Upon playing too much Minecraft

Remember

Before leaving the secure area, always check your inventory and quick-access belt slots.

Your armor should be complete (except for a shield; like, you’re really going to block something?) and of iron or better. If you are wearing more than two Diamonds worth of Diamond armor, consult special Diamond Handling Instructions for extra precautions to take against carelessly losing it.

Regardless of mission, you should have the following slot assignments:

1. Sword, iron or diamond depending on your progression,
2. Pickaxe, iron (if you have been issued a diamond pickaxe for your mission, consult special Diamond Handling Instructions for care and usage; you should still have an iron pickaxe in slot 2 for ordinary mining),
3. Shovel, iron,
4. Axe, iron,
5. Hoe, stone, or iron if iron is sufficiently plentiful,
6. 32-64 torches,
7. Shears, or secondary mission-specific item, switched from inventory as needed,
8. Primary mission-specific item, switched from inventory as needed,
9. 32-64 loaves of bread.

Additionally, you should have in your inventory:

• A bow and one stack of arrows,
• Fishing rod,
• Compass,
• Clock,
• One stack each of cobblestone, iron, coal, and planks for ad hoc crafting,
• An additional stack of some visually-distinct block like Polished Diorite, for building and marking,
• At least one spare Iron Pickaxe, and optionally a number of Stone Pickaxes for security,
• Replacements for anything else in the build-out that is near breakage,
• Optionally, flint and steel for randomly setting fires.

If your mission is in a Lava-prone mine area, you should deposit your Compass and Clock and Fishing Rod and anything else that you are unlikely to need in the mine’s General Inventory Chest before entering the tunnels (don’t forget to pick them up again on your way back). You should also have at least two (2) buckets filled with water, at least one of which should be kept in Slot 7 and/or 8 while mining.

(I’ve never even seen Netherite; maybe someday!)