Simply: Immersive Drowning
Simply: Immersive Drowning changes how air loss and drowning damage work underwater, adding a hidden drown effect and a notice above the hotbar.
What it does
A hidden drown effect applies to the player once the air supply is gone, and it steadily wears down health while it stays active. The effect can be removed with a chance each time the space bar is pressed and released, so a player must tap it repeatedly to rise and breathe. Water lungs are shown above the hotbar, so the player can read the remaining air at any time.
The mod targets the vanilla drowning rules, which players have learned to get around with magma blocks, doors or long swims. Drowning damage is reduced while swimming underwater, but the threat stays real. The drown effect and lungs also apply in situations beyond open water. Simply: Immersive Drowning is built for Forge and NeoForge, runs on client and server, and is published under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license, which is not an open source license. Files exist for 1.20.1 only.
Key features
Hidden drown effect
Taking drowning damage applies a hidden effect that keeps working until the player leaves the water or removes it.
Water lungs display
The remaining air is shown above the hotbar as water lungs, so the player knows how long they can stay under.
Space bar recovery
Rapid taps of the space bar have a chance to end the drown effect, which makes the player work to get out.
Reduced underwater damage
Players take much less damage underwater than in vanilla, but drowning is still deadly if they stay too long.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Adventure maps
Map makers who want water to be a real hazard can keep drowning meaningful without reworking the rest of the game.
Survival servers
Server owners who want a harder underwater experience can add the mod to a vanilla world with no other changes.
Who it’s for: Players who want water to remain a threat in an otherwise familiar Minecraft 1.20.1 world, and server owners who want to adjust drowning without a large modpack.
Questions
Does Simply: Immersive Drowning work on Fabric?
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In the catalog
Simply: Immersive Drowning is one of 19,031 Adventure mods on ModsFinder, and one of 10,478 Adventure mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This mod is part of a line called 'Simply', a collection of simple mods that affect the game in simple but considerable ways. Over the years, Minecraft has started to become easier and easier as players have gained a lot of skill and experience with it. When swimming, veterans know to bring a door or magma block to…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/simply-immersive-drowning
- Owner
- Neon_Cranberries
- Published
- 2024-04-07
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-04-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15