Water Bucket

Water Bucket

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A water bucket is a bucket filled with water.

Obtaining

Interacting

To fill an empty bucket with water, use it on a water source block. The water is consumed in the process. Flowing water does not fill a bucket.

Using an empty bucket on a cauldron filled with water (water level 3) empties the cauldron and fills the bucket.

Water buckets can also be filled by placing an empty one in the fuel slot of a furnace, and a wet sponge into the oven slot. The bucket is filled when the smelting process completes, which also leaves the sponge dry and ready to be reused.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
	Trial Chambers	Chamber dispenser	1	13.8% { "item": "Water Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.13793103448275867, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Chamber dispenser" }
		Water dispenser	1	100% { "item": "Water Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 1, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Water dispenser" }
	Village	Fisherman's chest	1–3	24.2% { "item": "Water Bucket", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.2418426461183103, "structure": "Village", "container": "Fisherman's chest" }
Bedrock Edition
	Trial Chambers	Chamber dispenser	1	13.8% { "item": "Water Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.13793103448275867, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Chamber dispenser" }
		Water dispenser	1	100% { "item": "Water Bucket", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 1, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Water dispenser" }

Smelting

If an empty bucket is in the fuel slot of a furnace when a wet sponge finishes smelting and becomes a dry sponge, the bucket fills with water. Other fuel items have to be used to smelt the wet sponge before the empty bucket is inserted. If a lava bucket is used as the fuel, it fills with water when the sponge dries out, meaning an empty bucket does not need to be inserted separately.

Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Wet Sponge + Bucket	0.15

Usage

Using a water bucket on a solid block places a water source block against that block, emptying the bucket; using a water bucket on a waterloggable block waterlogs the block. In the Nether, however, the water evaporates, making a fire extinguishing sound and displays smoke particles while nothing gets placed.

Dispensers

A dispenser can be loaded with a water bucket, and when activated it places a water block directly before it, emptying the bucket. A dispenser loaded with an empty bucket and a water source right in front of it draws the source into the bucket when activated.

Cauldrons

A single water bucket can fill a cauldron, and using an empty bucket on a water-filled cauldron fills the bucket. Empty buckets cannot be filled from partly-filled cauldrons.

Filling bucket with mobs

Water buckets can be used on a fish, axolotl or tadpole to create a bucket of aquatic mob.

Transportation

Water buckets can be used as a means of quickly descending great heights in the Overworld and the End, either by creating a waterfall or using the water bucket while falling to create a safe water landing.

Water buckets can also be used to climb vertical surfaces anywhere but the Nether by repeatedly creating higher waterfalls from the bottom and swimming up them.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Water Bucket	water_bucket	Item	item.minecraft.water_bucket

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Water Bucket	water_bucket	bucket / 8	362	Item	item.bucketWater.name

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

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Bukkit Bukkit	Catch a Tadpole in a Bucket	—
	Tactical Fishing	Catch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod!	Use a water bucket on any fish mob.
	The Cutest Predator	Catch an Axolotl in a Bucket	Use a water bucket on an axolotl.

Video

History

Java Edition Infdev
20100615							Added water buckets.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.6							Using a water bucket on blocks with GUIs (chests, furnaces, etc.) no longer places the water.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				Water buckets can now be used to fill cauldrons.
1.3.1			12w15a				Dispensers have now been given the ability to dispense water buckets. They can also collect if activated again.
1.8			14w25a				A water bucket is now shown as the icon when water is used as a layer in Superflat.
			14w25b				Smelting a wet sponge while an empty bucket is in the fuel slot fills the bucket with water.
1.9			15w44a				A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, yielding a water bucket.
			15w50a				Added sounds for collecting and pouring water using a bucket.
1.13			18w08b				Water buckets can now be used to pick up fish mobs.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of water buckets has now been changed.
			18w48a				Water buckets can now be found in chests in village fishing cottages.
			19w02a				Water buckets can now be used to put out campfires.
1.17			20w51a				Water buckets can now be used to collect axolotls.
1.19			22w11a				Water buckets can now be used to collect tadpoles.
1.19.3			22w45a				Water buckets can now be emptied into waterlogged blocks, instead of placing water against them.[1]
1.20.2 Experiment Villager Trade Rebalance			23w31a				Wandering traders now have a chance to buy a water bucket from the player.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Water buckets can now generate in trial chambers dispensers.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.7.0							Added water buckets.
							Water buckets were simply called "Bucket".
v0.7.4							Water buckets no longer stack to 64.
v0.14.0			build 1				Dispensers can now shoot out water from water buckets.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Water buckets can now be used to pick up fish mobs.
							Moved all bucket items, including water buckets, from the Equipment tab to the Items tab in the Creative inventory.​
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of water buckets has now been changed.
1.17.0 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.230.52				Water buckets can now be used to collect axolotls.
1.18.10 Experiment Wild Update			beta 1.18.10.24				Water buckets can now be used to collect tadpoles behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Water buckets can now generate in trial chambers dispensers.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added water buckets.
TU9							Dispensers have now been given the ability to shoot out the liquids inside water buckets. Due to a bug, they cannot fill empty buckets.
TU10							Dispensers can now fill empty buckets when facing toward a water source.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Smelting a wet sponge while an empty bucket is in the fuel slot fills the bucket with water.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		A full cauldron can now be emptied with a bucket, yielding a water bucket.
							Added sounds for collecting and pouring water using a bucket.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Water buckets can now be used to pick up fish mobs.
			1.90				The texture of water buckets has now been changed.
			1.91				Water buckets can now be used to put out campfires.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added water buckets.

Data history

Issues

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Gallery

In other media

• 
  Water bucket in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.
• 
  Water bucket in A Minecraft Movie.

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