1801

No torches, ladders, or doors. Blocks should be okay.

1802

You can’t place anything “special” on glass, like torches/switches/glass/buttons

1803

I’m lost. I don’t cheat. I won’t change the difficulty. Won’t use some other method to find my way home but I am lost. I have a ton of diamonds and iron. I am terrified of dying.

It is a changed experience. I was sure I was just on a large island and could find my way back, but now I think I dug under some water - i popped out at night, was attacked and ran - which caused me to be lost and I can’t find the opening.

I miss my home, I was building a Venice world and my house was lit by a lava ceiling… sorry no pictures because I am lost.

1804

Build a compass! It will always point toward your spawn location. In a crafting table, make a cross out of iron ingots, and swap the middle one for a redstone.

1805

Time to build a new outpost and get yourself a compass.

1806

While I find your predicament humorous, because I laugh at other people’s expense, building yourself a diamond axe and diamond sword, along with iron armor, and taking a spelunking trip to find redstone in order to build yourself a compass… is the exact opposite of cheating.

1807

I would do the following (bear in mind I’m super cautious).

  1. Climb to the top of the tallest nearby mountain and build a tall thin tower (only leave a 2x2 space empty in the middle, say 10 blocks high). This is so you can find your stuff again.
  2. Build a chest and put your valuables in it.
  3. tunnel to the bottom of the map to find redstone. Avoid cave systems on the way down (signpost them for later). You can’t afford to get lost underground right now.
  4. build a compass, retrieve your gear, go home.
  5. The tower is not wasted because it serves as a reference point. I have towers all over the place on my map. Each one has a sign reminding me what landmarks are in each direction.
1808

I agree. Take only what you need for spelunking to find redstone, do NOT take your extra iron, tools, or materials you want to keep should you die. And cook yourself some pork chops in case you need to heal.

Maybe grab a bucket of water too.

1809

<deep voice> “We embark on a dangerous expedition deep into the bowels of the earth. Deeper than any mortal has dared to tread.”

<Pogo> “Right. I’ll need 3 pork chops and a bucket of water and we’re good to go”

1810

Ah! Stupid me thought a compass would just point north/south - but back home! Lava cave, I will see you tonight.

1811

Minecraft Dungeon Party is good for some laughs.

1812

I know that sentiment. But Is a precious one… probably on your next world you will mark the path from spawn to your home, so getting lost will be a luxury you will not be able to get. Anyway we know you are terrified just now.

1813

I don’t know what to make of you Teiman. I’m imagining you as a professor of Chinese literature in Guangzhou. Erudite but still learning English.

1814

This what happens when you get pissed off with clouds:

It doesn’t look like much, but I have dropped the top 73 layers to the bottom of the world. Giving an extra 50 blocks of building height or an extra 30 if you want to keep out of the clouds.

1815

You could also remove the clouds by replacing clouds.png in the minecraft.jar with a completely transparent image.

But then you’d have no clouds.

1816

I never got to show what I did with DocLazy’s survival map:

This is most recent. Everything I need with the layout is done, now it’s just type to grind blocks and build upward, though another border fence of some sort may be necessary to protect my ascension. I think what I really need is a lava moat.

This is pretty much how I had approached it… build dirt blocks to start growing trees ASAP to start building with wood, and used the one water block to flow between some tilled dirt for food production since I frequently took damage:

The dirt staircase I built to transport “grass” back to my tower after destroying the initial block Doc provided:

My work area in the “house”:

1817

Watch me break the first two rules of Minecraft:

Just skip to about the 8 minute mark if you don’t want to watch the tutorial stuff.

1818

Hah! That golden rule.

Also, I’m not sure why you didn’t do one of two things after you placed that water… pick the water spring back up with the empty bucket, or just use a block to destroy the spring.

edit: I guess you do eventually pick it back up…

What do you use for recording?

1819

Amazing video Guildboss, I love the way you sound scared and excited at the same time, which perfectly encompasses what Minecraft spelunking feels like.

The lesson of surviving is definitely learned.

1820

Heh, I don’t get shaken easily but my heart was racing when I hopped to down to grab that redstone. I was just waiting to get jumped but fell into lava and started to burn instead. Fun stuff.