Bucket

This article is about the empty bucket. For buckets filled with objects, see Bucket (disambiguation).

Bucket

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (16), except in furnace fuel slot

Buckets are tools used to carry water, lava, milk, powder snow‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17 & BE 1.17.0]}, fish (cod, pufferfish, salmon, and tropical fish), and axolotls.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17 & BE 1.17.0]}

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.

Similarly one can press use when looking at a cow or mooshroom to fill a bucket with milk.

Empty buckets can also be used to collect fish in buckets.

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.

A bucket full of milk can only be emptied by drinking it or by using it in crafting a recipe (like cake).

An empty bucket can be used to empty a cauldron with water, filling the bucket with water. This does not work with dispensers.

An empty bucket can be used to empty a cauldron of lava, filling the bucket with lava.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17]}

An empty bucket can be used to collect powder snow, filling the bucket with powder snow. Emptying the powdered snow bucket will place the powder snow block in the empty block next to the side of the block the player is currently looking at.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.17 & BE 1.17]}

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	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 buket	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
	Bucket empties	Friendly Creatures	Plays when depositing fish	item.bucket.empty_fish	subtitles.item.bucket.empty	1.0	1.0	16
	Bucket fills	Players	Filling a bucket with powder snow‌[upcoming: JE 1.17 & BE 1.17.0]	item.bucket.fill_powder_snow	subtitles.item.bucket.fill	?	?	?
	Bucket empties	Blocks	Emptying a powder snow bucket‌[upcoming: JE 1.17 & BE 1.17.0]	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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Form	Translation key
Bucket	bucket	Item	item.minecraft.bucket

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Bucket	bucket	325	Item	item.bucket.name

History

Java Edition Infdev
Minecraft Infdev		20100615			Added buckets.
					Buckets can currently only pick up 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		14w25a			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 now 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 now been changed.
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. 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, providing the player with limitless milk buckets.
		Pre-release 4			Milking cows now only provides creative players with one bucket.
Upcoming Java Edition
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.
					Empty buckets no longer allow liquid sources to be targeted and broken like blocks.
?					The stack limit for empty buckets has now 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 now 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.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.16.230		beta 1.16.230.52			Added buckets of axolotls.
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 now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added buckets.

Issues

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

Trivia

• An empty bucket fills with water when placed in the fuel slot of a furnace while smelting a wet sponge.

See also

• Cauldron
• Bowl
• Glass Bottle
• Water

References

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