Bucket of Fish

Bucket of Fish

Rarity	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

This article is about the water buckets that contain fish. For other uses, see Fish.

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. Once an empty bucket‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} or a water bucket is used‌^{[Java Edition only]}, the fish is picked up along with the water source block. The fish bucket obtained corresponds to the fish picked up.

Trading

Wandering traders have ¹⁄₆ chance to either sell a bucket of pufferfish or a bucket of tropical fish for 5 emeralds.

Novice-level Fisherman villagers have a 50% chance to sell a bucket of cod for 3 emeralds.

Usage

Pressing use with a bucket of fish places a water source block, and spawns 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 causes the same particles to appear that generate when a normal water bucket is placed in the Nether, and the fish is spawned alone.

Fish caught in buckets then released do not despawn, unlike fish that spawn naturally in oceans.

If a bucket of fish is inside a dispenser, the dispenser spawns the fish and water block in front of it upon activation.

If a bucket of fish is named a certain name through an anvil, the fish inside display that name as if it were named with a name tag. Alternatively if a named fish is captured with a bucket of water, the resulting fish bucket shares a name with the captured fish.

Bucket of tropical fish

Tropical fish also have assigned names that can be seen after capture, so that smaller text under the item name is displayed showing the fish name, similar to the text that displays enchantments under enchanted items. Their colors are mostly named according to the colored block names, though with a few exceptions:

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

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

Flopper Glitter Betty Stripey Blockfish Clayfish

Kob Snooper Brinely SunStreak Dasher Spotty

Some tropical fish don't follow the normal naming system, and instead reference real-life fish species. Apart from these names, these types of fish aren't different from regular tropical fish in terms of design or behavior.

These varieties are:

Name	Type
Anemone	Orange-Gray Stripey
Black Tang	Gray Flopper
Blue Dory ‌[Bedrock Edition only]	Gray-Sky SunStreak
Blue Tang ‌[Java Edition only]	Gray-Blue Flopper
Butterfly Fish ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Butterflyfish ‌[Java Edition only]	White-Gray Brinely
Cichlid	Blue-Gray SunStreak
Clownfish	Orange-White Kob
Cotton Candy Betta	Rose-Sky Spotty
Dottyback	Plum-Yellow Blockfish
Emperor Red Snapper	White-Red Clayfish
Goatfish	White-Yellow Spotty
Moorish Idol	White-Gray Glitter
Ornate Butterfly ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Ornate Butterflyfish ‌[Java Edition only]	White-Orange Clayfish
Parrotfish	Teal-Rose Dasher
Queen Angel Fish ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Queen Angelfish ‌[Java Edition only]	Lime-Sky Brinely
Red Cichlid	Red-White Betty
Red Lipped Blenny	Gray-Red Snooper
Red Snapper	Red-White Blockfish
Threadfin	White-Yellow Flopper
Tomato Clown ‌[Bedrock Edition only]	Red-White SunStreak
Tomato Clownfish ‌[Java Edition only]	Red-White Kob
Triggerfish	Gray-White SunStreak
Yellowtail Parrot ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Yellowtail Parrotfish ‌[Java Edition only]	Teal-Yellow Dasher
Yellow Tang	Yellow Stripey

A bucket of tropical fish purchased from a wandering trader or pulled from the Creative inventory spawns random tropical fish when used, due to it having no associated NBT.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	None	?	Plays when collecting fish	item.bucket.fill_fish	None	?	?	16
	None	?	Plays when depositing fish	item.bucket.empty_fish	None	?	?	16
	Gear equipped	Players	When used in survival See MC-97507	item.armor.equip_generic	subtitles.item.armor.equip	1.0	1.0	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Item	Namespaced ID
Bucket of Cod	cod_bucket
Bucket of Salmon	salmon_bucket
Bucket of Pufferfish	pufferfish_bucket
Bucket of Tropical Fish	tropical_fish_bucket

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Bucket of Fish	bucket	325

Item data

Java Edition

•  tag: The item's tag tag.

• •  BucketVariantTag: The variant data of the tropical fish in the bucket. Only applies to Bucket of Tropical Fish.
  •  EntityTag: Stores entity data that is applied to the fish when it's poured out. If this data includes a tropical fish variant, it overrides the one provided in BucketVariantTag.
    • See Fish entity format.

Normal buckets of fish use only the BucketVariantTag tag to store the variant of any tropical fish that is picked up, and the item's display name to store the fish's custom name.

Bedrock Edition

Main article: data values

Buckets use data value to determine contents. Once used, each data value is set to 0 (Empty Bucket). If no data value is provided, data value is 0.

Bucket	Data value
Bucket	0
Milk	1
Bucket of Cod	2
Bucket of Salmon	3
Bucket of Tropical Fish	4
Bucket of Pufferfish	5
Water Bucket	8
Lava Bucket	10

Achievements

Main article: Achievement

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
	I am a Marine Biologist	Collect a fish in a bucket	Use an empty bucket on any fish mob to collect it.	20G	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: Advancement

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Tactical Fishing	Catch a fish... without a fishing rod!	Fishy Business	Have a bucket of fish in your inventory.	husbandry/tactical_fishing

History

Java Edition
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			"Puffer Fish Bucket" has now been corrected to "Pufferfish Bucket".
					Tropical fish bucket id has now been changed to tropical_fish_bucket.
		18w22a			The tropical fish bucket texture has now been updated, due to an inconsistent dark pixel on the bottom right of the bucket's texture that wasn't part of the other fish buckets.
		pre5			The name of fish buckets has now been changed from "[type of fish] bucket" to "bucket of [type of fish]", like they are in Bedrock Edition.
1.13.1		18w33a			Added tooltips for buckets of tropical fish.
1.14		18w43b			The textures of buckets of cod, salmon, pufferfish and tropical fish have now been changed.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added fish buckets of cod, salmon and tropical fish.
					Added bucket of pufferfish, which has a different texture compared to Java Edition.
		beta 1.2.20.2			Fish buckets are now available in the Creative inventory.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			A bucket of pufferfish and tropical fish are now sold by the new wandering traders.
					The textures of buckets of cod, salmon, pufferfish and tropical fish have now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			A bucket of cod can now be bought from fisherman villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added buckets of cod, salmon, pufferfish and tropical fish.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The textures of buckets of cod, salmon, pufferfish and tropical fish have now been changed.
Education Edition
1.4.0					Added buckets of cod, salmon, pufferfish and tropical fish. The texture of the bucket of pufferfish and the texture of the bucket of tropical fish are the same as the ones in Bedrock Edition.

Issues

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

Trivia

• When a water bucket is transformed into a bucket of fish, it actually pushes the bucket texture down one pixel. According to Dinnerbone, JAPPA says this is due to the "weight of the fish".
• Buckets of tropical fish 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 and Legacy Console Edition, it is possible to create an infinite amount of water source blocks simply by catching a fish mob with a bucket and continually placing and re-capturing the mob.

References

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