User:TangenT Tom/TuTorials/Lava Engineering

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Lava Engineering
 Essentially, this is a page about the behavior of lava in concert with other blocks, including water and water springs, and how to safely and efficiently apply it in various applications, including mine lighting, general lighting, as well as actually constructing lava buildings. Lava follows particular flow patterns, and these can be taken advantage of to create just about anything lava.

General Rules of Using Lava
1. Lava will always flow from a spring in the direction of an empty space that is lower than it, so long as that space is 5 or fewer blocks away. If no such space exists, you will get the classic lava pool after the spring flows in four directions.

2. Lava can only flow a maximum of 3 blocks away from a lava spring horizontally.

3. Termination of lava falls is easily achieved simply by making it fall into a hole.