Minecraft:Bedrock Edition guides/Update Aquatic (Phase One)

Template:Infobox guide This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Minecraft:Update Aquatic (Phase One) (Template:BE 1.4.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with the Minecraft:Better Together Update (Bedrock Edition 1.2.x releases) and the Update Aquatic (Phase Two) (Bedrock Edition 1.5.x releases).

Mobs

New

Minecraft:Dolphin	File:Dolphin.png	All oceans except for Frozen oceans.	Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Like Minecraft:wolves the dolphins attack any player that attacks first. When fed Minecraft:raw cod, dolphins guide the player to the nearest ocean ruin or Minecraft:shipwreck. Players receive the Minecraft:Dolphin's Grace Minecraft:status effect when near dolphins. This effect allows players to swim significantly faster underwater.
Minecraft:Cod	Template:Animate	Cold, warm, and lukewarm Minecraft:oceans, including deep variants.	Template:ItemLink (1) Template:ItemLink (0–1) Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Cod group together with other Cod, forming small schools. Cod can be captured with a Minecraft:bucket of water, becoming a Minecraft:bucket of cod.
Minecraft:Salmon	Template:Animate	Cold and frozen oceans, and normal and frozen Minecraft:rivers.	Template:ItemLink (1) Template:ItemLink (0–1) Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Salmon group together with other Salmon, forming small schools. Salmon types can be captured with a Minecraft:bucket of water, becoming a Minecraft:bucket of salmon.
Minecraft:Pufferfish	Template:Animate	Lukewarm and warm oceans.	Template:ItemLink (1) Template:ItemLink (0–1) Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Pufferfish group together with other Pufferfish, forming small schools. Pufferfish can be captured with a Minecraft:bucket of water, becoming a Minecraft:bucket of pufferfish.
Minecraft:Tropical fish	Template:Animate	Lukewarm and warm oceans.	Template:ItemLink (1) (All tropical fish variants drop the same tropical fish item) Template:ItemLink (0–1) Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf)	Tropical Fish group together with other Tropical Fish, forming small schools. Tropical Fish can be captured with a Minecraft:bucket of water, becoming a Minecraft:bucket of tropical fish. Tropical fish retain their type when captured and placed again.
Minecraft:Drowned	File:Drowned.png	Drowned spawn in all ocean, swamp and river biomes. Additionally, groups of drowned spawn in ocean ruins when the structures are first generated.	Template:Xp (Template:Xp if it's a baby), plus Template:Xp per equipment piece (when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf) Spawned Equipment Template:Drop Template:Drop Template:Drop	During the day, drowned stay on the ground underwater, ignoring players on land no matter how close they may get, they only become hostile during daytime if the player touches Minecraft:water.

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Minecraft:Baby zombies

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Now burn in the daylight.

Blocks

New

Minecraft:Blue ice	File:Blue Ice JE1 BE1.png	Additionally blue ice can be found naturally as part of Minecraft:icebergs.	Pickaxe (only drops with Minecraft:Silk Touch)	Can be used as a decorative block. Like packed ice, blue ice does not melt. Blue ice has the lowest friction compared to any other block, including packed and regular ice.
Minecraft:Coral, Minecraft:coral fan, dead coral fan, Minecraft:coral block, and dead coral block	Template:Animate Template:Animate Template:Animate Template:Animate Template:Animate	Coral, coral fans, and coral blocks can be found in Minecraft:coral reefs. Coral and coral fans can be obtained by applying bone meal to Minecraft:dirt, Minecraft:coarse dirt, Minecraft:sand, Minecraft:red sand, or Minecraft:gravel underwater in a Minecraft:warm ocean biome. Dead coral, dead coral fans, and dead coral blocks can be obtained by placing their living variety in any area not directly adjacent to water. Alternatively dead coral blocks can be obtained by being mined with a pickaxe not enchanted with Minecraft:Silk Touch.	Coral, dead coral, coral fans, and dead coral fans can be broken with any tool as well as by hand. Coral blocks can be mined with any pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch. Dead coral blocks can be mined with any pickaxe.	Can be used as decorative blocks.
Minecraft:Dried kelp block	File:Dried Kelp Block JE1 BE2.png		Any	Can be crafted into nine Minecraft:dried kelp. Can be used as a fuel in a furnace; can smelt twenty items.
Minecraft:Kelp	File:Kelp.gif	Can be obtained by breaking kelp plants.	Any	Can be broken to obtain kelp items.
Minecraft:Seagrass	File:Seagrass JE1 BE2.gifFile:Tall Seagrass JE1 BE2.gif	Created by using bonemeal underwater.	Shears	A decorative block.
Minecraft:Sea pickles	Template:Animate	Can be found in Minecraft:warm oceans as well as part of Minecraft:coral reefs. Can be grown by placing one sea pickle on a coral block underwater and applying bonemeal to the sea pickle.	Any	Can be used for decoration. Emits 3 light levels for every sea pickle in the block while underwater, does not emit light while outside of water.
Minecraft:Prismarine, Minecraft:prismarine brick and Minecraft:dark prismarine Minecraft:slab and Minecraft:stairs	Template:Animate Template:Animate		Pickaxe	Can be used as decorative blocks.
Minecraft:Wood	Template:Animate		Axe	Can be used as a decorative block. Can be crafted into planks of the same wood type.
Minecraft:Stripped log	Template:Animate	Can be obtained by right clicking any log with any tier of Minecraft:axe, this consumes one durability on the axe.	Axe	Can be used as a decorative block. Can be crafted into planks of the same wood type.
Minecraft:Stripped wood	Template:Animate	Can be obtained by right clicking any wood with any tier of Minecraft:axe, this consumes one durability on the axe.	Axe	Can be used as a decorative block. Can be crafted into planks of the same wood type.
Minecraft:Trapdoors for all wood types	Template:Animate		Axe	Can be opened and closed.
Minecraft:Pressure plates for all wood types	Template:Animate		Axe	Produce a redstone signal when stepped on.
Minecraft:Buttons for all wood types	Template:Animate		Axe	Produce a redstone signal when pressed.
Minecraft:Pumpkin	84px	Now generates throughout the world without carved faces on any sides. Can be grown using Minecraft:pumpkin seeds.	Axe	Can be used for everything the pumpkin could be used for previously, except for being worn.
Purple Minecraft:shulker box	84px		Any	Used in the same way as all other shulker boxes. Has a darker purple color than the non-dyed variant.

Changed

Minecraft:Bed	Template:Animate	Using a bed during the daytime now sets the player’s spawn point to that bed.
Minecraft:Buttons	Template:Animate	Now named "Oak Button" and "Stone Button".
Minecraft:Rail	File:Rail (NS) JE2 BE1.png	Can now be placed underwater.

Items

New

Minecraft:Buried treasure map	Template:Animate	Can be found in Minecraft:underwater ruins loot chests.	Can be used to find Minecraft:buried treasure.
Minecraft:Bucket of fish	Template:Animate	Obtained by using a bucket on a fish.	Can be used to spawn the respective fish type.
Minecraft:Heart of the sea	84px	Can be found in all buried treasure chests in stacks of one.	One of the ingredients for crafting the Minecraft:conduit.
Minecraft:Nautilus shell	84px	Drowned occasionally spawn holding a nautilus shell in their off-hand, which they drop when killed. Can be caught as a treasure item from Minecraft:fishing.	One of the ingredients for crafting the conduit.
Minecraft:Kelp	84px	Kelp can be found growing underwater in all Minecraft:ocean biomes.	Kelp can be smelted in a furnace to obtain dried kelp.
Minecraft:Dried kelp	84px		Dried kelp can be eaten to regain one hunger point. It can be eaten faster than any other food. Dried kelp can also be crafted into a Minecraft:dried kelp block.
Minecraft:Trident	84px84px	Can be dropped by drowned as part of their naturally spawned equipment.	Used as a melee or ranged weapon. Most effective weapon underwater. When enchanted with Minecraft:Channeling, it can be used to turn Minecraft:creepers into charged creepers, Minecraft:pigs into zombie pigmen, and Minecraft:villagers into Minecraft:witches during Minecraft:thunderstorms. When enchanted with Minecraft:Impaling, it does more damage to aquatic mobs (excluding drowned). When enchanted with Minecraft:Loyalty, it returns to the player when thrown. When enchanted with Minecraft:Riptide, it takes the player with it when thrown underwater or in rain.
Cod, salmon, pufferfish, tropical fish, dolphin, drowned and phantom Minecraft:spawn eggs	Template:Animate	Obtained from the creative inventory.	Can be used to spawn the respective mob.

Changed

Minecraft:Fish	Template:Animate	Updated textures for all fish items.
Minecraft:Book and quill	File:Book and Quill JE1 BE1.png	Default author now reads "Author Unknown".

Non-mob Entities

Changed

Minecraft:Lead

File:Lead JE1 BE1.png

Can now be attached to boats.

Enchantments

New

Minecraft:Enchantment	Max Level	Applicable Items	Notes
Minecraft:Impaling	V	Template:ItemSprite	Increases damage against aquatic/wet mobs.
Minecraft:Channeling	I	Template:ItemSprite	Causes a lightning strike where the trident hits.
Minecraft:Loyalty	III	Template:ItemSprite	Causes the trident to return to the owner once thrown.
Minecraft:Riptide	III	Template:ItemSprite	Allows the player to propel themselves through water and precipitation.

Structures

New

Minecraft:Shipwreck	File:Shipwreck Jungle (With Mast) JE1 BE1.png	Underwater	Yes	Drowned	An underwater structure resembling a sunken ship.
Minecraft:Ocean ruins	Template:Animate	Underwater	Yes	Drowned	An underwater structure resembling a ruined building.
Minecraft:Coral reef	File:Coral Reef.png	Warm oceans	No	Tropical fish, pufferfish	A large growth of coral on the ocean floor.
Minecraft:Iceberg	File:Iceberg.png	Frozen oceans	No	Polar bears	A large chunk of ice and snow floating in the ocean.

Changed

Minecraft:Cave	File:Cave.png	Can now generate underwater.
Minecraft:Canyon	File:Canyon.png	Can now generate underwater.

Biomes

New

Minecraft:Cold ocean	184px	Like the Minecraft:frozen ocean, this Minecraft:ocean variant has a Minecraft:gravel seabed, with the occasional patch of Minecraft:sand or Minecraft:dirt. Additionally this ocean biome has dark indigo Minecraft:water. It is home to Minecraft:kelp, Minecraft:seagrass, Minecraft:cod, Minecraft:salmon, and Minecraft:dolphins.	Cold Minecraft:underwater ruins Minecraft:Shipwrecks
Minecraft:Cold deep ocean	184px	Cold deep oceans are the same as cold oceans, with the exception that they are twice as deep, as well having the potential to generate Minecraft:ocean monuments.	Cold underwater ruins Shipwrecks Minecraft:Ocean monuments
Minecraft:Frozen ocean	184px	A partially frozen area of ocean, with large, broken up sheets of Minecraft:ice covering the water. This variant of ocean has a gravel seabed and is home to kelp, seagrass, Minecraft:squid, salmon, Minecraft:strays, and Minecraft:polar bears.	Cold underwater ruins Shipwrecks Minecraft:Icebergs
Minecraft:Deep frozen ocean	184px	Essentially the same as the frozen ocean biome, but is deeper and able to generate ocean monuments.	Cold underwater ruins Shipwrecks Icebergs Ocean monuments
Minecraft:Lukewarm ocean	184px	This ocean variant can be recognized by its light teal water and sandy seabed. It is home to kelp, seagrass, Minecraft:pufferfish, dolphins, Minecraft:tropical fish, and cod.	Warm underwater ruins Shipwrecks
Minecraft:Deep lukewarm ocean	184px	Similar to the lukewarm ocean, but twice as deep and can generate ocean monuments.	Warm underwater ruins Shipwrecks Ocean monuments
Minecraft:Warm ocean	184px	An ocean variant with bright teal water at the surface. It can contain coral reefs, sea pickles, seagrass, dolphins, tropical fish and pufferfish.	Minecraft:Coral reefs Warm underwater ruins Shipwrecks
Minecraft:Deep warm ocean	184px	Similar to the warm ocean, but twice as deep and can generate ocean monuments.	Warm underwater ruins Shipwrecks Ocean monuments

Water

The physics for water have also been changed, and the way the player interacts with water has also changed.

Swimming

There is now an actual swimming animation used by the player while underwater, which can be activated by sprinting underwater. This also allows the player to move in any direction they are looking including down. Players who cannot sprint, i.e. are too hungry to sprint, cannot swim. Crouching underwater also allows the player to descend at a faster rate.

While swimming, players can go through one block gaps similar to when using an Minecraft:elytra.

Item and Experience

Items and experience orbs now float to the surface of water rather than sink, this makes dying underwater easier to deal with because all of the player's items now wait at the surface. This also allows for easy vertical item transportation.

Bubble Columns

For more detailed information see Minecraft:Bubble Columns.

Minecraft:Magma and Minecraft:soul sand now make bubble columns when placed underwater. Magma naturally generates in Minecraft:underwater ruins and where underwater ravines meet lava, while soul sand does not currently generate naturally in oceans. Players are able to breathe while in bubble columns.

Magma bubble columns pull things down to the bottom; this includes items, players, mobs, and boats. Soul sand bubble columns rapidly push all entities, including players, to the surface.

Breath

The breath meter no longer instantly refills when entering air from underwater; this means it is no longer possible to instantly refill the air meter with a torch while underwater.

Vision

Water has been given unique colors depending on the biome they are in.

Water is also now clearer, and the longer the player is underwater the clearer it becomes.