How to make lava in minecraft

Updated to 1.20

We all know how important Water is in Minecraft, and being able to make an infinite source by using just 2 Water Buckets makes everything easier.

Lava is arguably not as useful, but it certainly comes in handy in many different ways.

Since a Lava Bucket can be used as fuel for Furnaces, it would be pretty great to always have a disposable source of fuel without having to mine Coal or chop trees.

Unfortunately to have an infinite amount of it is not as easy.

It was actually impossible after the 1.9 patch. After the 1.17 patch it is once again possible, but now it is a bit trickier than in the past.

How to make an infinite lava source in minecraft survival

There are a couple of different options for when you need a large amount of Lava, without the need of wandering in caves looking for it. Let’s see them.

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How to have infinite Lava in the past

As said before, in the past it was much easier to reach this goal.

In the Minecraft earlier version known as Minecraft Classic there used to be a block called Infinite Lava Source that would simply fill the volume it was put into (related: How old

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