Salmon

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

Spawning

Java Edition

Salmon spawn in groups of 1–5 in cold or frozen oceans, as well as their deep variants, subject to fish spawning requirements. Like their real-world counterparts, they also spawn in rivers and frozen rivers.

Bedrock Edition

Salmon spawn underwater at 12–32 blocks away from the player. Salmon spawn in groups of 3–5 in lukewarm, cold, normal, frozen oceans, their deep variants and rivers (including frozen rivers). In addition, salmon spawn on the surface (i.e., there must not be a spawnable block above the spawn location with a non-solid block on top). Salmon spawn in small, normal, and large sizes. 31.5% spawn as small, 52.6% spawn as normal, and 15.7% spawn as large.

Drops

When killed, salmon drop:

• 1 raw salmon (1 cooked salmon if killed while on fire). This is not affected by Looting.^[1]
• 1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

In Java Edition

• 1 bone meal (5% chance).

In Bedrock Edition

• 1 bones (25% chance) if salmon size is small or medium.
• 1-2 bones (25% chance) if salmon size is large.

Behavior

Salmon tend to swim in schools (a maximum of seven salmon per school). Salmon can swim up approximately 4–5 blocks in waterfalls, emulating the behavior of real-world salmon that leap into and over small waterfalls to reach their spawning ground.

The player may collect salmon by using a water bucket on it, which gives the player a bucket of salmon. Salmon placed with buckets do not despawn naturally. When that fish bucket is used against a block, it empties the bucket, placing water with that fish swimming in it. In Bedrock Edition, an empty bucket may be used as well.

Weaknesses

Salmon are unable to survive out of water. Outside of water, they flop around for a while until eventually they start to suffocate and die. Salmon flip around on their sides. In Bedrock Edition, they rotate when flipping. Salmon also cannot swim or breathe in cauldron water.^[2]

In Java Edition, salmon have a weakness to weapons that have the Impaling enchantment, which also affects other fish and water/ocean mobs except drowned.

Axolotls always attack salmon on sight.

Sounds

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

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Entity data

Salmon 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

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Gallery

• 
  A school of 3 salmon.
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  A school of 4 salmon swimming in a frozen river.
• 
  The three different sizes of salmon.

See also

• Cod
• Tropical Fish
• Pufferfish

References

External links

• Salmonidae article in Wikipedia