Lava Bucket

Lava Bucket

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First Appearance	Infdev (June 15, 2010)
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You can collect and place lava springs using a bucket. As with water, you can only harvest the springs, not the flowing lava coming from them.

Lava can be used to make obsidian, to light an area, or to create traps. When used to create obsidian, water will be used to cool the lava either before collecting it with a diamond pickaxe in a mold in the desired shape, or by emptying the bucket next to an artificially created waterfall.<ref name="no mold lava">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Iq7Ois6-4</ref>

Lava is a very efficient fuel. It has the longest burning value of 1000 seconds, compared to 80 seconds for coal (lava smelts 100 blocks, coal smelts 8). After all items have been smelted, an empty bucket remains, except sometimes on Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, the bucket disappears.

Lava buckets are often used as weapons due to its powerful damage and re-usability. Its use as a weapon is documented in the combat tutorial article.

See also Lava#Lava_Bucket