Minecraft is a game with infinite possibilities; the amount of stuff you can do in this game is just crazy. The world generation, along with the biomes and the many dimensions, make Minecraft more than just a game; it is a place where you visit to explore new terrains!\
But as there is so much variety of terrain in Minecraft, it becomes hard to traverse them. For example, climbing a mountain is way harder than traveling through plains biomes. Traversing through water is a real pain if you don’t have a boat.
But the devs have been adding enchantments that make traversing the world fun and more efficient. One such enchantment is the Frost Walker. This enchantment basically allowed the player to walk on water. As the player walks on water with this enchantment on his feet, the water underneath turns to ice!
The water remains in this state for a while before eventually melting away. This makes traversing water a lot easier than before. But what about lava?
Lava is found in almost every corner of the world, be it caves or the mountains, sometime even in the open in the form of lava pits. The Nether is especially notorious for having a lot of lava; if only we could walk on lava-like, we could walk on water, traversing the hellish landscape for the nether would become so much easier!
How to get lava walker enchantment in Minecraft?
Lava Walker is an enchantment that’ll allow you to traverse the lava lakes of the nether dimension. This will do so by turning the lava underneath your legs into obsidian and crying obsidian. This obsidian will revert back to Lava after a while, so make sure you keep walking.
Unfortunately, this enchantment isn’t a part of the vanilla game. You'll have to manually install a mod to add this feature to the game. And if you don’t want to install mods, we also have a way to walk on lava in Vanilla Minecraft in the next part of the blog post.
The mod used to walk on lava is called Lava Walker and can be downloaded by going here.
Once you have set up the mod in your game, move on to the next step, which will show you how to actually use this mod in your game to walk on lava.
How to use lava walker enchantment in Minecraft?
After installing the mod in your game, simply open a world and start playing like you usually do. When you need a lava walker enchantment, go find a librarian villager. If you don’t have one, simply place a lectern near a villager and break his existing workstation to turn him into a librarian villager.
The librarian villager has the lava walker enchantment, and he'll sell it to you for some emeralds or paper. You can get emeralds by trading with the other villagers in the game and paper by simply farming sugarcane and crafting it into paper.
Once you get the enchanted book for lava walker, take it to your anvil. Place the book and your boots in the anvil to apply the enchantment to your boots. The enchantment is only available for the boots at the moment, so it won't work on any other tool/armor piece.
After you’ve successfully enchanted the boot with the lava walker enchantment, feel free to walk on the hot lava in the nether dimension or the overworld. The lava underneath your legs will turn to obsidian, which will start to deteriorate away, so make sure you’re always on the move to avoid sinking in the burning pits of lava!
Lava Walker in Minecraft Vanilla?
If you’re a Minecraft person who likes to keep his game mod free and vanilla, you can’t really walk on lava. There is no such enchantment in Minecraft that’ll allow you to walk on lava, and there are no signs of the devs adding it to the game anytime soon.
An enchantment like the frost walker enchantment would’ve been great to walk on lava. But, the devs don’t see any value in adding new lava walking enchantment. It will defeat the entire purpose of the Nether Dimension. The Nether is supposed to be the hellish world in Minecraft, where everything is trying to kill you.
Adding a lava walker enchantment will make your life easier in the game, taking the fun away. But if you still insist on wanting a lava walker enchantment, you can always install a mod. But if you don’t want to install one, there still is a way to walk on lava that is simple and easy!
How to walk on lava in Vanilla Minecraft?
The Nether Update made it so that players can now live in the Nether dimension. There is food, and a respawn anchor that’ll let you respawn in the Nether itself. Plus, there also is a brand new mob that’ll allow you to walk on lava.
The mob is called the strider, and it kinda looks like a derpy cow on two legs. These mobs are found in the lava pits of the nether; you’ll spot some easily. You can ride these mobs and travel in the nether via the lava pits, which will make your life much easier.
First and foremost, you’ll need a warped fungus on a stick. It is similar to a carrot on a stick, but instead of a carrot, you have to use a warped fungus found in the nether itself. After that, you’ll need a saddle to strap on to the strider.
You can lure the strider using the warped fungus, and once it’s near you, saddle it up and sit on it. Like for pigs, you can direct these striders by pointing the warped fungus on a stick in different directions. You can also boost the speed with the warped fungus.
And in this way, you can actually walk on lava in vanilla Minecraft without needing any lava walker enchantment!