You can breed certain animals of the same species by putting them in love mode. An animal that can breed enters love mode when given specific food items. When this happens, hearts will appear, and the animal will look for another animal of the same species to produce offspring.
Some animals must be tamed before they can be bred; see Tame Animals in Minecraft.
Breeding
Here are the animals that you can breed, whether they need to be tamed, and the food items used to breed them:
- Wolves (tamed): any raw or cooked meat other than fish
- Cats (tamed)/Ocelots: raw cod or raw salmon
- Horses/Donkeys (tamed): golden apples and golden carrots
- Llamas (tamed): hay bales
- Nautiluses (tamed): any fish
- Sheep, Cows, Goats, and Mooshrooms: wheat
- Pigs: carrots, potatoes, or beetroot
- Chickens: seeds
- Rabbits: dandelions, carrots, or golden Carrots
- Turtles: seagrass
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Pandas: bamboo
- Minecraft: Java Edition: Pandas must also have at least one bamboo plant within a 7×7×3 area.
- Minecraft: Bedrock Edition: Each panda must also have eight bamboo blocks within a five-block radius.
- Foxes: sweet berries or glow berries
- Bees: flowers
- Frogs: slimeball
- Axolotls: bucket of tropical fish
- Camels: cactus
- Striders: warped fungus
- Hoglins: crimson fungus
- Sniffers: torchflower seeds
- Armadillos: spider eyes