Don't Dig Straight Down

Don't Dig Straight Down is the 14th episode of Battle for BFDI, and the 45th episode of the overall series. It was released on August 24.

The episode is a continuation of the original 13th episode of Battle for BFDI, "Return of the Rocket Ship".

Votes
The previous episode was a no elimination episode, so the viewers voted for their favorite characters. The results have yet to come out.

Plot
This episode continues off after the events of "Return of the Rocket Ship", when Team Ice Cube! discover an unknown location underground. After a bright flash of light, it is revealed that they stumbled upon an inverted planet. Donut tells the team that he's heard stories about them, but never knew they lived so close to one. Gelatin and Naily immediately start running around, chasing each other. They jump off of a tree, and Naily impales Barf Bag as she lands, spilling her barf everywhere. Donut begins to worry and tries to patch her up when she starts to feel sick, and tells the two of them to stop running around.

Iance is then seen walking through the tunnel they're digging, and Ruby tells Flower she's mad that she killed Bubble. The two squabble before Lightning questions the direction that they're digging in. Ruby agrees and starts to dig at Grassy's co-ordinates with Flower's help.

Preview transcript
A 10-second preview was shown during the 2019 Crossover Meetup, whose transcript is shown below.

Continuity references
TBA

Trivia

 * The title of the episode is a reference to Minecraft, where all Minecraft players warn everyone to not dig straight down due to Lava being underground. This is maybe why the lava rose and killed almost everyone.
 * The episode continues from where the previous episode, "Return of the Rocket Ship", left off.
 * According to Cary's and Michael's reaction to BFB 13, Michael will be animating this episode, and Cary will be doing more than writing.
 * A short preview was shown during the 2019 Crossover Meetup. It was a scene of Golf Ball and Tennis Ball talking about how warm it is, and was a 10-second loop.
 * Seen on the preview shown at the meetup, it seems that below Golf Ball, some kind of reddish shadow starts to appear, it's being speculated that it's magma.
 * The episode was initially set to release on August 7th, 2019, but was pushed back a week due to Satomi flying to New York and some paperwork issues.
 * The episode was moved to release on August 14th, 2019, but has been pushed to August 24th, 2019 due to Michael's apartment being fumigated for a cockroach infestation.
 * This is the first time that Bleh lost the challenge.
 * Characters that have no speaking cues are Gaty, Teardrop, Saw, Dora, Ice Cube, Bell, Eraser, TV and Rocky.
 * In addition to that, Firey, Clock, Eggy, Leafy, Bubble, Pillow, Pie, Bottle, Black Hole, Remote and Tree don't appear. However, the contestants on Death Pact with arms were shown to grab the emerald.
 * Gelatin after sitting on top of Bomby with Barf Bag and Naily,he say "there isn't enought room up here" and pushing Naily after exploding,that is a reference of BFDIA about Gelatin say this catchphrase on top of Puffball before he push he's team mates.
 * The area of Goiky was burned due to lava flood.

Goofs

 * Throughout the episode, the magma is consistently called lava despite still being under the earth's surface. Even Golf Ball, who should know this fact, disregards it.
 * Barf Bag’s patch disappears after Bomby fills her up.
 * Naily says that she was sorry for stabbing Woody 7 years ago, when from the episode's release, it was 8 years ago.