I'm pretty sure this used to be an intended feature, that when your feet don't touch the ground underwater, sweeping edge doesn't work (mining is also slower, for example) but now that we got the aquatic update and that swimming and underwater mobs are a thing, shouldn't we be able to use our sword properly while swimming? Being attacked underwater by several drowned at the same time can be pretty deadly since we can't knock them all back with a sweep attack with a sword... Make sweeps possible while swimming, please? 😃
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Can confirm in 1.19. The title of this report should probably be changed as "Sweeping Edge" refers to the Sweeping Edge enchantment, and not the sweeping attack, which is what this report is regarding. Perhaps it could be changed to "You cannot perform sweeping attacks whilst swimming", or something similar in order to accurately reflect the problem.
Not sure if this can be considered a bug at all. As if you're in water and not on ground the is going to recognise you as falling/flying and will apply the attack as a falling crit instead of sweep.