A bucket is an item used to carry water, lava, milk, powder snow, and various aquatic mobs.
Contents
Obtaining[]
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Iron Ingot |
Natural generation[]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Bucket | Dungeon | Chest | 1 | 18.5% |
| Village | Savanna house chest | 1 | 11.3% | |
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1 | 18.5% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Bucket | Dungeon | Chest | 1 | 18.5% |
| Village | Savanna house chest | 1 | 11.3% | |
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1 | 18.5% | |
Usage[]
Empty buckets can be used to "pick up" a water or lava source block by pressing use item on a block of the relevant type. If the empty bucket is part of a stack and the player's inventory is full, the filled bucket drops in front of the player as an item.
A bucket filled with a source block can then be used to place its source block contents in the empty block next to the side of the block the player is currently looking at, or replacing the block looked at for some replaceable blocks.
One can press use when looking at a cow, mooshroom, or goat to fill a bucket with milk. A bucket full of milk can be emptied only by drinking it or by using it in crafting a recipe (like cake).
A bucket full of water can be used on a live aquatic mob (cod, salmon, tropical fish, pufferfish, axolotl, or tadpole) to collect the mob in the bucket for transportation to another location. The mob in item form becomes a bucket of aquatic mob.
An empty bucket can be used to empty a cauldron with water or lava, filling the bucket with the fluid. This does not work with dispensers.[1]
A lava bucket placed in the fuel slot of a furnace becomes an empty bucket after the lava is consumed during smelting.
An empty bucket fills with water when placed in the fuel slot of a furnace while smelting a wet sponge.
An empty bucket can be used to collect powder snow, filling the bucket with powder snow. Emptying the powder snow bucket places the powder snow block in the empty block next to the side of the block the player is currently looking at.
Sounds[]
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bucket fills | Players | Filling a bucket with water | item.bucket.fill | subtitles.item.bucket.fill | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Bucket empties | Blocks | Emptying a water bucket | item.bucket.empty | subtitles.item.bucket.empty | 1.0 | 0.9 / 1.0 | 16 | |
| Bucket fills | Players | Filling a bucket with lava | item.bucket.fill_lava | subtitles.item.bucket.fill | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Bucket empties | Blocks | Emptying a lava bucket | item.bucket.empty_lava | subtitles.item.bucket.empty | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Fish captured | Friendly Creatures | Plays when collecting fish | item.bucket.fill_fish | subtitles.item.bucket.fill_fish | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Axolotl scooped | Friendly Creatures | Plays when collecting axolotls | ? | subtitles.item.bucket.fill_axolotl | ? | ? | ? | |
| Bucket empties | Friendly Creatures | Plays when depositing fish or axolotls | item.bucket.empty_fish | subtitles.item.bucket.empty | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Bucket fills | Players | Filling a bucket with powder snow | item.bucket.fill_powder_snow | subtitles.item.bucket.fill | ? | ? | ? | |
| Bucket empties | Blocks | Emptying a powder snow bucket | item.bucket.empty_powder_snow | subtitles.item.bucket.empty | ? | ? | ? | |
| Cow gets milked | Players | Milking a cow | entity.cow.milk | subtitles.entity.cow.milk | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Goat gets milked | Friendly Creatures | Player milks regular goat | entity.goat.milk | subtitles.entity.goat.milk | ? | ? | ? | |
| Goat gets milked | Friendly Creatures | Player milks screaming goat | entity.goat.screaming.milk | subtitles.entity.goat.milk | ? | ? | ? |
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bucket | bucket | Item | item.minecraft.bucket |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bucket | bucket | bucket / 0 | 360 | Item | item.bucket.name |
Video[]
History[]
| Java Edition Infdev | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20100615 |  Added buckets.
| ||||
| Buckets can currently pick up only water and lava. | |||||
| 20100625-2 | Buckets can now be found in the new dungeon chests. | ||||
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
| v1.0.11 | Cows are now milkable by using buckets. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease | Added mooshrooms, which can be milked like normal cows. | |||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 | In creative mode, buckets now remain empty when used to pick up water and lava. | ||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w06a | Buckets are now renewable. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Buckets are now stackable up to 16. | |||
| 12w22a | Smelting in a furnace with a lava bucket now leaves an empty bucket for the player to retrieve. | ||||
| 1.8 | 14w25b | An empty bucket in the fuel slot now fills and become a water bucket after a wet sponge is dried. This happens for empty buckets placed by the player while the furnace is still smelting, and for empty buckets left by lava buckets. | |||
| Stacked buckets in the fuel slot now become a single water bucket. | |||||
| 14w26a | The player can now place only one bucket in the fuel slot, which fixes the bug above. | ||||
| 1.9 | 15w44a | A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, filling the bucket with water. | |||
| The average yield of buckets from dungeon chests has been substantially decreased. | |||||
| 15w46a | Buckets now replace single snow layers when used on the top, instead of placing the water or lava in the air above the snow layer. | ||||
| 15w50a | Added sounds for buckets: item.bucket.fill, item.bucket.fill_lava, item.bucket.empty, and item.bucket.empty_lava. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Buckets are now found in the new woodland mansion chests. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 325. | |||
| November 18, 2017 | Buckets were said to be able to pick up fish mobs. | ||||
| 18w08b | Added fish buckets, which turn into regular buckets when used. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of buckets has been changed. | |||
| 18w49a | Buckets can now be found in chests in savanna village houses. | ||||
| 1.16 | Pre-release 1 | Using a bucket on water or lava in Creative mode now provides the player with one water or lava bucket in the inventory.[2] This is created in a new inventory slot rather than replacing the used bucket. A limit of one bucket per fluid can be obtained this way - attempting to fill a bucket where a filled one already exists in the inventory removes the fluid as expected but does not provide any new buckets. | |||
| Cows and mooshrooms can also now be milked in Creative mode,[3] providing the player with limitless milk buckets. | |||||
| Pre-release 4 | Milking cows now provides creative players with only one bucket.[4] | ||||
| 1.17 | October 3, 2020 | Buckets were revealed to be able to be used to collect axolotls. | |||
| 20w46a |  Added powder snow buckets. | ||||
| 20w51a |  Added buckets of axolotls. | ||||
| 21w13a | Goats are now milkable by using buckets. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.7.0 | Added buckets. | ||||
| v0.7.4 | Filled buckets no longer stack.[5] | ||||
| Empty buckets no longer allow liquid sources to be targeted and broken like blocks.[6] | |||||
| ? | The stack limit for empty buckets has been changed from 64 to 16. | ||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, filling the bucket with water. | |||
| v0.16.0 | build 1 | Added sounds when using buckets. | |||
| An empty bucket in the fuel slot now fills and becomes a water bucket after a wet sponge is dried. This happens for empty buckets placed by the player while the furnace is still smelting, and for empty buckets left by lava buckets. | |||||
| ? | Buckets no longer highlight fluid blocks when aiming at them. | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Buckets now generate in woodland mansion chests. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Added fish buckets, which turn into regular buckets when used. | |||
| Empty buckets can now be used to catch fish. | |||||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.2 | Cauldrons filled with lava can now be emptied by using a bucket, filling it with lava. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of buckets has been changed. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Buckets can now be found in savanna village house chests. | |||
| 1.16.200 | beta 1.16.200.52 | Goats are now milkable by using buckets. | |||
| 1.16.210 | beta 1.16.210.53 | Added powder snow buckets. | |||
| release | Powder snow buckets have been made inaccessible in the full release. | ||||
| 1.17.0 | beta 1.16.230.52 | Added buckets of axolotls. | |||
| beta 1.17.0.50 | Powder snow buckets no longer available only through Experimental Gameplay. | ||||
| beta 1.17.0.52 | Buckets of axolotls no longer available only through Experimental Gameplay. | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added buckets. | |
| TU9 | Buckets are now stackable up to 16. | ||||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of buckets has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added buckets. | ||||
Issues[]
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