Minecraft:Tropical Fish

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Tropical fish are common bucketable aquatic Minecraft:passive mobs found in warm or lukewarm Minecraft:oceans, Minecraft:mangrove swamps and Minecraft:lush caves. There are 2,700 naturally occurring variants of tropical fish of different colors and shapes with unique names Template:In and 3,072 Template:In.<ref name="MC-261096"/>

Spawning

File:Tropicalfish.png

A group of tropical fish in a lukewarm ocean.

Template:IN, random varieties of tropical fish spawn in groups of 8 in lukewarm or warm oceans (as well as their deep variants) and Minecraft:mangrove swamps at Y-level 50 to 63, and in Minecraft:lush caves in aquifers at any Y-level. They are subject to fish spawning requirements.

Template:IN, tropical fish spawn underwater at 12-32 blocks away from the player. Tropical fish spawn only in warm, lukewarm, deep lukewarm ocean biomes; Minecraft:lush caves, in groups of 3-5 for the same preset pattern, and in groups of 1-3 for a random pattern; and mangrove swamps. In addition, tropical fish in warm, lukewarm, and deep ocean variants can spawn only at Y levels between 50 and 64 and must be on the surface (i.e., there must not be a spawnable block above the spawn location with a non-solid block on top). Tropical fish in lush caves can spawn on aquifers at any Y levels but require underground.

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Drops

On death

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Template:Xp when killed by a Minecraft:player or tamed Minecraft:wolf.

Behavior

Tropical fish tend to swim in schools of fish with a maximum of 7 tropical fish per school. Tropical fish are also able to go against the water flow.

The player may collect a tropical fish by Template:Control a Minecraft:water bucket on it, which gives the player a Minecraft:bucket of tropical fish. Template:Control that fish bucket against a block empties the bucket, placing water with that fish swimming in it. Tropical fish placed via buckets do not despawn naturally.

Tropical fish cannot be bred, but only spawn in designated biomes.

Weaknesses

Tropical fish cannot survive out of water. Outside of water, they flop around for a while until eventually they suffocate and die. Template:IN, they rotate when flipping. Fish cannot swim or breathe in cauldron water.<ref>Template:Bug – "fish bouncing and suffocating on top of the cauldron which fills with water" resolved as "Won't Fix"</ref>

Fish have a weakness to weapons that have the Minecraft:Impaling enchantment, which also affects Minecraft:aquatic mobs except Minecraft:drowned.Template:Only

Varieties

File:Wild Tropical Fish Variants.png

The 22 uniquely-named varieties of tropical fish in Java Edition. From top to bottom and left to right:

Anemone, Black Tang, Blue Tang, Butterflyfish, Cichlid, Clownfish
Cotton Candy Betta, Dottyback, Emperor Red Snapper, Goatfish, Moorish Idol, Ornate Butterflyfish
Parrotfish, Queen Angelfish, Red Cichlid, Red Lipped Blenny, Red Snapper, Threadfin
Tomato Clownfish, Triggerfish, Yellowtail Parrotfish, Yellow Tang

File:All Tropical Fish variants.png

All possible tropical fish variants.

Java Edition

When tropical fish spawn in the wild, 90% of the time they appear as schools of one of the 22 varieties in the first image, and the other 10% of the time their patterns, shape, and colors are completely random, drawn from any of 2 shapes, 6 patterns, 16 base colors, and 16 pattern colors. The color black is not supposed to appear on any naturally-spawned tropical fish, since the eyes are usually hard to see<ref name="Black">Template:Bug</ref>, but due to a bug<ref name="MC-261096">Template:Bug</ref> black can be chosen randomly. This results in 3,072 naturally-occurring combinations, instead of the intended 2,880.

Tropical fish can be Minecraft:summoned with black as one or both of their colors, and/or without any visible pattern,Template:More info 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.

Bedrock Edition

Tropical fish do not have common varieties Template:In. Instead, naturally spawned tropical fish have 2 spawn attempts: the first chooses one of the 22 preset variants, and the other uses randomly chosen patterns, sizes, shapes, and colors (except black). Tropical fish spawned from a spawn egg use randomly chosen patterns, sizes, shapes, and colors (except black). Using commands, tropical fish may be spawned as one of the 22 preset variants. Due to Template:Bug, yellowtail parrot fish do not spawn, therefore only 21 preset variants exist on Bedrock Edition. The specific command used is Template:Cmd.

Names

Tropical fish variants in buckets have names that are assigned based on their colors and type. Template:IN, the names are in the name of the bucket, giving names like "Bucket of Dottyback", "Bucket of Sky-Orange Snooper", or "Bucket of Orange-Lime Dasher". Template:IN, the type, and colors are displayed as additional lines in the item tooltip.

Template:IN, the following colors are renamed from their defaults when they refer to tropical fish. Parentheses indicate default name and color id - see Template:Slink.

Template:BlockLink (Light Blue; 3)
Template:BlockLink (Pink; 6)
Template:BlockLink (Light Gray; 8)
Template:BlockLink (Cyan; 9)
Template:BlockLink (Purple; 10)

The base color is first, and the pattern color is next if it is different.

The fish type is determined according to the shape and pattern of the fish:

Flopper	Stripey	Glitter	Blockfish	Betty	Clayfish	Kob	Sunstreak<ref group="n" name="Sunstreak">Sunstreak Template:In, SunStreak Template:In.</ref>	Snooper	Dasher	Brinely	Spotty
File:White-Gray Flopper.png	File:White-Gray Stripey.png	File:White-Gray Glitter.png	File:White-Gray Blockfish.png	File:White-Gray Betty.png	File:White-Gray Clayfish.png	File:White-Gray Kob.png	File:White-Gray Sunstreak.png	File:White-Gray Snooper.png	File:White-Gray Dasher.png	File:White-Gray Brinely.png	File:White-Gray Spotty.png

Some varieties of tropical fish don't follow the normal naming system; instead, they reference real-life fish species. Template:IN, these unique fish are limited to the 22 common varieties. Template:IN, there are also 22 uniquely-named tropical fish, though they are not all the same as Template:In. These uniquely-named tropical fish aren't different from regular tropical fish in terms of design or behavior.

These varieties are:

Name	Type	Image
Anemone	Orange-Gray Stripey	File:Anemone.png
Black Tang	Gray Flopper	File:Black Tang.png
Blue TangTemplate:Only	Gray-Blue Flopper	File:Blue Tang.png
Blue DoryTemplate:Only	Gray-Sky SunStreak	File:Blue Dory.png
ButterflyfishTemplate:Only	White-Gray Clayfish	File:Butterflyfish.png
Butterfly FishTemplate:Only	White-Gray Brinely	File:White-Gray Brinely.png
Cichlid	Blue-Gray SunstreakTemplate:Only Blue-Gray SunStreakTemplate:Only	File:Cichlid.png
Clownfish	Orange-White Kob	File:Clownfish.png
Cotton Candy Betta	Pink-Light Blue SpottyTemplate:Only Rose-Sky SpottyTemplate:Only	File:Cotton Candy Betta.png
Dottyback	Purple-Yellow BlockfishTemplate:Only Plum-Yellow BlockfishTemplate:Only	File:Dottyback.png
Emperor Red Snapper	White-Red Clayfish	File:Emperor Red Snapper.png
Goatfish	White-Yellow Spotty	File:Goatfish.png
Moorish Idol	White-Gray Glitter	File:Moorish Idol.png
Ornate ButterflyfishTemplate:Only Ornate ButterflyTemplate:Only	White-Orange Clayfish	File:Ornate Butterfly.png
Parrotfish	Cyan-Pink DasherTemplate:Only Teal-Rose DasherTemplate:Only	File:Parrotfish.png
Queen AngelfishTemplate:Only Queen Angel FishTemplate:Only	Lime-Light Blue BrinelyTemplate:Only Lime-Sky BrinelyTemplate:Only	File:Queen Angelfish.png
Red Cichlid	Red-White Betty	File:Red Cichlid.png
Red Lipped Blenny	Gray-Red Snooper	File:Red Lipped Blenny.png
Red Snapper	Red-White Blockfish	File:Red Snapper.png
Threadfin	White-Yellow Flopper	File:Threadfin.png
Tomato ClownfishTemplate:Only	Red-White Kob	File:Tomato Clownfish.png
Tomato ClownTemplate:Only	Red-White SunStreak	File:Tomato Clown.png
Triggerfish	Gray-White SunstreakTemplate:Only Gray-White SunStreakTemplate:Only	File:Triggerfish.png
Yellowtail ParrotfishTemplate:Only Yellowtail ParrotTemplate:Only	Cyan-Yellow DasherTemplate:Only Teal-Yellow DasherTemplate:Only	File:Yellowtail Parrot.png
Yellow Tang	Yellow FlopperTemplate:Only	File:Yellow tang fix.png
Yellow Tang	Yellow Stripey Template:Only	File:Yellow Tang.png

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Sounds

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Data values

ID

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Entity data

Tropical fish have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

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See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Template:El: Template:Main

Template:Nbt Entity data
- Template:Nbt inherit/entity
- Template:Nbt inherit/mob
- Template:Nbt: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Whether the fish had ever been released from a bucket.
- Template:Nbt: A 4-byte integer. Encodes the Template:DCL, Template:DCL, and Template:DCL components.
  - The least significant byte has a value of either 0 for a small fish, or 1 for a large fish. Values above 1 result in an invisible fish.
  - The next byte has a value from 0–5, representing the pattern on the fish. Values above 5 result in a fish with no pattern.
  - The next byte has a value from 0–15, representing the color of the fish's body.
  - The most significant byte has a value from 0–15, representing the color of the fish's pattern.

Color	Data value
Template:BlockSprite White	`0`
Template:BlockSprite Orange	`1`
Template:BlockSprite Magenta	`2`
Template:BlockSprite Light Blue	`3`
Template:BlockSprite Yellow	`4`
Template:BlockSprite Lime	`5`
Template:BlockSprite Pink	`6`
Template:BlockSprite Gray	`7`
Template:BlockSprite Light Gray	`8`
Template:BlockSprite Cyan	`9`
Template:BlockSprite Purple	`10`
Template:BlockSprite Blue	`11`
Template:BlockSprite Brown	`12`
Template:BlockSprite Green	`13`
Template:BlockSprite Red	`14`
Template:BlockSprite Black	`15`

The fish sizes and patterns are depicted in the following table, with white body color and dark-gray pattern color.

second-least byte

0

1

2

3

4

5

least byte

1

Flopper

Glitter

Betty

Stripey

Blockfish

Clayfish

File:Tropical Fish Patterns.png

Kob

Snooper

Brinely

Sunstreak

Dasher

Spotty

0

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	Type	Name
0	0	1	0	65536	Orange-White Kob	Clownfish
0	1	7	0	459008	Gray-White Sunstreak	Triggerfish
0	0	14	0	917504	Red-White Kob	Tomato Clownfish
1	3	14	0	918273	Red-White Blockfish	Red Snapper
1	4	14	0	918529	Red-White Betty	Red Cichlid
1	5	0	1	16778497	White-Orange Clayfish	Ornate Butterflyfish
0	4	5	3	50660352	Lime-Light Blue Brinely	Queen Angelfish
0	5	6	3	50726144	Pink-Light Blue Spotty	Cotton Candy Betta
1	0	0	4	67108865	White-Yellow Flopper	Threadfin
0	5	0	4	67110144	White-Yellow Spotty	Goatfish
1	0	4	4	67371009	Yellow Flopper	Yellow Tang
0	3	9	4	67699456	Cyan-Yellow Dasher	Yellowtail Parrotfish
1	3	10	4	67764993	Purple-Yellow Blockfish	Dottyback
0	3	9	6	101253888	Cyan-Pink Dasher	Parrotfish
1	2	0	7	117441025	White-Gray Glitter	Moorish Idol
1	5	0	7	117441793	White-Gray Clayfish	Butterflyfish
1	1	1	7	117506305	Orange-Gray Stripey	Anemone
1	0	7	7	117899265	Gray Flopper	Black Tang
0	1	11	7	118161664	Blue-Gray SunStreak	Cichlid
1	0	7	11	185008129	Gray-Blue Flopper	Blue Tang
1	5	0	14	234882305	White-Red Clayfish	Emperor Red Snapper
0	2	7	14	235340288	Gray-Red Snooper	Red Lipped Blenny

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.<section end="entity data"/>