Salmon

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

Spawning[]

Java Edition[]

Salmon spawn in groups of 1–5 in cold or frozen oceans, as well as their deep variants, subject to fish spawning requirements. Like their real-world counterparts, they also spawn in rivers and frozen rivers.

Bedrock Edition[]

Salmon spawn underwater at 12–32 blocks away from the player. Salmon spawn in groups of 3–5 in lukewarm, cold, normal, frozen oceans, their deep variants and rivers (including frozen rivers). In addition, salmon spawn on the surface (i.e., there must not be a spawnable block above the spawn location with a non-solid block on top). Salmon spawn in small, normal, and large sizes. 31.5% spawn as small, 52.6% spawn as normal, and 15.7% spawn as large.

Drops[]

When killed, salmon drop:

• 1 raw salmon (1 cooked salmon if killed while on fire). This is not affected by Looting.^[1]
• 1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

In Java Edition

• 1 bone meal (5% chance).

In Bedrock Edition

• 1 bones (25% chance) if salmon size is small or medium.
• 1-2 bones (25% chance) if salmon size is large.

Behavior[]

Salmon tend to swim in schools (a maximum of seven salmon per school). Salmon can swim up approximately 4–5 blocks in waterfalls, emulating the behavior of real-world salmon that leap into and over small waterfalls to reach their spawning ground.

The player may collect salmon by using a water bucket on it, which gives the player a bucket of salmon. Salmon placed with buckets do not despawn naturally. When that fish bucket is used against a block, it empties the bucket, placing water with that fish swimming in it. In Bedrock Edition, an empty bucket may be used as well.

Weaknesses[]

Salmon are unable to survive out of water. Outside of water, they flop around for a while until eventually they start to suffocate and die. Salmon flip around on their sides. In Bedrock Edition, they rotate when flipping. Salmon also cannot swim or breathe in cauldron water.^[2]

In Java Edition, salmon have a weakness to weapons that have the Impaling enchantment, which also affects other fish and water/ocean mobs except drowned.

Axolotls always attack salmon on sight.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Salmon 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	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	entity.salmon.ambient	None	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Salmon dies	Friendly Creatures	When a salmon dies	entity.salmon.death	subtitles.entity.salmon.death	1.0	0.64-0.96	16
	Salmon hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a salmon is damaged	entity.salmon.hurt	subtitles.entity.salmon.hurt	1.0	0.64-0.96	16
	Salmon flops	Friendly Creatures	While a salmon is on land	entity.salmon.flop	subtitles.entity.salmon.flop	0.3	0.64-0.96	16
	None[sound 2]	Friendly Creatures	While a salmon is swimming	entity.fish.swim	None[sound 2]	0.0-1.0 [sound 1]	0.6-1.4	16

Bedrock Edition:

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

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags (JE)	Translation key
Salmon	salmon	axolotl_always_hostiles	entity.minecraft.salmon

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Salmon	salmon	109	entity.salmon.name

Entity data[]

Salmon 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 salmon.
					Salmon have 20 × 10 health.
		18w10a			The health of salmon has been changed to 3.[3]
		18w15a			Salmon now drop the cooked version of their item drops, if killed while on fire.
1.13.1		18w31a			Salmon now have a 5% chance of dropping bone meal when killed.
1.18		21w40a			Salmon now only spawn between y=50 and y=64.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Added salmon mobs, which come in 3 sizes; small, medium and large. The three different sizes of salmon are a version exclusive.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.9			Salmon now drop experience when killed.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.52			Salmon now drop cooked salmon when killed on fire.
1.18.0		beta 1.18.0.21			Salmon now only spawn between y=50 and y=64.
1.19.10		beta 1.19.10.23			The health of salmon has been changed to 3.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added small, medium and large salmon mobs.
Education Edition
1.4.0					Added salmon mobs.

Issues[]

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

Gallery[]

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  A school of 3 salmon.

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  A school of 4 salmon swimming in a frozen river.

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  The three different sizes of salmon in Bedrock Edition.

See also[]

• Cod
• Tropical Fish
• Pufferfish

References[]

External links[]

• Salmonidae article in Wikipedia