Minecraft features a wide variety of monsters that roam the vast world and different dimensions of Minecraft. Below we take a look at the Minecraft tropical fish, a small mob found in the oceans of the overworld.
Fish in Minecraft are the main variant of mobs in the ocean. A wide variety of fish swim in the waters and players can catch them for many different purposes. Some monsters such as Axolotls, Guardians, and Elder Guardians, which are also water monsters, do not fall into this category.
This article is about tropical fish in Minecraft and their uses.
Minecraft Tropical Fish
They are often passive creatures found in marine biomes and are characterized by their markings and uniqueness.
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There are nearly 2,700 natural varieties of tropical fish with different colors, patterns and markings.
Spawn
They appear there warm marine biomes or warm marine biomes in groups of 8 to 24 fish. These can have predefined patterns or appear with random patterns.
Behave
Minecraft Tropical Fish are passive mobs and do not attack players or other mobs. When attacked, they simply try to swim away.
Players can also collect them using a Bucket to craft a Tropical Fish Bucket. This bucket can also be tipped into water sources to turn it into an aquarium!
They cannot survive out of water and eventually suffocate. Tropical Fish are also weak to the Impalement enchantment.
vTypes of fish
In the Java edition, 90% of created fish appear naturally in 22 of the predefined varieties. The remaining 10% are generated completely randomly and have different markings, patterns and colors.
In the Bedrock Edition, there are no common species for tropical fish, but rather 22 predefined and random spawning locations. When you put them in a bucket, the name of the bucket becomes the name of the fish in it.
The default varieties are:
- White-silver sun stripe
- Tomato clown fish
- Yellow silk
- Dasher white-gray
- Parrot fish
- Queen angelfish
- Red cichlid
- Red-lipped blenny
- Red snapper
- Wire fin
- Betta cotton candy
- Dottyback
- Red Emperor
- Goatfish
- Moorish idol
- Decorated butterfly
- anemone
- black silk
- Doris Blue
- Butterfly fish
- Cichlid
- Clown fish
drops
If the player kills Minecraft Tropical Fish, there is a chance to get:
- 1 tropical fish
- 1 bone meal
- 1-2 bones
- 1 to 3 EXP orbs
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