Cod

Cod are common bucketable aquatic passive mobs found in oceans, and a source of raw cod and, occasionally, bones‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} or bone meal.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Spawning

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

Cod drop the following upon death:

• 1 raw cod, or 1 cooked cod if killed while on fire. This drop is unaffected by Looting.^[1]
• 1 bone meal (5% chance)‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• 1–2 bones (25% chance)‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• 1–3 experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

Cod tend to swim in schools (a maximum of nine cod per school).

The player may collect a cod by using a water bucket on it, which gives the player a bucket of fish. 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.

An empty bucket may be used as well.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

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.^[2] 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

Java Edition:
Cod use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Entity data

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Advancements

History

Issues

Issues relating to "Cod" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• A cod in real life are any species of fish that belong in the genus Gadus, except for Alaska pollock which is the same genus but not called "cod".
  • Interestingly, cod in Minecraft have two dorsal fins while all real members of the genus Gadus have three dorsal fins.

Gallery

• 
  A school of 6 cod swimming in an ocean.
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  A fully inflated pufferfish, with six deflated pufferfish and a school of cod behind it.
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  An ocean with some fish visible.
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  A dying cod next to a pufferfish that is also taking damage due to the absence of water around them.
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  Cod and tropical fish, along with a turtle and squid.
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  First image of fish mobs in Bedrock Edition.

See also

• Salmon
• Tropical Fish
• Pufferfish

References