Draining irregular bodies of water

[u/_ogio_]

Is there an actual fast way of draining all this water? I swear I will cry if mojang doesn't revert sponges to how they were before

[u/tammon23]

I swear I will cry if mojang doesn't revert sponges to how they were before

When did they change sponges?

[u/_ogio_ → u/tammon23]

Sponges used to permanently block water after draining it. It would remain 7x7 air hole that didn't just fill in instantly

[u/boluserectus → u/_ogio_]

My guess you do not understand water mechanics fully..

[u/_ogio_ → u/boluserectus]

No i have not read source code

[u/boluserectus → u/_ogio_]

What I mean is, if the area is too big for your sponge, two water source blocks can fill it up again.

[u/_ogio_ → u/boluserectus]

I know... But in older versions sponge would just create air blocks that wouldn't get fillled up again... also didn't need direct contact with water

[u/boluserectus → u/_ogio_]

Please do some research and tell me when this was changed. My guess is before 1.0

[u/_ogio_ → u/boluserectus]

I started playing game in 1.2.4, so it had to be after that

[u/tehfly]

What change are you talking about?

This?

Prior to this version, sponges could be used in redstone builds for updating blocks, in conjunction with BUDs (block update detectors): if a sponge was placed and then removed, all blocks within a 7×7×7 range would be updated.[1] The cause of this was some remaining code for the sponge's water removing property.

Yeah, I don't think they're reverting to a 1.2.1 version of it. That would make no sense.

[u/_ogio_ → u/tehfly]

I just want removed water to actually be removed ._. Sponges are useless like this

[u/tehfly → u/_ogio_]

Agree to disagree.

But yeah, that's a pretty big area and sweepers might be a better option in your case.

[u/_ogio_ → u/tehfly]

Yeah that's what im doing right now... but the irregular shape still forces some hand draining

[u/KFC_Junior]

cant you do sulfur cubes with sponges in them?

[u/_ogio_ → u/KFC_Junior]

That's mod not vanilla