[MCPE-85448] Soul sand and magma blocks no longer create bubble columns from falling water

Bubbles columns or not working in the newest version of minecraft bedrock. But when I tried an older realm where the bubble columns were created beforehand,it was working. When I tried to make a new one in the same realm it wasn't working

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MCPE-68621 Magma Blocks/Soul Sand won’t effect water Resolved

MCPE-71786 Bubble currents are not working. Resolved

MCPE-86190 Bubble columns no longer work Resolved

MCPE-86337 Magma no longer producing bubble column or pulling down mobs Resolved

MCPE-86408 Bubble column won't work since the 1.16 update Resolved

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MC-130464 Downwards flowing water creating bubble columns Resolved

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Joshua Dykstra 2020-06-25T21:44:34Z

Same issue, but experiencing it on the Nintendo Switch

Alyssa Fackrell 2020-06-26T06:00:12Z

Same issue as @JTree

Joshua Dykstra 2020-06-26T12:29:04Z

I was able to get it to work and seems that the mechanics of bubble columns in bedrock now align with Java in that each block in the column needs to be a water source block.

GoldenHelmet 2020-06-27T00:35:35Z

I can confirm what @unknown has said, and will update the ticket accordingly.

Philip Lovelace 2020-06-29T20:28:49Z

Maybe the problem is the way the game determines what constitutes a water source block. I'm pretty sure it used to be that if you dug directly below a 1x1 source block, the block below it became a source, too.

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AlexanderJ. 2020-07-18T20:09:36Z

I think it works as intended now. It is adapted to the Java version. - Something like that belongs in the change log! The programmers probably forgot to mention that.

It makes building a little more cumbersome.

GoldenHelmet 2020-07-18T22:30:33Z

As a workaround, you can use kelp to convert the falling water to source water, then break the entire kelp stalk at the bottom when you're done. Much easier than manually placing dozens of source water blocks.

Philip Lovelace 2020-07-19T21:02:04Z

@GoldenHelmet: so if you can plant kelp at the bottom, it converts falling water into source blocks as it grows, then? That'd be cool. Way better than having to make your column 2 blocks wide and pillar up alongside it as you build it one bucket at a time, lol.

tryashtar 2020-07-19T21:03:26Z

In Java Edition this behavior is intended: MC-130464

user-189af 2020-07-31T16:17:14Z

I was about to say that. You need kelp to turn the flowing water into sources, otherwise it will not work.

Frank Trocchia 2020-08-16T13:06:46Z

The problem isn't with the water blocks being source blocks. The problem is with how the bubble 'blocks' are generated. In Java, when you place soulsand/magma block under a column of water source blocks the ENTIRE column IMMEDIATELY changes to the proper bubble block (up or down).

Currently in Bedrock, when you place soulsand/magma block under a column of water source blocks, starting from the BOTTOM a bubble block gets generated, then there is a delay (a few ticks), and then the next one gets generated, until eventually it reaches the top.

I've diagnosed this with a bubble elevator with a redstone circuit that does the block swapping. Works fantastic in Java. Sorta works in bedrock if you WAIT for the entire column to transition ALL of the source blocks to the proper bubble block.

Barry Parker 2020-09-20T06:24:55Z

People, stop say "as intended" because prior to 1.16.0 (I think, haven't had the need to build one for a while). You could!

You could create a bubble tower/elevator by fill it from the top (at any height) and then either placing Magma/Soul Sand block at the bottom, before or after and it would work to the full height. I have lost count I have created them in the past.

Now, you are required to fill the tower from the bottom up, and only 1 block at a time or kelp (and even then that 1 block at a time)!!!!! If you are building this in survival mode, that's a lot of buckets you need to carry for the large tower/elevator (do the maths, 1 bucket for 1 block). Not to mention that it gets deadly dangerous to deal with beyond 20 blocks for a one-way column in survival mode.

And can confirm/replicate the bug in any mode and world, both vanilla and realms as reported.

Casseyopeia 2020-10-12T12:35:28Z

Barry Parker is correct. This worked perfectly fine, and instantly, by placing only one water source block at the top. As long as there were blocks on every side of that column of water, every block was automatically converted to a water source block and the magma and soul sand would make bubbles immediately. I keep seeing comments about "In Java...". This report isn't about Java. It is about Bedrock. This does NOT work "as intended". It is, in fact, broken for Minecraft Bedrock.

FallCheetah7373 2020-10-12T14:30:00Z

barry and cassey the old behavior is considered as bug due to parity so this won't come back you can suggest it on feedback

Casseyopeia 2020-10-12T14:53:16Z

Then they should have announced it in the parity updates if that were true. Mojang has also combined these reports into one report, but hasn't closed it and marked it as "works as intended". Until it is addressed by Mojang as parity and added to the reports, it is a Bedrock Bug.

GoldenHelmet 2020-10-12T18:20:34Z

@Frank Trocchia: What you describe about the speed of creating a bubble column would be a different issue than what is reported here. You should make a new report.