Obsidian pillars generate all the way down to y=0

Confirmed for 1.9.1-pre3

Intended. Because of pillars regeneration when dragon respawning, the whole pillars have to be generated. And if the pillars doesn't generate through the island, the game has to remeber all of 10 pillars' floor Y-coordinate and that is waste of NBT. Actually, that is not problem at all when you are playing.

This is just my opinion. I have no idea whether this is a bug. Until I saw this bug report, I had thought this is 1.9 update.

Is this still an issue in the latest snapshot 16w44a? If so please update the affected versions.

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still in Minecraft 1.11 pre 1

still in Minecraft 1.11

still in snapshot 16w50a

still in 17w13a

still 1.12 release

confirmed for Minecraft 17w45b

confirmed for Minecraft 17w47a

Confirmed for 17w50a

it's not a bug, that's indented behavior.

confirmed for 18w01a

Confirmed for Minecraft 18w02a

Confirmed for 18w03b

Confirmed for 18w05a

Confirmed for 18w06a

Works as intended.

@unknown : Source ?

Still an issue in 18w19b

Confirmed for 18W20C

Confirmed for 18W21A

confirmed for pre 5

Confirmed for 1.13.1.

The following is based on a decompiled version of MC 1.12 using mcp940.

Please link this in the description of the report.

In the method _{net.minecraft.world.gen.feature.WorldGenSpikes.generate()} where it calculates the Y level of the spikes, it's set to 0. Which means they are gonna start from Y level 0.

for (BlockPos.MutableBlockPos blockpos$mutableblockpos : BlockPos.getAllInBoxMutable(new BlockPos(position.getX() - i, 0, position.getZ() - i), new BlockPos(position.getX() + i, this.spike.getHeight() + 10, position.getZ() + i)))

Confirmed for 18w43c.

Confirmed for 19w14b

This is still an issue in 1.15 Pre-Release 1.

Probably WAI.

Still an issue in 1.15 Pre-Release 6

And 1.15 as well.

This was a thing since forever

Still an issue in 1.16-pre6

I personally see this as intended behavior. Everything in the game other than bedrock and end portal frames (ignoring op only blocks such as barriers), can be mined. The game would have to track the y level of every pillar as it can't base it on something like endstone location since that can be removed.

While it is possible to track it the same way that structures are stored for mob spawning, I don't really see a need to force them to generate in the island itself as opposed to y level 1. Perhaps a lore reason can be described as to why the pillars have to generate the way the reporter suggested.

Can confirm in 21w03a.

Can confirm in 21w05b.

Can confirm in 21w06a.

Doesn't seem like intended behavior, especially considering they provide an almost-infinite supply of obsidian in worlds with custom min_y values.

Can confirm in 21w07a.

Still not fixed after 5 years!

The pillars should at least not generate below the island.

It is not a bug. I remember the pillar was not to y=0. They just generated on top of the island and you can dig straight under them. It makes more sense that the pillars are stuck deep in the ground.

You need a source from Mojang that says it is intentional to actually have this resolved as such. Past behavior and wiki are no source.

One can easily produce infinite obsidian by destroying the obsidian platform repeatedly, so it isn't really a big problem that there is so much extra. That being said, I'm not saying it's intended, I'm just saying that the fact it gives you infinite obsidian isn't really a problem.

Can confirm in 1.16.5 and 21w11a.

Can confirm in 21w15a.

Hope this just becomes a WAI at some point. Anything else would be a waste of resources and these pillars are a nice big source of obsidian... The deeper the better. Maybe we get them down to -64 in the next update?

Can confirm in 21w17a.

Can confirm in 1.17.

Can confirm in 1.17.1 Release Candidate 1.

Can confirm in 21w44a.

Can confirm in 1.18.

Can confirm in 1.18.1.

Can confirm in 1.18.2.

Still in 22wa15a

Can confirm in 22w18a.