Pufferfish (item)

Pufferfish

Type	Food
Rarity	Common
Restores	See § Food
Cookable	No
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Experience	1–6
Data value	dec: 462 hex: 1CE bin: 111001110
Name	pufferfish

This article is about pufferfish in its food form. For the mob form of pufferfish, see Pufferfish. For other uses, see Fish.

A pufferfish is a poisonous type of fish that is used to brew water breathing potions.

Obtaining

Fishing

Pufferfish can be obtained through fishing. The pufferfish catch rate can be increased by Lure, which reduces wait time generally.

Pufferfish can only be caught when fishing outside jungle biomes and its variants.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Mob drops

Guardians and elder guardians

Guardians and elder guardians have a 2.5% chance of dropping a random fish upon death. This has a 13% chance of being pufferfish. The chance of getting a fish can be increased by 1% per level of looting, but the type of fish is not affected.

Fish

Pufferfish will always drop 1 pufferfish in its item form when killed.

Usage

Food

Pufferfish restores 1 () and 0.2 saturation, and inflicts Hunger III for 15 seconds, Poison IV for 1 minute, and Nausea II for 15 seconds. Unlike rotten flesh, it is not helpful to eat pufferfish while starving because they inflict more health damage than they earn.

Cats

Pufferfish can be used to tame ocelots,‌^{[Legacy Console Edition only]} get cats off of chests, beds, etc., breed cats, make baby cats grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time and gain an ocelot's trust.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Brewing ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Brewing recipe
Potion of Water Breathing	Pufferfish + Awkward Potion
Mundane Potion	Pufferfish + Water Bottle

Trading

Master-level fisherman villagers buy one‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} or four‌^{[Java Edition only]} pufferfish for an emerald.

Wolves

In Bedrock Edition, pufferfish can be used to fed wolves, heal them by 1. However, unlike other wolf food, pufferfish cannot be used to speed up the growth of baby wolves nor used to breed them, thus making it only feedable when wolves are not at full health.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Lion Tamer	Tame an Ocelot. (in Legacy Console Edition) / Gain the trust of an Ocelot. (in Bedrock Edition)		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	15G	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	—	Eat anything that can be eaten.	minecraft:husbandry/root
	Fishy Business	Catch a fish	Husbandry	Use a fishing rod to catch a fish.	minecraft:husbandry/fishy_business
	A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	A Seedy Place	Eat each of these 38 foods. In Java Edition 1.15,‌[upcoming] consuming a honey bottle is also required for the advancement. Other foods are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:husbandry/balanced_diet

Video

Note: This video is outdated in Java Edition, as raw fish, cooked fish and clownfish are now called raw cod, cooked cod, and tropical fish as of 1.13. Also, the video says tropical fish restore 0.5 () instead of the correct 1 ().

History

Java Edition
1.7.2		13w36a			Added pufferfish.
					Potion of Water Breathing potions added; they can be brewed by adding a pufferfish to an Awkward Potion.
		13w43a			The texture of pufferfish has now been changed.
1.8		14w25a			Pufferfish is now obtainable as a rare drop from guardians and elder guardians.
1.13		17w47a			The different data values for the fish ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 349.
		18w08b			Pufferfish (and other fish types) has been added as a mob, which will drop its item form when killed.
					The texture of pufferfish has now been updated.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.11.0		build 1			Added pufferfish.
0.12.1		build 1			Pufferfish will now restore hunger instead of health.
					Pufferfish can now be used to make potion of water breathing.
0.16.0		build 1			Pufferfish is now dropped by guardians and elder guardians.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Pufferfish has been added as a mob, which will drop its item form when killed.
					The texture of pufferfish has now been updated.
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Pufferfish can now be used to feed ocelots to gain their trust.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Pufferfish can now be sold to fisherman villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added pufferfish.
TU69	CU57	1.76	Patch 38		Pufferfish (and other fish types) has been added as a mob, which will drop its item form when killed.
					The texture of pufferfish has now been updated.

Issues

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Trivia

• The consumption of pufferfish inflicting the player with nausea and poison is actually based on reality, as real pufferfish contain the extremely dangerous toxin Tetrodotoxin within their organs, especially their liver. Tetrodotoxin leads to quick death through respiratory paralysis. Muscle tissue and blood only contain trace amounts. In East Asia, pufferfish are considered a delicacy known as fugu, as small parts of the fish are actually edible. Any chef preparing fugu would have to have special licensing/certification to prepare this dish.

Gallery

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  The result of eating pufferfish.

See also

• Fishing

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