Want to know how do to tame a cat in Minecraft?
Where do you find a cat in Minecraft and what to do once you adopt these little cuties?
Things Required to Tame a Cat
- 1 Raw Cod
- 1 Raw Salmon
- A Cat
But, first, we have to learn where to find cats.
How to Find a Cat in Minecraft
Stray cats spawn in villages or a swamp huts.
This means that stray cats spawn in villages with at least one villager and four beds.
The game will check to see if there are any stray cats in the village and it will spawn one as long as its spawn conditions are met.
There are up to 10 cats that spawn for every four beds in a village.
This way you have a variety of colors to choose from in an average village.
In the Bedrock Edition of the game (the most common, modern version of the game on Xbox One, Windows iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch) black cats are more likely to spawn when there is a full moon.
Minecraft Cats are not to be confused with ocelots.
In the previous builds of the game, you had to tame an ocelot from a jungle to get a regular cat.
This has now been changed, and ocelots are now their own tamable passive mobs in Minecraft.
Let’s see how we can tame a cat in Minecraft.
How do you tame a cat in Minecraft?
There can only be a maximum of ten cats per village.
Here’s a summary of what you have to do:
“Slowly approach a stray cat and use a raw fish to feed the cat until the hearts appear above on its head”
Here’s the step-by-step instruction on how to tame a cat in Minecraft without it running away.
- Find a stray cat to tame once you have the required materials
- Provide any kind of raw fish such as raw cod or raw salmon.
- Place the raw salmon or raw cod in the hotbar and make sure that it is the selected item in your hotbar.
The below steps explain to you how to use raw salmon to tame a cat in Minecraft.
The game control to use the raw salmon depends on the version of Minecraft:
- For Java Edition (PC/Mac), right click on the cat.
- For Pocket Edition (PE), you move your pointer over the cat and press the Tame button.
- For Xbox One, press the LT button on the Xbox controller.
- For PS4, press the L2 button on the PS controller.
- For Nintendo Switch, press the ZL button on the controller.
- For Windows 10 Edition, right click on the cat.
- For Education Edition, right click on the cat.
This way you can quickly tame village cat in Minecraft.
How many Fish does it take to tame a Cat in Minecraft?
Well, the number stretches from cat to cat and species to species.
But, you will likely need to feed more than one raw fish to the cat to tame it.
The number can be as many as 20 fish for taming a cat.
Once you feed the raw salmon to the cat, you will see grey smoke appear above the cat.
It is still not tamed.
Continue to feed until you see red hearts appear all around the cat.
This indicates that your cat is now tamed.
After this, the cat will behave like your pet.
What will the Cat Behave Like after you Tame it?
Your pet will now follow you around wherever you go.
You can command them to sit.
When in a house, your cat will climb on top of the furniture on its own.
You might find them sitting on top of chests, beds, and furnaces.
They can also get in your way and render chests, furnaces, etc.
However, if you don’t want them to get into something to mess with it, you can always lure them away with a piece of raw fish, or remove blocks underneath them to get them to move.
Your tamed cat will fall asleep near where you’re sleeping.
Your feline friend will have a gift for you when you’re awake.
They can collect string, raw chicken, a rabbit’s foot, and other items.
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What to do if you lose track of your Minecraft cat?
They can teleport to a player once you get a certain distance away probably 12 blocks away.
How to breed cats in Minecraft?
Feed each of the cats raw cod or raw salmon. They will enter love mode. This way you have a cute kitten.
The kitten will be the breed of one of its parents. You can make the kitten sit too!
Now, all of your cats will follow you.
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FAQ’s
Below are some of the important and useful frequently Asked Questions on how to tame a cat in Minecraft.
Why Can’t I tame a Cat in Minecraft?
The obvious reason seems to be that you are not feeding enough raw fish to your cat whom you want to pet.
Continue to feed the cat more raw fish until you see red hearts appear all around the cat.
This shows your cat is being tamed.
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Can you tame all cats in Minecraft?
Cats follow players who tamed them.
Unless commanded to sit, tamed cats do not remain still for long and explore around the player.
What food can you tame a cat in Minecraft?
Raw cod or raw salmon. Cats are quick to run away so it is important to stand still when feeding them.
What can a cat bring you in Minecraft?
Cats can bring you rabbit’s foot and rabbit’s hide, string, rotten, flesh, feather, raw chicken, and phantom membranes.
These are few of the things cats bring you in Minecraft.
Can you make a cat bed in Minecraft?
Yes:
- You need 4 slabs of your choice for example, acacia
- 8 wooden trapdoors
- A tamed cat
- Make a 2 by 2 square of slabs.
- Surround the square of slabs with trapdoors
- Put your pet in the completed bed
What do cats sleep on in Minecraft?
Cats lie, and sleep, on beds whenever their owner is sleeping on one.
They also emit specific sounds when doing so.
How do you get a cat to stop following you in Minecraft?
If you want to make your cat stop following you, just right-click it and it will sit down as a beautiful cat.
So, if it’s following you and you don’t want it to follow you because you are going to many dangerous places, just right-click and when you want it to follow, you right-click again, and it will follow and then when you want it to stop right-click again and it will stop following you everywhere.
Can you hold a cat in Minecraft?
Well, you can tame it using raw cod or raw salmon.
Once you tame the cat, it will follow you whenever you are on the move.
You can order a cat to sit/stand by pressing use on it.
With the new cats in 1.14, I think that you should be able to pick up your cat by shift-right clicking on them with an empty hand.
This would allow players to move a cat who is lying on a bed or sitting on a chest and have the bonus of being super adorable!
When could you tame cats in Minecraft?
You can tame a cat in Minecraft if you meet the given conditions.
- The ocelot is in “begging for food” mode (which means the cat will slowly approach you)
- The player doesn’t make sudden / quick movements as it approaches
- The ocelot is within 3 blocks of the player
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What’s the rarest cat in Minecraft?
Siamese cats are the rarest cat breed in the Minecraft game.
Others include tuxedo cat, tabby, red, calico, British shorthair, Persian, etc.
How to Untame a Cat in Minecraft?
There was this discussion going on Minecraft forum with this question raised by one of the users. So, basically he was actually trying to figure out a way to untame a cat in Minecraft.
But, for some reason there was no observable change and the target animal remains associated with the same OwnerUUID.
Therefore, after a little of discussion, the final solution was to just kill this animal.
How to tame a cat in Minecraft Creative Mode
The steps are the same as for what we have discussed above.
Provide the cat any kind of raw fish such as raw cod or raw salmon.
To do this, place your raw salmon in the hotbar and make sure that it is the selected item in your hotbar. Now you need to use the raw salmon.
Why do cats in Minecraft sit on chests?
Cats will sit on top of chests, beds, or active furnaces.
They try to sit to protect resources that contain valuable materials or essentials.
They mostly provide storage space for rare items like diamonds, gold or iron.
Furnaces could smelt these items and it is crucial to protect them from explosion.
Hence, cats are programmed to sit on them.
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Why do cats sit on your bed in Minecraft?
Tamed cats love to be around you, to serve you, to protect you.
Therefore, where ever you sleep they’ll try to sleep next to you.
On a morning time, the cat will be holding one of the items in its mouth and drop it in front of the player.
The owner can also sit down or kneel down to pet their cat.
Do Minecraft cats sleep with you?
Cats love to lie, and sleep, on beds whenever their owner is sleeping on one.
They also emit a specific sound when they do so. This is so adoring that’s sometimes you would want to tame a cat in Minecraft for this only reason.
Why do cats keep spawning in my house Minecraft?
If you’re somehow trying to farm golems and trade with the same villagers, that’s going to keep the cats spawning .
You need to trade with villagers the villager and their workstation.
Can you breed ocelots with tamed Minecraft Cats?
Actually, No.
You can only breed ocelots with other (adult) ocelots.
Do cats spawn in abandoned villages?
Like usual village livestock, abandoned villages also spawn stray cats Minecraft.
They, however, do not spawn iron golems.
How do you summon different types of cats?
In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac), the syntax to summon a black cat using the /summon command is:
/summon cat [pos] {CatType:10}
Definitions
- pos or x y z is optional. It is the x y z coordinate where the black cat should spawn. If no coordinate is specified, the black cat will spawn in the current location.
- {CatType:10} is an optional NBT tag (formerly called data tag) used to specify a black cat.
How do you summon a cat jockey in Minecraft?
Command: (Works in Java 1.14 to 1.15.2)
/summon minecraft:cat {CatType:10, Passengers:[{id:slime}]}
How to summon a cartoon cat in minecraft
We will do here a command:
/summon th:cartoon_cat
What happens when you tame a fox in Minecraft?
They just stay around after you tame them, and will help the player if any mobs start attacking the player, acting like a dog or cat.
Can you put a collar on a cat in Minecraft?
Once you tame a cat in Minecraft, it get’s a collar.
You can not change the color but, you can change the color of it using dye.
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How do I tame a cat in Minecraft 1.13?
Hold a fish and get near to a cat.
At first it will run away, but then it will approach you slowly.
When it gets too near, right-click on it while holding a raw salmon or cod.
This way you can tame a cat in Minecraft.
Conclusion
That’s all from my side.
I hope you’ve learned how to tame a cat in Minecraft.
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