Lava speeds

[nomsahoy]

All I've gathered today is calm. Partly because the probability of annoyed+ is pretty damn low.

Anyways, here you go. 4 videos. All of them are ~30 seconds. Of course, I could run more tests and find out the exact frame lava touches the 20th block. I've placed signs in intervals of 5, disregarding the first sign, which says 1.


Three horizontal tests.







One vertical test. I didn't do more tests because it seemed to be the same as horizontal tests.


So with these recordings, I'm saying that calm lava travels 20 blocks in 30 seconds. It travels ~.67 blocks a second (rounding up since it's an infinite decimal of 2/3). I will bump this thread with more video footage of annoyed and angry. Furious is the same as Angry, just twice as fast.

Will be conducting burning times. With much collaboration with my colleagues (who really are just the Minecraftwiki pages), it is just vanilla speeds. With a bit of latency issues.

 

[Wimali]

Nice work! It would be awesome if you'd be able to find out how much faster the lava flows on the map Ender. There's currently a bug on the server (possibly a vanilla feature) which makes lava flow extraordinary fast on the 'Sky' biome. At least twice or three times as fast than default lava, I think. Very nice work!

 

[scotty12345]

Lava also spreads slower on larger maps that have open spaces due to lagg

 

[Notme]

Lava also spreads slower on larger maps that have open spaces due to lagg

MegaBirch doesn't lag.
You lag a lot (or rather your internet connection)

 

[Wimali]

Lava also spreads slower on larger maps that have open spaces due to lagg

MegaBirch doesn't lag.
You lag a lot (or rather your internet connection)

False. Scotty's right, when a huge amount of air is getting flooded, the server may lag a bit, which causes lava to flow slower. (As far as I know anyway)

 

[BiggestKirbyFan]

^

 

[Dess]

If I recall correctly lava flowing speed does not change with mood at all. The only map that the speed is faster is on Ender due to its being in the sky biome where all physics are faster. Anyway, as for furious, the lava isn't faster in it, the burning/melting speed is however.

This wouldn't actually hurt though to be implemented if it could be!

 

[scotty12345]

We used to have speeds on classic, it was useful as during a flood lava could be slowed down to allow us to deflood. It could also be speeded up if needed

 

[dirtcake]

Furious lava isn't twice as fast as angry in terms of the flowing speed. It melts things twice as fast, meaning the time it takes for the block to be destroyed after lava hits it is half as long. At the moment, speed control is almost impossible to implement reliably due to the strong dependency on the way vanilla physics work.

I'm working on completely overriding vanilla flowing physics with purely classic-based flowing, though, which will allow much more flexibility, including accurately controlling the speed of lava.

 

[nomsahoy]

Hehe, I will run tests on how fast blocks melt, and then make a list of all the melting times for all the melting blocks


EDIT: Deleted bits of this post, did more testing. Lava flows the same rate.

EDIT 2: Consulted minecraftwiki. Says lava flows at .6 blocks a second. Possibly latency issues that leaves me at .67 blocks a second. Asides from that, refer to beginning of post :D