MARI THE MINECRAFT NOOB (Super Mari Fun Time)

"Aghhhh... skeletons, Joven, Minecraft, okay..."

- Mari, deciding to end the episode

"MARI THE MINECRAFT NOOB" is the 74th episode of the Smosh Games series Super Mari Fun Time and the first episode in which Mari plays Minecraft. As such, it is also the first of five "pilot" episodes of Maricraft. It was released on March 3, 2014.

The thumbnail depicts Mari with her eyes closed, swinging an iron sword in the direction of a creeper. The background is a generic Mountains biome in the Overworld.

Description
''Mari finally gets a chance to try out Minecraft in this week's episode. But it looks like she may need your help. Leave any tips and tricks you have for her in the comments below.''

Teaser
An ominous sound effect plays alongside the showing of a black screen, with white text reading:

Dawn of The First Episode -5 Days Remain-

Gameplay
Jon Bailey reads the text onscreen before the screen switches to the Super Mari Fun Time opening animation.

Mari welcomes the audience to another episode of Super Mari Fun Time and introduces the episode's game, Minecraft. She addresses the lack of Minecraft on the channel (with the exception of one video), but she figures that she could "change the mold" and begs viewers to help her out with future episodes, adding that she has hardly played Minecraft before.



Mari launches a new world named "ButtParty" and spawns in a Snowy Taiga biome and comments on her avatar's "hand-knob" in the bottom right corner of the screen. She starts collecting wood and dirt, admiring how trees remain afloat after mining the bottom half. She attempts to craft, but receives a notification that she does not have the necessary supplies, so she ventures to collect them. As Mari moves through the forest, she encounters a pig that she promptly kills and comments on how she would like a mansion. She attempts to craft, but sees that she does not have the necessary supplies. After collecting said supplies, she crafts a wooden pickaxe and shovel, but soon notices that she run is setting and proceeds to construct a makeshift shelter of dirt. As the sky grows darker, mobs start spawning around her, their sound effects and movements frightening Mari into raising the walls of her dirt shelter to keep the mobs out. She makes occasional glances outward to check on the mobs, cowering back inside if any are visible. She compares the experience to Outlast, a previous survival game she played.



The sun eventually rises and Mari notices ventures out again. She notices a zombie on fire, initially becoming alarmed but makes the connection that sunlight damages certain mobs. She sees a chicken and notes that her character needs to eat, so she kills the chicken, as well as a few other animals. She starts to mine underground for stone and notices that nighttime is approaching again, so she clears out snow from the leaves of a tree and sets up a small dirt wall around her, declaring it a temporary shelter for the night. Mari is disturbed by the same sound effect she hears outside and finds that it is from a spider. Deciding it is worth the risk, she drops from the tree to kill it, but ends up facing the wrong way while in third-person view and is killed by the spider.

After respawning with an empty inventory, Mari decides to hollow out a tree trunk and hide in the leaves. A creeper notices her and explodes but deals minimal damage and Mari sees that the sun is rising, emboldening her to return to work. However, the day goes by fast as Mari continues to get distracted and nighttime arrives again. To make matters worse, she falls into a chasm and loses over half of her health from the drop. Not knowing where she is, Mari starts mining down to find iron and coal. A level autosave occurs, during which she is warned against mining downward, after which an amused Mari asks how many of the audience facepalmed while she did just that.



Returning to the game, Mari sees a spider above her. In her attempts to hit it, she allows a waterfall to move the spider in her direction. She repeatedly swats it with her pickaxe, eventually killing it. She eventually escapes the chasm by stacking cobblestone and spots another spider and kills it. After knocking a sheep into the same chasm she was trapped in earlier, Mari falls in a second time. Luckily, she lands in the waterfall, but unluckily, she does not know how to swim in-game and slowly sinks and drowns, respawning back in the forest. She laments over the loss of her inventory as she collects wood and finally figures out that her character has been crouching the entire time, explaining why she was always moving slowly.



Mari spots islands off the riverbed and staggers to one nearby. She crafts more supplies, including a wooden sword, and builds a wooden wall as sundown arrives. She names a nearby pig her new pet and scolds it for standing atop the wooden wall. As she scolds her pig, she notices some light in the distance from a village and makes it the next day's goal to get over there. She walks across the top of her shelter wall and spots a skeleton in the water that is heading to her small island. She approaches the skeleton and tries to fight it off, but Jovenshire sneaks up behind her in person and scares her. Mari curses at Joven, who laughs and walks away; meanwhile, the skeleton kills her shortly afterward in-game. Mari can only groan and note that she almost urinated herself.

Mari decides to end the episode and promises to continue playing Minecraft, asking viewers to give her ideas for future episodes.

Outro
The outro sequence is a short clip from the previous week's episode, with the label WE BEAT DECAY!.

Trivia

 * Mari ventured a guess that, prior to this video, Minecraft had only been played on Smosh Games once before. However, Minecraft had been played a second time.
 * At 1:51, after Mari tells the pig she is attacking that she wants its bacon, a clip is played from  Season 6 premiere "The Kids Are Alright", in which Eric Forman teasingly says to his father in a French accent, "Bacon".
 * At 4:27, Mari sings "I'm a stone man!" while mining stone, thinking she made it up. The lyric is actually from the song "I'm A Stoneman" from .
 * At 9:05, as Mari is drowning, the alarm music for drowing from the Sonic the Hedgehog games is shown. A sprite of a drowning Sonic also flashes onscreen after Mari's avatar drowns.