Bucket of Salmon
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A bucket of salmon, internally known as a salmon bucket, is a living salmon inside of a water bucket.
Obtaining
A bucket of salmon can be obtained by using a water bucket on a salmon. Once a water bucket is used, the salmon is picked up along with the water source block.
Usage
Pressing use with a bucket of salmon places a water source block, and spawns the salmon back into the world, leaving an empty bucket in the player's inventory. Placing a bucket of salmon in the Nether causes the same particles to appear that generate when a normal water bucket is placed in the Nether, and the salmon is spawned alone.
Salmon caught in buckets then released do not despawn, unlike mobs that spawn naturally in their aquatic environments.
If a bucket of salmon is inside a dispenser, the dispenser spawns the salmon and water block in front of it upon activation, leaving an empty bucket inside. Dispensers cannot pick up a salmon when using a water bucket, due to the bucket being emptied instead.
If a bucket of salmon is named a certain name through an anvil, the salmon inside displays that name as if it were named with a name tag.[Java Edition only] Alternatively, if a named salmon is captured with a bucket of water, the resulting bucket of salmon shares a name with the captured salmon.[Java Edition only] If a named salmon is captured in Bedrock Edition, the item is called "Bucket of <name>".
Sounds
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Fish captured | Friendly Mobs | When a salmon is collected | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Bucket empties | Friendly Mobs | When a salmon is placed | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Sounds | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch |
| ? | Blocks | When a salmon is collected into a water bucket | bucket | ? | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| ? | Blocks | When a salmon is placed from a bucket | bucket | ? | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
salmon_bucket | Item | None | item |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
salmon_bucket | bucket / 3 | 365 | Item | item |
Item data
- [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
NoAIentity tag for all bucketable entities. - [Boolean] Silent: Turns into
Silententity tag for all bucketable entities. - [Boolean] NoGravity: Turns into
NoGravityentity tag for all bucketable entities. - [Boolean] Glowing: Turns into
Glowingentity tag for all bucketable entities. - [Boolean] Invulnerable: Turns into
Invulnerableentity tag for all bucketable entities. - [Boolean] AgeLocked: Turns into
AgeLockedentity tag for axolotls and tadpoles. - [Float] Health: Turns into
Healthentity tag for all bucketable entities. - [Int] Age: Turns into
Ageentity tag for axolotls and tadpoles. - [Long] HuntingCooldown: Turns into the expiry time of the memory module
has_hunting_cooldownfor axolotls.
- [Boolean] NoAI: Turns into
- [NBT Compound / JSON Object] minecraft:bucket_entity_data: NBT applied to an entity when placed from this bucket. Only tags below are applied.
- [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.
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 | ||||||
| 18w14a | Catching a salmon in a water bucket now awards the Tactical Fishing advancement. | ||||||
| pre5 | "Salmon Bucket" has been renamed to "Bucket of Salmon", to match Bedrock Edition. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43b | ||||||
| 1.20 | pre2 | Fish buckets, including buckets of salmon are now listed in the same order as the fish items in the Creative inventory. | |||||
| 1.21.11 | 25w41a | Buckets of salmon can now be fed to nautiluses and zombie nautiluses. | |||||
Bedrock Edition
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | ||||||
| beta 1.2.20.1 | |||||||
| beta 1.2.20.2 | Buckets of salmon are now available in the Creative inventory. | ||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The IDs of buckets of salmon have been changed from bucket to salmon_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 | |||
| 1.90 | |||||||
Minecraft Education
| Minecraft Education | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.0 | |||||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Bucket of Salmon" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Navigation
Sources
- Bucket of Salmon — Minecraft Wiki, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, revision 3656673.

