Salmon

Spawning

Salmon live in rivers and cold oceans, where they stay in water and move as a school. The local entity profile gives a school a maximum of five fish; a newly spawned fish chooses a small, medium, or large body variant.

• RiverBiome
• Cold OceanBiome
• WaterBlock

Drops

The normal loot entry is one raw salmon. A salmon killed while burning, or killed by an attacker holding a smelting-enchanted tool, uses the cooked result instead. The entity loot table also gives bone meal on a separate 5% chance.

• Raw SalmonItem
• Bucket of SalmonItem
• Cooked SalmonItem
• Bone MealItem

Food

Raw salmon is a food item. Furnace, smoker, and campfire cooking turn it into cooked salmon, making a live catch useful both for transport and for a food supply.

• Raw SalmonItem
• Cooked SalmonItem

Sounds

The entity has separate ambient, hurt, death, and flop sounds. The flop sound is used when a fish is stranded on land, while the ambient sound belongs to normal underwater movement.

Behavior

Salmon use water-bound movement and follow a school leader when one is available. A player can capture a salmon with an empty bucket; the resulting filled bucket keeps the fish as a transportable aquatic mob. When a fish is moved out of water it flops briefly before it can no longer survive.

• Bucket of SalmonItem
• WaterBlock

Data values

The salmon identifier is `minecraft:salmon`. The local entity implementation uses three size variants and a maximum school size of five; its base fish profile has three health points.

Data: Data values

Identifier	minecraft:salmon
Version	Minecraft 26.2
Entity ID	Raw Salmonsalmon
Base health	3
Size variants	Small, medium, large
Maximum school size	5
Spawn category	Water ambient
Bucket item	Bucket of Salmonsalmon_bucket

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See also

• Mob catalogue
• Minecraft Wiki overview
• RiverBiome
• Cold OceanBiome
• Raw SalmonItem
• Bucket of SalmonItem
• Cooked SalmonItem

References

Data: References

Local source	Salmonsalmon
Entity implementation	net/minecraft/world/entity/animal/fish/Salmon.java
Item registration	net/minecraft/world/item/Items.java
Food properties	net/minecraft/world/food/Foods.java
Entity loot	data/minecraft/loot_table/entities/salmon.json
Fisher trade	data/minecraft/villager_trade/fisherman/3/salmon_emerald.json
Entity type registration	net/minecraft/world/entity/EntityTypes.java
Size component	net/minecraft/core/component/DataComponents.java
Sound registry	net/minecraft/sounds/SoundEvents.java

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