'Floor Is Lava' Season 2: What Is Lava Made Of? EP Reveals 'Crazy' Process

Floor Is Lava returned to Netflix earlier this year for five new episodes and a brand new look.

The game show, filmed in California and based on the childhood game of the same name, sees contestants compete in teams of three to make it through a series of booby-trapped rooms without falling into the lava. The team that wins gets to take home a $10,000 cash prize.

Netflix released the first batch of episodes in 2020, entertaining adults and children alike during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic, and now it has returned under production company A. Smith & Co. Productions.

The company, who has also worked on hit shows like American Ninja Warrior and Hell's Kitchen, has joined forces with Floor is Lava's production company from Season 1, Haymaker West, to bring the show back to screens almost two years after the original season aired.

This time around there are harder challenges and bigger stunts and though fans are delighted to have more episodes to binge now, one question that remains is: what is the lava actually made of? Newsweek spoke to Floor Is Lava executive producer, and chairman and founder of A. Smith & Co. Productions, Arthur Smith about what goes into the concoction.

What Is the Lava on 'Floor Is Lava' Made Of?

Newsweek spoke to Smith about what it was like to come on board for Floor is Lava's second season after the first had been so popular.

"I honestly didn't feel any pressure," he revealed. "The emotion I felt was excitement. I was so excited to dive in because as a producer you watch everybody's shows and when I watched it the first time I thought it was great."

"The one thing we didn't want to do is take away the things that did work, and as a matter of fact, a number of people who worked on the first season, like one of our executive producers, Anthony Carbone, and director Brian Smith, we brought them back because they did a great job."

Discussing the changes and upgrades that were made to the show between season 1 and season 2, Smith revealed that they switched up the routes of the game slightly, saying: "One thing we realized is that players tended to follow the same route." To avoid this, items were strategically placed to ensure teams' journeys through the rooms were different."

He also discussed the new balcony where teams who have already progressed through the competition are able to watch their competitors. Smith joked that as well as upping the ante of the competition by letting teams suss each other out, the addition means presenter Rutledge Wood now actually has people to keep him company while hosting.

Speaking about the lava, Smith of course could not reveal the secret recipe but he did tell Newsweek: "I'm not sure if you noticed the lava but it's a much better lava this year!"

He continued: "We spent a lot of time in the lab with scientists, I mean it was crazy! If people would only know the amount of energy that goes into making it."

One of Floor Is Lava's creators and Executive Producers, Haymaker West owner Irad Eyal, has previously hinted in a Fast Company interview that the lava is actually a type of slime.

Meanwhile, fans are of course questioning when more Floor Is Lava episodes will be coming. Nothing has been confirmed yet by Netflix but showrunner Carbone has previously tweeted that more episodes are on the way.

When responding to a fan who questioned where previously confirmed contestants, All Elite Wrestling stars Orange Cassidy, Chucky T and Kris Statlander, were when season 2 landed on Netflix, he wrote: "They are coming in episodes later this year. Promise."

The first two seasons of Floor Is Lava are available to stream now on Netflix.