I try to be careful but I guess I need to pay more attention. I'm easily distracted by shiny things I guess.

I've taken to isolating the diamonds before I extract them. Had too many fall into lava in the past.

I didn't know that..! Should've thought that was the case, but never mind. Does that mean that if the lava is more than one square deep, you need to drop several squares of sand into it?

Thank you!

Yeah if it's more than one just keep dropping.

 

I swear you were doing that when you were with me in merica?

No, I was putting cobblestone down, smash, repeat if deeper :-$
Sand would make it much easier!

You can also put sand/gravel on top of obsidian, and (once it finally mines) the sand will drop before the lava can flow out.

Is obsidian the purple stuff? How can you mine it?

Yes. With diamonds. :P

Hmm, to be clear, obsidian is the very very dark (almost black) purple blocks on the outside of a portal, not the translucent plasma in the middle:




You can't mine the portal plasma. :(

Same here, I was cobblestoning the fuck out of lava earlier.

that's an excellent tip, thanks
will make obsidian creation/mining much easier :)

goddam lava :(

I hate that shit.

lost another load of good stuff

Well maybe it will ne out of its system for me when I get on in a bit then. Does the stuff we lose get put back into block or is it lost forever?

lost forever :(

or I'd just dig it right up again

Kos - what was the plugin for /back after death. Found a different one but its putting me straight back in the lava which is fairly pointless.

Think its part of Essentials or General, whatever the current one is.

Essentials! Thanks. Though /back just put me back where I was but above ground. Hmm.

I think it tries to find the nearest safe block to put you on.