Cod

This article is about the mob. For the food items, see Raw Cod and Cooked Cod.

Cod

Health points	3
Behavior	Passive
Attack strength	Passive
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Height: 0.3 Blocks Width: 0.5 Blocks In Bedrock Edition: Height: 0.3 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks
Spawn	See § Spawning
Items usable on	Water Bucket Bucket ‌[Bedrock Edition only]

Cod are common passive fish mobs found in oceans.

Spawning

Java Edition

Cod spawn underwater in normal, cold, and lukewarm oceans, and their deep variants, in groups of 3-6. Cod need 2 water blocks to spawn.

Bedrock Edition

Cod spawn underwater 12-32 blocks away from the player in normal, cold, frozen, lukewarm oceans, and their deep variants, in groups of 4-7. In addition, cod spawn only on the surface; that is, there must not be a spawnable block above the spawn location with a non-solid block on top.

Drops

Cod drop the following upon death:

• 1 raw cod (1 cooked cod if killed while on fire)
• 1 bone meal (5% chance)‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• 1–2 bones (25% chance)‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• 1–3 experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

Cod tend to swim in schools (a maximum of nine cod per school).

The player may collect a cod by using a water bucket on it, which gives the player a bucket of fish. Cod placed with buckets do not despawn naturally. When that fish bucket is used on a block, it empties the bucket, placing water with the cod swimming in it.

An empty bucket may be used as well.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Weaknesses

A cod cannot survive outside of water. Outside of water, they flip around on their sides like guardians for a while trying to get back into the water until, after 10 seconds of time, they eventually start taking suffocation damage and die like squid. In Bedrock Edition, they rotate when flipping when out of water. They cannot swim or breathe in cauldron water. They can swim in, but cannot survive in waterlogged blocks, most noticeably waterlogged slabs and stairs.

Cod are affected by the Impaling enchantment, like squid, turtles, guardians, elder guardians, dolphins, and all other types of fish (salmon, pufferfish, and tropical fish).‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
-	None	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	entity.cod.ambient	None	1.0	0.8 - 1.2	16
	Cod dies	Friendly Creatures	When cod dies	entity.cod.death	subtitles.entity.cod.death	1.0	0.8 - 1.2	16
	Cod flops	Friendly Creatures	When cod is outside of water	entity.cod.flop	subtitles.entity.cod.flop	0.3	0.8 - 1.2	16
	Cod hurts	Friendly Creatures	When cod takes damage	entity.cod.hurt	subtitles.entity.cod.hurt	1.0	0.8 - 1.2	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Entity tags (JE)	Translation key
Cod	cod	axolotl_always_hostiles‌[upcoming: JE 1.17]	entity.minecraft.cod

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Cod	cod	112	entity.cod.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Cod have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  •  FromBucket: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Whether the fish had ever been released from a bucket.

Achievements

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

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Tactical Fishing	Catch a fish... without a fishing rod!	Fishy Business	Use a water bucket to pick up any fish mob.	husbandry/tactical_fishing

History

Java Edition Alpha
June 28, 2010					Notch mentioned that fish might be a feature of coral, if he were able to add coral: "... I do know that the corals will have tiny fish particles around them."
October 4, 2010					Fish were a passive mob that Notch showed interest in adding. In the promotional graphic for the Halloween Update, Notch indicated he would add fish. However, they were added only as an item; there was no code for a fish mob.
Java Edition
October 5, 2012					Fish were jokingly teased in the fake snapshot 12marc40awesome, along with coral and "fish blocks".
April 13, 2013					When Jon Kågström was asked in his AMA on Reddit, "What mob would you like to implement into the game?" He responded, "I would like to add birds, fish and tree animals to make it more alive. However this will take some time before it can be done."
July 31, 2013					During Notch's AMA on Reddit, when asked about what happened to his plans of adding fish as a mob, he responded, "Oh yeah, the fish!"
1.13		18w08b			Added cod as a mob.
					Cod have 20 × 10 health.
		18w10a			The max health of cod has been changed to 3.
		18w15a			Cod now drop the cooked version of their item drops, if killed while on fire.
1.13.1		18w31a			Cod now have a 5% chance of dropping bone meal when killed.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added cod.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Cod now drop experience when killed.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.52			Cod now drop the cooked version of their item drops, if killed while on fire.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added cod.
Education Edition
1.4.0					Added cod.

Issues

Issues relating to "Cod" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• A cod in real life are any species of fish that belong in the genus Gadus, except for Alaska pollock which is the same genus but not called "cod".

Gallery

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  A school of 6 cod swimming in an ocean.

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  A fully inflated pufferfish, with six deflated pufferfish and a school of cod behind it.

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  An ocean with some fish visible.

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  A cod and pufferfish taking damage on land due to the absence of water around them.

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  Cod and tropical fish, along with a turtle and squid.

References

Entities

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