This is probably all too familiar to the vets, but being new to minecraft I wish I had better habits.
I've gotten to the bottom of a deep cave to where the obsidian and all that other good stuff is. I built a small base, nothing fancy, and would bring gold and diamonds and redstone back occasionally. This last stretch I mined a ton of obsidian (takes forever) and had a few diamonds, a diamond pick, and other goodies. I kept telling myself I would go make a dropoff at my temporary base toward the entrance of the cave, but kept wanting to explore just a little further.
I found a zombie spawner, neutralized it, and went to exploring some more. Apparently I missed one zombie and he snuck up behind me. For some reason on here my view turns from first person to 3rd person sometimes when I get hit (not sure if it's a glitch or if I just accidentally press down on the joypad when I get surprised). So between trying to fix my view, switch to my sword or healing item, I was dead.
That's not my lesson however, it's the next part. I woke up back at MY HOUSE and sprinted back to the cave (mistake #1). It was night so I had to dodge baddies. I got into the cave and all of a sudden there are mobs walking around near torches and I haven't had mobs in here since I first started exploring (man this game hates me). I get down to my cave base, look in my chest and I have....nothing but ore and stuff. No weapons or armor. I grab a hoe, a piece of bread, and run down to try to get my stuff before it disappears (after 5 minutes I believe).
I get down to the area and of course there's a creeper in my path. He explodes, and I frantically try to find the spot where I died. It was a pretty big cavern with lots of branches so I couldn't remember exactly where I was. I find the zombie and try to run past him while hitting him with my mighty hoe. He eats me in 2-3 seconds.
I spawn at my house again, grab stuff from my chest this time and run down there. This time I have a sword and kill the zombie. But it's past 5 minutes and all my stuff is gone
TL;DR here are my lessons:
1) Create a base within the cave (did that, but...)
2) Make a bed there and sleep in it so you don't respawn far away
3) In your base, have a spare set of armor, weapons, and food (don't just have ore that you can make into armor later...time is of the essence)
4) Be diligent about placing torches and keeping track of where you are
That's all for now. Just totally wasted 5 hours worth of play time, but hopefully this lesson will be worth it.
I have a reflex like you do, except instead of 3rd person, I crouch because I'm more right-handed due to looking around a lot in my mine, so when I get hit in the back, I tend to crouch for a couple seconds.
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MCX360 is out? Of course it is, I got it at 5 in the morning.
1) Create a base within the cave (did that, but...)
2) Make a bed there and sleep in it so you don't respawn far away
3) In your base, have a spare set of armor, weapons, and food (don't just have ore that you can make into armor later...time is of the essence)
4) Be diligent about placing torches and keeping track of where you are
That's all for now. Just totally wasted 5 hours worth of play time, but hopefully this lesson will be worth it.
Sounds like you've come away with some good starting habits. Try to keep a bucket of water on you too, so that when you come across a lava lake while you're exploring you can turn it to obsidian and continue rather then back track and find another way. Also if you get in the habit of placing your torches consistently on the right wall of the cave, you can usually tell which way is home by following torches on the left. If the cave is too large, place torches on the right wall like usual but place any others you need on the floor to light up the room. Huge time saver in the end.
I've gotten to the bottom of a deep cave to where the obsidian and all that other good stuff is. I built a small base, nothing fancy, and would bring gold and diamonds and redstone back occasionally. This last stretch I mined a ton of obsidian (takes forever) and had a few diamonds, a diamond pick, and other goodies. I kept telling myself I would go make a dropoff at my temporary base toward the entrance of the cave, but kept wanting to explore just a little further.
I found a zombie spawner, neutralized it, and went to exploring some more. Apparently I missed one zombie and he snuck up behind me. For some reason on here my view turns from first person to 3rd person sometimes when I get hit (not sure if it's a glitch or if I just accidentally press down on the joypad when I get surprised). So between trying to fix my view, switch to my sword or healing item, I was dead.
That's not my lesson however, it's the next part. I woke up back at MY HOUSE and sprinted back to the cave (mistake #1). It was night so I had to dodge baddies. I got into the cave and all of a sudden there are mobs walking around near torches and I haven't had mobs in here since I first started exploring (man this game hates me). I get down to my cave base, look in my chest and I have....nothing but ore and stuff. No weapons or armor. I grab a hoe, a piece of bread, and run down to try to get my stuff before it disappears (after 5 minutes I believe).
I get down to the area and of course there's a creeper in my path. He explodes, and I frantically try to find the spot where I died. It was a pretty big cavern with lots of branches so I couldn't remember exactly where I was. I find the zombie and try to run past him while hitting him with my mighty hoe. He eats me in 2-3 seconds.
I spawn at my house again, grab stuff from my chest this time and run down there. This time I have a sword and kill the zombie. But it's past 5 minutes and all my stuff is gone
TL;DR here are my lessons:
1) Create a base within the cave (did that, but...)
2) Make a bed there and sleep in it so you don't respawn far away
3) In your base, have a spare set of armor, weapons, and food (don't just have ore that you can make into armor later...time is of the essence)
4) Be diligent about placing torches and keeping track of where you are
That's all for now. Just totally wasted 5 hours worth of play time, but hopefully this lesson will be worth it.
Sounds like you've come away with some good starting habits. Try to keep a bucket of water on you too, so that when you come across a lava lake while you're exploring you can turn it to obsidian and continue rather then back track and find another way. Also if you get in the habit of placing your torches consistently on the right wall of the cave, you can usually tell which way is home by following torches on the left. If the cave is too large, place torches on the right wall like usual but place any others you need on the floor to light up the room. Huge time saver in the end.