Salmon (item)

Salmon

Type	Food
Restores	See Food
Cookable	Raw Salmon: Yes Cooked Salmon: No
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Experience	Cooked: 0.35 Caught: 1–6
First appearances	See History
Data values	See data values
Name	See data values

This article is about salmon in its food form, both raw and cooked. For the mob form of salmon, see Fish (mob). For other uses, see Fish.

Raw salmon is a food item.
Cooked salmon is a food item obtained by cooking raw salmon.

Obtaining

Fishing

The most common way of obtaining raw salmon is fishing. The wait time of one being caught is decreased with the Lure enchantment and the chance of one being caught is slightly decreased with the Luck of the Sea enchantment (named as such because it increases treasure, not fish).

Mob drops

Guardians and Elder Guardians

Guardians and elder guardians drop a random fish as a rare drop besides the common raw cod drop. This has a 25% chance of being raw salmon. The chance of getting a fish can be increased with Looting, but the type of fish is not affected.

Polar Bears

Polar bears drop 0–2 raw cod when killed. This has a 25% chance of being raw salmon. The salmon will be raw even if the polar bear is on fire when killed.

Salmon

Salmon mobs will always drop 1 raw salmon in its item form when killed. If the salmon was killed while on fire, then it will drop cooked salmon instead.

Natural generation

Raw salmon can be found in 61.5% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–2.

In Bedrock Edition they can be found in all bonus chests in stacks of 1–2.

Cooked salmon can be found in 75.0% of buried treasure chests in stacks of 2–4.

Smelting

Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Raw Salmon + Any fuel

Usage

Food

Raw salmon restores 2 () and 0.2 saturation. Cooked salmon restores 6 () and 9.6 saturation.

Ocelots

Salmon can be used to tame ocelots, get cats off of chests, beds, etc., breed cats, and make baby cats grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.‌^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]}

Dolphins

Dolphins can be fed raw salmon. Doing this will increase their trust with the player, and interact with them more often. However, unlike most animals, this will not cause them to breed.

Additionally, Dolphins will swim to the nearest chest in a Shipwreck or Underwater Ruins when they are fed raw salmon. If the chest in the nearest structure is broken, they will swim to another structure with a chest.

Data values

ID

Item	ID Name	Numeral ID‌[Bedrock Edition only]
Raw Salmon	salmon	?
Cooked Salmon	cooked_salmon	?

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		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 36 foods. Other foods, like cake, are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:husbandry/balanced_diet

History

Java Edition
1.7.2			13w36a		Added raw salmon and cooked salmon.
1.8			14w02a		Cooked salmon can no longer be traded by villagers.
			14w25a		Raw salmon is now obtainable rare drops from guardians and elder guardians.
1.9			15w44a		Raw salmon can now be found in bonus chests.
1.10			16w20a		Raw salmon is now dropped from polar bears.
1.13			17w47a		The different data values for the fish and cooked_fish IDs have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 349 and 250.
			18w08b		Salmon has been added as a mob, which will drop raw salmon when killed (cooked while on fire).
					The textures for raw and cooked salmon have now been updated.
			18w10a		Cooked salmon will now generate in buried treasure chests.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.11.0			build 1		Added raw salmon and cooked salmon.
0.12.1			build 1		Salmon will now restore hunger instead of health.
					Raw salmon can now be used to tame ocelots.
0.16.0			build 1		Salmon is now dropped by guardians and elder guardians.
Pocket Edition
1.0			alpha 0.17.0.1		Added polar bears, which drop raw salmon.
Bedrock Edition
1.2			beta 1.2.0.2		Raw salmon is now found inside bonus chests.
1.4			beta 1.2.14.2		Salmon has been added as a mob, which will drop raw salmon when killed (cooked while on fire).
					Updated the texture of salmon.
					Cooked salmon can now can be found inside buried treasure chests.
			beta 1.2.20.1		Added dolphin, which can be bred with raw salmon.
1.5			beta 1.5.0.0		Raw salmon can now no longer be used to breed dolphins.
					Giving raw salmon to dolphins will now lead the player to nearest underwater ruins or shipwreck.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.8			beta 1.8.0.8		Raw salmon can now no longer be used to tame ocelots.
					Raw salmon can now be used to breed ocelots.
					Added stray cats, which can be tamed by being fed raw salmon.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added raw and cooked salmon.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added raw and cooked salmon.

Issues

Issues relating to "Raw salmon" or "Cooked salmon" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

See also

• Fishing

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