Tropical Fish

Tropical Fish

Health points	3
Behavior	Passive
Size	Height: 0.4 Blocks Width: 0.5 Blocks
Spawn	See § Spawning
Drops	See § Drops
Experience	1 - 3
Internal ID	111
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

This article is about Tropical Fish in their mob form. For item form, see Tropical Fish (item). For other uses, see Fish.

	“	You're not the only new explorer of the updated oceans, mind. We've filled the seas with new types of fish! Above is the delightful pufferfish, which filled me with delightful poison because I was too busy taking that screenshot to swim away in time :(	„
		— Tom Stone

Tropical Fish are common passive mobs found in oceans. There are 3,584 variants.

Spawning

Fish spawn underwater at 12-32 blocks away from the player.

In Java Edition, tropical fish spawn in lukewarm, warm, deep lukewarm and deep warm oceans in groups of 8, with random patterns (see below).

In Bedrock Edition, tropical fish spawn only in warm and deep warm ocean biomes, in groups of 3-5 for the same preset pattern, and in groups of 1-3 for random pattern. In addition, tropical fish only spawn on the surface (i.e., there must not be a spawnable block above the spawn location with a non-solid block on top).

Drops

Tropical fish drop 1 of their item form when killed:

• 1 tropical fish.
• 1 bone meal (5% chance) ‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• 1–2 bones (25% chance) ‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• 1–2 experience orbs when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

Tropical fish tend to swim in schools of fish (a maximum of nine tropical fish per school).

The player may collect a fish by using a water bucket on it, which gives the player a bucket of fish. Fish placed with buckets do not despawn naturally. When that fish bucket is used against a block, it empties the bucket, placing water with that fish swimming in it. An empty bucket may be used as well.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Weaknesses

Tropical fish cannot survive out of water. Outside of water, they flop around like guardians for a while until eventually they suffocate and die like squid. In Bedrock Edition and Legacy Console Edition, they rotate when flipping. Fish cannot swim or breathe in cauldron water.

Fish have a weakness to weapons that have the Impaling enchantment, which also affects squid, turtles, guardians, elder guardians and dolphins.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Varieties

The 22 common varieties of tropical fish in Bedrock Edition.
top: White-Silver SunStreak, Tomato Clownfish, Yellow Tang, White-Gray Dasher
second row: Parrotfish, Queen Angel Fish, Red Cichlid, Red Lipped Blenny, Red Snapper, Threadfin
third row: Cotton Candy Betta, Dottyback, Emperor Red Snapper, Goatfish, Moorish Idol, Ornate Butterfly
bottom: Anemone, Black Tang, Blue Dory, Butterfly Fish, Cichlid, Clownfish

When tropical fish spawn in the wild, 90% of the time they appear as one of the 22 varieties seen on the right, and the other 10% of the time their patterns, size and colors are completely random, drawn from any of 2 shapes, 15 colors, 6 patterns, and 15 colors for the pattern. These result in 2,700 naturally-occurring combinations.

With commands, the player can summon tropical fish with black as one or both of their colors, and/or without any visible pattern, though even without the pattern they can still have a pattern color, causing a further 884 possible combinations, 480 of which look the same due to the missing pattern.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Names

Tropical fish also have assigned names which can be seen after capture, so that the buckets are given names like "Bucket of Plum Blockfish", "Bucket of Sky-Orange Snooper" or "Bucket of Orange-Lime Dasher" in Bedrock Edition, while the types and colors are seen as tooltips in Java Edition. Their colors are mostly named according to the colored block names, though with a few exceptions (the number in brackets is the color id; see § Entity data):

• White (0)
• Orange (1)
• Magenta (2)
• Sky (3)
• Yellow (4)
• Lime (5)
• Rose (6)
• Gray (7)
• Silver (8)
• Teal (9)
• Plum (10)
• Blue (11)
• Brown (12)
• Green (13)
• Red (14)
• Black (15)

Black color is unused, it can only be spawned using commands.

The base color is first, and the pattern color is next if it is different.

The fish bucket is given a name according to the shape and pattern of the fish:

Flopper Glitter Betty Stripey Blockfish Clayfish

Kob Snooper Brinely SunStreak Dasher Spotty

Some varieties (mostly the common varieties) of tropical fish don't follow the normal naming system, and instead reference real-life fish species. Apart from these names, these types of fish aren't different from regular tropical fish in terms of design or behavior.

These varieties are:

Name	Type
Anemone	Orange-Gray Stripey
Black Tang	Gray Flopper
Blue Dory ‌[Bedrock Edition only]	Gray-Sky SunStreak
Blue Tang ‌[Java Edition only]	Gray-Blue Flopper
Butterfly Fish ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Butterflyfish ‌[Java Edition only]	White-Gray Clayfish
Cichlid	Blue-Gray SunStreak
Clownfish	Orange-White Kob
Cotton Candy Betta	Rose-Sky Spotty
Dottyback	Plum-Yellow Blockfish
Emperor Red Snapper	White-Red Clayfish
Goatfish	White-Yellow Spotty
Moorish Idol	White-Gray Glitter
Ornate Butterfly ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Ornate Butterflyfish ‌[Java Edition only]	White-Orange Clayfish
Parrotfish	Teal-Rose Dasher
Queen Angel Fish ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Queen Angelfish ‌[Java Edition only]	Lime-Sky Brinely
Red Cichlid	Red-White Betty
Red Lipped Blenny	Gray-Red Snooper
Red Snapper	Red-White Blockfish
Threadfin	White-Yellow Flopper
Tomato Clown ‌[Bedrock Edition only]	Red-White SunStreak
Tomato Clownfish ‌[Java Edition only]	Red-White Kob
Triggerfish	Gray-White SunStreak
Yellowtail Parrot ‌[Bedrock Edition only]/Yellowtail Parrotfish ‌[Java Edition only]	Teal-Yellow Dasher
Yellow Tang	Yellow Flopper

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
N/A	No subtitle	entity.tropical_fish.ambient	(Empty sound event)	N/A	N/A	N/A	16
	No subtitle	entity.tropical_fish.death	(Plays when it dies)	?	0.8	?	16
	No subtitle	entity.tropical_fish.flop	(Plays when on land)	?	?	0.3	16
	No subtitle	entity.tropical_fish.hurt	(Plays when damaged)	?	?	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID
Tropical Fish	tropical_fish

Bedrock Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Tropical Fish	tropicalfish	111

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Pufferfish and tropical fish have additional entity data, beyond what other fish have.

• 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.
  •  Variant: A 4-byte integer.
    • The least significant byte has a value of either 0 for a small fish, or 1 for a large fish. Values above 1 result in an invisible fish.
    • The next byte has a value from 0–5, representing the pattern on the fish. Values above 5 result in a fish with no pattern.
    • The next byte has a value from 0–14, representing the color of the fish's body.
    • The most significant byte has a value from 0–14, representing the color of the fish's pattern.

Color

Main article: Tropical Fish/DV

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The fish sizes and patterns are depicted in the following table, with white body color and dark gray pattern color.

		second-least byte
		0	1	2	3	4	5
least byte	1	Flopper Glitter Betty Stripey Blockfish Clayfish Kob Snooper Brinely SunStreak Dasher Spotty
	0

The 22 varieties of tropical fish most commonly found throughout the world have Variant tag values from the following table, which also lists what color/shape/patterns come from that value.

Shape	Pattern	Base color	Pattern color	Variant	Name
0	0	1	0	65536	Orange-White Kob
0	0	14	0	917504	Red-White Kob
1	3	14	0	918273	Red-White Blockfish
1	4	14	0	918529	Red-White Betty
1	5	0	1	16778497	White-Orange Clayfish
0	4	5	3	50660352	Lime-Sky Brinely
0	5	6	3	50726144	Rose-Sky Spotty
0	1	7	3	50790656	Gray-Sky SunStreak ‌[Bedrock Edition only]
1	0	0	4	67108865	White-Yellow Flopper
0	5	0	4	67110144	White-Yellow Spotty
1	1	4	4	67371265	Yellow Stripey
1	3	10	4	67764993	Plum-Yellow Blockfish
0	3	9	6	101253888	Teal-Rose Dasher
1	2	0	7	117441025	White-Gray Glitter
0	3	0	7	117441280	White-Gray Dasher
0	4	0	7	117441536	White-Gray Brinely
1	1	1	7	117506305	Orange-Gray Stripey
1	0	7	7	117899265	Gray Flopper
0	1	11	7	118161664	Blue-Gray SunStreak
0	1	0	8	134217984	White-Silver Sunstreak
1	0	7	11	185008129	Gray-Blue Flopper ‌[Java Edition only]
1	5	0	14	234882305	White-Red Clayfish
0	2	7	14	235340288	Gray-Red Snooper

The variant number is the sum of the most significant byte × 2²⁴ + second most significant byte × 2¹⁶ + second least significant byte × 2⁸ + least significant byte.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	I'm a Marine Biologist	Collect a fish in a bucket	Use a water bucket (or an empty bucket in Bedrock Edition) on any fish mob to collect it.	No	Alt	Yes	No	20G	—
	Marine Biologist				PS4			—	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: 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 on a fish mob to get a bucket of fish.	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 only added 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		November 18, 2017			Two fish mobs, presumably early tropical fish, were shown off in a clip presented at MineCon Earth.
		18w10a			Added tropical fish.
		18w10b			Tropical fish now make sounds and no longer use the player damage sound.
1.13.1		18w31a			Fish now have a 5% chance of dropping bone meal when killed.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added all 4 variants of fish mobs.
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Tropical fish are now slightly bigger.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Tropical fish now drop experience when killed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added fish mobs.
Education Edition
1.4.0					Added all 4 variants of fish mobs.

Issues

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

Gallery

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  An ocean with some fish visible.

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

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  A screenshot of tropical fish up close.

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  Some tropical fish jumping on land.

Official Artwork

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  Tropical fish as shown in the Update Aquatic artwork

References

Entities

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