Recaps

Su Ye launched Minecraft as a free game and watched gaming streamer Chen Ze struggle to understand it during a closed beta broadcast. As Chen Ze’s audience mocked the game, its downloads suddenly surged, leaving Starfield’s staff surprised.

• Su Ye ordered Starfield to promote Minecraft through gaming streamers and release it for free, despite the company’s dwindling funds and unpaid engine fees.
• Chen Ze downloaded Minecraft for an advertisement segment, started a single-player game on Hard difficulty, and wandered through its blocky world without knowing what to do.
• Viewers criticized Minecraft in Chen Ze’s livestream, and Luan Le'an worried that the confusion would damage the game’s reputation.
• Su Ye told Luan Le'an not to explain the game, believing players should discover its appeal for themselves, and asked about Starfield’s platform development.
• Luan Le'an reported that Minecraft had only 563 downloads, then received a message that downloads had suddenly increased by several thousand.

Chen Ze and Lü Zhenghao explored Minecraft during their livestreams, learning to craft tools and encountering zombies. After dying during his first night, Chen Ze survived underground and returned to his unfinished cabin, determined to complete it.

• Chen Ze discovered the inventory and crafting recipes, gathered oak, and made a Crafting Table.
• Lü Zhenghao dug underground, encountered zombies, and died as viewers discussed Minecraft strategies.
• Chen Ze crafted a wooden axe, gathered planks, and began building a cabin as night fell.
• Zombies attacked Chen Ze inside his unfinished cabin and killed him, costing him the items he had gathered.
• Following chat's advice, Chen Ze dug underground and waited until morning before returning to his cabin.
• Chen Ze admired his cabin's four walls and announced that he would finish the roof and find a way to light the house.

Chen Ze and other streamers focused on Minecraft after Xingye Company announced the Ender Dragon boss and offered a 100,000-yuan prize to the first player to defeat it. As streamers prepared to explore the Nether Portal and hunt the boss, Lü Zhenghao was killed by an exploding creature in a mine.

• Chen Ze promoted Minecraft to his viewers and chose to keep playing it instead of Bicycle Simulator.
• Xingye Company announced that Minecraft would remain free, revealed the Ender Dragon boss and Nether Portal, and later offered 100,000 yuan to the first player to defeat the boss.
• Chen Ze studied the portal image, found the obsidian recipe, and planned to mine for it after a viewer told him to bring torches.
• Lü Zhenghao celebrated clearing zombies from a mine, but a hissing creature exploded behind him and killed him, making him lose his iron pants.

Chen Ze explored Minecraft, lost his equipment to lava, and later traveled to the End to fight the Ender Dragon. After a difficult battle, he defeated it and was exhilarated by the game.

• Chen Ze dug underground, fell into lava, and lost his items after respawning.
• Chen Ze learned that other players had entered the Nether and that Muyu had already killed the Ender Dragon.
• The next day, Chen Ze reached the End, destroyed the healing crystals, and fought the Ender Dragon with a bow and sword.
• Chen Ze survived the dragon's attacks with a Golden Apple and eventually killed the Ender Dragon with an arrow.

After Chen Ze defeated the Ender Dragon, an in-game letter hinted at Minecraft’s vast unexplored content, and the game’s downloads surged. Su Ye launched Xingye’s gaming platform with free official resources and a plan to share revenue from player-made content, while Chen Ze discovered the announcement during his livestream.

• Chen Ze read a letter congratulating him for slaying the Ender Dragon and claiming he had seen only a tiny fraction of Minecraft’s content.
• Chen Ze reflected on his journey through the game and the immersion he felt while defeating the dragon.
• Minecraft surpassed ten million downloads, and Luan Le'an told Su Ye the gaming platform had passed testing.
• Su Ye ordered the platform launched with free official resources and public development tools, with revenue from creator content split equally between creators and the company.
• While showing viewers his completed quartz villa, Chen Ze saw their messages about Starfield’s announcement and opened the official page.
• Chen Ze read that the Xingye Gaming Platform had launched with free Minecraft resources and public mod-development tools and documentation.

Chen Ze downloaded the Xingye Gaming Platform and joined Lü Zhenghao, Qiezi, Da Sima, and XDD to try the Utopia Adventure Journey modpack together. Impressed by its visuals and huge achievement tree, the group agreed to work toward completing it, with Chen Ze building while the others explored and mined.

• Chen Ze downloaded the platform and Utopia Adventure Journey after Lü Zhenghao invited him to play with friends.
• Chen Ze joined Lü Zhenghao, Qiezi, Da Sima, and XDD in a multiplayer room, where they chatted with one another and their livestream viewers.
• The five entered the modpack and marveled at its enhanced lighting, textures, and scenery.
• Da Sima discovered the modpack's extensive crafting list, and XDD and Chen Ze found a towering achievement tree.
• Chen Ze proposed making the achievement tree their goal and assigned himself to building while the others explored and mined; they all agreed.

Chen Ze and his friends explored a new Minecraft modpack, built a makeshift shelter, and discovered that its nights featured a beautiful starry sky and familiar monsters. The group began fighting the mobs, and Qiezi accidentally killed Da Sima, then screamed as if something terrible had happened.

• Chen Ze punched down a tree and was surprised when it fell on him and damaged his health.
• Chen Ze spent the day searching for a house site, then built a small wooden box as night fell and invited his friends inside.
• Xiao Dingdang opened a hole in the roof, and the group watched the stars and meteors in the unfamiliar night sky.
• Lao Ma and Qiezi went outside and found familiar monsters, prompting Xiao Dingdang and Lü Zhenghao to join them while Chen Ze stayed behind.
• Qiezi accidentally killed Da Sima while kiting monsters and cried out in alarm, then apologized when the others realized what had happened.

Chen Ze built a beautiful riverside cabin while Xiao Dingdang and Lü Zhenghao discovered a village in the sky filled with treasure. After the group agreed to hold a building competition with Starfield’s support, Su Ye launched a Creator Incentive Program to encourage more content on the gaming platform.

• Chen Ze spent the day building a two-story birch-and-oak cabin beside a river, and Xiao Dingdang, Lü Zhenghao, Qiezi, and Teacher Ma praised it when they returned.
• Xiao Dingdang and Lü Zhenghao explored a village in the sky and found dozens of treasure chests, including diamonds.
• Chen Ze told the group that Starfield had suggested a building competition, and the others agreed to organize it with the official team’s help.
• Su Ye reviewed the Xingye Gaming Platform’s revenue and saw that character skin sales had brought in nearly 300,000 yuan.
• Su Ye instructed Luan Le'an to publish a Creator Incentive Program that would keep the revenue split at fifty-fifty and reward the most-downloaded creators in each category.

Qin Jiadong persuaded Li Geng to work with him on a Minecraft modpack after showing him how much money game creators could earn. As new creators began making Minecraft resources, Chen Ze and four others released a popular video that renewed viewers’ interest in the game.

• Qin Jiadong saw the Minecraft Creator Incentive Program and asked Li Geng whether he could use Java to make additions for the game.
• After showing Li Geng his creator earnings and explaining the potential profits from modpacks, Qin Jiadong convinced him to join the project.
• Li Geng agreed to work with Qin Jiadong and suggested they bring Old Wang and another person in, splitting the earnings equally.
• Minecraft creators began producing modpacks, servers, shaders, and other resources that evening.
• Chen Ze and four others released a video of themselves enjoying Minecraft, and viewers praised it and said they wanted to play again.

Teng Hua learned that Starfield’s Minecraft was earning more than ten million a day and ordered Qisheng to acquire or copy it. Meanwhile, Su Ye showed Luan Le'an his concept for PUBG: Exhilarating Battlefield and tasked him with developing the VR battle royale game.

• Teng Hua learned from Liu Nong that Minecraft earned more than ten million in a day by selling player-made resource packs, then ordered Qisheng to add monetization to its games and acquire or copy Minecraft.
• Luan Le'an saw that Minecraft had earned nearly forty million in a week, with daily revenue exceeding ten million as player numbers and downloads climbed.
• Su Ye gave Luan Le'an a notebook outlining PUBG: Exhilarating Battlefield, a battle royale game built around shrinking zones, gunfights, squads, and victory.
• Luan Le'an agreed to make the game, and Su Ye told him to balance weapon damage and differences so players could feel immersed in VR combat.

Su Ye rejected Qisheng’s attempt to buy Minecraft for fifty million yuan, prompting Liu Nong to order a plagiarism plan and paid attacks on the game. Meanwhile, Qin Jiadong and his roommates celebrated their successful modpack sales, and Li Geng sent money to his mother; the story left Qisheng preparing to retaliate as the students looked toward making more money.

• Su Ye explained battle royale mechanics to Luan Le'an before Luan received a call from Qisheng.
• Liu Nong offered fifty million yuan for Minecraft, but Su Ye refused and mocked Qisheng’s offer.
• Liu Nong told Zhang Shishan to imitate Minecraft, add in-game charges to Qisheng’s games, and hire online posters to smear Minecraft.
• Qin Jiadong and his three roommates received their earnings after their modpack sold over three hundred thousand copies in half a day.
• Li Geng sent one hundred thousand yuan to his mother and told her that he and his roommates had earned it together.
• After speaking with his mother, Li Geng felt more determined to return to making modpacks and earning money.

Chen Ze announced the Starfield Building Cup, while Qisheng promoted its upcoming sandbox game Mini World and criticism of Minecraft’s graphics spread online. Su Ye chose to save the videos and comments for now, planning to deal with the critics after confronting Qisheng.

• Chen Ze explained the Starfield Building Cup’s registration, video entry, public voting, and judging process during his livestream.
• The competition spread across livestreams and trending topics, while Qisheng drew attention to Mini World with an animated preview and comparisons to Minecraft.
• Su Ye watched reviewer Galiang criticize Minecraft’s graphics and dismissed the video as nonsense.
• Luan Le’an asked whether he should arrange a lawsuit, but Su Ye told him to save the videos and screenshots and wait until they had dealt with Qisheng.

Chen Ze joined the Minecraft server Rebuild the Homeland - The Lost World, claimed a plot, and explored its features before choosing Bed Wars. He joined a match and discovered that Xiao Dingdang was on the opposing team.

• Chen Ze browsed the server guide and learned about plots, resource gathering, leveling up, and minigames.
• Chen Ze claimed a 64×64 plot from the NPC Wang Congcong and noticed players trading, grinding, and forming teams in chat.
• Chen Ze skipped the resource area and went to the leisure lobby to try Bed Wars.
• Chen Ze joined a Bed Wars room, where Xiao Dingdang recognized him and revealed that they were on opposing teams.
• Xiao Dingdang told Chen Ze that he had played Bed Wars all day and loved its last-second escapes from the void.

Chen Ze protected the red team's bed, then sneaked into the undefended orange base and destroyed its bed. The orange team was attacked on the central island, where one player escaped with an Ender Pearl while the other two were killed.

• Chen Ze bought wool and layered wool, wooden planks, and stone around the red team's bed before assigning Laoda to attack with him and Mai Senpai to guard the base.
• Chen Ze and Laoda started building a bridge to the central island, but Chen Ze turned back after noticing all three orange players had left their bed unguarded.
• Chen Ze bridged to the orange base and destroyed its bed while the orange team gathered at the central island.
• The green and black teams attacked the orange players, and Grandpa Niu Has No Cows escaped with an Ender Pearl.
• The other two orange players were killed and became souls watching from Grandpa Niu Has No Cows's perspective.

Chen Ze destroyed the orange team's bed but was killed while escaping, then joined a fight against the yellow team as Xiao Dingdang seized the chance to destroy their bed. The chapter ended with the red team's bed also destroyed by Grandpa Niu, leaving Chen Ze's team unable to respawn.

• Grandpa Niu caught Chen Ze on the orange team's island and killed him as he tried to flee.
• Chen Ze told Mai Senpai he had destroyed the orange team's bed, took the gold she gave him, and headed back toward the central island.
• Xiao Dingdang gathered resources while tensions grew between the red, yellow, black, and blue teams.
• After yellow and black team members chased him from the central island, Xiao Dingdang spotted the red and yellow teams fighting and used an Ender Pearl to reach the yellow island.
• Xiao Dingdang destroyed the yellow team's bed, while Grandpa Niu sneaked into the red team's base and destroyed the red team's bed.

Xiao Dingdang and Jiahao Shaonian helped Red Team survive a brutal fight, leaving Mai Senpai as Red Team’s last player. Mai Senpai evaded Black Team until Death Mode began, giving Red Team a possible chance to turn the match around.

• Chen Ze and his teammates killed Grandpa Niu, then were surrounded by Black Team and Yellow Team and split up to escape.
• Xiao Dingdang and Jiahao Shaonian joined the battle to help Red Team, and the fighting left one player each on Red Team and Yellow Team.
• Xiao Dingdang watched Mai Senpai’s remarkable escapes and learned that Mai Senpai had been Red Team’s hidden strength.
• Mai Senpai evaded Black Team across the islands, gathering supplies and using Ender Pearls to stay alive.
• Blue Team eliminated Yellow Team’s last player, and Death Mode began at the thirty-minute mark while Mai Senpai was still alive.

Mai Senpai balanced the fight between the blue and black teams, then used ambushes and item management to eliminate the remaining opponents. She defeated Xiao Dingdang in the final duel, winning the match for the red team.

• Mai Senpai attacked the black team from the center island while the blue and black teams fought, and Xiao Dingdang warned his teammates to target her.
• Xiao Dingdang and Jiahao Shaonian eliminated a black team member, but the battle left only them and Mai Senpai standing.
• Mai Senpai ambushed Jiahao Shaonian on the blue team's island and eliminated him before Xiao Dingdang could reach them.
• Mai Senpai and Xiao Dingdang fought across the islands, trading Ender Pearls and Golden Apples until Xiao Dingdang ran low on supplies.
• Xiao Dingdang's last Ender Pearl sent him into the void, and Mai Senpai used her fishing rod to pull him down and eliminate him.
• The match ended with the red team victorious, and Chen Ze praised Mai Senpai during his livestream.

Mai Senpai turned around a Bed Wars match, while Xiao Dingdang grew excited by the competition. Later, Xiao Dingdang discovered that Qisheng Game had added paid stat-boosting bicycles, quit Bicycle Simulator, and decided to avoid Qisheng games that sold gameplay advantages.

• Chen Ze and livestream viewers praised Mai Senpai after she won a Bed Wars match against Xiao Dingdang.
• Xiao Dingdang felt thrilled by the close competition and started another round of Bed Wars.
• Qisheng Game released Mini World CG trailers and updated its games with paid decorative items and bicycle options.
• Xiao Dingdang updated Bicycle Simulator and found his gold badge gone after paid bicycles pushed his leaderboard time far down the rankings.
• Xiao Dingdang saw that the most expensive bicycle offered major stat boosts, closed the game, and decided not to play Qisheng games that charged for advantages.

Qisheng Games profited from paid skins despite player backlash, and Teng Hua rushed Mini World toward release to compete with Minecraft. Chen Ze reluctantly tried the expensive Minecraft-like game on stream, recoiled at its costly skins, and entered single-player without buying any.

• Teng Hua learned Qisheng had earned 150 million yuan in one day from paid skins and dismissed complaints from ordinary players.
• Teng Hua ordered Liu Nong to test Mini World and release it within two days, planning to promote it through streamers.
• Liu Nong arranged a final test, and Chen Ze agreed to stream Mini World because he feared Qisheng might blacklist him.
• Chen Ze paid 69.9 yuan to download Mini World and found its store selling a flying skin for 6,999 yuan.
• Chen Ze declined to buy any skins and chose to start a single-player game.

Chen Ze tried Mini World on stream and found that players had to pay to unlock basic items, driving viewers away. At Qisheng, Liu Nong discovered that the game had fewer than a thousand downloads and little spending as he brought the results to Teng Hua.

• Chen Ze noticed that Mini World's sky resembled Bicycle Simulator's and that the game's visuals and interface copied Minecraft.
• Chen Ze had to pay one yuan to unlock wood and another yuan to unlock planks, while his stream audience dwindled.
• Chen Ze closed Mini World after an hour and switched to Minecraft.
• Liu Nong checked Qisheng's figures and found fewer than a thousand downloads, about 82,327.7 yuan in total payments, and an average playtime of ten minutes.
• Liu Nong nervously brought the printed statistics to Teng Hua's office, while Teng Hua waited to hear the backend results.

Teng Hua erupted over Mini World's poor launch, ordered Liu Nong to improve revenue and undermine Minecraft, while Su Ye prepared a building competition video to motivate Minecraft players. At Starfield, Luan Le'an asked Su Ye whether PUBG's weapon damage should follow real-world effects.

• Liu Nong reported that Mini World had earned only a little over 80,000, and Teng Hua berated him and gave him one week to improve its revenue.
• Teng Hua ordered Liu Nong to find people to damage Minecraft's reputation, then smashed his phone after watching a blogger criticize Mini World.
• Su Ye checked Minecraft players' building videos and asked Luan Le'an to post footage of their Forbidden City build.
• Luan Le'an reviewed PUBG's development and went to Su Ye to ask whether the guns' damage should be realistic.
• Su Ye listened to Luan Le'an's explanation and fell silent to consider the question.

Su Ye explained the design of PUBG’s gunfights to Luan Le'an and began preparing Starfield to enter overseas markets. Inspired by Starfield’s Forbidden City video, Zhang Sheng finished recreating the Old Summer Palace in Minecraft and invited his dormmates to see it.

• Su Ye explained that PUBG’s gunfights needed to create tense excitement rather than let players be eliminated instantly, and Luan Le'an took notes and said he understood.
• Su Ye told Luan Le'an to recruit people to prepare for Starfield’s overseas expansion, and Luan Le'an went to inform Liu Maosheng in HR.
• Su Ye watched players’ Minecraft creations and posted an official video showcasing the Forbidden City, prompting players to praise it and one player to vow to recreate the Old Summer Palace.
• Chen Ze received notice that he and other judges would review the Starfield Building Cup entries online the following week and select a winner from the hundred most-liked builds.
• Zhang Sheng finished building the Old Summer Palace in Minecraft, added a shader and texture pack, and invited his dormmates to visit the build using their gaming helmets.

Zhang Sheng’s lifelike Old Summer Palace build went viral, and the Starfield Building Cup judges began reviewing the most-liked entries during hugely popular livestreams. The review was still underway, with Along the River During the Qingming Festival and a naval battleship fleet tied for the highest score so far.

• Zhang Sheng recorded a flight over the finished Old Summer Palace he had built in Minecraft.
• The video showcasing the Old Summer Palace went viral, surpassed a hundred thousand likes, and drew praise from viewers.
• Chen Ze, Xiao Dingdang, Da Sima, and two other judges began reviewing the hundred most-liked contest videos on livestream.
• Chen Ze and Da Sima praised notable entries, including the Old Summer Palace, a giant cherry blossom tree, and Along the River During the Qingming Festival.
• The judges started with the hundredth-place treehouse and continued scoring entries; Along the River During the Qingming Festival and the naval battleship fleet tied with average scores of 96.

Chen Ze and the other reviewers explored a painstaking reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace in Minecraft and awarded it a perfect score. Chen Ze declared that the players’ creations embodied Chinese history, pride, and romance, leaving the livestream audience deeply moved.

• Chen Ze introduced the Old Summer Palace entry, the competition’s most-liked video, as the finale of the reviews.
• Chen Ze and the other four reviewers entered the creator’s map and quietly explored its detailed gates, gardens, lakes, and zodiac fountain.
• The five reviewers praised the reconstruction’s realism and awarded it an average score of 100 points.
• Chen Ze reflected on the creator’s research and effort, saying the build let players admire the Old Summer Palace’s former splendor.
• Chen Ze celebrated the entries’ cultural heritage and declared that the competition’s romance and pride belonged to all Minecraft players.

After CCTV featured Minecraft, Teng Hua stopped Qisheng’s smear campaign but learned Starfield had sued the company. Su Ye planned to publicize the lawsuit, develop Minecraft building blocks, and eventually promote the game overseas.

• Minecraft’s popularity and online arguments over the game grew after the Starfield Building Cup.
• Liu Nong told Teng Hua that CCTV had posted a Minecraft video, and Teng Hua ordered Qisheng to stop smearing Starfield.
• Liu Nong revealed that Starfield had sued Qisheng, but Teng Hua trusted the company’s position in Shencheng courts.
• Su Ye told Luan Le'an to push for a court date and post updates about the case, then tasked him with focusing on PUBG planning.
• Su Ye decided to create a dedicated department for Minecraft building blocks and considered launching a global promotion campaign after the lawsuit.