Cod

Cod

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Health points	3HP
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	Animal, Aquatic
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Height: 0.3 blocks Width: 0.5 blocks In Bedrock Edition: Height: 0.3 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks
Speed	0.7
Spawn	Cold Ocean Deep Cold Ocean Lukewarm Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean Ocean Deep Ocean Frozen Ocean‌ Deep Frozen Ocean‌
Usable items	Water Bucket Bucket ‌

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Cod are common bucketable aquatic passive mobs found in oceans, a source of raw cod and, occasionally, bones‌ or bone meal.‌

Spawning

Java Edition

Cod spawn underwater in normal, cold, and lukewarm oceans, and their deep variants, in groups of 3-6, subject to fish spawning requirements.

Bedrock Edition

Cod spawn underwater 12–32 blocks away from the player in normal, cold, frozen, lukewarm oceans, and their deep variants, in groups of 4–7. In addition, cod spawn only on the surface; that is, there must not be a spawnable block above the spawn location with a non-solid block on top.

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00
	Cooked Cod[B]	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00
	Bone Meal	0–1	5.00%	0.05	0–1	5.00%	0.05	0–1	5.00%	0.05	0–1	5.00%	0.05

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Cooked Cod[B]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Bone Meal	0–1	1⁄20	1⁄20	0–1	1⁄20	1⁄20	0–1	1⁄20	1⁄20	0–1	1⁄20	1⁄20

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
	Cooked Cod[B]	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
	Bone Meal	0	19⁄20 (95.00%)	19⁄20 (95.00%)	19⁄20 (95.00%)	19⁄20 (95.00%)
		1	1⁄20 (5.00%)	1⁄20 (5.00%)	1⁄20 (5.00%)	1⁄20 (5.00%)
		Average	1⁄20 (0.05)	1⁄20 (0.05)	1⁄20 (0.05)	1⁄20 (0.05)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Cooked Cod[B]	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Bone Meal	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00
	Cooked Cod[B]	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00
	Bone	0–1	25.00%	0.25	0 / 2–3	26.00%	0.65	0 / 3–5	27.00%	1.08	0 / 4–7	28.00%	1.54

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Cooked Cod[B]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Bone	0–1	1⁄4	1⁄4	0 / 2–3	13⁄50	13⁄20	0 / 3–5	27⁄100	27⁄25	0 / 4–7	7⁄25	77⁄50

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
	Cooked Cod[B]	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
	Bone	0	3⁄4 (75.00%)	37⁄50 (74.00%)	73⁄100 (73.00%)	18⁄25 (72.00%)
		1	1⁄4 (25.00%)	0	0	0
		2	0	13⁄100 (13.00%)	0	0
		3	0	13⁄100 (13.00%)	27⁄400 (6.75%)	0
		4	0	0	27⁄200 (13.50%)	7⁄150 (4.67%)
		5	0	0	27⁄400 (6.75%)	7⁄75 (9.33%)
		6	0	0	0	7⁄75 (9.33%)
		7	0	0	0	7⁄150 (4.67%)
		Average	1⁄4 (0.25)	13⁄20 (0.65)	27⁄25 (1.08)	77⁄50 (1.54)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Cooked Cod[B]	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Bone	0.25	0.65	1.08	1.54

• 1–3XP experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

Cod tend to swim in schools with a maximum of 9 cod per school.

The player may collect a cod by using a water bucket on it, which gives the player a bucket of cod. Cod placed with buckets do not despawn naturally. When that fish bucket is used on a block, it empties the bucket, placing water with the cod swimming in it. An empty bucket may be used as well.‌

Cod can not be bred, but only spawn in designated biomes.

Weaknesses

A cod cannot survive outside of water. Outside of water, they flip around on their sides like guardians for a while trying to get back into the water until, after 10 seconds of time, they start taking suffocation damage and die. In Bedrock Edition, fish out of water rotate while flipping. They cannot swim or breathe in cauldron water.^[1] They can swim in, but cannot survive in waterlogged blocks, most noticeably waterlogged slabs and stairs.

In Java Edition, cod are vulnerable to weapons that have the Impaling enchantment, which also affects other fish and aquatic mobs except drowned.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Cod use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Cod	cod	aquatic axolotl_hunt_targets can_breathe_under_water not_scary_for_pufferfish sensitive_to_impaling	entity.minecraft.cod

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Cod	cod	112	entity.cod.name

Entity data

Cod 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 (PS)
PS4	Other
		I am a Marine Biologist	Collect a fish in a bucket	Use a water bucket on any fish mob.	20	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Giant Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Illusioner 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 Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.
	Tactical Fishing	Catch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod!	Use a water bucket on any fish mob.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.

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 cod as a mob.
							Cod have 20HP × 10 health.
			18w10a				The health of cod has been changed to 3HP.[2]
			18w15a				Cod now drop the cooked version of their item drops, if killed while on fire.
1.13.1			18w31a				Cod now have a 5% chance of dropping bone meal when killed.
1.18			21w40a				Cod now only spawn between y=50 and y=64.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Added cod.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				Cod now drop experience when killed.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.52				Cod now drop the cooked version of their item drops, if killed while on fire.
1.18.0			beta 1.18.0.21				Cod now only spawn between y=50 and y=64.
1.19.10			Preview 1.19.10.23				The max health of cod has been changed to 3HP.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added cod.
Minecraft Education
1.4.0							Added cod.

Issues

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

Trivia

• A cod in real life are any species of fish that belong in the genus Gadus, except for Alaska pollock which is the same genus but not called "cod".
  • Interestingly, cod in Minecraft have two dorsal fins while all real members of the genus Gadus have three dorsal fins.

Gallery

Render

• 
  How a fish barrel would look if the unused texture, appearing to be filled with cod, was on its top.

Screenshots

• 
  A school of 6 cod swimming in an ocean.
• 
  A fully inflated pufferfish, with six deflated pufferfish and a school of cod behind it.
• 
  An ocean with some fish visible.
• 
  A dying cod next to a pufferfish that is also taking damage due to the absence of water around them.
• 
  Cod and tropical fish, along with a turtle and squid.
• 
  First image of fish mobs in Bedrock Edition.

Textures

• 
  Cod texture file.

Other

• 
  The cod spawn egg in Bedrock Edition beta 1.2.14.2.

See also

• Salmon
• Tropical Fish
• Pufferfish

References

External links

• Cod article on Wikipedia

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