Pufferfish

Pufferfish

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Health points	3HP
Behavior	Passive (defensive)
Mob type	Animal, Aquatic
Attack strength	Semi-puffed: Easy: 2HP Normal: 2HP Hard: 3HP Poison for 3 sec, total 2HP Fully puffed: In Java Edition: Easy: 2.5HP × 1.25 Normal: 3HP Hard: 4.5HP × 2.25 Poison for 6 sec, total 4HP In Bedrock Edition: Easy: 2HP Normal: 2HP Hard: 3HP Poison for 10 sec, total 7HP
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Unpuffed: Height: 0.35 blocks Width: 0.35 blocks Semi-puffed: Height: 0.49 blocks Width: 0.49 blocks Fully puffed: Height: 0.7 blocks Width: 0.7 blocks In Bedrock Edition: Height: 0.96 blocks Width: 0.96 blocks
Speed	0.7
Spawn	Lukewarm Ocean‌ Deep Lukewarm Ocean‌ Warm Ocean
Usable items	Water Bucket Bucket ‌

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Pufferfish are bucketable aquatic mobs found in oceans. Although they never seek out mobs to attack, they defensively inflate themselves when approached too closely by players, axolotls, or non-aquatic mobs, dealing damage and inflicting Poison on them.

Spawning

In Java Edition, pufferfish spawn in groups of 1-3 in warm, lukewarm, and deep lukewarm ocean biomes, subject to fish spawning requirements. If trying to spawn inside a waterlogged solid block, the pufferfish uses the bigger "puffed" size to determine if it collides with anything solid.

In Bedrock Edition, pufferfish spawn underwater at around 12–32 blocks away from the player in groups of 3–5 in warm ocean biomes, and only on the surface; that is, there must not be a spawnable block above the spawn location with a non-solid block on top. They are considerably rarer than tropical fish, with only ¹⁄₅ of fish groups or ²⁄₉ individual fish (within the warm ocean biome) spawning as pufferfish.

Pufferfish spawns in:

Category: Water ambient‌ Water creature‌	Java Edition			Bedrock Edition
Spawn area	Spawn weight	Spawn Chance	Group size	Spawn weight	Group size
Warm Ocean	15⁄40	37.5%	1–3	25	3–5
Deep Lukewarm Ocean	5⁄38	13.16%	1–3	—	—
Lukewarm Ocean	5⁄45	11.11%	1–3	—	—

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Pufferfish	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
	Pufferfish	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
	Pufferfish	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
	Pufferfish	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
	Pufferfish	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
	Pufferfish	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
	Pufferfish	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
	Pufferfish	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
	Bone	0.25	0.65	1.08	1.54

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

Behavior

Unlike other fish, pufferfish don't swim in schools.

Pufferfish inflate themselves when approached by the player, most mobs,‌ including tripod cameras‌ and armor stands.^[1][2]

The player may collect a fish by using a water bucket on it, giving the player a bucket of pufferfish. Fish placed with buckets do not despawn naturally. Using the bucket against a block empties the bucket, placing water with that fish swimming in it. An empty bucket may be used as well.‌

Pufferfish can not be bred and only spawn in designated biomes.

Weaknesses

Like other fish, pufferfish cannot survive out of water. Outside of water, they flop around like guardians for a while until they start suffocating and then die like squid. In Bedrock Edition, they rotate when flopping. Fish cannot swim or breathe in cauldron water.^[3]

The Impaling enchantment affects pufferfish due to being aquatic‌ or simply being in water‌.

Defenses

A pufferfish inflates when approached by a player in Survival or Adventure mode, a drowned, an axolotl, or any non-water mob within 2 blocks of its hitbox, going from unpuffed, then semi-puffed, to fully puffed. Pufferfish are technically passive mobs but going near one when semi-puffed or fully puffed inflicts the player/mob with three or six seconds of Poison based on the inflation level, and touching one in its puffed or semi-puffed form deals damage separate from the Poison.

Pufferfish also instantly inflate to their fullest form after taking any kind of damage.‌ After inflating, they slowly deflate to their normal shape as long as a threat is out of range. If the player/mob leaves the radius while the pufferfish is in its semi-puffed stage, it deflates back to normal.

Undead mobs are unaffected by the Poison effect, but they still take damage when they come into contact with pufferfish.

A pufferfish that inflicts damage on a mob other than a creeper or a ghast by touching it provokes that mob to retaliate.

In Peaceful difficulty, pufferfish do not inflict damage or Poison to player.‌

Pufferfish can deal damage to players at a longer distance compared to mobs.^[4]

Sounds

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

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Pufferfish	pufferfish	aquatic axolotl_hunt_targets can_breathe_under_water not_scary_for_pufferfish sensitive_to_impaling	entity.minecraft.pufferfish

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Pufferfish	pufferfish	108	entity.pufferfish.name

Entity data

Pufferfish have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

A pufferfish's damage and Poison time are directly related to its current PuffState data value, which can be changed using the /data command.

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 Cod 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 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 "puffer fish".
							Puffer fish have 20HP × 10 health.
			18w10a				The health of puffer fish has been changed to 3HP.[5]
			18w19a				"Puffer Fish" has been corrected to "Pufferfish".[6]
1.13.1			18w31a				Pufferfish now have a 5% chance of dropping bone meal when killed.
1.18			21w40a				Pufferfish now spawn between y=50 and y=63.
1.21.2			24w33a				The spike models of the medium pufferfish has been changed as a fix for MC-166880.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Added pufferfish mobs.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				Pufferfish now drop experience when killed.
1.16.0			beta 1.15.0.51				Pufferfish now semi-puff when the player draws near, and fully puff when the player is up against it.
1.18.0			beta 1.18.0.21				Pufferfish now spawn between y=50 and y=64.
1.19.10			Preview 1.19.10.23				The health of pufferfish 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 pufferfish mobs.
Minecraft Education
1.4.0							Added pufferfish mobs.

Issues

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

Trivia

• In real life, pufferfish use their spikes for intimidation purposes and not to inject venom. Their flesh is toxic, which is reflected accurately in-game.
• There are three textures for the three different PuffState data values in Minecraft. A PuffState value greater than 2 does not visually increase the pufferfish size, but does create a bigger shadow on the ground. All sizes of pufferfish textures are contained in the same texture file.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A fully inflated pufferfish, with six deflated pufferfish and a school of cod behind it.
• 
  A dying pufferfish in Bedrock Edition.
• 
  A dying pufferfish in Java Edition.
• 
  An up-close screenshot of a completely deflated pufferfish.
• 
  A player being damaged by a pufferfish.
• 
  An ocean with some fish visible.
• 
  A cod and pufferfish taking damage because they are not in water.
• 
  A gif of the pufferfish stages.

Textures

• 
  Pufferfish texture file.

Other

• 
  The pufferfish spawn egg in Bedrock Edition beta 1.2.14.2.

In other media

• 
  Artwork of a pufferfish.
• 
  Pufferfish in promotional artwork for the Update Aquatic.
• 
  Several pufferfish as they appear in the Trails & Tales trailer.
• 
  Official pufferfish artwork.
• 
  Lego Minecraft pufferfish.
• 
  Pufferfish artwork predating the actual addition of pufferfish mobs.
• 
• 
  A pufferfish waving hello with its entire body.

See also

• Cod
• Salmon
• Tropical Fish

References

External links

• Pufferfish article on Wikipedia

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