**REPORTED** Pumps destroying Lava over time

[Demibolt]

Steam or GOG

Steam

Single Player/Multiplayer

Both

Operating System

Windows 10

Terraria Version

1.4.0.4

Controls Used

Keyboard/Mouse

I have a set up that has 2 pumps moving lava from a shared pool, then 4 more pumps moving the lava back down. It's a lava trap that I can activate when needed without building up too much lava. The lava slowly disappears over time. It's on the surface.

the 2 pumps moving everything upwards are on a 5 second timer
the 4 pumps moving lava back to the pool are on a 1/2 second timer.

It's hard to know for sure, but it seems to lose about 60-80 blocks of lava per hour

 

[Dovahkat963]

According to the wiki lava will start to evaporate if it falls more than 10 blocks. Is the lava pouring down a long distance in your setup? If so that might be the problem.

 

[DMFan79]

According to the wiki lava will start to evaporate if it falls more than 10 blocks. Is the lava pouring down a long distance in your setup? If so that might be the problem.

It happens with every liquid. I was affected doing the same thing with honey.

 

[Ambaire]

According to the wiki lava will start to evaporate if it falls more than 10 blocks. Is the lava pouring down a long distance in your setup? If so that might be the problem.

The wiki does say

After flowing 50 blocks in a direction, lava will begin to evaporate, causing the source to be lost.

but that's only for spreading out over a sufficiently wide surface, and all fluids suffer from this; it will absolutely not evaporate if it drops down. I'm not seeing the 10 block thing you're talking about.

It happens with every liquid. I was affected doing the same thing with honey.

I have a set up that has 2 pumps moving lava from a shared pool, then 4 more pumps moving the lava back down. It's a lava trap that I can activate when needed without building up too much lava. The lava slowly disappears over time. It's on the surface.

the 2 pumps moving everything upwards are on a 5 second timer
the 4 pumps moving lava back to the pool are on a 1/2 second timer.

It's hard to know for sure, but it seems to lose about 60-80 blocks of lava per hour

Could you link some screenshots please?

 

[DMFan79]

Could you link some screenshots please?

I stopped using the pumps because of this. It was a simple loop: an output pump over two platforms, input pump was in a 4x3 space surrounded by wood tiles, 10-15 blocks below the output pump. There was nothing in between but a row of platforms so that honey was free to fall down and fill the hole again.

The loop was kept alive by a 1sec timer.

 

[Dovahkat963]

The wiki does say but that's only for spreading out over a sufficiently wide surface, and all fluids suffer from this; it will absolutely not evaporate if it drops down. I'm not seeing the 10 block thing you're talking about.

I was going off of memory there, I looked it up a while ago and might have got the number wrong.

 

[Demibolt]

According to the wiki lava will start to evaporate if it falls more than 10 blocks. Is the lava pouring down a long distance in your setup? If so that might be the problem.

Nothing is falling 10 blocks currently. It does spread over the ground about 10 blocks though

 

[Demibolt]

Here are the screenshots of the configuration. (Sorry for the messy wiring, I am no master)

The blue circles are the pumps that clear the lava from the top - The blue squares are the pumps that move the lava from the reservoir up to the death pit.

 

[ShadowOfDarkness]

Yeah, your wiring and setup is a bit confusing..

So you're taking lava from a pit, sending it to a trapped arena/afk thing, and sending it back down again?

I also stopped using pumps ages ago because sometimes they would duplicate liquids (which is patched now) and sometimes they would delete liquids. I feel that the risk isn't worth the reward. Thankfully, we had the Bottomless Water Bucket to help with water, but now we also have the Bottomless Lava Bucket. I recommend going for some lava fishing.

 

[Demibolt]

Yeah, your wiring and setup is a bit confusing..

So you're taking lava from a pit, sending it to a trapped arena/afk thing, and sending it back down again?

I also stopped using pumps ages ago because sometimes they would duplicate liquids (which is patched now) and sometimes they would delete liquids. I feel that the risk isn't worth the reward. Thankfully, we had the Bottomless Water Bucket to help with water, but now we also have the Bottomless Lava Bucket. I recommend going for some lava fishing.

Yeah sorry. I have been messing with the configuration a lot and not bothered to tidy up the wiring yet.

Each Red wire is connecting 2 pumps (intake and output) That take the lava up
Each green wire is connecting 2 pumps that take the lava down. I have more down pumps because of how the lava was building up if I just pumped it from 1 side.


I am really wanting to figure out the pump setup because I don't fill like manually filling the lava pit each time I want to use it. I also want it cleared of lava in between because the "death pit" is hidden from the surface until activated and I like that aesthetic. So I hide the lava reservoir and remove the lava between events.

Previously, I had multiple pumps wired on the same line (same red wire connecting 2 intake and 2 output pumps) and that did all sorts of weird stuff. Now I just have 6 pairs of pumps in total and they are all independently wired from each other.