Feeding certain passive or friendly mobs in Minecraft allows you to befriend, breed, heal, or grow them. Here’s a list of what Minecraft creatures like to eat. Try feeding the mobs you encounter and see what happens!
Mobs you can feed in Minecraft
- Axolotl: Bucket of tropical fish
- Armadillo: Spider eyes
- Bee: Any flower
- Camel: Cactus
- Cat/Ocelot: Raw cod, raw salmon
- Chicken: Beetroot seed, pumpkin seed, melon seed, wheat seed, torchflower seed, pitcher pod
- Cow/Mooshroom: Wheat
- Fox: Glow berry, sweet berry
- Frog: Slimeball
- Ghastling: Snowballs
- Goat: Wheat
- Hoglin: Crimson fungus
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Horse/Donkey/Mule:
- Breeding food (tamed): Golden apple, enchanted golden apple, golden carrot
- Other food: Apple, sugar, hay bale, wheat
- Llama/Trader Llama: Hay bale
- Nautilus: Any fish or bucket of fish
- Panda: Bamboo
- Pig: Beetroot, carrot, potato
- Rabbit: Carrot, dandelion, golden carrot
- Sheep: Wheat, the tops of grass blocks
- Sniffer: Torchflower seeds
- Strider: Warped fungus
- Turtle: Seagrass
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Wolf: Raw or cooked meat
- Minecraft: Bedrock Edition: fish will not cause love mode
- Minecraft: Java Edition: will not eat fish
Additional Mob Resources