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To make a bucket, place 2 iron ingots on both sides of the first row, and 1 iron ingot in the center of the 3x3 crafting grid. Your bucket has been made, simply click it and move it to your inventory.
It is always good to have a bucket on hand in Minecraft. A simple bucket can save you a lot of time as they are incredibly useful in Minecraft. They have a lot of utility uses from moving water and lava, surviving long drops, and even catching fish. If you would like to have cake and eat it too you will need milk which can only be obtained by buckets. Buckets are very versatile and making one is relatively simple.
To make a bucket, you will need:
The recipe requires three iron ingots. You will need at least a stone pickaxe to mine iron ore.
Because the recipe is too large for the player crafting menu you will need a crafting table to craft one.
The furnace is used to smelt the ore into ingot form. You will also need some kind of fuel to cook the iron.
To make a bucket, place 2 iron ingots on both sides of the first row, and 1 iron ingot in the center of the 3x3 crafting grid. Your bucket has been made, simply click it and move it to your inventory.
Here is the step-by-step pictorial guide you need to follow to make a Bucket in Minecraft:
Step-1 First locate some iron ore and collect at least three. You can identify iron by its brown specks.
Step-2 After you have obtained your iron ore you can smelt them into iron ingots. Take your ore to your furnace and cook them into ingots.
Step-3 Once your iron is done cooking you can arrange them on your crafting table to make a bucket.
Empty buckets can stack up to sixteen, so you can make extra, but as soon as you fill it up with something it will take its own inventory slot. That’s it! You can now carry around liquids in Minecraft.
To use a bucket simply right-click on whatever you would like to fill the bucket with. A common thing you may run into is transporting water for a farm or simply to have on hand. With two water sources, you can infinitely fill your buckets with water. This can be useful if you do not want to travel to the nearby ocean or river anytime you need water.
There are two ways you can make an infinite water source, with a total of three blocks of space or four. First, for the three-block method dig a three-wide hole and fill either side with water.
You may notice that the middle block has become a water source block. You can fill up as many buckets as you want from this middle water source and it will always turn into a water source block.
You can also dig a hole in this formation for the same effect.
The downside to this method is requiring you to fill up from only the middle but it does take less space than the four-block method. If you end up taking from the wrong corner, don’t panic! Just place the water back and fill it up from the correct slot.
For the four-block method dig a two by two-hole and fill opposite corners with water.
This method makes it so you don’t have to worry about which water source block you take.
There is a lot you can do with buckets in Minecraft. I always keep a water bucket in my Hotbar for emergencies (like catching on fire or dropping from high distances). If you are up somewhere high and would like to drop safely you can use a water bucket to create a waterfall for safe travel.
Just hold shift and place the water at the side of the block you are standing on and wait for the water to flow to the bottom. You can even take the water away and still make it down safely. This will remove any fall damage you would have taken.
If you are a daredevil you can simply drop and place the water before you hit the ground. This is a risky strategy but can save you a lot of time.
You can also transport lava and remove it from your mine. This can be useful for removing hazards from your mine or even creating a lava fall for aesthetic purposes.
Be careful where you place lava, it may spread slowly but if it flows downward it will take a while for it to dissipate.
If you would like to make an aquarium full of different fish you can do so with a bucket. Simply use an empty bucket on any fish you find swimming in rivers or oceans. It may be difficult to target the fish and you could end up grabbing the water around the fish rather than the fish itself.
What aquarium is complete without fish swimming around? Your bucket of fish comes with its own water source block so don’t worry about the fish not having water when you place it somewhere.
Lastly, you can use a bucket to milk a cow. If you see any cows wandering around simply right click with an empty bucket held and you will gain a bucket of milk
Buckets of milk can be used to make a cake or cure any debuff.
A. You cannot make a bucket without iron but don’t worry, you can still acquire a bucket without iron. A fisherman villager will sometimes sell buckets of cod which conveniently comes with its own bucket.
Buckets can also be found in dungeon chests, village chests, and woodland mansion chests.
A. You cannot smelt a bucket on its own. However, if you fill it with lava and place it in the fuel slot of a furnace your furnace will cook up to one hundred items. This makes the lava bucket the fuel that smelts the most. By the end of it you even get to keep your bucket!
Congratulations! You can now transport any liquid, catch fish, milk cows, and survive dangerous drops. Buckets are incredibly useful and surprisingly have many uses. For the simple cost of three iron ingots having a bucket on hand is a good idea for any Minecraft playthrough. Not only are they useful, but they are also reusable!
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