Hot Lava Bucket
Hot Lava Bucket stops players from picking up lava with a bucket, and it warns them when they touch lava while holding one.
What it does
The mod makes a player drop any lava bucket from the inventory, so lava cannot be scooped and placed directly. A check runs on each player tick: if a lava bucket is found, it is dropped and the player is set on fire. An action bar message reading "Hot" shows for five seconds. Modded buckets are not covered, so they fall outside the check.
Because the mod targets direct manipulation of lava, it can suit modpacks where lava shortcuts trivialize certain challenges. Both client and server need it, and the mod is published for NeoForge 1.21.1 only. The license is All rights reserved, so the code is not open source.
Key features
Lava bucket drop
A lava bucket held by a player is dropped on the next tick, so it cannot be used to place lava.
Fire on contact
Holding a lava bucket sets the player on fire, which is the penalty for carrying one.
Action bar warning
An action bar message appears for five seconds when the check fires, with Brazilian Portuguese text available.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
In the catalog
Hot Lava Bucket is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 12,140 Game mechanics mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Just a simple mod that aims to disable direct player manipulation of lava. Useful in modpacks where lava can cheese some challenges. Checks the player every tick for lava buckets, if one is found, it will drop the bucket, set the player on fire for 5 seconds and display "Ouch! This is very hot." on the action bar…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/hot-lava-bucket
- Owner
- TayTay_a_Grande
- Published
- 2025-11-11
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-11-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15