Need a fast way to get rid of watersourceblocks

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Freakscar

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I don't know if this has changed yet.....But place a wall completely around the area you wish to remove the water from then place blocks on all the top source blocks..... I have done this a few times on a small scale to get rid of water in areas I don't want it. You don't need to completely fill in the area....just the top layer. That should remove all the water below it. (may not even need the wall, just a layer of blocks placed over the topmost source blocks.
It depends on the body of the water. If you happen to have a still lake, where only the top blocks are "water source" blocks, then your system will work fine - placing any kind of block into the same spot as these source blocks, will result in no water in the end. The problems start when you want to remove water in .. bigger dimensions. As most minecraft players know, two source blocks with a block of air in between will form a third source block (infinite water source, anyone^^) - this usually only happens on the surface of water - but the same principle is applied below surface. Especially when you have very (bedrock) deep water bodies, mixed with holes, mineshafts, caves, rivers and whatnot, you most probably will not get rid of all the water, because of those newly created sourceblocks. And then it can get quite tedious to create dirt-tower after dirt-tower in order to stack up to 47 levels from bedrock, just to remove a single source block. ;)
 
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It depends on the body of the water. If you happen to have a still lake, where only the top blocks are "water source" blocks, then your system will work fine - placing any kind of block into the same spot as these source blocks, will result in no water in the end. The problems start when you want to remove water in .. bigger dimensions. As most minecraft players know, two source blocks with a block of air in between will form a third source block (infinite water source, anyone^^) - this usually only happens on the surface of water - but the same principle is applied below surface. Especially when you have very (bedrock) deep water bodies, mixed with holes, mineshafts, caves, rivers and whatnot, you most probably will not get rid of all the water, because of those newly created sourceblocks. And then it can get quite tedious to create dirt-tower after dirt-tower in order to stack up to 47 levels from bedrock, just to remove a single source block. ;)

And sadly, falling gravel and sand are pseudo blocks before they land, so you can't even make a layer of gravel and take out all the source blocks underneath.. It only takes out the one you place it on and the one it lands on T.T
 

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It depends on the body of the water. If you happen to have a still lake, where only the top blocks are "water source" blocks, then your system will work fine - placing any kind of block into the same spot as these source blocks, will result in no water in the end. The problems start when you want to remove water in .. bigger dimensions. As most minecraft players know, two source blocks with a block of air in between will form a third source block (infinite water source, anyone^^) - this usually only happens on the surface of water - but the same principle is applied below surface. Especially when you have very (bedrock) deep water bodies, mixed with holes, mineshafts, caves, rivers and whatnot, you most probably will not get rid of all the water, because of those newly created sourceblocks. And then it can get quite tedious to create dirt-tower after dirt-tower in order to stack up to 47 levels from bedrock, just to remove a single source block. ;)

Didn't know this....I guess the bodies of water that I had emptied were rather small.. Tested what I had said in a ocean and it didn't do jack. And in 1.5.1 the water just filled back in when I removed the blocks from that layer. In 1.4.7 the topmost layer would stay empty once I had emptied it of water.
 

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did you know the rp2 pump can output through a fluid pipe into portable or other tanks and vice versa? no more need to grate>pump
>grate and have a hole to fill.

a filler in a box setup above the waterline being fed gravel will keep dropping gravel in the box outline until the gravel stacks high enough to fill it's y pattern level. then just clear inside the gravel walls. or just use the fill pattern and setup a quarry over it when done to remove the gravel. or a turtle pulling an excavate.

if you have an enclosed covered omnidirectional frameship built it can void fluids in the same way the turtles do on a larger scale. i've used that principle in walling tunnel bores to essentially ignore the need to specially clear lava and water(my current versions use arcane bores for the tunnel excavation end).

mffs is still likely the fastest cleanest approach outside of worldedit/spc pulling a //drain . PITA to craft all the fiddly upgrade bits and set it up with power in place comparatively though.
 
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brujon

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Wow, really cool input. I'd love to see pictures of your walled tunnel bores and your cart link and setup.
 

Weird0

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well i decided to use a combination of mffs and gregtech advanced pump.

i took out whatever i could get with a max sized forcefield and then just placed 4 advanced pumps on each side of the area connected each to 2 tanks with voids..

the reason i am using gt advanced pumps is that they dont update the blocks surrounding from the water sourceblock that has been take away to not stress the server i am on and also they are alot faster than rp2 pumps :D

thx for all on the input :)
 

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...the reason i am using gt advanced pumps is that they dont update the blocks surrounding from the water sourceblock that has been take away to not stress the server i am on and also they are alot faster than rp2 pumps...

Does that mean that if you pump out lava with them, you won't end up with a huge big mess of flowing lava OO
 

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It would've been so much easier to use Super Kami Guru. He drank all that water on ancient Namek to become super fat.