My rather uninspiring efforts on the Wolf World (seed "wolf"). Mostly uploaded to this site so I could figure out where the heck I got to when I got lost while out hunting with my pet dog one day and couldn't find my way back to my mine despite a game-week's effort, thanks to forgetting to bring my compass along with me when I went out. Nearly all the structures on this map are underground and thus probably won't be very interesting to look at.
Update: Finally have something visible above ground, a bridge connecting my three main bases and a fourth one that got abandoned due to large lava lakes directly underneath it at bedrock layer. Currently searching for a good location for a fifth base. Also wondering if the cave map will help me figure out the humongous underground cavern discovered at one of my bases' bedrock branch mines.
Update 2: Built a couple new bases, including a spectacular new minecart station hub and an impressive observation tower. Currently trying to find a good route for the minecart tracks to loop back around towards eventually becoming a complete circle.
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Martin The Mess
CougarNick24 22 August 2020
But my main problem with lava lakes is that I've gotten into Obsidian moldcrafting, where you build structures out of obsidian by pouring lava into a mold and freezing it in place with water to turn it into obsidian. I hate to throw away a stockpile of potential lava buckets by simply filling it in with gravel...but when you don't have a current ongoing Obsidian project, you also don't have a present use for the lava.
Anyways, it's all moot now. I've abandoned this campaign due to the laptop I played it on having a fatal hard drive crash that wiped out a week or two's worth of playing. I've started over on a new map.
1. What you do is wall off the pool you want to remove. You don't want fresh lava refilling where you've already cleared. Knowing where your construction boundary is helps.
2. With the pool walled off, begin filling in the lava by building a platform over the top of the lava. There should be a lip just above the lava level where you can put a block into the lava, filling it in.
3. Once you have the platform completely covering the lava, dig it up, being careful not to fall in. This lowers the level of the lava by one block. Dig near the boundary first, making sure you don't stand in the trench. When digging down near your boundary as you may open a hole to more lava so you don't want to be where it will pour out to. If you have done it right, the lava that pours it will only fill where you've dug down and will drain once you've sealed it up.
* If you plug the hole with glass, you can see where the lava boundary is and it will also light up the room! No need for torches!
4. Continue digging downward one layer at a time until you've reached the desired depth.
* Using falling blocks like sand or gravel should make the overall process faster if your goal is to completely remove the lake as the sand or gravel will fall to the bottom of the lake... hopefully.