It was removed due to the release of the bucket, but a bucket cannot solve all your problems.
In under ground rivers you would need more than a full inventory of empty buckets to drain it ("but I can just place blocks to get rid of the water") what if you don't have any and don't want to waste your value-able pick-axe use a sponge to drain it with ease.
Obtaining a sponge?
They are sometimes found on the ocean floor (ONLY in ocean biomes!)
The argument "What if you have no blocks" is irrelevant because your idea is to add a block. If you have no blocks to fill in the water are you going to travel to an ocean biome and look along the sea floor or are you going to go grab the nearest stack of dirt or gravel?
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While I support more ocean content, the sponge is no longer needed.
You know you can collapse water source blocks on to each other, so you only need one bucket. Filling rivers and then digging them out isn't that difficult owing to pickaxes or shovels not being that "value-able" especially compared to the utility of removing an unwanted river. Plus aren't most underground rivers just one source block large?
Finally, back in whatever version of Minecraft the sponge appeared in, water spread much more prolifically. Now that you need two adjacent source blocks to create a third it's very difficult to accidentally fill up a large space.
While I support more ocean content, the sponge is no longer needed.
You know you can collapse water source blocks on to each other, so you only need one bucket. Filling rivers and then digging them out isn't that difficult owing to pickaxes or shovels not being that "value-able" especially compared to the utility of removing an unwanted river. Plus aren't most underground rivers just one source block large?
Finally, back in whatever version of Minecraft the sponge appeared in, water spread much more prolifically. Now that you need two adjacent source blocks to create a third it's very difficult to accidentally fill up a large space.
I don't mean the little rivers that often come from the walls, I meant the underground bodys of water which each part is a source block.
The argument "What if you have no blocks" is irrelevant because your idea is to add a block. If you have no blocks to fill in the water are you going to travel to an ocean biome and look along the sea floor or are you going to go grab the nearest stack of dirt or gravel?
Um, I'd prefer it if sponge was given a new use that would be different from its old use. Like a water breathing potion ingredient or something like that.
I agree. A sponge would be great, because they would have a use helping with water manipulation, would allow for some cool effects, and still be a decoration block as well.
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In under ground rivers you would need more than a full inventory of empty buckets to drain it ("but I can just place blocks to get rid of the water") what if you don't have any and don't want to waste your value-able pick-axe use a sponge to drain it with ease.
Obtaining a sponge?
They are sometimes found on the ocean floor (ONLY in ocean biomes!)
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You know you can collapse water source blocks on to each other, so you only need one bucket. Filling rivers and then digging them out isn't that difficult owing to pickaxes or shovels not being that "value-able" especially compared to the utility of removing an unwanted river. Plus aren't most underground rivers just one source block large?
Finally, back in whatever version of Minecraft the sponge appeared in, water spread much more prolifically. Now that you need two adjacent source blocks to create a third it's very difficult to accidentally fill up a large space.
I don't mean the little rivers that often come from the walls, I meant the underground bodys of water which each part is a source block.
The sponge absorbs water it's not a fancy block.
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