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Water

16Block states
1Properties
NoItem form

Water is a block in Minecraft. Beyond being part of the world as a block, it is also used as an ingredient, and it appears in 50 different recipes.

Contents (6)
  1. Data values
  2. Sounds
  3. Block states
  4. Natural generation
  5. History
  6. See also

Data values

Read from reports/blocks.json of Minecraft 26.3.

Identifierminecraft:water
Numeric default state ID89
Block states16
State properties1
Item formNo

Sounds

Sound events named after this block. Blocks that share a generic sound group are not listed, because the game keeps those groupings in code rather than in its data files.

WhenSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
AmbientWater flowsblock.water.ambientsubtitles.block.water.ambient

Block states

1 property combine into 16 distinct states.

PropertyDefaultAllowed valuesMeaning
level00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15Fill level.

Natural generation

Biomes whose own feature list places this block, followed from worldgen/biome through placed_feature to feature. Blocks that the terrain itself is made of (stone, dirt, deepslate) come from the surface rules instead and are not listed here.

Placed by the worldgen features ice_crevasse, spring_water, sulfur_pool.

… and 16 more.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w01a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w01a (3 January 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

See also