Video taking off 6.5x its usual first day

That Chief Guy's desert search takes a misleading green turn

Blockrat hides beneath the sand while Chief and Knarfy lose precious searching time to sheep, fishing and a carefully chosen answer.

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That Chief Guy Story of October 25, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 239,968 views a day, 6.5 times a normal first day on this channel (37,016).

They Have 1 Hour to Find My Secret Base - Ep. 2

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0:00Chief explains the hour-long search, with questions helping the seekers and curses giving the hider ways to delay them.
1:05Blockrat chooses a desert location, digs into a cave and builds a hidden tripwire entrance.
3:26A pufferfish curse interrupts questioning and sends Chief and Knarfy fishing.
7:56Blockrat describes his biome as green, steering the seekers' thinking away from the desert above him.
12:13More curses require breaking leaves by hand and putting a name tag on a spider.
19:37Late screenshot requests give the seekers a clearer picture of where Blockrat is hiding.

Blockrat answers "green." Asked about his Minecraft biome, the hidden player gives That Chief Guy and Knarfy a clue that sends their thinking away from the desert. His base is beneath it, inside a lush cave.

That distinction does a lot of work in "They Have 1 Hour to Find My Secret Base - Ep. 2," which drew about 200,000 views in sixteen hours, well ahead of the channel's usual start. Chief is searching rather than hiding this time, with Blockrat making himself comfortable underground behind a tripwire entrance.

Finding the right patch of map is only part of the problem. Blockrat can play curses that interrupt the questioning: catch a pufferfish, shear the same sheep twice, put a name tag on a spider. The seekers have a deadline, but suddenly they're fishing and waiting for wool.

Chief credits Jet Lag: The Game as the series' inspiration and EightSidedSquare's Hide and Seek mod for influencing its mechanics. The resulting rules have viewers discussing game design as much as hiding spots. Several suggest making directional clues something the hunters must earn, rather than letting early answers immediately eliminate large sections of the map. Others focus on the green-biome answer and whether clues should describe what's visible from above.

The distinction finally clicks when Chief and Knarfy request screenshots with only minutes left. Sand overhead, greenery below: they have been looking for the wrong kind of green.

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What viewers say

Calling Lush Cave green is galaxy brained
@constantanxietyattacks6878See it on YouTube
The cardinal directions immediatelly cut off 3/4th of the map, it could be cool if you could unlock it as a reward for something as you go - rather than being an immediate major bonus
@astralsparvSee it on YouTube
im loving how much blockrat is sprucing up his base and getting pets
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If youre on a set map, you all should spawn in a random location on the map. So the first two are not automatically N/S and E/W. I do love the jetlag style minecraft game c:
@Presence10See it on YouTube
Please dont end this after this mini series we want more! Make it a staple of the channel
@rubychandler5620See it on YouTube
I’ve been hyped for part 2, so excited it’s here!
@KaziobloxsSee it on YouTube
get the real adam, sam and ben to play this with you from jetlag the game
@CoolGuy-m5w2hSee it on YouTube
Ohh theres a new jetlag episode? ....wait what?? THAT CHIEF GUY?????
@fulpieSee it on YouTube
When doing the Sequal, you need a rule - anything related to biomes relates to the biome visible on a map.
@vasilkalov2622See it on YouTube
I know it's unrealistic but I need this to be a daily series so bad
@Tieger_2See it on YouTube