Minecraft crafting guide

How to craft Bucket in Minecraft

To craft a bucket in Minecraft, place 3× Iron Ingot in the exact pattern on a crafting table to craft 1 bucket

Bucket crafting recipe

Produces 1× Bucket.

Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot
minecraft:bucket
  • This is a shaped recipe, meaning the items must be placed in this specific arrangement on the grid.
  • Bucket requires a crafting table to craft.

About Bucket

A bucket is a container for moving liquids and some creatures. Use an empty bucket on a water source or lava source to fill it, then use the full bucket on a block to place that liquid back down. You can also milk a cow or goat, and a water bucket can pick up a fish, axolotl, or tadpole.

Milk buckets clear status effects when you drink them. Empty buckets stack up to 16, but filled buckets take up their own inventory slot.

How to get Bucket

You get a bucket by crafting it. Put three iron ingots in a V shape in the crafting grid, and you will get one empty bucket. The ingots come from smelting iron ore or deepslate iron ore, so a furnace and a pickaxe are the main requirements. Crafting is the reliable way to stock up on buckets.

Materials needed

Ingredient amounts for one craft, producing 1× Bucket.

Materials required for one craft
MaterialPer craftAccepted items
3Exact item

Quantity table

Crafts are rounded up when a recipe produces more than one item.

Ingredient quantities for common target amounts
WantedCraftsProducedIron Ingot
1113
16161648
32323296
646464192

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