I just have one little idea for swimming, if we hold spacebar instead of flying out of the water like dolphins how about we just kind of tread the water. This would mean you can only get out of water if you are at an edge of a block. Or if jumping in water is still wanted make it so a tap jumps and holding floats. It is very annoying crossing water because you either go down or jump across it. This would also leave boats to be the best way of sea travel because swimming would be considerably slower. This mainly is just for the better looks but would also benefit mechanics as well. Thanks for reading.
i think this is a great idea since the next update ads the whole ocean thing and all. Better swimming is needed to move around better when exploring the amazing oceans ! thumbs up to you.
Quite frankly this is great for immersion and game mechanics wise. I don't really want to be able to jump while swimming. + 1 for the idea and the immersion it adds.
This would be a welcome addition. I thought of another way it could work: Have your character maintain their depth by default, using W and S to change depth, and the spacebar to ascend rapidly and ultimately jump out. (That way, your character can't get stuck as easily in certain areas, like the poison deathtraps in [SPOILERS])
A bit manual, but it still seems like an improvement to the current system, so I'm all for a bit more micro-managey swimming. .Shhh. No one likes spoilers.
I love that idea. It seems that a lot of sandbox games have the issue with the fact that you pretend to be a dolphin the moment you step into water. Although the "press spacebar to ascend" thing is kinda wonky to me. I just don't see the point in being able to ascend faster. I think you should replace W and S with spacebar and CTRL for depth changing.
