Tropical Fish (item)

Tropical Fish

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Restores	1 ()

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    "title": "Tropical Fish",
    "rows": [
        {
            "field": "Common",
            "label": "(link to Rarity article, displayed as Rarity tier)"
        },
        {
            "field": "Yes",
            "label": "(link to Renewable resource article, displayed as Renewable)"
        },
        {
            "field": "Yes (64)",
            "label": "Stackable"
        },
        {
            "field": "<span class=\"nowrap\">1 (<span class=\"iconbar pixel-image nowrap\" style=\"--icon-offset:-1px;\" title=\"0.5  hunger points\">(link to File:Half Hunger (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=🍗)</span>)</span>",
            "label": "(link to Food article, displayed as Restores)"
        }
    ],
    "invimages": [
        "Tropical Fish"
    ],
    "images": [
        "Tropical Fish.png"
    ]
}

Tropical fish is a food item that cannot be cooked.

Obtaining

Mob loot

Java Edition:

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Elder Guardian[A]	0–1	0.05%	0.00	0–1	0.07%	0.00	0–1	0.09%	0.00	0–1	0.11%	0.00
	Guardian[A]	0–1	0.05%	0.00	0–1	0.07%	0.00	0–1	0.09%	0.00	0–1	0.11%	0.00
	Tropical Fish	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	1⁄2000	1⁄2000	0–1	7⁄10000	7⁄10000	0–1	9⁄10000	9⁄10000	0–1	11⁄10000	11⁄10000
	Guardian[A]	0–1	1⁄2000	1⁄2000	0–1	7⁄10000	7⁄10000	0–1	9⁄10000	9⁄10000	0–1	11⁄10000	11⁄10000
	Tropical Fish	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	1999⁄2000 (99.95%)	9993⁄10000 (99.93%)	9991⁄10000 (99.91%)	9989⁄10000 (99.89%)
		1	1⁄2000 (0.05%)	7⁄10000 (0.07%)	9⁄10000 (0.09%)	11⁄10000 (0.11%)
		Average	1⁄2000 (0.00)	7⁄10000 (0.00)	9⁄10000 (0.00)	11⁄10000 (0.00)
	Guardian[A]	0	1999⁄2000 (99.95%)	9993⁄10000 (99.93%)	9991⁄10000 (99.91%)	9989⁄10000 (99.89%)
		1	1⁄2000 (0.05%)	7⁄10000 (0.07%)	9⁄10000 (0.09%)	11⁄10000 (0.11%)
		Average	1⁄2000 (0.00)	7⁄10000 (0.00)	9⁄10000 (0.00)	11⁄10000 (0.00)
	Tropical Fish	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]	2000.00	1428.57	1111.11	909.09
	Guardian[A]	2000.00	1428.57	1111.11	909.09
	Tropical Fish	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Bedrock Edition:

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Tropical Fish	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
	Tropical Fish	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Mob		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Tropical Fish	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
	Tropical Fish	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Fishing

Tropical fish can be obtained through fishing, with a 1.7% chance per attempt. See fishing for more details.

Tropical fish cannot be caught when fishing in jungle biome and variants.‌

Usage

Food

Tropical fish restores 1 () hunger and 0.2 saturation.

Dolphins

A dolphin can be fed tropical fish 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, tropical fish 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 tropical fish. If the chest in the nearest structure is broken, they swim to another structure with a chest.

Trading

Villager	Probability		Villager wants	Player receives
	JE	BE
Expert Fisherman	100%	100%	6 ×	Emerald

Wolves

Tropical fish can be used to feed wolves, healing them by 2HP. However, in Bedrock Edition, unlike other wolf food, tropical fish 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.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Tropical Fish	tropical_fish	Item	fishes axolotl_tempt_items	item.minecraft.tropical_fish

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Tropical Fish	tropical_fish	clownfish	266	Item	tile.clownfish.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Lion Hunter	Gain the trust of an Ocelot.	—	15	Bronze

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 Pufferfish 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 Other foods and consumables can be eaten, 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 Pufferfish The player need not to have actually fished to trigger this advancement.
	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 clownfish.
1.8			14w02a				Baby ocelot and cat growth can now be accelerated using clownfish.
			14w25a				Clownfish are now obtainable as a rare drop from guardians and elder guardians.
1.13			18w08b				The texture of clownfish has been changed.
			18w10a				Tropical fish have been added as mobs, which drop clownfish as their item form when killed.
			18w19a				"Clownfish" has been renamed to "Tropical Fish".
1.14			18w44a				Ocelots and cats can no longer be fed tropical fish.
			19w11a				Fisherman villagers now buy 6 tropical fish for 1 emerald.
1.17			20w51a				Tropical fish can be used to breed the new axolotls.
							Tropical fish can be used to make axolotls attack drowned and guardians.
			21w20a				Axolotls can no longer be bred using tropical fish, but instead can only be bred with buckets of tropical fish.
1.21.2			24w33a				Tropical fish can now be fed to wolves.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0			build 1				Added clownfish.
v0.12.1			build 1				Clownfish now restore hunger instead of health.
v0.16.0			build 1				Clownfish can now be dropped by guardians and elder guardians.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				"Clownfish" has been renamed to "Tropical Fish".
							Tropical fish have been added as mobs, which drop tropical fish as their item form when killed.
							The texture of tropical fish has been changed.
1.7.0			beta 1.7.0.2				Tropical fish can now be eaten in Creative mode and on Peaceful difficulty.
1.8.0			beta 1.8.0.8				Tropical fish can now be used to fed ocelot to gain their trust.
							When fishing in a jungle biome it is no longer possible to get tropical fish.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.4				Tropical fish can now be sold to fisherman villagers.
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 clownfish.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		"Clownfish" has been renamed to "Tropical Fish".
							Tropical fish have been added as mobs, which drop tropical fish as their item form when killed.
							The texture of tropical fish has been changed.
			1.83				When fishing in a jungle biome it is no longer possible to get tropical fish.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added clownfish.

Data history

Issues

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See also

• Fishing

References

External links

• Taking Inventory: Tropical Fish – Minecraft.net on June 27, 2025

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