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Sleep with the Fishes

Sleep with the Fishes

Spend a day underwater.

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How to unlock the Sleep with the Fishes achievement in Minecraft - Definitive Guide

The Guide above is a perfect way to get the achievement, however there is another way to get this achievement without Water breathing potions. All you'll need is one solid block and a bubble column.

First, you'll need to go to a Deep Ocean Biome, which in the new update is usually where Elder Guardian Monuments spawn. Once you arrive you'll begin to come across Ravines that have these huge bubble columns sticking out of them, getting in the flow of the bubbles will replenish your oxygen gauge to full.

Once you found the bubble columns, jump inside and this will take you to the bottom of the ravine, this is where you'll place a solid block right next to the column and get to the very edge of the block till you are in the bubble column receiving oxygen.

Update*

Another way to achieve this is to build a conduit.
To build the conduit, you must find a “Heart of the sea”.
A Heart of the Sea is obtained from a buried treasure. The location is marked on a buried treasure map, which is found in ocean ruins and shipwrecks.

Once you find one, you’ll need 8 nautilus shells to complete the conduit. These can be found via fishing, Mobs, and trading(I’d advise mobs as it has a higher chance over fishing and trading takes five emeralds, unless you have the hero of the village buff.)

To activate, a conduit needs to be in the center of a 3×3×3 volume of water (source blocks, flowing water, and/or waterlogged blocks), which itself must be enclosed within an activation frame. The frame is built out of blocks in three 5×5 open squares centered on the conduit, one around each axis. Only prismarine, dark prismarine, prismarine bricks, and sea lantern blocks in the frame contribute to activation. A minimum of 16 blocks are required and produce an effective range of 32 blocks.

Here is a link to the page about the conduit on the Minecraft wiki if you want a more in-depth look. https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Conduit

All you do then is sit and wait for it to pop. Hopes this helps! Any questions? Comment below.
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17 May 2018 11:45

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Thumbs up from me 👍
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By on 18 Dec 2023 22:55
This is absolutely brilliant.
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By Sashamorning on 17 May 2018 12:49
Is there a good seed for the Deep Ocean biome?
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By Trombonafide on 17 May 2018 17:08
Yeah where do you even find one?
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By xTCx on 17 May 2018 18:29
Seed: 1006433919
Right next to spawn, top left of the map.
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By AKAGreenway on 17 May 2018 21:33
if you have a beacon in your previous save, just spend an iron ingot to gain health regen and you wont die while underwater
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By KontoGR on 18 May 2018 01:12
They don't even spawn though the Bubbles
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By xTCx on 18 May 2018 02:19
The bubble columns themselves spawn most frequently in Ravines, the fissures along the ocean floor, though they can spawn else where from time to time. Also, I don't know if this will help, but if it's an older world you're playing on, setting the world size to infinite is sure to spawn the newer biomes. If for whatever reason they're still not spawning, try the Experimental setting on your world options.
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By GoodGodLetsEat on 18 May 2018 05:19
The suggestion above from @KontoGR worked like a charm!
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By OhMyGoth1 on 18 May 2018 13:32
If I recall correctly it's the magma blocks making the bubbles right? I have quite a few of those, could I just build my own fissire using those instead of searching for a deep ocean biome?
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By Cliff Cutter on 18 May 2018 23:01
If you can just manage to make it to where the bubbles spawn in the water, then that's all you need to worry about, the fissure is just where they spawn naturally if you are in need of one.
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By GoodGodLetsEat on 19 May 2018 04:00
Doesn’t pop for me for some reason.
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By C3LLDW3LLER on 29 May 2018 14:15
Found a good seed for this: 1006433919

Right next to spawn in the top right hand corner of the map, co-ordinates for the bubble column are -20, 13, 108.
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By A Wise Pirate on 10 Sep 2018 00:21
Above seed still works.
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By Ham Man 89 on 04 Jun 2019 16:28
A Wise Pirate suggested location (seed 1006433919) still works, but be ready to dig for a while to get there. Start a new game, be sure to get the starting box and have show coordinates enabled also set difficulty to Peaceful! Get the pickaxe from chest and go to coordinates (-20, 13, 108) and get digging straight down!
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By HamsterLV on 06 Sep 2019 13:21
I did the "Moskstraumen" achievement first to build a conduit, which allows you to breath underwater, then just hung out next to it for a day and the achievement popped. You just have to watch out for the odd zombie swimming by.
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By BadTarantula on 11 Oct 2019 03:35
I actually happened to have a magma block so I placed it in a river, a block next to it and like you said with being on the edge to get oxygen...BLOOP!
Thanks!
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By Pure Pip Raptor on 29 Oct 2019 19:15
If anyone is needing help with any achievements for minecraft, I’ve created a world specifically for achievements, few free to message me what one you need help with and I’ll gladly help when I can.

GT: Leo Deo Neo
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By Leo Deo Neo on 04 Aug 2020 19:05
Does it mean a real day or an in-game day bc on the kelp one where you have to eat kelp for 3 in game days it says in game but for sleeping with the fishes it doesn't say ingame
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By TurtleBender on 04 Aug 2020 19:16
It is in game for this achievement, and for a day it's about 20 minutes I believe.
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By GoodGodLetsEat on 05 Aug 2020 05:59
Can you use a conduit for this?
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By Thewall05 on 13 Aug 2020 15:15
Yeah, honestly should update this solution. conduit works perfectly.
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By GoodGodLetsEat on 18 Aug 2020 09:31
Yes conduit definitely works.
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By WVUMountiManiac on 16 Mar 2021 17:35
dive
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By on 17 Oct 2021 01:42
Still have an achievement world for anyone who’s needing help with achievements. GT: Leo Deo Neo
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By Leo Deo Neo on 02 Jan 2023 16:02
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Putting the difficulty at Peaceful insures you cannot die underwater. Unlocked for me that way.
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Can confirm, drowning takes 1 heart away but you replenish that heart before the next damage
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By Arador on 18 May 2018 07:16
You can die, but I don’t know what you have to do to not die.
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By HolyHalfDead on 18 May 2018 08:44
@HolyHalfDead just stand still i did it by being just under the surface
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By ElliotStone on 18 May 2018 09:12
Same as ragnarok0272. Sometimes you lose health way too fast under water, other times it regens faster than you lose it.
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By DragonFangDan on 19 May 2018 04:22
A friend suggested that hitting Sprint Swim makes it more likely that you get the smaller hit on health. It still took a few tries, but eventually I was only losing one heart, then gaining it back before losing it again.
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By MathGuy42 on 19 May 2018 18:36
Sometimes you die, sometimes not. So try until you dont die, and stay there.
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By GV Loc on 19 May 2018 19:16
Wasn't working for me. Saved, exited and reloaded. Worked first attempt after that.
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By allkore on 20 May 2018 16:59
Same as allkore ^
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By iDeary 97 on 21 May 2018 12:23
Worked like a charm +1
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By o0EviIToaster0o on 10 Jun 2018 18:41
Doesn't seem to work anymore. My kid tried this method on peaceful. You don't regain the hearts fast enough so you end up drowning.

Was that just him of is this a thing now.
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By ADDZ777 on 14 Oct 2021 10:58
Worked for me. I had to try it a few times. I basically just stood as close to the surface as I could while making sure my air ran out. For some reason, it didn't work the first few times I tried it (I lost hearts far faster than I gained them back), but I persisted and now I have the achievement. Just make sure you're gaining hearts back as fast as you're losing them. If that isn't happening, just keep adjusting your position until it does. Then just stand there for 20 minutes or so.
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By ragnarok0272 on 18 May 2018 13:50
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So First off this achievement has to be done in ONE sitting, it is not cumulative.
I'm gonna assume everyone knows how to play Minecraft by this point so i'm gonna skip some of the basics.

You're going to need the following....
1. Potion Stand
3. Glass bottles filled with water
1. Blaze powder
1. Nether wart
1.Puffer fish
1. redstone

so you're going to be adding the nether wart and puffer fish together to make a Water Breathing potion (3:00)
Then you will add the red stone to the brew to make Water Breathing Potion (8:00)

With 3 Water breathing potions that will last 24 minutes. A Day/Night cycle lasts 20 minutes so as long as you drink one potion after the previous has expired you will be golden.
If anyone has any questions fire away in the comments below.

*Credits for this solution goes to Paper Sharks, he basically told me how to get the achievement*
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I have tried this twice now and I don't know if I've been doing something wrong. The first time I just used the potions and swam around in the ocean, and the second time I used the first potion directly before dawn and then used three more potions after that one. Could it be that when you mine underwater and the source blocks spill into the space that could affect the achievement?
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By ZttackFrmBhind on 05 Oct 2018 21:33
@ZttackFrmBhind I'm afraid I do not know why you haven't gotten your achievement, but I can offer you some advice. There is an achievement for building a conduit, Conduits allow you to breathe underwater indefinitely, so I would recommend building one of those for your achievement and then just hang out underwater for the 20 minutes and you can get "Sleep with the fishes" that way.
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By Paul Laserbeam on 05 Oct 2018 22:20
That solitary down-vote is probably someone who wanted a glitch, bug, exploit or some such thing and was outraged by your legit, genuine and totally within the game's mechanics solution laugh
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By Makker on 01 Jul 2018 02:00
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If you swim just underneath the surface of the water you will not run out of air.

Swim around for about 20 minutes without breaking the surface. Aim just above the horizon and you should stay at the same depth, but if you drop down too far and air starts to disappear just tap cn_A to move yourself up a little - this is safer than aiming higher as you might break the surface and have to start again.

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Samurai Ralan says:
To add to this: you can breath from a thin layer of air trapped underneath frozen water. That might help keep height in check easier.

TangerineGamer says:
if you find a place where the water is only a block deep, like at the shore.
Double tap forward to swim horizontally and aim for a corner that is only one block deep, then you just need to hold or tape the control stick forward into the bottom of that corner.
You will be in the breathing spot and still under the surface so just need to wait there for 20 mins
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Sleep with the fishes (30)
Spend a day underwater.

EDIT: Bubbles only appear on v 1.5.0.4

This is a solution to stay underwater without having to make any potions. Use the seed provided and swim to where I do in the video. The bubble columns from the lava squares at the ocean floor will replenish your oxygen when you enter them. However, standing on top of the lava will hurt you and eventually kill you. The video will show you where to stand so you can breathe indefinitely and walk away from your controller. The achievement will pop after a full in-game day, ~20 minutes.

You will also unlock this if you haven't already:
MinecraftAtlantis?The Atlantis? achievement in Minecraft worth 28 pointsFind an underwater ruin


Seed: -1618472320 (Credit to Dwaggienite)

Play on Survival and Peaceful


Note: You may not see bubbles when you first spawn. Swimming around and/or respawning should get them to appear.

Hope this was helpful dance
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17 May 2018 22:38

Another way to get this without potions is using a conduit. To use one, (assuming you have and know how to get one) make a hollow 5x5 frame intersecting another 5x5 frame out of any solid prismarine block . Place a block on the center where there's the cross itself and put the conduit on top. Break the block below the conduit and it should be right in the center of each frame. If done correctly it will begin to float and activate. This unlocks moskstraumen achievement. Now just wait until the achievement pops. You don't have to worry about breathing any more and you mine faster.
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02 Sep 2018 07:34

I don't know why all these other solutions make it so complicated. Just go into the Nether and grab a magma block. Place it under the water and place a block right next to it. Now position yourself on top of the block so that your air gets refilled but you don't get pushed down onto the magma block and take damage. Just wait a day in game and job done.
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30 Jul 2019 19:37


Step by Step guide on how to stay underwater without the needing to use Potions, or bubble columns.

This glitch should make it easy to obtain a ton of rare Minecraft Achievements where you need to be underwater.
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28 Jan 2019 09:39

So I just played on peaceful, and had respirtaion 3 on a helmet and I could basically stay underwater indefinitely.
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14 Sep 2018 00:56

My solution to get this acheviement is by making a bubble elevator ( by use and single column of water soul sand and kelp, so u place your kelp on some dirt and stack it up untill it hit the top water words block then go to the entrance at the bottom of the elevator and break the kelp now replace the bottom block and replace it with the soul sand. Now you have the elevator that goes up.) now that your have the elevator place a block above the top water words block.
note: do not place in the water.
Now water into the elevator and wait for a whole day to pass.
You also will get the free driver achievement after 2 minutes.
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23 Feb 2019 13:22

( YOU WONT NEED ANYTHING )

Make it Peaceful

stay underwater for a day you wont die

you will gain more health than getting damage lol

Enjoy...
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13 Apr 2020 10:54

You do not need potions or a conduit for this one.
all you gotta do is
difficulty: peaceful
Seed: ocean monument ahead or coastal village
Now theres this glitch where you only lose one heart and then it goes back to full health just stay underwater for at least 20 minutes.

The achievement unlocked for me.
Good luck wink
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20 Oct 2020 15:35

When you go to some of the preset seeds go to Coastal Village. When you spawn you should see a ruined portal. Go to it, there should be a magma block there. If you need an iron pickaxe the village next to it should have some iron in it. After grabbing the magma block go to the ocean, place it down, and hold B to crouch on it for about 20 minutes.
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12 Dec 2022 11:30