Pufferfish

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Pufferfish are bucketable aquatic neutral mobs found in oceans. Although they never seek out mobs to attack, they defensively inflate themselves when approached too closely by players, axolotls, or non-aquatic mobs, dealing damage and inflicting Poison on them.

In Java Edition, pufferfish spawn in groups of 1-3 in warm, lukewarm, and deep lukewarm ocean biomes, subject to fish spawning requirements. If trying to spawn inside a waterlogged solid block, the pufferfish uses the bigger "puffed" size to determine if it collides with anything solid.

In Bedrock Edition, pufferfish spawn underwater at around 12–32 blocks away from the player in groups of 3–5 in warm ocean biomes, and only on the surface; that is, there must not be a spawnable block above the spawn location with a non-solid block on top. They are considerably rarer than tropical fish, with only ¹⁄₅ of fish groups or ²⁄₉ individual fish (within the warm ocean biome) spawning as pufferfish.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

Unlike other fish, pufferfish don't swim in schools.

Pufferfish inflate themselves when approached by the player, most mobs, including tripod cameras‌^{[BE & edu only]} and armor stands.^[1][2]

The player may collect a fish by using a water bucket on it, giving the player a bucket of pufferfish. Fish placed with buckets do not despawn naturally. Using the bucket against a block empties the bucket, placing water with that fish swimming in it.

Pufferfish can not be bred and only spawn in designated biomes.

Like other fish, pufferfish cannot survive out of water. Outside of water, they flop around like guardians for a while until they start suffocating and then die like squid. In Bedrock Edition, they rotate when flopping. Fish cannot swim or breathe in cauldron water.^[3]

The Impaling enchantment affects pufferfish due to being aquatic‌^{[Java Edition only]} or simply being in water‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}.

Pufferfish are actively hunted down by axolotls, nautiluses and zombie nautiluses.

A pufferfish inflates when approached by a player in Survival or Adventure mode, a drowned, an axolotl, or any non-water mob within 2 blocks of its hitbox, going from unpuffed, then semi-puffed, to fully puffed. Going near a semi-puffed or fully puffed pufferfish inflicts the player/mob with three or six seconds of 👁 Image
Poison based on the inflation level, and touching one in its puffed or semi-puffed form deals damage separate from the Poison.

Pufferfish also instantly inflate to their fullest form after taking any kind of damage.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} After inflating, they slowly deflate to their normal shape as long as a threat is out of range. If the player/mob leaves the radius while the pufferfish is in its semi-puffed stage, it deflates back to normal.

Undead mobs are unaffected by the Poison effect, but they still take damage when they come into contact with pufferfish.

A pufferfish that inflicts damage on a mob other than a creeper or a ghast by touching it provokes that mob to retaliate.

In Peaceful difficulty, pufferfish do not inflict damage or Poison to player.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Pufferfish can deal damage to players at a longer distance compared to mobs.^[4]

If a pufferfish dies while in its semi-puffed or fully puffed form, it will still inflict damage and Poison to players, but not other entities.^[5]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Pufferfish have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

A pufferfish's damage and Poison time are directly related to its current PuffState data value, which can be changed using the /data command.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

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

• In real life, pufferfish use their spikes for intimidation purposes and do not inject venom. Some of their organs and skin is toxic, which is reflected accurately in-game.
• There are three textures for the three different PuffState data values in Minecraft. A PuffState value greater than 2 does not visually increase the pufferfish size, but does create a bigger shadow on the ground. All sizes of pufferfish textures are contained in the same texture file.

• 👁 A fully inflated pufferfish, with six deflated pufferfish and a school of cod behind it.
  
  A fully inflated pufferfish, with six deflated pufferfish and a school of cod behind it.
• 👁 A dying pufferfish in Bedrock Edition.
  
  A dying pufferfish in Bedrock Edition.
• 👁 A dying pufferfish in Java Edition.
  
  A dying pufferfish in Java Edition.
• 👁 An up-close screenshot of a completely deflated pufferfish.
  
  An up-close screenshot of a completely deflated pufferfish.
• 👁 A player being damaged by a pufferfish.
  
  A player being damaged by a pufferfish.
• 👁 An ocean with some fish visible.
  
  An ocean with some fish visible.
• 👁 A cod and pufferfish taking damage because they are not in water.
  
  A cod and pufferfish taking damage because they are not in water.
• 👁 A gif of the pufferfish stages.
  
  A gif of the pufferfish stages.

• 👁 Pufferfish texture file.
  
  Pufferfish texture file.

• 👁 The pufferfish spawn egg in Bedrock Edition beta 1.2.14.2.
  
  The pufferfish spawn egg in Bedrock Edition beta 1.2.14.2.

• 👁 Artwork of a pufferfish.
  
  Artwork of a pufferfish.
• 👁 Pufferfish in promotional artwork for the Update Aquatic.
  
  Pufferfish in promotional artwork for the Update Aquatic.
• 👁 Several pufferfish as they appear in the Trails & Tales trailer.
  
  Several pufferfish as they appear in the Trails & Tales trailer.
• 👁 Official pufferfish artwork.
  
  Official pufferfish artwork.
• 👁 Lego Minecraft pufferfish.
  
  Lego Minecraft pufferfish.
• 👁 Pufferfish artwork predating the actual addition of pufferfish mobs.
  
  Pufferfish artwork predating the actual addition of pufferfish mobs.
• 👁 Image
  
• 👁 A pufferfish waving hello with its entire body.
  
  A pufferfish waving hello with its entire body.
• 👁 A pufferfish as seen in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A pufferfish as seen in Minecraft Dungeons.

• 👁 Image
  Cod
• 👁 Image
  Salmon
• 👁 Image
  Tropical Fish