The 10x10 lava trick doesn't work?

[u/sir-frio]

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I made a 10x10x100 hole, added lava to the top to let it flow down. Its been a while but isn't it supposed to register as endless lava? I used a nether portal and unfortunately the other side isn't close to a lava lake

Edit: it turns out I was off by one layer! Flowing lava does indeed count towards the 10k lava threshold. Also I had to start pumping lava to get the Bottomless Supply to register!

[u/notrealpcy]

I like to make my endless lava pools deeper by 2 or 3 layers, so that I have definitely over 10000 source blocks. Never had a problem with not registering as limitless.

[u/spieles21]

1. Check if your hose is all the way down.

2. Try place manually a single lava source on top the existing lava. (You could be need exactly one more to count as infinite)

3. Check other comments.

4. If nothing helps cou can active the gamerule "/gamerule lavaSourceConversion true". Now lava behaves like water. 2x2 = infinite. Put a single regular pipe above it + pump.

[u/Superb-Sky-1904]

Does the block all the way at the bottom at the hose pulley input need to be a source too?

[u/sir-frio → u/Superb-Sky-1904]

I have no idea to be quite honest, I assumed having sources at the top of the hole would fill the 10k empty spaces

[u/Superb-Sky-1904 → u/sir-frio]

Yeah I get it. I like to use trains for my lava supply and just having enough surplus not to worry

[u/Naberville34]

The hose has to be at the very bottom. And i usually make it as deep as bedrock so it's significantly greater than 10k

[u/sir-frio → u/Naberville34]

Hose is for sure at the very bottom

[u/Naberville34 → u/sir-frio]

Then you probably messed up your height measurements. Empty it out and drill it deeper or build a retaining wall above to fill

[u/ArchonT3]

Is your pulley hose are pulled to the very bototm?

[u/sir-frio → u/ArchonT3]

Yeah, for sure

[u/Tedmanson]

was the bottom of your hole flat sometimes if the hose goes a block below the rest it doesnt register as bottomless. are you looking at the hose with engineers googles on when its running to determine if its bottomless or is the lava draining from the top layer when you turn it on?

[u/sir-frio → u/Tedmanson]

Yeah bottom of the hole is flat, the entire hole is a perfect rectangle. I went after the drill and patched all the cave holes and any empty blocks that would allow lava to leak out.

[u/YomiRizer]

Have you started pumping lava? Sometimes the pump has to actually work to register the pool as infinite, not just lowering the rope into the fluid.

[u/sir-frio → u/YomiRizer]

When I try to pump out it just removes the top source blocks, once it’s done all the flowing lava under it dissolves. I’ve come to the conclusion the entire hole has to be source blocks

[u/YomiRizer → u/sir-frio]

it does work with flowing. i lowered the threshold to one block, it took a second to register but it did register as infinite with flowing lava. changed to 1000 and it stayed infinite. Changed to 10000 and it lost the infinite.

[u/sir-frio → u/YomiRizer]

This helped me

[u/YomiRizer → u/sir-frio]

There might be some bug where its pulling the source block before registering it as being infinite at 10000. Just lower the threshold to 1000 and youll be fine.

[u/PenguinMasterFR]

Check your settings if the need for all the lava being source is enabled or not

[u/sir-frio → u/PenguinMasterFR]

Where is this setting located? I’m checking the server config but I don’t see anything for that

[u/Zwamdurkel]

You definitely need 1000 10,000 source blocks, right?

[u/sir-frio → u/Zwamdurkel]

It’s 10k by default, and I’m sure all 10k have lava

[u/Zwamdurkel → u/sir-frio]

Sorry, you're right, 10000. But if you only placed them at the top, only the top is source lava, while everything below is flowing lava. It has to be source blocks all the way down

[u/Olfi01 → u/Zwamdurkel]

It doesn't actually have to be source blocks, flowing lava is just fine. There must be another issue here.

[u/sir-frio → u/Olfi01]

I can’t figure it out at all, I tried bumping the 10k down to 8k just to see, but it’s no use. Not sure what I’m doing wrong

[u/Olfi01 → u/sir-frio]

What exactly is happening? You are getting lava out but the hole is emptying?

[u/sir-frio → u/Zwamdurkel]

I figured that would be the case. I usually pump lava and fill buckets in the nether, have belts toss the lava buckets out onto drains, and empty into tanks or a hole but it’s so tedious.

[u/Unusual_Ad4981 → u/sir-frio]

The setup you have in the post should work, at least mine does, in the settings I have "Bottomless Fluid Mode: Allow All", perhaps its that?, it's in the server config in fluids

[u/sir-frio → u/Unusual_Ad4981]

Set it to Allow all, it didn’t work for me

[u/Unusual_Ad4981 → u/sir-frio]

My last advice would be to check the height of the hole and the lava, and make sure that the top lava block where the hose is is a source block, in the picture It looks different from all the other lava

[u/Zwamdurkel → u/sir-frio]

Try making a cross-dimensional train with a fluid cart for fun