Water

Water

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Renewable	Yes
Transparent	JE: Partial (diffuses sky light, -1 to light) BE: Partial (-1 to light)
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	100
Tool
Creates sources?	Yes
Flow distance	8 blocks
Flow speed	5 ticks/block

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

Obtaining

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.

Natural generation

Water naturally generates in the Overworld to form oceans, rivers and springs. The water level is at layer 63 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. This is not the case in Java Edition; if an underwater ruin generates on the surface, no water generates. 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.

Usage

Appearance

Water uses a translucent animated texture that is tinted differently in different biomes. In Java Edition, water in cauldrons is completely opaque.

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. However, it applies only to the top plane and four side planes; the bottom face is always unseen from above.

Swimming

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.

Spreading

An image showing water's spreading distance

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.

Flow arrangement tables

							7
						7	6	7
					7	6	5	6	7
				7	6	5	4	5	6	7
			7	6	5	4	3	4	5	6	7
		7	6	5	4	3	2	3	4	5	6	7
	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
		7	6	5	4	3	2	3	4	5	6	7
			7	6	5	4	3	4	5	6	7
				7	6	5	4	5	6	7
					7	6	5	6	7
						7	6	7
							7

Range		Height in blocks
1	block	1
2	blocks	0.75-1
3	blocks	0.625-0.75
4	blocks	0.5-0.625
5	blocks	0.375-0.5
6	blocks	0.25-0.375
7	blocks	0.125-0.25

Source blocks

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

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

• 

  2×2 water spawner (every corner is renewable)

• 

  3×1 water spawner (middle 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 solid block under it.

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

Current

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 in creative flying mode don’t 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.

The upper water source block flows towards the bottom-left source block, but not the bottom-right, because glass blocks motion but ladders do not.

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 towards 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.

Light

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. Underwater visibility changes depending on the biome the player is in. The Night Vision and Conduit Power effects increase underwater visibility.

Color

Water has several colors, depending on the biome.

Java Edition

Biome	Water color	Water fog color	Block
Default (biomes not listed below)	#3F76E4	#050533
Swamp	#617B64	#232317
Lukewarm Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean	#45ADF2	#041633
Warm Ocean	#43D5EE	#041F33
Cold Ocean Deep Cold Ocean Snowy Taiga Snowy Beach	#3D57D6	#050533
Frozen River Frozen Ocean Deep Frozen Ocean	#3938C9	#050533
Meadow	#0E4ECF	#050533
Mangrove Swamp	#3A7A6A	#4D7A60
Cherry Grove	#5DB7EF	#5DB7EF
Pale Garden	#76889D	#556980

Bedrock Edition

Biome tints

Biome	Water Surface Color	Water Fog Color	Water Fog Distance	Water Surface Transparency	Block
Default (biomes not listed below)	#44aff5	#44aff5	15	65%
Sunflower Plains Plains	#44aff5	#44aff5	60	-
Desert	#32a598	#32a598	60	-
Mountains	#007BF7	#007BF7	-	-
Forest	#1e97f2	#1e97f2	60	-
Flower Forest	#20a3CC	#20a3CC	60	-
Taiga	#287082	#287082	60	-
Taiga Mountains	#1e6B82	#1e6B82	-	-
Swamp	#4c6559	#4c6559	30	100%
River	#0084ff	#0084ff	60	-
Nether Wastes Warped Forest Crimson Forest Soul Sand Valley	#905957	#905957	15	-
Basalt Deltas	#3f76e4	#423e42	15	-
The End	#62529e	#62529e	-	-
Frozen River	#185390	#185390	60	-
Snowy Plains Ice Spikes	#14559b	#14559b	-	-
Mushroom Fields	#8a8997	#8a8997	-	-
Beach	#157cab	#157cab	60	-
Mountain Edge	#045cd5	#045cd5	-	-
Jungle	#14a2c5	#14a2c5	60	-
Bamboo Jungle			15
Sparse Jungle	#0D8AE3	#0D8AE3	-	-
Stony Shore	#0d67bb	#0d67bb	60	-
Snowy Beach	#1463a5	#1463a5	60	-
Birch Forest	#0677ce	#0677ce	60	-
Dark Forest	#3B6CD1	#3B6CD1	60	-
Snowy Taiga	#205e83	#205e83	60	-
Old Growth Pine Taiga Old Growth Spruce Taiga	#2d6d77	#2d6d77	60	-
Windswept Forest Windswept Gravelly Hills	#0E63AB	#0E63AB	-	-
Savanna	#2C8B9C	#2C8B9C	60	-
Savanna Plateau Windswept Savanna	#2590a8	#2590a8	-	-
Badlands	#4E7f81	#4E7f81	60	-
Eroded Badlands Wooded Badlands	#497f99	#497f99	-	-
Ocean	#1787D4	#1165b0	60	-
Deep Ocean	#1787D4	#1463a5	60	-
Warm Ocean	#02B0E5	#0289d5	60	55%
Lukewarm Ocean	#0D96DB	#0a74c4	60	-
Lukewarm Deep Ocean	#0D96DB	#0e72b9	60	-
Cold Ocean	#2080C9	#14559b	60	-
Cold Deep Ocean	#2080C9	#185390	60	-
Frozen Ocean	#2570B5	#174985	60	-
Frozen Deep Ocean	#2570B5	#1a4879	60	-
Mangrove Swamp	#3a7a6a	#4d7a60	30	-

Biome tints from unused biomes

Biome	Water Surface Color	Water Fog Color	Water Fog Distance	Water Surface Transparency	Block
Legacy Frozen Ocean	#44aff5	#44aff5	-	-
Mountains	#007BF7	#007bf7	-	-
Taiga Mountains	#1e6B82	#1e6b82	-	-
Swamp Hills	#4c6156	#4c6156	30	100%
Snowy Mountains	#1156a7	#1156a7	-	-
Mushroom Field Shore	#818193	#818193	-	-
Desert Hills	#1a7aa1	#1a7aa1	-	-
Wooded Hills	#056bd1	#056bd1	-	-
Taiga Hills	#236583	#236583	-	-
Mountain Edge	#045cd5	#045cd5	-	-
Jungle Hills Modified Jungle Bamboo Jungle Hills	#1B9ED8	#1B9ED8	-	-
Modified Jungle Edge	#0D8AE3	#0D8AE3	-	-
Birch Forest Hills	#0a74c4	#0a74c4	-	-
Snowy Taiga Mountains	#205e83	#205e83	60	-
Snowy Taiga Hills	#245b78	#245b78	-	-
Giant Tree Taiga Hills	#286378	#286378	-	-
Gravelly Mountains+	#0E63AB	#0e63ab	-	-
Shattered Savanna Plateau	#2590a8	#2590a8	-	-
Badlands Plateau Modified Badlands Plateau	#55809E	#55809e	-	-
Warm Deep Ocean	#02B0E5	#0686ca	60	-

Water and lava

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.

Interactions with mobs

Direct contact

Water damages endermen, snow golems, striders and blazes, at a rate of 1HP per half second. If water comes into contact with a shulker or an enderman, the mob teleports away.

Drowning

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.

Each level of the Respiration enchantment adds 15 seconds to the breath meter and grants an x/(x+1) chance (where x is the Respiration level) of not taking 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.

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.

Slower mining speed

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, then underwater mining speed while standing on the ground is the same as on land, and 5 times slower if not standing on the ground.

Explosions

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 or placing a falling block on top and then lighting it.

Hardening concrete powder

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

Sponges

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 water 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).

Dripping

Dripping water.

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.

Vertical transport

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.

Irrigation

Water irrigates all farmland within a distance of 4 blocks, 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 will break if it detects this is no longer the case. Lily pads can only be placed on water source blocks, and seagrass and kelp can only exist inside of water source blocks. Coral also needs to be in contact with water to survive as otherwise it will become dead.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	None​​	Ambient/Environment	When the player's eye level goes underwater	ambient.underwater.enter	None​​	0.5	1.0	16
	None​​	Ambient/Environment	When the player's eye level goes above water	ambient.underwater.exit	None​​	0.3	1.0	16
	None​​	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when underwater	ambient.underwater.loop	None​​	0.65	1.0	16
	None​​	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when underwater	ambient.underwater.loop.additions	None​​	1.0	1.0	16
	None​​	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when underwater	ambient.underwater.loop.additions.rare	None​​	varies	1.0	16
	None​​	Ambient/Environment	Randomly when underwater	ambient.underwater.loop.additions.ultra_rare	None​​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Water flows	Blocks	Randomly from flowing water	block.water.ambient	subtitles.block.water.ambient​	0.75-1.0	0.5-1.5	16
	​Splashing	Entity-Dependent	When something enters water	entity.generic.splash	subtitles.entity.generic.splash​	0.0-1.0	0.6-1.4	16
	​Swimming	Entity-Dependent	While something is moving through water	entity.generic.swim	subtitles.entity.generic.swim​	0.0-1.0	0.6-1.4	16
	​Bucket empties	Blocks	When water is placed with a bucket	item.bucket.empty	subtitles.item.bucket.empty​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Bucket fills	Players	When water is collected with a bucket	item.bucket.fill	subtitles.item.bucket.fill​	1.0	1.0	16
	​None	Music	Randomly when underwater	music.under_water	None​	0.4	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Randomly from flowing water	liquid.water	0.75-1.0	0.5-1.5
	Ambient/Environment	When a player or mob enters water.	entity.generic.splash	?	0.6-1.4
	Players	When the player's eye level goes underwater	ambient.underwater.enter	?	1.0
	Players	When the player's eye level goes above water	ambient.underwater.exit	?	1.0
	Players	While something is moving through water	random.swim	?	0.6-1.4
	Blocks	When water is placed with a bucket	bucket.empty_water	1.0	1.0
	Blocks	When water is collected with a bucket	bucket.fill_water	1.0	1.0
	Music	Randomly when underwater	music.game.water	0.2	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Water	water	Block	block.minecraft.water

Fluid	Identifier	Fluid tags
Water	water	water
Flowing Water	flowing_water	water

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Flowing Water	flowing_water	8	Block & Ungiveable Item	Identical	tile.flowing_water.name
Water	water	9	Block & Ungiveable Item	Identical	tile.water.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
level	0	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	If bit 0x8 is set, this fluid is "falling" and spreads only downward. At this level, the lower bits are essentially ignored, since this block is then at its highest fluid level. This level is equal to the falling water above, equal to 8 plus the level of the non-falling water above it. The lower three bits are the fluid block's level. 0 is the highest fluid level (not necessarily filling the block - this depends on the neighboring fluid blocks above each upper corner of the block). Data values increase as the fluid level of the block drops: 1 is the next highest, 2 lower, on through 7, the lowest fluid level. Along a line on a flat plane, water drops one level per meter.

Bedrock Edition:
Water and flowing water

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
liquid_depth	0x1 0x2 0x4 0x8	0	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	If bit 0x8 is set, this fluid is "falling" and spreads only downward. At this level, the lower bits are essentially ignored, since this block is then at its highest fluid level. This level is equal to the falling water above, equal to 8 plus the level of the non-falling water above it. The lower three bits are the fluid block's level. 0 is the highest fluid level (not necessarily filling the block - this depends on the neighboring fluid blocks above each upper corner of the block). Data values increase as the fluid level of the block drops: 1 is the next highest, 2 lower, on through 7, the lowest fluid level. Along a line on a flat plane, water drops one level per meter.

Fluid states

Java Edition:
Water

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
falling	false	true false	Always false.

Flowing water

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
falling	false	true false	True for falling water, false for water with a block below.
level	1	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	Height of the water, 8 when the water is falling.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		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.	20	Silver
		Sleep with the Fishes	Spend a day underwater.	Spend 20 minutes underwater without any air. Can be done with a conduit, water breathing potions, or bubble columns.	30	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Tactical Fishing	Catch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod!	Use a water bucket on any fish mob.
	The Cutest Predator	Catch an Axolotl in a Bucket	Use a water bucket on an axolotl.

History

Java Edition Classic
May 17, 2009							Notch mentions developing water. “ a very very first version of the water is somewhat working now, heh [/] the level starts out without any water and is surrounded a by a huge ocean [/] it quickly fills, leaving islands „
0.0.12a			May 18, 2009				Water is shown.
							It was originally opaque.
			release				Added water.
							Water is now transparent.
							Water flows to any available space below or beside it and creates a new source block, making it easy to flood a whole world just with one source.
May 22, 2009							Notch pointed out that when a plant or non-cube block is placed in water, it produces a box of air around it. He asked how it could be fixed, and whether he even had to.
0.0.13a							The model of water has been changed.
May 24, 2009							A new water system is mentioned.
May 24, 2009							A new water system is shown.
May 24, 2009							Another test of water is shown.
May 26, 2009							While sharing feedback on experiments with random vertex and color offsets, and deciding to scrap it, Notch said he would investigate salvaging the technique to add animation to water tiles.
0.0.19a							Added procedural animated texture to water. The old texture is retained for use as a placeholder.
							Upscaled model 2% to fix z-fighting with blocks below water. It's created water or lava models overlapping and z-fighting with each other.
							Added sponges, which remove water.
							Water part of the world boundary still uses the old water texture.
0.0.20a_02							Changed model scale back to normal with 1% offset on all coordinates.
0.27 SURVIVAL TEST							UV mapping on side faces now has 11% v offset up.
0.28							Fixed UV mapping.
Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091223-0040				Added the flowing water texture, which is now used on the sides of water.
			20100106				Water part of the world boundary now uses the animated water texture.
			20100113				Water is now finite, but oceans still have infinite water.
							Water now always drains from its highest remove location.
							Water no longer moves on the surface on its own.
							Water now has a 2⁄3 probability to evaporate and a 1⁄3 probability to copy.
			20100122				Water now spawns in level generation as springs and lakes.
			20100131				The texture of water is now seen when underwater.
Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1414							Water no longer flows due to changes in chunk handling for infinite worlds.
20100607							UV mapping now has 1% uv offset on top and bottom faces and 1% u, 11% v offset on side faces.
20100608							Fixed UV mapping, once again.
20100615							The model has been changed.
							Added flowing water.
							Sources placed in isolation flow exclusively downward, rather than spreading out one block in each direction as well.
							Water and lava do not produce any solid blocks when combined.
							Water does not replace plants.
							Added water buckets, which can be filled with water.
20100616-1808							Added vertex offset.
							Water and flowing water now has visual connection to blocks.
							Downward flowing water now pushes the player out.​
20100617-1531							Removed vertex offset.
							Water sources placed in the air now flow outward.
							Lava and flowing lava touching water, flowing water now replaces with obsidian.
							Downward flowing water no longer pushes the player out.
							Water now can replace plants. However no items are dropped.
20100618							Water can now replace rails.
20100624							Water now destroys plants, dropping as items.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.2_02							Fluids, including water, have been slightly tweaked.
v1.0.5_01							Water can now freeze into ice.
v1.2.6							Lakes, which contain water, have been added.
Java Edition Beta
1.6			Test Build 3				Rain and snow no longer fall through water.
							Water sources now form over glass.
1.8			Pre-release				Changed lighting.
							Underwater particles have been added.
							Because of the change in how land is generated, if a player is in a world that was made pre-1.8 and travels into new chunks, there's a chance that a large ocean may be formed as the ocean biome. There is also a one-block-high drop in sea level along the discontinuity between the old and new chunks with the old chunks being higher.
							Water can now be found in the farms and wells of villages, and the fountain rooms of strongholds.
							Two biomes have been added that are almost all water: oceans and rivers.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				#E0FF70 Added water color in swampland.
							Full opaque blocks underneath water with air below now generate dripping particles on their underside.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Added Respiration and Aqua Affinity enchantments, which allow more breathing time in water and normal digging speed in water.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5				Now flowing downward creates source blocks
			RC1				Faces on model now 0.1% moved to center to fix z-fighting on inner faces.
1.1			12w01a				#E0FFAE The water color in swampland is now less intense.
1.2.1			12w04a				Added desert wells, which contain water.
1.3.1			12w17a				The ability to bring water using ice into the Nether has been removed.
			12w21a				Dispensers have been given the ability to shoot out fluids, including water, inside water buckets. They can also collect the fluids if activated again.
1.4.2			12w38a				The sound when jumping and swimming in water has been changed.
							The sound of flowing water is now continuous.
							The water overlay is a more saturated blue.
1.4.4			1.4.3				Water of any depth now negates all fall damage. Players and mobs no longer die from great heights in shallow water.
1.5			13w02a				The texture of water has been changed to use an animated texture file. Prior to this version, the texture was procedurally generated by the game (see dedicated section below).
			13w03a				A water source block now forms if there is another water source block below it.
			13w04a				Flowing water no longer slows the player down when flying in Creative mode.
							Flowing water no longer pushes players when flying.
1.6.1			13w17a				Water lakes no longer generate in deserts.
1.7.2			13w36a				#E0FFAE Added water color in swampland hills, which is the same as in swampland.
							Water pools now generate in the new Desert M biome.
							Oceans are much smaller.
			13w41a				Water's six internal faces are now visible from the outside.
							Water, ice and portals are now visible through each other. This also now allows water's inside faces to be visible from outside.
			13w42a				Water's internal faces have been removed. This visually reverts water to its pre-13w41a appearance when seen from the outside.
1.7.4			13w47a				Water's internal top face has been readded.
			13w48a				Water's internal side faces except the bottom face, have been readded.
1.9			15w43b				When viewed through glass, water now appears as a solid blue color, as opposed to a downward flowing water texture.
1.11			16w39a				Water now generates in woodland mansions.
1.12			17w06a				Water now hardens concrete powder into concrete, on contact.
1.13			18w07a				Items now float in water.
							The player's underwater visibility has been changed - the longer a player stays underwater, the better they can see.
			18w10a				Underwater visibility now depends on the biome the player is in.
			18w10c				Water can now be placed in the same block as chests, trapped chests, stairs, slabs, fences, walls, iron bars and glass panes.
			18w10d				Water can now be placed in ender chests, trapdoors, ladders, and signs.
			18w15a				#3F76E4 Added default water color. The textures of water have been changed from blue to grayscale.
							Added water colors for warm ocean, lukewarm ocean, frozen ocean and cold ocean.
							#617B64 Water color in swampland has been changed.
							#E0FFAE Water color in swampland hills is unchanged.
							Water now blocks 1 light level per block instead of 3.
							Players no longer receive the Night Vision effect while underwater.
			18w16a				When water spreads and would later turn into a source block, it now immediately places a source block.
							Water can now spreate onto waterloggable blocks creating an infinite water source.
			18w19a				Experience orbs now float in water.
			pre3				#617B64 water color in swamp hills now the same as in swamp.
			pre7				Pressing the jump button in flowing water at level=1, level=2 and level=3 now do normal jumps instead of swimming up.
1.15			19w34a				Added bees, which get damaged while in water.
			19w35a				Bees now try to avoid water.
1.17			20w45a				Flowing water no longer breaks rails.
			21w06a				Aquifers, large bodies of water in caves, have been added.
			21w07a				Aquifers generate less often.
			21w08a				Water springs are now able to generate below Y=0.
			21w10a				The FOV shrinking effect now respects the "FOV Effects" accessibility slider.
			21w15a				All changes to water generation from 21w06a to 21w08a have been reverted.
			Pre-release 2				Smooth lighting now works properly underwater.
1.18			Experimental Snapshot 1				Added water color in meadow.
							All changes to water generation in the 1.17 snapshots have been reintroduced.
			21w40a				Water lakes no longer generate.
1.19			Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1				Water can now generate as part of ancient cities.
			22w14a				Added water color in mangrove swamp.
1.19.3			22w44a				Added the game rule waterSourceConversion, which disables the formation of new water source blocks when set to false.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Added water color in cherry grove.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Water now generates in trial chambers.
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop			24w40a				Added water color in pale garden.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release							Added water.
v0.1.0							On older or much newer devices, the old Java water texture is used, whereas the newer animated texture is used on intermediately modern devices.
v0.7.0							The texture of water has been changed to the new texture for all devices.
v0.9.0			build 1				Water now uses a dark blue coloration in swamps.
							Water dripping particles have been changed.
							Water lakes have been added.
							Water can now be found in the farms and wells of villages.
							Two biomes have been added that are almost all water: oceans and rivers.
							Oasis now generate in the new desert M biome.
v0.10.0			build 1				Smooth lighting for water has been added.
							A gradient effect has been added to water that increases its opacity with distance.
							Water color in swampland has been changed.
							Flowing water can now push entities.
			build 7				Running water now has sounds.
			?				Water now destroys blocks.​
v0.14.0			build 1				Dispensers can now shoot out water from water buckets. They can also suck up fluids, including water, directly adjacent to the side they are facing.
v0.14.2							Water now uses animated texture files.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 1.0.0.0				When viewed through glass, water now appears as a solid blue color, as opposed to a downward flowing water texture.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Water now generates in woodland mansions.
							Water now hardens concrete powder into concrete, on contact.
Bedrock Edition
?							The rendering change for water in 1.0.0 has been reverted for an unknown reason.
1.2.13			beta 1.2.13.5				Water can now be placed in the same blocks as slabs and stairs.
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Water can now be placed in the same block as most transparent blocks, instead of slabs and stairs only.
			beta 1.2.20.1				Water now has a completely new look for every biome and it is now much easier to see above and underwater (see Water#Bedrock Edition for all biome colors).
							Items now float to the top of water.
							Underwater visibility now depends on the biome the player is in.
							Respiration enchantment and Water Breathing effect no longer grants enhanced underwater visibility.
			?				When viewed through glass, water now appears as its own top texture, as opposed to a downward flowing water texture.
1.14.0			beta 1.14.0.1				Added bees, which get damaged when touching water and try to avoid it.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.51				Experience orbs now float in water.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Water now generates in trial chambers.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.21				When something enters water, the splashing sound is now changed to match Java Edition.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added water.
TU9							Dispensers have been given the ability to shoot out fluids, including water, inside water buckets. They can also suck up the fluids if activated again, but a bug prevents the empty bucket from being filled.
TU12							Water now uses animated texture files.
							Added desert wells, which contain water.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Water of any depth now negates all fall damage. Players and mobs no longer die from great heights in shallow water.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			Water can be used in custom superflats. It appears as a 3D block in the block selection screen of the custom superflat interface.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Water splash sounds have been updated for players and hostile mobs. Unlike in Java Edition, other entities still make the old sound when falling into water.
							Most mobs can now swim in water.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Water now hardens concrete powder into concrete, on contact.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Water now generates in woodland mansions.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Water now has a completely new look for every biome and it is now much easier to see above and underwater (see Water#Bedrock Edition for all biome colors).
							The color of water changes depending on how close the player is.
		1.78	1.78	1.77			The animation of water is now less smooth.
							The color of water no longer changes depending on how close the player is.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added water.

Data history

Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 8 and 9. Both blocks have been merged into a single one.
			18w10c				Removed flowing_water.

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  The water and flowing water in Infdev 20100615.

Issues

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

Trivia

• 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.
  • This texture is particularly difficult to notice due to its extreme transparency, 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.

Gallery

Textures

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  This texture is subtly overlaid on the screen when underwater.

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  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.

Screenshots

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  Underwater particles, or "bubbles".

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  Water that is underground, but is still part of 2 different biomes. The color is split.

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  A glitch where water is invisible below its surface level.

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  Water flowing into a cave.

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  A view underwater.

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  Animated view of the Java edition water texture.

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  A naturally occurring waterfall.

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  An underwater ruin in Bedrock Edition that generated on land with a water block on top of it.

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  An underwater ruin in Java Edition that generated on land with a visible loot chest that is not waterlogged and doesn't have water on top of it.

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  A large lake, during a thunderstorm.

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  A coral reef at night, in a warm ocean biome.

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  Water may not always be updated at chunk borders when intersecting carvers.

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  A water flowing on lava lake, creating obsidian. The water was placed by a player.

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  Waterfalls made by a player.

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  Water flowing into the cave from nearby lake.

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  Ravine with multiple ores, water and lava falls, and stronghold bridge over it.

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  Different water colors in swamp biome.

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  A block of water, which is not flowing because of a glitch, besides a village farm.

See also

• Waterlogging

External links

• Block of the Week: Water – Minecraft.net on July 14, 2017