Health

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A player with low health.

Health is a game mechanic in all versions of Minecraft. It is a gauge and monitor displaying how much damage the Player is able to take before dying, and is represented by a single row of 10 heart icons. Each full heart contains two halves, one point each for a maximum of 20 health points.

Hearts make up the health meter for the player in Survival, Hardcore (albeit with a different texture), and Adventure modes.

Overview

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The hotbar, with hearts representing the health.

The health bar is located beside the Hunger bar, and above the experience bar. When a player's hunger bar is at 9 drumsticks (or completely full), they will slowly regain health. When health is at 2 hearts or less, the health bar will start shaking. The health bar won't regenerate if there are 8.5 drumsticks or less. The speed at which a player's health regenerates varies, depending on the Difficulty setting. When full, a player's health bar has 10 hearts, which is equal to 20 points of health, as 1 heart counts as two points of health.

Death

Main article: Death

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Death screen in hardcore mode.

Death occurs when a player has lost all of their health. A screen will appear and offer the choice of either respawning (going back to the original spawn point, or the last bed they slept in) or returning to the main menu (the death screen will still be there upon re-entering the world). In Hardcore Mode players can either delete the world or go into spectator mode after they have died.

Drowning

When you go underwater, the bubble bar appears above the health bar. If the bubbles are completely gone, you start to lose health at  per second. Before 1.13, you can get all the bubbles back by going above water, but that no longer works. If you are above water, the bubbles will refill slowly.

Mob Health

This is a table showing how much health each mob has. When their health runs out, they die and may drop items. Mobs can die from lava, fall damage, drowning, suffocation, damage from a player, or damage from other mobs. For example, a Creeper may attack a Skeleton if its arrow hits the creeper.

Mob	Health
Slime	Varies based on size - 1 (File:Half Heart.png) to 16 ( x 8)
Magma Cube	Varies based on size - 1 (File:Half Heart.png) to 16 ( x 8)
Rabbit	3 (File:Half Heart.png)
Silverfish	8 ()
Chicken	4 ()
Bat	6 ()
Snow Golem	4 ()
Wolf	8 ()
Sheep	8 ()
Cat	10 ()
Ocelot	10 ()
Cow	10 ()
Pig	10 ()
Squid	10 ()
Ghast	10 ()
Horse	15 ( x 7.5) to 30 ( x 15)
Spider	16 ( x 8)
Creeper	20 ( x 10)
Zombie	20 ( x 10)
Tamed Wolf	20 ( x 10)
Skeleton	20 ( x 10)
Zombie Pigman	20 ( x 10)
Blaze	20 ( x 10)
Witch	26 ( x 13)
Shulker	30 ( x 15)
Enderman	40 ( x 20)
Horse	40 ( x 20)
Iron Golem	100 ( x 50)
Ender Dragon	200 ( x 100)
Wither	300 ( x 150)
Polar Bear	30 ( x 15)
Llama	15 ( x 7.5) to 30 ( x 15)
Vindicator	24 ( x 12)
Evoker	24 ( x 12)
Vex	14 ( x 7)
Pillager	24 ( x 12)
Ravager	100 ( x 50)