Originally posted by Faceplant8:

I much prefer building an underwater walkway with wood flooring when building in water than a raft. Not only can you get much lower, but I find that the raft moves around too much, and any misplaced stone blocks are generally wasted.

I'm a utilitarian builder at best; I only build cargo docks and then only in calm shallow waters; raft is good enough for placing a stubborn support occasionally. Pretty much the same for bridges - rarely go above 8 meters of the watercourse bed except for perhaps a very short 4 to 6 meter span which I can do without supports.

In both those scenarios, the raft suffices and is faster, even with the occasional miss-click since I never use stone for bridges or docks/piers, than the infrastructure required for building underwater or even for a scaffolding at water level most times.

But, to each his or her own, never said the raft was always the best tool, or even a good tool, just occasionally a quick and dirty one that works.