Water Spawner

The water spawner was a block that would repeatedly create water on each of its four orthogonal sides.

Water Spawner

Renewable	No
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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            "label": "(link to Opacity article, displayed as Transparent)"
        },
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            "field": "No",
            "label": "(link to Flammable article, displayed as Flammable)"
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            "field": "No",
            "label": "Catches fire from (link to lava article, displayed as lava)"
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        "Water Spawner.png"
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        "Water Spawner.png"
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Obtaining

Breaking

Water spawners can be broken instantly, regardless of held items.

Block	Water Spawner
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.05

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Generated loot

Water spawners could be found in Indev House chests in stacks of 99 in in-20100124-2310, and stacks of 100 in-20100128. Prior to this, they were added to the player's inventory by default in a stack of 5.

Usage

As water spawners are full solid cubes, placed gears render on their sides.

The water spawner has many visual and functional differences from normal water:

• It is a full, solid cube block with full block collision.
• It is completely opaque.
• All sides use the same still water texture.

Creating liquids

Immediately after placement, the water spawner creates source blocks of water on each of its four orthogonal sides. If these created sources are removed, they get regenerated after enough time.

Sponges

Water spawners are deleted by sponges.

Data values

ID

Name	Numeric ID	[hide]Form
[No displayed name]	52	Block & Item

History

May 18, 2009							Notch states that a water spawner would probably be silly.
[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100114				Added water spawners.
							The block is referred to as an "item spawner block".
							The blocks were added to allow for players to create lakes on floating maps.
			20100124-2310				Water spawners can now be found in Indev House chests in a stack of 99.
			20100128-2200				Water spawners can now be found in Indev House chests in a stack of 100.
			20100129-1447				Water spawners can no longer be found in Indev House chests.
			20100131				Water spawners now periodically generate water around themselves even if said water was previously removed.
			20100201-2227				Water spawners are now deleted by sponges.
[hide]Java Edition Infdev
20100624							The water spawner has been removed. As the ID is now empty, it now crashes the game with a NullPointerException if a chunk containing said block is loaded or an inventory containing one opened.
20100625-1917							The numeric ID that water spawners used is now used by the monster spawner, and as such all existing water spawners seamlessly convert into monster spawners instead of causing the game to crash.

Issues

Water Spawner is a removed block and as such issues relating to it cannot be fixed.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 

  A water spawner. It could be held in the inventory by inventory editing.

• 

  Water Spawner Animation

See also

• Lava Spawner
• Water