Any way to make a portal with water in it without spawning in flowing water blocks?
So I needed to make a portal with flowing water in it to be the filling material. The problem is that I don't want to spawn in flowing water blocks 'cause if I can avoid spawning in something I don't.
So is there any way of making water not flow to the sides in vanilla MC nowadays?
If I am correct, you want something like this:
There is no better way for doing this without commands / MCEdit.
Maybe in 1.13 there will be a trick to to this.
However, I do not see any point in your question, as I can't imagine any situation where this would be useful.