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Passive mobs never attack. Some are food and materials, some can be tamed or bred, and a few (like the iron golem’s cousin the snow golem, or the allay) do useful work for you. Each entry links to a full guide on breeding, taming, drops, and behavior.

Passive and tameable mobs

  • Allay: Learn how to find the allay in Minecraft, give it items to collect, use note blocks for drop-off, and duplicate it with amethyst shards.
  • Armadillo: Learn where the armadillo spawns in Minecraft, how to get armadillo scutes with a brush, breed them with spider eyes, and craft wolf armor.
  • Axolotls: Learn how to find axolotls in Minecraft, catch them in a bucket, breed all five colors, and use their Regeneration buff to clear ocean monuments.
  • Bats: Learn how bats spawn in Minecraft, why they fly so erratically, whether they drop anything, and how to keep them out of your base.
  • Bees: Learn how bees work in Minecraft: where to find them, how to breed them, harvest honey and honeycomb safely, and avoid getting stung.
  • Camel: Learn how to find a camel in Minecraft, saddle and ride it with a friend, use the dash to cross gaps, and breed camels with cactus.
  • Cats: Learn how to tame cats in Minecraft with raw fish, where stray and black cats spawn, how they scare off creepers, and how to breed kittens.
  • Chickens: Learn how chickens work in Minecraft: where they spawn, how to breed and farm them, what they drop, and how eggs and chicken jockeys work.
  • Cod: Learn where cod spawn in Minecraft, how to catch them with a bucket, what they drop, and how to cook cod and feed it to cats and dolphins.
  • Cow: Learn where cows spawn in Minecraft, how to get beef and leather, milk a cow, breed calves with wheat, and build a simple cow farm.
  • Dolphins: Learn how to find dolphins in Minecraft, get Dolphin's Grace for faster swimming, and feed them raw cod to lead you to buried treasure.
  • Donkey: Learn how to find and tame a donkey in Minecraft, give it a chest and saddle, feed it, and breed two donkeys or make a mule.
  • Foxes: Learn where foxes spawn in Minecraft, what they eat, how to breed them so the babies trust you, and how to take the items they carry.
  • Frog: Learn how frogs work in Minecraft: the three variants, breeding them with slimeballs, raising tadpoles, and farming every froglight.
  • Glow squid: Learn where glow squid spawn in Minecraft, how to farm glow ink sacs, and what glow ink does for signs and item frames.
  • Goats: Learn where goats spawn in Minecraft, how to milk them, get goat horns when they ram blocks, and breed them with wheat.
  • Horses: Learn how to tame a horse in Minecraft, saddle and ride it, equip horse armor, and breed two horses for a faster, stronger foal.
  • Mooshroom: Learn where to find mooshrooms in Minecraft, how to milk them for stew, turn red ones brown with lightning, and shear them back into cows.
  • Mule: Learn how to get a mule in Minecraft by breeding a horse and a donkey, how to tame and saddle it, and how to use its chest for storage.
  • Ocelot: Learn how to find ocelots in Minecraft, gain their trust with raw cod or salmon, breed them, and use them to scare off creepers.
  • Pandas: Learn where to find pandas in Minecraft, how to breed them with bamboo, and how the seven panda personalities and rare brown gene work.
  • Parrots: Learn how to tame a parrot in Minecraft with seeds, put one on your shoulder, use it to spot mobs, and why you should never feed it a cookie.
  • Pigs: Learn where pigs spawn in Minecraft, how to breed them with carrots, saddle and ride one with a carrot on a stick, and farm porkchops.
  • Pufferfish: Learn where pufferfish spawn in Minecraft, how to catch one, why it poisons you, and how to brew Water Breathing potions with it.
  • Rabbits: Learn where rabbits spawn in Minecraft, how to breed them with carrots, what they drop, and how to use the rabbit's foot and rabbit stew.
  • Salmon: Learn where salmon spawn in Minecraft, how to catch them, cook raw salmon for more hunger, and use raw salmon to tame cats and bucket fish.
  • Sheep: Learn how sheep work in Minecraft: where they spawn, how to shear and breed them, dye wool any color, and build a simple automatic wool farm.
  • Skeleton horse: Learn how skeleton horses spawn from thunderstorm traps in Minecraft, how to claim and ride one, and why they make the best underwater mount.
  • Sniffer: Learn how to find sniffer eggs in warm ocean ruins, hatch them faster on moss, breed sniffers, and grow torchflowers and pitcher plants in Minecraft.
  • Snow golem: Learn how to build a snow golem in Minecraft with two snow blocks and a carved pumpkin, what its snowballs actually do, and why rain kills it.
  • Squid: Learn where squid spawn in Minecraft, what ink sacs do, how to build a squid farm, and how squid differ from glow squid.
  • Tadpole: Learn where tadpoles come from in Minecraft, how to grow them into frogs, and how biome temperature decides the frog's color.
  • Turtles: Learn how to breed turtles in Minecraft, protect their eggs, get scutes from babies, and craft a turtle shell for water breathing.
  • Wolves: Learn how to tame wolves in Minecraft with bones, heal them with meat, breed puppies, dye their collars, and fit them with wolf armor.

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