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Water Bucket

Water Bucket

A water bucket is a bucket filled with water. It can be used to displace water or scoop up certain aquatic mobs.

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Items Renewable resources Non-stackable resources Combat Utilities
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Contents (27)
  1. Obtaining
  2. Interacting
  3. Generated loot
  4. Smelting
  5. Usage
  6. Dispensers
  7. Cauldrons
  8. Filling bucket with mobs
  9. Transportation
  10. Trading
  11. Sounds
  12. Data values
  13. ID
  14. Achievements
  15. Advancements
  16. Videos
  17. History
  18. Java Edition
  19. Bedrock Edition
  20. Legacy Console Edition
  21. New Nintendo 3DS Edition
  22. Data history
  23. Issues
  24. Gallery
  25. Mojang images
  26. In other media
  27. References
For the item in Minecraft Earth, see Earth:Water Bucket. For the item in Minecraft: Story Mode, see Story Mode:Water Bucket.
Water Bucket
Water Bucket.png: Infobox image for Minecraft item 'Water Bucket'
Invicon Water Bucket.png: Inventory sprite for Water Bucket in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Water Bucket
Rarity tier
  Common
Renewable Yes
Stackable No

A water bucket is a bucket filled with water. It can be used to displace water or scoop up certain aquatic mobs.

Obtaining

Interacting

To fill an empty bucket with water, use it on a water source block or waterlogged block. The water is consumed in the process. Flowing water does not fill a bucket.

Using an empty bucket on a full water cauldron (level 3) empties the cauldron and fills the bucket.

Generated loot

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance
Java Edition
Water Bucket Trial Chambers Chamber dispenser 1 13.8%
{ "item": "Water Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.13793103448275867, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Chamber dispenser" }
Water dispenser 1 100%
{ "item": "Water Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 1, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Water dispenser" }
Village Fisherman's chest 1–3 24.2%
{ "item": "Water Bucket", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.2418426461183103, "structure": "Village", "container": "Fisherman's chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Water Bucket Trial Chambers Chamber dispenser 1 13.8%
{ "item": "Water Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.13793103448275867, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Chamber dispenser" }
Water dispenser 1 100%
{ "item": "Water Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 1, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Water dispenser" }

Smelting

If an empty bucket is in the fuel slot of a furnace when a wet sponge finishes smelting and becomes a dry sponge, the bucket fills with water. Other fuel items have to be used to smelt the wet sponge before the empty bucket is inserted. If a lava bucket is used as the fuel, it fills with water when the sponge dries out, meaning an empty bucket does not need to be inserted separately.

Ingredients Smelting recipe
Wet Sponge
+ Bucket
Invicon Wet Sponge.png: Inventory sprite for Wet Sponge in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Wet Sponge with description: Wet Sponge
Invicon Bucket.png: Inventory sprite for Bucket in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Bucket with description: BucketInvicon Water Bucket.png: Inventory sprite for Water Bucket in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Water Bucket
Invicon Sponge.png: Inventory sprite for Sponge in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Sponge with description: Sponge0.15

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.

Water buckets are also used to perform water bucket clutches to remove fall damage.

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. This also works in the Nether, and is the only way to place water there without cheats or mods.

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 (except the Nether) by repeatedly creating higher waterfalls from the bottom and swimming up them.

Trading

Wandering traders have a 1⁄3 chance of purchasing 1 water bucket for 2 emeralds.

VillagerProbabilityVillager wantsPlayer receivesTrades in
stock		Villager
experience		Price
multiplier
JEBE
Wandering TraderPurchase33%33%Water Bucket2 × Emerald2——
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Sounds

Java Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Bucket fillsPlayersWhen a bucket is filled with wateritem.bucket.fillsubtitles.item.bucket.fill​1.01.016
​Bucket emptiesBlocksWhen the bucket is placeditem.bucket.emptysubtitles.item.bucket.empty​1.0 [sound 1]1.016
​Fish capturedFriendly MobsWhen a fish is collecteditem.bucket.fill_fishsubtitles.item.bucket.fill_fish​1.01.016
​Tadpole capturedFriendly MobsWhen a tadpole is collecteditem.bucket.fill_tadpolesubtitles.item.bucket.fill_tadpole​0.51.516
​Axolotl scoopedFriendly MobsWhen an axolotl is collecteditem.bucket.fill_axolotlsubtitles.item.bucket.fill_axolotl​1.01.016
​Bucket emptiesFriendly MobsWhen a fish is placeditem.bucket.empty_fishsubtitles.item.bucket.empty​1.01.016
​Bucket emptiesFriendly MobsWhen a tadpole is placeditem.bucket.empty_tadpolesubtitles.item.bucket.empty​0.51.516
​Bucket emptiesFriendly MobsWhen an axolotl is placeditem.bucket.empty_axolotlsubtitles.item.bucket.empty​1.01.016
  1. ↑ Except for the second copy of empty1, which is 0.9

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitch
​ ?BlocksWhen a bucket is filled with waterbucket.fill_water​ ?1.01.0
​ ?BlocksWhen a water bucket is emptiedbucket.empty_water​ ?1.01.0
​ ?BlocksWhen a water bucket is placed in a cauldron[sound 1]cauldron.fillwater​ ?0.11.0
​ ?BlocksWhen a water bucket is removed from a cauldron[sound 1]cauldron.takewater​ ?0.11.0
​ ?BlocksWhen a creature is collected into a water bucketbucket.fill_fish​ ?1.01.0
​ ?BlocksWhen a creature is placed from a bucketbucket.empty_fish​ ?1.01.0
  1. ↑ a b MCPE-135919

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierForm Translation key
ItemSprite water-bucket.png: Sprite image for water-bucket in Minecraft Water Bucketwater_bucketItem item.minecraft.water_bucket

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierAlias ID Numeric ID Form Translation key
ItemSprite water-bucket.png: Sprite image for water-bucket in Minecraft Water Bucketwater_bucketbucket / 8362Item item.bucketWater.name

Achievements

IconAchievementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)Gamerscore earnedTrophy type (PS)
PS4Other
I am a Marine BiologistCollect a fish in a bucketUse a water bucket on any fish mob by right-clicking.20Bronze

Advancements

IconAdvancementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)
Bukkit BukkitCatch a Tadpole in a BucketUse a water bucket on an tadpole.
Tactical FishingCatch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod!Use a water bucket on any fish mob.
The Cutest PredatorCatch an Axolotl in a BucketUse a water bucket on an axolotl.

Videos

History

Java Edition

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
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 Water buckets can now be used to fill cauldrons.
1.3.112w15a Dispensers have now been given the ability to dispense water buckets. They can also collect if activated again.
1.814w25a 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.
1.915w44a 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.
1.1318w08b Water buckets can now be used to pick up fish mobs.
1.1418w43a The texture of water buckets has now been changed.
18w48a Water buckets can now be found in chests in village fishing cottages.
19w02a Water buckets can now be used to put out campfires.
1.1720w51a Water buckets can now be used to collect axolotls.
1.1922w11a Water buckets can now be used to collect tadpoles.
1.19.322w45a Water buckets can now be emptied into waterlogged blocks, instead of placing water against them.[1]
1.20.2
Experiment
Villager Trade Rebalance		23w31a Wandering traders now have a chance to buy a water bucket from the player.
1.20.3
Experiment
Update 1.21		23w45a Water buckets can now generate in trial chambers dispensers.

Bedrock Edition

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.
v0.14.0build 1 Dispensers can now shoot out water from water buckets.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 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.​
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3 The texture of water buckets has now been changed.
1.17.0
Experiment
Caves and Cliffs		beta 1.16.230.52 Water buckets can now be used to collect axolotls.
1.18.10
Experiment
Wild Update		beta 1.18.10.24 Water buckets can now be used to collect tadpoles behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
1.20.60
Experiment
Update 1.21		Preview 1.20.60.20 Water buckets can now generate in trial chambers dispensers.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU1CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1 Added water buckets.
TU9 Dispensers have now been given the ability to shoot out the liquids inside water buckets. Due to a bug, they cannot fill empty buckets.
TU10 Dispensers can now fill empty buckets when facing toward a water source.
TU31CU191.221.221.22Patch 3 Smelting a wet sponge while an empty bucket is in the fuel slot fills the bucket with water.
TU46CU361.381.381.38Patch 15 A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, yielding a water bucket.
Added sounds for collecting and pouring water using a bucket.
TU69 1.761.761.76Patch 38 Water buckets can now be used to pick up fish mobs.
1.90 The texture of water buckets has now been changed.
1.91 Water buckets can now be used to put out campfires.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0 Added water buckets.

Data history

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.1317w47a Prior to the Flattening this item's numerical ID was 326.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.16.100beta 1.16.100.56 The ID of water buckets has been changed from bucket/8 to water_bucket.

Issues

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

Mojang images

In other media

References

  1. ↑ MC-127110 – resolved as "Fixed".
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