A beacon at any power will not display the beam, and won't allow effects if the beacon beam passes through water. The beacon method works with other transparent blocks inducing lava though.
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Duplicate of MC-586 - If you have not , please use the search function in the future, to see if your bug has already been submitted. If you could not find the original report, please comment with the keywords you searched for.
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