How to disable drowning damage on your Minecraft server

We will walk you through the steps of disabling drowning damage on your Minecraft server in this article, this modification will enable players to explore underwater without fear of being killed!

How to disable drowning damage on your server?

1- Start your Minecraft server from your server’s control panel, then open your game then click on “Multiplayer

2- Click on “Add Server

3- At “Server Address” enter your server’s IP, which you can find in your server’s control panel, then hit “Done

4- You will find your server added to the servers list select it then hit “Join Server

5- Open the in-game chat, then run this command /gamerule drowningDamage false then drowning damage will be disabled in the world you used the command in!

Note: To use this command, you need to have server operator permissions, which means that you must be an OP (operator) on the server.

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