, maybe a farming island later. "Yes, it looks like everything is fine." Basket is surprised how small it all looks from up there. "Basketopia seems really quite small when you're using an elytra."

A yellow and blue block cow head sitting on top of a grassy hill across the water from Basketopia

No chunk errors turn up. The elytra goes back where it came from, and the plan for next time is planning, more cows and books for the library. The video ends on the end card with no gameplay after it.