I was exploring, looking for new biomes I hadn’t seen yet (I haven’t played in years due to a different tragedy). I get to the biome that has all the different layers of clay and I find a cave with a TON of gold. More gold than I have ever seen in Minecraft. I built a little dugout so I could safely have a respawn point nearby, and a place to store my loot, so that nothing would go wrong.
Then the tragedy.
While I was mining the last of the gold, my controller died. “No biggie, I’ll use my other one,” I think. Except it wouldn’t connect. I tried to turn it on a thousand times while my character is just sitting there. It WOULD NOT CONNECT.
I had to sit there and watch a zombie kill me, and






