Tropical Fish Item ID

Each item in Minecraft has a unique ID assigned to it, known as an item ID, this can be used in commands to spawn the item into the game. The item ID for tropical fish in Minecraft is shown below:

When Minecraft updated to version 1.13, a changed dubbed "The Flattening" was introduced. In "The Flattening", numerical IDs and item data was removed, and some item IDs were changed to make them more logical - Tropical Fish was one of the many items that had their IDs changed.

For this reason, if you're playing on a Minecraft version below 1.13 (1.12, 1.8, 1.7), you should use what we've named a legacy ID for this item. The legacy ID for tropical fish is:

Tropical Fish has a data value of 2. You will need to add this to commands, along with its legacy item ID (below), to spawn it.

Items from earlier versions of Minecraft were assigned a numerical ID - a unique number to represent it.

This item also has a data value assigned to it. The data value is 2 - you need to add this to the item ID (with a colon before) in order to spawn tropical fish.

The numerical ID for Tropical Fish is: