Rendog's Double Life: Episode 1

BOX BASE BEST BASE! is Rendog's first episode of Double Life. It was uploaded on June 17, 2022. In this episode, Ren goes caving, makes a zombie farm, and discovers that his soulmate is Bigbst4tz2. They build a cobblestone box as a base together and discuss various defensive strategies. The two obtain a cow and try to steal one from Smajor1995, but get caught red-handed while doing so. They later fail at trading for a cow with BdoubleO100, and plan to steal a cow from someone on the next session.

Plot
The episode starts with Ren and everyone else going their separate ways from the spawn area. Ren gathers materials, crafts tools, and explains the rules of the server. He kills sheep for food and picks an ore-rich overhanging cave as his starting area.

Ren runs into Smajor1995, who shows him a skeleton spawner he found in a dungeon. Ren shows Scott his cave and Scott hits Ren to check whether they are linked, but they find that they aren’t. Ren kills a frog next to the spawner just as Grian comes running. Grian hits Ren to check whether they are soulmates but finds that they aren’t.

Ren returns to his cave and finds TangoTek there, who tells him that he didn’t steal Ren’s iron from his furnaces. Ren digs himself into a hole to kill an Enderman and gives some mutton to Tango. Ren hits Tango and they find that they aren’t soulmates.

Ren leaves Tango and goes mining; at one point he finds himself at two hearts due to his soulmate taking damage. He returns to the surface and runs into BdoubleO100 and ImpulseSV, who reveal that they are bonded. He asks them when the wedding is, but they tell him that they already had their wedding and that he must have missed the invitation.

Ren mines lapis underwater, kills salmon for food, and descends into a large cave which he lights up with torches. He hears ZombieCleo above him and gives her directions on how to come down to him. Cleo tells him she’s been looking for her soulmate and Ren asks her for soulmate gossip. She tells him Bdubs and Impulse are bonded, which he already knew about. Cleo takes some damage, confirmed that she and Ren are not soulmates.

Ren gives Cleo cooked salmon and thinks she might be bound to GoodTimesWithScar, while she thinks it’s either Scar or Solidarity. They find a dungeon with a zombie spawner together and Ren loots the chest inside. They turn the spawner into a zombie farm by building a wall in front of it with a single hole. They know they probably won’t need the farm for XP but think they might use it to get a potato or rotten flesh.

Scott jumpscares Ren and Cleo by yelling while a creeper explodes nearby. Scott shows off his goat horn and Ren asks Scott for gossip; Scott reveals that Tango and Jimmy are bound since they died together, which Ren and Cleo hadn’t noticed yet. Ren and Cleo tell Scott about the zombie farm they made and about Bdubs and Impulse being together.

The three hear Bigbst4tz2 above them and Scott places water down so he can jump down into the cave. SmallishBeans and EthosLab also jump down and reveal that they are paired. Ren tells everyone about the free-to-use zombie farm that he and Cleo made. Scott concludes by process of elimination that he is bound to either InTheLittleWoods or PearlescentMoon, while Joel reveals that Grian and Scar are together, though Scar doesn’t know it yet.

BigB and Ren check whether they are soulmates and initially think they aren’t, until Joel continuously hits Ren, revealing how they take damage together. Ren sends all others away from his cave and Cleo and Scott go off together to look for their soulmates while Etho and Joel also leave together.

Ren shows BigB the zombie farm he and Cleo made, though he finds that Etho broke it. He repairs the farm and gives BigB some cooked salmon. He reminds BigB of how he got down to two hearts on the first night, and BigB explains that he got attacked by a witch and a skeleton. They continue mining and fighting off mobs in the cave while planning to steal cows from other people.

Ren and BigB make plans to build their base against the world border, so it will be impossible for others to flank it from all sides. The leave the cave and make their way up a mountain, where they try to get goats to hit them for goat horns. Ren proposes to get psychological and build the ugliest base ever, so no one will want to come to it. BigB thinks it’s a great idea, and they start building their base out of cobblestone.

Ren thinks their base should be a square castle with different levels for crop farms, animal farms, storage, and other things. He also proposes that they make the walls two blocks thick with an alternating pattern of cobblestone and wood planks. BigB asks how they themselves are going to get inside the base, and Ren states he hadn’t thought that far. He proposes to make a secret tunnel entrance.

Sometime later, Ren and BigB visit Scott and Cleo who are building their houses nearby, while Bdubs also passes by. Ren tells Scott and Cleo that he and BigB live on top of the nearby goat mountain and that they are welcome to visit anytime. Scott explains that, despite him and Cleo not being soulmates, they have decided to live on opposite sides of a ravine with a bridge connecting their houses. They have chosen to be together since their soulmates refused to show up.

Scott shows Ren that there are people building above the pillager outpost in the distance and they discuss whether it’s safe to do so. Bdubs suggests that someone make a water elevator that will funnel the pillager right up to the sky base. Ren gives Bdubs a melon slice and shows him where he and BigB live before taking some water from Scott’s infinite water source.

Ren kills an Enderman but almost gets blown up by a creeper in the process. He and BigB return to their base and Ren makes a farm inside while they complain that everyone seems to be building along the world border. Ren harvests wheat and decides to go look for cows while BigB stays behind to work on the base. Ren obtains an allay and harvests watermelons before finding a cow.

Ren brings the cow back to his and BigB’s base after it becomes day and smelts iron in the furnaces there to craft four pickaxes, so they can speed up the building progress of their base. They continue to build up the walls of their base and start work on the second floor.

Sometime later, Ren and BigB sneak to Scott’s house to steal a cow. They notice Scott talking to Jimmy on the bridge and quickly let out a cow from the hole Scott put them in before accidentally freeing all of them. BigB kills one of the cows and Ren starts leading the cows away when BigB notices Scott and Cleo come towards them across the bridge.

Ren quickly pretends to Scott that the cows escaped by themselves just as Tango shows up. Cleo and Scott push the cows back into their hole. Tango notices Ren’s allay, and Ren tells him it’s pretty useless. Cleo and Scott sarcastically thank Ren and BigB for saving their cows and Scott covers the cow hole with dirt. Tango asks the others for iron and Ren offers to give four iron ingots and his allay to Tango in exchange for a cow, but Tango thinks that’s a bad deal.

The group discusses various names for Ren and BigB’s base including Goat Box or The Box. They notice Jimmy being confronted by Joel and Scar on a bridge far away and Tango leaves to go help his soulmate. Ren and BigB leave Scott and Cleo, discuss their failed heist, and look at their Box from a distance.

Ren and BigB arrive at Bdubs and Impulse’s base at the same time as Tango and find Martyn also there. Ren asks Bdubs for cows and he pretends they don’t have any. Ren offers iron and Martyn asks if he has diamonds, seeking to trade potion ingredients. Bdubs refuses Ren’s deal of four iron ingots for a cow, so he and BigB leave, planning on stealing a cow next session.

Ren and BigB return to Box and plan to give it a smiley face on the side. They craft iron pants for the both of them and take one last look at Box (it’s official name) from the outside before Ren ends his episode.

Description
Minecraft Hardcore SMP: Rendog kicks off the new Season of Double Life trying to find his Soulmate on the server before working with them to build an impenetrable base of cobblestone boxiness! Let the madness.... commence!