Minecraft Breeding Guide: All Foods, Breedable Animals, & More

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Animal breeding is an essential method for obtaining food, wool, and many other key resources, but with the ever-growing number of animals, it can be hard to remember their favorite foods. So, today, we review every breeding food, their corresponding animals, and how to breed each one in our Minecraft breeding guide.

How to Breed Animals

Breeding animals in Minecraft typically requires the player to feed two animals of the same kind their favorite food. Upon doing so, the animals will enter love mode and walk into each other until a baby is spawned. Once an animal has been bred in this way, about five minutes must pass before it can be done again. However, not every animal will follow the exact method we have listed above. To learn about the animals with extra steps, we recommend checking out the next section, where we list every animal alongside their corresponding favorite food and Minecraft breeding steps.

All Breedable Animals

Armadillo

Required Food: Spider Eye Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two armadillos with spider eyes.

Axolotl

Required Food: Bucket of Tropical Fish Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two axolotls with a bucket of tropical fish.

Bee

Required Food: Flower (Any Kind) Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two bees with any flower.

Camel

Required Food: Cactus Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two camels with cactus.

Cat

Required Food: Raw Cod or Raw Salmon Breeding Steps:

1. Tame two stray cats with raw cod or raw salmon.
2. Right-click two tamed cats with any of their required foods.

Chicken

Required Food: Seeds (Any Kind) Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two chickens with any seeds.

OR

1. Throw Eggs (Small chance to spawn a baby chicken)

Cow

Required Food: Wheat Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two cows with wheat.

Donkey

Required Food: Golden Carrot, Golden Apple, or Enchanted Golden Apple Breeding Steps:

1. Tame two donkeys by repeatedly mounting them.
2. Right-click two tamed donkeys with any of their required foods.

OR

1. Right-click a tamed horse and tamed donkey with any of their required foods. This will produce a mule.

Fox

Required Food: Sweet Berries or Glow Berries Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two foxes with any of their required foods.

Frog

Required Food: Slimeball Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two frogs with slimeballs near water.
2. Follow the pregnant frog to water, where it will create frogspawn.
3. Wait 10 minutes for the eggs to hatch into tadpoles.

Goat

Required Food: Wheat Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two goats with wheat.

Hoglin

Required Food: Crimson Fungus Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two hoglins with crimson fungus.

Horse

Required Food: Golden Carrot, Golden Apple, or Enchanted Golden Apple Breeding Steps:

1. Tame two horses by repeatedly mounting them.
2. Right-click two tamed horses with any of their required foods.

OR

2. Right-click a tamed horse and tamed donkey with any of their required foods. This will produce a mule.

Llama

Required Food: Hay Bale Breeding Steps:

1. Tame two llamas by repeatedly mounting them.
2. Right-click two tamed llamas with hay bales.

Mooshroom

Required Food: Wheat Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two mooshrooms with wheat.

Ocelot

Required Food: Raw Cod or Raw Salmon Breeding Steps:

1. Earn the trust of two ocelots with raw cod or raw salmon.
2. Right-click two trusting ocelots with any of their required foods.

Panda

Required Food: Bamboo Breeding Steps:

1. Ensure at least eight bamboo are planted within a five-block radius of the pandas.
2. Right-click two pandas with bamboo.

Pig

Required Food: Carrot, Potato, or Beetroot Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two pigs with any of their required foods.

Rabbit

Required Food: Dandelion, Carrot, or Golden Carrot Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two rabbits with any of their required foods.

Sheep

Required Food: Wheat Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two sheep with wheat.

Sniffer

Required Food: Torchflower Seeds Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two sniffers with torchflower seeds.
2. Pick up the produced sniffer egg.
3. Place it anywhere and wait twenty minutes for the egg to hatch or place the egg on a moss block to reduce the hatch time to ten minutes.

Strider

Required Food: Warped Fungus Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two striders with warped fungus.

Turtle

Required Food: Seagrass Breeding Steps:

1. Right-click two turtles with seagrass.
2. Follow the pregnant turtle to its home beach, where it will create turtle eggs.
3. Protect the eggs for four to five in-game days until they hatch.

NOTE: Zombies will attempt to trample the eggs, and friendly entities stepping on the eggs also destroys them.

Wolf

Required Food: Rotten Flesh, Raw Meat (Any Kind, Except Fish), Cooked Meat (Any Kind, Except Fish) Breeding Steps:

1. Tame two wolves with bones.
2. Right-click two tamed wolves with any of their required foods.

Minecraft Breeding Guide: Villager Breeding

Unlike animal breeding, villagers do not have a direct method of breeding. Instead, villagers breed passively based on the number of available beds and how much food they have. Players looking to increase the number of villagers in a village will have the best results by building more houses with beds, or a large building with many beds, and giving each villager six bread.