QUEEN ANGELFISH

The queen angelfish (in BE, queen angel fish) is one of Minecraft’s twenty-two named tropical fish. In Minecraft’s color and pattern scheme, it is a lime-sky brinely. It’s named for the real-life queen angelfish, which is a blue and yellow tropical fish that lives near reefs and eats sponges and corals. The angelfish gets its name from a crown-like ring on its head.

RED CICHLID

Another of Minecraft’s named tropical fish, the red cichlid is a red-white betty in the game’s color and pattern schemes. In real life, there are many red-colored cichlids, some striped and some not, including the Dragon Blood Peacock Cichlid, the Red Jewel Cichlid, and the Red Zebra African Mbuna Cichlid. They are part of a large family of cichlids.

See also: Cichlid, Tropical Fish.

RED-LIPPED BLENNY

The red-lipped blenny is one of Minecraft’s twenty-two tropical fish that are named for a real-life fish. In Minecraft’s color and pattern scheme, it is a gray-red snooper. The real-life redlip blenny (also known as a horseface blenny) is a member of the blennioids, six families of blenny fish that typically have blunt heads and rounded tail fins. The redlip blenny (named for its reddish lips) is colored brown and lives in shallow coral reefs and is very territorial.

See also: Tropical Fish.

RED SNAPPER

Of Minecraft’s twenty-two named tropical fish, the red snapper is likely one of the most familiar, as in real life it is a popular food fish that lives in reefs in the Gulf of Mexico. In the game’s color and pattern scheme, it is a red-white blockfish.

See also: Emperor Red Snapper, Tropical Fish.

RESOURCE CHEAT SHEET

If you’re playing a game of bingo in Minecraft or playing an aquatic survival challenge, here’s an alphabetical cheat sheet of all ocean resources, including blocks and items and where you can find them! The list doesn’t include common ocean floor blocks (clay, dirt, sand, and gravel), mining resources found in caves and below the sea floor, or water. Resource locations that spawn a resource only as a chance are in italics.

RIPTIDE

Riptide is one of the four unique enchantments for the trident. It turns the trident from a weapon into a form of transportation, in which you hurtle into the sky, spinning as you go. To use it, you must be in some form of contact with water. It must be raining or you must be standing in water or underwater. Then you can throw your Riptide-enchanted trident to move with it with a charged spinning effect. You can inflict a mob with ranged attack damage, if you and your trident hit it. With each successive level of Riptide (up to level III), you can travel farther. You can’t enchant a Riptide trident with Loyalty or Channeling, but you can enchant it with Impaling.

See also: Trident, Loyalty, Channeling, Impaling.

RIVER

The River Biome is a narrow long biome that is often a border between two other biomes. These rivers carve out a path in the land’s surface and are filled with water source blocks. The riverbed is composed of gravel, sand, and clay, and lies typically around y=56. The water level is the same as sea level, at y=63. The width of the river itself ranges between a few blocks wide to fifteen or more blocks wide, but the biome can include the banks of the river. The River Biome’s flora and fauna include seagrass, sugar cane, squid, and salmon.