How Far Does Minecraft Water Flow

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

Obtaining [ ]

Water blocks do not exist as items,‌^{[ Coffee Edition just ]} only water tin exist nerveless by using a saucepan on a water source block or a total water cauldron, creating a water bucket.

In Boulder Edition, it may be obtained every bit an item via inventory editing or add together-ons.

Natural generation [ ]

Water naturally generates in the Overworld to grade oceans, rivers and springs. It also generates in villages, desert wells, strongholds, woodland mansions, aboriginal cities and sea monuments. Technically, water generates beneath layer 63 by replacing air blocks that are not part of a cave or other structure, although some caves and canyons in the sea biomes are intentionally filled with water. Water also occasionally generates as minor puddles on the flooring next to dripstone clusters.

Water never generates in the Under and instantly disappears or evaporates into steam if placed there with a water bucket. Nevertheless, water tin can exist in the Under in a cauldron. Water can also be placed in the Under using commands such as /setblock and /fill. Although it does not naturally generate there, water tin be placed and role normally in the Finish.

In Bedrock Edition, water likewise generates as part of underwater ruins with loot chests, but only 2 water blocks generate:

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

It is unknown whether this is intentional.^[1] This is not the case in Java Edition; if an underwater ruin generates on the surface, no h2o generates.^[2] This as well happens with shipwrecks.

Water spends near 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, h2o changes to 'flowing', updates its level, then changes back to stationary. Water springs are generated as flowing, and oceans, and rivers are generated equally stationary. This happens before most types of generated structure are created, and the main cause of water "glitches" is that generated structures exercise not trigger a block update to let water menstruum into them.

Usage [ ]

Appearance [ ]

H2o uses an animated texture that is tinted differently in unlike biomes. Colored water in cauldrons uses a slightly different texture, resembling its pre-Update Aquatic appearance.‌^{[ Bedrock Edition only ]} ^{[ verify ]}

Unlike other translucent blocks such every bit ice, stained glass and tinted glass, water shows the opposite sides of its external planes when viewed from within and from outside. This inconsistency is intentional.^[3] Even so, information technology applies merely to the height aeroplane and four side planes; the bottom face is ever unseen from higher up.^[4]

Swimming [ ]

The button for pond is the same as the button for jumping; non-swimming players and mobs sink slowly in water. Belongings the swim button raises the player through the water, and when the surface is reached, the thespian bobs up and down. The hunker push button can be used to sink faster. The dart button tin can be used to put the player in "swim mode" when the player is completely submerged in water. When in swim way, the player is horizontal and one block high. The player has an arm-waving animation when viewed in 3rd person or past other players.

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

Most mobs that can stand up can besides swim any time they are in water, except for atomic number 26 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 autumn into information technology, regardless of the distance fallen.

Existence inside of h2o also imparts a fog effect, tinted accordingly.

Spreading [ ]

Water spreads horizontally and down into nearby air blocks. Water can spread downward infinitely until stopped by a block, and vii blocks horizontally from a source cake on a apartment surface. H2o spreads at a charge per unit of 1 block every 5 game ticks, or iv blocks per second.

When spreading horizontally, a weight is assigned to every direction water tin catamenia. For each direction, this weight is initially ready to 999^{[ verify ]}. And so, for every adjacent cake it tin flow into information technology tries to find a way down that is reachable in iv or fewer blocks from the block it wants to flow to. When found, the flow weight for that management is gear up to the shortest path altitude to the way downwardly. Finally, water spreads in the directions with the lowest flow weight.

Spreading water extinguishes burn and washes abroad sure types of items or placed blocks, causing them to driblet every bit items so carrying them along in the menstruation until the edge of the spread. Affected items include plants (except trees), snow, torches, carpets, redstone grit and some other redstone components, cobweb, terminate rods, heads, and flower pots.

Flow arrangement tables [ ]


half-dozen	five	iv	three	2	one	0	1	ii	three	4	five	6
						7
					7	6	vii
				7	six	5	half-dozen	7
			seven	half-dozen	five	4	v	half dozen	7
		7	6	five	4	3	4	5	six	7
	vii	half-dozen	5	4	iii	two	3	four	5	6	7
vii	6	5	4	iii	2	1	2	three	iv	v	vi	7
7	6	five	iv	3	2	1	two	3	iv	v	6	7
	vii	6	five	iv	iii	2	3	four	five	6	7
		7	half-dozen	five	4	3	4	5	vi	7
			seven	6	5	iv	five	6	7
				seven	six	5	6	7
					7	half-dozen	vii
						seven

Range		Height in blocks
1	block	ane
2	blocks	0.75-1
3	blocks	0.625-0.75
4	blocks	0.five-0.625
5	blocks	0.375-0.five
6	blocks	0.25-0.375
7	blocks	0.125-0.25

Source blocks [ ]

This department is about the behavior and creation of source units of water. For the removed cake that created water sources, meet Water Spawner.

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

Water spawners can be constructed past arranging for 2 source blocks to flow into a third block. Each of the examples below require 2 source blocks, each on reverse ends of the hole, to create a renewable water source block in betwixt.

2x2 water spawner (every corner is renewable)
3x1 water spawner (middle h2o cake is renewable)
L-shaped water spawner (corner water cake is renewable)

A dispenser loaded with a filled saucepan places a h2o source block in an empty cake in forepart of it when activated. A dispenser loaded with an empty bucket and a water source right in front of information technology sucks the source into the bucket when activated.

In snowy biomes, water source blocks have a run a risk to turn into ice if direct nether the heaven. Water ice blocks under brighter low-cal levels melt back into water source blocks (except in the Under). Ice reverts to h2o when broken, simply only if there is a solid cake nether it.

Current [ ]

The electric current in a water block determines both the direction it appears to flow and the management an entity such every bit a actor or boat is pushed from that block.

Water with a electric current pushes players and mobs at a speed of most ane.39 meters per second, or 25 blocks every 18 seconds. Players that are in artistic flight mode don't get pushed.‌^{[ Java Edition simply ]} ^[5]

The horizontal electric current in a h2o block is based on a vector sum of the flows to and from that block from its four horizontal neighbors. For case, if a block receives water from the northward and sends it both southward and east, but borders a solid block on its west edge, then a south-southeast current exits from that block, because 2 due south flows (in and out) are combined with ane eastward flow (out). Thus, xvi horizontal directions are possible. If a branch in a channel is two blocks wide at its entrance, then entities float into information technology rather than continuing in a straight line.

Water blocks tin can create a downward current. A downward current in a water block is caused by the block below it. Nearly blocks that do not have a solid upper face cause downward current on to a higher place water blocks. Also, ice and falling water blocks (blocks created by spreading downwards) cause down current on the h2o block to a higher place. Falling water blocks have a downwardly current past default.

Lite [ ]

In Bedrock Edition, every block of water reduces calorie-free by 1 extra level (in addition to the normal fading-out of light). In Java Edition, water does not cause any additional decrease for cake calorie-free, but diffuses sky light, causing the lite to fade with depth. Underwater visibility changes depending on the biome the actor is in. The Dark Vision and Conduit Ability effects increase underwater visibility.

Colour [ ]

Water has several colors, depending on the biome.

Java Edition [ ]

Warm oceans take a cyan colour.
Lukewarm oceans take an azure color.
Common cold oceans have an ultramarine color.
Frozen rivers and oceans have an indigo color.
Swamps have a light-green color.
Mangrove swamps take a teal color
Meadows accept a vivid bluish colour
Regular oceans and other biomes non listed in a higher place have a bluish color.

Biome	H2o color	Water fog color
Default (biomes not listed below)	#3F76E4	#050533
Swamp	#617B64	#232317
Lukewarm Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean	#45ADF2	#041633
Warm Bounding main	#43D5EE	#041F33
Common cold Ocean Deep Cold Ocean Snowy Taiga Snowy Beach	#3D57D6	#050533
Frozen River Frozen Body of water Deep Frozen Ocean	#3938C9	#050533
Meadow	#0E4ECF	#050533
Mangrove Swamp	#3A7A6A	#4D7A60

Boulder Edition [ ]

Biome tints

Biome	Water Surface Color	Water Fog Color	H2o Fog Distance	Water Surface Transparency
Default (biomes non listed below)	#44aff5	#44aff5	fifteen	65%
Sunflower Plains Plains	#44aff5	#44aff5	sixty	-
Desert	#32a598	#32a598	lx	-
Mountains	#007BF7	#007BF7	-	-
Forest	#1e97f2	#1e97f2	60	-
Flower Forest	#20a3CC	#20a3CC	60	-
Taiga	#287082	#287082	lx	-
Taiga Mountains	#1e6B82	#1e6B82	-	-
Swamp	#4c6559	#4c6559	xxx	100%
River	#0084ff	#0084ff	60	-
Under 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 Tundra Ice Spikes	#14559b	#14559b	-	-
Mushroom Fields	#8a8997	#8a8997	-	-
Beach	#157cab	#157cab	threescore	-
Mountain Edge	#045cd5	#045cd5	-	-
Jungle Bamboo Jungle	#14a2c5	#14a2c5	lx 15	-
Jungle Border	#0D8AE3	#0D8AE3	-	-
Stone Shore	#0d67bb	#0d67bb	60	-
Snowy Embankment	#1463a5	#1463a5	60	-
Birch Forest	#0677ce	#0677ce	60	-
Dark Forest	#3B6CD1	#3B6CD1	60	-
Snowy Taiga	#205e83	#205e83	60	-
Giant Tree Taiga Giant Bandbox Taiga	#2d6d77	#2d6d77	threescore	-
Windswept Forest Windswept Gravelly Hills	#0E63AB	#0E63AB	-	-
Savanna	#2C8B9C	#2C8B9C	threescore	-
Savanna Plateau Shattered Savanna	#2590a8	#2590a8	-	-
Badlands	#4E7f81	#4E7f81	sixty	-
Eroded Badlands Wooded Badlands	#497f99	#497f99	-	-
Ocean	#1787D4	#1165b0	60	-
Deep Ocean	#1787D4	#1463a5	60	-
Warm Ocean	#02B0E5	#0289d5	sixty	55%
Lukewarm Ocean	#0D96DB	#0a74c4	60	-
Lukewarm Deep Sea	#0D96DB	#0e72b9	60	-
Common cold Sea	#2080C9	#14559b	60	-
Cold Deep Ocean	#2080C9	#185390	60	-
Frozen Sea	#2570B5	#174985	60	-
Frozen Deep Sea	#2570B5	#1a4879	sixty	-

Biome tints from unused biomes

Biome	Water Surface Color	Water Fog Color	H2o Fog Distance	Water Surface Transparency
Legacy Frozen Ocean	#44aff5	#44aff5	15	65%
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 Woods Hills	#0a74c4	#0a74c4	-	-
Snowy Taiga Mountains	#205e83	#205e83	60	-
Snowy Taiga Hills	#245b78	#245b78	-	-
Behemothic 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 h2o touches a lava source, the lava source turns to obsidian. If both touch on each other while flowing, asphalt is made and no sources are removed, and if lava flows downward onto water, the water turns to stone.

Interactions with mobs [ ]

Direct contact [ ]

H2o damages endermen, snow golems, striders and blazes, at a rate of 1 per half second. If water comes into contact with a shulker or an enderman, the mob teleports abroad.

Suffocation [ ]

Players and mobs (except aquatic mobs, undead mobs and iron golems) have a jiff meter that lasts 15 seconds. Afterwards they run out of breath, they take ii suffocation damage every 2d until they die, surface, or enter bubble columns.

Dolphins are a special case in drowning: they accept suffocation harm when underwater for nearly 4 minutes, but too take suffocation damage when in air for about 2 minutes.

Each level of the Respiration enchantment adds fifteen seconds to the breath meter and grants an ten/(x+one) take chances (where x is the Respiration level) of not taking damage after that time: 30 seconds and an average 1 /second with Respiration I, 45 seconds and an average of ²⁄₃ damage/second with Respiration Two, and 60 seconds and an boilerplate of ^ane⁄_ii harm/2nd with Respiration Iii.

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

Slower mining speed [ ]

Players with their caput underwater require 5 times the normal corporeality of time to mine blocks while standing on the ground, or 25 times while non on the ground. If a player wears a helmet with the Aqua Affinity enchantment, then underwater mining speed while continuing on the ground is the aforementioned as on land, and v times slower if not continuing on the basis.

Explosions [ ]

Water does non preclude explosions from activating. Water has a high blast resistance, causing information technology to absorb whatever normal blasts, with the exception of explosions from underwater TNT.

Hardening concrete pulverisation [ ]

When h2o comes into contact with concrete pulverisation, 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 h2o within three to five blocks in all directions. Kelp and lily pads within the absorbed h2o 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-issue.

Sponges do not absorb water from waterlogged blocks, nor water that comes into contact by flowing back in from outside the area of assimilation. For instance, placing a sponge four or more blocks from a single h2o source removes the flowing h2o in the area of effect, merely equally the flow from the source resumes it is not afflicted 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 adjacent to the sponge, or by flowing toward information technology). A sponge absorbs h2o around itself (water source blocks or flowing water) out to a taxicab distance of 7 in all directions (including up and down), simply won't absorb more than 65 blocks of water (water closest to the sponge is absorbed first). The absorption propagates but from water to water and does not "jump over" non-water blocks (including air).

Dripping [ ]

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 h2o source, the drips can slowly make full up a cauldron placed underneath. Without the dripstone, a cauldron does not fill.

Vertical transport [ ]

Chimera columns are created by placing magma blocks or soul sand nether water. These tin exist used to transport mobs or items quickly vertically.

Sounds [ ]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Clarification	Resource location	Translation fundamental	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation altitude
None ^{[audio i]}	Ambient/Environment	Player eye level goes underwater	`ambient.underwater.enter`	None ^{[sound 1]}	?	0.8	16
None ^{[sound 1]}	Ambient/Environment	Player centre level goes in a higher place water	`ambient.underwater.exit`	None ^{[sound 1]}	?	0.five	16
None ^{[audio 2]}	Ambient/Environment	Random underwater	`ambient.underwater.loop`	None ^{[sound 2]}	?	?	?
None ^{[audio two]}	Ambient/Environment	Random underwater	`ambient.underwater.loop.additions`	None ^{[audio 2]}	?	?	?
None ^{[sound 2]}	Ambience/Environment	Random underwater	`ambient.underwater.loop.additions.rare`	None ^{[sound two]}	?	?	?
None ^{[sound 2]}	Ambience/Environment	Random underwater	`ambient.underwater.loop.additions.ultra_rare`	None ^{[sound 2]}	?	?	?
H2o flows	Blocks	Random when flowing	`block.water.ambient`	`subtitles.block.h2o.ambient`	?	?	sixteen
Splashing	Players	Entity enters water	`entity.generic.splash`	`subtitles.entity.generic.splash`	?	?	xvi
Pond	Players	Entity moves through water	`entity.generic.swim`	`subtitles.entity.generic.swim`	?	?	xvi
Bucket empties	Blocks	Placing water with a bucket	`item.saucepan.empty`	`subtitles.item.bucket.empty`	?	?	16
Bucket empties	?	Placing water with a saucepan of fish	`item.bucket.empty_fish`	?	?	?	16
Bucket fills	Players	Grabbing water with a saucepan	`item.bucket.fill`	`subtitles.particular.bucket.fill`	?	?	16
Fish captured	?	Grabbing water with a saucepan of fish	`item.bucket.fill_fish`	?	?	?	sixteen
None	Music	Random underwater	`music.under_water`	`None`	?	?	?

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d MC-177092
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^{one thousand} ^h MC-196825

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

H2o	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Block	`water`	Block	`block.minecraft.water`

H2o	Identifier	Fluid tags
Fluid	`water`	`water`
Flowing Fluid	`flowing_water`	`water`

Bedrock Edition:

Water	Identifier	Numeric ID	Class	Item ID^{[i i]}	Translation key
Flowing	`flowing_water`	`eight`	Cake & Ungiveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.flowing_water.proper name`
Stationary	`water`	`ix`	Block & Ungiveable Item^{[i ii]}	Identical^{[i iii]}	`tile.water.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ ^a ^b Unavailable with /give command
↑ ^a ^b The block's direct particular form has the same id with the block.

Block states [ ]

Java Edition:

Proper name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
level	`0`	`0` `1` `two` `3` `four` `5` `6` `7` `viii` `9` `10` `11` `12` `13` `14` `xv`	If bit 0x8 is set, this fluid is "falling" and spreads only downward. At this level, the lower $.25 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 lava in a higher place it. The lower iii bits are the fluid cake'southward level. 0 is the highest fluid level (non necessarily filling the block - this depends on the neighboring fluid blocks above each upper corner of the cake). Information values increment every bit the fluid level of the cake drops: ane is the next highest, two lower, on through 7, the lowest fluid level. Along a line on a flat aeroplane, h2o drops one level per meter.

Bedrock Edition:
Water and flowing h2o

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Clarification
liquid_depth	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4` `0x8`	`0`	`0` `i` `2` `3` `iv` `5` `half-dozen` `7` `8` `9` `10` `11` `12` `xiii` `14` `15`	`0` `1` `ii` `3` `4` `v` `6` `vii` `viii` `9` `10` `xi` `12` `thirteen` `14` `xv`	If bit 0x8 is set, this fluid is "falling" and spreads just downward. At this level, the lower bits are essentially ignored, since this cake is and so at its highest fluid level. This level is equal to the falling water higher up, equal to 8 plus the level of the non-falling lava above it. The lower three bits are the fluid cake'southward level. 0 is the highest fluid level (not necessarily filling the cake - this depends on the neighboring fluid blocks in a higher place each upper corner of the cake). Information values increase every bit the fluid level of the cake drops: 1 is the side by side highest, 2 lower, on through vii, the everyman fluid level. Along a line on a apartment plane, h2o drops i level per meter.

Fluid states [ ]

Coffee Edition:
H2o

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
falling	`imitation`	`true` `fake`	Always false.

Flowing water

Proper name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
falling	`false`	`truthful` `false`	Truthful for falling h2o, false for water with a block beneath.
level	`1`	`1` `two` `3` `4` `v` `6` `vii` `8`	Acme of the water, eight when the water is falling.

Achievements [ ]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Bodily requirements (if unlike)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other platforms	Achievement	In-game description	Bodily requirements (if unlike)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		Free Diver	Stay underwater for 2 minutes	Drink a potion of water breathing that tin last for 2 minutes or more, and so jump into the water or actuate a conduit or sneak on a magma block underwater for 2 minutes.	20G	Silver
		Slumber with the Fishes	Spend a day underwater.	Spend xx minutes underwater without any air.	30G	Argent

Advancements [ ]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if dissimilar)	Resources location
	Tactical Angling	Grab a fish... without a fishing rod!	Fishy Business concern	Utilize a water saucepan on any fish mob.	`husbandry/tactical_fishing`
	The Cutest Predator	Catch an axolotl in a saucepan	Tactical Fishing	Utilise a water bucket on an axolotl.	`husbandry/axolotl_in_a_bucket`

History [ ]

Coffee Edition Classic

May 17, 2009

Notch mentions developing water.

a very very first version of the water is somewhat working at present, heh [/] the level starts out without any water and is surrounded a past a huge body of water [/] it quickly fills, leaving islands

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0.0.12a May xviii, 2009 Showed water.

release Added water.

Water flows to any bachelor space beneath or abreast information technology and creates a new source block, making it piece of cake to flood a whole earth merely with i source.

May 22, 2009 Notch pointed out that when a establish 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 Changed model of water.

May 24, 2009 A new h2o system is mentioned.

May 24, 2009 A new water system is shown.

May 24, 2009 Another test of h2o is shown.

May 26, 2009 While sharing feedback on experiments with random vertex and color offsets, and deciding to bit it, Notch said he would investigate salvaging the technique to add blitheness to water tiles.

0.0.19a Added procedural animated texture to water. Old texture is still retained for utilize equally an placeholder.

Upscaled model 2% to ready z-fighting with blocks below water. Information technology's created water or lava models overlaping and z-fighting with each other.

Added sponges, which remove water.

Water role of earth purlieus still uses the quondam water texture.

0.0.20a_02 Inverse model calibration back to normal with 1% offset on all coordinates.

0.26 SURVIVAL Test UV mapping on side faces now has 11% v get-go upwards.

0.28 Fixed UV mapping.

Java Edition Indev

0.31 20091223-i Added the flowing water texture, which is now used on the sides of water.

20100106 Water role of the globe purlieus now uses the animated water texture.

20100113 H2o now finite.

Oceans now take infinite water.

H2o now always drains from its highest remove location.

Water no longer moves on the surface on its own.

Water now has a ²⁄_iii probability to evaporate and a ¹⁄_iii probability to copy.

20100122 Water now spawns in level generation every bit springs and lakes.

20100131 The texture of water is now seen when underwater.

Java Edition Infdev

20100227-1 Water no longer flows due to changes in chunk handling for infinite worlds.^{[ verify ]}

20100607 UV mapping now has 1% uv beginning on top and bottom faces and i% u, xi% v offset on side faces.

20100608 Fixed UV mapping, once again.

20100615 The model has been inverse.

Added flowing h2o.

Sources placed in isolation menstruation exclusively downward, rather than spreading out i block in each direction as well.

Water and lava do not produce any solid blocks when combined.

H2o does not replace plants.

Water is now infinite once again.

Added water buckets, which can be filled with water.

20100616-ane Added vertex start.

Water and flowing water now has visual connection to blocks.

Downward flowing water at present pushes the player out.^{[ more information needed ]}

20100617-2 Removed vertex offset.

H2o sources placed in the air now flow outward.

Lava and flowing lava touching water, flowing h2o now replaces with obsidian.

Downward flowing water no longer pushes the player out.

Water at present tin replace plants. Yet no items are dropped.

20100618 Water can now replace rails.

20100624 Water at present destroys plants, dropping as items.

Java Edition Alpha

v1.0.2_02 Fluids, including water, accept been slightly tweaked.

v1.0.5_01 Water can now freeze into ice.

v1.2.half-dozen Lakes, which contain water, have been added.

Java Edition Beta

1.6 Examination Build 3 Rain and snow no longer autumn through water.

Water sources now grade over glass.

i.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 globe that was made pre-1.8 and travels into new chunks, there'south a chance that a large ocean may be formed every bit the ocean biome. There is likewise a one-cake-high drop in sea level along the discontinuity betwixt the old and new chunks with the sometime chunks being college.

Water can now be establish in the farms and wells of villages, and the fountain rooms of strongholds.

Two biomes have been added that are almost all h2o: oceans and rivers.

Coffee Edition

1.0.0 Beta 1.nine Prerelease #E0FF70 Added water colour in swampland.

Added dripping water.

Beta 1.ix Prerelease 4 Added Respiration and Aqua Affinity enchantments, which allow more than breathing fourth dimension in water and normal digging speed in water.

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 Now flowing downwards creates source blocks

RC1 File:Swamp Water JE2.png Faces on model at present 0.i% moved to center to set z-fighting on inner faces.

1.i 12w01a File:Swamp Water JE3.png
#E0FFAE The h2o colour in swampland is now less intense.

ane.2.1 12w04a Added desert wells, which incorporate water.

one.iii.one 12w15a Dispensers have been given the ability to shoot out fluids, including water, within water buckets. They can also collect the fluids if activated again.

12w17a The power to bring water using water ice into the Under has been removed.

1.4.2 12w38a The sound when jumping and swimming in water has been changed.

The sound of flowing h2o is now continuous.

The h2o overlay is a more saturated blueish.

one.4.4 one.4.three H2o of whatsoever depth now negates all fall damage. Players and mobs no longer dice from peachy heights in shallow h2o.^{[half dozen]}

1.5 13w02a File:Swamp Water JE4.png The texture of water has been inverse 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 h2o source block below information technology.

13w04a Flowing water in creative manner no longer slows the thespian downward when flight.

1.vi.one 13w17a Water lakes no longer generate in deserts.

1.7.2 13w36a File:Swamp Water JE4.png
#E0FFAE Added water color in swampland Thousand, which is the aforementioned as in swampland.

13w36a H2o pools at present generate in the new desert M biome.

Oceans are much smaller.

13w41a File:Swamp H2o JE5.png Water's six internal faces are at present visible from the exterior.

Water, ice and portals are now visible through each other. This as well now allows h2o'south inside faces to exist visible from outside.

13w42a File:Swamp H2o JE6.png Water's internal faces take been removed. This visually reverts water to its pre-13w41a appearance when seen from the exterior.

1.7.4 13w47a Water'south internal acme face has been readded.^[vii]

13w48a H2o's internal side faces look the bottom face, have been readded.^[viii] ^[9]

ane.9 15w43b When viewed through glass, h2o at present appears equally a solid blue color, as opposed to a downwardly flowing water texture.^[10]

i.11 16w39a Water now generates in woodland mansions.

ane.12 17w06a H2o now hardens concrete powder into concrete, on contact.

1.13 18w07a Items now float in water.

The role player's underwater visibility has been inverse - the longer a player stays underwater, the better they can come across.

18w10a Underwater visibility now depends on the biome the role player is in.

18w10c H2o tin can now exist placed in the same block as chests, trapped chests, stairs, slabs, fences, walls, atomic number 26 bars and glass panes.

18w10d H2o tin now be placed in ender chests, trapdoors, ladders, and signs.

18w15a #3F76E4 Added default water colour. The textures of water have been changed from blue to grayscale.^[eleven]

Added water colors for warm bounding main, lukewarm sea, frozen ocean and cold ocean.

#617B64 H2o colour in swampland has been changed.

#E0FFAE Water color in swampland Thousand is unchanged.^[12]

Water now blocks ane light level per cake instead of 3.

Players no longer receive the Dark Vision consequence while underwater.^{[ verify ]}

18w16a When water spreads and would later turn into a source block, it now immediately places a source block.

18w19a Experience orbs now bladder in water.

pre3 #617B64 water colour in swamp hills now the same as in swamp.

pre7 Pressing the jump push button in flowing h2o at level=1, level=two and level=three at present do normal jumps instead of swimming up.

1.15 19w34a Added bees, which get damaged while in water.

19w35a Bees now effort to avoid h2o.

1.17 20w45a Flowing water no longer breaks rails.

21w06a Aquifers, large bodies of water in caves, take 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.^[13]

21w15a All changes to water generation from 21w06a to 21w08a have been reverted.

Pre-release 2 Smooth lighting now works properly underwater.^[14]

one.18 Experimental Snapshot 1 Added water color in meadow.

All changes to water generation in the 1.17 snapshots take been reintroduced.

1.19 Deep Night Experimental Snapshot 1 Water can now generate as role of ancient cities.

22w14a Added water colour in mangrove swamp.

Pocket Edition Alpha

v0.1.0 ^{[ verify ]} Added water.

On older or much newer devices, the quondam Coffee h2o texture is used, whereas the newer animated texture is used on intermediately mod devices.

v0.7.0 ^{[ verify ]} The texture of water has been changed to the new texture for all devices.

v0.9.0 build 1 Water dripping particles have been changed.

Lakes, which incorporate h2o, take been added.

Water can now exist institute in the farms and wells of villages.

Ii biomes take been added that are almost all water: oceans and rivers.

Oasis now generate in the new desert M biome.

v0.10.0 build one Smooth lighting for h2o has been added.

Water now uses a dark gray coloration in swamps.

Flowing h2o can now push entities.

build seven Running water now has sounds.

? Water at present destroys blocks.

? A gradient event has been added to h2o that increases its opacity with altitude.

v0.14.0 build ane Dispensers can now shoot out water from water buckets. They can as well suck upwards 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 at present appears as a solid blue color, as opposed to a downward flowing water texture.^[xv]

ane.1.0 alpha i.one.0.0 Water at present generates in woodland mansions.

Water now hardens physical pulverization into concrete, on contact.

Bedrock Edition

? The rendering change for h2o in 1.0.0 has been reverted for an unknown reason.

1.2.xiii beta 1.2.13.v Water can now be placed in the same blocks every bit slabs and stairs.

1.4.0 beta 1.two.14.ii H2o can now exist placed in the same block every bit most transparent blocks, instead of slabs and stairs only.

beta 1.two.20.1 Water at present has a completely new look for every biome and it is at present much easier to see in a higher place and underwater (see Water#Boulder Edition for all biome colors).

Items now bladder to the elevation of water.

Underwater visibility now depends on the biome the player is in.

Respiration enchantment and Water Breathing consequence no longer grants enhanced underwater visibility.

? When viewed through drinking glass, water now appears every bit its own top texture, as opposed to a downward flowing water texture.^[fifteen]

one.14.0 beta 1.14.0.1 Added bees, which get damaged when touching water and try to avoid it.

Legacy Console Edition

TU1 CU1 1.0 Patch 1 1.0.i ^{[ verify ]} File:Swamp Water JE2.png Added water.

TU9 Dispensers have been given the power to shoot out fluids, including h2o, inside water buckets. They can also suck up the fluids if activated again, but a problems prevents the empty saucepan from existence filled.

TU12 Water now uses blithe texture files.

TU31 CU19 one.22 Patch three Water splash sounds have been updated.

Most mobs tin now swim in water.

TU69 1.76 Patch 38 Added warm bounding main, lukewarm ocean, frozen sea and cold ocean texture colors for h2o in those biomes.

ane.78 The animation of water is now less smooth.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

0.1.0 ^{[ verify ]} Added h2o.

This page would benefit from the improver of more sounds.

Please remove this observe once you lot've added suitable sounds to the commodity.
The specific instructions are: Old and older water splash sounds.

Data history [ ]

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

Problems [ ]

Bug relating to "H2o" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report problems 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 issues or oversight, unlike many other outdated textures.^[xvi]
- This texture is specially difficult to notice due to its extreme transparency,^[17] too as the fact that other blocks likely make the scene visually noisy enough to further obscure it nether most conditions.
While underwater, the actor's FOV (field of vision) is lowered past 10 to simulate low-cal refraction. This can be disabled via FOV Effects.
If a player with the levitation issue touches water, the levitation effect is completely negated.

Gallery [ ]

Underwater particles, or "bubbles".
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.
Water flowing into a cave.
A view underwater.
Animated view of the Coffee edition water texture.
These bubbling announced above the hunger bar when the player's head is in h2o, and when all the bubbles popular, a heart of damage is dealt every second until the player is no longer entirely under water.
A naturally occurring waterfall.
This texture is subtly overlaid on the screen when underwater.
An underwater ruin in Bedrock Edition that generated on land with a water block on top of it.
An underwater ruin in Java Edition that generated on state with a visible loot chest that is non waterlogged and doesn't have water on pinnacle of it.
A problems that causes the h2o to not flow into the pit.
A h2o flowing on lava lake, creating obsidian. The water was placed by a player.
Waterfalls mady by a player.
Water flowing into the cave from nearby lake.
Ravine with multiple ores, water and lava falls, and stronghold bridge over it.
Dissimilar water colors in swamp biome.