Minecraft: Health - survival guide Minecraft guide, tips

Health: how to restore? where to respawn? quick health; death - how you can die? what can kill you?

Last update: 10 July 2020

Health points are represented by the hearts that you can see on the HUD. Above the hearts, you can see armor (if you are currently wearing one) that reduces some of the damage that you take. Once you lose all of the hearts, your character dies and, if there is the opportunity (i.e. if it is not a game in the Hardcore mode) you can respawn in your spawn point or in the bed, in which you last slept (if it still exists and it was not moved). After your character dies, he drops all of his equipment, which can be collected again, if only it was not destroyed (by falling, e.g. into lava), or taken by another player. In the Creative mode, you do not have the health bar (you are invincible).

Your character has 10 hearts of health, which reflect 20 health points. All of the mobs use the same health bar system, which is why (if a mob is not wearing armor) the same damage can be dealt to various types of monsters.

Health regenerates if your hunger bar is full or nearly full (not less than 9/10 hunger points) and it is not subject to negative effects (e.g. poison). Regeneration can be speeded up with regenerating potions of buffs (e.g. from a Beacon) and by eating golden apples. Additionally, apples provide you with the effect of damage absorption, which is represented with additional hearts. By sleeping in a bed, you regenerate health to its full value.

The armor worn by your character, to ensure protection, does not need to be full. Each single element influences damage that you take. Sets can also be combined, e.g. a helmet of gold and leggings of iron. Armor, just like any other tool/weapon has its durability points. You can repair it by joining two damaged elements (not utterly destroyed, because after the durability points drop to zero, the element falls apart), using the anvil.

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