Minecraft:Tadpole

A tadpole is a bucketable aquatic Minecraft:baby passive mob hatched from Minecraft:frogspawn. They mature into one of the three Minecraft:frog variants depending on the biome in which they mature.

Spawning

Tadpoles hatch from Minecraft:frogspawn in groups of 2-5.

Drops

As with other baby animals, tadpoles do not drop any items or experience on death.

Behavior

Tadpoles swim aimlessly in water. On land, they flop around like fish and seek out nearest water. They die in less than 20 seconds after being out of water.

Unlike Minecraft:frogs, tadpoles are hunted by Minecraft:axolotls.

Tadpoles follow a player that is holding a Minecraft:slimeball.

A player can pick up a tadpole with a bucket of water. A tadpole's health, age, and custom name are preserved when it's picked up in a bucket.

A tadpole grows up into one of the variants of a frog depending on the tadpole's location, as shown on the table below. Tadpoles take one Minecraft day to grow up (20 minutes). Its growth may be accelerated by feeding it slimeballs. Each use reduces the remaining growth duration by 10%.

Variants
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Biomes
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Notes

Alternatively, a tadpole can be prevented from aging when a player uses a Minecraft:golden dandelion, allowing it to remain as a tadpole indefinitely, or until another golden dandelion is used on it to cause its aging to resume.

Unlike all other mobs with baby variants, the tadpole is treated by the game as a completely different mob from the frog.

Sounds

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Data values

ID

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Entity data

Tadpoles have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

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<section begin="entity data"/>

• Template:Nbt Entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit/entity
  • Template:Nbt inherit/mob
  • Template:Nbt: Represents the age of the tadpole in ticks. When greater than or equal to Template:Convert, the tadpole grows up to a frog.
  • Template:Nbt: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Whether the tadpole had ever been released from a bucket.

<section end="entity data"/>

Achievements

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Advancements

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History

Gallery

Render

• File:Tadpole swimming.gif

Screenshots

• A tadpole at Minecraft:Minecraft Live 2022
  A tadpole at Minecraft:Minecraft Live 2022
• Minecraft:Kai looking down at a tadpole
  Minecraft:Kai looking down at a tadpole

Textures

• Tadpole texture file
  Tadpole texture file

In other media

• Minecraft:Noor rowing near several tadpoles
  Minecraft:Noor rowing near several tadpoles
• Noor releasing a tadpole into a cave<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>
  Noor releasing a tadpole into a cave<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>

External links

• Template:Mcnet