I had the bright idea of building a lava moat around my lovely little log cottage in Minecraft. After looking day and night for a handy and accessible source of the hot orange material, I painstakingly crafted a bunch of buckets with the last of my precious iron ingots and collected a large quantity of it and finally got my moat all filled up. Seeing that I still had about 90 seconds of daylight left, I grabbed a bunch of wheat, carrots and seeds and raced off to feed all of my penned animals. As dark descended and chores finished I raced back to my beautiful cottage with a tune on my lips and a feeling of real accomplishment in a day well spent. As I skipped up the steps to my home intent only on a well reserved nights rest, I noticed in sudden shocked horror that the entire structure was ablaze, every wooden block of the structure burning, only my bed and a few stacked chests sticking up out of the inferno. I raced to put it out, but it was much too late. I succeeded only in lighting myself on fire like a blocky human torch, and as I stumbled back in the direction of the nearby lake watching as my hearts began to shake and disappear intent upon flinging myself into the life saving water I ran into the gyrating form of a creeper. The last thing I saw as the death screen descended was a combination of all my iron buckets spinning in front of me.....and the fence for my pigs, cows and chickens burning where I had rubbed up against them and all of my farm stock stampeding away into that uncaring blocky night...
Minecraft can really be Hell.