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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.

Chest Loot[]

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[]

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Data values[]

ID[]

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Advancements[]

	Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
		Bukkit Bukkit	Catch a Tadpole in a Bucket	Husbandry	—	husbandry/tadpole_in_a_bucket
		Tactical Fishing	Catch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod!	Fishy Business	Use a water bucket on any fish mob.	husbandry/tactical_fishing
		The Cutest Predator	Catch an Axolotl in a Bucket	Tactical Fishing	Use a water bucket on an axolotl.	husbandry/axolotl_in_a_bucket

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		17w47a			Prior to the Flattening this item's numerical ID was 326.
		18w08b			Water buckets can now be used to pick up fish mobs.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of water buckets has now been changed.
					Water buckets can now suck up liquids directly adjacent to the side they are facing. How this works is unknown, given the water bucket clearly already contains a liquid.
		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]
Upcoming Java Edition
Villager Trade Rebalance (Experimental)		23w31a			Wandering traders now have a chance to buy a water bucket from the player.
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.[verify][more information needed]
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of water buckets has now been changed.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.56			The ID of water buckets has been changed from bucket/8 to water_bucket.
1.17.0		beta 1.16.230.52			Water buckets can now be used to collect axolotls.
1.18.10		beta 1.18.10.24			Water buckets can now be used to collect tadpoles behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added water buckets.
TU9					Dispensers have now been given the ability to shoot out the liquids inside water buckets. They can also suck up the liquids if activated again, but a bug prevents the empty bucket from being filled. Whether this was ever fixed is unknown.
		1.90			The texture of water buckets has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added water buckets.

Issues[]

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Gallery[]

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  Water bucket in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.

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