A water bucket is a bucket filled with water.
Obtaining
Interacting
To fill an empty bucket with water, use it on a water source block. The water is consumed in the process. Flowing water does not fill a bucket.
Using an empty bucket on a cauldron filled with water (water level 3) empties the cauldron and fills the bucket.
Water buckets can also be filled by placing an empty one in the fuel slot of a furnace, and a wet sponge into the oven slot. The bucket is filled when the smelting process completes, which also leaves the sponge dry and ready to be reused.
Chest Loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Water Bucket | Village | Fisherman's chest | 1–3 | 24.2% |
Usage
Using a full water bucket on a solid block places a water source block against that block, emptying the bucket. In the Nether, however, the water evaporates, making a fire extinguishing sound and displays smoke particles while nothing gets placed. If you are falling, you can use the water bucket to save yourself if you place it before you hit the ground.
Dispensers
A dispenser can be loaded with a water bucket, and when activated it places a water block directly before it, emptying the bucket. A dispenser loaded with an empty bucket and a water source right in front of it draws the source into the bucket when activated.
Cauldrons
A single water bucket can fill a cauldron, and using an empty bucket on a water-filled cauldron fills the bucket. Empty buckets cannot be filled from partly-filled cauldrons.
Filling bucket with mobs
Water buckets can be used on a fish, axolotl and tadpole to create a bucket of aquatic mob.
Elevator
Water buckets can be used as a means of quickly descending great heights in the Overworld and End, either by creating a waterfall or using the water block while falling to create a safe water landing.
Water buckets can also be used to climb vertical surfaces anywhere but the Nether by repeatedly creating higher waterfalls from the bottom and swimming up them.
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bucket fills | ? | ? | item | subtitles | ? | ? | 16 | |
| Bucket empties | ? | ? | item | subtitles | ? | ? | 16 | |
| Gear equipped | Players | When used in survival See MC-97507 | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Bucket | water_bucket | Item | item.minecraft.water_bucket |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID (BE) | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water Bucket | water_bucket | bucket / 8 | 325 | Item | item.bucketWater.name |
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | 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 Infdev | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20100615 | |||||
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
| v1.2.6 | Using a water bucket on blocks with GUIs (chests, furnaces, etc.) no longer places the water. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | Water buckets can now be used to fill cauldrons. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w15a | Dispensers have now been given the ability to dispense water buckets. They can also collect if activated again. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w25a | A water bucket is now shown as the icon when water is used as a layer in Superflat. | |||
| 14w25b | Smelting a wet sponge while an empty bucket is in the fuel slot fills the bucket with water. | ||||
| 1.9 | 15w44a | A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, yielding a water bucket. | |||
| 15w50a | Added sounds for collecting and pouring water using a bucket. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to the Flattening this item's numerical ID was 326. | |||
| 18w08b | Water buckets can now be used to pick up fish mobs. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||
| Water buckets can now suck up liquids directly adjacent to the side they are facing. How this works is unknown, given the water bucket clearly already contains a liquid. | |||||
| 18w48a | Water buckets can now be found in chests in village fishing cottages. | ||||
| 19w02a | Water buckets can now be used to put out campfires. | ||||
| 1.17 | 20w51a | Water buckets can now be used to collect axolotls. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.7.0 | |||||
| Water buckets were simply called "Bucket". | |||||
| v0.7.4 | Water buckets no longer stack to 64. | ||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Dispensers can now shoot out water from water buckets. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Water buckets can now be used to pick up fish mobs. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of water buckets has been changed from bucket/8 to water_bucket. | |||
| 1.17.0 | beta 1.16.230.52 | Water buckets can now be used to collect axolotls. | |||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.18.10 | beta 1.18.10.24 | Water buckets can now be used to collect tadpoles. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU9 | Dispensers have now been given the ability to shoot out the liquids inside water buckets. They can also suck up the liquids if activated again, but a bug prevents the empty bucket from being filled. Whether this was ever fixed is unknown. | ||||
| 1.90 | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Water Bucket" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
