Poll: I was loving minecraft untill....

[Assassin Xaero]

Yeah, with my old graphics card that had issues about every 5-10 minutes. It would crash and have to reload. It saved my inventory and position, but not the blocks I destroyed, so it would put me in the middle of stones sometimes and I would auto die. Then I just gave up on that and started using invedit. It really save me from getting pissed off at stuff, like when I was building a volcano and then a cow came behind me and pushed me into the lava...

 

[Rewdalf]

I got lost in one of the artificial caves...
Yep. Legit lost!
I was about to give up too. I had decided not to dig anymore since moving too much earth would get me lost even further.
The cave was pretty damn big too, but eventually I found out I had fallen through a hole and found my way back to my tunnel.
I left some signs around that area...

 

[Wicky_42]

has anyone else had a FUUUUUUUUUUUU.... moment in minecraft and if so why?

I'd just finished building a monumental obelisk/lighthouse, adorned with lava - my first seriously big project.

Then my save corrupted.

Fortunately I was able to use one of those map editing programs to rescue it, and now I've got some very cool cliffs where the explored border was at one point that I must explore further at some point Nearly made me give up when it happened though... (I rewarded myself with a couple of blocks of diamond... :O)

 

[Wicky_42]

for me,i found a expansive cavern with an underground forest-like area,seriously.so i dug some stairs dwnward to find another opening into a underground lake of magma.lucky to my surprise i found out that gravel KILLS magma.so i clear out this place digging under and above while destroying magma on the way.then,of course,a creeper appeared and killed me. "no big problem i thought" seeing as there was no lava around me at the time.i was wrong...the creeper not only killed me but crashed my game and KILLED MY SAVE THAT I WAISTED 3 WEEKS ON! giant castle with town gone! my mine/volcano/underground natural forest GONE.over 30 diamonds UNUSED GONE!!! Dx havent played since...and that was over 3 months ago...

see my above post - saves can be resurrected (or 'saved', if you will

 

[Lord Kloo]

When you fuck up and burn down your own house or fall from the top of a under construction skyscraper and die, minecraft gets annoying and marks the end of session usually..

Also it is so very annoying when you lose your diamond pick because you clicked drop (Q) instead of move (W).. this has earned many a rage quit...

 

[Lekonua]

Oh, I have several.
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I was exploring this really deep cave once. I mean, REALLY deep. Like, "50 foot drop ahead so watch your step" kind of deep. I was completely decked out with diamond tools, ready to take on anything that stood in my way.

Things were going well for a while, then I heard them while I was standing on the ledge of an other big drop. Bones clanking, snarling. And lots of it. There must've been 4 or 5 zombies and skeletons each down there. I jumped down to a lower ledge to get a better look. Sure enough. 3 skeletons, 4 zombies, AND several creepers.

I began to question the wisdom of jumping down there and fighting them, and was about to climb back up and get the hell out of the cave when...

An arrow came flying and nailed me in the face. I lost my balance and fell into the pit where all the creepers promptly exploded at once, instantly ending my life.

Utterly pissed off, I returned to the cave upon respawning, to find the same number of monsters in that same area. Of course, all my tools and such were still down there. I had no way of retrieving them without pointlessly suffering a similar horrendous death.
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And more recently, I had downloaded a map viewing program just for the hell of it. Delighted that it showed me the location of several nearby gold deposits, I used a GPS program to get my in-game coordinates and found exactly where I had been told they would be.

With my trusty steel shovel and pick axe, I dug straight down, assuming that I would eventually hit the gold I sought.

Unfortunately, it seems that the GPS program uses the reverse of the coordinates provided by the map program. So not only was I digging in the wrong area, but I ended up going down to the bedrock, straight through PROBABLY THE ONLY GAP FOR MILES IN ANY DIRECTION, and fell into the void to my death.

I no longer use Minutor and Minecraft GPS for prospecting.

 

[captaincabbage]

SNIP

Uu, that's gonna hurt. I bet the creepers left quite a mess there.....

OT: I remember another one, when a creeper somehow got inside my mountain house's living room. He blew up my IKEA chairs ;(

It was honestly painful to watch. Funny tho.

Get this though, they all spawned out of a single place where there wasn't enough light. Naturally he only discovered this when he trekked all the way back to his mine. He was new to it as well, so naturally he didn't know that you start at the same place every time. XD
I've got a million of these stories, every time something screws him over he IMs me with a new one, I'll usually get a good chuckle out of it.
Goes to show, you let your guard down for a second and you'll get screwed over. Minecraft can be as tough as nails.

 

[GoodApprentice]

I guess it's a universal thing. I was busy stocking up my inventory in my furnace room for a huge project that required massive amounts of glass when a creeper walked in and popped behind me (during daytime). I was in a glass building within a large waterfall. Its floor was also glass which covered a large mineshaft that reached all the way down to the world's bottom. Well, the floor and walls blew out, I fell to my death, lost everything in my inventory and storage (so much glass!), and the unstoppable water flooded everywhere.

I haven't felt the urge to play since. I'm waiting for an international relief effort (what's taking them so long?).

 

[geldonyetich]

You've got to approach Minecraft in the same way you approach Dwarf Fortress:

Losing Is Fun

Frankly, survival mode get boring when there's no potential for disaster.

Another thing to remember is that Minecraft is in beta. It is far from a completed product. You're playing about a quarter to a half of a game there.

 

[2fish]

Lost all my diamond equipment and a ton of minerals into a lava pool was my first error. My worst was dying in my own mob trap before it was finished. I had the choice of running through the night to get away from the huge mob or jump in my trap and try to wall myself off. I got hit by enough arrows that the lava in the trap killed me.

Needless to say I have not built another trap since. I still have zombies that spawn in my main base though; I really should finish it at some point.

 

[Caligulust]

I would have just blocked off the lava if I were in your situation.

Honestly, my moments of FUUUU come from discovering my large projects aren't going to be as cool as I had hoped they would be. Or that I counted the wrong amount of blocks, so then I have to go back remove an hour of work to fix everything. Finding out your building is too high sucks too.

 

[Eternal Visitor]

it's a little unsettling to get completely turned around, ya, but there's a few ways to get around it. I always carry a bucket of water with me for dealing with long falls and/or lava lakes, and I use clusters of torches to mark where things I want to work with, and the ways out, are.

but the frustration is nothing next to the feeling of taking a step back, looking upon your finished castle that would shame a medieval king, and exclaim "I built this!"

 

[StompinPaul]

Sometimes, but I don't think I want that changed. With infinite respawns, the things that cause that sort of frustration is needed to add real consequences to decisions/mistakes. Consider: one time I lost my diamond pick trying to mine obsidian. It really annoying to lose it and the other things I had (I think I was carrying some redstone, some iron or and a bucket or two) at the time, but it also changed the way I considered harvesting obsidian. It manages a sense of danger despite unlimited free respawns.
Technical issues/glitches are always unfortunate though, regardless of what game you play but especially in your case.

 

[HentMas]

well, i was mining some coal in an already constrtucted tunnel, when i mined the one in the ground it oppened to reveal a second tunnel really deep and wide, with a bed of lava in the bottom, it looked reall cool all dark with the faint glimmer of lava, I loved it and shifted my way to the border to see more when my finguer slipped and i fell all the way down to the lava

needless to say, i was dead and lost EVERYTHING (all my 9 iron pikaxes, 9 iron shovels, 64 iron, so on so forth)

 

[Spectre4802]

Yeah, Minecraft can get really furstrating at times, especially while playing multiplayer.

Seriously, multiplayer is pretty much unplayable. Spiders are the most OP thing in existence right now.

 

[Sixcess]

Occassionally.

My initial exploration of the Nether ended in disaster when a Ghast went absolutely nuts and kept spitting fireballs at me, despite me being completely out of line of sight inside a hastily assembled cobblestone fort. By the time I ventured out again the damn thing had set fire to the entire region as far as the eye could see. I'm not sure if that's why I then started crashing constantly in the Nether, but I suspect it has something to do with it as the game otherwise works very well for me.

I normally build my initial fortress into the side of a mountain but in my last world I've walled off a bit of land on the base of a mountain and started to build a sky fortress. I've lit up everything except the top of the mountain so occasionally I get surprise skeleton paratroops dropping in to my base. Then I respawn and I can't get back into my base because...it's full of skeletons.

I had a very similar experience, and initially decided that the best way to solve the problem would be to knock the mountain down.

It seemed rational at the time.

 

[Asehujiko]

To make matters worse (not sure if this was a bug, or this is how it is now, haven't played lately), but my items weren't retrievable. I figured they just weren't retrievable in the Nether, so I died intentionally to test it in normal world, and the weren't retrievable there either.

That was a bug and fixed the very same day.

 

[lacktheknack]

I keep everything in a chest, and bring a chest with me in case of danger. So it's not frustrating at all. Even when I heard a "fssss" and immediately died, when I came back to the crater I had to laugh (all my junk thrown everywhere, I thought I had spontaneously combusted, etc).