On a floating-island challenge map I'm making a giant tank of water to try to get squid to spawn. How should I go about filling it; top-down or bottom-up? What's the quickest method to have it all filled with source water so I don't have strange currents in it?
Best Answer
Keeping in mind my own observations on squid: it seems as if squid are perfectly capable of spawning in 1 block deep water (reference); you might be better served with a huge, shallow tank than a large, deep one.
Filling a huge, shallow tank is very, very fast; place source blocks first along one edge, and then along another, nonparallel edge, and you're done.