A simple, yet helpful change in my opinion is to give buckets the ability to pick up lava/water runoff.
So basically, say you found a lava spill in a cave. It's in your way, so you block up the source. But then you're left with that annoying, giant spill of lava runoff and the only way to get rid of it is to 1) Messily place blocks then mine them out 2) wait for it to disappear.
So what I suggest is that right clicking on lava runoff blocks will erase them and not fill up the bucket at all, similarly to the creative buckets and source blocks. And of course, the bucket must be empty.
This is a fairly good idea, provided that 1. it only works if you're using an empty bucket and 2. the bucket remains empty after, like the OP said.
I do sometimes use a water bucket on the place where the lava source was, but that requires mining away all of the resulting cobblestone, and it still doesn't always get rid of all the runoff.
But maybe Mojang intended for lava runoff to be difficult to remove and giving us an easier way to remove it would upset the game balance somewhere?
Although it seems weird to still have an empty bucket after pouring water of multiple half-flooded spots into it, getting cascades by emptying a full bucket is even weirder.
So considering that's just the way fluids work in minecraft, this shouldn't heavily concern anybody.
Also this change in functionality of empty buckets seems far to convenient for anybody to reject.
Too convenient, I might add...
Lava is designed to be an obstacle. One should not be able to simply bucket their way through it. The down fall of placing blocks is that you would risk making another obstacle, and that you would have to reserve inventory for such blocks.
The very reason lava runoff remains after the source is removed is to prevent people from simple using that as a method to ease past it.
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So basically, say you found a lava spill in a cave. It's in your way, so you block up the source. But then you're left with that annoying, giant spill of lava runoff and the only way to get rid of it is to 1) Messily place blocks then mine them out 2) wait for it to disappear.
So what I suggest is that right clicking on lava runoff blocks will erase them and not fill up the bucket at all, similarly to the creative buckets and source blocks. And of course, the bucket must be empty.
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I do sometimes use a water bucket on the place where the lava source was, but that requires mining away all of the resulting cobblestone, and it still doesn't always get rid of all the runoff.
But maybe Mojang intended for lava runoff to be difficult to remove and giving us an easier way to remove it would upset the game balance somewhere?
Too convenient, I might add...
Lava is designed to be an obstacle. One should not be able to simply bucket their way through it. The down fall of placing blocks is that you would risk making another obstacle, and that you would have to reserve inventory for such blocks.
The very reason lava runoff remains after the source is removed is to prevent people from simple using that as a method to ease past it.