This article is about the empty bucket. For buckets filled with objects, see Bucket (disambiguation).
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]
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.
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.[1]
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
| Name | Namespaced ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bucket | bucket | Item | item.minecraft.bucket |
| Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bucket | bucket | 325 | Item | item.bucket.name |
Video
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.[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 only provides creative players with one bucket.[4] | ||||
| 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.[5] | ||||
| Empty buckets no longer allow liquid sources to be targeted and broken like blocks.[6] | |||||
| ? | 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.