Mobs and some other entities are capable of holding items as well as having them equipped in certain slots; in some cases, this results in the item being visually represented. A table of mobs that do this is as follows.
Note that this does not count equipment, which uses a separate system.
| Entity | Left hand | Right hand | On head | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobs | ||||
 Allay
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | No | |
 Armadillo
|
No | | No | |
 Axolotl
|
No | | No | |
 Bat
|
No | | No | |
 Bee
|
No | | No | |
 Blaze
|
No | | No | |
 Bogged
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Breeze
|
No | | No | |
 Camel
|
No | | No | |
 Camel Husk
|
No | | No | |
 Cat
|
No | | No | |
 Cave Spider
|
No | | No | |
 Chicken
|
No | | No | |
 Cod
|
No | | No | |
 Copper Golem
|
| | head | Holds item in both hands |
 Cow
|
No | | No | |
 Creaking
|
No | | No | |
 Creeper
|
No | | No | |
 Dolphin
|
ground | | No | |
 Donkey
|
No | | No | |
 Drowned
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Elder Guardian
|
No | | No | |
 Ender Dragon
|
No | | No | |
 Enderman
|
No | | No | Holds blocks in Java Edition, not items. |
 Endermite
|
No | | No | |
 Evoker
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Fox
|
ground | | No | |
 Frog
|
No | | No | |
 Ghast
|
No | | No | |
 Giant
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | No | |
 Glow Squid
|
No | | No | |
 Goat
|
No | | No | |
 Guardian
|
No | | No | |
 Happy Ghast
|
No | | No | |
 Hoglin
|
No | | No | |
 Horse
|
No | | No | |
 Husk
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Illusioner
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Iron Golem
|
No | | No | Held poppies are a block, not an item. |
 Llama
|
No | | No | |
 Magma Cube
|
No | | No | |
 Mooshroom
|
No | | No | Mushrooms on back are blocks, not items. |
 Mule
|
No | | No | |
 Nautilus
|
No | | No | |
 Ocelot
|
No | | No | |
 Panda
|
ground | | No | |
 Parched
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Parrot
|
No | | No | |
 Phantom
|
No | | No | |
 Pig
|
No | | No | |
 Piglin
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Piglin Brute
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
| Pillager
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Player
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Polar Bear
|
No | | No | |
 Pufferfish
|
No | | No | |
 Rabbit
|
No | | No | |
 Ravager
|
No | | No | |
 Salmon
|
No | | No | |
 Sheep
|
No | | No | |
 Shulker
|
No | | No | |
 Silverfish
|
No | | No | |
 Skeleton
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Skeleton Horse
|
No | | No | |
 Slime
|
No | | No | |
 Sniffer
|
No | | No | |
 Snow Golem
|
No | | No | The equipped pumpkin references the block model rather than the item model.[1] |
 Spider
|
No | | No | |
 Squid
|
No | | No | |
 Stray
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Strider
|
No | | No | |
 Sulfur Cube
|
| | | |
 Tadpole
|
No | | No | |
 Trader Llama
|
No | | No | |
 Tropical Fish
|
No | | No | |
 Turtle
|
No | | No | |
 Vex
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | No | |
 Villager
|
ground | | head | |
 Vindicator
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Wandering Trader
|
ground | | head | |
 Warden
|
No | | No | |
 Witch
|
ground | | No[2] | |
 Wither
|
No | | No | |
 Wither Skeleton
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Wolf
|
No | | No | |
 Zoglin
|
No | | No | |
| Zombie
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Zombie Horse
|
No | | No | |
 Zombie Nautilus
|
No | | No | |
 Zombie Villager
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
 Zombified Piglin
|
thirdperson_lefthand | thirdperson_righthand | head | |
| Other entities | ||||
 Armor Stand
|
thirdperson_lefthand | | head | |
 Item Frame[JE only][note 1]
|
| Does not have a slot | ||
 Glow Item Frame[JE only][note 1]
|
| |||
 Item
|
| |||
Notes
- ↑ a b Implemented as an entity in Java Edition and as a block in Bedrock Edition
