How hot is Minecraft Lava?

[@abyssaljam441]

The bizarre fact that lava can be held in a bucket and also destroy the bucket made me terrified of lava in beta 1.6. I once built a railway just to transport some buckets thinking they would leak in my inventory and kill me.

[@gneissname]

That’s great.

[@jayturner5242]

That would be a great mod!

[@guard13007]

SAME. I always only kept lava in buckets just long enough to move it to where I needed it because I was scared it would spontaneously destroy the bucket, place where I'm standing, and then kill me.

[@Gekoloudios]

how the hell would you ever come to that conclusion... how old were you when you thought of that lol

[@abyssaljam441]

@@Gekoloudios it was actually my friend who i was hot seat playing with. I assumed it was his logic and it was the logic I Iretroactively came to. I was also terrified of redstone ore... I was 13

[@tresf]

Your ability to use Minecraft as a PowerPoint presentation is stunning, impressive and effective.

[@PigHumanoid]

I’d like to imagine some intern at a big company using Minecraft as an effective data visualization tool.

[@AxonZshow]

​@@PigHumanoid legitimately though that would actually be a really effective means of doing so since it would give you the ability to create 3d representations in a way that is clear to show to people, something most programs used at meetings don't have.

[@_BangDroid_]

@@PigHumanoid Maybe they do at Mojang lol

[@plackt]

Seeing the electromagnetic spectrum from right-to-left took a moment to process.

[@TlalocTemporal]

Thinking about it, I've seen both used extensively. Ultraviolet-left when discussing visible light spectra, like with lamps or stars, but infrared-left when discussing the full electromagnetic spectrum or anything with more than two metric prefixes.

[@plackt]

@@TlalocTemporal I guess it also depends on whether you are going by wavelength or frequency, since increasing order is opposites.

[@somdudewillson]

Here's a fun fact from a modder: The Forge modding framework adds properties such as temperature to fluids - and the temperature of lava is defined as 1300K, or ~1027° Celsius, same as your conclusion. :P

[@gneissname]

woah, that's interesting

[@guard13007]

Someone did their homework.

[@intergraphenic]

Most mods, however, like tinkers' construct, use 1000 degrees Celsius rather than the bucket temperature of 1027

[@fieryr]

​@@intergraphenicthat's for having to work with good numbers. really, if you were to burn in a 1000°C lava, or a 1027°C, would you feel any difference?

[@hassaniq0777]

​@@fieryri think I'd disappear from goddamn existence 💀💀

[@connordarvall8482]

From this, we can deduct that souls are made of copper sulphate in Minecraft. Jokes aside, this makes me remember how much I liked taking chemistry in high school, despite my marks.

[@gneissname]

I can relate to poor marks. I did horribly in school until I had the right teachers. I thought I was dumb for years.

[@comparatorclock]

Copper sulphate? Huh. Actually I was thinking that maybe it was in the soil, instead of the souls - warped trees could be tinted blue that way by the stuff.

[@Jebastian_]

well, I mean, we do have plenty of copper in Minecraft, and the nether does seem like it would have plenty of sulfur

[@isobarkley]

“if you dont like calculus, you probably had a bad math teacher…” SO TRUE !!!!!

[@fluffly3606]

I remember reading that there are indications that affinity (or lack thereof) for mathematics develops in early childhood so if you hate math in general then you might have less than excellent parents as well

[@GoingSwimmingly]

Or you’re straight up traumatized- Have you SEEN the way some people in school react to math in highschool?

[@gardenshed6043]

This reminded me of something I always wondered. You can place fire on Netherrack and it will gain the infiniburn property. Meaning it will never go out. Meaning something in the Netherrack is able to provide an infinite fuel source for fire. Yet we can’t use Netherrack in a furnace for infinite fuel or harness the infiniburn in any significant way.

[@carimeslockdownedtree2654]

Huh I'd never thought about that! Maybe because Netherrack is extremely flammable but doesn't produce h- wait hold on but we can use wood. And actually... Yeah, aside from lava, every burny furnace item doesn't make fire by itself. From a meta standpoint, it's so that you don't just use one single block of Netherrack per furnace for all your Minecraft time, but it's interesting to think about as an in-universe thing.

[@hi-i-am-atan]

@@carimeslockdownedtree2654 considering netherrack in a furnace makes nether bricks, which not only lack the infiniburn property, but aren't even flammable in the first place? seems like the sorta thing where an open burn results in an exothermic reaction with a nonsignificant change in composition, but bake it in a closed chamber and you end up transforming the netherrack into something completely different. a lot of the heat of an open fire is lost to the environment, after all, so the transformation could be caused by the concentrated heat reaching a breaking point or seeping in deeper and heating the entirety of the netherrack, involving the core in the process instead of just burning the surface in other words, the problem when burning netherrack as a fuel source would be that you'd end up with a lot of bricks in the fuel chamber, and the furnace does not have a second output slot for fuel byproducts

[@TheRenegade...]

​@@hi-i-am-atanbyproducts would actually be cool

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

​@@hi-i-am-atanyou would, quite literally, brick your oven

[@martock_l9338]

Here's a funfact about how people depict soulfires and soul-campfires: most artwork shows them being unnaturally cold, since they emit significantly less light than regular fires (in terms of the minecraft mechanic light levels) and they also have a much harder time melting ice in its surroundings. The fact that they glow blue-green is an interesting caveat to this theory but general consensus is that they are very magical and not subject to the usual laws of science. On another note, great video! I have been following this channel for a while now and although I have not commented on anything yet I have greatly enjoyed your content and the brain candy that is interesting geology! :)

[@gneissname]

Good comment, glad you enjoy the videos.

[@uwuifyingransomware]

Flame tests are so cool. Not sure what it says about me but I actually cheered when you brought out the strontium salt. Anyway, this was a really good way to tie in physics, chemistry and geology. It’s always been interesting to me that the black body spectrum (at least the visible part) kind of maxes out at a white-blue, instead of going into violet and UV, etc. And it turns out it’s just statistics!

[@gneissname]

I put it last because it was my favorite. One of the ones I didn't end up adding was potassium permanganate, a common biology dye, turns out it is very exothermic.

[@AWOLBones]

@@gneissnameI can attest to it being exothermic. I’ve got a massive scar on my hand from that.

[@Metal_Master_YT]

@@gneissname Was waiting for lithium, got strontium instead, fair enough...

[@gneissname]

@@Metal_Master_YT Yeah, i just kind of pulled things from a cabinet and didn't go buy anything special.

[@Metal_Master_YT]

@@gneissname since you're here, by any chance did you see/read my other comment? it was quite important to the video but overlooked.

[@dexterity494]

The temperature of soulfire is basically unknowable, since its color is almost definitely because of souls. The color it's putting out is based on excess energy from destroying soul energy. Obviously not comparable to anything in the real world, but that's the leading theory in the minecraft community. edit: dang. I posted right before you said this lol. My bad

[@TheSilverShadow17]

A blue flame would actually indicate it as being the hottest but cleanest burning fire of all fires, such is the case with stars around the universe with the hottest ones being blue in color.

[@VInceent]

​@@TheSilverShadow17 Wait... this means that souls in Nether are pure ? Now I want to see the color of a burning stained soul 😂

[@antaresmc4407]

Could just be a sulfur flame

[@dexterity494]

@@antaresmc4407 unlikely, since soulfire items are the only example of blue flame, and there are a handful of examples in the game of sulfur itself or adjacent areas burning and not being blue

[@Tbug20]

Weird fact: fire and other light blocks will melt snow layers, but soul fire will not. Does that mean that souls burn cold?

[@circuitsalsa]

Loved the discussion on the relationship between color, temperature, and lava behavior.

[@ITYW]

You’ve got such a unique perspective for a Minecraft content creator- I hope your channel continues to grow and we see you a year or two from now teaching hermits and the sort about the history of granite in A.D. architecture or something

[@Vutus_]

I'm confused about how minecraft works, you can hold a lava bucket but you can't sink in the lava even though the bucket is made of iron

[@pkcharaxx8082]

trees can float

[@hircenedaelen]

Minecraft does not share our laws of physics

[@lucky-segfault]

Temperature flow is much slower in minecraft than the real world

[@TlalocTemporal]

Don't forget about lava destroying a bucket filled with lava, or blocks of stone floating in water, or the infinite volume of blocks than can vanish into a cactus.

[@kangmintaid3970]

Hand are stronger than body

[@manas7372]

Another question no one asked, but I'm here to learn the answer to. Amazing work as always!

[@unnaturalredhead1559]

8:18 you can also use lava to make basalt in Minecraft! If you have lava flowing over/next to blue ice and soul soil (not sand!) it will produce basalt, similar to the classic cobblestone generator.

[@Wordfishtrombone]

Very accessible talk! I didn’t expect to learn so much about color and chemistry!

[@sargentstudios]

the echo is subtle but noticeable and i think it actually sounds quite good i feel like im in school and have the cool science teacher lol

[@gneissname]

Thanks for letting me know.

[@mikafoxx2717]

Subtle echo is fine. Completely dry vocals from a studio are actually off-putting because there's almost always some echo in real life.

[@Wyattporter]

Are you a color theory enthusiast as a result of your chosen field, or just as a side hobby? I love these videos.

[@gneissname]

Thanks. Growing up I wanted to be an artist, but was encouraged to get a "practical" job. Color has always been interesting to me and it comes up in several applications in geology and I still tinker with art now and then.

[@joemcbob509]

It feels like there’s a million and one of these little analysis channels nowadays but you really go above and beyond. This is my first video from you that’s come across my recommended but as soon as I saw you bring out the fume hood I knew I was in for something good.

[@gunkwizardry]

dude i was just so stoked that he data-packed in changing the fire from normal to blue when he threw in the copper

[@CharlesHydronium]

what about lava flowing speeds? lava flows faster in nether than in the overworld

[@gneissname]

You know, I tried to figure out Minecraft lava viscosity when I was doing the stone episode. Viscosity is also very depended on the makeup of the lava. I was not successful. If anyone can figure that out, I would love to see it.

[@KatThreeNine]

I think lava flows faster in the nether than the overworld because it's hotter in the nether (same reason water evaporates instantly there)

[@pauldeddens5349]

@@KatThreeNine But that raises the question of does nether lavas compostion change? There is bedrock above and beneath the nether, what formed it? There is only basalt, blackstone, and netherrack in the nether. Does that mean they were formed by the lava, or that they are the only things that can survive it?

[@TheSilverShadow17]

​@@pauldeddens5349Netherite and Obsidian can easily survive lava with Obsidian ultimately being the end result of combining lava and water into one, and Netherite being the strongest material in the game other than Bedrock having an absurdly high blast resistance plus the fact that when dropped in lava it doesn't burn.

[@pauldeddens5349]

@@TheSilverShadow17 Im aware, but it raises the question of how does it all form? As in everything in the nether are just the results of the only material that survived when the nether formed. Or that the rocks found in the nether are directly created by different forms of lava cooling.

[@coolvin]

"visable" lol. You're such a good educator, do you have a history of being a teacher or something? I wouldn't expect a normal scientist to be this good at explaining things in such a simple but sophisticated way. I love how you show things in Minecraft with the display blocks and all the time and work it must take to make them look so good.

[@gneissname]

Oof, well I’m not a spelling teacher. Lol. I work at a university and have to explain complex topics daily.

[@Golden87432]

@@gneissnamewhat complex topics?

[@ARealTaco]

@@Golden87432memes

[@gneissname]

@@Golden87432 mostly how certain analytical equipment work. An example would be a scanning electron microscope, how it actually creates an electron beam how we focus and calibrate it, how it makes the image, how X-rays are generated with it and how we use them to know elemental abundances in a sample. I deal with a lot of chemistry, material science, X-rays, lasers and mass specs and I’m usually explaining these things to graduate students that usually don’t have a technical background.

[@Golden87432]

@@gneissname yeah I have no idea lol

[@miserycrown.]

This reminds me of my highschool geology classes. We had a fella in our class that really liked minecraft and geology and he once brought a piece of gneiss to class so we could analyse it with the teacher.

[@BakeBakePi]

Great video! The colored fire segment was so cool! I love how you explain everything and create visuals with the entity displays! I didn't notice the echo at all during the video.

[@roccomarshall3284]

I want more content like this, a great mix of real world applicable science and games. My job and hobby all in one, perfection.

[@KevinLarsson42]

I'm blown away by the emission sprectrum animation :o

[@gonnsolo8506]

This video seems like "What if Game Theory was made by someone who knows about science, instead of someone who has heard of it"

[@colecube8251]

tbf older videos did contain a lot more science stuff

[@Noctem_pasa]

We do not tolerate game theory slander in this house

[@rararrar98553047658]

This is one of my favourite series on KZbin. Ever. You’re a great teacher, and what a fantastic use of Minecraft and its features to explain something that a lot of people (such as myself) knew absolutely nothing about.

[@TeaDrinkingGuy]

I can’t express how perfect an intersection of my interest this video is. I love minecraft, science, coding and a passing interest in geology. Also amazing how demonstrative and visual Minecraft’s mechanics can be when utilised like this! Awesome video, subbed!

[@Eevneon]

I was actually wondering why irl fire looked orange earlier this week Amazing video

[@vencedor1774]

You can also convert lava into basalt with blue ice and soul sand. Nether lava flows fast, so, maybe it could also be the third type of lava.

[@residentsquirrelobserver]

I hope you aren’t underestimating how absolutely important and powerful your type of content is to the world. Condensing oftentimes hard-to-understand scientific concepts with a visually appeasing and interesting KZbin video using one of the most popular games in the world is so infinitely helpful to spark people’s interest in and increase their knowledge of science, especially for young children. I absolutely applaud you, and I hope to see your channel skyrocket in subscribers and views in the near future. Do not ever forget the huge amount of good you are doing for this world, especially now that misinformation is so widespread and easy-to-access. Great job, from one random Internet person to another!

[@LaNiBlackLight]

Holy shit, this is actually the most insane minecraft video i've seen. You can see that you are intellegent, the math knowledge, astronomic references.. I believe you also know programming, because those ingame models are definitely either made by you, or your team(but It looks more like you are working alone to me personally). The very fact that you have those cool tools that you showed? A bit of geography with where you can find lava leftovers.. I dont think I've ever seen more scientific minecraft video than that... and its from a channel of just 24k subs. You deserve much more attention for this video.

[@gneissname]

Thanks LaNiBlackLight. Yeah its just me, this stuff kind of lets me combine a lot of things I like into one.

[@IcheeCOTC]

I can confirm that souls burn quite hot due to the contained determination, usually more than 20,000°C, and they'll just burn forever if they're left burning. Also the color they burn usually depends on what type of soul it is, but those appear to be plain souls, which are surprisingly rare.

[@SuperCaitball]

I noticed that the properties of Mafic Lava match up nicely with the lava in the Nether, forming basalt and flowing more easily than overworld lava.

[@Pickled_Poet]

2:43 I'm in quantum chemistry right now and didn't expect my homework to be in this video

[@Wulfjager]

I clicked only half interested, thinking it'd be some over the top goofy video like most Minecraft content. Definitely wasn't expecting such a down to earth and scientific explanation. Had me hooked til the end, thank you.

[@jakesemrow2678]

This is actually one of the most amazing channels ever found. The presentation depth and the detail is amazing. I'm a geology student who's probably clocked over 3000 hours in this game. Really really great job.

[@bogbert7019]

physics and minecraft and geology all in one video? lovely thank you. that was a really nice concise explanation of the uv spectrum as well as star temps

[@SpringySpring04]

It's awesome that now after taking calculus classes in uni, I finally understand what "integrate to find the area under the curve" means. I've always been really good with math in high school, even going so far as making the highest scores in the history of my high school on the standardized ACT tests, so I really love math and learning it, though I'm a little sad that I never got to understand things like limits, derivatives, integration, and etc. until I made it to college. Nice video!

[@tobyrox9]

I love the lottle fact about aluminium, I thought it was kind of funny to think of aluminium as rare when I've got a cabinet with heaps of it that I've melted from scrap.

[@elomoreloR6]

it's crazy to me that KZbin is a platform where you can find a 12y.o. annoying ass screaming kid and an ACTUAL professor both playing Minecraft. It's honestly super impressive that you know so much and explain it so good, even a child can understand.

[@doktormozg]

This is question I would have never dared to even approach to answering and I love it!

[@Cgaming365]

That visualisation and animations you did were awesome and really helped me understand it better. You're so talened!

[@maxb3248]

I quite like this, because a( I am a blacksmith, and am quite familiar with the glowinb of heated things, and b( I am also quite inyi astronomy, so also am familiar with the colors of stars from their heat.

[@beeverfeever4930]

The topics that you are looking at and the things you are teaching are awesome and I'm learning a lot however I can't get over the stuff you are doing with command blocks(at least I presume you are using command blocks) the animations and stuff is really cool.

[@gneissname]

Thanks! Yeah everything I do is vanilla minecraft using command blocks, and datapacks, so anyone can download the world and run it without mods.

[@Spectrik]

Very talented, your expertise shines throughout your work

[@iwersonsch5131]

I would be hyped for a video about the difference between lava and magma. Minecraft calls them the same block and they have the same texture, but they need not have the same temperature. Additionally, I haven't seen Magma in the Nether form Obsidian so maybe that has a different composition as well (it also flows faster!)

[@elysiaisalive]

This has become one of my all-time favourite KZbin channels as of late. Keep up the good work!

[@gneissname]

Thanks!

[@claytonharting9899]

I love your videos, I’m glad you’re all set back up again

[@rath3r420]

This was cool af im usually not a math or science guy but something about it doing with Minecraft is kinda entertaining

[@FocusWill16]

I was of the impression that soul fire is blue because it contains sulfur. Sulfur fires are blue and honestly when i first got into Minecraft in 2012 i expected the nether to have blue flames and look like the soul sand valley. The trees are red and blue because those are the colors of the nether. Molten rock is orange/red and burning sulfur is blue. Fire and brimstone.

[@Jamiscus]

ive never been particularily interested in geology but i love science and minecraft and this channel has been super interesting to me, i love watching these videos. great work! one question ive always wanted to ask a geologist or someone who knows a lot about rocks is, like, is there any obsidian irl thats actually purple and if not why do you think its portrayed that way in video games

[@gneissname]

In my experience most obsidian is basically black. I do have some that are a brown chocolate color because of some iron content. If i had to guess, the purple is similar to comic book characters with black hair. You need to be able to show some highlights and texture but its hard to do with a black material. Comic book characters usually end up having some blue highlights to show the shape and body of hair. I have been thinking of doing some shorts, this could be a little video to show off this.

[@youkez6227]

how do you not have more subs dude, this is awesome!

[@crazynachos4230]

This is an awesome education video, i love the idea of using Minecraft to tech science

[@thomasfplm]

1:00 To be more precise, predominantly in the infrared spectrum. We also emit light that would be in the visible range, the problem is that it is so little of it that we can't detect.

[@hoatzinn3106]

I love your videos, they are extremely high quality for how many subs you have. Keep it up!

[@caspermadlener4191]

"Calculus is my favourite math subject. If it is not yours, you probably had a horrible math teacher." I know this is a joke, but as somebody who competes in math, my math teachers were great 👍

[@gneissname]

Its probably not a coincidence that my calc teacher was one of the best teachers I ever had.

[@JosephsDesign]

I love colour theory, and have always been interested in colour temperature, and I never knew it was based off of black body radiation. I only knew of colour temperature from how sunlight is refracted though the sky, blue is refracted more so cool shade is more blue and direct hot sun is more red. Really cool.

[@elliotgandersen]

I’m so happy I discovered this. It’s so informative but in a fun and interesting way.

[@blastlightstar]

As a baby geology nerd, clicking a Minecraft video and hearing "Welcome back to another geology episode" made me extremely happy. Subbed immediately.

[@sourlemon3337]

I love your mixture of minecraft and science, so interesting and educational.

[@mrmosaic7996]

Oh, an actual educational video in minecraft! Something to behold!

[@TheeSlickShady_Dave_K]

This is next-level video creation Using Minecraft to teach geology Two of my most favorite things Thank you Good Sir 🎩

[@Shepard4711]

The crossover we needed is here! Geology and colour theory in one video!

[@PunishedFelix]

I love your educational content. Never thought geology could be so interesting! Thanks for posting!

[@y2kona]

using minecraft to teach physics is pretty cool ngl

[@oboroth51]

It's definetly hot enough to burn that rainbow.

[@woegarden]

quick assumption for the beginning of the video: since, when ignited, different pure elements give off light in varying different color spectrum bands, could you in theory have lavas with other colors aside from red if the elemental composition of that lava is mostly one element?

[@gneissname]

Yes, actually there are some volcanoes that melt sulfur near the surface and they are quite cool but are burning a blue color. Outside of earth with different elemental concentrations there could be some interesting possibilities.

[@SunShine214_2]

I think this is my favorite channel to date. I am always elated to see a new Gneiss video.

[@gloweye]

Hell gotta be very hot if souls burn at those temperatures.

[@Maxawa0851]

I feel like I just got tricked into a geography lesson

[@qexat]

this channel is so good! I love your videos, I didn't know that geology could get me that much interested lol

[@imthevevo]

i think if my highschool earth & space science classes had been as fun to watch as these videos i would have actually passed the class... lol

[@Anonymous-bi5pv]

another banger, good work gneiss

[@gneissname]

Thanks! This one took a lot more time than I expected. I kept thinking of little things to add.

[@BradleyKouamoSime]

If your favorite field of math isn't topology then you're wrong.

[@abe-danger]

Tinker's Construct figured it out, lava is around 1000C, however iron smelts way lower in that mod

[@skemonde]

Yo that's an interesting stuff right here! Maybe mojangs should consider making all the iron items invulnerable to lava just like netherite. That would confuse people less about lava being able to destroy buckets

[@lerpog4509]

hot enough to instantly evaporate obsidian

[@furnaceheadgames9001]

3:55 my favourite fields of maths is topology

[@annieh1315]

Have you played around with the chemistry components of Bedrock edition with education turned on? There are ways to create different colored glow sticks and sparklers by changing which chemicals you add. And there’s a material reducer that turns blocks like dirt and sand into its basic elements in their relative amounts. If you put soul sand in it, you get an “unknown element”. Great video as always!!

[@gneissname]

The mystery deepens! No i have not played with the bedrock edition. I know it has a lot of stuff that could be cool.

[@TheOdinsLance]

You know, It never really crossed my mind that fire was a chemical reaction. I always considered it to be its own separate phenomena rather than the result of another process. I guess that's why certain things just explode if they get too hot, even if they didn't come into contact with an open fire.

[@bingusjack]

this guy casually demonstrated a deep understanding of chemistry, physics, calculus, geology, astronomy, and coding/modding all in one minecraft video

[@somniad]

this video is so wonderful in its presentation! please keep doing stuff like this

[@RandomContent-tn9qe]

this man is like the vsauce of minecraft

[@codybaird4811]

Great video! It's neat to see how you've improved in creating videos over time.

[@akotor]

you sure cover a range of interesting topics

[@cleopatinea4771]

another video that made me visualize colors that I cant see, its just so amazing how amazing the theory of colors is so complex, do you have some videos or articles that go more in depth about this subject? I want to know more about this

[@M4DVILLAIN]

I just learned and understood so many things and still don't know how hot lava is in Minecraft

[@SuperSand]

This is a video straight out of Game Theory, I swear 😄

[@kevinabiwardani7550]

When you said Black Body Radiation, I just know where you're going. ;⁠-⁠) You're not only a Geologist, you're also a chemist, astronomer, physicist, coder, gamer, and most importantly, Science Educator. Keep up the Good Work, Gneiss!

[@squarebarreloffrogs]

This is a fantastic video, I love the explanation

[@karhall1635]

Before I kew you would be talking about the soul fires, seeing a sign that said "On for Souls" on the edge of the screen was extremely ominous.

[@anthonyrios4193]

I thought this was gonna be a game theory and you were gonna use the hardest thing like a diamond and seeing it gets destroyed instantly that you would just use real world temps to get that to happen but this goes way more in depth and is super realistic.

[@ranke]

Minecraft and science my favourite combination!

[@thealientree3821]

Oxidized souls are blue, and unoxidized souls are brown.

[@Cryphi]

This Video was amazing, im amazed that you can make such high quality videos and work at an university.

[@damagineer3147]

I was just doing these calculations for a remote sensing GIS course lol

[@XerxusExanju]

I'm so engaged youtube, promote this guys content in the algorithm.... WITH MY ENGAGEMENT!

[@rhsmn2334]

very well-made, thank you!