Energized Glowstone = BestLighting
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Actually the source blocks do harden if they float up high enough. The "flow" blocks do not, however.
It has been suggested before, to justify glowstone flowing upward, that glowstone is actually lighter than air and when heated it flows upward and condenses on the ceiling of the Nether as it cools. It would be interesting to make it work like a water source block. When heated, it turns to liquid glowstone and flows up, and when allowed to cool it turns into a glowstone block again (all flow outside of the source block itself disappears just like when ice forms). The only difference is that the source block itself moves if you allow it to.
Edit: ninja'd by a lemming! I obviously haven't used the new version.
Already done... just sadly our universe is export only.
Yes I believe you commented on this before. I look forward to adding glowstone columns to my builds using captured source blocks.
Just have to remember to be careful if I build a skybase.
Me no... but he responded to another thread a few weeks back about that. I belvie it was the ladders thread.
If the topic was, "Come play with us on RR and you too can make your skybase out of glowstone" then yes, that was said.
The liquid glowstone is cool and people haven't really even tapped its uses (it can do some really spiffy automation stuff I'm not sure even KingLemming fully appreciates yet?) but the lamps you can make with it are totally awesome when combined with MFR RedNet. You can make very cool variable-lightlevel-output indicators. It nearly blew my mind.
Don't forget using Liquid Void blocks from XYcrafty to make cool looking sorter light pillars. oooh Does the XYcraft ice block effect it?
If stuff floats up within the column I can see a few good uses for it with automation.
Stuff does not float up within the column that I observed, but objects do react as if they were touched by liquid.
Maybe if one could mix glowstone and redstone to get a "wire" of redstone going upwards. And even better, the Energized Molten Glowing Redstone wouldn't break redstone when it touches it.
I also have a long stairway with an extra-high ceiling with energized glowstone flowing all the way up from the bottom. This also gives nifty lighting (though visibility is terrible if you don't have the extra high ceiling since you can't see down through the flow well) and you get the speed boost all the way so you can race up and down the stairs real fast like speed of sound.