Animal

For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation).

Animal refers to a category of mobs that are mainly based on real-life animals. Many other mobs and even some blocks are also based on real life animals, but are not treated as such in Minecraft. Most of these mobs are also called animals in many advancements.

Animals are usually either passive (fleeing) or neutral (fighting), with the only exceptions being the undead mounts while ridden, hoglins and killer bunnies,‌^{[JE only]} which are hostile mobs.

Properties

Mobs mentioned on this page share the following properties:

• They are classified as Animal or Water Animal in the game code.
• Most of them can breed.
• Most follow the player if they are holding the item used to breed them.
• Most of them trigger the "The Parrots and The Bats" and "Two By Two" advancement when bred.

Several animal mobs can be leashed although this doesn't affect their classification. Animal mobs can also spawn in the Peaceful difficulty, with the exception of the undead mounts.

List of animals

Some mobs like allays,^{[note 1]} copper golems, iron golems, and snow golems are internally referred to as animals,^[1] although this does not affect the entity format, as these mobs do not share all of the same traits as actual in-game animals.

Related mobs

These mobs are based on real life animals, but are not treated as such in the game code - rather as Ambient or Monster only.

• Bat^{[note 2]}
• Cave Spider
• Endermite
• Silverfish
• Spider

Despite being classified as only monsters in-game, guardians and elder guardians were referred to as "animals of the deep" in a Minecraft video about them.^[2]

Related blocks

These blocks are based on real life/fantasy animals, but are not treated as such in the game code, due to being blocks.

• Coral
• Coral Block
• Coral Fan
• Dried Ghast
• Firefly Bush
• Sea Pickle
• Sponge

Unimplemented

These community vote options are based on animals, but have not been added to the game.

• Crab
• Meerkat
• Moobloom
• Ostrich
• Penguin
• Termite
• Vulture

April Fools'

These mobs are animals, but have only appeared in April Fools' versions.

• Diamond Chicken
• Moon Cow
• Pet Armadillo
• Pet Axolotl
• Pet Bee
• Pet Cat
• Pet Chicken
• Pet Cow
• Pet Fox
• Pet Frog
• Pet Mooshroom
• Pet Polar Bear
• Pet Turtle
• Pet Wolf

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Breed a pair of any of these 27 animals: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Nautilus Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Tame one of these 11 tameable animals: Cat Donkey Horse Llama Mule Nautilus Parrot Trader Llama Wolf Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Skeleton Horse can be tamed in the same way as a regular horse to gain this advancement with the ride command.
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	Breed a pair of each of these 26 animals: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Nautilus Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Classic
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST							Added pigs.
0.28							Added sheep.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.8							Added cows.
v1.0.14							Added chickens.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							Added squid.
1.4							Added wolves.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				Added mooshrooms.
1.2.1			12w04a				Added ocelots.
							Cats were also added but were not an individual mob.
1.6.1			13w16a				Added horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses and zombie horses.
1.8			14w27a				Added rabbits.
1.10			16w20a				Added polar bears.
1.11			16w39a				Added llamas.
1.12			17w13a				Added parrots.
1.13			18w07a				Added turtles.
			18w08b				Added cod, salmon, and pufferfish.
			18w10a				Added tropical fish.
			18w15a				Added dolphins.
1.14			18w43a				Added pandas.
			18w44a				Added cats as a separate mob from ocelots.
			19w05a				Added trader llamas.
			19w07a				Added foxes.
1.15			19w34a				Added bees.
1.16			20w07a				Added hoglins.
			20w13a				Added striders.
1.17			20w51a				Added axolotls.
			21w03a				Added glow squid.
			21w13a				Added goats.
1.19			22w11a				Added frogs and tadpoles.
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20			22w42a				Added camels.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Added sniffers.
1.20.5			23w51a				Added armadillos.
1.21.6			25w15a				Added happy ghasts.
1.21.11			25w41a				Added nautiluses and zombie nautiluses.
			25w44a				Added camel husks.
26.2			snap1				Added sulfur cubes.

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Minecraft Education

Trivia

• In its Mob Menagerie, shulkers were implied to be molluscs, a group of real-life invertebrate animals that include squid, glow squid, and nautiluses, given the nature of their shells.^[3]
• In its Mob Menagerie, phantoms real-world parallel was stated to be bats, as well as mentions of the extinct pterosaur, quetzalcoatlus.^[4]

Gallery

Renders

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  An armadillo
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  An axolotl
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  A bee
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  A camel
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  A camel husk
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  A cat
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  A chicken
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  A cod
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  A cow
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  A dolphin
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  A donkey
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  A fox
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  A frog
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  A glow squid
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  A goat
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  A happy ghast
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  A hoglin
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  A horse
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  A llama
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  A mooshroom
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  A mule
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  A nautilus
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  An ocelot
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  A panda
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  A parrot
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  A pig
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  A polar bear
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  A pufferfish
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  A rabbit
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  A salmon
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  A sheep
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  A skeleton horse
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  A sniffer
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  A squid
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  A strider
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  A sulfur cube
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  A tadpole
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  A trader llama
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  A tropical fish
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  A turtle
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  A wolf
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  A zombie horse
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  A zombie nautilus

Screenshots

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  Tamed cats sitting on chests
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  Bees retaliating against a llama
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  Different fish swimming in the ocean
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  A deep lukewarm ocean with many glow squid
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  Horses being pulled by a leash
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  Cows inside a building
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  All of the rabbit variants
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  Hoglins in a crimson forest
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  Three striders, each one riding another

Notes

References

See also

• Mob
• Aquatic
• Arthropod
• Illager
• Jockey
• Monster
• Undead