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Folks,

Quick question for everyone. Can you get lava the same way you get water, or do you have to get lava from non-flowing source blocks? Using the default bucket, I can get water from any water node, flowing or still. However, I cannot seem to get lava from any lava node, no matter whether I right or left click. Nothing I do seems to allow me to fill the bucket.

Any thoughts? Thanks for any help.

GAME INFO:
v4.10
Minetest_game
quite a few mods enabled, but none that specifically involved lava or buckets to my knowledge

Moderator - if this is a bug and needs to be moved to another subforum, please do so.

You can get lava the same way as water. Just "punch" a lava source node with a empty bucket.
If this doesn't work, then you've enabled a mod which disables lava.

I tried a november 2014 version of minetest:
I can get water and lava only from the ressources, not from the flowing nodes.


Maybe a mod changes this behaviour? You could look if a mod or part of a modpack is depending on "bucket".

Krock / Topywo,

Thanks for the quick replies.

So, just to make sure that I understand correctly, I HAVE to get lava from a source block, NOT from flowing lava? Is that correct?

Just making sure before I wade too deep into my mod dependencies. Thanks for any additional help.

LodeRunner wrote:So, just to make sure that I understand correctly, I HAVE to get lava from a source block, NOT from flowing lava? Is that correct?

Yes.

LodeRunner wrote:So, just to make sure that I understand correctly, I HAVE to get lava from a source block, NOT from flowing lava? Is that correct?

Correct & just to clear up a misconception you seem to still have, the same goes for water in an unmodded minetest_game, you can only pick up source blocks, not flowing water.

ThatGraemeGuy,

Hello and thanks for setting me straight. I thought for sure that I had pulled water from a non-source block in the past, but I guess that was my imagination. *smacks forehead*

I appreciate the help!