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Will water in a bucket cool hot metal items like water source blocks?


Chuckerton
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I'm working on a blacksmithing area, and I wanted to have a place I can throw metal items off the anvil (or forge) to cool them faster, so I don't have to run to the nearby (frozen) lake. 

I want to know if I can just put water in a barrel and have the same effect. It would look nicer than having a source block in my opinion, and it might have the added benefit of not freezing in winter (like the rather harsh one I'm having now). I would just make the barrel myself and test it to find out, but I don't have the resources on hand right now and I really don't want to spend some on a barrel if it's not going to work so I'd like to know beforehand. 

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No. Neither buckets nor barrels work. The basic solution is to use chiseled blocks around a source block to create a fake container. (Bonus tip: Watering cans cool down hot ingot and item molds.)

There's a mod that makes barrels work. You have to place the item in the barrel slot instead of just tossing it in, though.

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