When you place a bucket of water/lava on an existing block or block flowing from the source it will make breaking particales of the liquid that was there before.
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When you place a bucket of water/lava on an existing block or block flowing from the source it will make breaking particales of the liquid that was there before.
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Minecraft 1.6.2
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