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Fish are common passive mobs found in oceans and rivers. They come in 4 main variants: cod, salmon, pufferfish, and tropical fish. There are 3587 total types of fish.[a]
Spawning
Cod spawn in normal, cold, and lukewarm oceans, and their deep variants.
Puffer fish and tropical fish spawn in lukewarm, warm, and deep lukewarm oceans.
Salmon spawn in cold and frozen oceans, and their deep variants. Unlike the other types of fish, they also spawn in normal and frozen rivers. Salmon can spawn in 3 sizes which are small, normal and large.[Bedrock Edition only]
Drops
Fish drop 1 of their item form when killed: raw cod, raw salmon, pufferfish or tropical fish. Cod and salmon will drop the cooked variant of their item if killed while on fire[Java Edition only]. A tropical fish will drop a clownfish no matter what its type, pattern or colors are. Fish will also drop a bone (25% chance); also different sizes of salmon drop different amount of bone (up to 3).[Bedrock Edition only]
Behavior
Cod, salmon and tropical fish tend to swim in schools of fish (a maximum of nine cod, six salmon, and nine of the same tropical per school). Salmon are able to jump up waterfalls.[verify]Pufferfish will try to hide in a coral or a coral fan and will spin until it leaves. Pufferfish will also puff up when approached by dolphins, players in creative mode,[2] and armor stands.[3]
The player may collect a fish by using a water bucket on it, which gives the player a bucket of fish. When that fish bucket is used against a block, it empties the bucket, placing water with that fish swimming in it.
Weaknesses
None of the fish are able to survive out of water. Outside of water, they flop around like guardians for a while until eventually they start to suffocate and die like squid. Cod, salmon and tropical fish will flip around on their sides. They will rotate when flipping.[Bedrock Edition only] Fish cannot swim or breathe in cauldron water.[4]
Fish have a weakness to weapons that have the Impaling enchantment, which also affects squid, turtles, drowned, guardians, elder guardians, and dolphins.
Guardians don't attack fish like they do with squid. This is intended.[5]
Defenses
Pufferfish will puff up when approached by a player in any gamemode[6], drowned, or any non-water mob in a 5x5x5 cube around the fish, going from unpuffed, then semi-puffed, to fully puffed[Java Edition only], or instantly to the fully-puffed state[Bedrock Edition only]. Pufferfish are technically passive mobs but going near one when fully puffed will inflict the player/mob with seven seconds of Poison, and touching them in their puffed form will deal damage separate from the poison. Pufferfish also instantly puff up to their fullest form after taking any kind of damage.[Bedrock Edition only]
Tropical fish varieties
The 22 common varieties of tropical fish.
top: White-Silver SunStreak, Red-White Kob, Yellow Striped fish, White-Gray Dasher
second row: Teal-Rose Dasher, Lime-Sky Brinely, Red-White Betty, Gray-Red Snooper, Red-White Blockfish, White-Yellow Flopper
third row: Rose-Sky Spotty, Plum-Yellow Blockfish, White-Red Clayfish, White-Yellow Spotty, White-Gray Glitter, White-Orange Clayfish
bottom: Orange-Gray Stripey, Gray Flopper, Gray-Sky SunStreak, White-Gray Brinely, Blue-Gray SunStreak, Orange-White Kob
When tropical fish spawn in the wild, 90% of the time they will come in one of the 22 varieties seen on the right, and the other 10% of the time their patterns, size and colors will be completely random, drawn from any of 2 shapes, 15 colors, 6 patterns, and 15 colors for the pattern. These result in 2,700 naturally-occurring combinations. With commands, the player can summon tropical fish with black as one or both of their colors, and/or without any visible pattern, though even without the pattern they can still have a pattern color, causing a further 884 possible combinations, 480 of which look the same due to the missing pattern.
Tropical fish picked up with buckets will also have names assigned to them, such as Yellow Brinely or Lime-Gray Flopper, which display as part of the bucket's name.[Bedrock Edition only] Their colors are mostly named according to the colored block names, though with a few exceptions:
- White
- Orange
- Magenta
- Sky
- Yellow
- Lime
- Rose
- Gray
- Silver
- Teal
- Plum
- Blue
- Brown
- Green
- Red
The base color will come first, and if the pattern color is different, it will come after that. Lastly, the fish bucket will be given a name according to the shape and pattern of the fish:
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Data values
Cod and salmon have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity IDs are minecraft:cod and minecraft:salmon.
Puffer fish and tropical fish have additional entity data, beyond what other fish have. Their entity IDs are minecraft:pufferfish and minecraft:tropical_fish[Java Edition only] or minecraft:tropicalfish[Bedrock Edition only].
Fish (mob)/ED
The fish sizes and patterns are depicted in the following table, with white body color and dark gray pattern color.
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The 22 varieties of tropical fish most commonly found throughout the world have Variant tag values from the following table, which also lists what color/shape/patterns come from that value.
| Shape | Pattern | Base color | Pattern color | Variant | Name |
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| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 65536 | Orange-White Kob |
| 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 917504 | Red-White Kob |
| 1 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 918273 | Red-White Blockfish |
| 1 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 918529 | Red-White Betty |
| 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16778497 | White-Orange Clayfish |
| 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 50660352 | Lime-Sky Brinely |
| 0 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 50726144 | Rose-Sky Spotty |
| 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 50790656 | Gray-Sky SunStreak |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 67108865 | White-Yellow Flopper |
| 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 67110144 | White-Yellow Spotty |
| 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 67371265 | Yellow Stripey |
| 1 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 67764993 | Plum-Yellow Blockfish |
| 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 101253888 | Teal-Rose Dasher |
| 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 117441025 | White-Gray Glitter |
| 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 117441280 | White-Gray Dasher |
| 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 117441536 | White-Gray Brinely |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 117506305 | Orange-Gray Stripey |
| 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 117899265 | Gray Flopper |
| 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 118161664 | Blue-Gray SunStreak |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 134217984 | White-Silver Sunstreak |
| 1 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 234882305 | White-Red Clayfish |
| 0 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 235340288 | Gray-Red Snooper |
The variant number is the sum of the most significant byte * 224 + second most significant byte * 216 + second least significant byte * 28 + least significant byte.
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
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![]() | Tactical Fishing | Catch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod! | Fishy Business | Use a water bucket on any fish mob. | husbandry/tactical_fishing
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History
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| June 28, 2010 | Notch mentioned that fish might be a feature of coral, if he were able to add coral: "... I do know that the corals will have tiny fish particles around them." | ||||
| October 4, 2010 | Fish were a passive mob that Notch showed interest in adding. In the promotional graphic for the Halloween Update, Notch indicated he would add fish. However, they were only added as an item; there was no code for a fish mob. | ||||
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| October 5, 2012 | Fish were jokingly teased in the fake snapshot 12marc40awesome, along with coral and "fish blocks". | ||||
| April 13, 2013 | When Jon Kågström was asked in his AMA on Reddit, "What mob would you like to implement into the game?" He responded, "I would like to add birds, fish and tree animals to make it more alive. However this will take some time before it can be done." | ||||
| July 31, 2013 | During Notch's AMA on Reddit, when asked about what happened to his plans of adding fish as a mob, he responded, "Oh yeah, the fish!" | ||||
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| 1.13 | November 18, 2017 | File:TeasedFish.jpegTwo fish mobs, presumably early tropical fish, were shown off in a clip presented at MineCon Earth. | |||
| 18w08b | Added fish mobs, at this time only cod, salmon, and "puffer fish". They had 20 health. | ||||
| 18w10a | Added tropical fish. | ||||
| Changed health to 3.[7] | |||||
| 18w10b | Tropical fish now make sounds, and do not use the player damage sound. | ||||
| 18w15a | Cod and salmon now drop the cooked version of their item drops if killed while in fire. | ||||
| 18w19a | Corrected "Puffer Fish" to Pufferfish.[8] | ||||
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| 1.4 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Added all 4 variants of fish mobs. | |||
| Education Edition | |||||
| 1.4.0 | Added all 4 variants of fish mobs. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Fish mob", "Pufferfish mob", "Cod mob", "Salmon mob", or "Tropical fish mob" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery
- PufferDead.jpeg
Dying fish mob
A school of 4 salmon swimming in a frozen river.
In other media
Footnotes
- ↑ Cod, salmon, puffer fish, and 3584 variants of tropical fish.
References
- ↑ "How We Ruin-ed Minecraft" – Minecraft.net, March 5, 2018
- ↑ MC-129884
- ↑ MC-132239
- ↑ MC-126819 – "fish bouncing and suffocating on top of the cauldron which fill with water" resolved as "Won't Fix"
- ↑ MC-130252 – "Guardians and Elder Guardians don't attack dolphins, turtles or fish" resolved as "Works As Intended"
- ↑ MC-129884
- ↑ MC-126091
- ↑ MC-124190 – "Some display names don't follow the id", resolved












