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The specific instructions are: An image of the ender dragon and wither bossbars.
The specific instructions are: An image of the ender dragon and wither bossbars.
A bossbar is a bar that can track a boss mob's health or the total health of raid mobs.
Manual creation
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A bossbar can be shown using the /bossbar command. [Java Edition only]
Natural creation
Boss mobs
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A bossbar appears in the top center of the screen when near a wither or ender dragon.
For the ender dragon's bossbar to appear, the player must be within a Euclidean distance of 192 blocks from the coordinates (0.0, 192, 0.0) in the End dimension.[needs testing]
For the wither's bossbar to appear, the player must be loading the chunk the wither is in and be within 24 chunks and 3.5 blocks of a chunk the wither is in.
Raids
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When a player is within a 93 radius of the center of a raid, a raid bossbar appears, showing the total health of all raid mobs present during the current wave.
Parts
Color
The bossbar has colors depending on which boss mob or event is active.
The ender dragon has a color of pink. The wither has a dark purple[Java Edition only] or pink[Bedrock Edition only] bossbar. The raid bossbar has a color of red.
ID system
A bossbar has an ID, which can be used to do certain actions with one bossbar. An ID is not shown on the creation of the bossbar[verify], so you can't see it.
Removing
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A bossbar can be disabled by using /bossbar remove <id>.[more information needed]
Issues
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History
| Java Edition | |||||
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| 1.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 | Added bossbars. | |||
| The only color is pink. | |||||
| Ender dragons use bossbars. | |||||
| "Boss health" was displayed over the bossbar. | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Withers use bossbars. | |||
| Added bars.png, which has pink, cyan, orange, green, yellow, purple, and white bossbars, as well as textures for notches. | |||||
| 12w34b | Added boss names above the wither.[verify] | ||||
| 1.5 | 13w05b | Ender dragons now properly display their names above their bossbar.[1] | |||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Withers now have a purple bossbar. | |||
| Multiple bossbars can now show without overlapping. | |||||
| Bossbars are no longer briefly visible after respawning or opening a new world.[2] | |||||
| Bossbars are now visible even when the boss is not being looked at.[3] | |||||
| 16w02a | Ender dragons created using /summon no longer show a health bar. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | Ender dragons with custom names now show their name above their bossbar.[4] | |||
| 1.11.1 | 16w50a | Withers with custom names now show their name above their bossbar.[4][5] | |||
| 1.13 | 18w02a | Unnamed ender dragons now show "entity.EnderDragon.name" above their bossbar, rather than "Ender dragon".[6] | |||
| 18w03a | Ender dragons now show "Ender Dragon" again.[6] | ||||
| 18w05a | Added the /bossbar command, which can create a custom bossbar. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w47a | Raids use bossbars. | |||
| 18w49a | The raid bossbar now slowly fills up when a raid is triggered or when a wave is cleared. | ||||
| 19w13b | Notched bossbars now display correctly when more than one is active.[7] | ||||
| 1.16 | 20w17a | Bossbars with scores now update correctly when reloading the world.[8] | |||
| 1.19 | 22w11a | Notched bossbars now display correctly when more than one is active.[more information needed][9] | |||
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First image of multiple bossbars.