Cod

Cod spawns in:

Category: Water ambient‌^{[JE only]} Water creature‌^{[BE only]}	Java Edition			Bedrock Edition
Spawn area	Spawn weight	Spawn chance	Group size	Spawn weight	Group size
👁 Image Deep Ocean	¹⁰⁄₁₀	100%	3–6	75	4–7
👁 Image Ocean	¹⁰⁄₁₀	100%	3–6	75	4–7
👁 Image Cold Ocean	¹⁵⁄₃₀	50%	3–6	75	4–7
👁 Image Deep Cold Ocean	¹⁵⁄₃₀	50%	3–6	75	4–7
👁 Image Lukewarm Ocean	¹⁵⁄₄₅	33.33%	3–6	75	4–7
👁 Image Deep Lukewarm Ocean	⁸⁄₃₈	21.05%	3–6	75	4–7
👁 Image Deep Frozen Ocean	—	—	—	75	4–7
👁 Image Frozen Ocean	—	—	—	75	4–7

Java Edition

Cod spawn underwater in normal, cold, and lukewarm oceans, and their deep variants, in groups of 3-6, subject to fish spawning requirements.

Bedrock Edition

Cod spawn underwater 12–32 blocks away from the player in normal, cold, frozen, lukewarm oceans, and their deep variants, in groups of 4–7. In addition, cod spawn only on the surface; that is, there must not be a spawnable block above the spawn location with a non-solid block on top.

Drops

On death

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Raw Cod^[A]	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00
👁 Image	Cooked Cod^[B]	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00
👁 Image	Bone Meal	0–1	5.00%	0.05	0–1	5.00%	0.05	0–1	5.00%	0.05	0–1	5.00%	0.05

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Raw Cod^[A]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
👁 Image	Cooked Cod^[B]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
👁 Image	Bone Meal	0–1	¹⁄₂₀	¹⁄₂₀	0–1	¹⁄₂₀	¹⁄₂₀	0–1	¹⁄₂₀	¹⁄₂₀	0–1	¹⁄₂₀	¹⁄₂₀

Item		Amount	Probability
Item		Amount	Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Raw Cod^[A]	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
👁 Image	Raw Cod^[A]	Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
👁 Image	Cooked Cod^[B]	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
👁 Image	Cooked Cod^[B]	Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
👁 Image	Bone Meal	0	¹⁹⁄₂₀ (95.00%)	¹⁹⁄₂₀ (95.00%)	¹⁹⁄₂₀ (95.00%)	¹⁹⁄₂₀ (95.00%)
		1	¹⁄₂₀ (5.00%)	¹⁄₂₀ (5.00%)	¹⁄₂₀ (5.00%)	¹⁄₂₀ (5.00%)
		Average	¹⁄₂₀ (0.05)	¹⁄₂₀ (0.05)	¹⁄₂₀ (0.05)	¹⁄₂₀ (0.05)

Item		Expected Drops
Killed		1
Item		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Raw Cod^[A]	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
👁 Image	Cooked Cod^[B]	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
👁 Image	Bone Meal	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05

↑ Only when not on fire and not killed with a weapon enchanted with Fire Aspect.
↑ Only when on fire or killed with a weapon enchanted with Fire Aspect.

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Raw Cod^[A]	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00
👁 Image	Cooked Cod^[B]	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00
👁 Image	Bone	0–1	25.00%	0.25	0 / 2–3	26.00%	0.65	0 / 3–5	27.00%	1.08	0 / 4–7	28.00%	1.54

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
Item		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
👁 Image	Raw Cod^[A]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
👁 Image	Cooked Cod^[B]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
👁 Image	Bone	0–1	¹⁄₄	¹⁄₄	0 / 2–3	¹³⁄₅₀	¹³⁄₂₀	0 / 3–5	²⁷⁄₁₀₀	²⁷⁄₂₅	0 / 4–7	⁷⁄₂₅	⁷⁷⁄₅₀

Item		Amount	Probability
Item		Amount	Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Raw Cod^[A]	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
👁 Image	Raw Cod^[A]	Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
👁 Image	Cooked Cod^[B]	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
👁 Image	Cooked Cod^[B]	Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)
👁 Image	Bone	0	³⁄₄ (75.00%)	³⁷⁄₅₀ (74.00%)	⁷³⁄₁₀₀ (73.00%)	¹⁸⁄₂₅ (72.00%)
		1	¹⁄₄ (25.00%)	0	0	0
		2	0	¹³⁄₁₀₀ (13.00%)	0	0
		3	0	¹³⁄₁₀₀ (13.00%)	²⁷⁄₄₀₀ (6.75%)	0
		4	0	0	²⁷⁄₂₀₀ (13.50%)	⁷⁄₁₅₀ (4.67%)
		5	0	0	²⁷⁄₄₀₀ (6.75%)	⁷⁄₇₅ (9.33%)
		6	0	0	0	⁷⁄₇₅ (9.33%)
		7	0	0	0	⁷⁄₁₅₀ (4.67%)
		Average	¹⁄₄ (0.25)	¹³⁄₂₀ (0.65)	²⁷⁄₂₅ (1.08)	⁷⁷⁄₅₀ (1.54)

Item		Expected Drops
Killed		1
Item		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
👁 Image	Raw Cod^[A]	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
👁 Image	Cooked Cod^[B]	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
👁 Image	Bone	0.25	0.65	1.08	1.54

↑ Only when not on fire.
↑ Only when on fire.

1–3XP experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

Cod tend to swim in schools with a maximum of 9 cod per school.

The player may collect a cod by using a water bucket on it, which gives the player a bucket of cod. Cod placed with buckets do not despawn naturally. When that fish bucket is used on a block, it empties the bucket, placing water with the cod swimming in it.

Cod can not be bred, but only spawn in designated biomes.

Weaknesses

A cod cannot survive outside of water. Outside of water, they flip around on their sides like guardians for a while trying to get back into the water until, after 10 seconds of time, they start taking suffocation damage and die. In Bedrock Edition, fish out of water rotate while flipping. They cannot swim or breathe in cauldron water.^[1] They can swim in, but cannot survive in waterlogged blocks, most noticeably waterlogged slabs and stairs.

In Java Edition, cod are vulnerable to weapons that have the Impaling enchantment, which also affects other fish and aquatic mobs except drowned.

Sounds

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
None	None^{[sound 2]}	Friendly Mobs	Randomly	`entity.cod.ambient`	None^{[sound 2]}	1.0	0.8–1.2	16
Cod dies	Friendly Mobs	When a cod dies	`entity.cod.death`	`subtitles.entity.cod.death`	1.0	0.8–1.2	16
Cod hurts	Friendly Mobs	When a cod is damaged	`entity.cod.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.cod.hurt`	1.0	0.8–1.2	16
Cod flops	Friendly Mobs	While a cod is on land	`entity.cod.flop`	`subtitles.entity.cod.flop`	0.3	0.8–1.2	16
Splashes	Friendly Mobs	While a cod is swimming	`entity.fish.swim`	`subtitles.entity.fish.swim`	0.0–1.0 ^{[sound 1]}	0.6–1.4	16

↑ The fish's momentum, with the horizontal axes' velocities multiplied by 0.2 (capped at 1.0)
↑ ^a ^b MC-97521

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
?	Friendly Mobs	When a cod dies	`mob.fish.hurt`	?	1.0	0.8–1.2
?	Friendly Mobs	When a cod is damaged	`mob.fish.hurt`	?	1.0	0.8–1.2
?	Friendly Mobs	While a cod is on land	`mob.fish.flop`	?	1.0	1.0
?	Friendly Mobs	While a cod is swimming	`mob.fish.step`	?	0.15	1.0

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
👁 EntitySprite cod.png: Sprite image for cod in Minecraft Cod	`cod`	`aquatic` `axolotl_hunt_targets` `can_breathe_under_water` `not_scary_for_pufferfish` `sensitive_to_impaling`	`entity.minecraft.cod`

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Family	Translation key
👁 EntitySprite cod.png: Sprite image for cod in Minecraft Cod	`cod`	`112`	`aquatic` `cod` `fish`	`entity.cod.name`

Entity data

Cod have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Main article: Entity format

[NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
- Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
- Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
- [Byte] FromBucket: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Whether the fish had ever been released from a bucket.

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements


Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
👁 Image	👁 Image	I am a Marine Biologist	Collect a fish in a bucket	Use a water bucket on any fish mob.	20	Bronze
👁 Image	👁 Image	It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this achievement.	10	Bronze

Achievements that apply to all mobs:


Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
👁 Image	👁 Image	Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
👁 Image	👁 Image	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
👁 Image	👁 Image	Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear.	Armor stands and players also count for this achievement as they are technically mobs.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
👁 Image 👁 Image	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Tactical Fishing	Catch a Fish... without a Fishing Rod!	Use a water bucket on any fish mob.

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
👁 Image 👁 Image	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
👁 Image 👁 Image	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear.	👁 Image Armor Stand and 👁 Image Mannequin also count for this advancement.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	👁 Image Armor Stand and 👁 Image Mannequin also count for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
👁 Image 👁 Image	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.

History

Development

June 28, 2010							Notch mentioned that fish might be a feature of coral, if he were able to add coral: "... I do know that the corals will have tiny fish particles around them."
October 4, 2010							Fish were a passive mob that Notch showed interest in adding. In the promotional graphic for the Halloween Update, Notch indicated he would add fish. However, they were added only as an item; there was no code for a fish mob.
October 5, 2012							Fish were jokingly teased in the fake snapshot 12marc40awesome, along with coral and "fish blocks".
April 13, 2013							When Jon Kågström was asked in his AMA on Reddit, "What mob would you like to implement into the game?" He responded, "I would like to add birds, fish and tree animals to make it more alive. However this will take some time before it can be done."
July 31, 2013							During Notch's AMA on Reddit, when asked about what happened to his plans of adding fish as a mob, he responded, "Oh yeah, the fish!"

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.13	18w08b	👁 Image Added cod as a mob.
	18w08b	Cod have 20HP👁 ❤️ × 10 health.
	18w10a	The health of cod has been changed to 3HP👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 .^[2]
	18w15a	Cod now drop the cooked version of their item drops, if killed while on fire.
1.13.1	18w31a	Cod now have a 5% chance of dropping bone meal when killed.
1.18	21w40a	Cod now only spawn between y=50 and y=64.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.4.0	beta 1.2.14.2	👁 Image Added cod.
1.13.0	beta 1.13.0.9	Cod now drop experience when killed.
1.16.100	beta 1.16.100.52	Cod now drop the cooked version of their item drops, if killed while on fire.
1.17.10	beta 1.17.10.22	Cods no longer can be picked up with an empty bucket.
1.18.0	beta 1.18.0.21	Cod now only spawn between y=50 and y=64.
1.19.10	Preview 1.19.10.23	The max health of cod has been changed to 3HP👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 .

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		👁 Image Added cod.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.4.0							👁 Image Added cod.

Issues

Issues relating to "Cod" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

A cod in real life is any species of fish that belong in the genus Gadus, except for Alaska pollock which is the same genus but not called "cod".

Gallery

References

↑ MC-126819 – "fish bouncing and suffocating on top of the cauldron which fills with water" resolved as "Won't Fix"
↑ MC-126091 – Fish mobs have 20 health – resolved as "Fixed".

External links

Cod article on Wikipedia

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