Removing water from a shared block?

[Khornet]

Had the misfortune of a translocator exit spawning in an underground pool of water.
The standard method of placing o solid block on water and removing it to "dry" the block won't work, as the slot is occupied by the translocator.
Is there any way to remove the water from here? Including a command line?

Edited November 8, 2023 by Khornet

[xXx_Ape_xXx]

I'm wondering about the exact same thing, as we also have one translocator that was spawned in water when we found it on our community server.

[Khornet]

Bumping this because I'm still stumped on this issue pretty much

[Khornet]

Aaaaand I just accidentally placed a water source block on a fruit tree branch, landing myself into another similar situation. With no way to remove the water except cutting off the leaf branch I guess...

[idiomcritter]

kinda curious the water logged translocator, is it still useable?

[Khornet]

It functions normally even though submerged, yes.

[Khornet]

In case anyone finds themselves struggling with water in a similar fashion; I reached out to Tyron directly and I got the following reply:
you can use world edit "/we ms" and "/we me" to select an area and "/we deletewater" to remove water inside the selection

In other words, use the magic wand/select tool to mark an area in creative mode, and then use the /we deletewater command. It works.
I can't believe it was that simple...

[idiomcritter]

still, should be a way in normal survival game play to remove the water (additional option with the bucket maybe) 

 

 

[DrEngine]

On 1/7/2024 at 1:36 PM, Khornet said:

In case anyone finds themselves struggling with water in a similar fashion; I reached out to Tyron directly and I got the following reply:
you can use world edit "/we ms" and "/we me" to select an area and "/we deletewater" to remove water inside the selection

In other words, use the magic wand/select tool to mark an area in creative mode, and then use the /we deletewater command. It works.
I can't believe it was that simple...

What VS version does this command work ?  No success in V1.18

[DrEngine]

Problem solved:  the commands is "/we mdeletewater". However it works for still water onl (not salt water).

[Andreas Minninger]

I got following solution,

surround the TP with soil blocks as far as possible, not able to place one over ground plate and EnergyMechanix Housing, so first the Waterflow drove me away form the Baseplate.

So  i Placed a Chest over the Housing on the wall, so the Waterflow couldn't drive me away from the Base plate and voila it seems to work without changing my world via WE

[Maethius]

So, just to be clear, one must be in WorldEdit to remove the water... it cannot be done in Survival or Creative mode?

Perhaps some kind of ... sponge ... could help?

[Dilan Rona]

commands are fine and well, but only applies with cases where command access is available (single player worlds), or a player with admin level powers are online.

Better solution would be something like a sponge to soak up the water source. One day maybe?