How do i fill a 'swimming pool' with water? ***SOLVED***

[Pneumo]

So, ive googled and whatnot, and all of the pages/ youtube viedeos are quite outdated, and the water doesnt act the same way anymore, so the idea of using wooden frames and filling them doesnt work- when i remove a frame, the water goes into or down toward the frame ive removed.

The unlimeted bucket of water doesnt seem to work wither, so i've either got to fill a million buckets from a nearby water source (not as nearby as i'd like :/) ...

I have made a line of wooden frame over the pool and tipped water onto the side, and then recollected the source block, and after maybe 100 buckets, a small amount of water pools at the bucket, but it leaves me with one bucket and super slow progress with filling of sorts- and i'm patient enough- the whole underground bunker that the empty swimming pool is is atleast 100 long, 7 high and 20 wide or more... My last thing to finish of a week long bunker digging idea, and i cant fill the pool :/

I've dug out a pool and concrete blocked up a pool which is 6 deep x 13 x 13.

Any help would be much appreciated.

i would post a picture but i'm not sure how to in a discussion :/

[Pneumo]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=888055263

[MeDaDaddy]

I think maybe just keep pouring (but fill your buckets after you've emptied them.)

EDIT; luvverly pool by the way

[Pneumo]

Originally posted by MeDaDaddy:

I think maybe just keep pouring (but fill your buckets after you've emptied them.)

EDIT; luvverly pool by the way

Thanks, there are another two rooms the same size behind me also, and around the pool- i've transported 3 layers of dirt as to plant crops underground once i sort the ground abouve out- however, alot of it collapsed when i dug the room out- and its something like 50 blocks underground :/ its taken forever to do, but i'm the grindy type ha.

The clear blocks have candles behind, but it seems like when the water covers the front of the glass block, it looks to go inside the glass and block the light, but i cant be sure until the pool is filled... looks like i'm gonna be making a whole inventory full o buckets if thats the only way to do it... i wonder how the developers fill th smaller pools around the towns?

[Minotaur]

You can use one bucket, water multiplies! I pour it against the walls and work around, then upwards. Place temp frames/blocks in the middle and pour against those then remove them.

It's tricky, but you'll get the hang of it. Try to fix those waterfall blocks as you do it. If your doing a huge dam and have many of those defects, they can collapse and crash a server.

There are water blocks in the creative menu :)

[Phunfun]

I just recently watched a Youtuber by the name of Games4Kickz create and fill a pool (glass bottomed). It was from about a month ago, labeled "Let's Build a Pool | 7 Days to Die | S09E89". In that one and the E88 one before it he talks about the glass issue you might be having where water flows through the glass. I'd recommend watching it to see how he filled his and what he did for the glass issue.

Edit: Oh yeah! I, too, wanted to say how great your pool looks. Good luck.

[Pneumo]

Thanks Minotaur- im currently playing a singleplayer game rather than creative, i'm unsure why but its legit in my books, it'd bee easy without (why i bother making my life hard i dont know) - but the frames, as mentioned above, dont work how they used to- unlike some youtube videos where people are filling the frames up, now, as you pour water, the bucket fills more than one frame and kinda ruins the next frame, it used to look easy to do- but the water now spreads so the frame method doesnt seem to work.

Thanks Phunfun, i'll go take a look- its taken me so long to dig out then get ocd perfect, muchlike the previous two rooms- the second room was going to be underground farm, but when i dig upwards to make a light hole, i came out right in the middle of the road, and infront of a house that screamers keep spawning, so thats where the third room comes from ha.

[Pneumo]

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[Pneumo]

one room leads into another :)

[Pneumo]

Phunfun- i just watched his video, kinda helped. Doesnt like his pool is as deep as mine, so its just looking like a water bucket fill and empty... the shame of it is, due to my hamstering nature- i decided to build right in the middle of atown.... thats a massive height difference from the height of the nearby water level thats just outside of town....i've already built a ladder inside of a tower and then a ramp to get the minibike down... that leads to the shop/ merchant ...

It looks like a million waterbuckets will me made and i'll commence the filling and then repost a picture when its done... the pool is 13 x 13 = 169 x 6 deep = 1014 buckets of water...regarding 1 bucket = one block capacity... O.O ...time to get some skill points put into athletics ha.

[Pneumo]

To confirm phunfun, the glass video helped- the candle is two blocks into the wall- the candle is placed at the back, then 'business glass centred, then glass pane put on the outside- that stops the water getting in- so two layers of glass are needed.

As for the pool filling- i've used one bucket of water by dropping the bucket of water 3 blocks above the surface of the pool bottom- which creates the water source block which you can quickly fill the bicket back up from, and the water that came out of it sometimes stays on the floor. So thanks to Minotaur etc also. I'd seen this happen previously, but there doesnt to seem any one specific way to put the water into a hole which works every time- it'd be easier if it just filled a few blocks of the same amount each time, but it wouldnt in real life i guess soo...

[Pneumo]

Originally posted by Minotaur:

You can use one bucket, water multiplies! I pour it against the walls and work around, then upwards. Place temp frames/blocks in the middle and pour against those then remove them.

It's tricky, but you'll get the hang of it. Try to fix those waterfall blocks as you do it. If your doing a huge dam and have many of those defects, they can collapse and crash a server.

There are water blocks in the creative menu :)

Minotaur- what sort of sized pool have you made? i can fill the floor with one block high of water, but i cant seem to get it filled more than that, and when i delete a frame, or add a frame, the water beneath it dissappears?

[krzosu18]

Well atm the best way is to spawn water block and use it to fill large spaces (like a pool) ofc it can be done via buckets to some extend but its a chore so i wouldnt even bother with it. i guess its the only thing i use CM menu for :D

[Pneumo]

you can use the command window to spawn water? Thankyou for bringing that to my attention.

It kinda feels like cheating but spending many hours trying to fill it is wasting time :/

You used to be able to change a game from single to creative, which would have helped, but just wanted to struggle and do it the right way.

[Pneumo]

******HOW TO FILL A POOL *******

Ok, so i had to use the command window solution, as i couldnt manage to fill the pool legitimately like i wanted.

Type cm into the command window search for the 'Water source block' to fill the pool, using a Wood frame pillar in the centre so that you can place the Water source block against it to level out the pool stage by stage, filling the pool bottom to top, only being able to increase the overall height of the water when there were no sunken patches in the level that you're filling.

When its filled, remove the pillar of Wood frames and then build a net of frames over the top of the pool, and fill the middle in then get rid of any swirling or falling patches of water by either filling a block next to it with water or place a wood frame within it then remove it.

I ended up over filling the pool and then replaced the net frame to level it over.

Thankyou for all the replies.

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[Phunfun]

Looks great! It'd be nice if the light was visible below the pool. Right now, 'cause the room and pool are so dim, it almost feels like a pool from a horror movie. Shivering at just the thought of taking a swim in it...what might be lurking beneath the surface.