Using the Clean Water System
Vanilla water often hides riverbed resources and ocean floors behind thick surface tinting. Lumen_NM Shaders reworks water coloration across oceans, rivers, and lakes to give bodies of water a much clearer look. Combined with the shader's increased daytime contrast, you can scout underwater features directly from a boat or shoreline before diving in.
Steps for Clear Surface Scouting
1. Travel during bright daylight hours; sleep in a bed if dusk is approaching so you keep the shader's boosted daytime visibility.
2. Craft a boat and row across rivers, lakes, or coastal oceans while looking down toward the riverbed or seafloor.
3. Open Options > Video Settings and move the vanilla Brightness slider toward Bright if deep ocean trenches still look dim on your monitor.
4. Scan the clearer water for clay patches, sand, kelp forests, shipwrecks, or underwater ruins without needing to brew Night Vision potions first.
Because the shader improves visibility across all biomes, this approach works across any body of water you encounter, saving you oxygen and tool durability while gathering underwater materials.