Water

On August 18, 2009, it was announced that water would be coming to LittleBigPlanet as part of a future downloadable kit, which turned out to be The Pirates of the Caribbean Level Kit. The announcement was accompanied by a video on the Media Molecule website.

All of the playable characters can swim in water for 30 seconds until they run out of breath and die, or they can use a Scuba Enhancement to stay underwater for an unlimited amount of time. The water will take up all dimensions including unreachable ones, in a similar way as an object using the 3-D layer glitch. There are several tools that have been added for players to control the water; the main tool works like the Global Lighting object, and players will be able to change the height, movement, color, particles, and rising time of the water.

In LittleBigPlanet 2 and onward, water is available by default.

Materials
This is a list of materials that can, or cannot float in water:

LittleBigPlanet

 * Cardboard: Floats


 * Glass: Floats, but sinks in large masses


 * Metal: Sinks


 * Polystyrene: Floats


 * Rubber: Floats, but sinks in large masses


 * Sponge: Floats


 * Stone: Sinks


 * Wood: Floats, but sinks in large masses


 * Dissolve: Floats


 * Peach Floaty: Extremely buoyant; does not fall, shoots up extremely fast


 * Pink Floaty: Extremely buoyant; shoots up extremely fast

LittleBigPlanet 2

 * Attract-o-Gel: Floats
 * Conveyer: Sinks
 * Invisible: Sinks

Trivia

 * LittleBigPlanet (PSP), Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves, and Run Sackboy! Run! are the only games that do not have water at all.