Remove player buoyancy

Can we please stop naturally rising to the top of water?

At some point, I want to say the 4th of July update, players went from floating in place where they left themselves to naturally rising to the top, regardless of wearing a pool tube. I don’t know why I’ve waited so long until now to complain about this, but it really removed any motivation to make a nice underwater decorating when people have no ability to stay still.

Not only that, it makes doing just about everything else cumbersome.


Trying to press these buttons from the outside is so annoying. I have to mash my character against the wall at the perfect perpendicular angle so I can hold forward to swim down so I don’t slide away just to keep myself in place to press a button. I can only imagine this being a bigger pain for players once the release of more interactive items as well as Smooth Ocean become a thing.

This was added for Fishing. We need to rework the player movement to disable bouyancy while you are fully submerged. I can take a look at it for the 4.19/4.20 update.

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