Water Breathing

From Minecraft Wiki

👁 Image
This article is about the status effect. For the enchantment that provides the ability to breathe underwater, see Respiration. For the effect in Minecraft Dungeons, see Dungeons:Water Breathing.

Water Breathing

👁 Water Breathing.png: Infobox image for Minecraft effect 'Water Breathing'

Sources	See § Causes
Particle	👁 EffectSprite particle-water-breathing.png: Sprite image for particle-water-breathing in Minecraft #98DAC0 (turquoise green)
Type	Positive

{
 "title": "Water Breathing",
 "rows": [
 {
 "field": "See (link to #Causes article, displayed as <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">§ Causes</span>)",
 "label": "Sources"
 },
 {
 "field": "<span class=\"sprite-file\" style=\"height:18px;width:18px\">(link to File:EffectSprite particle-water-breathing.png article, displayed as 18x18px|link=|alt=EffectSprite particle-water-breathing.png: Sprite image for particle-water-breathing in Minecraft|class=pixel-image|)</span> #98DAC0 (turquoise green)",
 "label": "Particle"
 },
 {
 "field": "Positive",
 "label": "Type"
 }
 ],
 "invimages": [
 "Potion of Water Breathing",
 "Splash Potion of Water Breathing",
 "Lingering Potion of Water Breathing",
 "Arrow of Water Breathing"
 ],
 "images": [
 "Water Breathing.png"
 ]
}

Water Breathing is a status effect that prevents or delays drowning, and allows waterlogged beds‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} to be used. In Bedrock Edition, it additionally prevents or delays squid, glow squid, salmon, cod, pufferfish, tropical fish, nautilus, and tadpoles from taking suffocation damage when they are not in water, and also prevents players/mobs from taking suffocation damage inside full, solid, non-transparent blocks.

Causes

[edit | edit source]

Cause	Potency	Length	Notes
👁 Image Potion of Water Breathing	I	3:00	👁 Image Witches drink this potion when underwater.
👁 Image Potion of Water Breathing (extended)	I	8:00
👁 Image Splash Potion of Water Breathing	I	3:00
👁 Image Splash Potion of Water Breathing (extended)	I	8:00
👁 Image Lingering Potion of Water Breathing	I	0:45
👁 Image Lingering Potion of Water Breathing (extended)	I	2:00
👁 Image Arrow of Water Breathing	I	0:22
👁 Image Arrow of Water Breathing (extended)	I	1:00
👁 Image Turtle Shell	I	0:10	Only counts down underwater. Instantly replenishes in air.

👁 Image
Conduit Power also gives the player a similar effect to Water Breathing (among other things).

Immune mobs

[edit | edit source]

Withers and ender dragons are immune to Water Breathing.
Aquatic mobs (except for the dolphin) are unaffected by water breathing ‌^{[JE only]} and all undead mobs (except husks and zombies thus they convert into zombies and drowned) are unaffected by water breathing.

Notes

[edit | edit source]

Helmets with the Respiration enchantment slow down oxygen depletion, granting an extra 15 seconds of underwater breath per level. However, this is not done through the Water Breathing effect.

Data values

[edit | edit source]

ID

[edit | edit source]

👁 Image
This section is about the effect IDs. For the IDs on potions, see Potion § Item data. For the IDs on tipped arrows, see Arrow § Metadata.

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
👁 EffectSprite water-breathing.png: Sprite image for water-breathing in Minecraft Water Breathing	`water_breathing`	`13`	`effect.minecraft.water_breathing`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
👁 EffectSprite water-breathing.png: Sprite image for water-breathing in Minecraft Water Breathing	`water_breathing`	`13`	`potion.waterBreathing`

Achievements

[edit | edit source]


Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
👁 Image	👁 Image	Free Diver	Stay underwater for 2 minutes	Drink a potion of water breathing that can last for 2 minutes or more, then jump into water; or activate a conduit; or sneak on a magma block underwater for 2 minutes; or ride a nautilus/zombie nautilus underwater for 2 minutes.	20	Silver

Advancements

[edit | edit source]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
👁 Image 👁 Image	A Furious Cocktail	Have every potion effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 17 status effects applied to the player at the same time: 👁 Image Fire Resistance 👁 Image Infested 👁 Image Invisibility 👁 Image Jump Boost 👁 Image Night Vision 👁 Image Oozing 👁 Image Poison 👁 Image Regeneration 👁 Image Resistance 👁 Image Slow Falling 👁 Image Slowness 👁 Image Speed 👁 Image Strength 👁 Image 👁 Image Weakness 👁 Image Weaving 👁 Image Wind Charged The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement.
👁 Image 👁 Image	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 34 status effects applied to the player at the same time: 👁 Image Absorption 👁 Image Bad Omen 👁 Image Blindness 👁 Image Breath of the Nautilus 👁 Image Conduit Power 👁 Image Darkness 👁 Image Dolphin's Grace 👁 Image Fire Resistance 👁 Image Glowing 👁 Image Haste 👁 Image Hero of the Village 👁 Image Hunger 👁 Image Infested 👁 Image Invisibility 👁 Image Jump Boost 👁 Image Levitation 👁 Image Mining Fatigue 👁 Image Nausea 👁 Image Night Vision 👁 Image Oozing 👁 Image Poison 👁 Image Raid Omen 👁 Image Regeneration 👁 Image Resistance 👁 Image Slow Falling 👁 Image Slowness 👁 Image Speed 👁 Image Strength 👁 Image Trial Omen 👁 Image 👁 Image Weakness 👁 Image Weaving 👁 Image Wind Charged 👁 Image Wither The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. See also: Tutorial:Advancement guide/How Did We Get Here? This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.

History

[edit | edit source]

Java Edition

[edit | edit source]

Java Edition Beta
1.8	Pre-release	Water Breathing is added along with 18 other status effects but is currently unobtainable in regular gameplay.
Java Edition
1.0.0	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2	👁 Image The effect sprite for Water Breathing has been added to `inventory.png`.
		Potions which grant the Water Breathing effect are added.
		Milk now cancels the Water Breathing effect.
	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3	Water Breathing no longer has any associated potions.
1.7.2	13w36a	Dedicated Water Breathing potions added.
1.9	15w31a	Added the Arrow of Water Breathing.
1.9	15w31a	Potions no longer use damage values to determine their effect, the effects moved to the `Potion` NBT.
1.13	18w08b	The Water Breathing status effect no longer gives the player enhanced underwater vision.
1.14	18w43a	👁 Image Changed effect icon texture.
1.19.4	Pre-release 3	Potion and effect color changed from #2E5299 to #96D7BE.
1.21.4	Pre-Release 1	Water breathing effect now increases the oxygen underwater instead of only preventing it from decreasing.^[1]

Bedrock Edition

[edit | edit source]

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0	build 1	👁 Image Added water breathing, which was unobtainable at the time.
v0.12.1	build 1	Water breathing is now obtainable via Potion of Water Breathing and splash potion of water breathing.
v0.14.0	build 1	Witches can now grant water breathing effect when drinking a potion underwater.
v0.15.0	build 1	Added Arrow of Water Breathing.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0	alpha 0.17.0.1	Added Lingering Potion of Water Breathing.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0	beta 1.2.20.1	Water breathing no longer gives enhanced underwater vision.
1.5.0	beta 1.5.0.4	Water breathing can now be obtained by wearing turtle shells.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.5	👁 Image Changed effect icon texture.

Legacy Console Edition

[edit | edit source]

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Added Water Breathing.^{[more information needed]}
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Dedicated Water Breathing potions added.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		The Water Breathing status effect no longer gives the player enhanced underwater vision.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Water Breathing effect now increases the oxygen underwater instead of only preventing it from decreasing to match Bedrock Edition but does not hide the oxygen bar.
			1.91				👁 Image Changed effect icon texture.