---
title: Set Health
description: "Play 0x68, server → client."
---

`play` · `0x68` · **clientbound** (server → client)

Sets the player's health, food level and saturation. The server sends it when any of them change. A `health` of 0 or less makes the client show the death screen.

Sent by the server, read by the client. Listen for it with `client.on("SetHealth", (data) => …)` on the receiving side.

## Fields

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `health` | Float |  |
| `food` | VarInt |  |
| `foodSaturation` | Float |  |

## Send it

```ts
await client.sendPacket("SetHealth", { health: 20, food: 20, foodSaturation: 5 });

// Kill the player: health 0 shows the death screen.
await client.sendPacket("SetHealth", { health: 0, food: 20, foodSaturation: 0 });
```

`health` runs from `0` to `20` for ten hearts; `food` from `0` to `20`. The client plays the hurt animation when health drops. Values above 20 need the `max_health` attribute via `UpdateAttributes`.

Field aliases listed under Notes are accepted as alternative keys when writing.

Source: [`src/Core/Versions/776/Packets/play/clientbound/SetHealth.ts`](https://github.com/GDLev/mc-protocol/blob/master/src/Core/Versions/776/Packets/play/clientbound/SetHealth.ts)