Health

Health is the fundamental condition that an entity needs to survive. Health can be recovered by healing, through natural regeneration, or by using status effects.

Players can recover health naturally by having their hunger at least 18 (👁 🍗
× 9) and the gamerule naturalRegeneration is set to true, or through status effects.

Horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses, zombie horses, llamas, trader llamas, camels, camel husks, allays, happy ghasts, and the wither‌^{[Java Edition only]} are the only mobs that regenerate health naturally over time.

The health bar displays how much health the player has left, rounded up to the nearest 1HP👁 💔
health point. It is usually based on a single row of 10 heart icons. Each full heart contains two halves, one health point each (the player normally has 20 maximum health points).

The Regeneration effect makes health regenerate fairly quickly, and the hearts of the health bar bounce in a wave.

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or less, it begins to shake violently, warning that the player is low on health.

The player's health bar is invisible while holding or wearing an item that gives negative health points that exceed the player's current health points. For example, the player's default health is 20, and if holding an item with the attribute −21 health, the player can take two hits before dying, regardless of how much damage these hits inflict. The first one deals enough damage to reduce health to 1HP👁 💔
, and the second one kills the player. If the player uses a modified item to reduce health, sometimes the death screen appears. After clicking respawn, the player would shake in the death position and this can be fixed by ceasing to use the modified item.

If a player is riding a mob, the health of that mob is shown in place of‌^{[Java Edition only]} or on top of‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} the hunger bar, using 👁 ❤️
as the texture for hearts.

Hearts make up the health bar for the player in the Survival, Hardcore (different texture), and Adventure modes.

The player's hearts have a different texture depending on the various condition. Also, all hearts have different textures in Hardcore mode.

• Hearts take the highest applicable texture in this list; poison overrides wither, which overrides absorption, which overrides freezing.
• Only hearts given by the Absorption effect will be absorption hearts.
• For all of the other conditions, the entire health bar (including absorption hearts, except freezing which does not change absorption hearts) will change texture.

Issues relating to "Health" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• 👁 A preview of the health system seen on Notch's blog. Note how the sprite for the half-heart has a black line in the middle.
  
  A preview of the health system seen on Notch's blog. Note how the sprite for the half-heart has a black line in the middle.
• 👁 Health displayed in the tab menu
  
  Health displayed in the tab menu

• 👁 "Rainbow Life Bar," an official T-Shirt design made to celebrate Pride Month
  
  "Rainbow Life Bar," an official T-Shirt design made to celebrate Pride Month
• 👁 A collection of colorful Minecraft hearts sitting on top of a cherry blossom background.
  
  Some hearts in a cherry blossom biome
• 👁 A collection of colorful Minecraft hearts sitting on top of a background depicting a forest at dawn.
  
  Some hearts in a forest biome
• 👁 Some hearts in a plains biome
  
  Some hearts in a plains biome

• Death, the result of an entity's health reaching 0HP👁 🖤
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• Everything you need to know about health in Minecraft – Minecraft.net