A bottomless bucket places infinite water. What about a bucket that absorbed infinite water? Lava could work as well :D

I don't think it really needs any trade-off, since you can get a similar effect with some stacks of buckets, 3 iron each.
Maybe using an iron ingot per use?

With the way water mechanics work...two flowing water blocks create a source block...I don't know if this would work.  How many blocks would it absorb at once?  Even the process of using sponges can be very frustrating if it's in a large area.  

Hey Yaramy that is an interesting idea but we feel that sponges are a far more effiencent way of removing water, are reusable and not too difficult to obtain. With the bucket you would only be removing one source block at a time and like Mr.Magoo pointed out with the water mechanics that would be difficult to do.  

Although we may not see a use for it at this time we will hold on to the idea. Keep sending us those ideas we love hearing from you!

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What if every time you use the bottomless bucket it takes out just as much water as a sponge? This way it can be just as, if not more, effective than a sponge since you wouldn't have to dry out the sponge for every use. If that's too op, then coal can be used for each use to simulate drying out a sponge without the annoying wait time.