So, I'm getting on with my Survival game after restarting a bunch of times, trying to find my feet.
I'd found a good spot for my hovel....out in the open, on a relatively flat area with access to trees, animals, a small lake and a quarry type thing with plenty of coal exposed, all within a stone's throw. I'd made a bed, got iron tools and scouted a few good caves to start exploring. I was doing pretty well, I thought.
So I gear up and go into a cave. After around thirty minutes of laying down torches and finding bits of iron, I dig through a wall and I suddenly hit wood...
I come out into the open and to my surprise I find I'm actually standing in an abandoned mine-shaft. Bingo! I didn't even know these existed!
So I set up camp with a furnace and crafting bench and off I go. Around an hour or two and seven or eight iron picks later, I've got roughly 30 diamonds, 40 gold ingots and god knows how much iron, red stone and some other blue stuff that I have no clue about. I can't carry any more. So, with a full inventory and a spring in my step, I decide to head back home to store my riches.
I'm around halfway back to the surface and I'm climbing up a rock face with a huge lava pool (lake) at the bottom. I just reach the top and as I peek over the final step....HISSSSSSS....uh oh....BOOOOOM! I survive the blast, just....but I fall in the lava. I lost everything.
Absolutely gutted...