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Better lakes and rivers

Make it so lakes are bigger and actually look like lakes and not just ponds. Make rivers travel y levels so they aren’t just flat!

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    Rivers that can travel y levels would be really nice for waterfalls

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    Fish should spawn in Lakes as well.

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    They should add waterfalls to go along with it. And add some new mobs that spawn specifically in rivers.

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    My idea would be that the start of the river should be at the nearest highest elevated land (like Hills and Mountains), where it starts out with a small water fall and a brook. Then as it gradually moves to lower elevations, it widens, forming small rivers then in to large rivers.

    River variants can include:
    Shallow River (about 1 block high of water), Deep River (about as deep as 16 blocks), Rapids (a sloped river that's mostly flowing water.

    The rivers should always end into a lake or an Ocean biome and not just loop around. If there's a significant shift in depth as the river goes along, that's where the Waterfalls are located.

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    This could be part of the caves and cliffs cause rivers come from the rain that fall in the mountains and if there bigger lakes underground then why not above

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    1000% agree. It would be sick to have 30-50 block wide rivers, maybe even 100? the lakes also are very small, they just feel like puddles if im being honest. lakes should be at least 100 blocks in diameter.

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    They should still have Ponds, just make them so they are't weirdly generated holes, they seem more like creeper holes that have been flooded rather than actual ponds.

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    This honestly needs more votes; it'd be so cool to have more realistic rivers and lakes, they already updated pretty much the entire overworld generation, so why not rivers and lake generation, maybe this could be a feature in 1.19, since it sort of improves the wilderness aspect of Minecraft, it would make a lot of sense.