- Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:43 pm
#77332
I've died in quite a number of different ways on minerealm, almost too many different ways to write down here and quite a few of them make for quite a story to tell.
But, I guess start my most infuriating one which involved me out in the wildernesson the current survival map , on my own collecting supplies; wool, yellow and red flowers, bones, etc. But, most importantly I was digging out clay from river beds (looking for alternatives to Grey Wool for scupltures).
Rather than damage the river too much, I would dive down to the bottom with a shovel and quickly dig out so clay, collect it and return quickly to the surface for air. I did this for quite a while, remembering to sethome at a particular point. I managed to dig out a hidden alcove in a river bank that had an airpocket, that I could hide in safely. So I followed several rivers, losing track of time and my location when I made the fatal mistake of not surfacing quickly enough. I panicked.... I tried to type /home quickly whilst drowning.
However I made the mistake of typing . instead of / for /home.
My finger had slipped and before I could retype I drowned.
Ended up going back to where I thought I died with a few fellow minerealmers, but in the end we never did find the dropped items.
There have been other times when I've drowned and successfully retraced my steps to with the drop, but the lesson I learnt from that episode was to either take a friend when going out to do dangerous work, and or go equiped with aqua affinity leather helmets and efficiency shovels or to use dirt to dam the river to make it easier to dig the clay out and then try to repair the damage afterwards.
But, I guess start my most infuriating one which involved me out in the wildernesson the current survival map , on my own collecting supplies; wool, yellow and red flowers, bones, etc. But, most importantly I was digging out clay from river beds (looking for alternatives to Grey Wool for scupltures).
Rather than damage the river too much, I would dive down to the bottom with a shovel and quickly dig out so clay, collect it and return quickly to the surface for air. I did this for quite a while, remembering to sethome at a particular point. I managed to dig out a hidden alcove in a river bank that had an airpocket, that I could hide in safely. So I followed several rivers, losing track of time and my location when I made the fatal mistake of not surfacing quickly enough. I panicked.... I tried to type /home quickly whilst drowning.
However I made the mistake of typing . instead of / for /home.
My finger had slipped and before I could retype I drowned.
Ended up going back to where I thought I died with a few fellow minerealmers, but in the end we never did find the dropped items.
There have been other times when I've drowned and successfully retraced my steps to with the drop, but the lesson I learnt from that episode was to either take a friend when going out to do dangerous work, and or go equiped with aqua affinity leather helmets and efficiency shovels or to use dirt to dam the river to make it easier to dig the clay out and then try to repair the damage afterwards.
Brony and Proud