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This article is about the enchantment that provides the ability to breathe underwater. For the status effect, see
Water Breathing.
Respiration
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Respiration is an enchantment applied to helmets that extends underwater breathing time.
Respiration can be obtained from enchanting tables, drops from mobs that have spawned in a raid,[Bedrock Edition only] books obtained by fishing, monster room chests, librarian villagers (or if the "Villager Trade Rebalance" experimental datapack is enabled, a swamp librarian), and non-village structure loot.
Respiration grants an oxygen bonus of +1 per enchantment level, which equates to +15 seconds per level in addition to the default time of 15 seconds. It also grants a chance of not taking drowning damage each second by level / (level + 1). The maximum level that can be obtained without commands is level 3, resulting in a total time of 60 seconds underwater (including the base time without enchantments) before drowning begins, and a 75% chance to not take drowning damage each second. Wearing a turtle shell extends this time by an additional 10 seconds. Respiration can be applied to non-helmet items by use of commands.
Java Edition:
| Name | Identifier |
Translation key |
|---|
| Respiration | respiration |
enchantment.minecraft.respiration |
Bedrock Edition:
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID |
Translation key |
|---|
| Respiration | respiration | 6 |
enchantment.oxygen |
| Java Edition |
|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Added Respiration. |
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| 1.13 | 18w08b | Respiration no longer grants enhanced vision underwater. |
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| 1.14 | 19w08a | Respiration enchantment is now functional for horses when added to horse armor in creative mode. |
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| 1.20.5 | 24w05a | Respiration enchantment is no longer functional for horses when added to horse armor in creative mode. |
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| 1.21 | 24w18a | The oxygen bonus increase from Respiration is now displayed as a tooltip. |
|---|
| The Respiration enchantment is now only functional in the head slot. |
Issues relating to "Respiration" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
