Heh, I always carry a bucket full of water in slot 8 any time I might be near lava, so I can quickly douse myself.
Or at least, I did when I actually had buckets, before I got dead and lost them all, along with all my iron and gold and compass and redstone and everything. :(
Actually a bit confused, since I can't remember how I died now... was digging a shaft and thus at the bottom of it, so how the hell did I fall and go splat? Unless I got lagged into the air or something.
Anyway! Ant - enabling the /back command would be a useful one, since there appears to be a frigging time out on how long equipment lasts when you die, which is annoying.
Found 3 patches in a total of 8294 chunks. All three were small, and at same x & z coordinate. http://imgur.com/a/92COB
quote: Notch
Yeah, that would explain that.. Is it worth doing a 1.6.7 tomorrow?
Annoyingly, we *almost* have a coastline running along the x=z line, but it's just a bit out, so we have very little sand actually crossing the line, and no visible clay (though I didn't check the bay in the bottom left corner).
It is possible for clay to be underneath sand - so digging around the bottom left corner might reveal some, but probably makes far more sense for Notch to release a fix (though I doubt that will add clay to existing blocks, so it'll require exploring, particularly to the places Xen hasn't already prevented clay from being in. :P