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How to turn off drowning in Minecraft

Run /gamerule drowning_damage false and players no longer take damage when they run out of air underwater.

drowning_damage

Controls whether players take damage when they run out of air underwater.

/gamerule drowning_damage <true|false>

Examples

/gamerule drowning_damage false

No damage from drowning.

Values

ValueWhat it does
trueDefault On
false Off

Arguments

true|falseOptional
true turns the rule on, false turns it off. Leave it out to show the current value.

What it does

When false, players can stay underwater indefinitely without hurting. The air bubbles still drain, they just do no damage once empty.

Run it on your server

On a SLASHPLAY server, type it in the Console tab without the leading slash; in game, operators type it in chat with the slash. New to this? Start a Minecraft server first.

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