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Bucket
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Bucket

An empty container used to pick up and place water or lava source blocks. Right-click a cow for milk or a fish for a fish bucket.

Stack Size

16

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

bucket

Bucket at a glance

Bucket comes from crafting and chest loot, and Miscellaneous is where it sits as an item. Stack Bucket 16 high: 144 across a hotbar, 432 in a shulker box, and 864 in a double chest.

Of the 4 kinds of generated chest that can hold Bucket, dungeon chests are the best bet at about 19% per chest. It sits between Brown Dye and Buried Treasure Map in Miscellaneous, number 19 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Iron IngotIron Ingot
Iron IngotIron Ingot
Iron IngotIron Ingot
BucketBucket

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Chest loot

Notes

Empty buckets stack to 16; filled buckets (water, lava, milk, powder snow, fish) stack to 1.

Frequently asked questions about Bucket

  1. Iron Ingot going into Bucket, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Bucket in Minecraft?

    Bucket is crafted from Iron Ingot at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from chest loot, not just the recipe above.

  2. Bucket on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Bucket used for?

    An empty container used to pick up and place water or lava source blocks. Right-click a cow for milk or a fish for a fish bucket.

  3. A chest beside Bucket, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Bucket in chests?

    Bucket is chest loot in dungeon chests (about 19%), woodland mansion chests (about 14%), savanna village houses (about 11%), and trial chamber barrels (roughly 1 in 17, 1 to 2 at a time). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

  4. 16 Bucket drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Bucket can you stack?

    16 Bucket fills a slot, and that slot costs 48 Iron Ingot, which is 16 crafts at the crafting table.

  5. Bucket coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Bucket added to Minecraft?

    Bucket was added in the early Alpha development period.

Building with it

Three iron ingots make a bucket, and it carries water, lava, milk, fish and powder snow. Water buckets alone prevent fall damage, create farmland, make obsidian and put out fire, which is why a bucket is the single most useful three ingots in the game.

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