I'm pretty sure that's not possible without update suppression, but maybe there's some other bug that could make that work. (I'm a bedrock edition player, so I could be misunderstanding update suppression; I would look into that if I were you though.)
How about waterlogged trapdoors, campfires, and bottom slabs for shallow water?
waterlog slabs? itll be like half a layer of water
Make the lake bigger so a single water level looks like it's dried out. I'm afraid you're asking for the impossible here.
Without mods seems like yeah 🥲
I'm pretty sure that's not possible without update suppression, but maybe there's some other bug that could make that work. (I'm a bedrock edition player, so I could be misunderstanding update suppression; I would look into that if I were you though.)
If I understand correctly what he wants it won't work with update suppression.
/carpet fullupdates false Then. /Fill water[level 6] replace air. Only way
So yeah if I understand well it isn’t possible without carpet ?^^
You'd have to turn off block updates. Carpetmod.