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Minecraft:Bucket of Tropical Fish

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

Obtaining

A bucket of tropical fish can be obtained by {{#vardefine: control | right click on mouse or left trigger on gamepad }}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 occasionally sell a bucket of tropical fish for 3 Minecraft:emeralds. When placed, a bucket of tropical fish bought from a wandering trader has a random variant. Template:Trade sources

Mob loot

in Template:Editions, wandering traders have a chance of 8.5% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop one bucket of tropical fish when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an Minecraft:emerald.

Usage

Pressing {{#vardefine: control | right click on mouse or left trigger on gamepad }}use with a bucket of tropical fish places a Minecraft:water source block, and spawns the tropical fish back into the world, leaving an empty bucket in the player's Minecraft:inventory. Placing a bucket of tropical fish in Minecraft: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 Minecraft: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 a tropical fish when using a water bucket, due to the bucket being emptied instead.

If a bucket of tropical fish is named a certain name through an Minecraft:anvil, the tropical fish inside displays that name as if it were named with a name tag.Template:Only 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.Template:Only If a named tropical fish is captured in Template:Editions, the item is called "Bucket of <Name>".

Breeding

Additionally, buckets of tropical fish are used to breed and lead axolotls and tamed nautiluses, and can also speed up the growth of a baby axolotl and nautilus. Although they can be fed to tamed zombie nautiluses, they cannot breed with them.

Tropical fish variants

<section begin=Tropical_fish_variants/>Tropical fish also have assigned names that can be seen after capture. in Template:Editions, the smaller text under the item name is displayed showing the fish name, similar to the text that displays enchantments under enchanted items. in Template:Editions, 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:

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
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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 Template:Only Gray-Sky SunStreak
Blue Tang Template:Only Gray-Blue Flopper
Butterfly Fish Template:Only/Butterflyfish Template:Only 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 Template:Only/Ornate Butterflyfish Template:Only White-Orange Clayfish
Parrotfish Teal-Rose Dasher
Queen Angel Fish Template:Only/Queen Angelfish Template:Only 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 Template:Only Red-White SunStreak
Tomato Clownfish Template:Only Red-White Kob
Triggerfish Gray-White SunStreak
Yellowtail Parrot Template:Only/Yellowtail Parrotfish Template:Only Teal-Yellow Dasher
Yellow Tang Yellow Flopper

<section end=Tropical_fish_variants/>

A bucket of tropical fish purchased from a wandering trader or pulled from the Minecraft:Creative inventory spawns random tropical fish when used, due to it having no associated NBT.

Sounds

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Data values

ID

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Item data

Java Edition: {{#vardefine:params|0 }}Template:Hatnote

Data component format/bucket entity data Data component format/custom name The custom name of the fish.

Bedrock Edition: {{#vardefine:params|0 }}Template:Hatnote

Achievements

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Advancements

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History

Java Edition

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Bedrock Edition

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Legacy Console Edition

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Minecraft Education

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Issues

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Trivia

  • Buckets of tropical fish always appear to contain a clownfish, regardless of whatever fish is actually inside.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

References

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