Near Death

Near Death is the eighth episode of the first season of Minecraft. It was aired on January 7, 2021.

Plot
In the last episode, Sherlock fell into a pit of lava, and though he struggled to swim out of the lava pit, he managed to stop burning after swimming out of the lava pit, but with only half a heart left. As Sherlock examined his fall into the lava pit, it became evident that he fell from a high place, and did not know how to return to the surface.

Sherlock thought for a long time of what he should do, and as he realized that his food and resources were running out, he decided that he would break through the stone walls with his final pickaxe to reach the surface.

As Sherlock did so, he accidentally mined into a pool of lava, and the lava managed to reach up to him as he tried to run away, but the lava did not burn Sherlock badly. Sherlock placed some cobblestone to stop the lava flow before he decided to continue mining upwards, but in a different direction than before.

At some point while doing so, Sherlock's final pickaxe broke, leaving him to mine the rest of his way up using his bare hands, and no sooner than later, Sherlock reached the surface, but because it was nighttime, Sherlock realized that he was in even more danger now because not only was he at risk of being killed by monsters at night, but also because he wound up in an unknown area.

Sherlock began to feel paranoid and stressed as he feared that he could die at any moment or get lost, but Sherlock decided to press forward and walk in an unknown direction. At some point while doing so, he mysteriously jumped from a hill off the coast into an ocean and noticed his house in the distance, but while he was swimming towards his house, the hill he jumped from disappeared. However, Sherlock was thankful that he was home with all of his inventory on him, and that he was alive, so he stored his inventory into chests inside his basement and went to sleep.