Fish Bowls

Fish Bowls

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Statistics

Type	Furniture
Placeable	✔️ (2 wide × 2 high)
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Research	1 required

The Fish Bowl, Gold Fish Bowl , Pupfish Bowl , and Lava Serpent Bowl are decorative furniture items. The Fish Bowl and Gold Fish Bowl also double as wearable items that can be equipped in the player's helmet slot.

Fish Bowls cause only visual effects when placed in the helmet vanity slot. When instead placed in the functional head armor slot, the breath meter appears as if the player were underwater, and if worn long enough the player will drown and die. Breathing aids like the Breathing Reed or Gills Potion will allow for normal breathing when wearing the bowl.

The Fish, Gold Fish and Pupfish Bowls are crafted, while the Lava Serpent Bowl has a 19.5*39/200 (19.5%) chance of being found inside Obsidian Crates and Hellstone Crates.

Types

Fish Bowl

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Statistics

Type	FurnitureVanity
Placeable	✔️ (2 wide × 2 high)
Body slot	Social Helmet
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Rarity	00*
Sell	20
Research	1 required

• Internal Item ID: 250
• Internal Tile ID: 282
• Internal Armor ID: 20

Gold Fish Bowl

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Statistics

Type	FurnitureVanity
Placeable	✔️ (2 wide × 2 high)
Body slot	Social Helmet
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Tooltip	'Is it a gold bowl? Or a gold fish?'
Rarity	03*
Sell	10
Research	1 required

• Internal Item ID: 4275
• Internal Tile ID: 505
• Internal Armor ID: 221

Pupfish Bowl

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Statistics

Type	Furniture
Placeable	✔️ (2 wide × 2 high)
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Rarity	00*
Sell	20
Research	1 required

• Internal Item ID: 4398
• Internal Tile ID: 543

Lava Serpent Bowl

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Statistics

Type	Furniture
Placeable	✔️ (2 wide × 2 high)
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Tooltip	'No, you can't wear it on your head'
Rarity	00*
Sell	20
Research	1 required

• Internal Item ID: 4880
• Internal Tile ID: 598

Crafting

Recipes

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Fish Bowl	Goldfish Bottled Water	By Hand
Gold Fish Bowl	Gold Goldfish Bottled Water
Pupfish Bowl	Pupfish Bottled Water
only: Fish Bowl	Bottled Water Goldfish2	Work Bench

Notes

• On  Desktop,  Console, and  Mobile, wearing a Fish Bowl will activate the Merfolk buff when the Neptune's Shell is equipped; on  Old-gen console and 3DS, it will not.
• When placed, attempting to destroy a Fish Bowl with a pickaxe or drill will not drop it, so it cannot be recovered once placed. However, it is possible to retrieve it by breaking the blocks beneath it.

Tips

• The Fish Bowl sells for 20, while its components only net 754 in total when sold (1246 / 62.3% less).

Trivia

• Fish Bowls will not turn red during a Blood Moon.
• The Gold Fish Bowl's tooltip, "'Is it a gold bowl? Or a gold fish?'", is a reference to the ambiguous name which could either mean a fish bowl which is gold, or a bowl containing a gold fish.
• The Lava Serpent seems to be the alive form of Bone Serpents, as it is mentioned in their Bestiary entry that they had obsidian scales: "Mighty serpentine dragons once ruled hell, but long ago shed their obsidian scales. A skeletal husk is all that remains."
• The Lava Serpent Bowl's tooltip, "'No, you can't wear it on your head'", is referencing the fact that the Fish Bowl and the Gold Fish Bowl are wearable as a helmet. These water-filled bowls are also dangerous to wear as they can cause the player to drown, but wearing a lava-filled bowl would be much more dangerous.

See also

• Jellyfish Jars, similar items crafted with Bottled Water that can be placed to display a critter.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Added Gold Fish Bowl, Pupfish Bowl and Lava Serpent Bowl.
  • Wearing a Fish Bowl will now activate the Merfolk buff.

• Desktop 1.3.2: Sprites updated.

• Desktop 1.2.3:
  • Can now be placed.
  • Sprite updated.
  • Now only requires 1 Goldfish instead of 2. Is now crafted By Hand instead of at the Work Bench.

• Desktop 1.0.6: Requires Bottled Water to be crafted instead of a Bottle.

• Desktop 1.0.4: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.