With thousands of Minecraft variants, tropical fish are some of the most diverse mobs in the entire game and are readily available to players looking for them.
Unlike cod or salmon, Minecraft players will not catch tropical fish with a fishing rod in the vanilla version of the game. To collect them, players will need to grab some buckets full of water and head to warm or warm ocean biomes.
Fresh water and frozen oceans will not solve the problem here, as they host different fish and are not “tropical” enough for tropical fish. Once players find some tropical fish in the ocean, all they need to do is use the bucket on the multitude of fish and they will have caught a live tropical fish.
Minecraft: additional information about tropical fish
Added to Minecraft's Java edition in version 1.13 and its Bedrock edition in version 1.4, tropical fish have spent a few years as part of the game's mob ecosystem. More recently, they have become the preferred snack for the game's new Axolotl mobs, allowing players to breed friendly amphibians.
Otherwise, they can be a nice addition to decorative activities for those who have created artificial bodies of water.
The variety in how tropical fish spawn depends slightly on the players' version of Minecraft. In the Java edition, there are 22 defined varieties in which the majority (90%) of tropical fish spawn, which are named as follows:
- Parrot
- angelfish queen
- red chichlid
- Red Lipped Blenny
- You like
- threadfin
- Anemone
- White-Silver Sunstreak
- tomato clown fish
- Black Tang
- Blue Dory
- Butterfly fish
- Chichlid
- Clown fish
- Yellow Tang
- White-Gray Dasher
- Betta Cotton Candy
- Dottyback
- red emperor
- goatfish
- Moorish idol
- Ornate butterfly
Ten percent of the time, tropical fish spawn randomly with no common variant assigned. In Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, there are no common variants established; instead it relies on a series of default predefined fish while randomly spawning fish similar to Java Edition.
When using a bucket to catch tropical fish in the Bedrock Edition, players can identify the color and type of the fish by checking the bucket name. For example, a bucket full of a particular tropical fish might be called a “Spotted Rose-Sky Bucket”.
In the Bedrock and Java editions of Minecraft, players will also receive an Achievement/Advance for putting a tropical fish in a bucket for the first time. Depending on the game edition, they will receive one of the following:
- Tactical Fishing (Java Edition)
- I am a marine biologist (Bedrock edition)
Whatever players choose to do with their buckets of tropical fish is up to them, but there are a few things to remember if they are being kept alive rather than fed Axolotls:
- Pouring water from a bucket of tropical fish will release both water and fish at the target location. If a tropical fish is placed this way, it does not spawn naturally the way it would if it spawned naturally in the ocean.
- Placing a tropical fish out of a body of water will cause it to fall the same way as a mob, such as Guardians, before dying of suffocation.
- Fish cannot survive or swim in water placed in a cauldron.
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