Water

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Water is a fluid that naturally generates abundantly in the Overworld.

Water can be collected by using a bucket on a water source block or a full water cauldron, creating a water bucket.

In Java Edition, water does not have a direct item form, but in Bedrock Edition it may be obtained as an item via inventory editing or add-ons.

Water naturally generates in the Overworld to form oceans, rivers and springs. The water level is at layer 62 near oceans and rivers, but changes depending on location due to the aquifer system, filling some carvers, noise caves and canyons with water at different levels. Water also generates as small puddles on the floor next to dripstone clusters, and as clay pools on the floor of lush caves.

Water also generates in villages, desert wells, strongholds, woodland mansions, ancient cities, ocean monuments and trial chambers within various rooms.

Water never generates in the Nether and instantly disappears if placed there with a water bucket. However, water can exist in the Nether in a cauldron. Water can also be placed in the Nether using commands such as /setblock and /fill. Although it does not naturally generate there, water can be placed and functions normally in the End.

In Bedrock Edition, water also generates as part of ocean ruins with loot chests, but only two water blocks generate:

• One water block generates inside the loot chest, making it a waterlogged loot chest.
• The other water block generates on top of the loot chest.

These water blocks generate even if the ruin is located on the surface.^[1] This is not the case in Java Edition; if an underwater ruin generates on the surface, no water generates.^[2] This also happens with shipwrecks.

Water spends most of its time as stationary, rather than flowing – regardless of its level, or whether it contains a current downward or to the side. When specifically triggered by a block update, water changes to 'flowing', updates its level, then changes back to stationary. Water springs are generated as flowing, and oceans, and rivers are generated as stationary. This happens before most types of generated structure are created, and the main cause of water "glitches" is that generated structures do not trigger a block update to let water flow into them.

Using a water bucket or a bucket of aquatic mob creates water (except in the Nether).

Ice and frosted ice blocks under brighter light levels melt into water source blocks (except in the Nether). Ice and frosted ice also create water when broken, but only if there is a movement-blocking block or fluid under it.

The button for swimming is the same as the button for jumping; non-swimming players and mobs sink slowly in water. Holding the swim button raises the player through the water, and when the surface is reached, the player bobs up and down. The crouch button can be used to sink faster. The sprint button can be used to put the player in "swim mode" when the player is completely submerged in water. When in swim mode, the player is horizontal and one block high. The player has an arm-waving animation when viewed in third person or by other players.

Swimming in water is considerably slower against currents (see Current below), but faster when going with the current.

Most mobs that can stand can also swim any time they are in water, except for iron golems, piglins, hoglins, striders, piglin brutes and undead mobs. This can lead to drowning if the water is falling from above.

Water of any depth prevents any entity, including the player, from sustaining falling damage if they fall into it, regardless of the distance fallen.

Being inside of water also imparts a fog effect, tinted accordingly.

Water movement efficiency is an attribute that affects movement speed when in contact with water. With the Depth Strider enchantment, water movement efficiency is increased by ⅓, including reducing the speed at which flowing water pushes the player when standing still.

Water spreads horizontally and downward into nearby air blocks. Water can spread downward infinitely until stopped by a block, and 7 blocks horizontally from a source block on a flat surface. Water spreads at a rate of 1 block every 5 game ticks, or 4 blocks per second.

When spreading horizontally, a weight is assigned to every direction water can flow. For each direction, this weight is initially set to 1000. Then, for every adjacent block it can flow into it tries to find a way down that is reachable in four or fewer blocks from the block it wants to flow to. When found, the flow weight for that direction is set to the shortest path distance to the way down. Finally, water spreads in the directions with the lowest flow weight.

Spreading water extinguishes fire and washes away certain types of items or placed blocks, causing them to drop as items and then carrying them along in the flow until the edge of the spread. Affected items include plants (except trees), snow, torches, carpets, redstone dust and some other redstone components, cobweb, end rods, heads, and flower pots.

A water source block is created from a flowing block that is horizontally adjacent to two or more other source blocks, and sitting on top of a solid block or another water source block. This allows water spawners to exist, in which a new source block immediately forms in the space left by removing a source block with a bucket. Pools of still water can be created by placing water source blocks in a confined area.

Water spawners can be constructed by arranging for two source blocks to flow into a third block. Each of the examples below require two source blocks, each on opposite ends of the hole, to create a renewable water source block in between.

While water source blocks generate only adjacent to solid blocks, they do not require a solid block to support them. Removing all adjacent blocks to a water source block causes it to remain floating in the air.

A water source block can also be created from a flowing block that is adjacent to one source block horizontally and one vertically above the flowing block.

In Java Edition, the formation of new water sources blocks can be disabled when the game rule water_source_conversion is set to false.

• 👁 2×2 water spawner (every corner is renewable)
  
  2×2 water spawner (every corner is renewable)
• 👁 3×1 water spawner (middle water block is renewable)
  
  3×1 water spawner (middle water block is renewable)
• 👁 L-shaped water spawner (corner water block is renewable)
  
  L-shaped water spawner (corner water block is renewable)

A dispenser loaded with a filled bucket places a water source block in an empty block in front of it when activated. A dispenser loaded with an empty bucket and a water source right in front of it sucks the source into the bucket when activated.

In snowy biomes, water source blocks have a chance to turn into ice if directly under the sky. Ice blocks under brighter light levels melt back into water source blocks (except in the Nether). Ice reverts to water when broken, but only if there is a movement-blocking block or any fluid under it.

The spreading of water sources can be simulated using the plugin below:

The current in a water block determines both the direction it appears to flow and the direction an entity such as a player or boat is pushed from that block.

Water with a current pushes players and mobs at a speed of about 1.39 meters per second, or 25 blocks every 18 seconds. Players that are flying in creative mode do not get pushed.

The horizontal current in a water block is based on a vector sum of the flows to and from that block from its four horizontal neighbors. For example, if a block receives water from the north and sends it both south and east, but borders a solid block on its west edge, then a south-southeast current exits from that block, because 2 southward flows (in and out) are combined with 1 eastward flow (out). Thus, 16 horizontal directions are possible. If a branch in a channel is 2 blocks wide at its entrance, then entities float into it rather than continuing in a straight line.

Normally, a water source block cannot have horizontal current unless it is actually able to flow into a neighboring block. However, a contained source block can have current toward a lower source block if the block that prevents its flow is not motion-blocking (see image).

Water blocks can create a downward current. A downward current in a water block is caused by the block below it. Most blocks that do not have a solid upper face cause downward current on above water blocks. Also, ice and falling water blocks (blocks created by spreading downward) cause downward current on the water block above. Falling water blocks have a downward current by default.

It is also possible for the water current to create horizontal directions beyond the possible 16 directions (i.e. cardinal directions that are multiples of 22.5 degrees) via falling current (typically the 32-direction "tertiary intercardinal direction" using directions bisecting the angle between the points on the 16-direction points of the compass, where the intermediate cardinal directions are multiples of 11.25 degrees but not multiples of 22.5 degrees, and rarely the 64-direction points). For instance, if a water block receives water from the north and sends downwards before flowing further to the west and borders a solid block on its east edge below the falling current, if the falling current that sends to the west is not obstructed by a solid block in that particular direction, then the falling current would be displayed as west by north (281.25 degrees clockwise, where 0 degrees indicates north), but the actual movement of the entity will not match the flowing direction and will remain westward. On the other hand, if a water block receives water from the north and sends downwards before flowing further both north and west, and borders a solid block on its east edge, then the northwest by north (326.25 degrees clockwise) falling current exits before the adjacent water blocks below it, and the entity movement direction would match the flowing direction instead.

In Bedrock Edition, every block of water reduces light by 1 extra level (in addition to the normal fading-out of light). In Java Edition, water does not cause any additional decrease for block light, but diffuses sky light, causing the light to fade with depth.

Water and lava can produce stone, cobblestone, or obsidian based on how they interact. If water touches a lava source, the lava source turns to obsidian. If both touch each other while flowing, cobblestone is made and no sources are removed, and if lava flows downward onto water, the water turns to stone.

Water damages endermen, snow golems, striders and blazes, at a rate of 1HP👁 💔
per half second. Bees are also damaged at a rate of 1HP👁 💔
per half second if they stay in water for more than 20 game ticks (1 second). If water comes into contact with a shulker or an enderman, the mob teleports away.

Players and mobs (except aquatic mobs, undead mobs and iron golems) have a breath meter that lasts 15 seconds. After they run out of breath, they take 2HP👁 ❤️
drowning damage every second until they die, surface, or enter bubble columns.

Dolphins are a special case when it comes to drowning: they take drowning damage when underwater for about 4 minutes, but also take suffocation damage when in air for about 2 minutes.

If a husk drowns underwater, it starts to shake and eventually becomes a zombie. If a zombie drowns underwater, it starts to shake and eventually transforms into a drowned.

Each level of the Respiration enchantment grants an oxygen bonus of +1, which equates to 15 seconds to the breath meter, and grants an x/(x+1) chance (where x is the Respiration level) of not taking drowning damage after that time: 30 seconds and an average 1HP👁 💔
/second with Respiration I, 45 seconds and an average of ²⁄₃ damage/second with Respiration II, and 60 seconds and an average of ¹⁄₂ damage/second with Respiration III.

Players with their head underwater require 5 times the normal amount of time to mine blocks while standing on the ground, or 25 times while not on the ground. If a player wears a helmet with the Aqua Affinity enchantment, submerged mining speed is increased by 400%, negating this effect. Mining is still 5 times slower if not standing on the ground.

Water does not prevent explosions from activating. Water has a high blast resistance, causing it to absorb any normal blasts, with the exception of explosions from underwater TNT‌^{[Minecraft Education only]} or placing a falling block on top of a regular TNT block and then lighting it.

When water comes into contact with concrete powder, the powder hardens into solid concrete.

When a dry sponge comes into contact with a water source or flowing block, it becomes a wet sponge, absorbing all water within 3 to 5 blocks in all directions. Kelp and lily pads within the absorbed water blocks are destroyed and drop as items, and seagrass is destroyed without dropping anything. Mobs that take damage out of water are affected as a side-effect.

Sponges do not absorb water from waterlogged blocks, nor water that comes into contact by flowing back in from outside the area of absorption. For instance, placing a sponge 4 or more blocks from a single water source removes the flowing water in the area of effect, but as the flow from the source resumes it is not affected by the wet sponge.

A sponge instantly absorbs nearby water when it is placed next to water or when water comes into contact with it (by being placed next to the sponge, or by flowing toward it). A sponge absorbs around itself (water source blocks or flowing water) out to a taxicab distance of 7 in all directions (including up and down), but won't absorb more than 65 blocks of water (water closest to the sponge is absorbed first). The absorption propagates only from water to water and does not "jump over" non-water blocks (including air).

Water above a non-transparent block (except for stairs, fences, or slabs) produces dripping particles on the underside of that block. If a block of pointed dripstone hangs under any block directly beneath a water source, the drips can slowly fill up a cauldron placed underneath. Without the dripstone, a cauldron does not fill.

Bubble columns are created by placing magma blocks or soul sand under water. The latter can be used to transport mobs or items quickly vertically.

Water irrigates all farmland within a distance of 4 blocks in every direction except upwards, which causes crops on the farmland to grow faster and prevents the farmland from randomly reverting to dirt. Sugar cane also requires water next to the block it is planted on to be placed, and breaks if it detects this is no longer the case. Lily pads can be placed only on water source blocks, and seagrass and kelp can exist only inside of water source blocks. Coral also must be in contact with water to survive.

Water uses a translucent animated texture that is tinted differently in different biomes. In Bedrock Edition, biome colors also appear on maps.

Unlike other translucent blocks such as ice, stained glass and tinted glass, water shows the opposite sides of its external planes when viewed from within and from outside.^[3] However, it applies only to the top plane and four side planes; the bottom face is always unseen from above.^[4]

When the camera is inside water, a special fog effect is applied. Initially, this fog is very dense and blocks almost 100% of the view, but it gradually changes to a static fog distance during 30 seconds. The color and view distance are dependent of the biome. The Night Vision and Conduit Power effects increase underwater visibility.

When Vibrant Visuals is enabled, the graphics of water are greatly enhanced with various effects. The biome colors are not visible, but the surface is transparent. Deeper bodies of water create a blue tint on all objects, while single blocks of water appear almost invisible. When a surface underwater is hit by directional lighting (such as the sun and moon), animated and pixelated caustics are projected on the textures. Shadows can also be projected on water surfaces, but not underwater. Instead, the lack of caustics where normal shadows would render when directional lighting is being blocked, can be seen as shadows.

Unlike any other block, the water's surface can perfectly reflect all objects. Light sources, both emissive and directional, create glowing reflections. Reflections are only visible for objects currently rendered on the screen, except for clouds which are always rendered.

Volumetric fog is applied underwater, on top of the regular biome fog which is less visible. This greatly affects how light behaves underwater, with much more scattering and light shafts, and glowing fog effects around light sources.

• 👁 Water with Vibrant Visuals, showing different types of reflections, transparency, and the blue color caused by scattering.
  
  Water with Vibrant Visuals, showing different types of reflections, transparency, and the blue color caused by scattering.
• 👁 Water caustics in a desert.
  
  Water caustics in a desert.
• 👁 Fog and light shafts underwater.
  
  Fog and light shafts underwater.

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Water and flowing water

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Water

Flowing water

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• 👁 The water and flowing water in Infdev 20100615.
  
  The water and flowing water in Infdev 20100615.

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

• The texture subtly overlaid on the screen when underwater is that of the original water texture from 0.0.12a.
  • The outdatedness of this texture is not considered a bug or oversight, unlike many other outdated textures.^[17]
  • This texture is particularly difficult to notice due to its extreme transparency,^[18] as well as the fact that other blocks likely make the scene visually noisy enough to further obscure it under most conditions.
• While underwater, the player's FOV (field of vision) is lowered by 10 to simulate light refraction. This can be disabled via the "FOV Effects" option.
• If a player or mob with the Levitation effect touches water, the effect is completely negated.^[19]

• 👁 This texture is subtly overlaid on the screen when underwater.
  
  This texture is subtly overlaid on the screen when underwater.
• 👁 The full animation of water caustics with Vibrant Visuals.
  
  The full animation of water caustics with Vibrant Visuals.
• 👁 These bubbles appear above the hunger bar when the player's head is in water, and when all the bubbles pop, a heart of damage is dealt every second until the player is no longer entirely under water. As of Java Edition 1.21.2, this graphic is outdated as the popped bubbles now have gray circles in place of them.
  
  These bubbles appear above the hunger bar when the player's head is in water, and when all the bubbles pop, a heart of damage is dealt every second until the player is no longer entirely under water. As of Java Edition 1.21.2, this graphic is outdated as the popped bubbles now have gray circles in place of them.

• 👁 Underwater particles, or "bubbles".
  
  Underwater particles, or "bubbles".
• 👁 Water that is underground, but is still part of 2 different biomes. The color is split.
  
  Water that is underground, but is still part of 2 different biomes. The color is split.
• 👁 A glitch where water is invisible below its surface level.
  
  A glitch where water is invisible below its surface level.
• 👁 Water flowing into a cave.
  
  Water flowing into a cave.
• 👁 A view underwater.
  
  A view underwater.
• 👁 Animated view of the water texture.
  
  Animated view of the water texture.
• 👁 A naturally occurring waterfall.
  
  A naturally occurring waterfall.
• 👁 An underwater ruin in Bedrock Edition that generated on land with a water block on top of it.
  
  An underwater ruin in Bedrock Edition that generated on land with a water block on top of it.
• 👁 A large lake, during a thunderstorm.
  
  A large lake, during a thunderstorm.
• 👁 A coral reef at night, in a warm ocean biome.
  
  A coral reef at night, in a warm ocean biome.
• 👁 Water may not always be updated at chunk borders when intersecting carvers.
  
  Water may not always be updated at chunk borders when intersecting carvers.
• 👁 A water flowing on lava lake, creating obsidian. The water was placed by a player.
  
  A water flowing on lava lake, creating obsidian. The water was placed by a player.
• 👁 Waterfalls made by a player.
  
  Waterfalls made by a player.
• 👁 Water flowing into the cave from nearby lake.
  
  Water flowing into the cave from nearby lake.
• 👁 Ravine with multiple ores, water and lava falls, and stronghold bridge over it.
  
  Ravine with multiple ores, water and lava falls, and stronghold bridge over it.
• 👁 Different water colors in a swamp in Java Edition.
  
  Different water colors in a swamp in Java Edition.
• 👁 A block of water, which is not flowing because of a glitch, besides a village farm.
  
  A block of water, which is not flowing because of a glitch, besides a village farm.
• 👁 Shadows created underwater by coral structures.
  
  Shadows created underwater by coral structures.

• 👁 Water in A Minecraft Movie.
  
  Water in A Minecraft Movie.
• 👁 Image
  

• Waterlogging

• "Block of the Week: Water" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, July 14, 2017.