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Lava Bucket
Miscellaneous

Lava Bucket

A bucket filled with a lava source block. Placing it releases the lava; it can also be used as furnace fuel.

Stack Size

1

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

lava_bucket

Lava Bucket at a glance

Lava Bucket comes from filling a bucket with lava, and Miscellaneous is where it sits as an item. Each Lava Bucket sits alone in a slot, which makes a spare one expensive to carry, and nine hotbar slots hold nine. A furnace takes Lava Bucket too: 100 smelts apiece, 100 per full stack.

Lava Bucket sits between Lapis Lazuli and Leather in Miscellaneous, number 73 of 147 there.

How to obtain

  • Filling a bucket with lava

Fuel value

Lava Bucket burns for 1000 seconds (20000 ticks), which is 100 items per Lava Bucket

Notes

Smelts 100 items in a furnace, leaving an empty bucket. Made by right-clicking a lava source with an empty bucket.

Frequently asked questions about Lava Bucket

  1. Lava Bucket as it appears in the game, the item this answer is about

    How do you get Lava Bucket in Minecraft?

    Lava Bucket is obtained through filling a bucket with lava. No amount of crafting produces Lava Bucket.

  2. Lava Bucket beside a furnace, which is where its 1000 seconds of burning go

    Can Lava Bucket be used as fuel?

    Lava Bucket in the bottom slot gives you 1000 seconds of heat, which is 100 items apiece. One Lava Bucket is 12.5 times what a piece of coal gives, coal sitting at 8 items.

  3. Lava Bucket on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Lava Bucket used for?

    A bucket filled with a lava source block. Placing it releases the lava; it can also be used as furnace fuel.

  4. One Lava Bucket, the whole of what a single inventory slot holds

    How many Lava Bucket can you stack?

    One Lava Bucket per slot, since Lava Bucket does not stack, and that single one burns through 100 smelted items. A shulker box tops out at 27 of them, one per slot.

Building with it

A lava bucket smelts a hundred items in a furnace, which is more than any other fuel. It also makes obsidian with water, kills mobs, and burns down a wooden base in seconds if placed carelessly, so most players carry it with real caution.

Related Astroworld Resources

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