Spelunking
| Spelunking (Episode 7) | |
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| Series | Let's Play Minecraft |
| Season | 1 |
| Episode | 7 |
| Uploaded | January 4th, 2011 |
| Duration | 27:40 |
| Watch | on YouTube |
| Previous Ep | ◀️ Intersection Madness |
| Next Ep | Mine Much? ▶️ |
"Spelunking" is the 7th episode of Etho's Etho Plays Minecraft series.
Summary
Today we try to solve our resource problem by going spelunking. This is how I normally get resources when I play, but it doesn't work so well when playing on hard difficulty. After the fail, I devise a much better solution to the resource problem.
Synopsis
The episode starts off with Etho in the EATS road. He thanks the viewers for leaving comments on issues with the system. He then says the purpose of the episode is to go caving. He gets some supplies, like swords and food, and leaves his valuable items. He then cooks the rest of his food. He also builds some pickaxes and shovels. Once he gets his items, he runs up the stairs, verifies the game is on hard, then makes a run for the other island.
On the boat ride over, Etho explains his goals. He hopes to find a cave system, but finds a creeper, which explodes. He keeps exploring the island, noticing and avoiding some skeletons, and kills a creeper. He takes damage from a spider and heals back up with some food, before getting shot by some skeletons. He runs away and hides in the wall of a mountain. He digs back out and attacks a skeleton, but loses a lot of health in the process. He finally kills it, and the sun starts to rise. He cuts to daytime.
Once it's day, he starts his search for a cave again. A skeleton attacking him burns in the daylight. He kills a pig for some food. He finds and mines some iron. He continues his hunt for a cave, finding and mining some coal in the process. He eventually finds a cave and enters it. He places down a chest and puts some items in it. He finds and mines some coal and iron.
He ventures deeper into the cave. He hears a skeleton and zombie walking around. The skeleton ends up killing Etho, so he cuts to going to the chest to grab his sword and goes back to collect his items. He continues his caving to find some more ores. He spends most of the time lighting up the area. He assesses where he is, but gets lost. However, he keeps exploring, eventually running into a skeleton, getting freaked out and jumping in real life. Eventually, he kills it.
The video cuts again, Etho is building a staircase out of the cave. He ends up at the surface during night. A creeper eventually walks up and starts threatening to explode. He does kill it, and runs out of the cave. However, since it's night, he has no idea where he is. He runs around, but several mobs are chasing him. He gets to a safe spot and the video cuts to day time.
During the day, a creeper tries to chase Etho, but he kills it. He walks around a bit more looking to where to go. Eventually, he deems himself "lost," before digging straight down and dying due to fall. The video cuts, and Etho describes how he tried to find his items, got lost again, then gave up, calling the island "stupid." He gives a new plan, ultimately admitting he'll just make his own mine. He explains his process for mining out a huge room under the ocean, and he'll use it a mob catcher. He notices some clay, but doesn't mine it.
He cuts to mining a hole down to where he wants the level to be, but there is some lava. He uses some water to turn it to obsidian, and starts putting ladders to go back up. However, he doesn't have enough sticks to make ladders. He uses a water bucket to get up to the other ladder. He builds a little hut around the hole so he doesn't fall in, and ends the episode.
Projects Involved
- Mob Trap (Started)
Memorable Quotes
- "I'm probably not going to put [an episode] out every day, I just can't do them that fast."
Trivia
- This is the first episode from 2011.
- The rest of season 1 will also take place in 2011.
- Etho dies 3 times in this episode. (One off-screen)
- He dies to a skeleton once.
- He dies due to fall damage twice.
