Bucket of Tropical Fish

A bucket of tropical fish, internally known as a tropical fish bucket, is a tropical fish inside of a water bucket, in the form of an item.

Bucket of Tropical Fish

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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        },
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            "label": "(link to Renewable resource article, displayed as Renewable)"
        },
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            "field": "No",
            "label": "Stackable"
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Obtaining

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

Trading

Wandering traders have ¹⁄₆ chance to sell a bucket of tropical fish for 5 emeralds. When placed, a bucket of tropical fish bought from a wandering trader has a random variant.

Usage

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

Tropical fish caught in buckets and then released do not despawn, unlike naturally spawning aquatic mobs.

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

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

Breeding

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

Tropical fish variants

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.

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Fish captured	Friendly Creatures	When a tropical fish is collected	item.bucket.fill_fish	subtitles.item.bucket.fill_fish​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Bucket empties	Friendly Creatures	When a tropical fish is placed	item.bucket.empty_fish	subtitles.item.bucket.empty​	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When a tropical fish is collected into a water bucket	bucket.fill_fish	1.0	1.0
	Blocks	When a tropical fish 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 Tropical Fish	tropical_fish_bucket	Item	None	item.minecraft.tropical_fish_bucket

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	[hide]Translation key
Bucket of Tropical Fish	tropical_fish_bucket	bucket / 4	366	Item	item.bucketTropical.name item.bucketCustomFish.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:

Achievements

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

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Tactical Fishing	Catch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod!	Use a water bucket on any fish mob.

History

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			18w08b				The texture of what appears to be a clownfish bucket can be seen in the game files, later found out to be the texture for tropical fish buckets.
			18w10a				Added tropical fish buckets.
			18w14a				Catching a tropical fish in a water bucket now awards the Tactical Fishing advancement.
			18w19a				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 tropical fish buckets has been changed to "bucket of tropical fish", like it is in Bedrock Edition.
1.13.1			18w33a				Tooltips have been added for buckets of tropical fish.
1.14			18w43b				The texture of buckets of tropical fish has been changed.
			19w05a				Added wandering traders, which sell buckets of tropical fish.
1.17			20w51a				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.
1.20			pre2				Fish buckets, including buckets of tropical fish, are now listed in the same order as the fish items in the Creative inventory.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Added buckets of tropical fish.
			beta 1.2.20.1				The texture of buckets of tropical fish has been changed.
			beta 1.2.20.2				Buckets of tropical fish are now available in the Creative inventory.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Buckets of tropical fish are now sold by the new wandering traders.
							The texture of buckets of tropical fish has been changed.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.56				The IDs of buckets of tropical fish have been changed from bucket to tropical_fish_bucket.
1.17.0			beta 1.16.230.52				Buckets of tropical fish can be used to breed and lead the new axolotls.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added buckets of tropical fish.
			1.90				The texture of buckets of tropical fish has been changed.
			1.91				Added wandering traders, which sell buckets of tropical fish.
[hide]Minecraft Education
1.4.0							Added buckets of tropical fish.
							The texture of the bucket of tropical fish are the same as the ones in Bedrock Edition.

Issues

Issues relating to "Bucket of Tropical Fish" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Buckets of tropical fish always appear to contain a clownfish, regardless of whatever fish is actually inside.

External links

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