I see YouTubers amongst other people talking about lava farms every time they see dripstone. They seem very excited when they see

✨The Dripstone Cave✨

-and immediately mention lava farm.

Why? Doesn’t it take literal hours irl to get a few buckets? Isn’t it quicker to fill 10 buckets from a lava lake in the nether than to make 10 buckets from a lava farm?

What makes a lava farm so appealing? Why wouldn’t you take the opportunity to drain an entire nether lava lake?

  • MrSeanaldReaganBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Depends on how many cauldrons you have set up. If you have a few dozen/hundred on a piston loop, it could go pretty quick

  • Craigothy-YeOldeLordBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Because the time you waste looking, getting and going home with 30 buckets of lava I’ve been working on making my mega build, then when you go back for another 30 buckets I’m still working on my build all cause of a auto lava farm

  • Additional-Papaya711BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My house has two rooms the second room has a wall of lava farm ,it is very convenient to have lava source right next to the furnace