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(...) and possibly fill up small holes up with water source blocks.
Does anyone have any information about the dynamics of this functionality? Specifically I'm interested in answers to the following questions:
- What is the maximum width and length of a hole that can be filled by rain?
- If a hole is 1m wide by 1m long by 2m deep with a source block filling the lower empty space, will rain fill the upper empty space on top of the existing source block?
- If the answer to #2 is "yes", what is the maximum depth of a hole that can be filled in that manner?
3 Answers
I had a rain storm which lasted all night and for half the next day, no holes were filled with water of any size. I had a small moat I had dug one block deep, but not yet filled with water, as well as a few one block deep holes scattered around. None of them become filled with water.
I don't think it is implemented.
2Something that can (partially) fill with water during a rainstorm is a cauldron.
A cauldron has approximately a 15.5% chance of being filled with at least one level of water when exposed to one session of rainfall (Tested with 1000 cauldrons during a regular 15 minute rainfall session).
I don't think that rain can fill holes in the ground, so you were misinformed.
Instead, it can fill cauldrons, but the water inside of them cannot interact with the world properly. (e.g. breaking it won't yield water, endermen won't take damage in them, etc.)
