Seriously you guys know what I'm talking about. Once it gets set especially if it falls from somewhere it never goes away.
I know that someone said that lava is supposed to go slower than water but stopping isn't slow it's stopping. It wouldn't be a problem if it was just a puddle on the ground but win you have any amount coming from above it's a nightmare to deal with.
The flowing lava creates a relatively stable light source that sticks around for a while, allowing you to illuminate ares below you without jumping down into them. It also creates an excellent barrier wall of liquid death. The lava does not need to be fixed.
Tip: to remove quickly, pour water on top of the lava after removing the source block. This will replace the lava with cobble which can be mined out quickly.
The flowing lava creates a relatively stable light source that sticks around for a while, allowing you to illuminate ares below you without jumping down into them."
It also creates an excellent barrier wall of liquid death. The lava does not need to be fixed.
Tip: to remove quickly, pour water on top of the lava after removing the source block. This will replace the lava with cobble which can be mined out quickly.
A fix to the lavas fall physics won't change that.
If you whant to keep the lava going just don't remove the source blocks.
But afterwords it needs to disappear eventually and it's not. And that lava water cobble trick might be good as a situational fix but not everyone want to flood there world with lava. Especially if there is some lava that they want to keep.
i have problems with water and lava all the time.
especially when lava is flowing high in the air.
i dont mind the fact that it takes ages to reach the floor however.
just the fact that removing the lava does not always remove the lava.
it simply moves it down a bit.
That's my main issue. Even if it falls slow it should vanish after the source block is removed. Anytime two or more vertical rows of lava get together they just tend to stay put forever.
I think it's an intended feature; lava is an obstacle, a deadly one at that. Water is too an obstacle, but you can swim through that. You shouldn't be able to just bring a bucket and clear a deadly obstacle out of your path, in the same way you shouldn't be able to bring some shears to a hedgemaze and just mine your way through the maze. You either have to make sure the lava goes away completely, or you dump water on it and create cobblestone blocks in your path, it's more challenging that way. If you want some kind of lore issue solved about physics, you can assume lava is this semi-solid. Water will just flow away, but the goopey lava will sit there like cornstarch and water.
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[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
cornstarch or not, it's just outright annoying having to spend more than half an hour to clear off lava half-springs when you the main spring is locked away already.
If it takes you a half an hour, you're probably doing it wrong. In most cases, it takes less than 2 minutes to place dirt on the remaining lava blocks. In the event that the lava is very high up, pouring water on it is your best solution, which takes a little longer, but still nothing drastic.
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[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
Perhaps if they just mad it go away REALLY REALLY REALLY slowly?
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I find it odd how lava goes away very quickly when pouring directly downward but not outward. I agree it should be like water but maybe like a couple second delay for every block it flows off of.
Okay, lava definitely needs to be fixed. I just tried to make a working lava waterfall door. I had to clean up a huge mess, and my attempts at cleaning only resulted in more of a mess.
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"You don't honestly care if your new Crystal Meta-Sword is going to clash with your Elite Boss Clogs! It's about the numbers! You want the items with the best numbers so you can use your numbers to decrease the enemy numbers until your numbers are the best in the land!" -ZeroPunctuation
Back when I was a noob minecrafter living in a jungle biome I thought if I could burn down the trees with lava. I put a block of lava at the top and I found out it would make a huge uncleanable mess. Next thing I did was put water over it. It looked like a sort of nice cobblestone structure but whenever I would want to take it down I would have to mine all the way from the top. Mining that much cobblestone takes a lot of time. I tried that but found out that much of the cobblestone structure was hollow with lava still in it. The next time I tried burning the jungle with lava I tried to put a hole at the bottom of where the lava would land but the lava just made more flows from up above. Lava was also coming down on my house one time from misclicking. My wooden house. I tried to stop the source but the lava was already flowing so my house burned down. These are some things that happened to me so people know how annoying and dangerous lava is.
I know that someone said that lava is supposed to go slower than water but stopping isn't slow it's stopping. It wouldn't be a problem if it was just a puddle on the ground but win you have any amount coming from above it's a nightmare to deal with.
Mostly moved on. May check back a few times a year.
It really needs to be removed, or at least made so that it takes no more than 10 seconds for all the lava flow to go away.
The flowing lava creates a relatively stable light source that sticks around for a while, allowing you to illuminate ares below you without jumping down into them. It also creates an excellent barrier wall of liquid death. The lava does not need to be fixed.
Tip: to remove quickly, pour water on top of the lava after removing the source block. This will replace the lava with cobble which can be mined out quickly.
A fix to the lavas fall physics won't change that.
If you whant to keep the lava going just don't remove the source blocks.
But afterwords it needs to disappear eventually and it's not. And that lava water cobble trick might be good as a situational fix but not everyone want to flood there world with lava. Especially if there is some lava that they want to keep.
That's my main issue. Even if it falls slow it should vanish after the source block is removed. Anytime two or more vertical rows of lava get together they just tend to stay put forever.
[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
If it takes you a half an hour, you're probably doing it wrong. In most cases, it takes less than 2 minutes to place dirt on the remaining lava blocks. In the event that the lava is very high up, pouring water on it is your best solution, which takes a little longer, but still nothing drastic.
[quote=Badgerz]You have to keep in mind that people are stupid.
[quote=Catelite]Just because you don't understand how something works, doesn't make it broken or pointless. >_<
"You don't honestly care if your new Crystal Meta-Sword is going to clash with your Elite Boss Clogs! It's about the numbers! You want the items with the best numbers so you can use your numbers to decrease the enemy numbers until your numbers are the best in the land!" -ZeroPunctuation
"You don't honestly care if your new Crystal Meta-Sword is going to clash with your Elite Boss Clogs! It's about the numbers! You want the items with the best numbers so you can use your numbers to decrease the enemy numbers until your numbers are the best in the land!" -ZeroPunctuation