Mission 4: Don't come a cropper!

**Mission 4** is the fourth mission of Assassin of Steve 2, where you defeat The Cropper in order to obtain the first pink jewel.

## Walkthrough

After defeating Kowe the Tribal Warrior at the end of Mission 3, you will be told to go to the Snout Temple by exiting the tree and going right. You unlock the Power Shop, and you can use Power Coins (found in the book chest at most shop buttons) to unlock Health Boost and Power Arrows.

To get to Mission 4, go on the path to the right when exiting the Snout Temple, or to the left when coming from the Tribal Snout Village. You should emerge into an area where you will see lots of Cropper Minions and Cropper Shooters, as well as a large lake, known as Bone Lake. Lots of mobs spawn in the lake, but you should be able to swim across to the other side. Keep to the left of the lake as, when you reach the Cropper's lair, the only way in for you is through an open pipe, which is located underwater towards the left of the lake in front of the lair. Some sea lanterns are near it, so it should be easily spotted.

When you get into the pipe you need to swim through to the other side, where you will emerge into the farms out the back. More Cropper Minions spawn in the farm. There is also a shop button at the back of the farm which you can use. In order to progress you need to find the other pipe entrance and enter it. The second pipe is full of water unlike the first, but there are occasional dents in the ceiling where you can catch your breath in. You need to find the hatch and go up it, which will take you inside the Cropper's lair. You need to go through the circular room to the other hallway, where you will find another hatch that leads to a pipe that is full of water and which cannot be passed. In the room through the door to the left of the hatch is the pipe drainage control room. You can use it to drain pipes 1, 2, and 4, but not 3 as its draining mechanism is not working. Pipe 4 is the pipe in the hatch that was previously unpassable, so you can go through it now. You need to get to the end, then you will go up to the other half of the farm.

In the other half of the farm the Cropper will say that Pipe 3's current is too strong for you to swim through, so you need to enter the lair at the back entrance and find the current control room, then use it to reverse Pipe 3's current. You should be able to swim through Pipe 3 now without getting pushed back, then go up the hatch and into the top level of the Cropper's lair. You will find the Cropper's room, where a Cropper Harvester will say that the Cropper escaped down his secret tunnel. The Cropper's secret tunnel is in one of the corners of the room, hidden behind some bookshelves. You can go up the shelves like a staircase then down the tunnel and into the Cropper boss fight.

Here you will find yourself in a room built out of Dark Prismarine, and four water tanks bordering the room. Cropper Minions and Shooters will spawn and will drop ladders, which you need to place on the logs to climb up to the top of each tank. Then press the button at the top to drain the tank. After draining the first tank it will cause the water level in the room to start rising and falling. After draining the third tank the Cropper surrenders and gives up his Pink Jewel, but then the floor will break, and you will fall into Puffer Caves.

### Mission 4 Book

The Assassin stole an artefact from the Snout Temple called the Squiggly Replic. He is long gone, but Chipnone knows a way to find him. There are four pink jewels that, when collected, will tell you where the Squiggly Replic, and therefore the Assassin, is.

Objectives: The first pink jewel is held by the Cropper, who supplies all of the Tribal Snout's food. You must go to Bone Lake and get the pink jewel from him.

## Mobs

Cropper Minions are melee mobs that spawn throughout Mission 4. There are three types - the zombie with the hay for a head has high attack damage, the zombie with the melon block for a head and a shield has knockback resistance, and the skeleton with chain armor and an axe has high movement speed.

Cropper Shooters are ranged mobs with bows. There are two variants - one with full chain armor except boots, and one with full chain armor except the hay block for its head.

Cropper Harvesters are rare wither skeletons with varying amounts of chain armor and wield Cropper Hoes. They have very high health and attack damage, and also inflict the wither effect.

## Equipment

Flora Cutter

Seed Bow

Slaughtering Hatchet

Cropper Shield

Cropper Hoe

Cropper Armor

## Chest Locations

* There is a loot chest located right next to the entrance, on an alcove in the left side.

* There is a loot chest underwater at the bottom right side of the lake.

* There is also a chest underwater in the middle-left section of the lake.

* At the end of the second pipe, there is an opening that contains a loot chest.

* The hay bale room in the Cropper's farm contains a loot chest.

* The room with nothing inside it contains the lore book Safety Report.

* An alcove located behind the entrance to the second half of the farm contains another loot chest.

* The far corner in the second half of the farm contains the lore book Melon Smashing Competition.

* The Cropper's room contains a chest with the lore book Crop Variety Report.

## Music

*Main article: Music*

None of the intended music for this mission plays, due to an technical error. Instead, it plays the music from Mission 1.

At all times, one of the following tracks can play:

* **Five Armies** by Kevin MacLeod.
* **Crossing the Chasm** by Kevin MacLeod.
* **Willow and the Light** by Kevin MacLeod.
* **Crusade** by Kevin MacLeod.
* **Royal Honor** by Tim Beek.

The intended tracks that would have been played are:

* **Industrial Cinematic** by Kevin MacLeod.
* **Eternal Terminal** by Kevin MacLeod.
* **Laser Quest** by Tim Beek.
* **Sitting Bull** by Jason Shaw.
* **In a Heartbeat** by Kevin MacLeod.

During the boss fight against The Cropper, the track **Future Gladiator** by Kevin MacLeod plays.

## Trivia

* This mission contains Melons, the only other food consumable in the map other than Steak.

* The reason none of the intended music plays is because the MusicSet scoreboard is set twice, rather than both the MusicSet and MusicTime scoreboards.
	+ All of this music is still in the resource pack, but it never plays.
	+ The only other mission in the trilogy that doesn't play the correct music is Hidden Mission 2 from the same map.

* 'Future Gladiator' can also play during the fights against the four Nobles in Assassin of Steve 1 and Hidden Mission 4 of Assassin of Steve 3, where it is rather thematically used in a Gladiator Arena.

* You can skip draining Pipe 4 by simply going through it, because you have enough health to survive drowning.

* You can also skip switching the current in Pipe 3 if you do this, because the current in Pipe 3 is only enabled after you drain Pipe 4.

* In the Cropper's fight, the top three ladders and the bottommost ladder can be skipped when draining the first tank.
	+ After draining one tank, only three ladders are required for each of the other two pillars.