Originally posted by solid grapepe:

I was messing around with making a moat in my world when I had the brilliant idea to spawn water into my pre-dug tunnel. It turns out that water doesn't work that way. The problem now is that my game is constantly stuttering and freezing up whenever I walk near the area I spawned the water in. The freezes only last about a quarter second, but they happen often and it is irritating. I have tried using forcedelete and removedrops, but nothing seems to happen.

The water in which you spawned, does not "Drain" it goes to the lowest level it can which is "Water level" and stays there. So what is happening is that you spawned to much water in an area and its causing hang times. The game is highly CPU intensive and if there is too much going on in one generated area it might be due to this.

I hope this helps.

There might be mods / commands out there to help you remove the extra water you have placed.