Lava is supposed to have an time interval to fall one block down, but the lava is having an aleatory time interval before falling one block down.
Example: There is one "block" of lava surrounded by every side. When the block located underneath the lava block is broken, the lava falls almolst immediately. When repeating the process, the lava takes ~1second to fall
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