Talk:Tropical Fish

Erroneous and/or Outdated Common Variant List
I attempted to use this page to collect all of the common variants of tropical fish in Java Edition 1.14.4, but quickly realized that the list is incorrect. The page states that White-Silver SunStreak and White-Gray Dasher are common fish in Java edition. Experimentation in Java Edition 1.14.4 easily shows that this is not accurate; the common variants are limited to the 22 variants that have special names. This means that instead of the aforementioned two variants, Gray-White SunStreak ("Triggerfish") and Teal-Yellow Dasher ("Yellowtail Parrotfish") are common variants. A related entry on the bug tracker (MC-136134) indicates that this was changed during the development of 1.13 versions. I am not sure whether or not this effects the common variant list for the Bedrock edition, but I do not own that edition so I cannot verify. --NanoRexMC (talk) 20:19, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

The picture for the 22 common species in "java edition" is not correct. The fish displayed are inaccurate and do not all match the names. Butterflyfish is incorrect. RunsWithLava (talk) 22:36, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Random sidenote: There is a fish on Bedrock called a dog fish and I am pretty sure it's bedrock's version of a dottyback.--GrammarPolice347 (talk) 15:56, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Usage?
Page is missing a "Usage" section. What are the uses of Tropical Fish?

- Eating? - Taming Ocelots? - Craft ingredient?

Mestrelion20090 (talk) 17:40, 3 December 2019 (UTC)


 * This page is tropical fish mob, for the usage of item already in tropical fish (item) page. ImakerB (talk) 00:31, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

The fish picture: Java or bedrock edition?
The image text says "The 22 uniquely-named varieties of tropical fish in Java Edition.", but then it lists the bedrock edition names for the fish? --CrCl3 (talk) 16:25, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Spawning range around player
The article says they can only spawn in an area "24 (cylindrical) to 64 (spherical) blocks away from the player". This info was added in December 2020; is it still accurate? Based on my limited experimentation, they seem to be able to spawn directly below the player in 1.18, at least in lush cave biomes. Greenpepperpasta (talk) 22:12, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Update - I think it is correct other than the cylindrical part. I think it is 24-64 blocks sperhical. Fish despawn at a distance of 64 blocks, and mobs do not spawn within 24 blocks of the player. I also looked at the decompiled source code and while I don't have a great understanding of it, there seems to be code that checks whether the spherical distance to the player is less than 24. I also have observed tropical fish spawning inside the 24-block cylinder in-game, which again confirms that it is not a cylindrical distance. I'm going to change the page to say spherical. --Greenpepperpasta (talk) 23:17, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Programmatically, it wouldn't really make sense to calculate "cylindrical" distance. The game uses two distance measurements: Euclidean distance and taxicab distance. There is no such thing as "spherical" distance; the correct term would be either "Euclidean distance" or "within a 24-block radius" or simply "distance". Amatulic (talk) 16:38, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Seeing red cichlids everywhere they shouldn't be
I noticed in the Bedrock 1.18.31 game I'm playing, red cichlids are spawning along with cod and salmon in deep oceans, not just in warm oceans where I'd expect them. I don't see any other kind of tropical fish. Amatulic (talk) 06:36, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Number of distinct variants
The number of naturally occurring variants is 2*6*15*15 = 2700

The number of possible variants using commands that are also visually distinct is 2*6*16*16 + 2*16 = 3072 + 32 = 3104 and not 3584 as stated

Including the black color you got 3072 variants plus additional 32 patternless variants (using a pattern id above 5)

Number of distinct variants change for version 1.19.3
In 1.19.3 for Java version, black is now a naturally occurring base and/or pattern colour for tropical fish. This increases the number of naturally occuring variants to 2*6*16*16 = 3072. This change was not listed in the release notes for version 1.19.3. Sedderfen 09:29, 13 Jan 2023