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Bucket of Sulfur Cube

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Bucket of Sulfur Cube
Bucket of Sulfur Cube.png: Infobox image for Minecraft item 'Bucket of Sulfur Cube'
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A bucket of sulfur cube, internally known as a sulfur cube bucket, is a living sulfur cube inside of a bucket.

Obtaining

A bucket of sulfur cube can be obtained by using a bucket on a large sulfur cube. Small sulfur cubes cannot be bucketed.

Usage

A bucket of sulfur cube can be used to transport large sulfur cubes. Similarly to buckets of cod and other bucketed mobs, placing the bucket spawns the mob at that location, preserving all of its NBT data, and return an empty bucket.

If the bucketed sulfur cube has an absorbed block, the bucket of sulfur cube item tooltip displays the name of the absorbed block.

If a named sulfur cube is bucketed, the name of the item becomes "Bucket of <name>" (the sulfur cube's name); additionally, the tooltip does not display any absorbed blocks.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Sulfur Cube scoopedBlocksWhen a Sulfur Cube is collected into a bucketitem.bucket.fill_sulfur_cubesubtitles.item.bucket.fill_sulfur_cube​???
​Bucket emptiesBlocksWhen a Sulfur Cube is placed from a bucketitem.bucket.empty_sulfur_cubesubtitles.item.bucket.empty​???

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitch
​Sulfur cube scoopedBlocksWhen a Sulfur Cube is collected into a bucketitem.sulfur_cube.fillsubtitles.item.bucket.fill_sulfur_cube​??
​Bucket emptiesBlocksWhen a Sulfur Cube is placed from a bucketitem.sulfur_cube.emptysubtitles.item.bucket.empty​??

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormItem tags Translation key
ItemSprite bucket-of-sulfur-cube.png: Sprite image for bucket-of-sulfur-cube in Minecraft Bucket of Sulfur Cubesulfur_cube_bucketItemNone item.minecraft.sulfur_cube_bucket

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierAlias ID Numeric ID Form Translation key
ItemSprite bucket-of-sulfur-cube.png: Sprite image for bucket-of-sulfur-cube in Minecraft Bucket of Sulfur Cubesulfur_cube_bucketbucket / 14369Item item.bucketSulfurCube.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.
    • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] sulfur_cube_content: The item stored inside the sulfur cube. When present on a sulfur cube entity, this component doubles as the armor.body slot (body equipment slot). When present on an item, gray italic text is added to the tooltip that says "Contains: <item>".

Bedrock Edition:

  • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] components: the item's components tag.
    • A single item stack see Template:Bedrock nbt/itemnoslot/template
    • inside the [NBT Compound / JSON Object] tag:
      • Tags common to all entities see Template:Bedrock nbt/entity/template
      • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Bedrock nbt/mob/template
      • Additional fields for mobs that can ageable see Template:Bedrock nbt/ageable/template
      • [Byte] Size: The size of the sulfur cube. 1 is the smallest slime, 2 is the next larger.
      • [NBT List / JSON Array] SlotDropChances: List of equipment slots and the chance that the item in that slot drops when the sulfur cube dies.
        • [NBT Compound / JSON Object]: A slot entry.
          • [Float] DropChance: The probability that the item in this slot can drop (0.0 to 1.0).
          • [String] Slot: The name of the equipment slot. Can be mainhand in sulfur cube.
      • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] properties: The sulfur cube properties.
        • [String] minecraft:sulfur_cube_archetype: If the sulfur cube has a block and behavior can be none, bouncy, regular, slow_bouncy, slow_flat, fast_flat, light, fast_sliding, slow_sliding, sticky, high_resistance, explosive, and hot.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
26.2snap1 Added buckets of sulfur cubes.
snap4Added sounds for when using a bucket on a sulfur cube.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
26.20
Experiment
Drop 2 of 2026		Preview 26.20.23 Added buckets of sulfur cubes.
26.30Preview 26.30.20Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.
Preview 26.30.25Small sulfur cubes no longer spawn occasionally from buckets of sulfur cube.
Preview 26.30.28Buckets of sulfur cube now have unique sounds instead of reusing buckets of fish sounds, to match Java Edition.

Issues

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