As the title says. All of a sudden when I take buckets of water out of my brewing room source, the village well, even the large pond outside my house, the source blocks don't fill back in like they always have before. Did the developers change something? What gives?
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I didn't change anything or install any mods, and it's been several launches since I noticed.
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Odd. I have 2 worlds going at the moment. In one I'm rebuilding 2 villages into a larger villager city. Haven't started tearing down the old, yet, so I'll check the wells to see how the water behaves (or does it?). In the other I gather water from the nearby lake (considered a forest biome, but it's a MASSIVE lake at least 200x200 blocks or larger...haven't fully measured it). Anyway, the water there is 2 blocks deep, but always replenishes correctly.
Not sure what the deal is for you. Have you tried creating a new world to see if it's a global phenomenon or local?
Just that world, which means it is a glitch. Damn.
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I see water glitches like this if I gather water too quickly. It's easier to see with lava, but if you have a stack of empty buckets on your hotbar and click rapidly, you can end up with flowing blocks or even persistent holes in the water (see attached). However, unlike you, I seem to just have isolated incidents that are easily corrected by refilling/regathering the source block. (Which you have tried that, right? Triggering a block update usually convinces water to recalculate its flow.)
There's one other case, which is where you remove the source block underneath the top source block; the top layer of water will stay flowing then. However, since you've tried hopefully several other locations that aren't a zigzag shoreline, this is probably not your issue.
You've tried reloading the game, and confirmed no software changes, which is great. Are you playing singleplayer, or is there a server involved as well (even a LAN server)? Do you have a backup of the problem world from before the onset of your troubles? Even if you don't want to lose your changes, restoring it to a different folder would allow you to test that.
I know this is probably way more work than you want to do for boring old water, but as Sherlock Holmes didn't quite say, once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how much of a pain in the ass it is to test, must be the truth.
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This happens when you take multiple buckets in a short amount of time the water does not have enough time to refill and it does that. So wait a moment or two after each bucket.
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This happens when you take multiple buckets in a short amount of time the water does not have enough time to refill and it does that. So wait a moment or two after each bucket.
Normally good advice, but the OP tested multiple locations in different generated bodies of water, so I find it rather unlikely he/she clicked that quickly every time, and only in this one affected world. Ergo, I discussed this very phenomenon in the post right above yours, followed by "this is probably not your [the OP's] issue". Thanks for responding, but please do take reasonable efforts to stamp out, abolish, and eliminate redundant replies. (As I myself do stray a teensy bit off-topic to say that much )
It's single player, and no, I haven't been spam-clicking the buckets, lol. I don't have a backup; up to now it's been relatively glitch-free, so I didn't think about needing one. I'm still a pretty new player, so I guess "always back up your save" is a lesson I should learn. If this doesn't go away on its own it may become a major pain in the butt later on down the road.
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If you like (and if you're on PC/Linux/Mac), I'd be happy to load up your world on my machine to see whether it might have anything to do with that. I don't know offhand if this sort of glitch is possible in the Anvil file format (Minecraft's "save file" format, essentially), but at the very least I can try refilling the flowing blocks and see what happens on my machine.
Send me a PM if you want. Otherwise, as you say, you can take a "wait and see" approach and hope it goes away as mysteriously as it occurred. I certainly don't mind taking a look, though.
I've never been able to use a village well as an infinite source. Only using 3 blocks or more and collect from the middle... or get it from a lake/ocean.
As I said, the lake I usually use isn't working, and I've never had a problem using the village well, either. As of now my well is empty because I took all the source blocks out of it and they didn't refill in between.
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Try digging a 3 wide by 1 deep hole. Fill each block with water. Draw water from the center block. The two side blocks should rush in and fill the center block providing infinite water and you can never fast click glitch a 3 block infinite pond.
I've had this problem on servers when the map was reloaded from a save file. I had some four-sources-in-a-square infinite springs in my base, and after one of these map reloads (moving to a new host or server box, etc.), if I took one of the corner blocks with a bucket, it wouldn't update the other blocks and no water would flow and no new source block would be created. Placing a torch in that spot forced a block update, the water flowed in, a new source block was created, and I could pick up the water-broken torch and get on with my game. This happened with multiple springs, but one a spring was "fixed" this way, it stayed fixed until the next time we had to reload the map from a saved file.
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The problem has been solved. I sent my world save to lakahna, as he offered, and I don't know exactly what he did but it works now. Thanks for all the advice, guys
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Alakite is correct: I wasn't able to reproduce the problem. When I loaded up the world, I saw some glitched water sources (see spoiler tag) and an empty well (consistent), but nothing like what Alakite described. I just grabbed a couple of buckets and refilled the well and the nearby pond (and apparently a creeper crater ), watched a villager kill himself down the empty well, and everything worked as expected for me at that point, and it did for Alakite as well when my updated world was loaded back in.
So, since I couldn't see the problem, there wasn't much I could do, but maybe it had something to do with simply loading up a "new" world from a save, maybe my machine tweaked something in the save file that fixed it before I even saw the problem, maybe it fixed itself, or maybe it was all just spooky Minecraft magic and we somehow appeased the glitch gods with the testificate sacrifice.
As the title says. All of a sudden when I take buckets of water out of my brewing room source, the village well, even the large pond outside my house, the source blocks don't fill back in like they always have before. Did the developers change something? What gives?
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Infinite water sources still work fine for me. Glitch maybe? What ver you using?
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I didn't change anything or install any mods, and it's been several launches since I noticed.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Odd. I have 2 worlds going at the moment. In one I'm rebuilding 2 villages into a larger villager city. Haven't started tearing down the old, yet, so I'll check the wells to see how the water behaves (or does it?). In the other I gather water from the nearby lake (considered a forest biome, but it's a MASSIVE lake at least 200x200 blocks or larger...haven't fully measured it). Anyway, the water there is 2 blocks deep, but always replenishes correctly.
Not sure what the deal is for you. Have you tried creating a new world to see if it's a global phenomenon or local?
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Just that world, which means it is a glitch. Damn.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Dont use cauldren ever never :|
easily dig 4 blocks and fill them with water
Unlimited water source is ready
But only for filling water bottles
I see water glitches like this if I gather water too quickly. It's easier to see with lava, but if you have a stack of empty buckets on your hotbar and click rapidly, you can end up with flowing blocks or even persistent holes in the water (see attached). However, unlike you, I seem to just have isolated incidents that are easily corrected by refilling/regathering the source block. (Which you have tried that, right? Triggering a block update usually convinces water to recalculate its flow.)
There's one other case, which is where you remove the source block underneath the top source block; the top layer of water will stay flowing then. However, since you've tried hopefully several other locations that aren't a zigzag shoreline, this is probably not your issue.
You've tried reloading the game, and confirmed no software changes, which is great. Are you playing singleplayer, or is there a server involved as well (even a LAN server)? Do you have a backup of the problem world from before the onset of your troubles? Even if you don't want to lose your changes, restoring it to a different folder would allow you to test that.
I know this is probably way more work than you want to do for boring old water, but as Sherlock Holmes didn't quite say, once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how much of a pain in the ass it is to test, must be the truth.
This happens when you take multiple buckets in a short amount of time the water does not have enough time to refill and it does that. So wait a moment or two after each bucket.
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Normally good advice, but the OP tested multiple locations in different generated bodies of water, so I find it rather unlikely he/she clicked that quickly every time, and only in this one affected world. Ergo, I discussed this very phenomenon in the post right above yours, followed by "this is probably not your [the OP's] issue". Thanks for responding, but please do take reasonable efforts to stamp out, abolish, and eliminate redundant replies. (As I myself do stray a teensy bit off-topic to say that much )
It's single player, and no, I haven't been spam-clicking the buckets, lol. I don't have a backup; up to now it's been relatively glitch-free, so I didn't think about needing one. I'm still a pretty new player, so I guess "always back up your save" is a lesson I should learn. If this doesn't go away on its own it may become a major pain in the butt later on down the road.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
If you like (and if you're on PC/Linux/Mac), I'd be happy to load up your world on my machine to see whether it might have anything to do with that. I don't know offhand if this sort of glitch is possible in the Anvil file format (Minecraft's "save file" format, essentially), but at the very least I can try refilling the flowing blocks and see what happens on my machine.
Send me a PM if you want. Otherwise, as you say, you can take a "wait and see" approach and hope it goes away as mysteriously as it occurred. I certainly don't mind taking a look, though.
I've never been able to use a village well as an infinite source. Only using 3 blocks or more and collect from the middle... or get it from a lake/ocean.
As I said, the lake I usually use isn't working, and I've never had a problem using the village well, either. As of now my well is empty because I took all the source blocks out of it and they didn't refill in between.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Try digging a 3 wide by 1 deep hole. Fill each block with water. Draw water from the center block. The two side blocks should rush in and fill the center block providing infinite water and you can never fast click glitch a 3 block infinite pond.
I've had this problem on servers when the map was reloaded from a save file. I had some four-sources-in-a-square infinite springs in my base, and after one of these map reloads (moving to a new host or server box, etc.), if I took one of the corner blocks with a bucket, it wouldn't update the other blocks and no water would flow and no new source block would be created. Placing a torch in that spot forced a block update, the water flowed in, a new source block was created, and I could pick up the water-broken torch and get on with my game. This happened with multiple springs, but one a spring was "fixed" this way, it stayed fixed until the next time we had to reload the map from a saved file.
The problem has been solved. I sent my world save to lakahna, as he offered, and I don't know exactly what he did but it works now. Thanks for all the advice, guys
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
No, we didn't. Any ideas?
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Alakite is correct: I wasn't able to reproduce the problem. When I loaded up the world, I saw some glitched water sources (see spoiler tag) and an empty well (consistent), but nothing like what Alakite described. I just grabbed a couple of buckets and refilled the well and the nearby pond (and apparently a creeper crater ), watched a villager kill himself down the empty well, and everything worked as expected for me at that point, and it did for Alakite as well when my updated world was loaded back in.
So, since I couldn't see the problem, there wasn't much I could do, but maybe it had something to do with simply loading up a "new" world from a save, maybe my machine tweaked something in the save file that fixed it before I even saw the problem, maybe it fixed itself, or maybe it was all just spooky Minecraft magic and we somehow appeased the glitch gods with the testificate sacrifice.
My vote goes to: Testificate sacrifice
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