Forgotten Springs

Quickstart

1. Open the Creative inventory and search for any of the ten spring buckets:
   • Ember Syrup Bucket
   • Prism Gel Bucket
   • Verdant Mistwater Bucket
   • Obsidian Oil Bucket
   • Solar Nectar Bucket
   • Frostbite Brine Bucket
   • Amethyst Plasma Bucket
   • Crimson Vaporflux Bucket
   • Azure Driftmilk Bucket
   • Gloom Sludge Bucket
2. Hold a filled bucket and use it on the ground or another replaceable block. The bucket becomes an empty bucket and creates a still source block.
3. Watch how the liquid flows and try walking through it to see its special effect.
4. Place a different spring, vanilla water, or vanilla lava beside it. Touching liquids react and create a solid block.
5. In Survival, explore the Overworld for naturally generated springs and use an empty bucket on a still spring block to collect it.

Filled spring buckets can replace air, water, lava, or another Forgotten Springs liquid. Each bucket plays a distinctive sound and displays a matching subtitle when placed.

Overview

Forgotten Springs adds ten unusual fluids with different colors, flow patterns, light levels, entity effects, and reactions. Springs generate naturally in small underground vents, geodes, fractures, and rare surface pools.

Five springs behave like water and five behave like lava:

• Water-like: Prism Gel, Verdant Mistwater, Frostbite Brine, Amethyst Plasma, Azure Driftmilk
• Lava-like: Ember Syrup, Obsidian Oil, Solar Nectar, Crimson Vaporflux, Gloom Sludge

All springs are non-infinite. A placed source flows downward first, then spreads horizontally while losing fluid level. Flowing sections cannot be collected with a bucket; collect a still source instead.

What It Adds

Spring fluids and buckets

A higher reach lets a liquid spread farther across level ground. A higher level loss makes it decay more quickly. Downward columns can travel farther than horizontal streams because gravity drives the flow.

Natural markers

Natural pools may have a themed rim or nearby decoration that hints at the liquid inside.

How To Use

Collecting a spring

Use an empty bucket on a still Forgotten Springs liquid block. The liquid is removed and the empty bucket becomes the matching filled spring bucket.

Flowing liquid cannot be collected directly. Follow a stream back to its source or place a new source with a filled bucket.

Placing a spring

Use a filled spring bucket on a replaceable block. The bucket creates a still source and returns an empty bucket. The new source immediately begins its normal flow.

Springs can be used for:

• Decorative pools, columns, and fountains
• Themed cave and shrine builds
• Traps and obstacle courses
• Elevators and movement puzzles
• Lighting and atmospheric effects
• Liquid-mixing experiments
• Exploration markers and environmental hazards

Listening for placement

Every spring has its own placement sound and subtitle:

• Ember Syrup: “Ember Syrup pours”
• Prism Gel: “Prism Gel splashes”
• Verdant Mistwater: “Verdant Mistwater spills”
• Obsidian Oil: “Obsidian Oil oozes”
• Solar Nectar: “Solar Nectar pours”
• Frostbite Brine: “Frostbite Brine splashes”
• Amethyst Plasma: “Amethyst Plasma crackles”
• Crimson Vaporflux: “Crimson Vaporflux hisses”
• Azure Driftmilk: “Azure Driftmilk drifts”
• Gloom Sludge: “Gloom Sludge sloshes”

Crafting And Obtaining

Forgotten Springs liquids and buckets are not crafted. Obtain them by:

• Finding a natural spring in the Overworld
• Collecting a still spring with an empty bucket
• Selecting the fluid or bucket from the Creative inventory

The two modded solid products are Obsidian Oil Shards and Frostbite Crystals. Obsidian Oil Shards can form when Obsidian Oil is cooled, while Frostbite Crystals can form around Frostbite Brine. Both can also appear as natural spring decorations.

Solid reaction products are ordinary placeable blocks. Mine them normally after a liquid reaction.

Abilities And Mechanics

Ember Syrup

Ember Syrup flows with a lava-like pattern. Entities inside it move slowly, catch fire, and take fire damage.

Prism Gel

Prism Gel behaves like a water-like fluid. Entities moving through it are slowed horizontally but are pushed upward, making it useful for bounce pads and vertical movement puzzles.

Verdant Mistwater

Verdant Mistwater applies Regeneration while an entity is inside it. Some flowing sections can disappear over time, especially when the stream has already lost much of its fluid level.

Obsidian Oil

Obsidian Oil is extremely slow and pulls entities downward. When it touches water, ice, packed ice, blue ice, or snow, it can cool into Obsidian Oil Shards.

Solar Nectar

Solar Nectar is the brightest spring and behaves like lava. It makes entities glow and changes its movement with the time of day:

• Around dawn and dusk, flowing Solar Nectar can move upward.
• Around midday, flowing Solar Nectar can move downward.
• Its entity lift also changes between daytime and nighttime.

Use it for timed displays, lighting, and unusual vertical-flow builds.

Frostbite Brine

Frostbite Brine applies strong Slowness and Mining Fatigue to entities inside it. It freezes adjacent vanilla water into ice and can create Frostbite Crystals in open air above the liquid.

Amethyst Plasma

Amethyst Plasma behaves like a water-like fluid but violently jolts entities upward and sideways. It also deals magic damage, making it useful as a hazardous obstacle or randomized movement trap.

Crimson Vaporflux

Crimson Vaporflux applies Blindness and deals hot-floor damage. Flowing sections can dissipate when touching natural Overworld stone, producing crimson particles as they vanish.

Azure Driftmilk

Azure Driftmilk applies Slow Falling and gently lifts entities. Its broad, persistent flow makes it useful for aerial paths, soft landings, and floating platforms.

Gloom Sludge

Gloom Sludge is slow and heavy. It applies Darkness, strongly reduces movement, and can occasionally extinguish an adjacent torch or wall torch.

Liquid Reactions

A Forgotten Springs liquid reacts when it touches another liquid. Reactions can occur from any side and produce a solid block at the contact point.

Two different Forgotten Springs liquids consume each other during the reaction. The same spring does not react with itself. Vanilla water and lava remain present while the touching Forgotten Springs liquid changes into its product.

Reactions with vanilla liquids

Reactions between springs

The order of the liquids does not matter.

Progression And Strategy

• Start with Prism Gel, Azure Driftmilk, or Amethyst Plasma for safer movement experiments.
• Use Ember Syrup, Crimson Vaporflux, and Gloom Sludge as hostile hazards in enclosed traps.
• Build containment walls around Obsidian Oil and Gloom Sludge; their short reach and heavy decay make them easy to control.
• Use Solar Nectar for bright builds and time-based mechanisms that behave differently throughout the day.
• Keep water nearby when working with Obsidian Oil if you want to produce Obsidian Oil Shards.
• Use Frostbite Brine near water channels to create ice and Frostbite Crystals.
• For reliable reaction testing, place one source of each liquid in a controlled chamber with a one-block gap, then connect them using a bucket or a short channel.
• Remember that mixing destroys the involved modded liquids, so keep spare buckets or separate source pools for continued use.