A bucket of water (aka bucket o' caving) is one of the most important things to have on your hotbar at all times. I have mine in the third slot, only behind my sword and my pick.
so very pissed off, I had all diamond tools and had just made 10 sticky pistons (slimes are hard to find)
I wasn't even using lava, it was next to the pick and my mouse scrolled :(
That does indeed suck. Slimes are easy to farm now though, just find a swamp biome and they spawn on the surface at night (possibly in any light level).
I could go there, but it was just flat bedrock as far as I could see in every direction
there were some mushrooms about, but nothing else
there was no gate so I could only get back by using 'home'
Teh Mine will be down for the rest of the day most likely as my parents are switching Internet providers. The phone line seems to have changed over and the Be router stopped working. The sky one keeps connecting then rebooting every 10 seconds or so.
Also, the IP isn't static so I'll setup a no-ip account for Teh Mine.
Reboot your router and check. Not that it matters.
I read on the Sky forums that they're "sticky" but the IP at my flat changes on every reboot (and there's a lot) and each time this router here at my parents has rebooted it's changed.
I still have vnc settings in my phone that work fine, been there since I last changes the ROM about 10 months ago - had plenty router reboots since then.
Perhaps your bathroom light switch sends a DHCP renew request to Sky? (giggle)