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Fish are common passive mobs found in oceans and rivers. They come in 4 main variants: cod, salmon, puffer fish, and tropical fish.
Spawning
Cod spawn in normal, cold, and lukewarm oceans, and their deep variants.
Puffer fish and tropical fish spawn in lukewarm, warm, and deep lukewarm oceans.
Salmon spawn in cold and frozen oceans, and their deep variants. Unlike the other types of fish, they also spawn in normal and frozen rivers. Salmon can spawn in 3 size which is small, normal and large.
Drops
Fish drop 1 of their item form when killed: raw cod, raw salmon, pufferfish or clownfish. Cod and salmon will drop the cooked variant of their item if killed while on fire. A tropical fish will drop clownfish no matter what its type, pattern or colors are. Fish will also drop a bone, also different size of salmon drop different amount of bone.[Bedrock Edition only]
Behavior
Cod, salmon and tropical fish tend to swim in schools of fish (a maximum of nine cod, six salmon, and nine of the same tropical per school). Salmon are able to jump up waterfalls.[verify]
The player may collect a fish by using a water bucket on it, which gives the player a fish bucket. When that fish bucket is used against a block, it empties the bucket, placing water with that fish swimming in it.
Weaknesses
None of the fish are able to survive out of water. Outside of water, they flop around like guardians for a while until eventually they start to suffocate and die like squid. Cod, salmon and tropical fish will flip around on their sides.
Fish have a weakness to weapons that have the Impaling enchantment, which also affects squid, turtles, drowned, guardians, and elder guardians.
Defenses
Puffer fish will puff up when approached by a player, going from unpuffed, then semi-puffed, to fully puffed. Puffer fish are technically passive mobs but going near one when fully puffed will inflict the player with seven seconds of Poison, and touching them in their puffed form will deal some damage separate from the poison.
Tropical fish varieties
The 22 common varieties of tropical fish
When tropical fish spawn in the wild, 90% of the time they will come in one of the 22 varieties seen on the right, and the other 10% of the time their patterns, size and colors will be completely random, drawn from any of 2 shapes, 16 colors, 6 patterns, and 16 colors for the pattern. These result in 3072 naturally-occurring combinations. With commands, the player can summon tropical fish without patterns, giving a further 32 possible combinations.
Data values
Cod and salmon have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity IDs are minecraft:cod and minecraft:salmon.
Puffer fish and tropical fish have additional entity data, beyond what other fish have. Their entity IDs are minecraft:pufferfish and minecraft:tropical_fish.
Fish (mob)/ED
The fish sizes and patterns are depicted in the following table, with white body color and dark gray pattern color.
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| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
least byte |
1 | 
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The 22 varieties of tropical fish most commonly found throughout the world have Variant tag values from the following table, which also lists what color/shape/patterns come from that value.
| Shape | Pattern | Color | Color for the pattern | Variant |
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| 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 117506305 |
| 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 117899265 |
| 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 50790656 |
| 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 117441536 |
| 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 118161664 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 65536 |
| 0 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 50726144 |
| 1 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 67764993 |
| 1 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 234882305 |
| 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 67110144 |
| 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 117441025 |
| 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16778497 |
| 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 101253888 |
| 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 50660352 |
| 1 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 918529 |
| 0 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 235340288 |
| 1 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 918273 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 67108865 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 256 |
| 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 917504 |
| 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 67371265 |
| 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 117441280 |
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
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 | Tactical Fishing | Catch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod! | Fishy Business | Use a water bucket on any fish mob. | husbandry/tactical_fishing
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History
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| 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 only added as an item; there was no code for a fish mob. | ||||
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| 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!" | ||||
| November 18, 2017 | File:TeasedFish.jpegTwo fish mobs, presumably early tropical fish, were shown off in a clip presented at MineCon#MineCon Earth. | ||||
| upcoming | |||||
| 1.13 | 18w08b | Added fish mobs, at this time only cod, salmon, and puffer fish. They had 20 health. | |||
| 18w10a | Changed health to 3. | ||||
| 18w10b | Tropical fish now make sounds, and do not use the player damage sound. | ||||
| 18w15a | Cod and salmon now drop the cooked version of their item drops if killed while in fire. | ||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.14 | build 1 | Added all 4 variants of fish. | |||
Issues
Issues relating to "Fish mob", "Puffer fish mob", "Cod mob", "Salmon mob", or "Tropical fish mob" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Despite its item form being named "Pufferfish", the bucket and spawn eggs refer to the respective mob as "Puffer Fish".[2]
- Puffer fish will puff up and poison the invisible player, and the player on peaceful difficulty, creative and spectator mode.[3]
Gallery
A school of 6 cod fish swimming in an ocean.
A school of 3 salmon fish.
- Puffer fish mob.png
A fully inflated puffer fish, with six deflated puffer fish and a school of cod behind it.
An up-close screenshot of a completely deflated puffer fish.
A cod and puffer fish taking damage because they are not in water.
A screenshot of tropical fish up close.
Some tropical fish jumping on land.
