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.

Can Milk Bucket be enchanted?

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

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 it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

How many Milk Bucket can you stack?

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

When was Milk Bucket added to Minecraft?

Milk Bucket was added in the early Alpha development period.

What is Milk Bucket used for?

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

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Milk Bucket

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

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Milk Bucket at a glance

Milk Bucket comes from using a Bucket on a Cow, Mooshroom, or Goat, and Tools is where it sits as a tool. It does not stack, so every one you carry costs a full inventory slot, and nine of them 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%). It sits between Iron Shovel and Netherite Axe in Tools, number 20 of 35 there.

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.

Cake

How to obtain

Using a Bucket on a Cow, Mooshroom, or Goat

Notes

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

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.
Can Milk Bucket be enchanted?
No. An enchanting table has nothing to offer Milk Bucket, and neither has an anvil.
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 it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.
How many Milk Bucket can you stack?
Milk Bucket does not stack, so a second one is a second slot, and trial chamber supply barrels hand over one at a time. A double chest holds 54 Milk Bucket, one to a slot.
When was Milk Bucket added to Minecraft?
Milk Bucket was added in the early Alpha development period.
What is Milk Bucket used for?
Milk Bucket is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Cake.

Building with it

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.

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