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I'm trying to build a race for the wool style map, and I've seen tons of other maps in versions all the way up to 1.16 that have underwater sections without walls to hold the water in. I know they aren't using barriers, because they can still fire arrows into the water, and they aren't using a fill command, because that isn't fast enough to stop the water. As well as that, it's entirely in vanilla, since I can download the map and play it and not have any problems on a vanilla profile. So how do they do it? I do have world edit at my disposal if the solution requires it. enter image description here

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  • im pretty sure //filling with air should just do that – Penguin Mar 11 at 21:17
  • I tried exactly that earlier and the water just flows back into the spot I filled. And when I put that in to a repeating command block, it's not fast enough to prevent the water from flowing out a bit – John Klubertanz Mar 11 at 21:25
  • Use /setblock <x y z> water. – Mark Giraffe Mar 11 at 21:49
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    That doesn't work, the water automatically updates. – John Klubertanz Mar 11 at 22:22
  • @JohnKlubertanz just to be clear, you did //fill like the world edit command and not /fill like the minecraft command, right? – Penguin Mar 11 at 23:56
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Place structure void blocks around spaces you don't want the water flowing into.

To get a structure void, use this command:

give @s minecraft:structure_void 1

The structure void's hitbox is a small cube in the middle of the block that can be broken to turn the block into air. Water will never flow into its space while it is active.

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  • Oh my god. I can't believe I completely forgot about structure voids! Thank you for reminding me, you're the best! – John Klubertanz Mar 12 at 0:31

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