Bucket Placed Fish Despawn from Aquarium
From reading closed support calls it seems fish placed from buckets into an aquarium shouldn't despawn, however with 1.13.0.1 Beta release the 10+ fish I'd placed from buckets into an aquarium I've built have all disappeared (Survival Mode).
I want to confirm that bucket placed fish should be permanent. Am willing to accept that maybe these fish have all been killed somehow, but I think I would have noticed if that was the case. Do they get killed by lightening perhaps?
Someone mentioned you can rename fish (in their bucket) on an anvil with a nametag, and this should also make sure they don't despawn. Tried this with a bucket of red snapper and couldn't rename... Does this only work with certain fish?

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Bucket Placed Fish Despawn from Aquarium
From reading closed support calls it seems fish placed from buckets into an aquarium shouldn't despawn, however with 1.13.0.1 Beta release the 10+ fish I'd placed from buckets into an aquarium I've built have all disappeared (Survival Mode).
I want to confirm that bucket placed fish should be permanent. Am willing to accept that maybe these fish have all been killed somehow, but I think I would have noticed if that was the case. Do they get killed by lightening perhaps?
Someone mentioned you can rename fish (in their bucket) on an anvil with a nametag, and this should also make sure they don't despawn. Tried this with a bucket of red snapper and couldn't rename... Does this only work with certain fish?
- Unresolved
- Open
- Unconfirmed
- Windows
- Windows 10 Professional
- 1.13.0.1 Beta
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My call log was merged with this one (MCPE-48125 Bucket Placed Fish Despawn from Aquarium), where I reported missing fish in an aquarium, I should add that now all my horses (with their saddles) and panda have disappeared, and the fish I placed back in the empty aquarium disappear after logging out and back into the game.
Thank you for your report!
We're actually already tracking this issue at
MCPE-47922, so we will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.If you would like to add a vote and any extra information to the main ticket it would be appreciated.
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