Raw salmon is a food item that can be eaten by the player or cooked to make cooked salmon.
Obtaining[]
Mob loot[]
Salmon[]
Salmon always drops 1 raw salmon when killed, unaffected by Looting.[1] If it is killed while on fire, it drops 1 cooked salmon instead.
Guardians and elder guardians[]
Guardians and elder guardians have a 2.5% chance to drop a random fish, with 25% of them being raw salmon, which drops as cooked if the guardian was on fire. The chance of getting the fish drop is increased by 1% per level with Looting (for a maximum of 5.5% with Looting III), but the type of fish is not affected.
Polar bears[]
Polar bears have a 25% chance of dropping 0–2 raw salmon when killed. The maximum amount can be increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-5 with Looting III. If killed while on fire, they drop cooked salmon instead.
Fishing[]
Raw salmon can be obtained from fishing. The wait time of one being caught is decreased with the Lure enchantment and the chance of one being caught is slightly decreased with the Luck of the Sea enchantment (named as such because it increases treasure, not fish).
Catching salmon awards 1-6 experience.
Chest loot[]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Raw Salmon | Bonus chest | Chest | 1–2 | 61.5% |
| Village | Fisherman's chest | 1–3 | 24.2% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Raw Salmon | Bonus chest | Chest | 1–2 | 100% |
Villager gifts[]
in Java Edition, Fisherman villagers throw raw salmon at players under the Hero of the Village effect.
Usage[]
Smelting ingredient[]
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|
| Raw Salmon + Any fuel |
Food[]
Raw salmon restores 2 (
) hunger and 0.2 saturation.
Cats[]
Raw salmon can be used to tame cats with 1⁄3 chance of success, get cats off of chests, and beds, breed cats, and make baby cats grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time. Additionally, raw salmon can be used to heal cats by 2
.
Raw salmon can be used to gain ocelot trust, breed ocelots, and make baby ocelots grow up by 10%.
Dolphins[]
A dolphin can be fed raw salmon to increase its trust of the player and cause it to interact with the player more often. However, unlike most other animal mobs, this does not cause them to breed.
Additionally, dolphins swim to the nearest chest in a shipwreck or underwater ruin after they are fed raw salmon. If the chest in the nearest structure is broken, they swim to another structure with a chest.
Trading[]
Apprentice-level Fisherman villagers have 50%[Bedrock Edition only] or 2⁄3[Java Edition only] chance to buy 6 raw salmon and one emerald for 6 cooked salmon.
Journeyman-level Fisherman villagers offer to buy 13 raw salmon for an emerald.
Wolves[]
In Bedrock Edition, raw salmon can be fed only to wolves not at full health, healing them by 2. Unlike other wolf food, raw salmon cannot be used to breed wolves or to accelerate the growth of baby wolves.
Sounds[]
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eating | Players | While a player is eating something | entity | subtitles | varies [sound 1] | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Eating | Friendly Creatures | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.6-1.4 | 16 | |
| Burp | Players | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.9-1.0 | 16 |
- ↑ Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | While a player is eating something | random | 0.5-1.1 | 0.8-1.2 | |
| Players | When a player finishes eating something | random | 0.5 | 0.9-1.0 |
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw Salmon | salmon | Item | fishes | item.minecraft.salmon |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw Salmon | salmon | 265 | Item | item.salmon.name |
Achievements[]
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Lion Hunter | Gain the trust of an Ocelot. | — | 15G | Bronze | ||
Advancements[]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Husbandry | The world is full of friends and food | — | Consume anything that can be consumed. | husbandry/root
|
| Fishy Business | Catch a fish | Husbandry | Use a fishing rod to catch any of these fishes:
| husbandry/fishy_business
|
 | A Complete Catalogue | Tame all Cat variants! | Best Friends Forever | Tame each of these 11 cat variants: | husbandry/complete_catalogue
|
| A Balanced Diet | Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you | A Seedy Place | Eat each of these 40 foods:
| husbandry/balanced_diet
|
Video[]
History[]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a |  Added raw salmon. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w25a | Raw salmon is now obtainable rare drops from guardians and elder guardians. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w44a | Raw salmon can now be found in bonus chests. | |||
| 1.10 | 16w20a | Raw salmon is now dropped from polar bears. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different data values for the fish and cooked_fish IDs have been split up into their own IDs.
| |||
| Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 349 and 250. | |||||
| 18w08b | Salmon has been added as a mob, which drops raw salmon when killed (cooked while on fire). | ||||
 The texture for raw salmon has been changed. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w48a | Raw salmon can now be found in chests in village fisher cottages. | |||
| 19w11a | Fisherman villagers now buy raw salmon. | ||||
| 19w13a | Fisherman villagers now give raw salmon to players under the Hero of the Village effect. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Added raw salmon. | |||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Salmon now restores hunger instead of health. | |||
| Raw salmon can now be used to tame ocelots. | |||||
| v0.16.0 | build 1 | Salmon is now dropped by guardians and elder guardians. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Added polar bears, which drop raw salmon. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Raw salmon is now found inside bonus chests. | |||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Salmon has been added as a mob, which drops raw salmon when killed (cooked while on fire). | |||
| The texture for raw salmon has been changed. | |||||
| beta 1.2.20.1 | Added dolphins, which can be bred with raw salmon. | ||||
| 1.5.0 | beta 1.5.0.0 | Raw salmon can no longer be used to breed dolphins. | |||
| Giving raw salmon to dolphins now leads the player to nearest underwater ruins or shipwreck. | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Raw salmon can no longer be used to tame ocelots. | |||
| Raw salmon can now be used to breed ocelots. | |||||
| Added stray cats, which can be tamed by being fed raw salmon. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Raw salmon can now be sold to fisherman villagers. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.52 | If salmon is killed while on fire, then they now drop cooked salmon instead of a raw salmon. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Added raw salmon. | |
| TU69 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | The texture for raw salmon have been changed. | ||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added raw salmon. | ||||
Issues[]
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