Bucket

This article is about the empty bucket. For other uses, see Bucket (disambiguation).

Bucket

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (16), except in furnace fuel slot

A bucket is a utility item used to carry water, lava, milk, powder snow, and sulfur cubes.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Bucket	Monster Room	Chest	1	18.5% { "item": "Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1846297600000001, "structure": "Monster Room", "container": "Chest" }
	Abandoned Camp	Common chest	1	19% { "item": "Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.18999999999999995, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Common chest" }
	Trial Chambers	Intersection barrel	1–2	5.9% { "item": "Bucket", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 0.05939097123670134, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Intersection barrel" }
	Village	Savanna house chest	1	11.3% { "item": "Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11323884996174782, "structure": "Village", "container": "Savanna house chest" }
	Woodland Mansion	Chest	1	13.5% { "item": "Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.13492444814660565, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Bucket	Monster Room	Chest	1	18.5% { "item": "Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1846297600000001, "structure": "Monster Room", "container": "Chest" }
	Abandoned Camp	Common chest	1	19% { "item": "Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.18999999999999995, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Common chest" }
	Trial Chambers	Intersection barrel	1–2	5.9% { "item": "Bucket", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 0.05939097123670134, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Intersection barrel" }
	Village	Savanna house chest	1	11.3% { "item": "Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.11323884996174782, "structure": "Village", "container": "Savanna house chest" }
	Woodland Mansion	Chest	1	17.2% { "item": "Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.1719682899889169, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }

Emptying

Using a water, lava, or powder snow bucket empties the bucket, resulting in a regular empty bucket. Emptying a bucket of sulfur cube also returns an empty bucket, but other buckets of mob do not, giving a water bucket instead.

Usage

Empty buckets can be used to "pick up" a water or lava source block by pressing use item on a block of the relevant type. If the empty bucket is part of a stack and the player's inventory is full, the filled bucket drops in front of the player as an item.

A bucket filled with a source block can then be used to place its source block contents in the empty block next to the side of the block the player is currently looking at, or replacing the block looked at for some replaceable blocks.

One can press use when looking at a cow, mooshroom, or goat to fill a bucket with milk. A bucket full of milk can be emptied only by drinking it or by using it to craft a cake.

An empty bucket can be used to empty a cauldron with water or lava, filling the bucket with the fluid. This does not work with dispensers^[1].

A lava bucket placed in the fuel slot of a furnace becomes an empty bucket after the lava is consumed during smelting.

An empty bucket fills with water when placed in the fuel slot of a furnace while smelting a wet sponge.

An empty bucket can be used to collect powder snow, filling the bucket with powder snow. Emptying the powder snow bucket places the powder snow block in the empty block next to the side of the block the player is currently looking at.

Filling bucket with mobs

An empty bucket can be used to carry and transport a sulfur cube.

A water bucket can be used on a live aquatic mob (cod, salmon, tropical fish, pufferfish, axolotl, or tadpole) to collect the mob in the bucket for transportation to another location.

The mob in item form becomes a bucket of mob.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Bucket	bucket	Item	item.minecraft.bucket

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Bucket	bucket	bucket / 0	360	Item	item.bucket.name

Videos

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Hot Stuff	Fill a Bucket with lava	Have a lava bucket in the inventory.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Infdev
20100615							Added buckets.
							Buckets can currently pick up only water and lava.
20100625-1917							Buckets can now be found in the new dungeon chests.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.11							Cows are now milkable by using buckets.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				Added mooshrooms, which can be milked like normal cows.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5				In Creative mode, buckets now remain empty when used to pick up water and lava.
1.2.1			12w06a				Buckets are now renewable, due to zombies having a chance to drop iron ingots.
1.3.1			12w21a				Buckets are now stackable up to 16.
							Dispensers can now use buckets to collect and dispense water and lava.
			12w22a				Smelting in a furnace with a lava bucket now leaves an empty bucket for the player to retrieve.
							Fixed bug causing stacked buckets to disappear when used to milk cows.
1.8			14w25b				An empty bucket in the fuel slot now fills and become a water bucket after a wet sponge is dried. This happens for empty buckets placed by the player while the furnace is still smelting, and for empty buckets left by lava buckets.
							Stacked buckets in the fuel slot now become a single water bucket.
			14w26a				The player can now place only one bucket in the fuel slot, which fixes the bug above.
1.9			15w44a				A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, filling the bucket with water.
							The average yield of buckets from dungeon chests has been substantially decreased.
			15w46a				Buckets now replace single snow layers when used on the top, instead of placing the water or lava in the air above the snow layer.
			15w50a				Added sounds for buckets: item.bucket.fill, item.bucket.fill_lava, item.bucket.empty, and item.bucket.empty_lava.
1.11			16w39a				Buckets are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
			November 18, 2017				Buckets were said to be able to pick up fish mobs.
1.13			18w08b				Added fish buckets, which turn into regular buckets when used.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of buckets has been changed.
			18w49a				Buckets can now be found in chests in savanna village houses.
1.16			pre1				Using a bucket on water or lava in Creative mode now provides the player with one water or lava bucket in the inventory.[2] This is created in a new inventory slot rather than replacing the used bucket. A limit of one bucket per fluid can be obtained this way - attempting to fill a bucket where a filled one already exists in the inventory removes the fluid as expected but does not provide any new buckets.
							Cows and mooshrooms can also now be milked in Creative mode,[3] providing the player with limitless milk buckets.
			pre4				Milking cows now provides Creative players with only one bucket.[4]
1.17			October 3, 2020				Buckets were revealed to be able to be used to collect axolotls.
			20w46a				Added powder snow, which can be collected with buckets.
			20w51a				Added buckets of axolotls, which turn into regular buckets when used.
			21w13a				Added goats, which can be milked using buckets.
1.19			22w11a				Added buckets of tadpoles, which turn into regular buckets when used.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Buckets can now be found in trial chambers intersection barrels.
26.2			snap1				Added buckets of sulfur cubes, which turn into regular buckets when used.
26.3			snap1				Buckets can now generate as part of abandoned camps in chests.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.7.0							Added buckets.
v0.7.4							Filled buckets no longer stack.[5]
							Empty buckets no longer allow liquid sources to be targeted and broken like blocks.[6]
							The stack limit for empty buckets has been changed from 64 to 16.
v0.9.0			build 1				Added mooshrooms, which can be milked using buckets.
v0.14.0			build 1				Added dispensers, which can use buckets to collect and dispense water and lava.
							A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, filling the bucket with water.
v0.16.0			build 1				Added sounds when using buckets.
							An empty bucket in the fuel slot now fills and becomes a water bucket after a wet sponge is dried. This happens for empty buckets left by lava buckets.
							Buckets no longer highlight fluid blocks when aiming at them.
			build 5				Players can now directly place empty buckets in a furnace.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Buckets now generate in woodland mansion chests.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Added fish buckets, which turn into regular buckets when used.
							Empty buckets can now be used to catch fish.
							Moved all bucket items from the Equipment tab to the Items tab in the Creative inventory.​
1.9.0			beta 1.9.0.2				Cauldrons filled with lava can now be emptied by using a bucket, filling it with lava.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of buckets has been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Buckets can now be found in savanna village house chests.
1.16.200			beta 1.16.200.52				Goats are now milkable by using buckets.
1.16.210			beta 1.16.210.53				Added powder snow, which can be collected with buckets.
1.17.0			beta 1.16.230.52				Added buckets of axolotls, which turn into regular buckets when used.
1.17.10			beta 1.17.10.22				Empty buckets can no longer be used to catch fish.
1.18.10 Experiment Wild Update			beta 1.18.10.24				Added buckets of tadpoles, which turn into regular buckets when used, behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
1.20.40			Preview 1.20.40.20				Added a delay of 10 ticks for retrieving liquids with a bucket after they've been placed.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Buckets can now be found in trial chambers intersection barrels.
1.20.80			Preview 1.20.80.21				Removed the delay for retrieving liquids with a bucket after they've been placed.
26.20 Experiment Drop 2 of 2026			Preview 26.20.23				Added buckets of sulfur cubes, which turn into regular buckets when used.
26.30			Preview 26.30.20				Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026			Preview 26.40.27				Buckets can now generate as part of abandoned camps in chests.
26.50			Preview 26.50.22				All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1		Added buckets.
TU9							Buckets are now stackable up to 16.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15	1.0.1	A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, filling the bucket with water.
							Added sounds for buckets.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Buckets are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
TU56	CU48	1.55	1.55	1.55	Patch 26	1.0.6	Buckets can now be usesd to milk cows and mooshrooms even in creative mode.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90							The texture of buckets has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added buckets.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Bucket" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

In other media

• 
  Bucket in the Super Duper Graphics Pack
• 
  A bucket as seen in A Minecraft Movie
• 
  A bucket as it was seen in Minecraft Earth

See also

• Cauldron
• Bowl
• Glass Bottle
• Water

References

External links

• "Taking Inventory: Bucket" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, December 14, 2018.