Lava Bucket

Lava Bucket

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	No
Stackable	No

A lava bucket is a bucket filled with lava.

Obtaining

To fill an empty bucket with lava, use it on a lava source block, or, in Bedrock Edition, lava in a cauldron. The block is consumed in the process. Flowing lava does not fill a bucket.

Lava is a finite resource. New lava source blocks cannot be created, unlike water source blocks, which can be created from two water source blocks horizontally adjacent to an air block.

Usage

A lava bucket can be used to place down lava sources with the Use Item button. Doing so gives the player the bucket back. Lava buckets can be used to replace some transparent, non-full blocks such as tall grass and water, both flowing and sources.

Lava buckets can be used to break Nether portal blocks by placing the lava on the side of a block next to the portal block.

Smelting

A lava bucket can be used as an efficient fuel. It has the longest burning value of 1000 seconds, compared to 800 seconds for a coal block (a lava bucket smelts 100 items, and a coal block smelts 80). After smelting starts, the lava bucket turns into an empty bucket.

Trading

In Bedrock Edition, journeyman-level armorer villagers buy a lava bucket for one emerald as part of their trades.

In Java Edition, journeyman-level armorer villagers have a 40% chance of offering to buy a lava bucket for one emerald.

Cauldrons

In Bedrock Edition, a lava bucket can be used to fill a cauldron with lava. The lava damages any entity standing inside the cauldron, unless the entity is immune to fire damage. Flowing water or waterlogging does not affect the lava in the cauldron.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Bucket fills	?	?	item.bucket.fill_lava	subtitles.item.bucket.fill	?	?	16
	Bucket empties	?	?	item.bucket.empty_lava	subtitles.item.bucket.empty	?	?	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:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Lava Bucket	lava_bucket	item.minecraft.lava_bucket

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Lava Bucket	bucket	325	item.bucketLava.name

Block data

Main article: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, 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
Bucket of Mud	5000‌[Minecraft Earth only]

Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Super Fuel	Power a Furnace with Lava	—	20G	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Hot Stuff	Fill a bucket with lava	Acquire Hardware	Have a lava bucket in your inventory.	story/lava_bucket

History

Java Edition Infdev
20100615					Added lava buckets.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.1.0					Buckets of lava can now be used to fuel a furnace for 100 smelts, consuming the lava and the bucket. This is the highest number of smelts of any single item in the game.
v1.2.6					Using a lava bucket on chests and other blocks with GUIs no longer places the lava.
					Added lava lakes, allowing lava buckets to be used to collect lava from them.
Java Edition
1.3		12w22a			Smelting in a furnace with a lava bucket now leaves an empty bucket for the player to retrieve.
1.8		14w25a			A lava bucket is now shown as the icon when lava is used as a layer in Superflat.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to the Flattening this item's numerical ID was 327.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of lava buckets has now been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.7.0					Added lava buckets.
0.7.4					Lava buckets can now be used as fuel in a furnace.
					Lava buckets no longer stack to 64.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.2			Lava bucket can now be used to fill a cauldron.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of lava buckets has now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Lava buckets can now be sold to armorer villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added lava buckets.
TU9					Dispensers have now been given the ability to shoot out the liquids inside lava buckets. They can also suck up the liquids if activated again, but do not fill up the buckets with the liquid dropped due to a bug.
		1.90			The texture of lava buckets has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added lava buckets.

Issues

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Trivia

• One lava bucket has the highest number of smelts in the game at 100 items per bucket.
  • This makes it 12.5 times more efficient than coal and charcoal.

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