I ussually have over 30 buckets on each map mostly ones i made. the reason i have so many is i like to build with obsidian and lava. going on a lava run i take 27 buckets plus assorted other tools and then i'll have a couple of buckets here and there in a workshop, mine etc. done the milk thing but don't bother to make cakes as much anymore. I have started carrying a single bucket with water when exploring or caving.
Oh yeah, I'm a bucket man. I'm in the 30+ category and usually have about 5 w/ water and the rest are lava. I also don't mess around with milking cows anymore.
hmmm... I'd say 1-2 in the beginning just so I can make a few farms to survive. maybe 1-2 more separate ones to mess with lava. All the rest depends on what I find in dungeons. Can't seem to count how many times that has increased my pile whether I want them or not...><
So essentially if I don't find them first, I would say I make 1-4 i guess... Plus what ever I find after what I made.
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Close to 10 max i'd say. For those times where I gotta "fix" water and im too lazy to go into the ocean to keep refilling them. Just fill em up at the endless water fountain and then good to go. Always one with lava... for whatever reason o.O
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usually just 3 buckets.. anytime i wanna make milk i find a cow and get milk...need lava or water then I just use any of those 3 buckets. Finding pools of lava to make obsidian I use 1 bucket.. drop the water next to the lava and count to about 2 seconds and pick it back up.. dig out obsidian..if more lava underneath then just keep placing and picking the water back up with 1 bucket. Don't know why anyone would carry more then that really.
My first pieces of iron usually go to making (in order): an iron pickaxe, an iron sword, and then a bucket. I fill that bucket with water and it goes with me wherever I go. Then, if I don't find a dungeon with a bucket fairly quickly, I'll make a second and also fill it with water. That way, I can use the two buckets of water anywhere to make an infinite water source.
After that, I might make more buckets if I'm wanting to transport lava to a build site where I'm wanting to incorporate it (e.g. a lighthouse or lava trap). I don't need any more to mine obsidian because I can mine obsidian right off the top of a lake lake without losing any by mining it through a layer of water using just my original bucket of water. I don't generally use lava in a furnace because I can usually get ample coal for that task very easily.
Don't know why anyone would carry more then that really.
one of my obsidian projects was a pyramid with over 8000 blocks of obsidian. I placed a portal in the nether in the middle of several large lava lakes then in the above world i ran a rail line from the portal to the middle of a large lake where i was building the pyramid 2 blocks above the water. u can't pour water in the nether to make obsidian and once I had bucketed the lava it was easier to pur it in forms and turn it to obsidian in place. so i used 27 buckets to carry the lava back and forth. the top of the pyramid was easier to use obsidian blocks so the last 3 or 4 hundred blocks were not lava buckets. 4 gold blocks topped the masterpiece.
I usually have one water bucket on me at all times and when it comes to cake making or lava collecting, I have my quick select filled with 9 buckets for maximum efficiency
I end up with a bunch of buckets due to using water in xp farms and am too lazy to keep on refilling the same 2 buckets with water but always make it a point to keep 1 bucket of water in my hotbar at all times. MinecraftMuse made a video about how useful a bucket or bucket of water is, sometimes crucial to have. Here's the link but for any kids here, be forewarned, it contains 3 or 4 curse words . Ever since seeing that video, a bucket of water has remained the cornerbucket of my hotbar. Never leave home without it.
Wow nice video thanks for posting. I learned a couple of new uses.
You can never have too much Lava so in that respect you can never have enough buckets.
I usually have a double chest set aside for 90% or so of Lava and a few water buckets.
Needed it to fuel all the furnaces to cook all the cobble and sand.
Months ago i used lava to fuel furnaces but hated lossing my bucket eveytime. then on large glass projects i started using wood because it's infinite but now once i get a fortune pickaxe i have more coal than i can use so that's my main fuel source.
I use lava storage rooms sometimes instead of keeping source blocks in buckets.
I dig the buckets too. Always have a bucket of lava when I am in a friends world or a bucket of water in mine.
Me too. I play on a PvP server. built my house out of stone instead of wood specifically for lava defense buckets. Someone came to raid my chests and kill me, i dropped some lava through my murder holes. And whenever I raid other people's houses, I bring water with me in case they try my defense system
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so am i the only bucketphile here?
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Buckets some stuff here is PC only
milk to cure poison?
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1344277-%C2%AF%C2%B7-%C2%B7how-to-win-at-everything-with-a-bucket-of-water-14-great-uses%C2%B7-%C2%B7%C2%B4%C2%AF/#entry16385926 bucket thread
So essentially if I don't find them first, I would say I make 1-4 i guess... Plus what ever I find after what I made.
The other stays with me nearly 24/7 for whatever water-related things may come up.
Any I find in dungeons stay there....
Stay fluffy~
After that, I might make more buckets if I'm wanting to transport lava to a build site where I'm wanting to incorporate it (e.g. a lighthouse or lava trap). I don't need any more to mine obsidian because I can mine obsidian right off the top of a lake lake without losing any by mining it through a layer of water using just my original bucket of water. I don't generally use lava in a furnace because I can usually get ample coal for that task very easily.
one of my obsidian projects was a pyramid with over 8000 blocks of obsidian. I placed a portal in the nether in the middle of several large lava lakes then in the above world i ran a rail line from the portal to the middle of a large lake where i was building the pyramid 2 blocks above the water. u can't pour water in the nether to make obsidian and once I had bucketed the lava it was easier to pur it in forms and turn it to obsidian in place. so i used 27 buckets to carry the lava back and forth. the top of the pyramid was easier to use obsidian blocks so the last 3 or 4 hundred blocks were not lava buckets. 4 gold blocks topped the masterpiece.
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Retired StaffThis. I then use the two buckets in whatever fashion suits my current need.
i fixed that.
Wow nice video thanks for posting. I learned a couple of new uses.
Buckets don't go on your head...unless that was just a bad joke
Months ago i used lava to fuel furnaces but hated lossing my bucket eveytime. then on large glass projects i started using wood because it's infinite but now once i get a fortune pickaxe i have more coal than i can use so that's my main fuel source.
I use lava storage rooms sometimes instead of keeping source blocks in buckets.
"Pointy end up, flamey end down. If both ends are flamey, we call that a 'minor error'." -A very wise rocket scientist