While developing a mod of mine I thought of the idea to implement an item that is crafted with just three water buckets which will act as an infinite water bucket.
This just behaves like infinite water pools, but then without the need to actually make that water pool.
Since it doesn't really fit into the mod I'm currently developing, I was wondering if it was ok if I'd implement this into OpenBlocks.

If you really wanted this, Xeno's relinquery has this.

This is quite a good idea and would be really useful in the game. An everlasting, handy tool like this should be a bit harder to craft, though. I suggest a name like "Ocean in a Jar" and an according crafting recipe and icon.

Yes, you're right, it shouldn't be too easy to craft.
I was also thinking of abstracting it to other fluids, by scanning the fluid dictionary for infinite fluids (I believe this can be determined with the Fluid Block), and dynamically creating sub-items and icons for them.

instead of all that, how about have the bucket start empty, consume two source blocks of desired infinite liquid to gain the ability to pour that liquid infinitely. If you want to change to another liquid, just go right click on two source blocks of said liquid

Unless either it only works for vanilla fluids or is very, very expensive, that would be incredibly unbalanced. Being able to infinitely duplicate any fluid with just two buckets would be hilariously broken because you'd get an inifinite source of, say Resonant Ender (or worse, TConstruct liquid metals) and just get infinite amounts without any effort. Water is fine, lava is a grey area.

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From: valiantjared [email protected]
Date: 05/06/2014 13:22 (GMT-05:00)
To: OpenMods/OpenBlocks [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OpenBlocks] [Feature Request] Triple Water Bucket (#389)

instead of all that, how about have the bucket start empty, consume two source blocks of desired infinite liquid to gain the ability to pour that liquid infinitely. If you want to change to another liquid, just go right click on two source blocks of said liquid

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As I said, only for liquids that are already able to create infinite sources in game

I agree. It should be a really useful tool when building things involving lots of water source blocks, replacing the process of making an infinite source and taking the water repeatedly from it in a useful way.
Anything else would be ridiculously overpowered.