Top 5 Ways to Breathe Underwater in Minecraft [Java & Bedrock]

 Do you want to explore the ocean a bit more thoroughly by breathing underwater in Minecraft? Wearing a turtle shell on your head can extend your underwater breathing time by a few seconds. If you want to extend it even further, you can use the Respiration enchantment or brew Water Breathing Potions, which will allow you to breathe for an unprecedented 8 minutes. 

You must construct a conduit if you wish to remain underwater for an extended amount of time. With all the tools, enchantments, and tactics required to conquer the oceans in Minecraft, this guide will show you how to breathe underwater in the game.

A Minecraft player swimming underwater wearing a turtle shell helmet with bubbles rising in the ocean.

Without running out of breath, explore the depths of the oceans in Minecraft! Using potions, turtle shells, and ingenious survival techniques, this guide demonstrates how to breathe underwater. Gaining proficiency in underwater breathing enables you to easily explore ocean temples and find hidden gems, whether you're on Java or Bedrock.

Knowing How to Breathe Underwater in Minecraft

Players in Minecraft can breathe underwater for fifteen seconds before beginning to drown. You take two hits every second after your oxygen runs out until you resurface or get more oxygen. You can prolong your underwater breathing time by using these techniques.

Respiration Enchantment

The Respiration enchantment extends your underwater breathing time. It is available for turtle shells and helmets.

• Effect: The breathing time increases by 15 seconds with each level.
• Max Level: An extra 45 seconds are provided by Respiration III.

You can prolong your time underwater by combining this enchantment with other breathing techniques.

Turtle Shell Helmet

Turtle scutes, which are shed when young turtles mature into adults, are used to create the unusual helmet known as the turtle shell.

• Crafting Recipe: One turtle shell is made from five scutes.
• Effect: You can breathe in water for an extra 10 seconds while wearing the turtle helmet.

A turtle shell helmet can provide up to 70 seconds of underwater breathing when combined with the Respiration III enchantment. Although this isn't a permanent solution, it's helpful for brief underwater tasks.

Bubble Columns

Magma blocks or soul sand are placed at the bottom of a water column to create bubble columns, which are vertical streams of bubbles. bubbles.

• Magma Blocks: Form a downward bubble column to drag you down.
• Soul Sand: Forms an upward bubble column, pushing you upward.

How to Make a Bubble Column:

1. Every water block in the column must be a source block.
2. Use kelp to convert flowing water into source blocks by placing it in a column and breaking it.

Entering a bubble column replenishes your air as if you were dehydrated. However, because bubble columns pull or push you in a particular direction, they are more appropriate for moving items or mobs than for long-term air replenishment.

Water-Breathing Potions

A short-term fix for breathing underwater is offered by water-breathing potions.ions.

How to Craft Water Breathing Potions:

1. Insert water bottles into the three bottom slots of a brewing stand.
2. Fuel the left slot with blaze powder.
3. To make Awkward Potion, distill nether wart into water bottles.
4. Place a pufferfish in the top slot to make a Potion of Water Breathing.

Duration:

• Standard: 3 min.
• Extended: To extend the time to 8 minutes, add redstone dust.

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