Bucket of Fish

Bucket of Fish

Type	Tools
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
First appearances	See History
Name	cod_bucket salmon_bucket tropical_fish_bucket clownfish_bucket

Buckets of fish are a form of water bucket with a fish inside of them.

Obtaining

A bucket of fish can be obtained by using a water bucket on any fish mob. The fish bucket obtained will correspond to the fish picked up. In the Bedrock Edition, an empty bucket can also be used to obtain a fish bucket.^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Usage

Pressing use with a bucket of fish will place a water source block, and spawn the corresponding fish back into the world, leaving an empty bucket in the player's inventory. For buckets of tropical fish, the patterns and color of the tropical fish are remembered and stored in the bucket. Placing a bucket of fish in the Nether will cause the fish mob to be spawned alone, flopping out of water.

Bucket of tropical fish

Tropical fish also have assigned names which can be seen after capture, so that the buckets are given names like "Bucket of Plum Blockfish", "Bucket of Sky-Orange Snooper" or "Bucket of Orange-Lime Dasher".^{[Bedrock Edition only]} Their colors are mostly named according to the colored block names, though with a few exceptions:

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  White
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  Orange
• 
  Magenta
• 
  Sky
• 
  Yellow
• 
  Lime
• 
  Rose
• 
  Gray
• 
  Silver
• 
  Teal
• 
  Plum
• 
  Blue
• 
  Brown
• 
  Green
• 
  Red

The base color will come first, and if the pattern color is different, it will come after that. Lastly, the fish bucket will be given a name according to the shape and pattern of the fish:

Flopper Glitter Betty Stripey Blockfish Clayfish

Kob Snooper Brinely SunStreak Dasher Spotty

A bucket of tropical fish pulled out of the creative inventory will spawn randomly colored tropical fish when used.

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	Tactical Fishing	Catch a fish... without a fishing rod!	Fishy Business	Use a water bucket on a fish mob to create a fish bucket.	minecraft:husbandry/tactical_fishing

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	I'm a Marine Biologist	Collect a fish in a bucket		No	No	Yes	No	20G	—

History

Official release
1.13			18w08b		Added cod, salmon and "Puffer Fish" buckets.
					The texture of what appears to be a clownfish bucket can be seen in the game files.
			18w10a		Added tropical fish buckets.
			18w14a		Catching a fish in a water bucket now awards the Tactical Fishing advancement.
			18w19a		Corrected "Puffer Fish Bucket" to "Pufferfish Bucket".
					Tropical fish bucket id changed to tropical_fish_bucket.
			18w22a		Changed tropical fish bucket texture to .
			pre5		Changed the name of fish buckets: "[type of fish] bucket" is now "bucket of [type of fish]," which is the name the item always had in Bedrock Edition.
Bedrock Edition
1.4			beta 1.2.14.2		Added fish buckets of cod, salmon and tropical fish.
					Added bucket of pufferfish, which has different textures compared to the Java Edition.
			beta 1.2.20.2		Now available in the Creative inventory.

Issues

Issues relating to "Fish Bucket", "Cod Bucket", "Salmon Bucket", "Pufferfish Bucket", or "Tropical Fish Bucket" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• When a water bucket is transformed into a bucket of fish, it will actually push the bucket texture down one pixel. According to Dinnerbone, Jappa says this is due to the "weight of the fish."
• Buckets of tropical fish will always appear to contain an orange-white kob, regardless of whatever fish is actually inside.
• Since empty buckets can be used to capture fish on the Bedrock edition, it is possible to create an infinite amount of water source blocks simply by catching a fish mob with a bucket and continuely placing and re-capturing the mob.

References

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