How To Use Lava In Minecraft

Lava is a calorie-free-emitting fluid that causes fire harm, mostly institute in the lower reaches of the Overworld and the Nether.

Obtaining [ ]

Lava blocks do not be as items in Java Edition, but tin can be retrieved with a bucket. In Bedrock Edition, it may be obtained as an detail via glitches (in onetime versions), add-ons or inventory editing.

Unlike water source blocks, new lava source blocks cannot exist created in a space by 2 or more side by side source blocks. Lava may be obtained renewably from cauldrons, as pointed dripstone with a lava source above it can slowly fill a cauldron with lava.

Natural generation [ ]

During world generation, lava replaces air blocks generated in caves and ravines betwixt Y=-55 and Y=-63. Lava does not supervene upon air blocks inside mineshafts, dungeons, or strongholds.

Lava can too occur as lava rivers from a unmarried spring block, pouring down walls into pools. The spring block can exist on the side of a cavern, ravine, mineshaft, or stone cliff higher up ground.

Lava as well generates as lava lakes, which tin can be institute above Y=0 within any biome.

Ii blocks of lava can too be found in plains, snowy plains, and desert village weaponsmith buildings, or one source in savanna hamlet weaponsmith buildings.

Fifteen blocks of lava can be found in the end portal room of a stronghold: 3 along each side wall, and ix below the portal frame.

Lava also generates in woodland mansions: two blocks of lava generate in the "blacksmith room", and 25 blocks of lava generate in a undercover "lava room".

In the Nether, lava is more common than water in the Overworld. Seas of lava occur, with sea level at y-level 32, nearly a quarter of the total height of the Under (as the usable space in the Nether is 128 blocks alpine). They tin extend downwards to about y-level nineteen-22. Lava also randomly appears in single blocks inside netherrack formations. Lava is also generated as a single source in well rooms in nether fortresses. There are also big pockets of lava generated under y-19 and tin can achieve all the way downwards to bedrock level. These pockets are by and large over 12 blocks in peak and often connect to a large lava lake on y-32; the size of these pockets in ane.eighteen can range from the size of a singular pre-1.18 ravine to multiple ravines combined.

Lava generates as delta shapes, which can be found usually in the basalt deltas biome. Lava too generates in ruined portals and bastion remnants.

Usage [ ]

Fuel [ ]

When used in a furnace, a bucket of lava lasts 1000 seconds (100 items).

Burning [ ]

What information technology looks like inside lava using Fire Resistance in *Java Edition*.

Most entities take 4 damage every one-half-second while in contact with lava, and are assail fire. An entity/player in lava will also take its remainingFireTicks gear up to 300, setting it on burn for 15 seconds. This timer is reset to 300 every tick that the victim spends in lava, so it will simply start counting down one time the victim leaves the lava. Once the victim does exit the lava source, it volition burn for just nether 15 seconds, taking burn down impairment 14 times. This is due to the fact that for the first tick exterior of lava, its remainingFireTicks subtract to 299, and entities take fire damage when remainingFireTicks is a multiple of 20 and greater than 0. If the victim touches h2o or rain falls on it, the fire is extinguished, but the lava continues to harm them directly.

In addition, a dense fog result will exist applied for players under lava to obscure vision. This can exist slightly mitigated via the Burn Resistance effect.

An entity/actor moving in lava has their horizontal motility speed reduced by fifty% and their vertical movement speed reduced by 20%.

In Bedrock Edition, a role player with the Burn Resistance effect or a total Burn Protection of vii or higher does not catch burn down.

Vexes, zoglins, Nether mobs other than piglins and hoglins, the Wither, and players or mobs afflicted by the Fire Resistance effect are not damaged when touching lava.

The embers or fireballs that wing out of lava are purely decorative and do non cause fires or impairment to entities. When rain falls on lava, the black ember particles appear more frequently.

A histrion in lava lasts a few seconds before dying:

Coffee Edition [ ]

2.five seconds with no armor
3.5 seconds with total leather armor, no enchantments
4 seconds with full gold armor, no enchantments
4.v seconds with full chain armor, no enchantments
5.5 seconds with full atomic number 26 armor, no enchantments
10.v seconds with full diamond armor, no enchantments
11 seconds with full netherite armor, no enchantments

Boulder Edition [ ]

ii.v seconds with no armor
3.5 seconds with total leather armor, no enchantments
4.5 seconds with full aureate armor, no enchantments
5 seconds with total concatenation armor, no enchantments
6.5 seconds with full iron armor, no enchantments
12.5 seconds with total diamond armor, no enchantments
12.5 seconds with full netherite armor, no enchantments

If the player is wearing armor enchanted with Fire Protection, they tin can last fifty-fifty longer. With the maximum bonus, the damage is small-scale enough that the natural healing from a full hunger bar tin outpace information technology, so a histrion could survive indefinitely as long as they have food and their armor holds upwards (non-netherite armor is damaged by lava). This maximum bonus can be obtained past wearing 2 pieces of armor with Burn Protection 4 and i with Protection IV, or 1 slice of armor with Fire Protection Iv and 3 with Protection Four.

Fire spread [ ]

The orangish area represents areas
where air could catch flame if the
gray and orange areas comprise
flammable blocks. The wood
is all at a safe altitude.

Lava can crusade fires by turning air blocks to fire blocks:

in a 3×1×3 surface area right to a higher place the lava.
in a v×1×5 2 blocks above the lava.

In guild for air above lava to turn to burn, a block adjacent to the air has to exist combustible, or one of the wood-constructed non-flammable blocks. Since catching fire depends on air blocks, even torches or lava itself can prevent a flammable block from catching fire. Additionally, not all flammable or forest-constructed blocks can be ignited by lava.

The lava of any depth can start fires this manner, whether or not information technology appears to accept a current.

Note that an air block in the 5x1x5 area catches burn down regardless of what is directly or diagonally below it. In particular, a unmarried layer of obsidian on the surface of a lava lake does non prevent the blocks on peak of it from catching fire from the underneath lava.

Flow [ ]

Lava flows from "source blocks". Most streams or "lava-falls" come from a single source block, but lava lakes (including the "flood lava" in the bottom ten layers) are composed entirely of source blocks. A source block tin be captured just with a bucket.

In the Overworld and the End, lava travels 3 blocks in any horizontal direction from a source block. Lava flows far more slowly than h2o (ane block every 30 game ticks, or 1.5 seconds), and sourceless lava flows linger for a brusk time more. In the Nether, lava travels 7 blocks horizontally and spreads 1 block every 10 game ticks, or 2 blocks per 2d, which is half the speed as water in the Overworld. In all dimensions, lava spreading uses the aforementioned mechanic equally water: for every side by side block it tin can menstruation into it tries to observe a manner down that is reachable in iv or fewer blocks from the block it wants to flow to. When plant, the menstruum weight for that direction is set to the shortest path distance to the manner down. (This can event in lava flows turning toward dropoffs that they cannot reach in the Overworld and the Cease.)

Flowing lava destroys the post-obit in its path: saplings, fiber, alpine grass, dead bush, wheat, flowers, mushrooms, snow on ground (but snow blocks are immune), lily pads, vines, levers, buttons, all 3 types of torches, redstone, repeaters, end rods, and rails. Sugar canes concur dorsum lava, just disappear if the saccharide cane's water source is destroyed by the lava. Lava also slows down entities, including those that are normally immune to lava damage.

Using redstone wire, a one-block lava flow tin can be redirected past supplying power to the source cake, which causes it to reset the flow toward the now-nearest terrain depression. Information technology cannot, however, be reversed. This re-calculation is made considering of the redstone wire when toggled changes the block from redstone (on) to redstone (off). Whenever a block updates on any side of the lava, the lava re-calculates where to period, but does not cut off its electric current management of menstruum. In Bedrock Edition using the /setblock command can be used to create stationary lava without the use of barriers.

Flowing lava tin push button entities.

Flow arrangement tables [ ]

Overworld and the End [ ]


iii	2	i	ii	3
		4
	four	3	4
4	3	ii	three	4
4	three	2	3	4
	4	3	4
		4


Range		Meridian in blocks
1	block	1
2	blocks	0.75-1
3	blocks	0.five-0.75
four	blocks	0.25-0.5

the Nether [ ]


half dozen	v	four	iii	two	1	2	3	4	v	6
					7
				7	half-dozen	7
			7	6	v	6	7
		7	6	five	4	5	vi	7
	7	6	5	4	three	4	v	vi	vii
7	six	5	4	3	2	3	4	5	half dozen	7
7	6	5	4	3	two	3	4	v	half dozen	7
	seven	six	5	four	3	4	5	6	7
		7	6	v	4	5	6	7
			7	vi	v	6	vii
				7	6	seven
					7

Range		Pinnacle in blocks
1	block	1
2	blocks	0.75-ane
iii	blocks	0.625-0.75
4	blocks	0.5-0.625
5	blocks	0.375-0.5
6	blocks	0.25-0.375
vii	blocks	0.125-0.25

Lava and water [ ]

H2o and lava can produce stone, cobblestone, or obsidian based on how they interact. Lava can also generate basalt when above soul soil and touching bluish water ice.

Light source [ ]

Lava blocks emit a light level of xv.

Other [ ]

If there is lava flowing above a cake, the lava seeps through.

Lava in a higher place a not-transparent cake (does not include stairs, fences, and slabs) produces dripping particles on the underside of that block. These droplets do non do anything other than warn the player that a deluge of lava lies to a higher place that block. The particles function identically to their water counterparts, except that they drip slower.

Flowing lava can set up off tripwires because it breaks placed string. Lava triggers a tripwire merely once.

Any item dropped onto a lava source block is immediately destroyed, except for items fabricated of netherite, as well as aboriginal debris and netherite scrap.

Lava tin can be placed in an empty cauldron.

If lava is in a higher place a non-transparent block supporting pointed dripstone, dripping particles are created on the end. These can fill cauldrons with lava.

Farming [ ]

Lava farms can exist created past placing a lava source cake on summit of a solid block and a pointed dripstone and a cauldron underneath.

Sounds [ ]

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Book	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Lava pops	Blocks	Random	`block.lava.ambient`	`subtitles.cake.lava.ambience`	?	?	xvi
Lava hisses	Blocks	Lava colliding with water	`cake.lava.extinguish`	`subtitles.block.lava.extinguish`	?	?	xvi
Lava pops	Blocks	Lava bubble particle spawns	`cake.lava.popular`	`subtitles.cake.lava.ambient`	?	?	xvi
Bucket empties	Blocks	Placing lava with a bucket	`item.bucket.empty_lava`	`subtitles.detail.saucepan.empty`	?	?	16
Bucket fills	Players	Grabbing lava with a bucket	`item.bucket.fill_lava`	`subtitles.item.saucepan.fill`	?	?	sixteen

Information values [ ]

ID [ ]

Coffee Edition:

Lava	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Block	`lava`	Block	`strider_warm_blocks`	`block.minecraft.lava`

Lava	Identifier	Fluid tags (JE)
Fluid	`lava`	`lava`
Flowing Fluid	`flowing_lava`	`lava`

Bedrock Edition:

Lava	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Particular ID^{[i ane]}	Translation key
Flowing	`flowing_lava`	`10`	Block & Ungiveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i iii]}	`tile.flowing_lava.proper noun`
Stationary	`lava`	`11`	Block & Ungiveable Item^{[i ii]}	Identical^{[i iii]}	`tile.lava.name`

↑ ID of cake's direct item grade, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ ^a ^b Unavailable with /give command
↑ ^a ^b The cake's direct detail form has the same id with the cake.

Lava spends near of its time as stationary, rather than 'flowing' – regardless of its level, or whether it contains a current downward or to the side. When specifically triggered by a block update, lava changes to 'flowing', update its level, then modify dorsum to stationary. Lava springs are generated equally flowing, and lava lakes are generated as stationary.

Block states [ ]

Coffee Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
level	`0`	`0` `ane` `two` `3` `iv` `5` `6` `seven` `8` `9` `ten` `eleven` `12` `13` `14` `15`	If bit 0x8 is set up, this fluid is "falling" and spreads merely downwards. At this level, the lower bits are substantially ignored, since this block is then at its highest fluid level. This level is equal to the falling lava above, equal to viii plus the level of the non-falling lava above it. The lower iii bits are the fluid block'due south level. 0 is the highest fluid level (not necessarily filling the cake - this depends on the neighboring fluid blocks above each upper corner of the block). Data values increase as the fluid level of the block drops: 1 is the next highest, 2 lower, on through 7, the everyman fluid level. Along a line on a flat plane, lava drops one level per meter in the Nether and two everywhere else. So in the Finish and Overworld, only 2, 4 and half dozen are used.

Bedrock Edition:
Lava and flowing lava

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata $.25	Clarification
liquid_depth	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4` `0x8`	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3` `4` `5` `6` `7` `8` `9` `ten` `xi` `12` `thirteen` `14` `15`	`0` `1` `2` `3` `4` `5` `six` `vii` `8` `9` `ten` `11` `12` `13` `xiv` `xv`	If scrap 0x8 is set, this fluid is "falling" and spreads simply downward. At this level, the lower $.25 are substantially ignored, since this block is then at its highest fluid level. This level is equal to the falling lava above, equal to 8 plus the level of the non-falling lava above it. The lower three bits are the fluid block'due south level. 0 is the highest fluid level (not necessarily filling the block - this depends on the neighboring fluid blocks above each upper corner of the block). Data values increase as the fluid level of the block drops: 1 is the next highest, two lower, on through 7, the lowest fluid level. Along a line on a flat plane, lava drops one level per meter in the Nether and two everywhere else. Then in the Terminate and Overworld, simply 2, 4 and 6 are used.

Fluid states [ ]

Java Edition:
Lava

Proper noun	Default value	Allowed values	Description
falling	`false`	`truthful` `simulated`	Always fake.

Flowing lava

Proper noun	Default value	Allowed values	Description
falling	`faux`	`faux` `true`	Truthful for falling lava, false for lava with a block below.
level	`1`	`1` `two` `3` `4` `five` `six` `seven` `8`	Height of the lava, 8 when the lava is falling.

Achievements [ ]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if unlike)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if unlike)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		Stayin' Frosty	Swim in lava while having the Fire Resistance effect.	—	20G	Bronze

Advancements [ ]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if unlike)	Resources location
	Hot Stuff	Fill a bucket with lava	Larn Hardware	Have a lava bucket in your inventory.	`story/lava_bucket`

History [ ]

Coffee Edition Classic
0.0.12a		May nineteen, 2009			Showed lava.
		release			Added lava.
					Texture is transparent.
					Lava spreads by duplicating itself to open up horizontal and downward squares.
					Lava is slower than water and can be easily outrun.
					Model has z-fighting with blocks below lava.
0.0.13a					Changed texture to opaque.
0.0.13a_03					Lava lakes no longer generate.
0.0.15a					Model no longer shaded.
0.0.19a					Added procedural animated texture to lava. Old texture is still retained for use as an placeholder.
					Upscaled model two% to fix z-fighting with blocks below lava. It's created lava or water models overlaping and z-fighting with each other.
					Added lava layer to the bottom of the map.
0.0.20a_02					Inverse model scale back to normal with 1% offset on all coordinates.
0.0.22a					Lava'southward generated texture has changed - it at present appears brighter overall.
August 25, 2009					Lava now has been shown to deal damage.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					Lava at present deals damage.
0.26 SURVIVAL Examination					UV mapping on side faces now has eleven% 5 showtime upward.
0.28					Fixed UV mapping.
Coffee Edition Indev
0.31		20091223-2			Lava is now luminous.
		20100110			Lava now sets burn down to flammable materials.
		20100122			Added lava spawner that spawn lava on sides and bottom.
					It appears in the player's inventory in a stack of 5.
					Lava now flows, but more slowly than water.^[i]
					Dropped items now burn in lava.
					Shot arrows take hold of burn down and not burn down in lava.
		20100124			Lava spawner can no longer be establish in the player'south inventory. Instead, a total stack (99) can exist found inside the Indev House chests.
		20100125-ane			Lava now has particle effects.
		20100130			Added an infinite lava body of water to the bottom of the map.
20100219					Model is shaded, in one case over again.
Coffee Edition Infdev
20100227-1					Lava no longer flows due to changes in chunk treatment for space worlds.
20100607					UV mapping now has 1% uv commencement on top and bottom faces and 1% u, 11% five start on side faces.
20100608					Fixed UV mapping, once again.
20100615					The model has been changed.
					Added flowing lava.
					Lava at present creates flowing lava for a full distance of 7 blocks "away" from the source block.
					Flowing lava flows in a single line toward the nearest terrain low inside iv blocks.
20100616-1					Added flowing lava texture for sides and vertex starting time.
					Lava and flowing lava now has visual connexion to blocks.
					A large lava catamenia is at present visible in the nighttime from quite a distance.
20100617-2					Removed vertex beginning.
					Lava now flows 3 blocks horizontally instead of vii.
					Lava and flowing lava touching h2o, flowing water, water spawner, or lava spawner now replaces with obsidian.
					Removed the space lava sea at the bottom of the map.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.2_02					Flowing of lava take been tweaked.
v1.0.4					Added ice and snow, which lava can melt.
v1.0.15					Lava now sets nearby blocks on fire.
v1.two.0		preview			Added the Under, with lots of lava everywhere.
v1.ii.2					Lava now flows further in the Nether.
v1.2.6					Added lava lakes, which can generate at whatever altitude.
Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Changed lighting
					When lava is touched by rain, it emits smoke particles.
					Lava now generates in the blacksmiths of the newly added villages.
Java Edition
i.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Added lava dripping.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Lava blocks at present class stone when falling direct onto water source blocks.
		Beta i.ix Prerelease 3			Lava now generates in the newly added finish portal rooms of strongholds.
		Beta ane.ix Prerelease five			Just in this version, it is possible to create an infinite lava source using a plus-sign shaped organisation of blocks with four lava source blocks flowing into a central empty block.
		RC1			Faces on model now 0.1% moved to center to fix z-fighting on inner faces.
1.2.one		12w05a			Lava (as well equally the embers that pop out of it) now makes sounds. These sounds were in the game files for a long fourth dimension, just they had not played in-game.
i.iii.1		12w15a			Lava tin now be fired out of dispensers.
ane.4.2		12w38a			Flowing lava now has a abiding sound.
1.5		13w02a			The model of lava at present uses an blithe texture files.
					At that place is now "hidden lava" in the Nether.
					Lava at present flows much more quickly in the Nether.
1.6.ane		13w18a			Lava no longer lingers after the source is removed.
one.seven.ii		13w37a			Flowing lava, which previously could be destroyed by a few blocks of TNT, can no longer exist destroyed by explosions.
1.10		16w21a			Lava is at present colored cerise ( #ff0000) except the bottom face.^[2]
		16w21b			Lava is no longer colored.
		16w21b			Added 2 splashes referencing colored lava: "Rule #1: information technology'due south never my error", "Replaced molten cheese with blood?".
1.11		16w39a			Lava tin now generate in woodland mansions.
1.13		18w15a			Lava is now biome colored expect the bottom confront. This is linked to new biome coloring for water.^[3]
1.13		18w16a			Lava is no longer biome colored.
ane.16		20w09a			Lava now pushes entities.
		20w13a			Added striders, which can exist saddled and ridden across lava.
		20w13a			When lava flows over soul soil adjacent to blue ice, it at present turns into basalt.
		20w16a			Lava now generates as part of breastwork remnants and ruined portals.
		Pre-release 3			Visibility under lava is now slightly better when nether the event of Burn down Resistance.
1.17		20w45a			Cauldrons can at present be filled with lava.
		20w48a			Adds a renewable way of obtaining lava through cauldrons and pointed dripstone.
		21w06a			Lava no longer replaces air below Y=11.
		21w08a			Lava at present replaces air below Y=-53.
		21w08a			Lava springs are able to generate below Y=0.
		21w11a			Spectator style players tin can now see through lava.
		21w13a			Lava is at present fully renewable, every bit pointed dripstone can exist obtained in Survival without custom generation.
		21w15a			The changes to lava generation in 21w06a and 21w08a have been reverted.
one.eighteen		Experimental Snapshot one			The changes to lava generation in the 1.17 snapshots have been reintroduced.
one.eighteen		Experimental Snapshot one			Aquifers below Y=0 sometimes generate with lava instead of water.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0					Added lava.
v0.iii.3					Lava no longer creates fire, due to a game breaking spreading bug.
v0.7.0					Lava at present lights flammable blocks around it on fire.
v0.7.0					Lava at present has a flowing animation.
v0.8.0		build 5			Lava flowing direct into water at present actually spreads out over information technology.
v0.9.0		build i			Underground ponds of lava can now be found, making lava much more easy to obtain.
					Lava dripping particles have been added.
					Lava now generates in village blacksmiths and stronghold end portal rooms.
v0.12.ane		build 1			Players are now able to swim in lava.
		build 1			Lava now generates in the Nether.
		build 6			Lava is now brighter shaded.
		build 8			Lava now cancels all fall damage.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		blastoff one.i.0.0			Lava now generates in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.11.0		beta ane.11.0.five			The texture for lava has been changed to match Java Edition.
1.sixteen.0		beta 1.sixteen.0.51			Lava can now push entities.
		beta ane.16.0.57			Lava now found every bit delta that generate in basalt deltas.
					Lava now generates equally part of bastion remnants and ruined portals.
					When lava flows over soul soil next to bluish ice, it at present turns into basalt.
		beta 1.16.0.59			Lava can no longer push entities.
1.17.30		beta i.17.20.22			Lava tin can now push entities, once over again.^[4]
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	ane.0.i	Added lava.
TU12					The texture for lava has been changed.
TU12					Lava (every bit well equally the embers that pop out of it) now makes sounds.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added lava.

Information history [ ]

Java Edition
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 10 and 11, and the "lava particular"'s 327.^{[ verify ]}

Issues [ ]

Bug relating to "Lava" are maintained on the bug tracker. Written report bug there.

Trivia [ ]

A player with Fire Resistance tin swim in lava without taking impairment, although the swimming speed does not become faster.
A player cannot dart-swim in lava.
An arrow catches burn down when shot into flowing lava, only not still lava.
Water flows into lava-occupied blocks as though it were empty infinite, and vice versa.
Although lava is a fluid, it is non possible to drown in lava. This applies to all mobs. However, it is still possible to suffocate in lava. This applies to about every mob.‌^{[ Bedrock Edition only ]} ^[5]
A thespian sleeping in a bed cannot be damaged by lava.
If the lava is changed to be transparent via a resource pack, it does not become transparent.
In Bedrock Edition, lava does not deactivate elytra like h2o does.
Despite flowing identically to h2o while in the Nether, it is still non possible to create an space spring of lava.
- Despite this, the Minecraft: Gainsay Handbook (2014) stated the possibility to create space sources of lava by simply creating a cross shape with 4 nether bricks and placing lava in the centre. As expected, this turned out to exist false, as confirmed by Dinnerbone.^[half-dozen]
Geologically, lava in the Overworld is consistent with felsic lava, and lava in the Nether is consequent with mafic lava. Felsic lava is slow, sticky, and does not run as far as mafic lava, which is relatively thin and runny.

Gallery [ ]

Lava's melting blueprint for snow and water ice.
A natural lava spring near a waterfall.
The lava "ocean" layer of caves.
A naturally-occurring stream of lava adjacent to diamond and iron ore.
A running lava source (origin not seen) uncovered six blocks below the surface of desert terrain.
The inside view of lava with the dark vision effect.
Ladders can finish lava from flowing.
Lava spreading into dirt.
Lava in a ravine.
Lava generates on bedrock.
Lava being extinguished almost boulder.
Lava pool and h2o pool meeting each other naturally.
Two lava springs meeting water in a savannah plateau.
Lava spreading in the Overworld.
A lava jump spreading into a lava lake.
Saccharide cane growing with lava flowing around it.
Tall lavafall flowing into ravine.
Ravine with multiple ores, water and lava falls, and stronghold span over it.
Some other example of surreptitious lava lake.
Lava pouring from a cliff.
Lava and water pouring from a cliff.