BendingMC / Guide & reference
Water bending
Water abilities turn nearby water into attacks, ice and support. The available moves depend on your element permissions and the area around you.
Sub-elements
Water abilities
36 entries in the referenceBloodbendingWater / BloodHold a living target in place, move it with your aim or throw it.Guide & controls
Hold a living target in place, move it with your aim or throw it. Bloodbenders can resist control under the server settings.
How to use
Hold sneak while aiming at a target to take control. Keep sneaking and move your aim to move it. Left click to throw it, or release sneak to let it go.
Hama's discovery revealed a frightening truth: waterbending could reach inside a living body.
Equip/b bind Bloodbending
Blood PuppetWater / BloodControl a living target and make it attack nearby entities.Guide & controls
Control a living target and make it attack nearby entities. Available targets and times depend on the server settings.
How to use
Hold sneak while aiming at a target to control it. Keep sneaking and left click to make a supported target attack nearby entities. Release sneak to let it go.
Bloodbending crosses the line between moving water and taking another person's control away.
Equip/b bind BloodPuppet
DrainWaterDraw water from nearby sources to fill empty bottles and buckets, or gather it into small water blasts.Guide & controls
Draw water from nearby sources to fill empty bottles and buckets, or gather it into small water blasts.
How to use
Hold sneak near water, plants you can bend, or falling rain to fill empty bottles and buckets in your inventory. With nothing to fill, keep sneaking until water gathers in front of you, then left click to fire. Blasts and rain sources must be enabled.
Hama showed that water could be found inside living plants, far from a river or a sea.
Equip/b bind Drain
Fast SwimWater · PassiveSwim quickly in the direction you look.Guide & controls
Swim quickly in the direction you look.
How to use
With Water passives enabled, select an empty slot or an ability that does not use sneak. Hold sneak in water to swim forward. Release to stop; you do not need to bind FastSwim.
Waterbenders learn to travel with the water rather than struggle through it.
Passive effect · no hotbar binding needed
Frost BreathWater / IceBreathe frost that traps targets in temporary ice.Guide & controls
Breathe frost that traps targets in temporary ice. It can also slow or damage them and freeze nearby water when enabled.
How to use
Aim and hold sneak to breathe frost. Release sneak or switch abilities to stop. Some hot or dry biomes can prevent it when biome restrictions are enabled.
Katara could turn her breath to frost. An icebender carries that cold wherever they go.
Equip/b bind FrostBreath
Healing WatersWater / HealingHeal yourself or another living target and remove many harmful potion effects.Guide & controls
Heal yourself or another living target and remove many harmful potion effects. You need natural water or a held water supply.
How to use
Select HealingWaters while standing in natural water to heal yourself. Hold sneak and aim at another target in natural water to heal them instead. On land, hold a water bottle or water bucket and sneak; aim at a target to heal them, or look away to heal yourself. Water bottles may be used up.
Water Tribe healers use careful hands and patient focus to help the body recover.
Equip/b bind HealingWaters
Hydro SinkWater · PassiveAvoid fall damage when landing on water, ice or snow that you can waterbend.Guide & controls
Avoid fall damage when landing on water, ice or snow that you can waterbend.
How to use
Works automatically with Water passives enabled. Land on a suitable surface; you do not need to bind this ability.
To a waterbender, a frozen surface can still offer a softer landing than solid ground.
Passive effect · no hotbar binding needed
Ice BlastWater / IceLaunch a block of ice that damages and slows the first target it hits.Guide & controls
Launch a block of ice that damages and slows the first target it hits.
How to use
Tap sneak while looking at ice to select it, then aim and left click to launch it. Snow can also be used when enabled.
A block of ice becomes a weapon once an icebender frees it from the ground.
Equip/b bind IceBlast
Ice BulletWater / Ice · ComboForm an ice shelter around you and fire shards at your target.Guide & controls
Form an ice shelter around you and fire shards at your target.
Combo sequence
1. WaterBubble: hold sneak. 2. WaterBubble: release sneak. 3. IceBlast: hold sneak. Keep holding sneak as the ice forms. Aim with IceBlast selected and alternate left and right clicks to fire. Release sneak to stop.
A shelter of ice can conceal a steady supply of sharp projectiles.
/b help IceBullet · Follow the sequence above.
Ice BurstWater / IceRaise ice spikes in a close burst or send a line of spikes forward.Guide & controls
Raise ice spikes in a close burst or send a line of spikes forward. The spikes damage and lift targets.
How to use
Stand near ice, hold sneak and left click. Look down for the close burst, or aim forward for a line that ends in a smaller burst.
Ice may look still, but a bender can send its stored force outward in an instant.
Equip/b bind IceBurst
Ice ClawsWater / IceForm ice claws that damage and slow a target when you hit them.Guide & controls
Form ice claws that damage and slow a target when you hit them. The claws can also be thrown when enabled.
How to use
Hold sneak until the claws form, then hit a target. To throw the claws, keep sneaking and left click toward your target.
Hama drew water from the air to form claws at her fingertips.
Equip/b bind IceClaws
Ice DiscsWater / IceRaise a block of ice and slice it into flying discs.Guide & controls
Raise a block of ice and slice it into flying discs. Unused ice returns to its source.
How to use
Tap sneak while looking at ice to raise it. Aim at the raised block and left click for one disc, or hold sneak and left click for a spread of all remaining discs. Look down to send the discs upward.
A patient cut separates a thin slice from a solid block of ice.
Equip/b bind IceDiscs
Binding & controls
- Equip an ability
- Select a hotbar slot, then type
/b bind <ability>. - Read the instructions
- Use
/b help <ability>for the move’s in-game help. - Cast it
- Hold its bound slot and follow the listed trigger. Controls vary between abilities.
- Use a combo
- Follow the sequence of abilities and inputs in the combo’s instructions.
This is the website’s reference catalogue. Ability availability and settings can change on the server.