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I'm currently building a lake around a structure I made, and I'm really annoyed by how the water is acting. I'm trying to get a nice calm lake (it's effectively a moat), but since the sources don't create calm water even if the whole area's filled, I'm ending up having to place a source in literally every block of the lake. I'm almost okay with having the downward flowing water below the top three blocks, but ideally I'd have it completely calm. I've come too far to start over from the bottom (the top's got too many infinite sources) without starting completely over, so does anyone have any suggestions on how to fill this thing more easily? Lake dimensions: 25x25xI think 10, with structures built in to a good portion of it (center stairway is 5x5, rooms around it take up most of the area they're on). So I've got a huge number of blocks to fill...

u got to deal with it

If I did that, it would still have the flowing water down, wouldn't it? I can fill in my lake given enough time (and me not giving up out of frustration and just saying "good enough, the surface is calm"), I just can't stop the flowing water (which is my goal).

Infinite water trick: Make a 2x2 hole. Fill the diagonals with water. You should now have a 2x2 source that you can infinitely fill buckets with. Maybe that will help you fill up all the places you want filled more easily?

If you want pretty blue water that's calm and looks deep - dye wool blue and put it below where you plan to put the water. Aesthetically, it will make a nice ocean...... that's only one block deep......

The easiest way to do it would be to place a layer of dirt, one block from the top of your lake. then cover you layer of dirt with water. lastly you remove the layer of dirt you placed. The falling water should create still water blocks as they fall to the bottom. If they don't then they will do it in a later update.

I don't know of a way to place water blocks 10 deep, since you can't place water on water.

Okay, looks like I'm going to have to manually do it. For the record, due to the irregular shape of my underwater building, I can't just let the water fall (it also continues to flow, but as you said, a patch might change that). I'm doing it by building a scaffolding across the lake, then placing the water underneath it. This is going to take a while....

EDIT: how close do the water squares have to be to get the infinite water thing going? If it can happen in a wide open area (if I do a grid instead of every block), it'll help this out tremendously....

you can place the water one square apart, but it has to be on a flat surface. If your gonna place it under. your gonna have to do every square.

if your talking about water flow down your windows on the building. That's just game mechanics at work. nothing you can do about it with out a mod

Alright. Thanks for the help. I'm on level 3 of 10. Only took an hour or so with another helping to get one level done!

When filling the lake first start out by placing one bucket of water in each corner of the lake, from there you'll need to put water on almost every square for the water to appear calm and not moving, I did this with a moat around my house, just keep putting water in low spots and it will eventually all go calm.