Rain Bucket
by Zerw
Rain Bucket lets empty buckets be filled with rainwater, so players can collect water without a pump or a source block.
What it does
Standing in the rain, a player right-clicks with an empty bucket to fill it with water. Buckets left on the ground during a rainfall can also pick up water, and an empty bucket thrown into an infinite water source such as an ocean or sea fills automatically. The mod is aimed at survival play and at packs that prefer more immersive, realism-focused water handling.
Rain Bucket runs on client and server, so both sides need it. It is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 16 release versions, 1.20.1 – 26.2, and the code is under the MIT License, but it is not open source.
Key features
Rainwater collection
Right-clicking the sky with an empty bucket while it rains fills the bucket with water.
Ground filling
Empty buckets dropped on the ground during rainfall are filled with water.
Infinite source pickup
An empty bucket tossed into an infinite water source, such as an ocean or a sea, comes back already filled.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.21.x6 of 6 versions with builds
1.20.x6 of 6 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Rain Bucket need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Rain Bucket support?
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What the author says
This mod allows empty buckets to be filled with water in more immersive and convenient ways. You can fill an empty bucket with rainwater by right-clicking while it is raining. Buckets can also be filled if an empty bucket item is dropped on the ground during rainfall. Additionally, throwing an empty bucket into an…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/better-rain-bucket
- Owner
- Zerw
- Published
- 2026-01-22
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-24
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15