Tonight would be my first truly frustrating death.
Let me explain.
Im a noob, as it were, but I'm not a green wet behind the ears noob. I comprehend many of the mechanics of the game and comprehend a lot about building and animal husbandry and all that jazz.
Well ive been digging deep using the Prospecting pick (excellent addition in this game I might add) and I happened upon some Casserite. Well underneath it was my first cave system that ive dug into and discovered without first finding its opening on the surface. Of course the cave was deep and I found it shortly after leaving Peridotite and entering Andorite. Ive learned to use dirt to fill stairwells methodically behind me to keep drifters from surprising me from the rear.
Well, I cleared out the vein of Tin and started to explore the cave when BAMMMM! Hello Nightmare Drifter. Dead. One shot. And now I'm running a thousand blocks back to my mine shaft in the dead of night and unannounced to me I will go blind when traversing the adits below because of my handy dirt method blocking my six when I'm digging. I came upon where all my gear was lying in wait and the grace light when death steals our goods vanished into blackness,
Well crap the bed. Spend a few minutes trying orient myself using coordinates, Daggum deep drifter just nixed me. Right in the face. Turned around and Hello Goodbye.
Okay. Thousand block run back and this time I remove the dirt block to recognize my emptied Tin vein where I was brutally disemboweled by the nightmare drifter no longer contained my items. I stopped at home base and grabbed a torch out of a torch holder.
And this is my first time loosing my goods in this game. Backpacks, bismuth bronze tools, Bismuth Lantern, longbow, and it's a good thing i emptied my inventory before attempting to explore the cave I had uncovered. Good thing I overdo everything. If only life were as simple as a survival game. Id be rich beyond compare.
Instead I'm just a nobody that lost all their gear to the time limit. Now ive gotta come up with a mine deviling kit that gets left at the mouth of the shaft so when I inadvertently bight the dust again ill be able to see when I'm jumping back into the mantle of the world. Maybe a torch holder should sit at the mouth of all mines. At least some light would help in recovering my corpse. These are lessons learned. Me thinks.