I want to hear your greatest minecraft survival fails! here's mine(this happened just now, and inspired this thread):
I was playing in hardcore mode, hopping into my nether portal. then I dived into a corner and checked if I had everything.
armor? check!
sword? check!
bow and arrow? check!
...flint and steel? uh-oh...
I left it. also, my portal quickly got blown out by a ghast. I was forced to try the fire charge method.
soon, i found a fortress. how did I enter it? I foolishly jumped a tall ledge onto it, costing 6 hearts. also, skeleton and a blaze was waiting for me. i got shot by the skeleton, knocked off the fortress, and burned to death. that's a whole lot of fail.
is your story as impressively bad? let's find out!
You know how sometimes your parkour will just fail on you, and halfway through your jump, your sprint will stop?
That happened to me in the End.
That must have felt awful.
I think my biggest fail was when I was running across a Nether Fortress and didn't think about the fact that there might be holes in the bridges. I was just sprinting and jumping along, and then I abruptly fell to my doom.
This dates back all the way to 2015 so my story might not be exact I built a massive house!
I thought it was brilliant my brother was in a house next to me just enough to load the chunks. i left to mine when I came back at night i realized the horrifying fact that I had forgotten to put torches in it. Soon my brother and his friends had to come to the rescue evacuating me and all of my stuff from the house. We destroyed the house with TNT later because there were to many mobs to get in and do something about it.
Another Fail of mine. This is when minecraft was first released on XBOX 360 back when I played on the 360. Me and my friend were settling down for the night in the tutorial world we made sure we had the Diamond gear from the area in a chest just right outside the small house we lived in we both slept the night. When we woke up the chest was gone. Not gone like it glitched back the chest was gone we check every inch of the castle and village nothing. It was actually gone In disbelief we quit and he walked home.
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On the more lighthearted side, back when I was still new to Minecraft in that same endless Frozen River hardcore world, I was still missing some basic game play information—that I could make wool out of spider silk, for example. Since there were no sheep (or any other land animals), I never had wool and was unable to make a bed. Made it more challenging, and thus, more exciting and fun, so I'm not really calling that a fail.
With top-tier armor—even more so in 1.14, it seems—deaths in combat are unlikely. All my deaths for the last few years in non-hardcore survival have been from crashing into the ground or smacking the cliffside or otherwise wrecking while rocketing around on elytra.
However, I do carry a fire resistance potion on my hotbar at all times when adventuring outside of a base. I take a picture each time I would have died in lava without it. I've taken one picture this year (since about April). For me, dying in lava usually would have happened after crashing while flying around in a lava-bottomed ravine. I don't do it very often, but sometimes problems happen when mistakes are made while rocketing around hairpin turns underground in survival!
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My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
The only real fail I had was that I dug out a high-ceilinged bedrock base with an inventory of stone tools, climbed up the ladder to put the last bits of stuff away, climbed back down the ladder to clean up the gravel the temporary ladders were attached to, and broke my last tool AND RNGesus gave me miracle flint instead. Genius me decided that since I had no blocks to get back to the ladder now out of my reach and no tool to dig my way out (since I'd get no blocks from breaking stone with fists), I had to delete the world and start over.
I was playing with cheats on, and digging out a stairway didn't occur to me.
Way back before the official release came out in 2011, I was playing single-player survival in one of the Beta release versions. I had decided to dig out a large quarry about 50x50 blocks or so, down to bedrock. Once I'd dug that out and put a glass ceiling on top of it, I decided I still didn't have enough chests full of mined resources, so I dug some more conventional mining tunnels into one of the walls of the quarry around bedrock level. These tunnels got long enough that walking back to my main storage area set into another of the walls of the quarry got to be a pain, so I hit on the idea of actually using minecarts-with-chests for mining purposes. I laid some rails along the central tunnel, loaded up the cart with food and wood for making spare stone tools, and headed into the mines.
I spent hours and hours digging out mining tunnels, putting the ores and diamonds etc into the storage cart as I went. I had brought along a bucket of lava, and since I had tons and tons of stone saved in chests from digging out that huge quarry, every so often, I'd dig a little niche in the wall, put the lava in there, and toss in whatever stone and mob drops and other then-useless junk I'd picked up while digging the tunnels. Eventually I had a minecart-with chest completely filled with valuable ores and gems. I was ready to return to base, so I made one last temporary lava incinerator, burned some junk, and picked the lava back up with the bucket. I went to put the lava bucket into the minecart-with-chest...
....and somehow goofed up and instead of clicking on the minecart-with-chest to open it, I clicked on or near it with my bucket of lava. And poured lava right on the chest. The lava destroyed the cart, which popped open and spilled all my valuables directly into lava where they were destroyed. Stacks and stacks of gold ore, iron ore, diamonds, redstone, lapis, and coal. All gone. I was so shocked I just stood there for several seconds as the lava spread and reached my player. I too started to burn. I tried to pick the lava back up with the bucket but somehow failed. I tried to open my inventory and switch to a bucket of water (this was before fire protection potions) but I was too late and too nervous, and I just stood there like an idiot burning to death. All my gear and whatever other valuables etc I had on me also burned up.
I was so annoyed that I ragequit and deleted the world, still the only time I have done so.
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My biggest fail happened around 6 years ago, back when I still used iron gear and didn't use an Ender chest to carry resources while caving yet (I started using it around the time 1.6 came out as I started mining all coal); I was running through a cave and jumped over a 1 block rise in the floor - which had a 1x1 block hole leading down to a pit with lava at the bottom on the other side below - which I fell into. I did have a water bucket but I placed it under the lava, likely in part because the version of Optifine I was using for 1.5 made it completely transparent (a bug with its clear water setting) so it was hard to tell I was in lava at first - I saw the water create obsidian around it and turn into stone. I also remember some of my armor breaking before I died; there was no way to get out as it was in a vertical pit.
I lost at least a stack of iron blocks (not ore, blocks, equivalent to 576 iron), a stack of diamonds, and a lot of other things (I believe I only really mined iron, gold, diamonds, and emeralds back then; after 1.6 I re-explored old caves and collected a lot of coal, redstone, and lapis I'd ignored before). Aside from that the most valuable item I lost was an iron pickaxe with Efficiency IV, Fortune III, Unbreaking III, which I used to mine diamonds (after 1.6 I upgraded to an Efficiency V diamond pickaxe and used it on everything, then by the time I next played on the world after playing on modded worlds for a year I dropped Fortune to reduce the amount of resources I collected, which far exceeds anything I can use either way).
Also, I've lost as much as 2,000 iron over the years when comparing the difference between ores mined and ingots crafted (this is only 0.36% of the total mined though, and includes ingots "lost" when I mined furnaces without emptying them, as you have to take them out yourself for the stats to count them; either way, it is likely that a significant portion of what I've lost occurred in the aforementioned event):
Another death that stands out occurred while I was exploring a mineshaft; I went through one of those intersections with a second floor and a creeper dropped down on me and blew up; as before I only had iron armor and probably didn't have full health as they can't one-shot you on Normal in 1.5 (49 damage after iron armor is 19.6); I remember turning down the render distance to Tiny to increase the chance that I'd find where I died in time (little did I know that the view distance was always 10 chunks).
Also, I believe I know exactly where this death occurred; I know that it was in a mineshaft just to the east of spawn and I found a spot that appears to match with what I remember, I recall that I was going up from a lower area with gravel, which would be the area coming in from the lower right:
Since then, I haven't had any bad deaths that I remember, or even many deaths at all, partly because I started using better armor and mods shortly after 1.6, including a minimap mod which included a "death points" feature, which I recall using a few times (I no longer use it but I've added a similar feature to my own mods, which only shows the last death point and isn't saved between sessions, but I haven't had to use it yet).
Perhaps my most recent "fail" was when I was mining iron in the floor of a cave and it fell into a ravine just below - along with myself (more of a case of "don't jump into a cave after ore that falls into it" than "don't dig straight down"). This only caused minor injuries though due to armor enchanted with 2x Protection IV and Feather Falling IV (not necessarily foolproof though; a fall by as little as 45 blocks can possibly be fatal due to the randomized protection being as low as 52% (since 1.9 it is a constant 80%, or 103 blocks, which wouldn't have saved me from at least one fall in my "triple height terrain" world, with ravines up to 200 blocks deep), and there was no lava at the bottom or mobs nearby.
Got a few that stand out. I don't die very often...in fact on most servers I play on, I'll have among the fewest deaths but once in awhile, it's really almost unavoidable.
1) Found a desert temple...threw a bunch of torches around the bottom floor to light it up and then go to a corner by the wool in the center and started to dig down. Got far enough that I mined the pressure plate and thought it was safe. Jumped down and immediately heard a splat....hissssss.....BOOM. Creeper must have been in the second level, dropped down to the first level, then dropped down next to me and proceeded to blow up all the dynamite hidden under the floor. Needless to say, I did not survive. The temple was 1500 blocks away from my place so I raced back to see if anything survived and proceeded to jump down to get my stuff again. Didn't take into consideration the extra distance down because of the dynamite blast and proceeded to fall to my death. I did notice while I was laying there dead with the respawn button that nothing had survived so I didn't need to go back at least...lol.
2) While playing on one of my favorite older servers, I was huge into hunting wither skeletons, building a rainbow beacon with every color and then started selling the spare skulls to other peeps on the server. I'd spent hours fixing up a huge nether brick platform and I'd run around this one section of the fortress hunting anything and everything. Had heavy duty armor, the best weapons and with a speed and strength potion, I could kill pigmen with one hit, so I'd kill them too (this was back in version 1.8) since they wouldn't aggro with one-hit kills. The server I was on had a smelting mod where you could get back ingots for smelting any metal armor so the pigmen provided a good source of gold. While running around one day, I was doing my usual bouncing around, shooting at stuff long range, fighting crap nearby and just plain having fun. I was running around the outer edge when a regular skelly with an enchanted bow hit me from the side while I was in mid jump. The timing was perfect and knocked me over the edge into the lava. I was able to swim to shore but stood there and watched myself burn and die. I was able to get most of my stuff back when I went back, but that was my only death on that server and that’s what stung even more. These days I always have some fire resistance on at least one of my armor pieces and usually carry a fire-resistance potion when I travel to the nether.
3) Finally, the last one was pretty noobish but it was just a couple weeks ago sooo... lol. Just started a new world, had some stone tools and dug a hole in the xtreme hills to hide for the night. Decided to dig straight down using the two-blocks-wide standing-in-the-middle technique. Got about halfway down and I should have realized that the block was mining a little harder but guess with stone tools, it just seemed only slightly longer. Next thing I know blocks start breaking all over the place and I'm getting swarmed by a dozen silverfish. With just a stone pick and trapped in a 2 block area, I didn't last long...lol
Another good one...on a very old server, I was moving from one base to another, setting myself up with a new base. I was carrying a bunch of resources to the new base, taking multiple trips since this was back before shulker boxes and enderchests. The trip was about 1100 blocks overland, and while I could easily make it in one in-game day, I brought along a couple of tamed dogs for protection in case I ran into any mobs in some woods I had to pass through.
One trip, while carrying my entire supply of Lapis Lazuli and Iron Blocks, among other supplies, I happened to notice a 1x1 hole in the forest floor with light at the bottom. Obviously this was left by some other player. I stood crouching on the edge of the top of the shaft, peering down to see what was at the bottom, when one of my dogs bumped into me from behind and "accidentally" pushed me into the shaft...which was deep enough that I died on impact, since I didn't have Feather Fall IV boots yet. This was back when enchanting either hadn't been added yet or was new and it took 50 XP levels to get any good enchants.
I respawned back at my old base, I slapped on some spare gear and went running to find that hole in the woods. It was past sunset by the time I got to the area, but between dodging mobs in the woods and not being completely certain where that hole was, I couldn't immediately find it. I ran back to the nearest other player's base and slept in a bed to skip to dawn, but by the time I did finally find that hole, all my stuff had despawned.
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I've played exclusively modded for a long time now, so my fails are innumerable given how much can go wrong.
But if we're talking vanilla fails, a long time ago I was on a server and got the exclusive high-rank voting kit (or may have been a vote party kit, don't remember) but I had just started out, on a factions server no less, and my inventory was full of exclusive gear. I didn't even have a home yet and didn't want to loose it so I just decided to bury it in a chest somewhere in the wilderness (I didn't know about x-ray hackers or anything at the time). But I found a suitable spot with some stone that was for some reason under a tree.
Firstly, it's important to note that, although I've been playing since 1.3.2 released, I hadn't defeated the Ender Dragon until 1.8 and not without Creative mode until the 1.12 snapshots. This is about the 1.8 fight. I didn't think to set a bed outside the End portal (first mistake), and my only way back to the portal since it was so far away was by using a small yet long 1x1 cobblestone bridge in my Nether hub which was also completely exposed and prime Ghast territory (second mistake). I didn't have much patience for mining back then so I was stuck with very basic Iron gear, which is only made worse since I didn't have much iron at the time, either (third mistake). So anyways I enter the stronghold, dig out of the ground and immediately die to a swarm of Enderman. I rush back to the End and die to a ghast. I try again and reenter, only to die to another Enderman. I make the trek yet again and finally see the Ender Dragon for the first time when it slams into me and kills me. At that point, I had no chance of reclaiming my items, so I figured that I'd just switch into Creative and fight it that way. Which I did.
The second time happened only about a year ago in my 1.12 survival world. I actually defeated the Dragon and found an Elytra which I loved a little too much. In order to get the most out of it, I decided to build an underground base that's a circle going down to the Void. So I did just that- digging a circle to bedrock and then using Creative to clear out the floor so there was only Void. I used water buckets to climb down and started placing black stained glass on the final block before the Void, but at one point I ran out of ink sacs. I killed a few squids, crafted some black glass and dived into my hole, completely missing the near-invisible floor and plummeting headfirst into the Void. I wasn't very happy about losing my Elytra and deemed myself "too reckless of a person", so I started using keepInventory.
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If you'd like to talk with me about other games, here are a few I play.
Team Fortress 2
Borderlands series (Borderlands 2 is my favorite game, ever. TPS combat is a lot of fun and makes up for the lower-quality story, in my opinion)
Elder Scrolls series
Warframe (IGN is something like That_One_Flesh_Atronach)
Pokémon series (HGSS forever)
Rocket League
Fallout series
Left 4 Dead 2 (Boomer files always corrupt though)
SUPERHOT (SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years!)
Dead Rising series (Dead Rising 2 is one of my favorite games, and the 3rd was a lot of fun. 1st has poor survivor AI and the 4th is bad)
Just Cause series
Come to think of it, I mainly play fighting-based games.
I was at an end city and was careless with my elytra and died. I had no idea where my stuff was and moved on (i had mending on my elytra and full enchanted diamond armor and a stack of diamonds)
But then I went exploring in the end again and found almost all my stuff. I couldn't find the shulker box that contained a stack of diamonds
Here's a little dramatized screenshot to start off:
My portal was in a place just like this one.
It was Incredibly safe. There were no cliffs nearby, the floor around my portal was made of stone bricks, and there was a natural roof above it.
The only slight dangers were the opening in front of the portal and a little harmless lava flow like the one below.
That day I'd hopped into the nether to grab some brown mushrooms for weakness potions. This was an in-and-out thing so I didn't bother to leave my valuables behind.
I took 10 steps from the portal, collected the mushrooms, and then (For some reason) decided to patch that bit of lava.
I built a netherrack path to get to it and was just about to cover the source block when *BOOM*
A ghast had flown up to that opening and hit me in the back. The netherrack path was gone and I was now swimming in lava.
My attempts to build my way out of the newly created lava pit were useless. I died, losing my valuable items in the process.
Looking back I actually get a chuckle out of the whole situation. This has got to be one of the stupidest ways to lose everything.
However, I do carry a fire resistance potion on my hotbar at all times when adventuring outside of a base. I take a picture each time I would have died in lava without it. I've taken one picture this year (since about April). For me, dying in lava usually would have happened after crashing while flying around in a lava-bottomed ravine. I don't do it very often, but sometimes problems happen when mistakes are made while rocketing around hairpin turns underground in survival!
I always carry fire-resistance potions too but always struggle to get some magma cream early on.
It's not until my 3rd or 4th trip to the nether that I start collecting decent amounts of it, and even then my method is to run around open areas swinging my sword at Magma Cubes. How do you do it?
I always carry fire-resistance potions too but always struggle to get some magma cream early on.
It's not until my 3rd or 4th trip to the nether that I start collecting decent amounts of it, and even then my method is to run around open areas swinging my sword at Magma Cubes. How do you do it?
Once I go to the nether, I both keep an eye out for magma cubes and actively search for netherforts. Netherforts mean both netherwart for potions and blazes for brewing stands...and of course for making magma cream with blaze powder/slimeballs if you don't see any magma cubes. It does often take a few nether exploring trips being as careful as I can to get my hands on some fire protection potions, but once I get them, I too make sure I've always got a fire potion, if not directly on my hotbar, at least in my inventory. And a water bucket in the early game before I get the potion system going, as caves in the overworld can also be lava obstacle courses at times.
A creeper got into my house, despite the fact I had a moat. I had to run into my basement, and I tried mining outwards so I could go outside, and lure the creeper out of my house. When I mined up to go outside, it turned out I was one block short of clearing my moat. I somehow trapped myself in the water, and drowned. I spawned next to my bed, and the creeper was right there, so I ran out before the creeper exploded. My house was in shambles, and I learned not to put pressure plates on my doors outside (inside is fine).
I want to hear your greatest minecraft survival fails! here's mine(this happened just now, and inspired this thread):
I was playing in hardcore mode, hopping into my nether portal. then I dived into a corner and checked if I had everything.
armor? check!
sword? check!
bow and arrow? check!
...flint and steel? uh-oh...
I left it. also, my portal quickly got blown out by a ghast. I was forced to try the fire charge method.
soon, i found a fortress. how did I enter it? I foolishly jumped a tall ledge onto it, costing 6 hearts. also, skeleton and a blaze was waiting for me. i got shot by the skeleton, knocked off the fortress, and burned to death. that's a whole lot of fail.
is your story as impressively bad? let's find out!
You know how sometimes your parkour will just fail on you, and halfway through your jump, your sprint will stop?
That happened to me in the End.
That must have felt awful.
I think my biggest fail was when I was running across a Nether Fortress and didn't think about the fact that there might be holes in the bridges. I was just sprinting and jumping along, and then I abruptly fell to my doom.
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This dates back all the way to 2015 so my story might not be exact I built a massive house!
I thought it was brilliant my brother was in a house next to me just enough to load the chunks. i left to mine when I came back at night i realized the horrifying fact that I had forgotten to put torches in it. Soon my brother and his friends had to come to the rescue evacuating me and all of my stuff from the house. We destroyed the house with TNT later because there were to many mobs to get in and do something about it.
Another Fail of mine. This is when minecraft was first released on XBOX 360 back when I played on the 360. Me and my friend were settling down for the night in the tutorial world we made sure we had the Diamond gear from the area in a chest just right outside the small house we lived in we both slept the night. When we woke up the chest was gone. Not gone like it glitched back the chest was gone we check every inch of the castle and village nothing. It was actually gone In disbelief we quit and he walked home.
When I thought minecraft forums was being archived I was mad I was told June 16th now its June16th and I'm still posting loL!
That's an easy one to answer for me, and it's also the end to my "work-in-progress" hardcore death story thread: FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures. I'll finish the tale someday. (I also see all three of the links in my sig are bad. Ill fix them.)
On the more lighthearted side, back when I was still new to Minecraft in that same endless Frozen River hardcore world, I was still missing some basic game play information—that I could make wool out of spider silk, for example. Since there were no sheep (or any other land animals), I never had wool and was unable to make a bed. Made it more challenging, and thus, more exciting and fun, so I'm not really calling that a fail.
With top-tier armor—even more so in 1.14, it seems—deaths in combat are unlikely. All my deaths for the last few years in non-hardcore survival have been from crashing into the ground or smacking the cliffside or otherwise wrecking while rocketing around on elytra.
However, I do carry a fire resistance potion on my hotbar at all times when adventuring outside of a base. I take a picture each time I would have died in lava without it. I've taken one picture this year (since about April). For me, dying in lava usually would have happened after crashing while flying around in a lava-bottomed ravine. I don't do it very often, but sometimes problems happen when mistakes are made while rocketing around hairpin turns underground in survival!
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
The only real fail I had was that I dug out a high-ceilinged bedrock base with an inventory of stone tools, climbed up the ladder to put the last bits of stuff away, climbed back down the ladder to clean up the gravel the temporary ladders were attached to, and broke my last tool AND RNGesus gave me miracle flint instead. Genius me decided that since I had no blocks to get back to the ladder now out of my reach and no tool to dig my way out (since I'd get no blocks from breaking stone with fists), I had to delete the world and start over.
I was playing with cheats on, and digging out a stairway didn't occur to me.
Way back before the official release came out in 2011, I was playing single-player survival in one of the Beta release versions. I had decided to dig out a large quarry about 50x50 blocks or so, down to bedrock. Once I'd dug that out and put a glass ceiling on top of it, I decided I still didn't have enough chests full of mined resources, so I dug some more conventional mining tunnels into one of the walls of the quarry around bedrock level. These tunnels got long enough that walking back to my main storage area set into another of the walls of the quarry got to be a pain, so I hit on the idea of actually using minecarts-with-chests for mining purposes. I laid some rails along the central tunnel, loaded up the cart with food and wood for making spare stone tools, and headed into the mines.
I spent hours and hours digging out mining tunnels, putting the ores and diamonds etc into the storage cart as I went. I had brought along a bucket of lava, and since I had tons and tons of stone saved in chests from digging out that huge quarry, every so often, I'd dig a little niche in the wall, put the lava in there, and toss in whatever stone and mob drops and other then-useless junk I'd picked up while digging the tunnels. Eventually I had a minecart-with chest completely filled with valuable ores and gems. I was ready to return to base, so I made one last temporary lava incinerator, burned some junk, and picked the lava back up with the bucket. I went to put the lava bucket into the minecart-with-chest...
....and somehow goofed up and instead of clicking on the minecart-with-chest to open it, I clicked on or near it with my bucket of lava. And poured lava right on the chest. The lava destroyed the cart, which popped open and spilled all my valuables directly into lava where they were destroyed. Stacks and stacks of gold ore, iron ore, diamonds, redstone, lapis, and coal. All gone. I was so shocked I just stood there for several seconds as the lava spread and reached my player. I too started to burn. I tried to pick the lava back up with the bucket but somehow failed. I tried to open my inventory and switch to a bucket of water (this was before fire protection potions) but I was too late and too nervous, and I just stood there like an idiot burning to death. All my gear and whatever other valuables etc I had on me also burned up.
I was so annoyed that I ragequit and deleted the world, still the only time I have done so.
Every world I make is a fail. I die, then make a new world. Big sad.
My biggest fail happened around 6 years ago, back when I still used iron gear and didn't use an Ender chest to carry resources while caving yet (I started using it around the time 1.6 came out as I started mining all coal); I was running through a cave and jumped over a 1 block rise in the floor - which had a 1x1 block hole leading down to a pit with lava at the bottom on the other side below - which I fell into. I did have a water bucket but I placed it under the lava, likely in part because the version of Optifine I was using for 1.5 made it completely transparent (a bug with its clear water setting) so it was hard to tell I was in lava at first - I saw the water create obsidian around it and turn into stone. I also remember some of my armor breaking before I died; there was no way to get out as it was in a vertical pit.
I lost at least a stack of iron blocks (not ore, blocks, equivalent to 576 iron), a stack of diamonds, and a lot of other things (I believe I only really mined iron, gold, diamonds, and emeralds back then; after 1.6 I re-explored old caves and collected a lot of coal, redstone, and lapis I'd ignored before). Aside from that the most valuable item I lost was an iron pickaxe with Efficiency IV, Fortune III, Unbreaking III, which I used to mine diamonds (after 1.6 I upgraded to an Efficiency V diamond pickaxe and used it on everything, then by the time I next played on the world after playing on modded worlds for a year I dropped Fortune to reduce the amount of resources I collected, which far exceeds anything I can use either way).
Also, I've lost as much as 2,000 iron over the years when comparing the difference between ores mined and ingots crafted (this is only 0.36% of the total mined though, and includes ingots "lost" when I mined furnaces without emptying them, as you have to take them out yourself for the stats to count them; either way, it is likely that a significant portion of what I've lost occurred in the aforementioned event):
Another death that stands out occurred while I was exploring a mineshaft; I went through one of those intersections with a second floor and a creeper dropped down on me and blew up; as before I only had iron armor and probably didn't have full health as they can't one-shot you on Normal in 1.5 (49 damage after iron armor is 19.6); I remember turning down the render distance to Tiny to increase the chance that I'd find where I died in time (little did I know that the view distance was always 10 chunks).
Also, I believe I know exactly where this death occurred; I know that it was in a mineshaft just to the east of spawn and I found a spot that appears to match with what I remember, I recall that I was going up from a lower area with gravel, which would be the area coming in from the lower right:
Since then, I haven't had any bad deaths that I remember, or even many deaths at all, partly because I started using better armor and mods shortly after 1.6, including a minimap mod which included a "death points" feature, which I recall using a few times (I no longer use it but I've added a similar feature to my own mods, which only shows the last death point and isn't saved between sessions, but I haven't had to use it yet).
Perhaps my most recent "fail" was when I was mining iron in the floor of a cave and it fell into a ravine just below - along with myself (more of a case of "don't jump into a cave after ore that falls into it" than "don't dig straight down"). This only caused minor injuries though due to armor enchanted with 2x Protection IV and Feather Falling IV (not necessarily foolproof though; a fall by as little as 45 blocks can possibly be fatal due to the randomized protection being as low as 52% (since 1.9 it is a constant 80%, or 103 blocks, which wouldn't have saved me from at least one fall in my "triple height terrain" world, with ravines up to 200 blocks deep), and there was no lava at the bottom or mobs nearby.
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Got a few that stand out. I don't die very often...in fact on most servers I play on, I'll have among the fewest deaths but once in awhile, it's really almost unavoidable.
1) Found a desert temple...threw a bunch of torches around the bottom floor to light it up and then go to a corner by the wool in the center and started to dig down. Got far enough that I mined the pressure plate and thought it was safe. Jumped down and immediately heard a splat....hissssss.....BOOM. Creeper must have been in the second level, dropped down to the first level, then dropped down next to me and proceeded to blow up all the dynamite hidden under the floor. Needless to say, I did not survive. The temple was 1500 blocks away from my place so I raced back to see if anything survived and proceeded to jump down to get my stuff again. Didn't take into consideration the extra distance down because of the dynamite blast and proceeded to fall to my death. I did notice while I was laying there dead with the respawn button that nothing had survived so I didn't need to go back at least...lol.
2) While playing on one of my favorite older servers, I was huge into hunting wither skeletons, building a rainbow beacon with every color and then started selling the spare skulls to other peeps on the server. I'd spent hours fixing up a huge nether brick platform and I'd run around this one section of the fortress hunting anything and everything. Had heavy duty armor, the best weapons and with a speed and strength potion, I could kill pigmen with one hit, so I'd kill them too (this was back in version 1.8) since they wouldn't aggro with one-hit kills. The server I was on had a smelting mod where you could get back ingots for smelting any metal armor so the pigmen provided a good source of gold. While running around one day, I was doing my usual bouncing around, shooting at stuff long range, fighting crap nearby and just plain having fun. I was running around the outer edge when a regular skelly with an enchanted bow hit me from the side while I was in mid jump. The timing was perfect and knocked me over the edge into the lava. I was able to swim to shore but stood there and watched myself burn and die. I was able to get most of my stuff back when I went back, but that was my only death on that server and that’s what stung even more. These days I always have some fire resistance on at least one of my armor pieces and usually carry a fire-resistance potion when I travel to the nether.
3) Finally, the last one was pretty noobish but it was just a couple weeks ago sooo... lol. Just started a new world, had some stone tools and dug a hole in the xtreme hills to hide for the night. Decided to dig straight down using the two-blocks-wide standing-in-the-middle technique. Got about halfway down and I should have realized that the block was mining a little harder but guess with stone tools, it just seemed only slightly longer. Next thing I know blocks start breaking all over the place and I'm getting swarmed by a dozen silverfish. With just a stone pick and trapped in a 2 block area, I didn't last long...lol
Another good one...on a very old server, I was moving from one base to another, setting myself up with a new base. I was carrying a bunch of resources to the new base, taking multiple trips since this was back before shulker boxes and enderchests. The trip was about 1100 blocks overland, and while I could easily make it in one in-game day, I brought along a couple of tamed dogs for protection in case I ran into any mobs in some woods I had to pass through.
One trip, while carrying my entire supply of Lapis Lazuli and Iron Blocks, among other supplies, I happened to notice a 1x1 hole in the forest floor with light at the bottom. Obviously this was left by some other player. I stood crouching on the edge of the top of the shaft, peering down to see what was at the bottom, when one of my dogs bumped into me from behind and "accidentally" pushed me into the shaft...which was deep enough that I died on impact, since I didn't have Feather Fall IV boots yet. This was back when enchanting either hadn't been added yet or was new and it took 50 XP levels to get any good enchants.
I respawned back at my old base, I slapped on some spare gear and went running to find that hole in the woods. It was past sunset by the time I got to the area, but between dodging mobs in the woods and not being completely certain where that hole was, I couldn't immediately find it. I ran back to the nearest other player's base and slept in a bed to skip to dawn, but by the time I did finally find that hole, all my stuff had despawned.
I've played exclusively modded for a long time now, so my fails are innumerable given how much can go wrong.
But if we're talking vanilla fails, a long time ago I was on a server and got the exclusive high-rank voting kit (or may have been a vote party kit, don't remember) but I had just started out, on a factions server no less, and my inventory was full of exclusive gear. I didn't even have a home yet and didn't want to loose it so I just decided to bury it in a chest somewhere in the wilderness (I didn't know about x-ray hackers or anything at the time). But I found a suitable spot with some stone that was for some reason under a tree.
I dug just one block below me and fell into lava.
Never...dig...straight...down...
I can recall two pretty good ones.
Firstly, it's important to note that, although I've been playing since 1.3.2 released, I hadn't defeated the Ender Dragon until 1.8 and not without Creative mode until the 1.12 snapshots. This is about the 1.8 fight. I didn't think to set a bed outside the End portal (first mistake), and my only way back to the portal since it was so far away was by using a small yet long 1x1 cobblestone bridge in my Nether hub which was also completely exposed and prime Ghast territory (second mistake). I didn't have much patience for mining back then so I was stuck with very basic Iron gear, which is only made worse since I didn't have much iron at the time, either (third mistake). So anyways I enter the stronghold, dig out of the ground and immediately die to a swarm of Enderman. I rush back to the End and die to a ghast. I try again and reenter, only to die to another Enderman. I make the trek yet again and finally see the Ender Dragon for the first time when it slams into me and kills me. At that point, I had no chance of reclaiming my items, so I figured that I'd just switch into Creative and fight it that way. Which I did.
The second time happened only about a year ago in my 1.12 survival world. I actually defeated the Dragon and found an Elytra which I loved a little too much. In order to get the most out of it, I decided to build an underground base that's a circle going down to the Void. So I did just that- digging a circle to bedrock and then using Creative to clear out the floor so there was only Void. I used water buckets to climb down and started placing black stained glass on the final block before the Void, but at one point I ran out of ink sacs. I killed a few squids, crafted some black glass and dived into my hole, completely missing the near-invisible floor and plummeting headfirst into the Void. I wasn't very happy about losing my Elytra and deemed myself "too reckless of a person", so I started using keepInventory.
Watch out for the crabocalypse. Some say the day will never come. But it will.
Feel free to drop by for a chat whenever.
If you'd like to talk with me about other games, here are a few I play.
Team Fortress 2
Borderlands series (Borderlands 2 is my favorite game, ever. TPS combat is a lot of fun and makes up for the lower-quality story, in my opinion)
Elder Scrolls series
Warframe (IGN is something like That_One_Flesh_Atronach)
Pokémon series (HGSS forever)
Rocket League
Fallout series
Left 4 Dead 2 (Boomer files always corrupt though)
SUPERHOT (SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years!)
Dead Rising series (Dead Rising 2 is one of my favorite games, and the 3rd was a lot of fun. 1st has poor survivor AI and the 4th is bad)
Just Cause series
Come to think of it, I mainly play fighting-based games.
I was using water to mine obsidian and I placed the water too late, I ended up trapped under obsidian in lava, items incinerated.
I was at an end city and was careless with my elytra and died. I had no idea where my stuff was and moved on (i had mending on my elytra and full enchanted diamond armor and a stack of diamonds)
But then I went exploring in the end again and found almost all my stuff. I couldn't find the shulker box that contained a stack of diamonds
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Here's a little dramatized screenshot to start off:
My portal was in a place just like this one.
It was Incredibly safe. There were no cliffs nearby, the floor around my portal was made of stone bricks, and there was a natural roof above it.
The only slight dangers were the opening in front of the portal and a little harmless lava flow like the one below.
That day I'd hopped into the nether to grab some brown mushrooms for weakness potions. This was an in-and-out thing so I didn't bother to leave my valuables behind.
I took 10 steps from the portal, collected the mushrooms, and then (For some reason) decided to patch that bit of lava.
I built a netherrack path to get to it and was just about to cover the source block when *BOOM*
A ghast had flown up to that opening and hit me in the back. The netherrack path was gone and I was now swimming in lava.
My attempts to build my way out of the newly created lava pit were useless. I died, losing my valuable items in the process.
Looking back I actually get a chuckle out of the whole situation. This has got to be one of the stupidest ways to lose everything.
I always carry fire-resistance potions too but always struggle to get some magma cream early on.
It's not until my 3rd or 4th trip to the nether that I start collecting decent amounts of it, and even then my method is to run around open areas swinging my sword at Magma Cubes. How do you do it?
Unless I happen to run across a lot of magma cubes I make most of my magma cream from slimeballs and blaze powder.
Just testing.
Once I go to the nether, I both keep an eye out for magma cubes and actively search for netherforts. Netherforts mean both netherwart for potions and blazes for brewing stands...and of course for making magma cream with blaze powder/slimeballs if you don't see any magma cubes. It does often take a few nether exploring trips being as careful as I can to get my hands on some fire protection potions, but once I get them, I too make sure I've always got a fire potion, if not directly on my hotbar, at least in my inventory. And a water bucket in the early game before I get the potion system going, as caves in the overworld can also be lava obstacle courses at times.
Didn't know this was a thing. Thanks.
You've spared me a ton of future fails.
A creeper got into my house, despite the fact I had a moat. I had to run into my basement, and I tried mining outwards so I could go outside, and lure the creeper out of my house. When I mined up to go outside, it turned out I was one block short of clearing my moat. I somehow trapped myself in the water, and drowned. I spawned next to my bed, and the creeper was right there, so I ran out before the creeper exploded. My house was in shambles, and I learned not to put pressure plates on my doors outside (inside is fine).