>>57092154Based, 4chan completely destroyed the wingdings I posted, was supposed to translate to something along the lines of "a secret tunnel that leads to my plugs place. We getting lit nigga!" but Unbound unironically did it first with Mirskle.
I guess you could still have it lead to an isolated section somewhere else still if you actually keep the dive spots, I'm sure you'll think of something cool, very underused mechanic imo.
>>57092268This
>>57092306. Ultimately this a game and just like my therapist keeps telling me, you gotta set boundaries. The open ocean parts in the games always have rock perimeters too, you can and should try mixing up the type of barriers there are, but they exist for a reason.
Maybe you could try more novel things, like an active volcano zone with pools and rivers of in-traversible lava, or high mountains/canyons with steep drop-offs where you can see the world below, Glazed and Reforged had some cool areas like that.