BREEDING GUIDE

Every breedable mob in Minecraft, the item needed, and what they produce. Feed two adult mobs the breeding item to create a baby.

Breeding Tips

- Feed the breeding item to two adult mobs of the same type to produce a baby.
- After breeding, there is a 5-minute cooldown before the same mob can breed again.
- Baby mobs take about 20 minutes to grow up (can be accelerated with their breeding food).
- Breeding gives 1-7 XP per baby produced.

Mob	Type	Breeding Item	Notes
Cow	passive	Wheat	One of the most useful passive mobs for early game food and leather armor.
Sheep	passive	Wheat	Most sheep spawn white. Other natural colors: light gray, gray, brown, black (rare), pink (very rare ~0.164%).
Pig	passive	Carrot	Can also be bred with Potatoes or Beetroot.
Chicken	passive	Wheat Seeds	Can also be bred with Beetroot Seeds, Melon Seeds, or Pumpkin Seeds. Baby chickens can hatch from thrown eggs (1/8 chance).
Horse	passive	Golden Apple	Can also be bred with Golden Carrots. 7 base colors and 5 marking patterns create 35 variants. Health ranges from 15-30 HP.
Donkey	passive	Golden Apple	Breeding a horse with a donkey produces a mule. Can also be bred with Golden Carrots. Health ranges from 15-30 HP.
Rabbit	passive	Carrot	Can also be bred with Dandelions or Golden Carrots. The Killer Bunny variant is hostile but unavailable in survival.
Mooshroom	passive	Wheat	Red mooshrooms struck by lightning become brown mooshrooms. Brown mooshrooms give Suspicious Stew when milked with a bowl after being fed a flower.
Turtle	passive	Seagrass	Baby turtles drop a Scute when they grow up. 5 Scutes craft a Turtle Shell helmet providing Water Breathing.
Fox	passive	Sweet Berries	Baby foxes bred by a player will trust the player but still run from others. Can also be bred with Glow Berries.
Panda	passive	Bamboo	Requires at least 8 bamboo blocks within 5 blocks to breed. Brown pandas are extremely rare (1/64 chance).
Ocelot	passive	Raw Cod	Since 1.14, ocelots can no longer be tamed into cats but can gain trust. Creepers stay 6 blocks away from ocelots.
Axolotl	passive	Bucket of Tropical Fish	5 color variants: pink (lucy), brown (wild), gold, cyan, and blue (extremely rare, 1/1200 chance).
Frog	passive	Slimeball	Three variants based on biome temperature where tadpole grows up: temperate (orange), cold (green), warm (white). Each variant produces a different Froglight color.
Camel	passive	Cactus	Riders sit high enough (over 2 blocks) that zombies, skeletons, and spiders cannot reach them.
Sniffer	passive	Torchflower Seeds	Won the 2022 Minecraft Mob Vote. An ancient mob brought back from extinction. Eggs are found through archaeology.
Armadillo	passive	Spider Eye	Won the 2023 Minecraft Mob Vote. Armadillo Scutes are used to craft Wolf Armor.
Wolf	neutral	Any Meat	Tamed wolves have 20 HP (10 hearts). When tamed, HP increases and damage is boosted. Can be dyed with any color to change collar color. Wolf Armor was added in 1.20.5.
Bee	neutral	Any Flower	After stinging, a bee dies in about 1 minute. Use campfire smoke below nests/hives to harvest honey safely without angering bees.
Llama	neutral	Hay Bale	Form caravans: leash one llama and up to 9 more will follow in a chain. Spit deals only 1 damage.
Goat	neutral	Wheat	Screaming goats are a rare variant (2% chance). Rams can knock off Goat Horns from solid blocks. 8 horn variants exist.
Trader Llama	neutral	Hay Bale	Always spawns with a decorative carpet. Can be bred with regular llamas.
Hoglin	hostile	Crimson Fungus	Transforms into a Zoglin in the Overworld. The only breedable hostile mob. Piglins hunt hoglins for food. Repelled by Warped Fungus.
Cat	passive	Raw Cod	11 skin variants. Tamed cats bring morning gifts (string, feathers, phantom membrane, etc.) when the player sleeps. Creepers and Phantoms flee from cats.
Strider	passive	Warped Fungus	The only rideable mob in the Nether. Essential for traversing lava lakes safely. Baby striders sometimes spawn riding an adult.

25 breedable mobs in total