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Yeah I definitely think they should be damaging, but this water was only in the 80s - certainly scalding, but doubtfully worthy of 20 damage in my opinion. I'd have to ask the server owner what the difficulty is. Generally, most other damage seems normal (except for wolves, fuck wolves lol). The Yellowstone Springs are certainly on the most extreme end of what you can still technically call a hotspring. Very acidic, very close to if not at boiling temperatures, and containing extremely harmful bacteria. Some people have died in the Yellowstone Springs, while some have survived.

I agree that if you jumped into a vat of 80C water, you'd probably die, if not be very close to death. However, they are one block deep. That's just up to the waist / just the legs. I died instantly on contact, which is pretty wild to me. Funnily enough, the soil with the bacteria closest to the water you stand on reads 70-80C and does no damage when you walk on it And thank you for the welcome. I promise that I'm not oblivious to my only contribution being a bit of a rant, but this was the only time the game really upset me, lol.

Yeah, I was very surprised. I didn't see my exact health at the time, but I have a max health of 30, and my bar was 60-75% full. So somewhere between 16 and 23 damage. I haven't seen anything in the game do that much damage except maybe bears when I have no armor.

As the title says, I got instantly killed by a hot spring. I was about 6000 blocks away in both directions from my spawn point, doing some exploring. I am generally cautious about exploring, as walking in this game is very slow, and I hate walking back to my items to recover them. I saw the hot spring and was like: "okay, that's cool. Haven't seen that before. Looks like the surface is nice and warm. Water seems a bit hot, but nothing super deadly, might damage me a bit, I'll touch it real quick to check... oh, it did 20+ damage and I died instantly." I've died in most ways I can imagine in this game, sometimes frustratingly, but none seemed completely unfair like this one. Standing in a steel-making chimney does, I believe, 5 damage per second at many hundreds of degrees C. Touching a fire burning at 1200 degrees C does something like 1 or 2 damage, maybe lighting you on fire and doing some damage over time. Hopping in a natural hot spring up to the waist - Instant death. I mean... really? Is it just me, or is that patently unfair? Nothing about their appearance screams instant death like a bomb or a pit of lava. Nothing about the general connotation of "hot spring" is particularly concerning, as these exist in real life and, while not always safe, many are known for relaxing and bathing in. I just don't understand that. I definitely find some damage sources odd, like wolves, but this is the only one that made me think it genuinely should not be the way it is because it makes no sense whatsoever and is objectively poor design. What do you think? Am I just stupid for thinking that uncomfortably hot water shouldn't instantly kill me?