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I have been working on transforming a woodland mansion, finished several rooms, made a big farm, and went down the road a bit to work on a darkroom mob farm. I spent some days up in the air, and when I came back home, my mansion was splintered.

Happily the farm is fully intact, my storage room seems to have survived with all my chest, but it looks like most of the place blew up.

There was a time yesterday when my computer restarted (Win 10 update presumably) in the middle of playing, but the area I was working in seemed unaffected. (see attached photo)

SSP or SMP?

SSP, no mods

This is unheard of... At least for me...

Well at least I can feel special.

I've made the most of it. I decided it was a good reason to get some experience using creative mode to fix it.

One clue was that things I'd changed within the mansion were almost entirely intact.

So far I've seen no sign of other problems in the world outside the mansion.

It might be that it bugged out while generating the mansion, nothing to worry about

It looks like it burned down.

Yeah, it does kind of look like that, but there is a sort of regularity to the random destruction throughout the mansion. I've repaired the walls and roof, and cleaned out the insides.

You know, the more I think about it, the more I like the "burned down" theory. I couldn't imagine a fire could go all the way through that huge mansion, but no one has come forward with any glitch experience that would explain the whole inside being disrupted either, and it was mostly made of wood. Now it didn't have any lava or fire. There were torches of course and some furnaces. Can't see how blazes could get through the portal. The stone in the walls, stairs, and foundation was intact. Much of the wool was gone, so I assume that burns. My best theory for how a fire could start is a lightening strike. Do they start fires?

Also it would take a long time for it to burn and I'd have to be close enough for it to be loaded/active, but far enough not to see it, but I spent several days working on my darkroom xp farm nearby in the sky.

Yes lightning strikes do start fires but the rain puts out the fire your house must have been damaged as the fire had spread inside the house where the rain cant stop it then the rain eventually stopped the fire

If you don't think that might of happened then there might be a trojan on your system known as a rat. A rat is a piece of trojan that lets the hacker access the victim's pc disguised as a program. The hacker could've griefed your world while your were sleeping or doing something else

Do you keep your pc on at night? Have you tried to download and cracked files or anything from any suspicious website or had any recent malware problems? Do you have a firewall and an antivirus? Anyways there is nothing to really worry about as I might be wrong. Ratters may do more extreme stuff to your pc. If your pc is experiencing issues day after day, then scan your pc

It's a thought, but seems like if someone got into my system they'd do more than burn down my mansion.

the mansion has overhangs, if a lightning strike just so happened to hit a block under the overhang it could have started a fire protected from the rain, this would also explain the randomness of the destruction, because as more and more of the roof burned the rain could reach more of the fire

While rebuilding the walls there were two times when it looked like cobblestone ledges were stained black. I figured it was just weird shading, but maybe smoke and/or lightning can stain cobblestone?

And, do lightning rods work in Minecraft?

I've tested And: If you were in hard difficulty, Fire will always spread faster than the time the rain takes to extinguish it. So It would spread even if it started in the ceiling.

Oh, and there isn't any type of "Stain" for the blocks. It was a shading bug.