Bucket of Lanternfish
A Bucket of Lanternfish is a Lanternfish inside of a water bucket.
Obtaining
A Bucket of Lanternfish can be obtained by using a water bucket on a Lanternfish. Once a water bucket is used, the water bucket is turned into a Bucket of Lanternfish.
Usage
Emptying
Emptying Bucket of Lanternfish places a water source block, and spawns the Lanternfish back into the world, leaving an empty bucket inside the player's inventory. Placing a Bucket of Lanternfish in the Nether causes the same particles to appear that generate when a normal water bucket is placed in the Nether, and the Lanternfish is spawned alone.
Lanternfish caught in buckets then released do not despawn, unlike mobs that naturally spawn in aquatic environments.
If a Bucket of Lanternfish is named a certain name through an anvil, the Lanternfish inside displays that name as if it were named with a name tag. Alternatively, if a named Lanternfish is captured with a bucket of water, the resulting Bucket of Lanternfish shares the name with the captured Lanternfish.
Dispensers
If a Bucket of Lanternfish is placed inside a dispenser, the dispenser spawns the Lanternfish and water block in front of it upon activation, leaving an empty bucket inside. Dispensers cannot pick up Lanternfish with water buckets (the bucket is emptied).
History
| 1.0.0 | Introduced. |
| 1.1.2 | Fixed Buckets of Lanternfish not being placed by dispensers. |
Trivia
- Unlike the Buckets of Mobs added by the base game, Alex's Caves implements Buckets of Mobs by overlaying an item sprite of the mob onto a regular bucket.
- Due to this, Buckets of Mobs added by Alex's Caves don't have the pixel consistency of being lowered by 1 pixel due to the weight of the mob inside.