Water and Ice are not transparent as they should in newest snapshot!
Edit: I understand that this happens when you have graphics set to FAST, but some people have bad computer and because water is opaque they can't find clay for example. As dinnerbone tweeted (Thank you Tails) this is indeed a bug. https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/375969944623923200
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how do you mean ugly and bad? I guess I'm not seeing it as I always run Fancy. I guess the fix would be to have an inbetween setting that meant opaque leaves but transparent water. At the same time, the transparent water was probably a "bug" in a sense for fast graphics in the first place, as the intention of fast graphics was to reduce the load on lower end computers making any texture that wasn't 100% transparent, opaque to reduce the load on older graphics cards.
I've seen people elsewhere suggesting this isn't a bug. I personally think it is a bug, but even if it isn't, it's poor design choice.
It has a drastically negative impact on users who have computers which don't perform well at the maximum graphics settings. Instead of making fast graphics look even worse, this should have been added as an option just as Smooth Lighting was upgraded to Off/Minimum/Maximum. Not being able to see through a block as common as water is a bit ridiculous, and certainly not a positive gameplay element - for me, I'd rather deal with lower FPS on Fancy than not being able to see through a block that's on-screen 25% of the time when I play. /rant
Why Cannot Reproduce? i'm adding picture of my water!