Fish (food)

Fish

Type	Food
Restores	See Food
Cookable	Raw Fish and Raw Salmon: Yes All others: 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[until 1.13] cod salmon pufferfish tropical_fish cooked_cod cooked_salmon[upcoming 1.13]

This article is about the fish food. For the mob forms, see Fish (mob). For the fishing, see Fishing.

Raw fish^{[until 1.13]} (
Raw cod^{[upcoming 1.13]}) is a food item.

^{[until 1.13]} (
^{[upcoming 1.13]}) Raw salmon is a food item.

Clownfish^{[until 1.13]} (
Tropical fish^{[upcoming 1.13]}) is a food item that cannot be cooked.

^{[until 1.13]} (
^{[upcoming 1.13]})Pufferfish is a highly poisonous food item and potion ingredient.

Cooked fish^{[until 1.13]} (
Cooked cod^{[upcoming 1.13]}) is a food item obtained by cooking raw fish.

^{[until 1.13]} (
^{[upcoming 1.13]})Cooked salmon is a food item obtained by cooking raw salmon.

Obtaining

Fishing

The most common way of obtaining any type of fish 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 have a 40% and 50% chance to drop raw fish as a common drop respectively when killed. The raw fish will become cooked if the guardian/elder guardian was killed while on fire.

Guardians and elder guardians also drop a random fish as a rare drop besides the common raw fish drop. This has a 60% chance of being raw fish, a 25% chance of being raw salmon, a 2% chance of being tropical fish and a 13% chance of being pufferfish. 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 fish when killed. This has a 75% chance of being raw fish and a 25% chance of being raw salmon. Polar bears do not drop tropical fish or pufferfish. The fish and/or salmon will be raw even if the polar bear is on fire when killed.

Fish

Fish mobs will always drop 1 of their respective item form when killed. If a fish or salmon was killed while on fire, the dropped fish or salmon item will be cooked.^{[upcoming 1.13]}

Dolphins

Dolphins drop 0–1 fish when killed, with the chance for an additional fish per level of looting used.^{[upcoming 1.13]}

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.

In 1.13^[upcoming] cooked salmon can be found in 75.0% of buried treasure chests in stacks of 2–4.

In 1.13^[upcoming] cooked fish can be found in 75.0% of buried treasure chests in stacks of 2–4.

Smelting

Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Raw Fish or Raw Salmon + Any fuel

Trading

Fisherman villagers will sell 6 cooked fish for 6 raw fish and 1 emerald.

Usage

Food

Raw fish restores 2 () and 0.4 saturation. Cooked fish restores 3 ()^{[Java Edition only]} /5 () and 0.6^{[Java Edition only]} /6 saturation. Raw salmon restores 2 () and 0.2 saturation. Cooked salmon restores 6 () and 9.6 saturation. Tropical fish restores 1 () and 0.2 saturation. 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.

Ocelots

Raw fish 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 Edition only]} Other fish types will also work. ^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]}

Dolphins

Dolphins can be fed raw fish.^{[Bedrock and Java editions only][upcoming 1.13]} Doing this will improve their trust with the player, and interact with them more. However, unlike most animals, this will not cause them to breed.

Additionally, dolphins will swim to the nearest chest in an underwater ruins or shipwreck structure when they are fed raw fish.^{[upcoming 1.13 & 1.5]} If the chest in the nearest structure is broken, they will instead swim to the nearest structure that has a chest.

Brewing ingredient

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

Data values

	DV	Description
	0	Raw Fish
	1	Raw Salmon
	2	Clownfish
	3	Pufferfish

	DV	Description
	0	Cooked Fish
	1	Cooked Salmon

^{[until 1.13]}

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Delicious Fish	Catch and cook a fish!	Pick up a cooked fish from a furnace output.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	15G	Silver
	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[upcoming 1.13]	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. (1 added in 1.13[upcoming]) Other foods, like cake, are ignored for the advancement.	minecraft:husbandry/balanced_diet

History

Alpha
v1.2.0					Added fish.
Beta
1.5					Cooking fish now gives the Delicious Fish achievement.
1.8			?		Fish is now stackable to 64 and fills hunger instead of health.
Official release
1.2.1			12w04a		Raw fish can be fed to ocelots to tame them into cats.
1.3.1			12w21a		Farmer villagers now buy 9–12 cooked fish for 1 emerald.
1.7.2			13w36a		Added raw salmon, cooked salmon, clownfish, and pufferfish.
					Potion of Water Breathing added; they can be brewed by adding a pufferfish to an Awkward Potion.
			13w43a		Changed pufferfish texture.
1.8			14w02a		Cooked fish trade changed: fisherman villagers now sell 6 cooked fish for 1 emerald plus 6 raw fish. Farmer villagers no longer buy cooked fish, and cooked salmon can no longer be traded by villagers.
			14w04a		Corrected name from cooked_fished to cooked_fish.
			14w25a		Fish, raw salmon, clownfish, and pufferfish are 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 fish and raw salmon are now dropped from polar bears.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.13			17w47a		The different data values for the fish and cooked_fish IDs have been split up into their own IDs.
			17w47a		"Raw Fish" and "Cooked Fish" renamed to "Raw Cod" and "Cooked Cod", respectively.
			18w07a		Raw cod is now used to breed turtles.
			18w07b		Raw cod is no longer used to breed turtles. Seagrass is used instead.
			18w08b		Cod, pufferfish, and salmon have been added as mobs, which will drop their (raw) item form when killed.
					Updated the textures for all the fish items.
			18w10a		Cooked cod and cooked salmon now generate in buried treasure chests.
			18w15a		Raw cod can now be used to feed dolphins.
					Raw cod can now be obtained as a drop from dolphins.
			18w19a		Clownfish are now named Tropical fish.
			18w19a		Tropical fish id changed to tropical_fish.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.11.0			build 1		Added all 6 types of fish.
0.12.1			build 1		All types of fish now restores hunger instead of health.
					Pufferfish can now be used to make potion of water breathing.
					raw fish and raw salmon can be used to feed ocelot to tame it.
0.16.0			build 1		Fish now dropped by guardians and elder guardians.
Pocket Edition
1.0			alpha 0.17.0.1		Added polar bear that drop raw salmon and raw fish.
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0		Fisherman villagers now sell 6 cooked fish for 1 emerald plus 6 raw fish. Farmer villagers no longer buy cooked fish, and cooked salmon can no longer be traded by villagers.
Bedrock Edition
1.2			beta 1.2.0.2		Raw salmon now found inside bonus chest.
1.4			beta 1.2.14.2		Cod, pufferfish, and salmon have been added as mobs, which will drop their (raw) item form when killed.
					Updated the textures for all the fish items.
			beta 1.2.20.2		Raw fish now dropped by dolphins and can be used to feed them.
1.5			beta 1.5.0.0		Giving raw fish or raw salmon to dolphins will lead the player to nearest underwater ruins or shipwreck.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added fish.
TU5					Fish is now stackable to 64 and fills hunger instead of health.
TU12					Raw fish can be fed to ocelots to tame them into cats.
TU13					Raw fish is no longer removed from the player's inventory when trying to tame an ocelot in Creative mode.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added raw salmon, cooked salmon, clownfish, and pufferfish.

Issues

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Trivia

• In the Halloween Update, Notch said he would add fish as a sea creature; however, he had limited time, and was thus only able to add them as an item. However, they will be added in 1.13 update.
• Raw fish most closely resembles white crappie or tilapia. However, the texture files and language text label them as cod. In 1.13, its in-game name will be cod as well.^{[upcoming 1.13]}
• 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. 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.
  • If this dish is prepared incorrectly, it can be lethal through respiratory paralysis. Therefore, 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

Items

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