SuperSponge

🧽 SuperSponge

Drain entire oceans with a single block. SuperSponge adds a craftable, survival-balanced sponge that absorbs hundreds of water blocks at once — seagrass, kelp, coral, and all.

🔨 How to Get a Super Sponge

You can't just find one in a chest — you have to craft it:

1. Collect 4 Sponges
2. Collect 1 Nether Star
3. Craft them together at a crafting table

[   ] [ S ] [   ]
[ S ] [ N ] [ S ]
[   ] [ S ] [   ]

• S = Sponge
• N = Nether Star

Server admins can also grant one directly with /supersponge.

💧 What It Does

Place a Super Sponge near water and it will flood-fill outward, absorbing everything in its path — up to 500 blocks by default (configurable).

It handles all of the following:

• Regular water source blocks and flowing water
• Waterlogged stairs, slabs, fences, and other blocks
• Seagrass and tall seagrass
• Kelp and kelp plants
• Coral and coral fans
• Bubble columns

After absorbing, the sponge turns wet just like a vanilla sponge would.

🔥 Drying Your Sponge

A wet Super Sponge dries the same way a vanilla sponge does:

• Furnace — smelt it to dry it out
• Nether — place it and it dries on its own

Either way it comes back as a Super Sponge — it will never lose its identity or revert to a plain sponge.

💾 Persistence

• Placed sponge locations are saved to disk and survive server restarts
• Breaking a placed Super Sponge always drops it back as a Super Sponge with up-to-date lore
• Powers and identity persist through all vanilla drying methods

⚙️ Configuration

super-sponge:
  max-blocks: 500

Change max-blocks to control how much water a single Super Sponge can drain. Run /supersponge reload to apply changes to all online players without restarting.

🔧 Commands & Permissions

📋 Requirements

• Paper 1.21+
• Java 21+