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Infinite Water Source

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Infinite Water Source
Infinite Water Source.png: Infobox image for Minecraft block 'Infinite Water Source'
Invicon Infinite Water Source.png: Inventory sprite for Infinite Water Source in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Infinite Water Source
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An infinite water source[1] was a block that would repeatedly create water on each of its four orthogonal sides.

Obtaining

Breaking

Infinite water sources can be broken instantly, regardless of held items.

Block Infinite Water Source
Hardness 0
Breaking time (secs)
Default 0.05
Legend
  • incorrect tool, drops nothing
  • correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
  • correct tool, drops the block itself
  • italicized can be instant mined

Generated loot

Infinite water sources could be found in starting house chests in stacks of 99 in Indev 0.31 20100124-2310, and stacks of 100 in Indev 0.31 20100128-2200. Prior to this, they were added to the player's inventory by default in a stack of 5.

Usage

As infinite water sources are full solid cubes, placed gears render on their sides.

The infinite water source has many visual and functional differences from normal water:

  • It is a full, solid cube block with full block collision.
  • It is completely opaque.
  • All sides use the same still water texture.

Creating liquids

Immediately after placement, the infinite water source creates source blocks of water on each of its four orthogonal sides. If these created sources are removed, they get regenerated after enough time.

Sponges

Infinite water sources are deleted by sponges.

Sounds

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Data values

ID

NameNumeric ID Form
BlockSprite infinite-water.png: Sprite image for infinite-water in Minecraft [No displayed name]52Block & Item

History

Java Edition Classic
May 18, 2009Notch states that a "water spawner tile would probably be silly".
Java Edition Indev
0.3120100114 Added infinite water sources.
The block is referred to as an "item spawner block".[2]
The blocks were added to allow for players to create lakes on floating maps.
20100124-2310Infinite water sources can now be found in starting house chests in a stack of 99.
20100128-2200Infinite water sources can now be found in starting house chests in a stack of 100.
20100129-1447Infinite water sources can no longer be found in starting house chests.
20100131-2156Infinite water sources now periodically generate water around themselves even if said water was previously removed.
20100201-2227Infinite water sources are now deleted by sponges.
Java Edition Infdev
20100624The infinite water source has been removed. As the ID is now empty, it now crashes the game with a NullPointerException if a chunk containing said block is loaded or an inventory containing one opened.
20100625-1917 The numeric ID that infinite water sources used is now used by the monster spawner, and as such all existing infinite water sources seamlessly convert into monster spawners instead of causing the game to crash.

Issues

"Infinite Water Source" is a removed block and as such issues relating to it cannot be fixed.

Screenshots

  • An infinite water source. It could be held in the inventory by inventory editing.
    An infinite water source. It could be held in the inventory by inventory editing.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Level File Format" (archived) – Minecraft.net. "52: Infinite water source"
  2. ↑ "I SHOULD be sleeping, but.." (archived) – The Word of Notch, Tumblr, January 14, 2010.

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