User blog:Shadow Wolf TJC/Apparently, you can still flood hell (sort of).

A while ago, when I 1st heard that water evaporated when it reached hell, I decided to see it for myself. So, I took a bucket of water down to hell, and I dumped it, and it did indeed evaporate, though not instantly.

Noticing this, I thought that maybe it was still possible to turn the surfaces of lots of pools of lava into obsidian, even though hell couldn't become flooded. Recently today, I decided to create a drainage system that would allow water and lava to travel from the surface all the way down to hell. I then decided to test it out by filling up a huge tank full of almost an ocean's worth of water (using the liquid duplication glitch of course). Once the tank was full, I cracked it open and let the water flow down the drain to hell. Unfortunately, since the storm drain was only 1 block wide, the water wasn't turning the lava into obsidian, as it was evaporating too quickly.

I then decided to set my spawn point on the surface, save the map, exit it, then reenter it again. When I did reenter my map, I noticed that all of the water from my water tank on the surface drained. When I went to hell to see what happened, I noticed that not only were the surfaces of many of the lava lakes turned into obsidian, but there were actually some pools of water remaining in hell. Moreover, these pools were not evaporating. However, I did notice that the water would start to evaporate again if its local environment was disturbed by, say, hitting an adjacent block with your pickaxe, or killing a lava slime over a pool of water.

In conclusion, it seems as if, even in patch 1.0.5, players can still flood hell with water, though getting rid of all the water should now be easy to do since the water would start evaporating if disturbed.