It's impossible to save yourself with a water bucket from certain heights, since you die before hitting the ground. You can still save yourself when falling from build limit to bedrock, but somehow not when falling other lower heights.
Steps to Reproduce:
give yourself a water bucket
type "/tick rate 1"
type "/tp @s ~ ~126 ~"
spam click as fast as you can, or use auto clicker or whatever
die of fall damage
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126 blocks high is still possible to clutch if you sneak before landing.
But 232 blocks is impossible even with sneaking.
I could do the clutch at 232 blocks with sneaking; I also tested 126, 232, 256 and 284, where sneaking also works. I suppose one can circumvent this bug entirely by sneaking.
The water bucket clutch part does depend on height; if you fall from 126 blocks or the other tested heights and use tick rate 1, you'll find that the block selection lines to place the water are not even shown before you die. It does not matter whether you are within 1 block of the ground or not; you cannot place a water bucket no matter what. I think the part where you die before you hit the ground happened even before 24w03a (although I'm not certain that this happens at any height), but that might have been blocked by MC-260889 because you could place the water slightly outside of your range, masking the real problem. In the current version you cannot place the water before you pass the 1 block mark (at the specific heights), making it impossible to save the fall.
And sneaking does affect the bug, I don't know why though.
Can confirm.
Edit: From my testing, it appears that this bug was introduced in 24w03a, presumably with the fix of MC-260889.
Affected heights include 126, 129, 132, 135, 138, 141, 144, 166, 169, 182, 185, 195, 205, 215, 225, 232, 239, 242, 249, 256, 263, 270, 277, 284.