Boneheaded minecraftian things I have done in the past few days:
* accidentally discarded my diamond pickaxe into lava ... with no other pickaxe in inventory, and iron ore but no coal to smelt with
(but I did have enough wooden sticks, barely, to use as fuel, and a crafting table plus enough cobblestone to make a furnace)
* gone down to set up a nether portal ... with no flint-and-steel to activate the portal, and while I had flint and iron ore, I still did not have coal, nor did I have a crafting table to make a furnace
* gotten lost in caves... despite using a map. (Round and round in circles we go where the hell is the exit anyway)
* dug a staircase up ... into the middle of the ocean
(yes I did go back down and collect the wiped-out torches)
* went all the way down inside a cave to build a nether portal ... that was close enough to the one near my base that I ended up way high up anyway.
On the bright side, I now have tons of netherrack? and mushrooms.
And, unrelated to that but the usual sources I use for views are kind of disappointing:
