You can make water float by placing an axelotel in an empty bucket; the water must be on soul sand and there must be a full block above the water. This bug can only occur if the water is at coordinates 0 0 0 And when you spawn an axelotel, you can put it in an empty bucket; the bucket will remain empty and the axelotel will disappear. Once you've completed all the steps, you can remove the blocks above and below the water, and then the water will float and have a strange hitbox.
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