Minecraft:Damage

File:Hurt.png

An example of a player taking fall damage.

Damage is the reduction of an entity's Minecraft:health.

Health

Template:Main Minecraft:Players and Minecraft:mobs have a number of Minecraft:health points that are reduced when they receive damage. When health reaches zero, the player or mob Minecraft:dies. Health is stored internally as a floating-point number.

Players

Players have Template:Hp health points by default. The amount of health is shown in the HUD, where each half of a heart is Template:Hp point. Fractional values are rounded up to the next integer; for example, Template:Hp is shown as Template:Hp.

Mobs

Each type of mob has its own default number of health points, which are not usually visible to the player with certain exceptions:

• While the player is riding a Minecraft:mount, the mount's health is displayed in the HUD, where each point is represented by Template:Healthbar.
• The angle of a tamed Minecraft:wolf's tail indicates how much health it has.
• Minecraft:Axolotls play dead when they have low health.
• The texture of an Minecraft:iron golem changes with its health, where the amount of cracking indicates how damaged it is.
• Boss mobs display a health bar at the top of the screen to show how much health they have remaining.

Effects

When a player takes damage, a hurt sound is played, a white outline flashes around the health bar on their Minecraft:HUD, and their screen tilts to signify that damage was taken. Many sources of damage also cause Minecraft:knockback, and some confer Minecraft:status effects.

Java Edition

The health bar flashes repeatedly for 1 second after taking damage, and unless the health bar is using the freeze damage graphics,<ref>Template:Bug</ref> it additionally shows pale-colored hearts equal to the amount of health that was just lost. If the player took damage from an entity, the screen tilt will be angled towards the entity that dealt the damage, creating an effect as if the player's head were being whipped to the side by inertia from the knockback (although the effect still occurs even if no knockback was caused). If no entity was involved or the damage was dealt through an explosion,<ref>Template:Bug</ref> then it will "remember" the last direction that the screen tilted and reuse that, defaulting to the player's left if no damage has been taken from entities since loading the world.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

The damage tilt can be adjusted and disabled in Template:UI

Bedrock Edition

The health bar only flashes once, shows no pale hearts indicating the damage taken,<ref>Template:Bug</ref> and the screen always tilts to the left regardless of if the player was damaged by an entity or not.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

The damage tilt can be adjusted and disabled in Template:UI.

Adjustments

Different game mechanics can increase or decrease the amount of damage mobs take from various sources. If damage is reduced to Template:Hp, the other effects of the damage, such as knockback and screen tilt, are not cancelled.

Reductions

Invulnerability

• Minecraft:Creative and Minecraft:Spectator games modes make the player invunlerable to most damage
• Invulnerability immediately after being attacked

Armor and shields

• Minecraft:Armor reduces a percentage of incoming damage and has its durability reduced in the process.
• Minecraft:Horse armor and Minecraft:nautilus armor reduce a percentage of damage, but do not have a durability to reduce.
• Minecraft:Wolf armor completely blocks incoming damage, but suffers a greater durability loss than regular armor.
• Minecraft:Shields block most types of damage at the expense of durability

Armor enchantments

• Minecraft:Protection reduces most kinds of damage.
• Minecraft:Blast Protection, Minecraft:Fire Protection, Minecraft:Projectile Protection, and Minecraft:Feather Falling reduce damage from specific sources and are more effective than Protection for that type of damage.

Effects

• Minecraft:Resistance reduces damage from all sources.
• Minecraft:Fire Resistance negates all damage from fire-related sources.

Mob-specific

• Magic damage dealt to Minecraft:witches is reduced to 15% of the original damage.
• Damage dealt to all parts of the Minecraft:ender dragon except the head is modified to Template:Frac × original damage + min(1, original damage).
• Damage dealt to Minecraft:armadillo when it rolls up is (original damage - 1) / 2. Template:IN, damage with type self_destruct is not affected by this.

The following table shows the conditions under when damage adjustments can adjust the damage that the mobs take.

Damage type	Minecraft:Armor, Minecraft:armor toughness	Minecraft:Protection	Minecraft:Fire Protection	Minecraft:Blast Protection	Minecraft:Projectile Protection	Minecraft:Feather Falling	Minecraft:Resistance	Minecraft:Armadillo reduction	Minecraft:Ender dragon adjustment
Template:Cmd	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Minecraft:Starvation, Minecraft:Void	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Minecraft:Warden's ranged attack	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Minecraft:Drowning, Magic, Minecraft:Kinetic energy, Minecraft:Freezing	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Minecraft:Suffocation	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Minecraft:Burning	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Minecraft:Lava, Minecraft:Magma block, Minecraft:Fireball	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Minecraft:Explosion	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Minecraft:Projectile	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Minecraft:Falling	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc
Other	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc	Template:Tc

Increases

• Weapon enchantments
  • Minecraft:Sharpness, Minecraft:Smite, Minecraft:Bane of Arthropods, Minecraft:Impaling, Minecraft:Power, Minecraft:Density

• Template:IN, the damage from Minecraft:lightning that the Minecraft:turtle and Minecraft:axolotl take is 2000 × original damage, or Template:Hp.

• Template:IN, if the damage taken by Minecraft:iron golem, Minecraft:snow golem, Minecraft:wither, Minecraft:ender dragon, Minecraft:frog, Minecraft:allay, Minecraft:mooshroom, Minecraft:bat, Minecraft:chicken, Minecraft:parrot, Minecraft:pig, Minecraft:turtle, Minecraft:villager, Minecraft:wandering trader, Minecraft:goat, Minecraft:axolotl, Minecraft:cat, Minecraft:ocelot, Minecraft:bee, Minecraft:fox, Minecraft:llama, Minecraft:ghast, Minecraft:blaze, Minecraft:creeper, Minecraft:magma cube, Minecraft:breeze and Minecraft:armadillo is less than Template:Health and greater than Template:Health, the damage taken is rounded up to Template:Health.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Dealing damage

Players can deal damage and knockback by attacking most Minecraft:entities with targets at close (melee) range. Attacking without a weapon (or with items not intended for attacking) does Template:Hp damage. While falling, melee attacks deal a critical hit (150% of the weapon's damage, including potion effects, but before Minecraft:enchantments are applied, rounded down to the nearest hit point).

There are several melee weapons in the game:

• Minecraft:Swords are a melee weapon that have exclusive access to Minecraft:Looting and Minecraft:Knockback. Template:IN, they have high attack speed and the highest DPS, and can do Minecraft:sweep attacks that hit multiple entities at once.
• Minecraft:Axes are a melee weapon that can disable Minecraft:shields. Template:IN, they have low attack speeds and higher damage than their sword counterparts.
• Minecraft:Maces are a melee weapon that can do smash attacks, dealing more damage the farther a player falls before attacking and nullifying fall damage. Template:IN, they have the lowest attack speed of any melee weapon. Template:IN, they have the highest DPS versus entities wearing Minecraft:diamond armor or better when enchanted with Minecraft:Breach IV, greater than that of even Minecraft:Sharpness V Minecraft:netherite swords.
• Minecraft:Spears are a melee weapon with longer reach that can do charge attacks. The damage of the charge attack scales with speed. However, they cannot hit if the target is within a 2-block radius of attacker.
• Minecraft:Pickaxes and Minecraft:shovels can be used as melee weapons to deal more damage than bare fists. Template:IN, pickaxes have middling attack speed greater than that of axes but slower than that of swords. Shovels are strictly inferior to axes, having the same attack speed as most axes but with lower damage.
• Minecraft:Hoes can also be used as a melee weapon. Template:IN, they deal identical damage to pickaxes of the same tier, while Template:In they are strictly inferior to bare fists.
• Any other item (excluding Minecraft:tridents) is equivalent to bare fists.

There is one weapon in the game that functions as both a melee weapon and a throwable projectile:

• Minecraft:Tridents are a melee weapon that can be thrown as a projectile. They have higher damage than any sword type, aside from Template:In where their damage is identical to that of a Minecraft:netherite sword. Template:IN, they have a low attack speed that is slightly lower than that of Minecraft:pickaxes.

There are several ranged weapons, throwable projectiles, and ammunition types in the game:

• Minecraft:Bows are a ranged weapon that can shoot arrows at varying strength and speed. They have slightly lower damage than crossbows, but can exceed crossbows in damage with the Minecraft:Power enchantment.
• Minecraft:Crossbows are a ranged weapon that can shoot arrows at any time after being charged in advance. They have slightly longer charging time than bows, but can exceed bows in charging speed with the Minecraft:Quick Charge enchantment. They can also use firework rockets as ammunition.
• Minecraft:Arrows are ammunition used by bows and crossbows. When shot by a bow, their damage depends on the charging state of the bow prior to firing. The damage of a arrow fired at maximum charge, called critical charge for bows, is 6-11 randomly for bows and 7-11 randomly for crossbows.
• Minecraft:Firework rockets are ammunition used by crossbows that explode on impact with blocks and entities. They deal damage only when crafted with Minecraft:firework stars, with their damage depending on the amount of firework stars used to craft them. The damage of a maxed firework shot by a crossbow is 11-18 randomly.
• Minecraft:Snowballs and Minecraft:eggs are projectiles that can be used to knock back mobs, but not players. Snowballs deal damage in addition to their knockback when used against Minecraft:blazes.
• Minecraft:Splash potions and Minecraft:lingering potions are projectiles that inflict various effects depending on their type. Splash potions deal their effects on impact, while lingering potions do not, instead leaving a lingering cloud of their effect on the ground.
• Minecraft:Fishing rods Template:In can be used to knock back entities when attaching.

The values below on the table show the base damage dealt per hit using various weapons. Critical hits do 50% extra damage.

Damage by weapon

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Damage calculation starts with the weapon's base damage, then adds damage from effects, then multiplies by 1.5 if it's a critical hit, and then adds damage from enchantments.

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Tool	Attack damage
	Wood	Stone	Copper	Iron	Gold	Diamond	Netherite
Minecraft:Sword	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp
Minecraft:Trident	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp
Minecraft:Spear	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp
Minecraft:Mace	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp
Minecraft:Shovel	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp
Minecraft:Pickaxe	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp
Minecraft:Axe	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp
Minecraft:Hoe	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp	Template:ItemSprite Template:Hp
Other	Template:Hp

Attack cooldown

File:AttackIndicatorCrosshair.png

Attack indicator (crosshair), empty and charged

File:AttackIndicatorHotbar.png

Attack indicator (hotbar), empty and charged

When a player swings a weapon or switches to a weapon, they are locked into a cooldown meter that limits how much damage they can deal and requires them to wait before being able to deal maximum damage again. The base damage done depends on the time between attacks, and is also reflected in the height of the held weapon on screen and the attack indicator bar. The fill-level of the attack indicator bar (as a proportion of its total width) is exactly equal to the damage the held weapon would deal if it were used now, in proportion to its maximum damage. Therefore, the attack indicator appears fully charged when the damage dealt after cooldown reaches 100% of the maximum. There are settings for the attack indicators in the Minecraft:options menu. At 84.8% attack cooldown charge, critical hits, Minecraft:sweep attacks, and Minecraft:sprint-knockback attacks become possible.

The % of a weapon's maximum damage that is dealt after a certain amount of cooldown time is described in the table below.

The Template:Cd attribute controls the length of the cooldown time, with the time taken being T = 20 / attack_speed ticks. The damage multiplier is then 0.2 + ((t + 0.5) / T) ^ 2 * 0.8, restricted to the range 0.2 – 1, where t is the number of ticks since the last attack or item switch.

Damage done by enchantments (Minecraft:Sharpness, Minecraft:Smite, and Minecraft:Bane of Arthropods) is also reduced, but not as severely (the multiplier is not squared):

Critical hit

File:Crits.png

A critical hit performed on a sheep.

A critical hit is a type of attack that deals extra damage compared to a regular attack. Critical hits cause small cross-shaped particles to fly out of the target. A critical hit is performed when a player attacks an entity while falling, and increases the damage of the attack by 50% (after strength is applied and beforeTemplate:Only / afterTemplate:Only enchantments or armor are applied).

Template:IN, critical hits can be performed only if the attack cooldown of the weapon is at 84.8% or higher. Critical hits cannot be performed at the same time as Minecraft:sprint-knockback attacks. They also cannot be performed while in Minecraft:water, while climbing a Minecraft:ladder or Minecraft:vines (including its variants), while under the effect of Minecraft:Slow Falling or Minecraft:Blindness, while riding a mount, or while Minecraft:flying.

Maximum damage values

In Survival mode, the maximum damage that can be dealt by a player depends on various factors.

Melee attack

Item	Mob type	Damage	Notes
Sword	Undead or Arthropod	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a Minecraft:netherite sword, + Template:Hp from Minecraft:Strength II, + 50% from a Minecraft:critical hit, + Template:Hp from Minecraft:Smite V or Minecraft:Bane of Arthropods V
	All others	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a netherite sword, + Template:Hp from Strength II, + 50% from a critical hit, + Template:Hp from Sharpness V
	Players wearing full Protection IV and netherite armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a netherite sword, + Template:Hp from Strength II, + 50% from a critical hit, + Template:Hp from Sharpness V
Axe	Undead or Arthropods	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a Minecraft:netherite axe, + Template:Hp from Strength II, + 50% from a critical hit, + Template:Hp from Smite V or Bane of Arthropods V
	All others	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a netherite axe, + Template:Hp from Strength II, + 50% from a critical hit, + Template:Hp from Sharpness V
	Players wearing full Protection IV and netherite armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a netherite axe, + Template:Hp from Strength II, + 50% from a critical hit, + Template:Hp from Sharpness V
Trident	Aquatic	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a trident, + Template:Hp from Strength II, + 50% from a critical hit, + Template:Hp damage from Minecraft:Impaling V
	All others	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a trident, + Template:Hp from Strength II, + 50% from a critical hit
	Players wearing full Protection IV and netherite armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a trident, + Template:Hp from Strength II, + 50% from a critical hit
Mace (no smash attack)	Undead or Arthropod	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a mace, + Template:Hp from Strength II, + 50% from a critical hit, + Template:Hp from Smite V or Bane of Arthropods V respectively
	All others	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a mace, +Template:Hp from Strength II, +50% from a critical hit
	Players wearing full Protection IV and netherite armor	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from a mace, + Template:Hp from Strength II, + 50% from a critical hit, - 60% armor effectiveness from Minecraft:Breach IV
Mace (smash attack)	All	∞ (File:Heart (icon).png × ∞)

Item	Mob type	Damage	Notes
Sword	Undead or Arthropod	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from netherite sword + Template:Hp from Smite V for undead mobs or Bane of Arthropods V for arthropod mobs + Template:Hp from strength II, all × 1.5 from a critical hit
	All others	Template:Hp	Template:Hp from netherite sword + Template:Hp from Sharpness V + Template:Hp from Strength II, all × 1.5 from a critical hit
Trident	Players or mobs in water or rain	Template:Hp	Template:Hp of melee trident + Template:Hp from Impaling V + Template:Hp from strength II, all × 1.5 from a critical hit

Ranged attack

Item	Damage	Notes
Bow	Template:HpTemplate:Fn	Maximum damage-roll shot at critical charge with Minecraft:Power V
Crossbow	Template:HpTemplate:Fn	Maximum damage-roll shot using a Minecraft:firework rocket crafted with 7 Minecraft:firework stars

Invulnerability timer

Template:See also Template:AnchorAfter sustaining damage from any source, a Minecraft:mob or Minecraft:player turns red for Template:Convert. During this period, the target is invulnerable to most kinds of further damage. For instance, if the player attacks a mob by repeatedly hitting the Template:Control button, attacks that land while the mob is invulnerable deal no damage, and do not reduce the Minecraft:durability of a melee weapon. Unsuccessful attacks also do not anger neutral mobs. This mechanic is called the invulnerability timer.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>

While invulnerable, any damage less than or equal to the original damage that caused the invulnerability is ignored. However, any higher damage (before accounting for armor, enchantments, or status effects, but after accounting for Minecraft:macesTemplate:Verify) causes only the difference between the original and new damage amounts to be dealt. For example, if a mob is attacked with a weapon dealing Template:Hp damage and then attacked with another weapon dealing Template:Hp damage while invulnerable, the second hit deals Template:Hp damage (resulting in Template:Hp total). This does not reset invulnerability.

Template:IN, when an attack deals a fatal amount of damage to a mob so that it dies while invulnerable, its death sound is not triggered. This has never been fixed.

Inflicted by mobs

Damage/Mobs

Natural damage

Besides mob attacks, players can take damage from several other sources.

Drowning

Template:Redirect Template:Redirect A player who runs out of air underwater begins drowning, taking Template:Hp damage per second. Damage is taken when the air supply value reaches -20. Usually, the air supply value decreases each game tick. It resets to 0 after being damaged. Minecraft:Respiration gives a chance for the air supply not to decrease per game tick. Chance is x/(x + 1), where x is the level of enchantment.

Monsters that are immune to drowning

• Template:EntityLink mobs
• Template:EntityLink summoned by Minecraft:creaking heart.
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Minecraft:Witches are not immune to drowning, but can drink a potion of Minecraft:Water Breathing when submerged in water.

Friendly mobs that are immune to drowning Template:Columns-list A popping sound is heard every time the air supply value reaches a number that is two more than a multiple of 30, or in other words, every time a bubble pops on the oxygen bar, with the popping sound becoming increasingly higher-pitched as the air supply value decreases, alerting the player that they're about to drown.

When the Minecraft:game rule Template:Cd is set to Template:Cd, the air supply of players depletes normally, but no drowning damage is inflicted when players run out of air.

Mobs can also drown, although most mobs that can drown attempt to swim upward. Normally, mobs can remain underwater for 15 seconds before their air supply fully depletes. They can remain underwater for 16 seconds before actually beginning to take damage.

• Template:AnchorA Minecraft:squid, Minecraft:glow squid, Minecraft:tadpole, Minecraft:nautilus or any kind of Minecraft:fish suffocates in air instead of drowning in water.
• Minecraft:Dolphins can suffocate in air or drown in water and must be given access to both to survive.
• Minecraft:Aquatic mobs, Minecraft:undead mobs, Minecraft:iron golems and Minecraft:frogs are immune to drowning.
• A Minecraft:zombie does not take drowning damage; instead, it begins the process of converting to a Minecraft:drowned mob when continuously in water for 30 seconds.
• Similar to a zombie, a Minecraft:husk does not take damage from drowning, but first converts into a zombie, which then converts to a drowned if it remains underwater.
• Minecraft:Piglins, Minecraft:piglin brutes and Minecraft:hoglins do not attempt to swim upward in water and drown as a result.
  • Because these mobs normally zombify outside the Nether before they can start drowning, this can happen only if their Template:Cd tag set to Template:Cd, or that water is created in the Nether using commands.

When the player is no longer submerged in water or is in a Minecraft:bubble column, the air supply regenerates at a rate of 1 bubble every 0.2 seconds (4 game ticks). A Minecraft:Respiration helmet adds an additional on average 15 seconds duration underwater per enchantment level, and a Minecraft:turtle shell adds an additional 10 seconds. Minecraft:Water Breathing and Minecraft:Conduit Power regenerate the air supply. Template:IN, both effects affect squid and fish.

Entity cramming

Template:IN, players and mobs take damage if too many entities are packed into the same block space. Specifically, the Template:Cd Minecraft:game rule defines the maximum number of entities that can be in a block without becoming crammed. Once the number of entities in the space of a single block exceeds this value, entity cramming occurs. Entities with the Invulnerable:1b NBT tag are not affected by entity cramming but do count toward the maxEntityCramming game rule limit. When entity cramming occurs, a random selection of Template:Cd living entities (players and mobs) become crammed. A living entity can be crammed by non-living entities, such as Minecraft:minecarts or Minecraft:armor stands, but not by block-like entities, such as Minecraft:item frames. The block space used for counting the number of entities is the axis and grid-aligned 1-meter cubic space containing the centers of the entities. An entity outside this space can collide with the entities within the space, but it can not become crammed by the entities within the space.

When crammed, a player or mob takes Template:Hp suffocation damage with a 25% chance every game tick, as long as that player or mob is pushing greater than that number of other entities. The default value for Template:Cd is 24 entities. This means that up to 24 entities can coexist in one block space without getting crammed.

If an entity is climbing, it does not count toward the number of entities in the block and does not contribute to cramming<ref>Template:Bug</ref>. This means that climbable blocks, such as Minecraft:ladders, Minecraft:vines, and Minecraft:scaffolding can prevent entity cramming. However, spiders and cave spiders are always counted toward the number of entities in the block when they are climbing. This can cause entities on climbable blocks to become crammed.

If a player is killed by entity cramming damage, the Minecraft:death message reads <player> was squished too much.

Environmental

Cactus

Players and mobs take Template:Hp damage every half-second when they are touching or within the same tile-space as a Minecraft:cactus.

Berry bush

Minecraft:Sweet berry bushes deals Template:Hp damage for every half-second when a player or mob is moving inside a sweet berry bush.

Monsters that are immune to berry bush damage:

• Template:EntityLink

Friendly mobs that are immune to berry bush damage:

• Template:EntityLink
• Template:EntityLink
• Template:EntityLink

Explosions

Explosions cause varying amounts of damage based on the explosion strength, the entity's proximity to the explosion, and whether it is obstructed by Minecraft:solid blocks.

Firework rocket explosion

File:Firework Star Damages.png

Minecraft:Firework rocket explosions can deal damage to entities if crafted with a Minecraft:firework star.

The maximum damage about is Template:Hp at the explosion's center with one firework star, decreasing to Template:Hp at the edge of a radius of 5 blocks (exclusive). Each additional firework star adds Template:Hp to the maximum.

If a rocket crafted with a firework star is Template:Controld to provide a speed boost while gliding with Minecraft:elytra, it explodes as it is used, dealing Template:Hp damage to the player.

Fall damage

Template:Redirect Template:Redirect Players and most mobs take damage when hitting the ground after falling a certain distance. Fall damage is based on the change in an entity's Y coordinate, and not how fast the entity is moving.

Most mobs take fall damage after falling more than 3 blocks; however, some mobs are able to fall farther before taking damage. How far a mob can safely fall is controlled by the Template:Cd Minecraft:attribute.

Most mobs take about Template:Hp damage for every block fallen over their safe fall distance. Some mobs take a different amount of fall damage per block fallen, determined by a multiplier stored in the Template:Cd attribute.

The amount of fall damage a mob takes is determined by the formula:

<math> \mathsf{fall \ damage} = Max \left( 0, \ Floor \left[ \left( \mathsf{fall\ distance - safe\_fall\_distance} \right)\ \times \ \mathsf{fall\_damage\_multiplier}\right] \right) </math>

where the Floor function rounds the answer down to the nearest whole number.

While a fall of 23 blocks should be enough to kill a player at full health, a fall of at least 23.5 blocks is required to kill the player because the game checks if the player is on the ground and calculates fall damage before updating the player's fall distance.

Fall damage resistance

Every player is immune to fall damage when the Minecraft:game rule fallDamage is set to false. Players who can fly are not immune to fall damage and take fall damage for the change in Y from where they stop flying to where they land.

Monsters that are immune to fall damage: Template:Columns-list

Friendly mobs that are immune to fall damage: Template:Columns-list

Other mobs with resistance to fall damage:

• These mobs take damage after falling more than 6 blocks and take half of the normal fall damage Template:Columns-list

• This mob always takes Template:Hp less fall damage:
  • Template:EntityLink

• This mob always takes Template:Hp less fall damage:
  • Template:EntityLink

• This mob takes fall damage after falling more than 5 blocks, and its fall damage is not affected by Minecraft:Jump Boost:
  • Template:EntityLink

Fall damage reduction

In some cases, falling damage can be mitigated or entirely avoided:

[[Minecraft:Sneaking|Template:Control]] prevents a player from falling off a drop of greater than 0.5 blocks.

Enchantments

Minecraft:Armor itself does not reduce fall damage; however, armor enchanted with Minecraft:Feather Falling or Minecraft:Protection does.

Effects

• Minecraft:Slow Falling - Negates all fall damage. If the effect wears off mid-air, the entity takes damage only for the height difference between where the effect ended and where the entity lands.
• Minecraft:Resistance - Reduces most damage (including fall) by 20% per level.
• Minecraft:Jump Boost - In addition to increasing jump height, it also reduces fall damage by Template:Hp per level.

Blocks that negate fall damage

Coming into contact with any of these blocks resets an entity's change in Y coordinate.

• Minecraft:Cobweb
• Minecraft:Water (when not in a boat). This includes falling into the water of any depth, as long as the entity collides with the water before colliding with the ground.
• Minecraft:Powder snow
• Moving into a Minecraft:ladder or Minecraft:vine's area of effect resets the fall distance. This also applies to Minecraft:trapdoors acting as a ladder.
  • Minecraft:Spiders climbing a block, count the block as a "ladder" for this purpose.
• Minecraft:Slime blocks negate all fall damage, but bounce the entity into the air. Sneaking when hitting the slime block negates fall damage and stops the bounce.
• Minecraft:Sweet berry bushes negate all fall damage.
• Holding sneak while landing on at least a two-block-high stack of Minecraft:scaffolding negates fall damage from any height. Only 1 scaffolding block is needed to negate damage from smaller heights.

Blocks that reduce fall damage

• Being in Minecraft:lava reduces the change in Y by half a block each Minecraft:game tick.
• Minecraft:Hay bales and Minecraft:honey blocks decrease fall damage to 20% of normal.
• Beds decrease fall distance to 50% of the actual distance fallen, which usually reduces fall damage to less than half of the normal amount.

Other

• A Minecraft:minecart's change in Y is reset when landing on rails.
• Successfully landing a smash attack with a Minecraft:mace.
• Eating a Minecraft:chorus fruit.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• Teleporting due to a thrown Minecraft:ender pearl; however, the teleportation itself causes Template:Hp fall damage to players.
• Flying using Minecraft:elytra such that the vertical movement is upward, level or less than 0.5 blocks per game tick downward resets the change in Y to 1 block.
• Contact the void floor.Template:Only
• Riding a Minecraft:horse negates all fall damage from the player.
• Fall distance is reset when a falling player starts riding an entity (horse, minecart, boat, etc.)
• Being hit by a Minecraft:wind charge resets an entity's fall distance.

Does not reduce fall damage

• Minecraft:Boats do not accumulate any change in Y while in water deeper than 1 block.
• Falling onto the top of a ladder does not reset the change in Y and counts as hitting the ground.
• Horses are unaffected by ladders and vines, and so their change in Y is not reset.
• An entity riding another entity does not accumulate any change in Y. However, when the ridden entity takes fall damage, it damages all riders for the same change in Y.

May increase fall damage

• Minecraft:Levitation sets the change in Y to 0 while it is active. Therefore, the change in Y is measured from where the entity starts falling after Levitation runs out.

Sound

For most solid blocks, if a player or mob falls onto the blocks and takes damage, a sound plays and is transmitted to the environment. No sound is played or transmitted if the entity doesn't take damage. Falling from a small height (4–7 blocks) plays a thud sound, and falling from a larger height (8 or more blocks) gives a click or cracking sound.

Falling block

Minecraft:Falling block entities deal damage to players and mobs in the same block space where they land. The damage is dealt only on landing, and is not dealt to players and mobs that collide with falling block entities in mid-air.

A falling Minecraft:anvil deals Template:Hp per block fallen after the first block (e.g., an anvil that falls 4 blocks deals Template:Hp damage). A falling Minecraft:stalactite deals Template:Hp per block fallen after the first block (e.g., a stalactite that falls 4 blocks deals Template:Hp damage).

The damage is capped at Template:Hp, no matter how far the anvil or stalactite falls.

Minecraft:Helmets takes twice as much Minecraft:durability damage as other armor pieces, but does not provide any special protection other than the normal armor damage reduction.<ref name="falling_block">Per Talk:Damage#Falling_Block, helmets no longer provide a 25% damage reduction to falling blocks.</ref>

If cheats are enabled, a falling block entity that deals damage can be Minecraft:summoned if its Template:Cd tag is set to Template:Cd. The amount of damage dealt per block fallen can be customized via the Template:Cd tag, and the maximum damage dealt can be customized via the Template:Cd tag.

Fire-related damage

Fire

Template:Redirect When mobs and players without Minecraft:fire immunity stand on fire, they take Template:Hp damage every half-second and get burned. Standing in Minecraft:soul fire does Template:Hp damage every half-second instead. They continue burning after leaving the fire block. Fire damage can be prevented by the Minecraft:Fire Resistance effect. Fire duration can be decreased with the Minecraft:Fire Protection enchantment. Most Nether mobs are immune to fire, but they can still drown in lava.

Players do not take damage from fire if the Minecraft:game rule Template:Cd is set to Template:Cd.

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Friendly mobs that are immune to fire damage

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Lava

Minecraft:Lava is a dangerous natural occurrence. Players and mobs (except some Nether mobs) get burned and take damage from contact with lava at a rate of Template:Hp every half-second, and they continue burning after they leave it. Minecraft:Fire Resistance nullifies both the direct damage from lava and the burning damage.

Players do not take damage from lava if the Minecraft:game rule Template:Cd is set to Template:Cd.

Burning

Minecraft:Players and many Minecraft:mobs burn when exposed to fire or lava or attacked by certain kinds of burning projectiles, Minecraft:Fire Aspect weapons, or burning Minecraft:zombies. In addition, armor itself does not reduce burning damage; to do so, armor needs either the Minecraft:Fire Protection enchantment, Minecraft:Protection enchantment, or the Minecraft:Resistance Minecraft:status effect. Burning obstructs the player's view slightly and, unless the player or mob has Fire Resistance, inflicts damage at a rate of Template:Hp per second. This is the same rate that the player gains health in Peaceful Minecraft:difficulty, so burning alone cannot kill the player in this mode. Burning lasts some amount of time depending on its cause, but it is extinguished by Minecraft:rain, Minecraft:water, or Minecraft:cauldrons.

Players do not take damage from burning if the Minecraft:game rule Template:Cd is set to Template:Cd.

Except for piglins, hoglins, skeletons, and endermen, mobs that spawn in the Minecraft:Nether do not burn and cannot be damaged by fire. Minecraft:Wardens also do not burn. Burning is not considered a Minecraft:status effect and therefore cannot be cured by Minecraft:milk.

Magma block

Mobs without Minecraft:fire immunity and players take Template:Hp damage every half-second if they are walking on Minecraft:magma blocks. This can be avoided by having the Minecraft:Fire Resistance effect, Minecraft:sneaking, or wearing Minecraft:Frost Walker-enchanted Minecraft:boots.

Players do not take damage from magma blocks if the Minecraft:game rule Template:Cd is set to Template:Cd.

Campfire

Players or mobs standing on top of a Minecraft:campfire take Template:Hp damage every half second. Standing in a Minecraft:Soul Campfire does Template:Hp damage every half second instead. Unlike any other damage sources, armor itself does not reduce campfire and soul campfire damage; to do so, armor needs either the Minecraft:Fire Protection enchantment, Minecraft:Protection enchantment, or the Minecraft:Resistance status effect. Template:IN, it also inflicts damage for Template:Convert after the player exits the block.

Players do not take damage from campfires if the Minecraft:game rule Template:Cd is set to Template:Cd.

Freezing

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Freezing hearts when the player is submerged in powder snow.

When an entity is inside a Minecraft:powder snow block, they begin to freeze, taking damage.

A player submerged in powder snow sees a frosty frame slowly fade in at the sides of the screen and the FOV slowly decreases. After Template:Convert, the player's hearts change to a cyan frosty texture (Template:Healthbar), and the player begins taking damage at a rate of Template:Hp HP every two seconds (40 game ticks). If the player leaves the powder snow block, the vignette slowly fades away. A frozen player moves slower than usual until the vignette fully fades away. This is controlled by the Template:Cd data tag, which increases by 1 every game tick (to a maximum of 300) for an entity within the powder snow block. It decreases at a rate of 2 per game tick after the entity leaves the powder snow block. This is currently not a separate effect when used with commands such as /effect give freezing, and does not have its own unique art, particles, or potion.

Players do not take damage from powder snow if the Minecraft:game rule Template:Cd is set to Template:Cd.

Mobs and players that are freezing have a shivering animation.

Wearing any piece of Minecraft:leather armor stops the freezing effect and damage. This applies to entities that can wear armor, such as Minecraft:zombies. Minecraft:Horses wearing leather Minecraft:horse armor also don’t take damage from freezing.

Monsters that are immune to freezing from powder snow:

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Friendly mobs that are immune to freezing from powder snow:

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Mobs that can walk in powder snow:

Monsters that can walk in powder snow:

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Friendly mobs that can walk in powder snow:

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Mobs that take extra damage from powder snow:

Monsters that take extra damage from powder snow:

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Friendly mobs that take extra damage from powder snow:

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Lightning damage

Minecraft:Lightning striking on or near the player inflicts Template:Hp damage, which can be reduced with armor. Natural lightning strikes on the player are rare and occur only during thunderstorms. Players and mobs that get hit by lightning are set on Minecraft:fire, which is quickly extinguished by the Minecraft:rain during a thunderstorm.

Magic damage

Magic damage bypasses Minecraft:armor, but can be reduced by the Minecraft:Protection enchantment and the Minecraft:Resistance effect. It is dealt by multiple sources:

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• Template:EntityLink breath attack
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• Template:EntityLink and Template:EntityLink beam (only Template:Health part is magic)
• Template:BlockLink attack, which damages all Minecraft:monsters

Monsters that are immune to magic damage:

• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and attacks from Template:EntityLink and Template:EntityLink.
• Template:EntityLink from all Minecraft:effects.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink shotted by their Minecraft:arrow .
• Template:EntityLink from its own fangs.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Minecraft:evoker fangs.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Minecraft:evoker fangs.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Minecraft:evoker fangs.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink, Template:EffectLink, and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink, Template:EffectLink, and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink and Template:EffectLink.

Friendly mobs that are immune to magic damage:

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• Template:EntityLink from Template:EffectLink.
• Template:EntityLink

There is no mob that is immune to Minecraft:conduit damage.

Starvation

When the Minecraft:hunger bar becomes empty (Template:Hungerbar), the player takes Template:Hp damage every four seconds that is irrespective of Minecraft:armor, the Minecraft:Protection enchantment, and Minecraft:Resistance. In order to stop taking starvation damage, the player needs to eat Minecraft:food or drop to certain health thresholds; Template:Hp on Easy difficulty or Template:Hp on Normal difficulty. In Hard difficulty and Minecraft:Hardcore mode, the player always takes starvation damage regardless of health and the damage can kill the player.

The hunger system does not apply to Minecraft:mobs and, so they do not normally take starvation damage. However, the Template:Cmd command can still cause starvation damage to mobs, and vexes take starvation damage 30 to 119 seconds after having been summoned by an Minecraft:evoker.Template:Only

Status effects

Template:Main Status effects are either helpful or harmful conditions that can be given to players and mobs alike. They can be given in different ways: being in range of thrown splash potions or lingering potions, being afflicted by certain mobs' attacks, simply being near certain mobs, being near Minecraft:conduits and beacons, and eating specific types of food (such as Minecraft:rotten flesh or Minecraft:raw chicken). Status effects can last for a certain amount of time or can happen instantaneously.

Entities under a status effect emit colored particles, with the color of the particles resembling the type of status effect. Having multiple status effects combines the respective colors.

Instant damage

Template:Main Instant Damage caused by Minecraft:potions or Minecraft:tipped arrows can damage the player Template:Hp at level I and Template:Hp at level II. This damage occurs instantaneously. Minecraft:Undead mobs are instead healed, but are similarly damaged by the Healing effect. Zombified piglins that are splashed by an Instant Damage potion do not attack the player who threw it, as it heals them.

Poison

Minecraft:Cave spiders, Minecraft:witches and Minecraft:bees can poison other mobs and players when they attack (if the game is not on Minecraft:Easy difficulty). Some mobs, like the Minecraft:wither and Minecraft:bogged are resistant to the Poison effect and can not be poisoned. Pufferfish inflict Poison as a defense against players and some mobs if they are nearby. A player can poison themself by eating a Minecraft:spider eye, Minecraft:poisonous potato, Minecraft:pufferfish, or a Minecraft:suspicious stew made out of lily of the valley. Drinking or being hit by a Minecraft:potion or arrow of poison also results in poisoning. While poisoned, the hearts in the health meter turn from Template:Hp (Template:Hp on Hardcore) to an olive green (Template:Hp)(Template:Hp on Hardcore) and the player takes Template:Hp every 25 ticks (1.25 seconds) on level I. See Minecraft:Poison for a table for higher levels. The Poison itself cannot kill the player, but it can reduce them to half a heart (Template:Hp), thus leaving them vulnerable to damage from other sources.

Monsters that are immune to poison

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Friendly mobs that are immune to poison

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• Template:EntityLink
• Template:EntityLink

Wither

Minecraft:Withers and Minecraft:wither skeletons inflict the Wither effect with their attacks (the wither skulls do not inflict the effect on easy difficulty). This darkens the health bar to Template:Hp on Minecraft:Survival and Template:Hp on Minecraft:Hardcore, while inflicting damage over time. The effect deals Template:Hp every 2 seconds (40 ticks) for the wither skeleton's attack (level I), and every second for the wither's skulls (level II). Minecraft:Wither roses also inflict the Wither effect to any mobs colliding it. Players also get the Wither effect after eating Minecraft:suspicious stew made out of wither rose or when hit by potion or an arrow of decay.Template:Only Unlike Poison, withering can kill on any difficulty level, and the darkened health bar makes it harder to keep track of the damage, which the only way is seeing the white spark on the left of the heart.

Monsters that are immune to wither effect:

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Friendly mobs that are immune to wither effect:

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Suffocation

Suffocation occurs when a player or mob's eyeline is inside of certain blocks, receiving Template:Hp damage every half-second. They also become Minecraft:black entities.

Blocks that are transparent or do not fill an entire block do not cause damage, these include:

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• Extended Template:BlockLink
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• Template:BlockLink that are not double
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Despite being fully to partially transparent, the following can cause suffocation:

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Additionally, Minecraft:dirt path and Minecraft:farmland can also cause suffocation, regardless of them not being full blocks.

The player's screen displays a darkened form of the block in which the player is suffocating.

Template:IN, an oxygen bar is also present in the suffocation process. Water Breathing effects can prevent suffocation Template:In.

Minecraft:Creakings spawned from a Minecraft:creaking heart are immune to suffocation damage.

The usual ways an entity can suffocate are:

• Minecraft:Sand, Minecraft:gravel or Minecraft:concrete powder falling into the space the entity occupies.
• Riding a Minecraft:pig, Minecraft:boat, or Minecraft:minecart into a one-block-high space.
• Riding a Minecraft:horse, Minecraft:llama, or Minecraft:strider into a two-block-high space.
• Standing where a Minecraft:tree just grew from a Minecraft:sapling, where a Minecraft:huge mushroom just grew from a Minecraft:mushroom, or where a Minecraft:huge fungus just grew from a Minecraft:nether fungus.
• Standing where an Minecraft:end gateway appeared after killing the dragon.
• Having a solid block pushed into the entity's head with a Minecraft:piston.
• Sleeping in a Minecraft:bed surrounded by blocks or having a solid block above it.Template:Only
• Being teleported into a block or having one placed onto the entity via Minecraft:commands (including Template:Cmd, Template:Cmd, or Template:Cmd).
• When playing on a distant server, sometimes broken blocks can reappear due to lag, and if the player moves where the block respawned, it can provoke suffocation (for example, chopping down a tree by moving right below the trunk).
• When water and lava meet, and create a Minecraft:cobblestone, Minecraft:stone, or Minecraft:obsidian block on the entity's head.
• Standing a certain distance outside of the Minecraft:world border, configurable with Template:Cmd (default is 5 blocks).
• Summoning an entity inside a block through Minecraft:spawn eggs, commands, or with a Minecraft:golem or Minecraft:wither structure lying down.
• Standing in 2 block deep water in snowy and cold biomes where the topmost layer of water freezes into ice
• Throwing an Minecraft:ender pearl in a way that the player ends up inside a block they can suffocate in.

Thorns enchantment

If a player or mob is attacked while wearing armor enchanted with Minecraft:Thorns, there is a Level * 15% chance of inflicting Template:Hp–Template:Hp damage to the attacker. However, thorns increases the amount of durability lost per hit on the enchanted armor.

Void

Template:Main If the player breaks through the Minecraft:bedrock barrier found at the bottom of worlds, the void can be seen. Players and mobs in the void below the Y-axis of -64Template:Only or -128Template:Only take damage at a rate of about Template:Hp per half-second. The player usually dies from falling in the void, even in Minecraft:Creative or Minecraft:Spectator modesTemplate:Only, but the player may be saved by throwing an Minecraft:ender pearl before falling below the Y-axis of -64Template:Only or -128Template:Only.

Falling into the void in Minecraft:the End is more likely, and is the only way to access the void in Minecraft:Survival mode without exploiting glitches.

By using Template:Cmd to give the player Minecraft:Regeneration 6 and higher or Minecraft:Instant Health, they can fall infinitely into the void without dying until the effect stops.

Template:IN, the player can survive in the void in Minecraft:Creative mode, but there is a one-way barrier at Y=-104 to prevent falling further into the void. However, this barrier can be teleported past by teleporting the player to any location with a Y value of -106 and below. The player continues falling until the player teleports away, flies back up, or crashes the game.

Sounds

Template:Edition: Template:SoundTable

Advancements

Template:Load advancements Template:Load advancements(only applicable if shooting the specified Minecraft:entity(ies) with a Template:ItemLink).

History

Trivia

• Critical hits can be done while reflecting a Minecraft:ghast fireball, but does not change the damage or speed of it.
• It is impossible to drown in Peaceful difficulty with a helmet enchanted with any level of Minecraft:Respiration, as the regeneration on Peaceful is higher than the reduced drowning damage.
• When the player jumps while taking damage, the damage prevents the player from jumping.
  • This also applies to mobs that deal damage that prevents jumping.
• In Minecraft:Creative mode, attacking a mob while flying after having descended scores a critical hit.
• When the player dies when attacking, its animation stops and freezes as the player died.Template:Only
  • This previously occurred in the Minecraft:Pocket Edition, and Minecraft:Legacy Console Edition versions.
• With all possible reductions to fall damage currently available in Survival (landing on a Minecraft:hay bale, Minecraft:Feather Falling IV boots, Minecraft:Protection IV on other armor pieces, and Minecraft:Resistance IV from a Potion of the Turtle Master) the maximum height the player can fall while surviving without Absorption is 3003 blocks. However, Minecraft:Slow Falling completely negates fall damage.
  • With the maximum Absorption effect possible in Survival (IV from an enchanted golden apple), and all the effects listed above, the player can survive a fall of 5403 blocks.
  • Riding a horse along with being under the effects of a beacon's Jump Boost II further increases the maximum falling distance to 9005 blocks.
• In Minecraft:Legacy Console Edition, a player or mob taking fatal damage simply falls down instead of getting knocked back before disappearing.