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Get out with your swag and consider this an important lesson learned.
Also, it's Minecraft. Take whatever dirt and cobblestone you have and start digging up. Not straight up, that's how you get killed by gravel or creeper, but build a crude switchback staircase to the surface.
I used to mark my paths with a pair of planks and a torch. Slap a plank on the wall and a torch on that, stick the second plank on it in the direction of out. Until abandoned mines were added you knew that the planks weren't natural and they stick out in the grey.
edited 10th Sep '14 12:52:02 AM by Rotpar
But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you.Usually I can find my way back out of a cave system, but if it's particularly elaborate (Or if my inventory is full and I want to come back later to where I left off) I'll just hollow out a small room and build a staircase going up out of it.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
Well, not if you get the idea to excavate the dead end further for some reason.
So the Bukkit thing: I have a friend that is running a 1.8 server with Bukkit. Lots of the usual mods. He also runs a purely vanilla server (not that those are hard). But unless you're dying to use the new block types in SMP, Red's server is still up. PM redwhitenblue for the IP and junk (since I can't remember it).
In any event, I think that there were mistakes made with the Mojang/Bukkit thing.
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.I didn't understand how addictive Minecraft truly is, until I glanced at the clock and realized I'd been playing for 2 hours straight!
Quiz time! I went exploring farther than I've ever been before. Found a bunch of iron, and generally had a good time, until I got lost. And then wandered aimlessly until I realized it was getting dark. Did I:
a)Use any of the 2 full stacks of wooden planks I was carrying to build a shelter and wait out the night?
b)Switch to Peaceful mode until I figured out where home was and got my little ass indoors?
c)Panic and run all over the desert like a complete twat, get mauled to death, and lose everything in my inventory?
Time's up! Unfortunately, it was C. Luckily I'd already made a bed, and had a few basic tools on a chest, so I didn't have to start from complete ground zero. Or respawn in the middle of a mugging.
As for picking up my stuff, that would have depended on being able to find my death spot, and as I said, I was lost.
So far I've managed not to look at any Enderman. Or fall off any cliffs. Or into lava. Or accidentally hit any of the wolves that just come from no where to run in circles around me while I'm trying to chop down a tree. Or drown. Or suffocate my self whilst digging in sand.
Damn. There's a lot of ways to die in this game, huh?
Even better, there are various quotes in the ingame chat which depict your death, one for nearly all of them.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."

...I didn't put down any markers.
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