Only imagine: Yous finally surface from a three-hour expedition searching for diamonds in the underground mineshaft. And upon entering your humble abode, it starts to pelting. Sitting by the cozy burn of your furnace, the twinkling piano of Minecraft's background music hits your ear and you start to feel lonely.

Unable to conduct the loneliness, you make up one's mind to find yourself a friend. A pal to eagerly greet you whenever you step through your front door. Whether information technology be a true cat, dog, or even a skeleton horse, this guide will aid you tame Minecraft's wildlife to add to the family.

nine Dog

Dogs/Wolves Sitting - Minecraft

Technically you'll exist getting a pet wolf but hey, all dogs are just domesticated wolves, right? Though, who knows why anyone would ever settle for a pet canis familiaris since a "pet wolf" generally sounds more than epic.

When taming animals in Minecraft, half the boxing is sometimes knowing where to look. For wolves, you'll find them in either forests, or any of the taiga biomes (whether regular, groovy tree or a snowy taiga). Though, some prep work since you demand to feed wolves bones (from naturally generated chests, killing skeletons, or fishing) to tame them. Feeding a wolf a os gives players a ane/3 risk of taming it. You lot'll know they're tamed when they emit hearts and a red neckband appears around their neck.

eight Ocelot/Cat

Cat Sitting On Bed/Human - Minecraft

Beware: Whether it be your bed, your chests,  or your furnaces, prepare to lose control of your habitation in one case you tame a true cat. On the plus side, at to the lowest degree they go along creepers away.

Players tin observe blackness cats either in a witch's hut (in the swamp), or stray cats in villages, with one cat spawning for every one villager and four beds. Truly living up to their "scaredy true cat" championship, whatsoever sudden movements startle the poor things. Therefore, players must be conscientious and patient, and must sneak towards the cat and feed it raw cod or salmon (from fishing, preferably in the rain) while maintaining eye contact. Raw fish gives players a 1/3 chance of taming it and like with dogs, hearts will come out and a collar volition announced once successfully tamed.

7 Equus caballus

White Horse - Minecraft

At that place are ii ways to go about obtaining a equus caballus: The criminal way, or the natural mode.

If you're feeling criminal, you tin can steal a horse from the pen or stables found in villages. Otherwise, y'all tin can find them wandering in herds of two-six in plains or savannas. Wherever you become your horse, the aforementioned process. Unlike dogs or cats in which players feed them to gain their trust, players must utilise the Temper method for horses. When a horse spawns, it'south given a set Temper number. Taming a horse requires attempting to ride information technology in which a random number from 0-100 volition generate. If the number is below the horse's Temper, it will be tamed. To make the process easier, player tin either be persistent since the Temper increases by +5 every time they're bucked off, or you can feed it. Sugar, wheat, and apple increase the Temper by +iii, golden carrots by +5, and gold apple past +10.

6 Skeleton Horse

Skeleton Horse - Minecraft

Set up your swords because when there's a skeleton horse, that normally means there are skeleton horsemen effectually.

Majority of the trouble of taming a skeleton horse is finding 1 to brainstorm with. Subsequently all, skeleton horses tin can only be summoned via skeleton traps which is the off-chance lightning hits a horse and produces four skeleton horsemen riding skeleton horses. But even then, this only yields a 0.75%-6.75% run a risk of naturally occurring depending on the difficulty of the region. Only if you do manage to see a skeleton equus caballus, all you lot need to practise is kill its horseman and accept claim of his mighty steed.

5 Ass

Donkey - Minecraft, Shrek Reference

If you want to brand similar Shrek and get yourself a donkey bestie, and then you lot've come to the right identify. At least, every bit long as yous're not expecting 1 that's annoying nevertheless strangely endearing.

No demand to acquire anything new because donkeys can exist tamed in the exact same fashion horses are tamed. Ride them and hopefully become a lower Temper number or increase it to make the job easier. Though, taming a donkey does come with different benefits. As the true carrier of the "beast of burden" title, players can adhere chests to donkeys, making them a cute rideable haversack.

4 Mule

Mule with Horse Parent - Minecraft

Oddly enough, the offset step to gaining a mule is to go a mule. Non able to spawn naturally, players will accept but to play god and brand a infant miracle happen betwixt a horse daddy and a donkey mommy.

To first breed a mule, merely feed a equus caballus and a donkey either a golden carrot or a golden apple tree, activating their love mode. Though simply considering you instigated a mule'southward birth doesn't mean they'll immediately trust you. Instead, you have to follow the Atmosphere method, following the same process and foods as with its parents. With the conveying capacity of a ass and the speed of its equus caballus parent, taming a mule actually gives you the best of both worlds.

three Llama

Epic Llamas - Minecraft

Adorable with their pointy ears and scrunch upward faces, you likewise can have your very ain llama. Found either in the savanna or the mountain biome in herds of iv-6, you tin also just kill a wandering traveler who randomly shows up with two llamas. Regardless or where you choose to become them from, llamas also follow the Temper method.

While persistence works just too, you can as well feed it. However, unlike the other hooved tame-ables, llamas have more raw tastes with wheat (+3 to Temper) or a haybale (+6). That said, riding it even subsequently tamed doesn't mean yous can control it and so to really become anywhere, y'all'd have to use a leash and walk on foot. But hey, not only would you have the cutest backpacks once you attach chests to information technology, but with enough of them, you can create an ground forces of spitting turrets.

ii Parrot

Flock of Parrots - Minecraft

If you're looking for a colorful friend to add together to the family so parrots are the ane for you. Only found in the jungle, make sure to bring some seeds with yous if e'er you detect yourself in the biome. Taming parrots follow the aforementioned 1/three chances with feeding them but instead, players need to apply either melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, beetroot seeds (all which can exist gained from the respective fruit), or you can just dial some grass for wheat seeds.

Although useless in the regards to gameplay, parrots are certainly fun and quirky to have effectually. Not only practise they dance to jukeboxes with CDs inside, but they also mimic sounds in the environment. And then if always you hear a hissing creeper simply get no boom that's probably just Polly messing with y'all.

i Fox

Fox Eating Potato - Minecraft

Much like their wolf brethren, you can also observe foxes in the taiga biomes. However, while mostly orangish, all foxes in snowy taigas appear every bit white. Now, although y'all know where to get them, taming them is non as simple. Instead of gaining their trust with food, getting a pet trick in Minecraft is closer to kidnapping naïve newborns than it is actually taming.

Skittish like cats, you must slowly sneak upward on two foxes and feed them sweet berries. Doing and so will forcefulness the ii to make love, produce a infant and that baby immediately trusts the player. Yet, since they also follow adult foxes, you must leash them to prevent them from running off with their parents and so you lot tin walk them home.

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