Technical blocks/Water

Java Edition Classic
0.0.12a							Flowing water can be obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 8.
							Still water can be obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 9.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST							Water can be obtained as an item by having a creeper explode near it.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST_03							Explosions no longer drop water as an item.
Java Edition Beta
1.6			Test Build 3				Water items can be obtained from the newly added debug chests, mainly from the 8th slot of the 1st chest from the left, and the 19th slot of the 4th chest from the left.
							Flowing water items can be obtained from the newly added debug chests, mainly from the 9th slot of the 1st chest from the left, and the 20th slot of the 4th chest from the left.
			release				Debug chests no longer spawn, preventing water and flowing water items from being obtained this way.
Java Edition
1.3.1			12w16a				Water items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the /give command using the respective numeric IDs.
1.8			14w25a				The direct item forms of water and flowing water have been removed from the game. They can no longer exist as items in any way, only as placed blocks.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.1							Water exists as an item.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0							Water can now be obtained as an item through breaking surrounding blocks in a certain way, notably underwater plants.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU0	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Water exists as an item.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22			Flowing water as an item has been removed from the game. Note that still water still exists as an item.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Water can be obtained as an item by using pick block on seagrass at the same time as breaking it.

Appearances

Java Edition Classic
0.0.19a							Water is capable of existing in the player's hotbar, but will look completely invisible.
0.28							Water is now visible in the hotbar. It appears about a pixel offset downward compared to other cube items.
Java Edition Indev
?							Water items, when dropped on the ground, appear much larger than other blocks.
0.31			20091223-0040				The model is now subtly geometrically different, and the side textures now have a separate flowing texture. Item shading has also changed in this version.
			?				The left faces of items are brighter, and the right faces of items are darker.
			?				The top faces of items are brighter, and the left faces of items are darker.
			20100201-2227				The right faces of items are now shaded the same as the left faces.
?							The left and right faces of items are now brighter overall and shaded differently.
Java Edition Infdev
20100607							A texture bug in this version results in water items containing some parts of the lava texture.
20100608							Water items are now fully water again.
20100611							All 3D rendered items, which currently includes water, now appear shaded slightly darker in the inventory.
20100615							Water items are now completely flat.
Java Edition
1.5			13w02a				Water items now use the still water texture likely due to texture storage reforms.
1.7.2			13w42a				Water items now appear translucent in the inventory. As a dropped item, in a player's hand, or in an item frame, they still appear opaque.
1.8			14w02a				Water items now appear translucent when held, in both first person and third person.
			14w05a				Water items now appear translucent when dropped or in an item frame.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0							Water displays this texture when in an item frame or when looked at in 3rd person.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0							Water appears like this when in an item frame.
Bedrock Edition
?							Water appears like this in the inventory.
?							The item only appears animated when in the inventory or hotbar. When dropped, held or in an item frame, it appears completely stationary.
?							When held, the item uses the whole 32x32 flowing texture rather than the usual 16x16 section of it.
1.4.0			?				Due to water now receiving extensive biome tints, it appears gray in the inventory.
?							Water now appears tinted as an item. When held or dropped, it still appears gray.
?							Water no longer appears at twice the usual resolution in the player's hand.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU0	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Water exists as an item, using the old generated texture, however it appears as though it may be translucent in the inventory (but not when held). Note that water as an item is animated in-game.
TU12							Water as an item now uses this texture.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			It appears 3D in the inventory, and is now translucent when held.

Names

Still Water

Java Edition

Item names did not exist prior to Beta 1.0.

• Beta 1.0 - 14w21b: Water
• (As block name, item does not exist) 14w25a and onward: Water
• The blocks flowing and stationary water has been removed and water block has become generic. Generic water block's resource location is minecraft:water.

Pocket Edition

• v0.13.0 Alpha - v0.14.3 Alpha: tile.calmWater.name
• v0.15.0 Alpha - v0.16.2 Alpha: tile.water.name
• 1.0.0 - ?: Water

Xbox 360 Edition

• TU0 - TU75: Water

Flowing Water

Java Edition

Item names did not exist prior to Beta 1.0.

• Beta 1.0 - 14w21b: Water
• (As block name, item does not exist) 14w25a and onward: Water

Bedrock Edition

• ? - ?: Water

Xbox 360 Edition

• TU0 - ?: Water