Survive Underwater Trips When the Water Is Murky and Foggy

This shader makes underwater activities harder. The water is murky, your view is hazy, and dense fog cuts how far you can see. You need to plan dives more carefully than in clear vanilla water.

Prepare Before You Dive

• Water Breathing: Drink a Potion of Water Breathing or wear a helmet with Respiration. You will spend longer searching when you cannot see far, so extra air matters.
• Night Vision: A Potion of Night Vision brightens dark water in vanilla. The shader's own haze and fog may still limit your view, so test it in shallow water first.
• Weapons and armor: Drowned and guardians can be on top of you before they come out of the fog. Wear armor and keep a weapon on your hotbar.
• Depth Strider boots: These let you move faster, so you can back out of trouble quickly.

Dive Smart

1. Start from a spot you can find again, such as a pillar of blocks on the shore.

2. Swim slowly and keep the seabed or a wall in view. Open water inside the fog is easy to get lost in.

3. Surface often to reorient yourself. Visibility above water is better than below.

4. Stay close to a teammate in multiplayer. Use chat to call out where you are, because you will lose sight of each other quickly.