Cod

Cod are common bucketable aquatic passive mobs found in oceans, and a source of raw cod and, occasionally, bones‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} or bone meal.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Spawning[]

Java Edition[]

Cod spawn underwater in normal, cold, and lukewarm oceans, and their deep variants, in groups of 3-6, subject to fish spawning requirements.

Bedrock Edition[]

Cod spawn underwater 12-32 blocks away from the player in normal, cold, frozen, lukewarm oceans, and their deep variants, in groups of 4-7. In addition, cod spawn only on the surface; that is, there must not be a spawnable block above the spawn location with a non-solid block on top.

Drops[]

Cod drop the following upon death:

• 1 raw cod, or 1 cooked cod if killed while on fire. This drop is unaffected by Looting.^[1]
• 1 bone meal (5% chance)‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• 1–2 bones (25% chance)‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• 1–3 experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior[]

Cod tend to swim in schools (a maximum of nine cod per school).

The player may collect a cod by using a water bucket on it, which gives the player a bucket of fish. Cod placed with buckets do not despawn naturally. When that fish bucket is used on a block, it empties the bucket, placing water with the cod swimming in it.

An empty bucket may be used as well.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Weaknesses[]

A cod cannot survive outside of water. Outside of water, they flip around on their sides like guardians for a while trying to get back into the water until, after 10 seconds of time, they start taking suffocation damage and die. In Bedrock Edition, fish out of water rotate while flipping. They cannot swim or breathe in cauldron water.^[2] They can swim in, but cannot survive in waterlogged blocks, most noticeably waterlogged slabs and stairs.

In Java Edition, cod are vulnerable to weapons that have the Impaling enchantment, which also affects other fish and aquatic mobs except drowned.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Cod use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
None	None[sound 1]	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	entity.cod.ambient	None[sound 1]	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Cod dies	Friendly Creatures	When a cod dies	entity.cod.death	subtitles.entity.cod.death	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Cod hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a cod is damaged	entity.cod.hurt	subtitles.entity.cod.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Cod flops	Friendly Creatures	While a cod is on land	entity.cod.flop	subtitles.entity.cod.flop	0.3	0.8-1.2	16
	None[sound 3]	Friendly Creatures	While a cod is swimming	entity.fish.swim	None[sound 3]	0.0-1.0 [sound 2]	0.6-1.4	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	When a cod dies	mob.fish.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	When a cod is damaged	mob.fish.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Friendly Creatures	While a cod is on land	mob.fish.flop	1.0	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	While a cod is swimming	mob.fish.step	0.15	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Cod	cod	axolotl_always_hostiles	entity.minecraft.cod

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Cod	cod	112	entity.cod.name

Entity data[]

Cod have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements[]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		I am a Marine Biologist	Collect a fish in a bucket	Use an empty bucket on any fish mob to collect it.	20G	Bronze

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Monster Hunter	Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Axolotl Bee Blaze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Chicken Jockey Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Skeleton Horseman Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Spider Jockey Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst
	Tactical Fishing	Catch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod!	Fishy Business	Use a water bucket on any fish mob.	husbandry/tactical_fishing

History[]

Java Edition Alpha
June 28, 2010					Notch mentioned that fish might be a feature of coral, if he were able to add coral: "... I do know that the corals will have tiny fish particles around them."
October 4, 2010					Fish were a passive mob that Notch showed interest in adding. In the promotional graphic for the Halloween Update, Notch indicated he would add fish. However, they were added only as an item; there was no code for a fish mob.
Java Edition
October 5, 2012					Fish were jokingly teased in the fake snapshot 12marc40awesome, along with coral and "fish blocks".
April 13, 2013					When Jon Kågström was asked in his AMA on Reddit, "What mob would you like to implement into the game?" He responded, "I would like to add birds, fish and tree animals to make it more alive. However this will take some time before it can be done."
July 31, 2013					During Notch's AMA on Reddit, when asked about what happened to his plans of adding fish as a mob, he responded, "Oh yeah, the fish!"
1.13		18w08b			Added cod as a mob.
		18w15a			Cod now drop the cooked version of their item drops, if killed while on fire.
1.13.1		18w31a			Cod now have a 5% chance of dropping bone meal when killed.
1.18		21w40a			Cod now only spawn between y=50 and y=64.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added cod.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Cod now drop experience when killed.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.52			Cod now drop the cooked version of their item drops, if killed while on fire.
1.18.0		beta 1.18.0.21			Cod now only spawn between y=50 and y=64.
1.19.10		beta 1.19.10.23			The max health of cod has been changed to 3.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added cod.
Education Edition
1.4.0					Added cod.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Cod" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• A cod in real life are any species of fish that belong in the genus Gadus, except for Alaska pollock which is the same genus but not called "cod".
  • Interestingly, cod in Minecraft have two dorsal fins while all real members of the genus Gadus have three dorsal fins.

Gallery[]

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  A school of 6 cod swimming in an ocean.

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  A fully inflated pufferfish, with six deflated pufferfish and a school of cod behind it.

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  An ocean with some fish visible.

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  A dying cod next to a pufferfish that is also taking damage due to the absence of water around them.

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  Cod and tropical fish, along with a turtle and squid.

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  First image of fish mobs in Bedrock Edition.

See also[]

• Salmon
• Tropical Fish
• Pufferfish

References[]