Minecraft:Lava Lake

A lava lake is a small, widespread, naturally-generated Minecraft:feature in the Minecraft:Overworld that contains a volume of Minecraft:lava.

Description

Lava lakes are shallow and often small bodies of liquid. Lava lakes found at the surface are surrounded by Minecraft:stone, which can be replaced by other features such as Minecraft:ore features of blocks. These ore features are made of blocks like Minecraft:dirt, Minecraft:gravel, and Minecraft:coal ore.

Lava lakes generate with a small Minecraft:air pocket above them, which may result in floating Minecraft:sand, floating Minecraft:snow cover, or even floating Minecraft:trees above<ref>Template:Bug</ref>. Lava lakes that spawn on ground level may cause nearby trees to catch on Minecraft:fire and burn away.

Generation

Lava lakes are rare on the surface but often found underground above Y=0, and replace blocks around them with stone. They can generate in any biomes in Overworld except the Minecraft:deep dark.

Template:IN, the air pockets above lakes are generated with Minecraft:cave air instead of normal air. This is true even for lakes that are exposed to the open sky.

Data values

ID

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Config

Template:Main Template:El:

<section begin="config"/>

• Template:Nbt
  • Template:Nbt The block to use for the fluid of the lake.
    • Template:Nbt inherit/block state provider
  • Template:Nbt The block to use for the barrier of the lake. If 'air' is specified, the barrier remains unchanged instead of overwriting any existing blocks.
    • Template:Nbt inherit/block state provider
  • Template:Nbt Describes the block that the feature can be placed on.
  • Template:Nbt Describes the block that the feature can replace with air or the provided Template:Cd block.
  • Template:Nbt Describes the block that the feature can replace with the provided Template:Cd block.

<section end="config"/>

Note that lake features are generated on their northwest corner, with the actual center of the lake being offset from the placement position by +8 blocks on both the X and Z axes. It's recommended to counteract this by applying an xz_spread offset of -8 blocks to placed lake features before performing any additional checks such as block predicate filters.

Lake features require a sufficient amount of solid blocks in order to generate, including (but not limited to) a solid base at least 3 blocks thick (starting from one block below the placement position). The fluid level of generated lake features is always one block below the placement position.

Noise-type blockstate providers apply a single blockstate for the entire lake based on its placement position rather than the position of the lake's individual constituent blocks.

Lake features exhibit a bug in which the Minecraft:freeze top layer feature type is applied only to portions of the lake that are within the chunk from which the lake feature originates. In effect, this means that usually only the north-west corner of water lakes are iced over in snowy biomes.

Template:Collapse <syntaxhighlight lang="json"> {

 "type": "minecraft:lake",
 "config": {
   "barrier": {
     "type": "minecraft:simple_state_provider",
     "state": {
       "Name": "minecraft:stone"
     }
   },
   "fluid": {
     "type": "minecraft:simple_state_provider",
     "state": {
       "Name": "minecraft:lava",
       "Properties": {
         "level": "0"
       }
     }
   }
 }

} </syntaxhighlight> Template:Collapse

History

Gallery

Screenshots

• A lava lake in a badlands biome
  A lava lake in a badlands biome
• A waterfall naturally generated on top of a lava lake, turning it into obsidian
  A waterfall naturally generated on top of a lava lake, turning it into obsidian
• A lava lake in plains biome
  A lava lake in plains biome
• A lava lake found directly on the surface of the world
  A lava lake found directly on the surface of the world
• 2 naturally-occurring lava lakes next to each other
  2 naturally-occurring lava lakes next to each other
• A lava lake spawned naturally, note the forest fire nearby.
  A lava lake spawned naturally, note the forest fire nearby.
• A Minecraft:giant burning in a lava lake
  A Minecraft:giant burning in a lava lake
• A lava lake in a desert
  A lava lake in a desert
• Another lava lake in a desert
  Another lava lake in a desert
• A lava lake in a swamp
  A lava lake in a swamp
• This cave intersected a lava lake, rather than hitting the lava level like is more commonly seen
  This cave intersected a lava lake, rather than hitting the lava level like is more commonly seen
• A fern next to an underground lava lake
  A fern next to an underground lava lake
• Snow layer generated on top of lava lake
  Snow layer generated on top of lava lake
• A lava lake near a ravine in a desert
  A lava lake near a ravine in a desert
• Lava lake in Minecraft:snowy taiga biome
  Lava lake in Minecraft:snowy taiga biome
• A lava lake that is burning grass
  A lava lake that is burning grass
• A lava lake in a village
  A lava lake in a village
• A lava lake that is intersecting with an amethyst geode
  A lava lake that is intersecting with an amethyst geode
• A lava lake with some snow floating over it
  A lava lake with some snow floating over it
• An allegedly naturally created heart-shaped lava lake
  An allegedly naturally created heart-shaped lava lake
• A lava lake setting fire to a forest
  A lava lake setting fire to a forest