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Breeding animals in Minecraft – how it works

Breeding animals in Minecraft - how it works

If you breed animals in Minecraft, you can get important items like meat or leather more quickly. You need the right food for mating.

Breeding animals in Minecraft: Instructions

Animal breeding in Minecraft consists of Attract and Couples the mobs together.

  1. You need at least two copies. In Minecraft, you don't have to worry about the gender of the animals. They can all mate with each other.
  2. Attract the animals with their favorite food to your house or another place in the world that you want to use for breeding. In the following chapter you will find a list of all the animals that can be bred and the food that is suitable for attracting and mating.
  3. For example, this works for sheep with wheat, which you can Hand and approach the animal. Make sure that the sheep does not eat the wheat. Then lead it to the desired location.
  4. At best, there should be a another copy of the same animal. Now feed both animals one unit of food each. To do this, simply click on the right with the equipped feed on the animal.
  5. This causes them to fall into the Mating moderecognizable by the hearts above them. Both potential parents must be in mating mode to produce a young animal.
  6. Animals in mating mode automatically approach others who are also in mating mode and are a maximum of eight blocks away from each other. If they meet, you can 2.5 seconds be happy about a young animal.
  7. Important: After successful mating, you must wait five minutes until the corresponding parents can mate again.



Minecraft: Suitable animals for breeding and their favorite food

  • Chickens Attract them with wheat grains, pumpkin seeds, melon seeds or beetroot seeds. They also put the birds into mating mode.
  • Pigs follow you exclusively with a Carrot stickwhich you make from a carrot and a fishing rod. You start the pairing with carrots, potatoes or beetroot.
  • At Create you just need wheat to attract and mate. This also applies to Cows, Mushroom cows and Goats.
  • Already tamed horses are gourmets that you can only Golden Apples, Golden Carrots or Enchanted Golden Apples into mating mode. You cannot mate wild horses, just like untamed wolves in Minecraft. Of course, this also applies to skeleton horses, since they are undead.
  • Cats You do not need to lure them. The cats are quite trusting and will usually follow you automatically in villages. You can start the mating mode via raw fish the species cod, salmon, puffer fish and tropical fish.
  • A tamed wolf you must raw, rotten or fried meat to encourage them to mate. They even like raw and fried cod.
  • A Panda lure them with bamboo. The bears also only mate after a portion of the sweet grass.
  • Axolotl On the other hand, you can only attract and mate using tropical fish buckets. All you have to do is fill a bucket with a tropical fish.
  • Himself Bees You can mate for breeding. To do this, lure bees to other specimens with a flower. Let the insects interact with the flower to initiate mating.
  • To dromedary like to eat Cactithat you can use to attract them. The mating mode is also triggered by the prickly succulents.
  • Do you want Frogs pair, you need Slime BallsYou get these from the smallest slime variant. You can also use the balls to attract amphibians.
  • Stock up your inventory with Sweet– and Glow berries to Foxes and make them ready to mate. Due to their shy nature, attracting them can take a while.
  • For the mating of rabbit bet on Carrots, Dandelion or Golden CarrotsAs with foxes, luring them is a little more difficult.
  • Lamas lure you with Straw bales Place a bale of straw between the animals to mate them.
  • Do you want a Ozelot To mate, you will need raw cod or salmon. Lure the cats with the fish and take them to another specimen to mate.
  • Turtles make it quite easy for you. You simply lure and pair them with Seegras.
  • Himself Hoglins You can attract and mate with them. To do this, simply equip yourself with Karmesinpilzen out of.
  • Strider are among the mobs that you can breed. Feed this Wirrpilzeto get them into mating mode.
  • Torch lily seeds use to mate Sniffers. Since you get the mobs from eggs, you don't need to lure them.

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