Mission 11: Inside the Redstone Volcano

**Mission 11** is the penultimate mission of Assassin of Steve 2, where you follow the Assassin into the Redstone Volcano.

## Walkthrough

When you step onto Chipnone's teleporter at the end of the Lunar Orb boss fight, you will get teleported back to the Snout Temple. In order to go to the Redstone Volcano, go left from exiting the Snout Temple. First you will be teleported to Mt Ruina, which is close to the Redstone Volcano. If you go to the other side of Mt Ruina you will find a red sandstone gate which Chipnone says can only be opened if you find the five red flares in chests hidden around Mt Ruina. The chests are found:

1. From the gate, facing towards Mt Ruina, go right to the south-eastern corner, where you will find a lake. There is a chest there with a red flare in it.
2. If you go to the river running underneath Mt Ruina, look everywhere underwater. Where there is light, there is another chest.
3. Enter the ruins within Mt Ruina via the southern entrance (i.e. from the gate, facing towards Mt Ruina, go right, then into the entrance below the snout sculpture). You should find a staircase going up to the right just before entering the centre room. Near the top of the staircase, across a gap, is another chest.
4. Go in the western entrance (i.e. from the gate, facing towards Mt Ruina, go left, then into the entrance below the snout sculpture). Before the debris blocking the way is a staircase to the right, which will take you up to a ledge on top of the mountain that circles around the taller snowy part. If you go around the area you should find a staircase going down to a chest.
5. Do the same steps as 4) to get up to the top. You need to find a way up onto the snowy ledges above to the south, then go on the ledge on the side so you get to the northern snowy ledge. The chest is somewhere there.

Once you get all five red flares place them on the brick altars in front of the gate to open it, and then you can access the Redstone Volcano. You will need to fight more mobs and parkour over lava rivers. When you get to the shop button you will then find a way down into the insides. In the insides the lava level rises and falls. You need to be careful as you go through the caves. At some areas you will find a monster spawner, which spawn Magminions, in which the magma cube head variant drops fire resistance potions. You'll need the fire resistance effect in order to swim through some lava-filled areas. The blaze head variant leaves fire wherever it goes, which you can use to burn down wooden walls. If you have a Quartz Pickaxe, which is obtained from the bonus chest found before starting Mission 11, or sometimes dropped by Volcano Miners, you can use it to dig shortcuts through Nether Quartz ore veins.

In the last cavern, which consists of a netherrack path going up, there is some quartz near the very end. If you dig through it you will find a way to Hidden Mission 4.

After doing Hidden Mission 4, or if you can't do it because you could not obtain a Quartz Pickaxe, go down the red sandstone staircase at the end, and you will enter King Parcore's throne room. You ask him if he's seen the Assassin, but then he starts attacking you, as he has apparently gotten hypnotized by the Assassin. He goes through a cycle of three attacks using area effect clouds - first one fire cloud that expands out from his throne and encompasses the whole area. You can avoid taking any damage by sneaking at the very edges of the platform. Second two fire clouds and one cloud with magma block particles spawn. The magma block particle cloud gives you fire resistance, but disappears as soon as one player touches it. The third attack has four more fire clouds, then it cycles back to the first attack. You have to use the fire resistance to go up the lava falls and onto the platforms. You then have to destroy the two fire altars next to him by standing on the fire.

After destroying the two fire altars at the front more lava falls, allowing you to access the two fire altars at the back of the room. However, you will need to swim via the floating lava. There are area effect clouds before the floating lava that gives you fire resistance for 90 seconds, which should be long enough for you to swim the lava parkour, deactivate a fire altar, then swim back. Once you've deactivated both of the fire altars at the back of the room King Parcore will teleport out and you can leave via the paths that will reappear.

You will then enter the bottom of the volcano, where King Parcore says the volcano is erupting. Magminions and Magma Cubes will begin to spawn, and the lava level will also begin to rise. King Parcore will spawn granite platforms for you to go on. You have to fight as the lava rises higher. Soon King Parcore will spawn granite parkour blocks for you to jump out of the volcano on, and then you and King Parcore will fight on the top of the volcano. Chipnone will appear and will spawn a redstone platform. You have to knock King Parcore onto the platform, which will cause Chipnone to fire a spell, and keep King Parcore on there until the spell hits. If the spell hits, King Parcore will get knocked into the volcano, and you can run down the path to Mt Blacktop, the obsidian-topped mountain in the distance.

### Mission 11 Book

According to the Pink Jewels, the Assassin is heading towards the Redstone Volcano, where King Parcore lives.

Objectives: You must make your way there and find the Assassin.

## Mobs

Mountain Skeletons are diamond-armored skeletons and wither skeletons that spawn throughout Mission 11. There are four types, each with one different piece of volcano armor (the dark red leather armor). The skeleton with the volcano helmet has high health and knockback resistance. The wither skeleton with the volcano chestplate has higher attack damage. The skeleton with the volcano leggings has increased movement speed. The wither skeleton with the boots has both increased speed and knockback resistance, but less attack.

Mountain Riders ride cave spiders, called Mountain Crawlers. They can be very difficult mobs, so it is recommended you shoot at them from a distance. There are two different types of riders - the skeleton variant shoots Mining Fatigue and Poison tipped arrows in all difficulties, and the wither skeleton variant shoots flame arrows that inflict nausea.

Volcanic Pigmen are zombie pigmen. There are two types - the one with the golden axe and the shield has high health and knockback resistance, and the one with the golden scythe has faster movement speed.

Magma Cubes spawn throughout the volcano area. They leave fire wherever they go if they are close to a player, which can get especially dangerous when you kill them and they split. A bow is recommended for killing the tiny magma cubes given that it can be hard to see them through the fire.

Volcano Miners are wither skeletons with full volcano armor and two golden pickaxes. They are rare spawns, but have a lot of health, knockback resistance, and movement speed. They have a chance to drop a quartz pickaxe.

Magminions have two types - a husk variant with a magma cube head that drops lingering fire resistance potions on death, and a skeleton variant with a blaze head. Both variants have fire resistance and extreme jump boost, and the blaze-headed variant leaves fire wherever it goes. It also switches between using a flame bow and a fire aspect blaze rod for attacking. The magma-cube-headed magminion only spawns from monster spawners. The blaze-headed variant also can, but is less common.

## Equipment

Peak Spear

Thin Air Bow

Mountain Waraxe

Mountain Climber's Shield

**Blade of the Molten Core**

**Sollus's Wrath**

**Eruption Striker**

**Demon Soul Scythe**

**Shield of the Magminions**

Mountain Armor

**Volcanic Armor**

## Chest Locations

Chests containing Red Flares are described in the walkthrough above.

* In the large stone-brick room inside Mt Ruina, situated next to the pig nose carving (near the floor with bits of pink wool on it) is a chest containing History of the Tribal Snouts.
* On the first large plateau on Mt Ruina is a small patch of hardened clay that can be dug through using a Clay Pickaxe, which will reveal a loot chest.
* Directly on the other side of the Volcanic Gate is a patch of Nether Quartz ore embedded in a wall, which can be dug through to reveal a Mimic.
* If you go behind the second red sandstone house and down the ledge to sea level, then turn around, you will notice a small hollow in the wall which contains a loot chest.
* At the second group of red sandstone houses, the middle one has a ladder inside that leads up to its roof, where there is a mimic chest.
* Among the second lava falls is a patch of Nether Quartz Ore that can be dug through to access a loot chest.
* There is a free loot chest at the Shop Button that you find before entering the Redstone Volcano.
* At the first area where you have to swim through a deep pocket of rising and falling lava, there is a patch of Nether Quartz Ore that can be dug through to acces a loot chest.
* At the second bit of wood that you have to burn through, directly below is a hollow containing a loot chest.
* After facing King Parcore's first phase where you destroy the Fire Altars, in the cave you enter afterwards, to the right is a chest containing the lore book The Pink Jewels.

## Music

*Main article: Music*

At all times, the following tracks can play:

* **Devastation and Revenge** by Kevin MacLeod.
* **All This** by Kevin MacLeod.
* **Black Vortex** by Kevin MacLeod.
* **In A World** by Jason Shaw.
* **Failing Defence** by Kevin MacLeod.
* **Clenched Teeth** by Kevin MacLeod.

During the boss fight against King Parcore, **Fall of the Solar King** by Twin Musicom plays.

## Trivia

* The songs 'Devastation and Revenge' and 'Black Vortex' also plays during Mission 9 of Assassin of Steve.
	+ 'Devastation and Revenge' can additionally play during Mission 3 of Assassin of Steve 3, and was also used in the 1.10 trailer for Assassin of Steve.

* The song 'All This' also serves as the boss theme of King Icing and Queen Freeze in Mission 9 of the previous map and can also play on Mechanical Island in the next map.
* 'Failing Defence' and 'Clenched Teeth' also both play on Mechanical Island in Assassin of Steve 3, and in addition during Mission 2 of Assassin of Steve 1.
* The song 'In A World', also plays as the boss themes of the Ghast Giant and the Ancient Uivvah. This makes it the only occurrence of this song in a non-boss setting.

* King Parcore's theme, 'Fall of the Solar King', also plays in the final mission of Assassin of Steve and the Assassin's Tower in Assassin of Steve 3. Additionally, a small snippet of it plays when the Master arrives at the beginning of Mission 14: To Endfinity and... in the same map.