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I've recently started up a superflat world and I plan on making a city but first I'm going to do the ocean side of it. I need to fill a large area with water but I'm clueless as to how to do that fast and efficiently. So, help anyone?
You need to think about making the water do most of the work.. By taking the infinite water source concept a few steps further. Think of a square, go along one edge placing water every other block. This will cover one edge with source blocks. Next go along the next nearest side doing the same thing. As you go along the second edge the water will begin filling in the entire area of this 'example' square with source blocks. It doesn't matter if the area is 20x20 or 2000x2000.. the same thing will happen.
It does get a little more tedious with irregular shapes like coastlines, but once you get going you'll get a feel for it. You'll have to fill in a few gaps by hand, but the water will fill up and do the majority of the work for you.
I used this concept to cover the entire End island with water for my enderman farm. By myself, and by hand in survival. Once it got going it wasn't as hard as I thought. The water updates and fills large areas pretty quickly.
Depending on how big your ocean is going to be, I'd recommend against doing a one block below the surface thing.. For a small ocean it might be ok, but for a larger body of water I'd worry about lag. Imagine 100x100 blocks of falling water. I've never done it, or experienced it, but it's not the way I'd do it myself. The water below the surface will not create source blocks, and will just be falling water.
Start at the bottom. Use the methods listed above. Cover the whole thing with dirt blocks and repeat.
It's tedious but you'll end up with standing water instead of falling water.
It does get a little more tedious with irregular shapes like coastlines, but once you get going you'll get a feel for it. You'll have to fill in a few gaps by hand, but the water will fill up and do the majority of the work for you.
I used this concept to cover the entire End island with water for my enderman farm. By myself, and by hand in survival. Once it got going it wasn't as hard as I thought. The water updates and fills large areas pretty quickly.
Depending on how big your ocean is going to be, I'd recommend against doing a one block below the surface thing.. For a small ocean it might be ok, but for a larger body of water I'd worry about lag. Imagine 100x100 blocks of falling water. I've never done it, or experienced it, but it's not the way I'd do it myself. The water below the surface will not create source blocks, and will just be falling water.
It's tedious but you'll end up with standing water instead of falling water.
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