Water Spawner

This page describes content that exists only in outdated versions of Java Edition.

This feature used to be in the game, but has ever since been removed.It may or may not return in a future update.

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

Obtaining

Breaking

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

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

Chest loot

Water spawners could be found in Indev House chests in stacks of 99 in in-20100124-2, 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

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 will be regenerated after enough time.

Sponges

Water spawners are deleted by sponges.

Data values

ID

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

History

Java Edition Indev
May 18, 2009		Notch states that a water spawner would probably be silly.
0.31	20100114	Added water spawners.
		The block is referred to as an "item spawner block".^[1]
		The blocks were added to allow for players to create lakes on floating maps.
	20100124-2	Water spawners can now be found in Indev House chests in a stack of 99.
	20100128	Water spawners can now be found in Indev House chests in a stack of 100.
	20100129	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.
	20100201-2	Water spawners are now deleted by sponges.
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.
20100625-2		The numeric ID which water spawners used is now used by the spawner, and as such all existing water spawners will seamlessly convert into spawners instead of causing the game to crash.