Minecraft 404 Challenge - Ep. 001 - Descent into the Depths

This is my stab at the Minecraft 404 Challenge. This Part 1 of my second attempt. Let's see how long the author of the "Minecraft: How to Survive & Thrive" series can last! Wish me luck!

Oh, feel free to keep track of my score. I'm playing on HARD so I get a 1.5x multiplier. Thanks!

The 404 Challenge forum thread is here:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1031&t=190157

Snipped from the thread:
1. You have until night fall to gather supplies. Spend your time wisely! Once night hits you MUST venture into the hole, never to return to the surface again!

2. You can gather any resource you find top side, but venturing into any other caves (for iron mostly) is not allowed. Sunlit caves are allowed.

3. You must not break ground on the 404 gravel until you are ready to enter the cave. You are intended to be finding shelter for the first night, digging the gravel, and discovering the cave. Once you break ground on the gravel, you must enter the cave.

4. Once you enter the cave, you must descend all the way to the bottom! The waterfall has swept you into the deepest parts of the cave.

5. No torches! If you whine about why you can't use torches, just STFU. Real men use lava for light anyway! (Redstone torches, jack-o-lanterns, and flint n' steel are OK!)

6. Survive and thrive. Don't simply build a wall around yourself. Explore. Build. Progress! Your 'score' will be based on what you accomplished, not simply how long you survived.

7. Only mine ores that are is visible. If you see an ore, you can mine it and the blocks around it to see if you got all of it. No branch/strip mining allowed. You are spelunking/surviving here, not at your 9 to 5 mining job.

8. Difficulty must be either Normal or Hard. If you play on hard you could get a 1.5x score multiplier.

9. 1 life. If you die the challenge is over. Start a new 404 world if you want to try again.

10. No inventory edits or 'cheating' of any kind. Using F3 to see mob locations is considered cheating as well.

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[dissshorts]

Watching these with OCD is hell... ;)

[Azdoine]

@TheStinkbug92 If you don't like how he's playing, then too bad, cause the only one who cares is you. Maybe if you had been a bit more cvilized, I might have listened, but now you just sound like a butthurt troll.

And does it really matter that it's your birthday?

[Rosario9158]

I know I know I was thinking about something else sorry

[tomphas1]

@Rosario9158 also i dont think they had beds back in beta

[TONYXXXIFICATION]

@Rosario9158 i think theres a rule that doesn't allow to keep playing after you die.

you have to make a new 404 world and restart...

[MegaKillermove]

lol my first try i went down and fell into a lava hole

[Rosario9158]

make a bed so if you die you will go back to a hidde hole

[lmCIoudz]

March 12th is my birthday :D

[deathindark1]

@TheStinkbug92 well ofcourse, why Not collect cobblestone to create a wall to keep mobs from smacking you in the eye. You my Sir, Logic +1

[AQWMavinien]

@TheStinkbug92 Funny thing is, I wouldn't remember of it if you didn't said, after all it's not visible.

[Jasonsj14]

:/ How do you play this in 1.2.0?