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Minecraft Pufferfish

The Minecraft pufferfish is a whimsical creature with an inflatable defense. It looks harmless, almost cute, as it swims through the warm water. But anyone who disturbs his personal environment too much will soon feel the effects. So it’s better to admire the little poison bowl called pufferfish from a distance or catch and use it right away!

Where does Minecraft Pufferfish Spawn?

Pufferfish spawn exclusively in lukewarm and warm marine biomes, especially in warm ocean reefs. You can recognize them by the brightly colored corals and the high visibility depth in the water. Pufferfish swim around in small groups, usually together with other tropical fish.

If you are specifically looking for the Minecraft pufferfish, it is therefore worth grabbing a boat, packing a few water breathing potions and sailing towards tropical waters.

Minecraft Pufferfish: Appearance & Behavior

The pufferfish is small, yellowish and has that typical, slightly contorted Minecraft fish shape. What makes it special: It inflates when a player or a mob approaches. It goes through three stages:

  1. normal (small and inconspicuous)
  2. half-inflated
  3. fully inflated (with spiky fins and a nasty look)

Caution is advised in the third stage, as the pufferfish now causes poison damage as soon as you get too close to it. Although this effect is not fatal, it can be extremely annoying, especially underwater.

How to Get Pufferfish in Minecraft 

There are only two ways to catch pufferfish in the game: with a bucket or with a fishing rod.

Option 1: The Minecraft Pufferfish Bucket

You can use a bucket to collect a Minecraft pufferfish directly. Simply use the bucket on the fish – bang, it’s inside. You can then move it to another location, for example to an aquarium or a garden pond in your base. It retains its natural behavior and also inflates again when you approach.

Option 2: Fish for the Minecraft Pufferfish

Alternatively, you can also fish for pufferfish in the traditional way. The chances are not huge, but with a fishing rod with the enchantments lure (for faster bites) and luck of the sea (for better drops), your chances of success increase significantly.

Note:The pufferfish you have caught is an item, not a living fish. It is the edible item that you need, for example, to brew water breathing potions.

Can You Build a Minecraft Pufferfish Farm?

Can you farm the Minecraft pufferfish? A question that many Minecraft players ask themselves. The short answer is: No.

The pufferfish remains a wild sea creature and can’t be tamed like a wolf or bred like cows or axolotls. Nor can it be influenced with food. If you want to keep it, you have to catch it in a bucket and put it somewhere safe.

Minecraft Pufferfish Use

When you kill a Minecraft pufferfish, it usually drops:

But even apart from its drops, the Minecraft pufferfish is more versatile and useful than you might think. The most important uses include brewing potions, replenishing the hunger bar, defense mechanisms and, of course, decorative uses.

Brewing Potions

The Minecraft pufferfish is the main ingredient for the (under-)water breathing potion. Combined with an awkward potion, the result is a potion that allows you to breathe underwater for 3 minutes (or 8 minutes when using redstone). This is how you make it:

1x awkward potion + 1x pufferfish = 1x water breathing potion

A must-have for anyone planning underwater constructions or sea excursions.

Its function as Food (with Side Effects)

You can eat Minecraft pufferfish, but not without side effects. A mob that can already harm players by poisoning them just by being nearby is certainly even more dangerous. So be warned: you can eat it, but it won’t make it easy for you.

Caution!Anyone who eats a raw pufferfish will immediately experience these effects (i.e. side effects):

  • poisoning (poison) for 1 minute
  • confusion (nausea)
  • hunger

Definitely not for the small snack in between.

Using the Minecraft Pufferfish – An Agile Weapon

Although the Minecraft pufferfish can’t be specifically controlled, its natural behavior makes it an interesting defensive measure. It also inflates when enemy mobs or players approach it and poisons them. Thanks to this property, it can be strategically placed as a weapon in a small pool of water. Combined with water streams or piston mechanics, you can even build a kind of automatic fish trap – a really nasty surprise!

Pufferfish as Stylish Decorative Elements

Many players use the Minecraft pufferfish as a decorative element in their underwater world or base. Its behavior, the sudden inflation when approached, makes it a real eye-catcher. In aquariums or tropical gardens, it provides life and movement and brings a little bit of ocean feeling directly into your Minecraft world. Especially in combination with corals, seagrass and colorful fish, it creates a lively, colorful atmosphere that enhances any base.

Conclusion: Minecraft Pufferfish

The Minecraft pufferfish is more than just a funny little fish. It can be annoying, but also funny and useful. If you know how to use it, you can benefit from its peculiarities. And if you ignore it, you may soon find out: You should never underestimate a puffy fish. If you want to hunt Minecraft pufferfish with your friends, then a Minecraft server from G-Portal is the perfect place. Build a tropical aquarium together or strategically use the pufferfish as a living trap against mobs!

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