Fish (Mob)

Fish (not to be confused with the items already available in-game) are mobs that were added in Update Aquatic.

Behavior
Fishes, like any other underwater passive mob, will aimlessly swim in water. When a fish is near an obstacle it may resort to the fish turning in another direction. When a player blocks the fish’s way of swimming, the fish goes through the player. When killed, a fish will drop its food form.

If a fish is on land, it will flop on the ground like a guardian but would be rotated at an angle of 90°, and will eventually die, similar to squids.

Pufferfish will puff up if a player gets near them, and will poison the player for 7 seconds if the player comes in contact with them.

It is unknown if ocelots, polar bears, or dolphins will chase and eat the fish, or if the fish will swim away from them.

Fish Types

 * Tropical (formerly known as "clownfish")
 * Salmon
 * Pufferfish
 * Cod (formerly known as just "fish")

Tropical Fish
Tropical fish come in more than 3,584 variants. They differ by 4 categories:
 * Size: Big/Small
 * Pattern: 5 types
 * Body Color: 1 of 16 dye colors
 * Pattern Color: 1 of 16 dye colors

When tropical fish spawn in the wild, they come in 22 of the 3,584 varieties, but 10% of tropical fish that spawn are completely randomized.

Trivia

 * Fish and cooked fish are now removed, and they are replaced with cod. Guardians will drop cod, and fisherman villagers will now accept only 6 raw cod to cooked cod from now on.
 * Guardians will attack nearby fish.
 * Salmon can swim upstream like how real-life salmon do.
 * Tropical fish can come in any of two different shapes, fifteen different colors, six patterns, and fifteen pattern colors, resulting in 3,584 possible variants. The colors are the regular Minecraft colors, minus black, with a few name changes.
 * It's possible to get 2 of the same type of fish, but the chances are super slim.
 * Any fish variant can jump incredibly high when they are flopping on a slime block.
 * For some reason, fish will not drop their cooked item counterparts when they die from fire damage (This is either intentional or a bug).
 * Foxes will sometimes hunt fish on bodies of water. Though the snowy tundra type will do this more frequently.

History

 * Fish mobs were added in Xbox 360 TU69, PlayStation 3 1.76, and WiiU Patch 38.