Bucket
Material Stack: 16 Since Infdev (June 2010)
Quick answer: Craft 3 iron ingots in a V shape.
How to get it
- Craft 3 iron ingots in a V shape
- Loot dungeon, woodland mansion and village chests
- Empty a water, lava or powder snow bucket and the empty bucket comes back
Uses
- Pick up water and lava source blocks: portable lakes for farms, obsidian and cobblestone generators
- Milk cows, mooshrooms and goats for infinite milk, which clears potion effects
- Scoop up fish, tadpoles and axolotls to move them alive in buckets of mob
- Carry lava as furnace fuel: one lava bucket smelts 100 items
Renewability
Renewable: iron farms make buckets craftable forever.
Java vs Bedrock
Identical in Java and Bedrock.
Related: Iron IngotCompass