Minecraft:Animal

Some of the many animals from Template:MC.

Animal refers to a category of Minecraft:mobs that are mainly based on real-life animals. Many other mobs and even some Minecraft:blocks are also based on real life animals, but are not treated as such in Minecraft. Most of these mobs are also called animals in many Minecraft:advancements.

Animals are usually either passive (fleeing) or neutral (fighting), with the only exceptions being the undead mounts while ridden, Minecraft:hoglins and Minecraft:killer bunnies Template:Only, which are hostile mobs.

Properties

Mobs mentioned on this page share the following properties:

They are classified as Template:Cd or Template:Cd in the game code.
Most of them can Minecraft:breed.
Most follow the player if they are holding the item used to breed them.
Most of them trigger the "The Parrots and The Bats" and "Two By Two" Minecraft:advancement when bred.

Several animal mobs can be leashed although this doesn't affect their classification. Animal mobs can also spawn in the Minecraft:Peaceful difficulty, with the exception of the undead mounts.

List of animals

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Some mobs like Minecraft:allays,Template:Note Minecraft:copper golems, Minecraft:iron golems, and Minecraft:snow golems are internally referred to as animals,<ref>Template:Cd</ref> although this does not affect the entity format, as these Minecraft:mobs do not share all of the same traits as actual in-game animals.

Related mobs

These mobs are based on real life animals, but are not treated as such in the game code - rather as Template:Cd or Template:Cd only.

Despite being classified as only Minecraft:monsters in-game, Minecraft:guardians and Minecraft:elder guardians were referred to as "animals of the deep" in a Minecraft video about them.<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>

Related blocks

These blocks are based on real life/fantasy animals, but are not treated as such in the game code, due to being blocks.

Unimplemented

These community vote options are based on animals, but have not been added to the game.

Advancements

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History

Trivia

In its Minecraft:Mob Menagerie, Minecraft:shulkers were implied to be molluscs, a group of real-life invertebrate animals that include squid, glow squid, and nautiluses, given the nature of their shells.<ref>Mob Menagerie: Shulker</ref>
In its Mob Menagerie, Minecraft:phantoms real-world parallel was stated to be Minecraft:bats, as well as mentions of the extinct pterosaur, Template:Wikipedia.<ref>Mob Menagerie: Phantom</ref>