Certain plants can be placed underwater, such as Leaves, Vines, Lily Pads, and Dead Bushes, but others cannot. Be consistent, please. This is ridiculous.
Certain plants include:
-Saplings of all types
-Cactus
-Sugar Cane
-Farmland/Crops/Stems
-Flowers/Double Flowers
-Nether Wart
-Chorus Plant
-Mushrooms
-Fern/Large Fern
-Grass/Tall Grass
-Bamboo
-Cocoa Beans
Cleaning up old tickets: This ticket has not been updated recently (~7 months+) so is being closed as Cannot Reproduce. If you feel this is still a valid issue and is affecting the most recent versions, then please comment, or create a new ticket following the Issue Guidelines.
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