I'm growing tired of lava. Normally it's not bad and I'm always prepared for it, but it's been acting strange lately.
About a month ago, I was on a mining trip. It was very successful because I found a bit of everything valuable like diamonds, lapis lazuli, gold, redstone, iron, and coal. Something just had to go wrong though. I mined the block of stone in front of me on the ground (I was two blocks away from it) and I noticed a lava source block underneath. Before I could get my water bucket out it make it into obsidian, I was somehow magically pulled into the lava and I lost everything. Keep in mind, I was in the inventory menu so there's no way I could have accidentally walked into it.
Today I was in a similar situation, but I lost less items. I was mining and noticed lava in the wall. It spilled into a small room where there were diamonds, so I completely blocked it off from the diamonds so that I could mine the safely. I went down to mine the diamonds, but somehow the lava went over the cobblestone barrier I placed and killed me. I was three blocks away so I know that there's no way I could have accidentally touched the lava. I went back to get my stuff (what was left of it), and the lava WASN'T EVEN THERE ANYMORE! How is this even remotely possible? I lost several diamond tools, four stacks of coal (nearly all of my coal), two and a half (about) stacks of torches, my map, and about ten gold.
I can't wait till I get the PC version of Minecraft so I can just delete the coding for lava from the game or something haha.
For drifting into the lava while using the inventory screen. Been there, done that, died... of course.
I have been noticing an issue sometimes with my character continuing to move slowly even after I release the left stick. This causes me to walk into lava, fall off blocks, etc. I was putting it all off onto a "sticky" controller (even though I don't experience the issue in other games); but as someone else suggested, it may have something to do with lag (which is a known "bug"/issue with MCXLBA). To get around the issue, when my character absolutely needs to come to a full stop, I fiddle with the left stick until I'm positive that the character has fully stopped.
As for the second situation, I have never encountered lava that flowed uphill over a barrier. I have not combusted (without actually falling into the lava), but I have had a sign combust while placing it 2 blocks away from lava through a solid wall of cobble that I had blocked it with. This, I believed, was due to the fact that lava can turn an air block on the other side of a 1 block barrier into a fire block at any time, which can in turn burn something flammable in the next block over. This distance, I believe, increases if you are higher than the lava itself.
to add to this, I don't think it's the lava itself that pulls you down, but rather the recoil from pain. The same thing happens underwater if drowning, albeit more slowly so you can still surface.
You can only surface when drowning if you are a few blocks away from the surface, otherwise you'll drown.
The lava situation sounds like trolling friends for your second death.
About a month ago, I was on a mining trip. It was very successful because I found a bit of everything valuable like diamonds, lapis lazuli, gold, redstone, iron, and coal. Something just had to go wrong though. I mined the block of stone in front of me on the ground (I was two blocks away from it) and I noticed a lava source block underneath. Before I could get my water bucket out it make it into obsidian, I was somehow magically pulled into the lava and I lost everything. Keep in mind, I was in the inventory menu so there's no way I could have accidentally walked into it.
Today I was in a similar situation, but I lost less items. I was mining and noticed lava in the wall. It spilled into a small room where there were diamonds, so I completely blocked it off from the diamonds so that I could mine the safely. I went down to mine the diamonds, but somehow the lava went over the cobblestone barrier I placed and killed me. I was three blocks away so I know that there's no way I could have accidentally touched the lava. I went back to get my stuff (what was left of it), and the lava WASN'T EVEN THERE ANYMORE! How is this even remotely possible? I lost several diamond tools, four stacks of coal (nearly all of my coal), two and a half (about) stacks of torches, my map, and about ten gold.
I can't wait till I get the PC version of Minecraft so I can just delete the coding for lava from the game or something haha.
Is lava giving anyone else a hard time?
Goodbye...As did I.
"Education mainly consists of what we have unlearned." -Mark Twain
Sorry about that.
Lesson learned. Never type a rant while still angry right after ragequitting.
Lava is such a pain in the ass.
I can understand if you rage quit.
I have been noticing an issue sometimes with my character continuing to move slowly even after I release the left stick. This causes me to walk into lava, fall off blocks, etc. I was putting it all off onto a "sticky" controller (even though I don't experience the issue in other games); but as someone else suggested, it may have something to do with lag (which is a known "bug"/issue with MCXLBA). To get around the issue, when my character absolutely needs to come to a full stop, I fiddle with the left stick until I'm positive that the character has fully stopped.
As for the second situation, I have never encountered lava that flowed uphill over a barrier. I have not combusted (without actually falling into the lava), but I have had a sign combust while placing it 2 blocks away from lava through a solid wall of cobble that I had blocked it with. This, I believed, was due to the fact that lava can turn an air block on the other side of a 1 block barrier into a fire block at any time, which can in turn burn something flammable in the next block over. This distance, I believe, increases if you are higher than the lava itself.
You can only surface when drowning if you are a few blocks away from the surface, otherwise you'll drown.
The lava situation sounds like trolling friends for your second death.