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The LifeSteal SMP event, featuring over 50 YouTubers, has officially begun. This two-week event is a high-stakes competition where players lose a heart upon death and gain one by killing another player. The immediate goal is to acquire good gear quickly. The protagonist plans to rush to the Nether for potions, specifically Nether Wart, as many speedrunners will likely do the same. Food is also a priority, but the player is wary of spending too much time on gathering materials, knowing other players will be swift to claim resources. Curryway is the first reported death, falling to a pillager. The protagonist encounters Jojo in the Nether, who is surprisingly in full copper armor after caving. Jojo appears to be struggling with a Nether portal, which the protagonist helps fix, and mentions the need for early potion ingredients. The protagonist then spots a bastion and a fortress, opting for the latter first. Inside the fortress, it's evident someone else has already been there, revealed to be Infume. Infume is trying to retrieve his lost items and is down to eight hearts. The protagonist helps Infume by luring away Wither Skeletons and a blaze. Infume's items have despawned, and Tay arrives, asking about the number of Blaze rods needed. The protagonist and Tay agree on three rods, while Jojo advises getting as many as safely possible. While the protagonist is grinding at the fortress, their teammates are setting up a villager trading hall, recognizing it as the most efficient way to acquire gear and enchantments. The materials gathered from the Nether are crucial for establishing a decent base. The base must be exposed, but the farm within it can be hidden. To get emeralds, the team plans to trade sticks with a Fletcher, sending Amy and the protagonist to gather wood. The server reaches the one-hour mark, at which point PvP is enabled. Jordan secures the first kill against Tubbo. The protagonist's team consists of Amy, Fruits, and Will. Will, the most experienced PvPer, surprisingly announces his intention to intentionally drop to one heart, viewing it as a challenge to go from one to twenty hearts. Despite this, the team continues to work on the base, gear up, and prepare for fights. The team works on getting Will diamond armor to help him survive at one heart. The protagonist finds a zombie villager deep underground, which the team decides to bring back to the base for curing, hoping to get good trades, particularly for a cleric. They successfully box in the zombie villager, naming it "Too." Later, the protagonist hears a witch and realizes that a witch could be used to throw weakness potions at villagers or drop spider eyes, which are essential for crafting weakness potions. Spider eyes are particularly important for the team's strategy to get infinite emeralds: trading glass from a librarian, crafting it into panes, and then trading the panes for emeralds from a cartographer. Curing the cartographer makes this process more efficient. The protagonist searches for a spider spawner and eventually finds one, but it's not spawning anything. Foolish dies to a zombie spear. The protagonist then discovers an abandoned house and other abandoned buildings near spawn, suggesting previous fights. The protagonist encounters Mog, who has a well-established base in a mock swamp, complete with a chicken farm and villager breeder. Mog is doing things the "old-fashioned way." The protagonist expresses admiration for Mog's base, calling it the "prettiest" they've seen in LifeSteal. The protagonist admits to being stuck, needing a home and better gear after being killed with copper armor. They discuss how being geared up can make one a target. Inspired by Mog's base, the protagonist decides to clean up and improve their own team's base, relocating villagers and making the area more aesthetically pleasing. However, a major setback occurs when the protagonist spends two hours on an iron farm, messes it up, and accidentally kills villagers due to zombies attacking them. To change the scenery and recover from the setback, the team ventures out to find other bases and steal hearts. They find signs of life, including a suspiciously completed ruined portal with missing gold. They consider the strategic advantage of building a base in a mangrove swamp for orbital strike cannons. The team finds a badlands biome with an exposed mine shaft and decides to loot it for gold. During this exploration, Will encounters another team but delays reporting it. Given his low heart count (around six at this point), a solo team fight is not advisable. The team decides to Nether travel to reach Will. Jojo and Fruit are deep in a cave, making it difficult to reach Will quickly. Will expresses frustration at the delay. The team eventually converges, engaging in a fight. Amy dies, and Infume escapes. The protagonist arrives too late to help but is proud of Amy's efforts, confident they can easily recover her gear. For the rest of the night, the protagonist and Will search for more bases but find nothing. The next day, a "locator bar event" is scheduled, where player locations will be enabled for an hour, and the team plans to attack.