IT'S THE MINECRAFT APOCALYPSE! - Maricraft

"IT'S THE MINECRAFT APOCALYPSE!" is the first episode of Maricraft: Apocalypse, a subseries of the Smosh Games series Maricraft, the two-hundred-and-tenth overall episode of Maricraft, and the third special of the cross-channel event Smosh Summer Games: Apocalypse. It was released on YouTube on July 22, 2019, and is hosted by Mari Takahashi, Damien Haas, Courtney Miller, and Shayne Topp.

Description
MARICRAFT'' RETURNS! In honor of Smosh Summer Games, we're trying our best to survive this apocalyptic Minecraft world. Thanks again to NZXT for providing our new gaming rigs! Build PCs like this in their BLD service here: https://nzxt.co/Smosh3''

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Opening messages
"It's Monday Maricraft time! [...]' You guys, in celebration of Smosh Summer Games: Apocalypse, we're playing Maricraft all month long, and, first off, we want to say thank you to NZXT for sending us awesome computers. Without them, we would not be able to play Maricraft, and their beautiful colors, and they're so, so cool. And, of course, we got our T-shirts on! You can get them at smosh.store, uh... and, also, we're gonna try to survive Minecraft. It's gonna be all hot apocalypse stuff, so let's get on into it!"

- Opening and NZXT sponsorship message by Mari Takahashi

The opening sponsorship message, read by Mari, informs viewers that, in celebration of Smosh Summer Games: Apocalypse, the cast will be playing Minecraft throughout the event. She thanks the video's sponsor, NZXT, and promotes the themed shirts they are wearing, available on the Smosh Store. With the promotional messages out of the way, Mari reveals that the subseries is also apocalypse-themed, and eagerly "get[s] on into it!"

A night in the apocalypse
Spawning in a desolate landscape, the party immediately encounters a wandering trader, whom Damien describes as a "spooky wizard man" and Courtney claims as her boyfriend and, after Damien asks her to introduce the new face to the party, names "Trader Joe." Damien compliments the speed of her delivery after the recent apocalypse as the rest of the party gathers around to ogle at Courtney's new boyfriend. Shayne, however, punches Trader Joe, excusing his sudden hostility with the reasoning that no one should be trusted during an apocalypse. While Trader Joe appears to take a potion of insibility, Damien expresses agreement with Shayne's sentiment. Mari, however, objects and reminds the party that they may be able to trade with him, prompting Damien to joke that they mug him. Shayne relents his hostility while Mari realizes that she can, in fact, trade with Trader Joe, a fact that Courtney uses to emphasize the mob his name references.

By sunset, the party grows concerned about potential dangers in the wasteland. Damien asks Mari, identifying her as their leader, what their first order of business is. Mari orders him to acquire wood, prompting Damien to approach a nearby tree while Mari expresses concern about a nearby creeper. Courtney jokingly presents a feather as her first discovered weapon, prompting Shayne to joke about having AIDS, both of which Damien labels "too OP" and jokingly requests a server restart. As the party continues to gather supplies, they continue to joke around and make references, such as to Courtney's Smosh Games series Courtney Plays Sims 4.

Shayne encounters a group of bandits, who, based on their resemble to John Travolta, they dub "T-Birds." The T-Birds proceed to attack Shayne and Mari, who flee. They meet Courtney, in the middle of gathering wood, but the three of them are attacked by a Baby Zombie. Mari retreats into a nearby cave with the intention of walling herself in for protection, but is ambushed by more T-Birds, who kill her. Soon after, a zombie kills Shayne. After briefly joking with Courtney, comparing the zombies to Sans from Undertale, Damien questions Mari about their next move, now that their party has suffered a death. While they continue to gather supplies, Mari corrects him, reminding him that she was also killed and considers herself a martyr. After another zombie attack, the party decides to start moving. Mari instructs the group to get to the top of a nearby hill, where they will wall themselves in until morning. Shayne mutters about being attacked by "John Travoltas," one of which knocks him off a hill. Shayne, upon Damien's request, does a humorous impression of Travolta, during which he is shot by a T-Bird.

Hilltop defense
Meanwhile, Courtney, Damien, and Mari defend their position atop the hill. Courtney starts to panic due to an approaching zombie but kills it. Mari momentarily confuses the mob with a fellow player, to the confusion of Damien, who points out the lack of resemblance between a zombie and Shayne's avatar. At that moment, Shayne arrives at the hilltop and shows off his pig-like avatar, pondering if his character was born a pig or not. With the mobs defeated and a moment of silence, Shayne looks out over the lifeless land around them. Damien takes the time to create a crafting table, while Shayne, taking the role of lookout, makes notes about the surrounding geography. Mari goes to investigate a nearby light source, only to be attacked by another T-Bird after Shayne struggled to warn her. After killing it, Mari discovers that the lava is green in color, or "nuclear" — mispronouncing it as "nuculiear," to the amusement of her partymates. Mari soon finds herself swarmed by more encroaching mobs, whom Courtney halfheartedly attempts to intimidate from afar by throwing rotten flesh in their direction. While Mari tries to flee, Damien announces that he has crafted weapons for everyone, and hands his partymates each a wooden sword.

After taking a second to comment on the swords' reskin that resembles a baseball bats, Mari scouts the surrounding land while Damien inspects Courtney's avatar for arrows. Shayne swipes his sword at Courtney as a joke, prompting Courtney to push him down the hill. Mari finds and kills a reskinned chicken she initially believed to be some sort of ghostly creature. Damien starts to doubt Mari's competence as their leader, mentioning that she brought everyone to the hilltop and promptly abandoned them, but Mari claims to be doing reconnaissance, albeit only finding the chicken so far. By the time the sun begins to rise, more mobs arrive and attack the party, one even killing Mari, after which she respawns and sees Trader Joe still in the general spawn point. Damien is also killed in the ensuing fight, to his despair. Mari chases a rabbit, which she dubs a "nuclear bun." Courtney tries to fight a creeper, only to get herself killed. Damien, wanting to retrieve his belongings, asks the others if they know where he died; Mari says no but states that she sees where Courtney was killed. Shayne accidentally picks up Courtney's bat but returns it.

Wandering around the wasteland
Damien once again asks Mari what they should do. Mari suggests that they "make like Courtney's boyfriend and wander," reasoning that, despite the lack of other humans, settlements and villages should remain that they can raid. She starts to head in the direction of a small mountain and Courtney and Damien follow. Shayne, however, struggles to find his partymates but promises to use his "good smell" to find them. After a few more seconds of wandering around, Mari, to the excitement of her and her partymates, spots a house in the distance, behind the mountain. While they head to the house, Damien asks Mari to pause. Mari complies but continues moving after Damien continues sprinting to the house and claims it for himself, to everyone's mirth. As a result, Damien is the first to reach the abandoned house and claims the furnace in the kitchen. Shayne believes he knows where his partymates are and starts to head in their direction. Damien steals a chest and claims that it was empty, but Mari calls out his deception after suddenly finding some raw beef in her inventory. Mari inspects the buttons attached to the fireplace and Damien explains that they were connected to the furnace, which is now in his inventory. Mari jokingly asks Damien to turn on the television, prompting Damien to make a series of "beep-boop" noises. Mari finds a bed in one of the bedrooms and offers it to the party, which Courtney accepts. Shayne arrives at the house and jokes that he and Courtney are now roommates, to which Courtney initially responds with "Ew" but immediately backtracks, claiming that she would love to be Shayne's roommate.

Damien starts to pile dirt around Mari while Shayne wonders if the house has a second floor, which Mari confirms. Mari temporarily finds herself trapped inside the dirt and takes it for herself. Shayne decides to claim the rooftop for himself, to the surprise of Damien, who asks if they plan on making the house their new home. Mari clarifies that they should find a village before settling down and instructs the group to take what they want before they move on. Damien offers an extra crafting table and bed to anyone who needs it. Mari discovers that crossbows are craftable in Minecraft, to which Damien jokes that she is legally required to inform him of any crossbow she makes. Courtney muses how much she misses high heels since the apocalypse, prompting Mari to express her distaste for high heels by opining that she would be "so stoked" if they were the only thing an apocalypse took away from the world, with which Damien agrees. As they continue to strip the house of resources, Courtney wonders if high heels were invented to make it harder for women to run, prompting Damien to mention that womens' pants lack decent pockets to sell purses, based on his experience in working retail.

Surviving the second night
Shayne wonders if he has lost the party again, explaining that he went down the slope to another, larger structure. Entering, he discovers donkeys inside. To his giddiness, he figures out how to mount it and proceeds to ride it around the property. Mari looks at the larger building in awe while Courtney mentions that the sun is getting low in the sky again. Shayne shows off his now-saddled donkey to Mari and offers to be her personal cavalry. After he disappears and Mari has to kill a spider by herself, however, Shayne excuses his absence and reveals that his health is low. As more mobs spawn for the night and approach the party, Damien notes that they are currently divided into two groups based on present location: himself and Courtney, and Mari and Shayne. Shayne notes the encroachment of three zombies, prompting Mari to make a misrecalled reference to the song "Milkshake." Meanwhile, Courtney and Shayne try to defend themselves in the stable, but a cornered Shayne is overrun by zombie villagers and killed, respawning him with nothing and forcing him to walk back to the others. Courtney notices a number of potential entryways into the house mobs could use while Mari notes that they do not have enough beds. Courtney, Damien, and Mari make note of the beds in their respective possession. Shayne, however, still making his way back to the property, is stuck without one and is mocked in the chat by the others for it. Shayne, finding his dropped belongings, finally makes it back to the house, but encounters more T-Birds roaming nearby. The others, trying to sleep, watch as Shayne struggles to get lead the mobs away. In his efforts, a creeper blows up, damaging the house, and, to the surprise of the others, a T-Bird kills him, sending him back to spawn. Damien instructs Shayne to find a bed while he and Mari whisper to each other about their frustration with the situation.

Shayne quickly finds his way back to the house, with only a single T-Bird between him and the others. Bypassing it, he is ambushed by a group of mobs on the front porch. A frustrated Courtney reminds Shayne that he should have gone to the stables as Shayne is killed by a creeper, which also destroys the front door of the house. While Shayne sets off for his third trek home, Mari spots two llamas being led to the house by an invisible Trader Joe, whom Courtney wants protected. Mari is drawn outside and into another group of mobs, causing her to panic and flee. Shayne returns to the house and joins the fight. Courtney furiously fights off a T-Bird while Mari is killed by a creeper, to her shock. Despite her protests, Shayne collects Mari's dropped belongings and tells her not to worry. Courtney defeats the T-Bird, successfully defending the llamas and using her newly acquired lead to lead the llamas to safety. A grumbling Mari begins the trek to the house as Damien notes that, by now, it is morning and Shayne ruined their chance at a night's rest. While Shayne sarcastically expresses relief at being inside at the expense of his partymates, Courtney is suddenly killed by another T-Bird that was on their front porch. Distraught, she begs the others to retrieve her llamas. Shayne, looking through the front door, warns her of the numerous mobs outside, but Courtney exits the house regardless and angrily bludgeons the T-Bird to death.

Further exploration
Shayne tauntingly congratulates everyone on a job well done surviving the night. Mari, returning to the house, calls him "delirious" and demands her items back. Inside, Courtney shows off Trader Joe and his llamas. Damien, not wanting Trader Joe to wander away, offers to wall him inside for his own safety, but Courtney declines. Shayne unenthusiastically returns Mari's items one by one while Courtney and Damien figure out what to do with Trader Joe. Mari notices that the bat Shayne gave her was of worse quality than the one she originally lost. Shayne, organizing his inventory, asserts that he has returned everything to her. Mari doubts his claim, but Shayne reveals that he had used the bat the night prior during the relentless mob attacks. Shayne, unaware that players can drop stacks of items by simply dragging them outside his inventory UI, returns a stack of items to Mari one at a time, to her mirth. Damien asks how everyone is doing on food and gives everyone a piece of cooked chicken, instructing them to eat up for the long day ahead. He asks what their next order of business is and they decide to explore the previously discovered larger building, which they dub the "Big Big House."

On their way, Shayne tries to ride Courtney's llamas, to her amusement. Damien discovers a collection of creepers inside the building. As Courtney watches from a distance with an impressive view, Damien and Mari, who kills one of the creepers, explore inside. Damien takes a donkey for himself, sparking an argument with Mari, who also wants the donkey because, unlike the horse also inside, the donkey has a saddle. Damien argues that Mari has not been adequately fulfilling her duty as their "fearless leader," but Mari argues that she had just saved Damien from the aforementioned creeper, to which Damien responds by sardonically thanking her. A frustrated Mari expresses regret in not allowing Damien to be killed.

Arriving outside the Big Big House, Courtney and Damien make note of a road leading out and ask the others if they should follow it. Shayne finds himself stuck atop the llama, unable to figure out how to dismount it. Courtney joins in by mounting the other llama and Damien, still on his donkey, joins in on the fun. They find another house on the outskirts of a town and find a bed inside, which Damien specifically points out to Shayne. Shayne explains that he is willing to grab the bed, but reminds them that he cannot figure out how to dismount his llama. Courtney offers to punch him in an attempt to free him, which Shayne considers until he figures out that pressing the Shift key dismounts players, to Courtney's amusement.

Arrival in the city
Mari discovers a road with abandoned vehicles, including a tank inside a tunnel, much to her excitement. She makes note of the face-like design on the tip of the tank's turret, then dispatches two creepers hiding in the darkness behind the tank, but not before startling Damien, who has joined her and obtains the turret block for himself. Mari asks what he is doing, and Damien voices a desire to become "Tankface," who will "rule the wastes," only to quickly switch his story to "work together." Courtney and Damien express a mutual, general lack of excitement for their discoveries so far, while Shayne leaves an abandoned mansion after seeing it filled with mobs. He is rescued from a creeper by Damien, who kills it, but not before it could damage him and several surrounding mobs, including his donkey. The party travels down the road and finds several more large structures, soon discovering that they have stumbled across an entire city. Courtney, still meandering through one of the previously explored buildings, worriedly mentions that she has lost her llamas, but hears one nearby and continues to search for them.

After he and Shayne start identifying which building could serve each purpose, Damien decides to make one of them his home and asks the others if they plan to do the same. Mari somehow finds herself in the same building as Courtney and quickly finds her llamas and lost leads. As the sun sets, Mari shows a gracious Courtney to her llamas and heads back out with the intention of finding her own. As they continue exploring, Shayne mentions that he needs things to fill his inventory and jokingly claims that no one has turned up for church, himself sitting in a church-like structure. Damien, who has found a building to settle in, endeardingly chastises his donkey for walking on top of his bed, an action Courtney claims to be "illegal in Illinois." Unfortunately, a T-Bird — who had found its way inside Damien's new house after his door was left open — finds Damien and kills him, much to his frustration. Meanwhile, Courtney is struggling to lead her llamas inside another building, a situation made worse by a creeper right outside, effectively holding her llamas hostage. Damien, still peeved, decides to stay on the death screen until morning.

Mari, while exploring the surrounding landscape, finds what she compares to a burial site, consisting of a moss-colored cross behind a circle of four human heads surrounding a chest. While Damien watches and Courtney continues to try to get her llamas inside, Mari opens the chest and finds it nearly full with various food, equipment, enchanted weapons, and armor that, after putting on, she comments makes her "look like a badass!" while the others gawk at her screen. The creeper harassing Courtney finally explodes, and a distraught Courtney inches forward. While Mari brags about her new equipment, a despairing Courtney reveals that she has lost a llama while being attacked by a zombie. Damien expresses sympathy for Courtney, who kills the zombie but screams and retreats inside after more start to swarm her. Mari expresses a desire to cement her position as leader or "warlord," encouraged by her newfound wealth. Shayne, with only seeds in his inventory, pledges his allegiance to her. Courtney admits that she owes Mari for helping her find her llamas, to which Damien, in turn, explains that he would have helped her in that task, but he simply did not care. Mari asks Damien for his opinion concerning her new position. Damien states that, if he cannot be the warlord, he is okay with Mari taking the title.

Mari, looking upon the cross at the burial site, speculates that "something religious" is going on with them, but primarily with her. At that moment, she discovers a book in the chest entitled The Prophecy. Reading it aloud, the book explains that the individual who opened the chest (Mari) is to be crowned "King of the Wastelands" and be served by all others, and that whoever is crowned King will be vital to finding "the sacred lands." Mari, giddy with power, remarks that it "feels so good!" and unleashes a shout of triumph, to the amusement of Courtney.