Complete Tameable And Breedable Animal List For Minecraft

There are limitless things you can do in Minecraft, from delving into the mines for precious materials to fighting the legendary Ender Dragon in the End. However, you can also live a cozy life raising animals and cultivating crops. No matter what you choose, though, there will always be animals you come across.

We’ll break down each of the animals you can encounter, along with which ones can be bred and kept as pets while others may try to eat you. Here’s everything you need to know about the animals in Minecraft and what they can do for you in the Overworld!

All Animals In Minecraft

In Minecraft, there are dozens of creatures you’ll encounter. However, not all of them are friendly. A variety of colorful animals, kind critters, and ferocious predators. Many of this mobs provide resources, like milk or meat, but others drop leather and experience.

We’ve broken up the animals into several categories based on which ones you can tame as pets and mounts, which ones can be used for breeding and resources, and which ones are best to avoid if you want to live.

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All Breedable Animals In Minecraft

Below are all the animals you can breed in Minecraft, granting you baby versions of them:

Image	Animal	Location	How To Breed	Resources Dropped
	Armadillo	Savanna and Badlands	Spider Eyes	Armadillo Scute (when brushed)
	Axolotl	Lush Caves	Bucket of Tropical Fish	Experience
	Bee	Bee Nests in the Plains, Meadows, Flower Forest, Mangrove Swamp, Forests, and Cherry Grove	Flowers	Honeycomb
	Camel	Deserts	Cactus	Experience
	Cat	Villages and Swamp Huts	Fish	String
	Chicken	Overworld (Solid Blocks)	Seeds	Raw Chicken, Eggs
	Cow	Overworld (Grass Blocks)	Wheat	Raw Beef
	Donkey	Plains, Savanna, and Villages	Wheat	Leather
	Fox	Grove and Taiga biomes	Sweet Berries or Glow Berries	Experience (and any item they are holding, minus a totem of undying)
	Frog	Swamps	Slimeball	Experience
	Goat	Frozen Peaks, Jagged Peaks, and Snowy Slopes	Wheat	Goat Horns
	Hoglin	The Nether	Crimson Fungi	Raw Porkchop, Leather
	Horse	Plains, Savanna, and Villages	Wheat	Leather
	Llama	Windswept biomes, Savanna	Wheat	Leather
	Mooshroom	Mushroom Fields	Mushroom	Milk, Mushrooms
	Ocelot	Jungle and Meadow	Salmon and Cod	Experience
	Panda	Jungles	Bamboo (when a bamboo block is present)	Bamboo
	Pig	Overworld (Grass Blocks)	Carrots and Potatoes	Raw Pork
	Rabbit	Most Overworld Biomes, minus the Plains	Carrots	Rabbit Hide
	Sheep	Overworld (Grass Blocks)	Wheat	Wool, Mutton
	Sniffer	Warm Ocean Ruins	Torchflower Seeds	Experience
	Strider	The Nether	Warped Fungus	String, Saddle (when equipped)
	Turtle	Beaches	Sea Grass	Sea Grass
	Wolf	Grove, Taiga, Forests	Meat	Experience

All Tameable Animals In Minecraft

Below is a list of all animals in Minecraft that can be tamed, whether as pets or mounts:

Image	Animal	Location	How To Tame
	Camel	Deserts	Saddle
	Cat	Villages and Swamp Huts	Fish
	Donkey	Plains, Savanna, and Villages	Saddle
	Fox	Grove and Taiga biomes	Breeding with Sweet Berries or Glow Berries, the resulting kit is tamed
	Happy Ghast	Feeding snowballs to a Dried Ghastling in the overworld after soaking the Ghastling in water	Saddle
	Horse	Plains, Savanna, and Villages	Saddle
	Llama	Windswept biomes, Savanna	Saddle
	Mule	Bred	Saddle
	Ocelot	Jungle and Meadow	Salmon or Cod
	Parrot	Jungle	Seeds
	Pig	Overworld (Grass Blocks)	Carrots and Potatoes
	Strider	The Nether	Saddle
	Wolf	Grove, Taige, and Forests	Bones

All Passive Animals In Minecraft

Below is a list of the animals in Minecraft that won’t attack you on sight or when provoked:

Image	Animal	Location
	Allay	Pillager Outpost cages and Woodland Mansions
	Bat	Caves
	Bee	Bee Nests in the Plains, Meadows, Flower Forest, Mangrove Swamp, Forests, and Cherry Grove
	Cod	Water
	Copper Golem	Crafted
	Cow	Overworld (Grass Blocks)
	Dolphin	Oceans
	Fox	Grove and Taiga biomes
	Glow Squid	Caves
	Happy Ghast	Overworld
	Horse	Plains, Savanna, and Villages
	Mooshroom	Mushroom Fields
	Mule	Bred
	Ocelot	Jungle and Meadow
	Parrot	Jungle
	Pig	Overworld (Grass Blocks)
	Polar Bear (When alone)	Snow Biomes
	Pufferfish	Ocean
	Rabbit	Most Overworld Biomes, minus the Plains
	Salmon	Water
	Sea Pickle	Ocean
	Sheep	Overworld (Grass Blocks)
	Sniffer	Warm Ocean Ruins
	Sponge	Ocean
	Squid	Water
	Tadpole	Swamps
	Tropical Fish	Ocean and Lush Caves
	Turtle	Beaches

All Hostile Animals In Minecraft

Image	Animal	Location
	Bee	Bee Nests in the Plains, Meadows, Flower Forest, Mangrove Swamp, Forests, and Cherry Grove
	Ender Dragon	The End
	Goat	Frozen Peaks, Jagged Peaks, and Snowy Slopes
	Hoglin	The Nether
	Panda	Jungles
	Polar Bear (When with cubs)	Snow Biomes
	Spider	Caves, and trees at night
	Wolf	Grove, Taiga, and Forest biomes

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