Bucket of Pufferfish

Bucket of Pufferfish

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A bucket of pufferfish, internally known as a pufferfish bucket, is a living pufferfish inside of a water bucket. They can also be used to tame and breed nautiluses.

Obtaining

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

Trading

Wandering traders occasionally sell a bucket of pufferfish for 3 emeralds.

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Wandering Trader	Ordinary	6%	6%	3 × Emerald	Bucket of Pufferfish	4	—	—

Mob loot

In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 25% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop one bucket of pufferfish when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.

Usage

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

Pufferfish caught in buckets then released do not despawn, unlike mobs that spawn naturally in their aquatic environments.

If a bucket of pufferfish is inside a dispenser, the dispenser spawns the pufferfish and water block in front of it upon activation, leaving an empty bucket inside. Dispensers cannot pick up a pufferfish when using a water bucket, due to the bucket being emptied instead.

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Fish captured​[until: JE 26.4]	Friendly Mobs	When a pufferfish is collected	item.bucket.fill_fish	subtitles.item.bucket.fill_fish​	1.0	1.0	16
	​Bucket empties	Friendly Mobs	When a pufferfish is placed	item.bucket.empty_fish	subtitles.item.bucket.empty​	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Blocks	When a pufferfish is collected into a water bucket	bucket.fill_fish	​ ?	1.0	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	When a pufferfish is placed from a bucket	bucket.empty_fish	​ ?	1.0	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Bucket of Pufferfish	pufferfish_bucket	Item	None	item.minecraft.pufferfish_bucket

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Bucket of Pufferfish	pufferfish_bucket	bucket / 5	367	Item	item.bucketPuffer.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.
    • [Boolean] AgeLocked: Turns into AgeLocked entity tag for axolotls and tadpoles.
    • [Float] Health: Turns into Health entity tag for all bucketable entities.
    • [Int] Age: Turns into Age entity tag for axolotls and tadpoles.
    • [Long] HuntingCooldown: Turns into the expiry time of the memory module has_hunting_cooldown for axolotls.

• • [String][NBT List / JSON Array][NBT Compound / JSON Object] minecraft:custom_name: The player-assigned name of this item, block, or entity, typically assigned with an anvil or a name tag. See Text component format.
  • If present on an item, this component has highest priority to display as the item's name, and appears italic unless overridden by the text component format.
  • If present on an entity, it will replace the entity's name tag, will show the name tag to players when they hover over the entity (unless invisible), and will appear as that entity's name in commands and chat messages.
  • If present on a block with a GUI (such as a container), this replaces the name at the top of the GUI.
  • If present on a command block, this replaces the execution context name when the command is ran. The custom name of the fish.

Bedrock Edition:

Achievements

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 by right-clicking.	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

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.13			18w08b				Added "Puffer Fish" buckets.
			18w14a				Catching a pufferfish in a water bucket now awards the Tactical Fishing advancement.
			18w19a				"Puffer Fish Bucket" has been corrected to "Pufferfish Bucket".
			pre5				"Pufferfish Bucket" has been renamed to "Bucket of Pufferfish", to match Bedrock Edition.
1.13.1			18w33a				Tooltips have been added for buckets of pufferfish.
1.14			18w43b				The texture of buckets of pufferfish has been changed.
			19w05a				Added wandering traders, which sell buckets of pufferfish.
1.20			pre2				Fish buckets, including buckets of pufferfish, are now listed in the same order as the fish items in the Creative inventory.
1.21.11			25w41a				Buckets of pufferfish can now be used to tame nautilus.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Added buckets of pufferfish.
							Buckets of pufferfish have a different texture compared to Java Edition.
			beta 1.2.20.2				Buckets of pufferfish are now available in the Creative inventory.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Buckets of pufferfish are now sold by the new wandering traders.
							The texture of buckets of pufferfish has been changed.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.56				The IDs of buckets of pufferish has been changed from bucket to pufferfish_bucket.

Legacy Console Edition

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 pufferfish.
			1.90				The texture of buckets of pufferfish has been changed.
			1.91				Added wandering traders, which sell buckets of pufferfish.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.4.0							Added buckets of pufferfish.
							The texture of the bucket of pufferfish is the same as the one in Bedrock Edition.

Issues

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

Trivia

• When a water bucket is transformed into a bucket of pufferfish, it actually pushes the bucket texture down one pixel. According to Dinnerbone, JAPPA says this is due to the "weight of the fish".

Gallery

• 
  A zombie nautilus being tamed

In other media

• 
  A bucket of pufferfish as seen in Minecraft Earth