Pufferfish (item)

Pufferfish

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Restores	1 ()
Status effects	Hunger III (0:15) Poison II (1:00) Nausea I (0:15)

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A pufferfish is a poisonous food item that is used to brew Water Breathing potions.

Obtaining

Mob loot

Java Edition:

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Elder Guardian[A]	0–1	0.33%	0.00	0–1	0.46%	0.00	0–1	0.58%	0.01	0–1	0.71%	0.01
	Guardian[A]	0–1	0.33%	0.00	0–1	0.46%	0.00	0–1	0.58%	0.01	0–1	0.71%	0.01
	Pufferfish	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Elder Guardian[A]	0–1	13⁄4000	13⁄4000	0–1	91⁄20000	91⁄20000	0–1	117⁄20000	117⁄20000	0–1	143⁄20000	143⁄20000
	Guardian[A]	0–1	13⁄4000	13⁄4000	0–1	91⁄20000	91⁄20000	0–1	117⁄20000	117⁄20000	0–1	143⁄20000	143⁄20000
	Pufferfish	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Mob		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Elder Guardian[A]	0	3987⁄4000 (99.67%)	19909⁄20000 (99.54%)	19883⁄20000 (99.41%)	19857⁄20000 (99.28%)
		1	13⁄4000 (0.33%)	91⁄20000 (0.46%)	117⁄20000 (0.58%)	143⁄20000 (0.71%)
		Average	13⁄4000 (0.00)	91⁄20000 (0.00)	117⁄20000 (0.01)	143⁄20000 (0.01)
	Guardian[A]	0	3987⁄4000 (99.67%)	19909⁄20000 (99.54%)	19883⁄20000 (99.41%)	19857⁄20000 (99.28%)
		1	13⁄4000 (0.33%)	91⁄20000 (0.46%)	117⁄20000 (0.58%)	143⁄20000 (0.71%)
		Average	13⁄4000 (0.00)	91⁄20000 (0.00)	117⁄20000 (0.01)	143⁄20000 (0.01)
	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)

Drops		1
Mob		Expected Number of Kill
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Elder Guardian[A]	307.69	219.78	170.94	139.86
	Guardian[A]	307.69	219.78	170.94	139.86
	Pufferfish	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Bedrock Edition:

Mob		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

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Pufferfish	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Mob		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)

Drops		1
Mob		Expected Number of Kill
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Pufferfish	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Fishing

Pufferfish are obtainable through fishing, with a 11.1% chance per attempt. See fishing for more details.

In Bedrock Edition, pufferfish cannot be caught in jungle, sparse jungle, or bamboo jungle biomes.

Usage

Food

Pufferfish restores 1 () hunger and 0.2 saturation, but inflicts Hunger III for 15 seconds, Poison II for 1 minute, and Nausea I for 15 seconds. Unlike rotten flesh, it is not helpful to eat pufferfish while starving because they inflict more hunger than they earn.

Brewing ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Brewing recipe
Potion of Water Breathing	Pufferfish + Awkward Potion
Mundane Potion	Pufferfish + Water Bottle

Dolphins

A dolphin can be fed pufferfish to increase its trust of the player and cause it to interact with the player more often. However, unlike most other animal mobs, this does not cause them to breed. Additionally, pufferfish can be used to make baby dolphins grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.

Dolphins swim to the nearest chest in a shipwreck or underwater ruin after they are fed pufferfish. If the chest in the nearest structure is broken, they swim to another structure with a chest.

Dolphins are immune to the Nausea, Hunger and Poison effects.

Trading

Villager	Probability		Villager wants	Player receives
	JE	BE
Master Fisherman	100%	100%	4 ×	Emerald

Wolves

Pufferfish can be used to feed wolves, healing them by 2HP. However, in Bedrock Edition, unlike other wolf food, pufferfish cannot be used to speed up the growth of baby wolves nor used to breed them and can only be fed to a wolf that is not at full health.

Wolves are immune to the Nausea, Hunger and Poison effects.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Pufferfish	pufferfish	Item	fishes	item.minecraft.pufferfish

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Pufferfish	pufferfish	267	Item	item.pufferfish.name

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	Eat each of these 40 foods: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Glow Berries Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.
	A Furious Cocktail	Have every potion effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 17 status effects applied to the player at the same time: Fire Resistance Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Night Vision Oozing Poison Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Fishy Business	Catch a fish	Reel in a fishing rod attached to any of these fish items: Raw Cod Raw Salmon Tropical Fish The player need not to have actually fished to trigger this advancement.
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 33 status effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Oozing Poison Raid Omen Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Trial Omen Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged Wither The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. See also: Tutorial:Advancement guide/Nether tab § How Did We Get Here? 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.
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	Consume anything that can be consumed, except for cake.

History

Java Edition
1.7.2			13w36a				Added pufferfish.
							Added potions of Water Breathing, which can be brewed by adding a pufferfish to an Awkward Potion.
			13w43a				The texture of pufferfish has been changed.
1.8			14w02a				Baby ocelot and cat growth can now be accelerated using pufferfish.
			14w25a				Pufferfish is now obtainable as a rare drop from guardians and elder guardians.
1.13			18w08b				Pufferfish (and other fish types) has been added as a mob, which drop its item form when killed.
							The texture of pufferfish has been changed.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of pufferfish has accidentally been reverted.
			18w43b				The correct texture of pufferfish has been restored.
			18w44a				Ocelots and cats can no longer be fed pufferfish.
			19w11a				Fisherman villagers now buy 4 pufferfish for 1 emerald.
1.16.2			Pre-release 2				The strength of Nausea given by pufferfish has been reduced from II to I.[1]
1.17			20w46a				The strength of Poison given by pufferfish has been reduced from IV to II.[2]
1.21.2			24w33a				Pufferfish can now be fed to wolves.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0			build 1				Added pufferfish.
v0.12.1			build 1				Pufferfish now restore hunger instead of health.
							Pufferfish can now be used to make potion of Water Breathing.
v0.16.0			build 1				Pufferfish is now dropped by guardians and elder guardians.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Pufferfish has been added as a mob, which drop its item form when killed.
							The texture of pufferfish has been changed.
1.7.0			beta 1.7.0.2				Pufferfish can now be eaten in Creative mode and on Peaceful difficulty.
1.8.0			beta 1.8.0.8				Pufferfish can now be used to feed ocelots to gain their trust.
							When fishing in a jungle biome it is no longer possible to get pufferfish.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.4				Pufferfish can now be sold to fisherman villagers.
1.19.10			Preview 1.19.10.23				The strength of the Poison effect has been decreased from IV to II, matching Java Edition.
1.21.20			Preview 1.21.20.21				The strength of the Nausea effect has been decreased from II to I, matching Java Edition.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added pufferfish.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Pufferfish (and other fish types) has been added as a mob, which drop its item form when killed.
							The texture of pufferfish has been changed.
			1.83				When fishing in a jungle biome it is no longer possible to get pufferfish.
			1.91				Pufferfish can now be sold to fisherman villagers.

Data history

Issues

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

Trivia

• The consumption of pufferfish inflicting the player with Nausea and Poison is based on reality. Real pufferfish contain the dangerous tetrodotoxin within their organs, especially in the liver. Tetrodotoxin leads to quick death through respiratory paralysis. Muscle tissue and blood contain trace amounts. In East Asia, pufferfish are considered a delicacy known as fugu, as small parts of the fish are actually edible. Any chef preparing fugu must have special licensing/certification to prepare this dish.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  The result of eating pufferfish.

See also

• Fishing

References

External links

• Taking Inventory: Pufferfish – Minecraft.net on October 14, 2020

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