#Better Water (please read)

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forest shore
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It’s been suggested before, but not in a descriptive way, so I’m taking it into my own hands:

Water would be cool as a block with texture animation all around, like lava and whatnot but don’t have surface deformation. simply allow the player to pass through the block, and add friction when you within the block Grabbing could be slippery, as in you can grip and move forwards but your grip isn't as strong and glides.
You can modify friction, transparency, resistance, grip strength, buoyancy, all sliders you would expect.

And there could also be an underwater affect, like a thin and transparent overlay on the screen that is the average color of the water block, also like an underwater fog setting that could be altered. You can change the color of the water and whatnot.
But keep in mind when I say water, I don't mean water as in physical water, just a block that you can pass through as IF IT WERE water.

||And if you need an example, it pains me to say it because of the stigma, look at how water behaves in gorilla tag. Just make that a block with some sliders.||

SHADER SPECIFICS:
You could adjust the transparency of water but it placing two water blocks in the same region wouldn't add their opacity together, so if you have two 50% opacity water blocks, their intersection wouldn't be 100%, it would still be 50
so you can create more complex shapes like a shoreline or whatnot without having to worry about that kind of thing
if you have two separate water blocks with opacities like 25% 75%, they still wouldn't add, where they intersect is now 75% opacity

imagine in an art program, when you draw with a brush. If you lower the brush opacity, you can draw strokes over each other and the intersection gets more opaque. But if you keep the brush at full opacity and lower the layers opacity, then there are no weird overlaps.
Basically, if you have water blocks intersecting, the intersection will only be as dark as the block with the highest opacity.

pseudo palmBOT
forest shore
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Discuss ‼️😔

forest shore
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I beg of anyone please look at the post

misty ridge
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cool idea!

forest shore
steep arch
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Cool idea !

dense raven
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One question. Can you change the color of water??

forest shore
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Yes, you can change the color, detail, all that kind of stuff

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just like with the lava

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You could adjust the transparency of water but it placing two water blocks in the same region wouldnt add their opacity together, so if you have two 50% opacity water blocks, their intersection wouldnt be 100%, it would still be 50

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so you can create more complex shapes like a shoreline or whatnot without having to worry about that kind of thing

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if you have two separate water blocks with opacities like 25% 75%, they still wouldnt add, where they intersect is now 75% opacity

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I probably described that terribly but imagine in an art program, when you draw with a brush. If you lower the brush opacity, you can draw strokes over eachother and the intersection gets more opaque. But if you keep the brush at full opacity and lower the layers opacity, then there are no weird overlaps.

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Anyways I hope that made sense

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Basically, if you have water blocks intersecting, the intersection will only be as dark as the block with the highest opacity

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I BEG OF YOU SLIN! im on my elbows begging. 🙏

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Better Water (please read)

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Colors would mix how you expect

forest shore
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Im giving this thread one last heartbeat, I can only pray it garners some attention after. 💖🙏

drowsy vector
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Beautiful

forest shore
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Thank you kindly.

jagged scaffold
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cool

forest shore
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Beauty

fervent dome
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kinda peak

rancid girder
gray flower
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Skin should add this and then make the animation slower and add to lava blocks

fervent dome
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who is skin

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is that slin's evil brother

gray flower
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Yes

dense raven
gray flower
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Yes

dense raven
forest shore
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@wispy lagoon just gave me the best idea, if you make the transparency for this object opaque, make the grip of the block low but the viscosity high, you can make a quicksand block!!!

dense raven
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REVIVE THIS!!

forest shore
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THANK YOU!!! thats truly all ive ever wanted, pumpkin guy.

dense raven
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REVIVE AGAIN!!

forest shore
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YOUR SERVICE IS REVITALIZING!!!

fervent peak
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Ts so peak 🫑

cinder roost
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#📜rules 12
You did this twice
actually more

pale pivot
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Just make it fling then add grabble to the color block boom, you have water if your lazy then that how it will not get added

sage comet
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This would be very useful for like poolrooms, endless ocean, and other liminal water themed places, also just useful in a lot of other situations but those are the ones I mentioned!

forest shore
forest shore
sage comet
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Yeah like for example volcano showcase / parkour the possibilities are nearly endless. (Ik that phrase is very overused but it fits here)

forest shore
leaden trench
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Nice suggestion

dense raven
rustic ingot
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bump i like this idea although it would be hard to do this

plush jasper
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cool

forest shore
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MAYBE EVEN A LIQUIDD AHHHHHAHH

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whatever

sacred valley
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also idc bout rule 12

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time me out im not even using DC for a few days anyway

forest shore
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You mean the entire idea? Or just the liquid part, because the liquid part was a joke

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Do us a solid, do us a liquid

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Otherwise I’m not sure why this would lag

civic meteor
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So it would have the lava animated shader

vagrant remnant
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you should be able to change the colour of it! it could be like swimming in a ocean of dr pepper...

forest shore
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Color changing, of the block and fog, thickness of the fog, opacity, and to reply to yapper, it would have a subtle texture animation!

vagrant remnant
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gosh! now everyone is nagging me about things! its like im just some kind of jester!

forest shore
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No no no sir, no fault of your own, but some things were added later into the post!

weak breach
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yes i need to be betteraga /j

valid parcel
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peak

leaden trench
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activity

dense raven
forest shore
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Oh my god.

leaden trench
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activity

trail gull
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no

forest shore
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Just no? No feedback?

mint gust
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I loveth

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thankful for wizdumb

leaden trench
forest shore
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Possibly?

limber iron
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Please search up your suggestion idea before you go to make it.

forest shore
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Look man, I have seen about 13 people make this suggestion after mine. I even stated in this post that I decided to make this regardless of the fact that others have because I felt they didnt do the suggestion any service

rugged geyser
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No water pleaze

sullen halo
forest shore
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The date is the first message in this post, which reads — 7/29/2025 2:59 PM

plush jasper
rugged geyser
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NO NO NO I HATE WATER

forest shore
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Christ man dont use it then..

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You HATE water?

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Thats actually so unfortunate

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cant wait to be shamed for embed failure

marsh kettle
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superbump this post

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this idea is peak

forest shore
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The biggest problem I can see with this is the transparency, but I wonder if my suggestion of making the water have a transparency shader that doesnt stack with other blocks will make it better

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Instead of having the water transparency be controlled individually, the water fog and whatnot can be controlled by the ambience

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So all water blocks will appear the same, and have consistent transparency.

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Would that prevent the GPU from being overloaded with tasks?

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Wouldnt that mean that the GPU is only ever doing twice the work? at least?..

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Which sounds better than 10x the work... like most transparent objects..

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I dont know, I am unsure if this method of rendering can be a good work around.

sacred valley
dense raven
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bump

pastel nebula
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Magnificent

vital token
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bumb

deft totem
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Coal

rugged geyser
forest shore
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Yeah dont bring your nonsense here dude

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take that somewhere else gohan

rugged geyser
forest shore
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The Venn diagram comparing you two is a solid circle

hidden geyser
forest shore
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It is, I was desperate

rugged geyser
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Cookie

vital token
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we need it to happen

deft totem
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Coal

rugged geyser
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No

limber iron
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No

deft totem
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Yes

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Yes

forest shore
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Look if you arent going to add anything of substance, or give a valid critique, please just dont send any messages

hidden geyser
rugged geyser
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No

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Bad ideo

forest shore
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Why?

pseudo palmBOT
molten mica
forest shore
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The exact details are described in my post, and while the hand movements are there I suppose, this is a very tacky way to handle water movement in my opinion

plush jasper
molten mica
forest shore
sacred valley
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why do we keep this thing going

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unless your typing in your grave I think you just let it go bruh

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and I’m pretty sure I’ve already said this too

forest shore
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Do you believe that your word is immutable? The fact that people keep messaging here means it isn’t dead, the only time I message anymore is in response to somebody else

sacred valley
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im pretty sure it was dead

forest shore
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The March 18th one? Yeah I definitely did then, I wanted to have hope

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But I’m cutting that out

sage comet
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Let the man have hope 💔

molten mica
eternal sail
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bump

rancid veldt
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see even grabby agrees

vagrant remnant
rancid girder
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Ok

dense raven
eternal sail
soft peak
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Bump HARD

dense raven
eternal sail
# dense raven rule 1

i kindly request silence from the user "BlobbyYT (substitute, MLP)" Please and thank you

dense raven
eternal sail
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you doesn't decline