Health

For other uses, see Health (disambiguation).

Health is the fundamental condition that an entity needs to survive. Health can be recovered by healing, through natural regeneration, or by using status effects.

Regaining health

Players can recover health naturally by having their hunger at least 18 ( × 9) and the gamerule naturalRegeneration is set to true, or through status effects.

Mobs

Horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses, zombie horses, llamas, trader llamas, camels, camel husks, allays, happy ghasts, and the wither‌^{[Java Edition only]} are the only mobs that regenerate health naturally over time.

Health bar

The health bar displays how much health the player has left, rounded up to the nearest 1HP health point. It is usually based on a single row of 10 heart icons. Each full heart contains two halves, one health point each (the player normally has 20 maximum health points).

The Regeneration effect makes health regenerate fairly quickly, and the hearts of the health bar bounce in a wave.

If the health bar shows HP or less, it begins to shake violently, warning that the player is low on health.

The player's health bar is invisible while holding or wearing an item that gives negative health points that exceed the player's current health points. For example, the player's default health is 20, and if holding an item with the attribute −21 health, the player can take two hits before dying, regardless of how much damage these hits inflict. The first one deals enough damage to reduce health to 1HP, and the second one kills the player. If the player uses a modified item to reduce health, sometimes the death screen appears. After clicking respawn, the player would shake in the death position and this can be fixed by ceasing to use the modified item.

If a player is riding a mob, the health of that mob is shown in place of‌^{[JE only]} or on top of‌^{[BE only]} the hunger bar, using as the texture for hearts.

Hearts

Hearts make up the health bar for the player in the Survival, Hardcore (different texture), and Adventure modes.

The player's hearts have a different texture depending on the various condition. Also, all hearts have different textures in Hardcore mode.

Type	Color	Icon	Hardcore Icon	Condition
Poison	Green			Poison effect
Wither	Black			Wither effect
Absorption	Yellow			Absorption effect (only additional hearts)
Freezing	Cyan			Freezing in powder snow
Normal	Red			Otherwise

• Hearts take the highest applicable texture in this list; poison overrides wither, which overrides absorption, which overrides freezing.
• Only hearts given by the Absorption effect will be absorption hearts.
• For all of the other conditions, the entire health bar (including absorption hearts, except freezing which does not change absorption hearts) will change texture.

Entities' health

Entity	Health
Playable	Player 20HP × 10
Animals and miscellaneous	Allay 20HP × 10	Armadillo 12HP × 6	Axolotl 14HP × 7	Bat 6HP	Bee 10HP	Camel 32HP × 16
	Cat‌[JE only] 10HP	Cat‌[BE only] Wild: 10HP Tamed: 20HP × 10	Chicken 4HP	Cod 3HP	Copper Golem 12HP × 6	Cow 10HP
	Dolphin 10HP	Donkey 15HP × 7.5 to 30HP × 15	Fox 10HP	Frog 10HP	Glow Squid 10HP	Goat 10HP
	Happy Ghast 20HP × 10	Horse 15HP × 7.5 to 30HP × 15	Iron Golem 100HP × 50	Llama 15HP × 7.5 to 30HP × 15	Mooshroom 10HP	Mule 15HP × 7.5 to 30HP × 15
	Nautilus 15HP × 7.5	Ocelot 10HP	Panda Weak variant: 10HP Other variants: 20HP × 10	Parrot 6HP	Pig 10HP	Polar Bear 30HP × 15
	Pufferfish 3HP	Rabbit 3HP	Salmon 3HP	Sheep 8HP	Sniffer 14HP × 7	Snow Golem 4HP
	Squid 10HP	Strider 20HP × 10	Tadpole 6HP	Trader Llama 15HP × 7.5 to 30HP × 15	Tropical Fish 3HP	Turtle 30HP × 15
	Villager 20HP × 10	Wandering Trader 20HP × 10	Wolf Wild: 8HP Tamed: 40HP × 20
Monsters	Blaze 20HP × 10	Bogged 16HP × 8	Breeze 30HP × 15	Camel Husk 32HP × 16	Cave Spider 12HP × 6	Creaking 1HP (invulnerable if natural)
	Creeper 20HP × 10	Drowned 20HP × 10	Elder Guardian 80HP × 40	Enderman 40HP × 20	Endermite 8HP	Evoker 24HP × 12
	Ghast 10HP	Guardian 30HP × 15	Hoglin 40HP × 20	Husk 20HP × 10	Magma Cube Big: 16HP × 8 Medium: 4HP Small: 1HP	Parched 16HP × 8
	Phantom 20HP × 10	Piglin 16HP × 8	Piglin Brute 50HP × 25	Pillager 24HP × 12	Ravager 100HP × 50	Shulker 30HP × 15
	Silverfish 8HP	Skeleton 20HP × 10	Skeleton Horse 15HP × 7.5	Slime Big 16HP × 8 Medium: 4HP Small: 1HP	Spider 16HP × 8	Stray 20HP × 10
	Vex 14HP × 7	Vindicator 24HP × 12	Warden 500HP × 250	Witch 26HP × 13	Wither Skeleton 20HP × 10	Zoglin 40HP × 20
	Zombie 20HP × 10	Zombie Horse 25HP × 12.5	Zombie Nautilus 15HP × 7.5	Zombie Villager 20HP × 10	Zombified Piglin 20HP × 10
Bosses	Ender Dragon 200HP × 100	Wither‌[JE only] 300HP × 150	Wither‌[BE only] Easy: 300HP × 150 Normal: 450HP × 225 Hard: 600HP × 300
Unused	Giant‌[JE only] 100HP × 50	Elder Guardian Ghost‌[BE only] 20HP × 10	Illusioner‌[JE only] 32HP × 16	Old Villager‌[BE only] 20HP × 10	Old Zombie Villager‌[BE only] 20HP × 10
Education	Agent ∞ ( × ∞)	Camera 4HP	NPC ∞ ( × ∞)
Inanimate	Armor Stand 20HP × 10‌[JE only] 6HP‌[BE only]	Boat 6HP	Boat with Chest 6HP	End Crystal 5HP	Experience Orb 5HP	Item 5HP
	Mannequin‌[JE only] 20HP × 10	Minecart 6HP	Minecart with Chest 6HP	Minecart with Command Block 6HP	Minecart with Furnace‌[JE only] 6HP	Minecart with Hopper 6HP
	Minecart with Monster Spawner‌[JE only] 6HP	Minecart with TNT 6HP

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.

Videos

History

Development

Java Edition

Java Edition Classic
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST							Added all of the above.
							Mushrooms now regain health.
							In Survival mode, eating a red mushroom would deal the player 3HP of damage because they were poisonous.
Java Edition Indev
?							Dead mobs would fall on their left side instead of other random directions.
							Before suffocation was implemented, players that were covered by blocks could see through blocks. Suffocation was added after Notch discovered that players were abusing this exploit to find underground caves and hollowed carvings. The patch added suffocation damage and making the player unable to see anything when experiencing it. However, this glitch is not completely fixed and is still possible to be done even in the existing version of the game.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.4							Players no longer suffocate when riding in a minecart.
Java Edition Beta
1.5							Unarmed damage is increased from 1HP to 2HP.
1.8			Pre-release				Unarmed damage is decreased from 2HP to 1HP.
							Regeneration effect added, increasing health.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				Mobs can now have armor points.[1]
							Hearts now look different in Hardcore mode.
			RC1				The sound of the player taking damage is changed from a man's grunt to be more gender-neutral.
1.3.1			12w25a				Removed the downward knockback while drowning, which essentially trapped drowning players in multiplayer underwater.
			?				The health bar no longer has an animation for damage that shows how many hearts are lost.
1.4.2			12w38a				Changed hurt sounds for player again.
1.6.1			13w23a				Natural health regeneration can now be toggled with the game rule naturalRegeneration.
1.8			14w32a				The health bar now has an animation for damage that shows how many hearts are lost again.

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A preview of the health system seen on Notch's blog. Note how the sprite for the half-heart has a black line in the middle.
• 
  Health displayed in the tab menu

In other media

• 
  "Rainbow Life Bar," an official T-Shirt design made to celebrate Pride Month
• 
  Some hearts in a cherry blossom biome
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  Some hearts in a forest biome
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  Some hearts in a plains biome

See also

• Death, the result of an entity's health reaching 0HP.

References

External links

• Everything you need to know about health in Minecraft – Minecraft.net