not exclusively, I’ve seen gleam mounds on the surface too but there does happen to be more underwater due to players drowning so easily…
A few tips for underwater harvesting:
If you use C or whatever button you use for crouch will make you swim downward. Jump is swim upward.
Once I get to the bottom, if I haven’t started taking damage yet I will dig a hole into a wall to create an air pocket so I can breathe.
If you have started taking damage then eat something quick, you’ll still keep taking damage but at least you can postpone your death a little
Then of course just run back and forth mining gleam and breathing in the air pocket. I would suggest using iron or at least copper.
Yeah. I don’t feel you ‘swim’ as much as you ‘wade’ around. Just because I swim to one side shouldn’t mean I keep sliding in that direction. That’s what I meant when I said, “I feel like I’m not swimming – I’m just in really low gravity.”