Bucket of Tadpole

Bucket of Tadpole

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A bucket of tadpole, also known as a tadpole bucket, is a tadpole inside of a water bucket.

Obtaining

A bucket of tadpole can be obtained by using a water bucket on a tadpole. Once a water bucket is used, the tadpole is picked up along with the water source block.

Usage

Pressing use with a bucket of tadpole places a water source block, and spawns the tadpole back into the world, leaving an empty bucket in the player's inventory. Placing a bucket of tadpole in the Nether causes the same particles to appear that generate when a normal water bucket is placed in the Nether, and the tadpole is spawned alone.

Tadpoles caught in buckets then released do not despawn, unlike mobs that spawn naturally in their aquatic environments. However, they still grow into frogs.

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

If a bucket of tadpole is named a certain name through an anvil, the tadpole inside displays that name as if it were named with a name tag.‌ Alternatively, if a named tadpole is captured with a bucket of water, the resulting bucket of tadpole shares a name with the captured tadpole.‌ If a named tadpole is captured in Bedrock Edition, the item is called "Bucket of <Name>".

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Tadpole captured	Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole is collected	item.bucket.fill_tadpole	subtitles.item.bucket.fill_tadpole​	0.5	1.5	16
	​Bucket empties	Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole is placed	item.bucket.empty_tadpole	subtitles.item.bucket.empty​	0.5	1.5	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When a creature is collected into a water bucket	bucket.fill_fish	1.0	1.0
	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	[hide]Translation key
Bucket of Tadpole	tadpole_bucket	Item	None	item.minecraft.tadpole_bucket

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Bucket of Tadpole	tadpole_bucket	bucket / 13	630	Item	item.bucketTadpole.name

Item data

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] components: the item's components tag.
  • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] minecraft:bucket_entity_data: NBT applied to an entity when placed from this bucket. Only tags below are applied.
    • [Boolean] NoAI: Turns into NoAI entity tag for all bucketable entities.
    • [Boolean] Silent: Turns into Silent entity tag for all bucketable entities.
    • [Boolean] NoGravity: Turns into NoGravity entity tag for all bucketable entities.
    • [Boolean] Glowing: Turns into Glowing entity tag for all bucketable entities.
    • [Boolean] Invulnerable: Turns into Invulnerable entity tag for all bucketable entities.
    • [Float] Health: Turns into Health entity tag for all bucketable entities.
    • [Int] Age: Turns into Age entity tag for axolotls and tadpoles.
    • [Int] Variant: Turns into Variant entity tag for axolotls.
    • [Long] HuntingCooldown: Turns into the expiry time of the memory module has_hunting_cooldown for axolotls.
    • [Int] BucketVariantTag: Turns into Variant entity tag for tropical fish.
    • [String] type: Turns into type entity tag for salmon.
  • [String][NBT List / JSON Array][NBT Compound / JSON Object] minecraft:custom_name: Text component to use as this item's name. See Text component format. The custom name of the fish.

Bedrock Edition:

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Bukkit Bukkit	Catch a Tadpole in a Bucket	—

History

October 16, 2021							Buckets of Tadpoles were mentioned, but not shown, at Minecraft Live 2023.
December 8, 2021							LadyAgnes tweets the first image of a tadpole in a bucket.
[hide]Java Edition
1.19			22w11a				Added buckets of tadpoles.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.18.10 Experiment Wild Update			beta 1.18.10.24				Added the bucket of tadpole behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.21				Buckets of tadpoles are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.

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  First image of a bucket of tadpole.

Issues

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