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You should take damage if you fall into water

It's crazy to believe that you could fall over 20 blocks high and higher into water and nothing happens to you. In real life you would die from that height, water is not soft! If it is hit hard enough it would feel like a rock. Falling into water should take some damage, like 10 blocks high would deal half a heart, 20 blocks would deal two hearts, 30 blocks would deal eight hearts and it gets worse the higher it is. But... the enchantment of feather falling would help a whole bunch, feather falling I would deal 50% of damage, feather falling II would deal 40% of damage and feather falling III would deal 30% of damage. Although the potion of slow falling would let you take no damage whatsoever, also wearing armor would take away 5% of damage per armor slot. This would encourage players to not try this in real life.

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    While I agree that this would make sense if the mechanic had been in the game from day one, I disagree that they should change it.  It is an established mechanic and a very useful one.

    It is not as overpowered as it used to be, either.  At least in my experience.  My water based drop chutes went from me taking no damage to me dying if I only had one block of water to fall through at the end a few months back. (in bedrock, which is what I play)

    Fall damage is an important mechanic, but there also needs to be a way to reliably nullify it.  Water is that method in this game, even if jumping in water from a height is anything but safe.

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    I remember in old versions of minecraft what you say now was in these versions but people didn't like it so they changed it . Sorry for my bad english

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    Technicially you can fall from an infinate hight (Assuming you just tp yourself hundreds of thousands of blocks high) and fall and safely land in 1/8 of a block of water and be fine

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    Minecraft doesn't need to mimic real life and I don't think anyone is going to try to jump into water because in Minecraft it negates fall damage. its a stupid reason to change something.