Water source blocks cannot be placed.
Instead, water dissipates shortly after being placed.
This encourages building water channels and choosing your base location carefully.
Waterlogged blocks also lose their stored water when broken.
Lava-based contraptions must be built where lava naturally occurs.
These mechanics pair well with mods that add mechanical or industrial fluid handling, requiring effort and infrastructure instead of simple bucket transport.
This mod provides several configurable options:
This mod ports functionality from the legendary Better Than Wolves mod,
originally created by FlowerChild and maintained by the CE Team.
👉 Better Than Wolves Official Site

Changing Minecraft fluid handling to be semi-realistic and push for more creative usages.