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Unintended consequence of deep lakes

I think there's a problem with the deep water-filled caves: they prevent downward progress. In the early game, there's no access to enchantments like deep strider and respiration. So, when one comes to a water-filled cave that's hundreds of blocks across, it basically prevents further exploration downward.

But, diamonds, which are required for the enchantment of items, aren't available until one gets past the underground lake. So, that's the end of that.

At least if it was one of the old lava lakes, even if it were very large, you could still go around or over it. But, hundreds of blocks simply isn't practical to bypass.

Please make the underground lakes smaller (MUCH smaller).

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    I REALLY like them though, and theres plenty of solutions. Mining Around, Bringing Doors, etc. Some Early game solutions would be nice though. Making the lakes generate with more air pockets, extending the time it takes for oxygen to run out slightly, etc.

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    I completely disagree. In my experience, underground lakes make caving too easy.

    In early game survival, all you need is a single magma block and you can swim wherever you want (and guess what, magma blocks generate in aquifers, how convenien...). It takes slightly longer to mine ores, yes, but this is more than made up for by the fact that there are no monsters and that ores such as diamonds are twice as common underwater.

    Underwater is usually my first place to mine in early-game survival. The open caves are just too dangerous until you have proper armor.