Bottled Air (Legacy Fabric)
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.16–1.17. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
I don't know my version or loader
Requires the library mod Collective (Fabric) and the Fabric API.
This mod is part of The Vanilla Experience.
Bottled Air is a mod which enables another way to remain under the water for longer. Aside from potions and conduits, you can now gulp air out of an empty glass bottle. Which is done by just right-clicking an empty bottle while swimming, when the air bubble bar is visible. This will by default refill half of the player's air bubbles.
To prevent your inventory from getting completely filled with water bottles during this process, you can hold one of the fire-type items in your offhand. The current fire-type blocks are Campfires, fire charges, lava buckets and magma blocks. When holding one of these blocks, the newly created water bottle will evaporate and you'll get the glass bottle back. By default there is a 50% chance that the glass bottle breaks in this process. Go explore that underwater world!
Configurable: ( how do I configure? )
disableWaterConsumptionUnderwater (default = true): If enabled, players will be unable to drink water bottles underwater to prevent getting unlimited oxygen.
holdFireTypeItemInOffhandToPreventWaterBottleCreation (default = true): Whether the creation of water bottles should be prevented (evaporated) when holding a fire type block in the offhand.
chanceGlassBottleBreaksWithFireTypeInOffhand (default = 0.5, min 0, max 1.0): The chance a glass bottle breaks when the item in the offhand evaporates the water, giving back an empty (air) bottle.
amountOfAirInBottles (default = 150, min 0, max 1000): The amount of air an empty bottle contains. In vanilla Minecraft, 300 is the maximum air supply.
Some GIFs:
Jump in and gulp that air out of the empty bottles to swim under water for longer:

The air bubbles bar is filled by half with each glass bottle. There is a 50% chance it breaks during the evaporation process:

Of course you don't have to hold a fire-type block:

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You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted within the CurseForge ecosystem.
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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.16.5, 1.17.1, 1.17
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as bottledair-fabric_1.16.5-1.7.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 35 KB
- Download link checked 14 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.
