Top 10 Worst Things that Could Happen to You in Minecraft
Minecraft has a funny way of making you feel like a genius one minute and a total blockhead the next. You can spend hours gathering gear, building something glorious, or finally getting brave enough to wander far from home, only for the game to punish one tiny mistake like it has been waiting all day for you to mess up.
That is what makes the worst Minecraft disasters so painful and so hilarious after the rage fades. You know the feeling. Your heart drops, your screen fills with panic, and suddenly all that progress is gone because of bad timing, bad luck, or one deeply rude mob. Vote for the Minecraft disasters that make you want to shut the game off, stare at the wall, and then somehow start playing again five minutes later.
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Mine a lot of diamonds and then die in lava
I had a good diamond pickaxe, and then boom, I found redstone. I mined some of it, and then things went very wrong. I don't know why, but I pressed walk, and boom! Next thing I know, I'm in the lava pit! I died with 55 points. I had gold ore. I regret that day... Stupid karma.
Imagine... Diamonds, gold, iron, redstone, and all that other stuff in your inventory. Then you're dancing around, not noticing that lava pit, and BAM! No valuables. Rage quit in 3... 2... 1...
I hate it when this happens. I find a lot of diamonds, mine them with a fortune pickaxe, and then go the wrong way. Boom! I drop into lava and slowly watch my items burn.
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Get lost
I made a HUGE house, no lie - it was so big, and I spent so many weeks on it, putting in all my effort. Then one day, I accidentally fell off the house (it was high up), and boom, I died. And guess what? It said my bed was destroyed, so my whole house was long lost and gone! SO UNFAIR! STUPID Minecraft! I didn't save it, so I switched Minecraft off (without saving and going to the menu), thinking my house would still be there when I went back on it, but that didn't work! I was so disappointed!
I made a huge castle-house thing and got lost in a ravine. Then, I died (with all my valuable stuff), and I didn't have a bed down since I was playing on Peaceful in that world. I was so mad! Luckily, after three Kleenex tissue boxes and one pillow, I found my house.
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Have your pet cat or dog die because you accidentally left-click
My sister and I play Minecraft on our Xbox together. In the best world we had EVER created, there were many wolf packs, so one day we decided to get one dog each. They were nice dogs that my sis and I adored! One day, we were cutting trees that were next to each other, and guess what - I accidentally hit her. Then her dog attacked me, and my dog attacked her dog, and there was a big dog fight. We exited the game right then and there and vowed to never go back to that world. EVEN WORSE, THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED! I wish I knew how to prevent these things from happening!
My cats keep creepers away because creepers will run from them. I don't know how a creeper can end up in your house with a cat. My dogs were there too, but then a creeper came in and blew up the house. The only dog that survived was the puppy.
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Have a creeper destroy your house
This happened when I was playing with a friend. I logged off after having spent hours building the house, and multiple creepers blew up the entire first floor. My friend rebuilt it. I came back on, and a creeper had followed her to the middle floor. She turned around to see it, ran upstairs to the top floor to get her bow and arrow, and then it blew up behind her on the stairs of the third floor, blowing up the second and third floors. We both quit.
The only way a creeper can really destroy your house is if it's small (I usually build big houses), but it's still an awful experience if you had something important in that area, such as a chest containing valuables.
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Accidentally press Q instead of W and throw an item into lava
This hasn't happened to me yet, but it has to do with the default "drop" key being right next to the default "forward" key on a standard keyboard.
This happened to me once, but luckily I didn't lose anything important. It was just a piece of cobblestone.
Never happened to me, but if it really bothers you, alter your controls in the controls menu in settings.
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Die or get lost in the Nether with valuable items
Okay, I had a problem similar to this one. You want me to tell you the story? Okay, I will.
Well, I went to the Nether. In the Overworld, my friend and I had just made a floating castle. So I went to the Nether, and I couldn't find the portal. I made a new one, thinking it would spawn me back at the castle, but it didn't.
I was so devastated that I felt like I had no choice but to press the delete button. I clicked yes, completely oblivious to what I had done. When I finally realized what had happened, I immediately broke down. I couldn't believe what I had done!
Just died today. I spent like 2 hours finding a Nether Fortress and got some blaze rods. Then I realized I was tons and tons of miles away from my portal. I started to think fast because I was running out of food. Then I started following North, but I dropped into the lava and lost a full set of diamond-enchanted armor, a diamond-enchanted sword, and the blaze rods... :"(
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Get shoved off a cliff by a cow
A cow never pushed me off, but I was doing good in the Nether. I walked in, and a creeper accidentally got into the Nether portal and blew me off the Nether cliff and into the lava.
Usually, wither skeletons do that to me in the Nether. Cheeky faces!
I always get shoved off by passive-aggressive chickens.
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Have your only pickaxe break right as you find diamonds
Ok, this happened when my friend was playing. He had to mine countless layers of ore (which he didn't need, because what he wanted to craft required diamonds). It was frustrating, but it's something that can easily happen.
Ugh! I HATE this! I once found a whole wall of diamond ore - NOT kidding. The pickaxe was the right kind, iron, and I mined one diamond, and BOOM! The pickaxe was gone. It was enchanted!
That is the worst luck in history! Why is it not number one?
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Build something awesome and then respawn and lose it
Oh my gosh, yes! I built a massive sea village by making a huge enclosed wall in the ocean and using sponges to dry the water out. I made awesome houses in it and even a dungeon for the quest I planned to do with my sister (I set up adventures for us to play). Funny story, really - I made a dark hall in one part and put a Guardian in it to jumpscare us. I went in to add some finishing touches and got trapped in the horror map. The Guardian popped out of nowhere, flopping around wildly, scaring the derp out of me. I ran into a room and shut the door behind me, terrified. Later, I went home and thought I had mapped out where to find it. Sadly, I haven't rediscovered it to this day.
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Find diamonds, get killed, and respawn in the middle of nowhere
This happened to me once. I was so mad that time.
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Have your world get corrupted
Dude! That happened on my BEST world. I had 12 elytras, no joke, end crystals, obsidian, and an end-themed house with enchanted diamond everything - all on a NO CHEATS world!
That would suck. I would be upset if it was one of my favorite worlds, but once, I had my world become unplayable when I accidentally put kill [username] on repeat with a command block. I kept dying over and over again, and I had to delete the world.
Imagine spending years on a Minecraft world only to find out it gets corrupted.
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Get killed by an iron golem
That's why I don't kill villagers in a village in survival mode.
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Go to the Nether, spawn right beneath lava, not notice it, and die
YOU WILL DIE. They have a whopping 100 HP, and they deal MAJOR damage to you unless you have enchanted stuff or diamond armor. Good luck with these in a mob arena.
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Have your own iron golem turn against you
The Iron Golems you make don't really attack you. However, Golems that naturally spawn will.
You cannot steal stuff from blacksmiths or harass the villagers, or you're dead - unless you have full enchanted diamond armor and a great enchanted sword. Then, you might fend off the Golem, unless there are more than two!
I blew up a village, and some iron golems escaped and attacked me.
I started attacking them with a TNT cannon (Mojang invented it), and with nine shots, three iron golems exploded. I didn't have any armor or swords. No big deal.
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Go to the Nether and get surprised by 5 ghasts shooting at you
And to make things worse, they ruin your portal, and you're stuck with them!
This happens to me a lot. Dude, I go there with my best stuff.
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Not have food
It was nighttime, and my house was right over the hill. I had no food, and it was hardcore. I suck.
I love playing on survival servers, and I always run into the same problem... A low hunger bar with no food and a plain filled with horses.
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Get trolled on a server
I died from a minecart trick that involved going into a one-block-tall space and ending up with a cactus. I suffocated when the cactus destroyed my minecart.
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Die in Hardcore mode
When that happens, I kill my friends. Period.
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Have your wooden house get hit by lightning and burn, so you pick up all your diamonds and run outside, only to get blown up by a creeper
I was messing around with commands and accidentally screwed up by 128 blocks. I set my house on fire. So sad.
My wooden balcony was broken by a creeper!
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Go to the Nether and have a ghast disable your portal, leaving you with no flint and steel or obsidian
Then you decide to make a safe place to put down a chest to put all your gear in so you can commit suicide, but then you fall in the lava and die with everything.
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Get buried by a happy face made of sand
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Get attacked by 15 zombies at the same time
I made a nice house in Creative mode and then switched to Survival. There were mobs everywhere in my house, and they killed me.
And you're on hard mode. You're so dead.
Yes! This happened to me before!
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Get excited when finding diamonds only to watch them fall into lava
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Get killed in Berserk mode
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Die before you have a bed, losing everything because you spawn far away
Make your house close to spawn instead of wasting time wandering far away to build one.
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Be trolled by someone pretending to be Herobrine
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Need one more piece of sugar cane to make a map