I almost had a heart attack last time a creeper waltzed into my place incognito. I was messing about with a crafting table when I heard that sinister hiss; of course I turned around just in time for it to blow up in my face and destroy quite a bit of my base interior. It definitely happens to everyone, I just write it off as part of the fun/challenge of the game, :D.
Don't worry man, you and basically everyone else who plays minecraft got unlucky, the wierd thing is I've been playing minecraft for almost a year now and I've never had that experience, and most of it was survival. And again if that happens ever again just plan out what to do while you take a break and see how you want to rebuild you virtual society, then when you get back to the game you can just do what you planned instead of thinking about it while playing. Trust me, I never tried this (because my stuff never got blown up like that before) but it should work out alright, just try to find some redstone to make a piston door with it if you get slime balls.
yay for alt-f4. just tried it (vanilla) and works. So now disaster recovery = altF4. coo.
Wait a minute... You make a mistake and lose something valuable in Minecraft so just alt-F4? Really? If you're going to play that way you might as well play on peaceful or creative mode. Playing survival should mean that you have to earn stuff and then protect it.
Take your lumps and learn from them. Check your house again. Hit F3 so you can see the light level everywhere. I'd be willing to bet you have some light level 7 spots that something could spawn in. Learn how to recover from a disaster like that. Keep wood in your inventory so you can make crafting benches, chests, tools, etc. Carry a water bucket so you can put yourself out should you catch on fire or pour the water down a cliff to make a fast exit from a tall spot.
If you start taking advantage of things like alt-F4 for disaster recovery, then you take out any small danger the game had. You'll ruin the survival aspect.
Well it is your fault that you did not light up the interior of your base properly, not ours. Just get over it and keep playing. Also, why didn't you just chuck the crap items out of your inventory and pick up the good ones? That would have made much more sense.
Minecraft is a cruel beast. One time a world of mine in which I had put a solid 40-50 hours into got corrupted one night and remains unplayable to this day. Recovering from the lost of the content of a few chests might seem like a big deal at first, but after a few months of playing Minecraft you'll probably look back at this incident and laugh it off because you'll have 10-20 times the Diamonds you just lost. You'll get better at finding them too.
Here's a couple of tips to avoid these kind of situation in the future :
- Always built large : Your base should never be so small that a single creeper explosion would be enough to wipe most of your stuff on the floor. If you had built even a slightly bigger base, maybe your sheeps could have been safe, or maybe just one of the two chests would have blown up.
- Always have spares : And when I mean spares, I mean of everything. Spare empty chests, spare pens full of animals.
- Store Extra Ores away : Usually you would want to have a chest that contains all the needed materials to craft new tools and armor. It's quick and convinient, but that also means that all the really good stuff tends to be stored in one single VERY important chest. Here's the thing, you don't need to have 10 stacks of iron, 2 stacks of gold and 2 stacks of diamonds lying around in that chest. One of each is enough to last a while. Everything else should go into a seperate room, close by but not too close, a storage if you will.
- Once your base gets big enough, make more beds : For a new player in a single house sized base this is never a problem, but soon enough you base will get way bigger. You will need lots of farmlands, big animal pens full of cows and chickens to get their loots realiably, extra storage rooms filled with dozens of chest because you tend to accumulate a lot of stuff, sugar cane plantations, Nether Portal room, possible expansions in other biomes, etc. You need beds in nearly all of these places. As a rule, I set myself this objective : If I am currently on my base, I should be within 20-30 seconds of a bed. Bed skips the night time, which means fewer creepers and various other mobs will spawn and ruin your day. When you are on the surface, you want it to be daylight. In addition, if you are on a multiplayer server and you take this habit of always having a bed nearby, even going as far as dedicating a inventory slot for a bed, and everyone else does the same, you can coordinate to skip nights when needed.
Last reccomendation : Minecraft is one of those games that gets very boring very quickly if you forget to set yourself goals, big ambitious goals. Surviving for the sake of surving and getting into a routine of farming, mining, chopping etc, for no real reason will kill the game. You need to set yourself some cool goals, like finding a NPC village, getting some of them to move into your base, building a base that is so big the game can't have it all loaded on the screen at the same time at any given point, Make entire villages and cities, get your friends to help out, reproduce real world wonders, etc etc. You gotta start thinking big so it will keep you busy. (and having fun in the process of course) And when you finish your awesome project, post it on these forums with pride and start a new, even more ambitious one!
Well it is your fault that you did not light up the interior of your base properly, not ours. Just get over it and keep playing. Also, why didn't you just chuck the crap items out of your inventory and pick up the good ones? That would have made much more sense.
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Pressing esc will automatically save your game. The only way to quit without saving it alt-F4
It happens to all of from time to time. Mostly in the nether when you fall off and drop into lava, losing your diamond sword, pick, shovel, and armor...
Or, if you're windowed, open up the inventory or chat and click that handy little "x" button in the corner.
Either way, it's not too bad. Most of that stuff is fairly easy to get back besides the diamonds. Just keep at it. It's not like there's a time limit.
If you're THAT worried, it's best to just put up a bunch of safety measures. All you really need is a wall to keep mobs away from your base and a well-lit base.
Keep your more valuables inside an enderchest if you're paranoid about creepers. I use enderchests to keep building materials in, so I can load up before I head to a new location for building a new project.
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Sounds like me. I solved that problem by just setting the difficulty to peaceful and playing without monsters. Try it for a while until you get yourself established. Make sure everything is well lit so when you turn monsters back on they can't spawn near you because that's almost what it sounds like happened in your case. On a personal note, I don't mind playing without monsters because they feel like a tacked-on feature to me anyway. It's certainly no fun mining with caves full of an endless stream of monsters waiting to kill you. Like I suggested, try it with monsters off for a bit if the thought of another creeper bomb pisses you off too much. The option is there for a reason.
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Creepers are the worst enemy of players on the Overworld. You can close Minecraft without saving by hitting Alt + F4.
That'll whatever program you're currently using without saving anything.
And if you die with valuables, try to sprint all the way to their location, so you get there faster.
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"Do we want to be the mediocre brimstone boy, or do we want to be the more-than-enough brimstone man?" - Northernlion
Houses are never as safe as you think they are. I've been playing for years, and a creeper still snuck up on me while I was checking youtube AFK to get some stuff smelted. You can adjust the autosave from once per 2 seconds to once per 20 minutes and use ALT-F4 to quit (with optifine installed anyways, not sure about vanilla here), but I don't recommend that; if your game crashes you'll wish it had saved it all.
This is just ignorance. Your house/base is as safe as you make it. Careful lighting is the key. If you don't take the time to understand basic mob spawning and lighting mechanics then you're going to have surprises spawning in your house.
Wait a minute... You make a mistake and lose something valuable in Minecraft so just alt-F4? Really? If you're going to play that way you might as well play on peaceful or creative mode. Playing survival should mean that you have to earn stuff and then protect it.
Take your lumps and learn from them. Check your house again. Hit F3 so you can see the light level everywhere. I'd be willing to bet you have some light level 7 spots that something could spawn in. Learn how to recover from a disaster like that. Keep wood in your inventory so you can make crafting benches, chests, tools, etc. Carry a water bucket so you can put yourself out should you catch on fire or pour the water down a cliff to make a fast exit from a tall spot.
If you start taking advantage of things like alt-F4 for disaster recovery, then you take out any small danger the game had. You'll ruin the survival aspect.
*All of the above is my OPINION*
I was upset, but got back on the horse.
15 minutes later I was blown in the same spot.
I quit for the night. Today I have a pretty big fortress and an even bigger torch fetish.
Here's a couple of tips to avoid these kind of situation in the future :
- Always built large : Your base should never be so small that a single creeper explosion would be enough to wipe most of your stuff on the floor. If you had built even a slightly bigger base, maybe your sheeps could have been safe, or maybe just one of the two chests would have blown up.
- Always have spares : And when I mean spares, I mean of everything. Spare empty chests, spare pens full of animals.
- Store Extra Ores away : Usually you would want to have a chest that contains all the needed materials to craft new tools and armor. It's quick and convinient, but that also means that all the really good stuff tends to be stored in one single VERY important chest. Here's the thing, you don't need to have 10 stacks of iron, 2 stacks of gold and 2 stacks of diamonds lying around in that chest. One of each is enough to last a while. Everything else should go into a seperate room, close by but not too close, a storage if you will.
- Once your base gets big enough, make more beds : For a new player in a single house sized base this is never a problem, but soon enough you base will get way bigger. You will need lots of farmlands, big animal pens full of cows and chickens to get their loots realiably, extra storage rooms filled with dozens of chest because you tend to accumulate a lot of stuff, sugar cane plantations, Nether Portal room, possible expansions in other biomes, etc. You need beds in nearly all of these places. As a rule, I set myself this objective : If I am currently on my base, I should be within 20-30 seconds of a bed. Bed skips the night time, which means fewer creepers and various other mobs will spawn and ruin your day. When you are on the surface, you want it to be daylight. In addition, if you are on a multiplayer server and you take this habit of always having a bed nearby, even going as far as dedicating a inventory slot for a bed, and everyone else does the same, you can coordinate to skip nights when needed.
Last reccomendation : Minecraft is one of those games that gets very boring very quickly if you forget to set yourself goals, big ambitious goals. Surviving for the sake of surving and getting into a routine of farming, mining, chopping etc, for no real reason will kill the game. You need to set yourself some cool goals, like finding a NPC village, getting some of them to move into your base, building a base that is so big the game can't have it all loaded on the screen at the same time at any given point, Make entire villages and cities, get your friends to help out, reproduce real world wonders, etc etc. You gotta start thinking big so it will keep you busy. (and having fun in the process of course) And when you finish your awesome project, post it on these forums with pride and start a new, even more ambitious one!
Hehe. You seem to have rolled a 1 on your reading comp check. Thanks for stopping by.
Or, if you're windowed, open up the inventory or chat and click that handy little "x" button in the corner.
Either way, it's not too bad. Most of that stuff is fairly easy to get back besides the diamonds. Just keep at it. It's not like there's a time limit.
If you're THAT worried, it's best to just put up a bunch of safety measures. All you really need is a wall to keep mobs away from your base and a well-lit base.
Keep your more valuables inside an enderchest if you're paranoid about creepers. I use enderchests to keep building materials in, so I can load up before I head to a new location for building a new project.
-Many forums ask you to use the search function to find threads in your topic before creating a new thread. Then they get mad at you for posting in old threads.
get some ear buds for next time. Seriously. They're not expensive, and enable you to enjoy the sound on your games without disturbing anyone else.
Creepers are the worst enemy of players on the Overworld. You can close Minecraft without saving by hitting Alt + F4.
That'll whatever program you're currently using without saving anything.
And if you die with valuables, try to sprint all the way to their location, so you get there faster.
"Do we want to be the mediocre brimstone boy, or do we want to be the more-than-enough brimstone man?" - Northernlion
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This is just ignorance. Your house/base is as safe as you make it. Careful lighting is the key. If you don't take the time to understand basic mob spawning and lighting mechanics then you're going to have surprises spawning in your house.
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I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
Stupid 3D..