Sponge absorbing bug

But why do they have to be biased to one direction? please make them soak up an equal amount in each direction, otherwise it matters where you place the sponge a bit to much imo.

maybe make it cap in such a way that you get a symetric area drained?

owh, and jeb, this is not the only problem.

5x5 + 2x6 - 1 = 37. and still those corners will not be absorbed, i would like you to reconsider this as an unresolved bug.

5x5 + 2x6 -2 = 36. that does work but only if you place the block to the direct east of the sponge.

Requesting to reopen this issue, sponge hasn't absorbed all 64 blocks within it's cap.

How to reproduce:

make a hole of 5x3x5 and place 2 water blocks in the top west corners.
then place a sponge in the center of the hole.
note that the water isn't absorbed/drained.

reproduction on the east side of the hole is not possible, it seems to except only the south-west and north-west corners

also, only the corners were left, meaning that the sponge still removed 75 - 1 - 2 = 72 blocks of water.

minus one since the sponge itself will replace a water block, and minus 2 for the 2 corners of which only the top most source block is left unharmed.

if what you said earlier is true, it is still most definitely not working as intended.

Just confirmed this bug is still working the same in 14w28b.

1 block east to the sponge block will mean the top west corners of a 5x3x5 area will not be depleted even though they should be since they are within the cap and within range of the sponge.

you can also place just 1 block of water in the top north-west/north south corner (keeping the other spaces empty of water source blocks) and then you will see that as long as 1 block of water is to the east the sponge wont soak it up. (unless you place it really close)

also added another thing which seems a bug to me.

Here you can see another example of a sponge not soaking up a block.

It could be that it is coded correctly for both Z-axis and Y-axis but not for the X-axis, which would cause the west direction to be incorrect whenever it comes close to the limit of the sponge it's range. It could still be that Y-axis is also coded wrongly, but Z-axis clearly isn't since that would've caused no bugs since it would be symmetrical.

would like more opinions on this issue

Stop re-opening this issue. Sponges can only soak up to 64 blocks. The bug report is for 5x3x5 blocks, in other words 75 blocks, so it's not a surprise you get different results depending on where you place the sponge.

Stop marking it as resolved when you clearly didn't read the entire report. it also contains water being ignored based on its relative position to the sponge, which only fails to work on the west side.

but alright. i'll make a new one for the real bug.

ps. next time you look over this bug report, use a calculator to count the total number of blocks, since there are situations in which this bug happens while the number of water blocks is clearly BELOW 75.

there is no 75 block cap on MY version of the snapshot.

don't put down future version, you DON'T have acces to them yet

well, i bet it wont be fixed since there is nobody reading the full report OR trying to reproduce any of these bugs.

im quite sure that placing a sponge further away from the water blocks should still have the same results OR worse (atleast that is what 99.99999% of the people would expect) but according to everyone reacting on this report... it is as normal as it could be.

reproduction: See my last upload (the one with the yellow piece of wool).

First step: place sponge on-top of the wool, notice how the west corners remain.

Second step: remove the wet sponge and replace the remove water

Third step: remove the yellow wool in the same setup, and place the sponge on the spot where the yellow wool was. Notice that not only had the sponge 1 extra block to soak up at first, it also soaked up the two west corners.

the blue wool represents the spots of the water source blocks

You haven't made it clear that there's even a bug to be fixed. I've tried to figure this report out, but you haven't provided:

1. clear reproduction steps

2. what you're expecting to happen

3. what actually happens

The last screenshot was a lot better that anything you've previously provided, because the different colors of wool made it easier to count the number of blocks and recreate your setup. I don't know what you're trying to demonstrate in your other screenshots, and most of the other information in the ticket seems spurious.

I've redone the entire report, i hope it is clear enough now.

If it isn't, then i guess some people are to lazy to even try and reproduce it (the last picture should really suffice)

I've added the reproduction steps, yet still you seem to deny the fact that this is a bug or at-least something that is illogical to 99% of the people playing minecraft. Without any other comments on how to make it clearer... i actually can't help the fact that most people will post here as soon as 1.8 gets out (or make duplicates)

I've also confirmed that it is still not fixed/changed.

just to clarify a last bit, placing the sponge on the spot where the yellow wool is will drain ALL the water. (again make sure the water has stopped flowing into air blocks) placing it on top of the yellow wool will leave 6 blocks of water including 2 source-blocks which will then fill a part of the hole again.