A water bucket is a bucket filled with water.
Obtaining[]
Interacting[]
To fill an empty bucket with water, use it on a water source block. The water is consumed in the process. Flowing water does not fill a bucket.
Using an empty bucket on a cauldron filled with water (water level 3) empties the cauldron and fills the bucket.
Water buckets can also be filled by placing an empty one in the fuel slot of a furnace, and a wet sponge into the oven slot. The bucket is filled when the smelting process completes, which also leaves the sponge dry and ready to be reused.
Chest Loot[]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Water Bucket | Village | Fisherman's chest | 1–3 | 24.2% |
Usage[]
Using a water bucket on a solid block places a water source block against that block, emptying the bucket; using a water bucket on a waterloggable block waterlogs the block. In the Nether, however, the water evaporates, making a fire extinguishing sound and displays smoke particles while nothing gets placed.
Dispensers[]
A dispenser can be loaded with a water bucket, and when activated it places a water block directly before it, emptying the bucket. A dispenser loaded with an empty bucket and a water source right in front of it draws the source into the bucket when activated.
Cauldrons[]
A single water bucket can fill a cauldron, and using an empty bucket on a water-filled cauldron fills the bucket. Empty buckets cannot be filled from partly-filled cauldrons.
Filling bucket with mobs[]
Water buckets can be used on a fish, axolotl or tadpole to create a bucket of aquatic mob.
Transportation[]
Water buckets can be used as a means of quickly descending great heights in the Overworld and the End, either by creating a waterfall or using the water bucket while falling to create a safe water landing.
Water buckets can also be used to climb vertical surfaces anywhere but the Nether by repeatedly creating higher waterfalls from the bottom and swimming up them.
Sounds[]
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bucket fills | Players | When a bucket is filled with water | item | subtitles | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Bucket empties | Blocks | When the bucket is placed | item | subtitles | 1.0 [sound 1] | 1.0 | 16 |
- ↑ Except for the second copy of
empty1, which is 0.9
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | When a bucket is filled with water | bucket | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | When a water bucket is emptied | bucket | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | When a water bucket is placed in a cauldron | cauldron | 0.1 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | When a water bucket is removed from a cauldron | cauldron | 0.1 | 1.0 |
- ↑ a b MCPE-135919
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Bucket | water_bucket | Item | item.minecraft.water_bucket |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water Bucket | water_bucket | bucket / 8 | 362 | Item | item.bucketWater.name |
Advancements[]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Bukkit Bukkit | Catch a Tadpole in a Bucket | Husbandry | — | husbandry/tadpole_in_a_bucket
|
| Tactical Fishing | Catch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod! | Fishy Business | Use a water bucket on any fish mob. | husbandry/tactical_fishing
|
| The Cutest Predator | Catch an Axolotl in a Bucket | Tactical Fishing | Use a water bucket on an axolotl. | husbandry/axolotl_in_a_bucket
|
History[]
| Java Edition Infdev | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20100615 |  Added water buckets. | ||||
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
| v1.2.6 | Using a water bucket on blocks with GUIs (chests, furnaces, etc.) no longer places the water. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | Water buckets can now be used to fill cauldrons. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w15a | Dispensers have now been given the ability to dispense water buckets. They can also collect if activated again. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w25a | A water bucket is now shown as the icon when water is used as a layer in Superflat. | |||
| 14w25b | Smelting a wet sponge while an empty bucket is in the fuel slot fills the bucket with water. | ||||
| 1.9 | 15w44a | A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, yielding a water bucket. | |||
| 15w50a | Added sounds for collecting and pouring water using a bucket. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to the Flattening this item's numerical ID was 326. | |||
| 18w08b | Water buckets can now be used to pick up fish mobs. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of water buckets has now been changed.
| |||
| Water buckets can now suck up liquids directly adjacent to the side they are facing. How this works is unknown, given the water bucket clearly already contains a liquid. | |||||
| 18w48a | Water buckets can now be found in chests in village fishing cottages. | ||||
| 19w02a | Water buckets can now be used to put out campfires. | ||||
| 1.17 | 20w51a | Water buckets can now be used to collect axolotls. | |||
| 1.19 | 22w11a | Water buckets can now be used to collect tadpoles. | |||
| 1.19.3 | 22w45a | Water buckets can now be emptied into waterlogged blocks, instead of placing water against them.[1] | |||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| Villager Trade Rebalance (Experimental) | 23w31a | Wandering traders now have a chance to buy a water bucket from the player. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.7.0 | Added water buckets.
| ||||
| Water buckets were simply called "Bucket". | |||||
| v0.7.4 | Water buckets no longer stack to 64. | ||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Dispensers can now shoot out water from water buckets. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Water buckets can now be used to pick up fish mobs. | |||
| Moved all bucket items, including water buckets, from the Equipment tab to the Items tab in the Creative inventory.[verify][more information needed] | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of water buckets has now been changed. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of water buckets has been changed from bucket/8 to water_bucket. | |||
| 1.17.0 | beta 1.16.230.52 | Water buckets can now be used to collect axolotls. | |||
| 1.18.10 | beta 1.18.10.24 | Water buckets can now be used to collect tadpoles behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added water buckets. |
| TU9 | Dispensers have now been given the ability to shoot out the liquids inside water buckets. They can also suck up the liquids if activated again, but a bug prevents the empty bucket from being filled. Whether this was ever fixed is unknown. | ||||
| 1.90 | The texture of water buckets has now been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added water buckets. | ||||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Water Bucket" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[]
Water bucket in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.
