Bucket of aquatic mob

Bucket of aquatic mob
Rarity	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

A bucket of aquatic mob is a small aquatic mob (a fish, axolotl, or tadpole) inside of a water bucket, obtained by using a water bucket on one of these mobs.

Obtaining

A bucket of aquatic mob can be obtained by using a water bucket on an applicable mob. Once a water bucket is used, the mob is picked up along with the water source block. The mob bucket obtained corresponds to the mob picked up.

Trading

Wandering traders have ¹⁄₆ chance to either sell a bucket of pufferfish or a bucket of tropical fish for 5 emeralds.

Novice-level Fisherman villagers have a 50% chance to sell a bucket of cod for 3 emeralds.

Usage

Pressing use with a bucket of aquatic mob places a water source block, and spawns the mob back into the world, leaving an empty bucket in the player's inventory. For buckets of tropical fish, the fish and its details (color, size, name) are kept. Placing a bucket of aquatic mob in the Nether causes the same particles to appear that generate when a normal water bucket is placed in the Nether, and the fish is spawned alone.

Mobs caught in buckets then released do not despawn, unlike mobs that spawn naturally in their aquatic environments.

If a bucket of aquatic mob is inside a dispenser, the dispenser spawns the mob and water block in front of it upon activation, leaving an empty bucket inside. Dispensers cannot pick up mobs with water buckets (the bucket is emptied).

If a bucket of aquatic mob is named a certain name through an anvil, the mob inside display that name as if it were named with a name tag, making fish, axolotls, and tadpoles the only mobs that can exist in item form, and be named without a name tag.‌ Alternatively, if a named mob is captured with a bucket of water, the resulting mob bucket shares a name with the captured mob.‌ If a named mob is captured in Bedrock Edition, the item is called "Bucket of <Name>".

Bucket of tropical fish

Tropical fish also have assigned names that can be seen after capture. In Java Edition, the smaller text under the item name is displayed showing the fish name, similar to the text that displays enchantments under enchanted items. In Bedrock Edition, the item name is displayed showing "Bucket of <fish name>". Their colors are mostly named according to the colored block names, though with a few exceptions:

• White
• Silver
• Gray
• Black
• Brown
• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Lime
• Green
• Teal
• Sky
• Blue
• Plum
• Magenta
• Rose

The base color comes first, and if the pattern color is different, it comes after that. Lastly, 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 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 ‌	Gray-Sky SunStreak
Blue Tang ‌	Gray-Blue Flopper
Butterfly Fish ‌/Butterflyfish ‌	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 ‌/Ornate Butterflyfish ‌	White-Orange Clayfish
Parrotfish	Teal-Rose Dasher
Queen Angel Fish ‌/Queen Angelfish ‌	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 ‌	Red-White SunStreak
Tomato Clownfish ‌	Red-White Kob
Triggerfish	Gray-White SunStreak
Yellowtail Parrot ‌/Yellowtail Parrotfish ‌	Teal-Yellow Dasher
Yellow Tang	Yellow Flopper

A bucket of tropical fish purchased from a wandering trader or pulled from the Creative inventory spawns random tropical fish when used, due to it having no associated NBT.

Additionaly, buckets of tropical fish may be used to lead and breed axolotls. It can also speed up the growth of a baby axolotl.

Bucket of axolotl

In Bedrock Edition, if an axolotl is picked up with a bucket, the bucket appears in the player's inventory as "Bucket of <Baby/Adult> <Color> Axolotl" based on the age and color of the axolotl. These varieties are:

• Bucket of Baby Leucistic Axolotl
• Bucket of Adult Leucistic Axolotl
• Bucket of Baby Brown Axolotl
• Bucket of Adult Brown Axolotl
• Bucket of Baby Gold Axolotl
• Bucket of Adult Gold Axolotl
• Bucket of Baby Cyan Axolotl
• Bucket of Adult Cyan Axolotl
• Bucket of Baby Blue Axolotl
• Bucket of Adult Blue Axolotl

When the player spawns in an axolotl with a bucket of axolotl from the creative inventory, it is always a leucistic adult. Buckets containing other variants will always spawn that variant when used in creative mode.

The bucket of axolotl does not change textures in the inventory to reflect the captured axolotl's color, it always appears leucistic.

Bucket of tadpole

When a tadpole is picked up with a bucket, the bucket appears in the player's inventory as "Bucket of tadpole". The bucket can be emptied again like any other bucket of aquatic mob, depositing the tadpole and water on the targeted location.

The water in the bucket of tadpole appears green, unlike the other buckets of aquatic mobs, in which water appears blue.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
File:Fill fish bucket1.oggFile:Fill fish bucket2.oggFile:Fill fish bucket3.ogg	Fish captured	Friendly Creatures	When a fish is collected	item.bucket.fill_fish	subtitles.item.bucket.fill_fish	1.0	1.0	16
	Tadpole captured	Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole is collected	item.bucket.fill_tadpole	subtitles.item.bucket.fill_tadpole	0.5	1.5	16
File:Fill axolotl1.oggFile:Fill axolotl2.oggFile:Fill axolotl3.ogg	Axolotl scooped	Friendly Creatures	When an axolotl is collected	item.bucket.fill_axolotl	subtitles.item.bucket.fill_axolotl	1.0	1.0	16
File:Empty fish bucket1.oggFile:Empty fish bucket2.oggFile:Empty fish bucket3.ogg	Bucket empties	Friendly Creatures	When a fish is placed	item.bucket.empty_fish	subtitles.item.bucket.empty	1.0	1.0	16
	Bucket empties	Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole is placed	item.bucket.empty_tadpole	subtitles.item.bucket.empty	0.5	1.5	16
	Bucket empties	Friendly Creatures	When an axolotl is placed	item.bucket.empty_axolotl	subtitles.item.bucket.empty	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
File:Fill fish bucket1.oggFile:Fill fish bucket2.oggFile:Fill fish bucket3.ogg	Blocks	When a creature is collected into a water bucket	bucket.fill_fish	1.0	1.0
File:Empty fish bucket1.oggFile:Empty fish bucket2.oggFile:Empty fish bucket3.ogg	Blocks	When a creature is placed from a bucket	bucket.empty_fish	1.0	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Bucket of Cod	cod_bucket	Item	None	item.minecraft.cod_bucket
Bucket of Salmon	salmon_bucket	Item	None	item.minecraft.salmon_bucket
Bucket of Pufferfish	pufferfish_bucket	Item	None	item.minecraft.pufferfish_bucket
Bucket of Tropical Fish	tropical_fish_bucket	Item	axolotl_tempt_items	item.minecraft.tropical_fish_bucket
Bucket of Axolotl	axolotl_bucket	Item	None	item.minecraft.axolotl_bucket
Bucket of Tadpole	tadpole_bucket	Item	None	item.minecraft.tadpole_bucket

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Bucket of Cod	cod_bucket	bucket / 2	364	Item	item.bucketFish.name
Bucket of Salmon	salmon_bucket	bucket / 3	365	Item	item.bucketSalmon.name
Bucket of Tropical Fish	tropical_fish_bucket	bucket / 4	366	Item	item.bucketTropical.name item.bucketCustomFish.name
Bucket of Pufferfish	pufferfish_bucket	bucket / 5	367	Item	item.bucketPuffer.name
Bucket of Axolotl	axolotl_bucket	bucket / 12	369	Item	item.bucketAxolotl.name
Bucket of Tadpole	tadpole_bucket	bucket / 13	630	Item	item.bucketTadpole.name

Item data

Java Edition:

Main article: Player.dat format

•  tag: The item's tag tag.

• •  BucketVariantTag: The variant data of the tropical fish in the bucket. Applies only to Bucket of Tropical Fish.
  •  EntityTag: Stores entity data that is applied to the aquatic mob when it is poured out. If this data includes a tropical fish variant, it overrides the one provided in BucketVariantTag.
    • See entity format.

Normal buckets of fish use only the BucketVariantTag tag to store the variant of any tropical fish that is picked up, and the item's display name to store the fish's custom name.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Item format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		I am a Marine Biologist	Collect a fish in a bucket	Use an empty bucket on any fish mob to collect it.	20G	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Bukkit Bukkit	Catch a Tadpole in a Bucket	Husbandry	—	husbandry/tadpole_in_a_bucket
	Tactical Fishing	Catch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod!	Fishy Business	Use a water bucket on any fish mob.	husbandry/tactical_fishing
	The Cutest Predator	Catch an Axolotl in a Bucket	Tactical Fishing	Use a water bucket on an axolotl.	husbandry/axolotl_in_a_bucket

History

Java Edition
1.13		18w08b			Added cod, salmon and "Puffer Fish" buckets.
					The texture of what appears to be a clownfish bucket can be seen in the game files.
		18w10a			Added tropical fish buckets.
		18w14a			Catching a fish in a water bucket now awards the Tactical Fishing advancement.
		18w19a			"Puffer Fish Bucket" has been corrected to "Pufferfish Bucket".
					The ID of tropical fish buckets has been changed to tropical_fish_bucket.
		18w22a			The texture of tropical fish buckets has been updated, due to an inconsistent dark pixel on the bottom right of the bucket's texture that wasn't part of the other fish buckets.
		pre5			The name of fish buckets has been changed from "[type of fish] bucket" to "bucket of [type of fish]", like they are in Bedrock Edition.
1.13.1		18w33a			Tooltips have been added for buckets of tropical fish.
1.14		18w43b			The textures of buckets of cod, salmon, tropical fish, and pufferfish have been changed.
		19w05a			Added wandering traders, which sell buckets of tropical fish and buckets of pufferfish.
		19w11a			Fisherman villagers can now sell a bucket of cod.
October 3, 2020					In Minecraft Live 2020, a bucket of axolotl was shown.
					On the live event, it has an untranslated name: item.minecraft.axolotl_bucket.
1.17		20w51a			Added buckets of axolotls.
					Buckets of tropical fish can be used to breed the new axolotls.
					Buckets of tropical fish can be used to make axolotls attack drowned and guardians.
		21w20a			Axolotls can now be fed buckets of tropical fish, not just tropical fish.
October 16, 2021					Buckets of Tadpoles were mentioned, but not shown.
December 8, 2021					LadyAgnes tweets the first image of a tadpole in a bucket.
1.19		22w11a			Added buckets of tadpoles.
1.20		pre2			Fish buckets are now listed in the same order as the fish items in the Creative inventory.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added fish buckets of cod, salmon, tropical fish, and pufferfish.
					Buckets of pufferfish have a different texture compared to Java Edition.
		beta 1.2.20.2			Fish buckets are now available in the Creative inventory.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Buckets of tropical fish and pufferfish are now sold by the new wandering traders.
					The textures of buckets of cod, salmon, tropical fish, and pufferfish have been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Buckets of cod can now be bought from fisherman villagers.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.56			The IDs of buckets with fish have been changed from bucket to <fish>_bucket.
1.17.0		beta 1.16.230.52			Added buckets of axolotls.
					Buckets of tropical fish can be used to breed and attract the new axolotls.
1.18.10		beta 1.18.10.24			Added the bucket of tadpole behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added buckets of cod, salmon, tropical fish, and pufferfish.
		1.90			The textures of buckets of cod, salmon, tropical fish, and pufferfish have been changed.
Education Edition
1.4.0					Added buckets of cod, salmon, tropical fish, and pufferfish.
					The texture of the bucket of pufferfish and the texture of the bucket of tropical fish are the same as the ones in Bedrock Edition.

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  Teaser for bucket of axolotl and powder snow.

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  Teaser for bucket of axolotl and powder snow.

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  First image of a bucket of tadpole.

Issues

Issues relating to "Bucket of Fish", "Bucket of Mob", "Bucket of Cod", "Bucket of Salmon", "Bucket of Pufferfish", "Bucket of Tropical Fish", or "Bucket Of Tadpole" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• When a water bucket is transformed into a bucket of aquatic mob, it actually pushes the bucket texture down one pixel. According to Dinnerbone, JAPPA says this is due to the "weight of the fish".
• Buckets of tropical fish always appear to contain a clownfish, regardless of whatever fish is actually inside.
• The bucket of cod and bucket of tropical fish are actually re-colorations of each other.

External Links

• Taking Inventory: Bucket of Fish – Minecraft.net on March 26, 2020
• Taking Inventory: Bucket of Axolotl – Minecraft.net on July 14, 2022

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