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Milk Bucket
Tools

Milk Bucket

A bucket of milk obtained from a cow, mooshroom, or goat. Drinking it removes all status effects.

Stack Size

1

Durability

N/A

Category

Tools

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

milk_bucket

Milk Bucket at a glance

Milk Bucket comes from using a Bucket on a Cow, Mooshroom, or Goat, and Tools is where Milk Bucket sits as a tool. Milk Bucket does not stack, so every Milk Bucket you carry costs a full inventory slot. Nine of it fill a hotbar row.

Milk Bucket additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Cake. Generated chests only ever hold Milk Bucket in one place: trial chamber supply barrels (about 20%). Milk Bucket sits between Iron Shovel and Netherite Axe in Tools, number 20 of 35 there.

What Milk Bucket is used to craft

Only Cake uses Milk Bucket as an ingredient, so this list runs to a single link. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Milk Bucket.

How to obtain Milk Bucket

  • Using a Bucket on a Cow, Mooshroom, or Goat

Notes on Milk Bucket

Restores no hunger. Removes all potion and status effects when drunk. Used to craft cake. Returns an empty bucket.

Frequently asked questions about Milk Bucket

  1. Milk Bucket as it appears in the game, the item this answer is about

    How do you get Milk Bucket in Minecraft?

    Milk Bucket is obtained through using a Bucket on a Cow, Mooshroom, or Goat. There is no recipe for Milk Bucket, but 1 recipe asks for it.

  2. Milk Bucket with the glow of an enchantment behind it, 0 of which fit

    Can Milk Bucket be enchanted?

    No. An enchanting table has nothing to offer Milk Bucket, and neither has an anvil.

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

    Where do you find Milk Bucket in chests?

    Milk Bucket is chest loot in one place and one only: trial chamber supply barrels (about 20%). No other generated chest lists Milk Bucket, so for Milk Bucket that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

  4. One Milk Bucket, the whole of what a single inventory slot holds

    How many Milk Bucket can you stack?

    Milk Bucket does not stack, so a second Milk Bucket is a second slot, and trial chamber supply barrels hand over one Milk Bucket at a time. A double chest of Milk Bucket is 54, one to a slot.

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

    When was Milk Bucket added to Minecraft?

    Milk Bucket was added in the early Alpha development period.

  6. Milk Bucket turning into Cake, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Milk Bucket used for?

    Milk Bucket is a crafting ingredient, and Milk Bucket goes into Cake.

Building with Milk Bucket

Right click a cow with an empty bucket and you get milk, which clears every status effect at once when drunk. That is its whole purpose: poison from a cave spider, nausea from a portal, or a bad potion all disappear in one swallow, and the bucket comes back empty for reuse.