Poll: Minecraft: What kills you the most?

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This thread has probably popped up before, but i would like to know what the Escapist's most common death is in minecraft.
Personally, i always seem to fall through holes or off cliffs into magma. I've gotten to the point where i keep a bucket of water with me as i mine, snuffing out all signs of magma.

 

[Broady Brio]

Either clumsiness falling into lower ground or magma.

Or those Motherfucking Creepers.

 

[Viridian]

Is their an option for being next to an exploding Creeper who opens up a hole wherein I fall for 4 stories and land in magma?

Cuz yeah.

 

[latiasracer]

Usually falling into open topped ravines. Because i sprint. Everywhere.

 

[McMullen]

Lava kills that many people? I did die in it a couple times while mining obsidian, but at the same time learned from that experience how to work in areas with lava above, adjacent to, and below me without putting myself or the ores I was acquiring in danger. I also learned to always carry a water bucket. I tend to react quickly enough when I laterally mine into a hidden pocket that I get away and block the leak with no trouble, and I only break the "don't dig straight down" rule when I know what's below me (well, okay, sometimes I will when it's just one block and I'm feeling really lazy).

Carving cliffs and building towers has, for some reason, not schooled me so well in safety practices, possibly because death by gravity is not nearly as inconvenient as death by lava. I built a miniature Final Fantasy IV Tower of Bab-il that went from the void to the clouds (in a world where bedrock is replaced by lava), and hollowed out the ground surrounding it. Died like 5 times building the thing and carving away the cliffs.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Mostly creepers who sneak up on me.

Falling damage is a close second, though.

Oh, and in maps made by Vechs, skeleton armies are up there too.

As for lava...Yeah, I have never had trouble with Lava. I always carry a bucket of water on the hotbar in case of problems.

 

[Aeriath]

Used to be falling, but then potions came out.

I never seem to spawn close to a fortress in the Nether, so I make a map and sprint around looking for one. The Nether is a NASTY place for sudden holes appearing, so I've become intimately reacquainted with lava several times.

 

[XMark]

There should be craftable safety harnesses for working up high on ledges. All it takes is one second of distraction and you're falling to your death.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

My own stupidity. Like forgetting to use the shift key or failing to remember that giant chasm I marked clearly with torches and falling to my doom.

Mob wise? Creepers are horrible but Skeletons usually get the kill. So when that new AI patch comes with mobs hiding in the shade, I'm going to be pissed.

 

[Dalek Caan]

Falling into Lava usually does it for me. I have deleted my worlds so many times out of anger because I lost so many items.

 

[Legion]

Seeing as I only play online, and on the server I play on, I am an admin, I don't die.

 

[Thedarkestofsouls]

I tend to just hit the ground to hard... a lot.

 

[Thunderous Cacophony]

There should be craftable safety harnesses for working up high on ledges. All it takes is one second of distraction and you're falling to your death.

Construction work is a dangerous business. When I'm not plummeting from a tower or into a mine, I'm accidentally creating poorly-lit places where mobs can spawn and ambush me in the night, causing me to panic and topple to my doom.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I kill myself the most.
Mainly through the crashing of planes into assorted things.
Mainly high-flying trees, damn them.
Or maybe I'm the one flying low...

 

[PunkyMcGee]

human error, never see it coming.

 

[War Penguin]

Falling, especially in caves. Forgetting to put a torch down and falling to your death does massive damage to your gaming ego.

That or creepers, but that's due to my own stupidity of, "Oh, I'm well equipped, I can take them on." That, or going AFK and forgetting to press the pause button.

 

[Xman490]

Lava was first when I was a newb, skeletons are second place, spiders help it to happen, but still,
It'ssssss a very nice pickaxe I have here...

 

[bigredlyms]

Is their an option for being next to an exploding Creeper who opens up a hole wherein I fall for 4 stories and land in magma?

Cuz yeah.

this is essentially my most frequent cause of death. its always the lava that kills me, but almost always caused by a creeper knocking me off one of my carefully constructed path unexpectedly and directly into the magma.