I fell in the lava ravine due to lag and lost a diamond sword (my quarry/mine isn't 100% secure from mobs, more like 99%) perhaps 6 iron picks (I have almost a full stack of ore back home), a few stacks of cobblestone (again, I have craploads back home) most of a stack of torches, full iron armor, and a couple other stuff ><
Are you sure if it was completely due to lag? If it was completely due to lag, I can give it back to you unlegitly, but only if you're sure it was because of the lag.
Question, what brightness level do you guys use in the settings? Might be of some help in gauging light levels because I think a few mobs are spawning when it gets to night. Also, would a diamond sword be ideal or should I just carry something else?
I play on the darkest setting. If you play on brighter, I can imagine it being harder to guess... At least there have been problems in the public storage because the floor is made of sandstone, which appears very bright, resulting in me spacing out the torches more than I should have done.
Maybe you should use stone or iron swords until you become better at Minecraft, or otherwise you could keep the diamond sword for cases where you don't expect to die (like when working on the surface fairly close to a settlement). Then you can also practice your fighting skills more, with the lower quality weapons.
Do you know that if you sneak, you won't fall off the edge of blocks?
You can use diamond swords if you want, though. I think we can sustain that, or at least it wouldn't hurt our economy much, and over time you will probably begin to die less.