Baby

Babies are smaller variants of mobs, typically having faster walking speeds. Some babies have unique sounds while others use the same sounds as their adult equivalent but sped up by 50% and pitched up by 7 semitones. Baby mobs are considered to be the same mob as their adult counterparts, with the exception of the tadpole.

The following baby variants exist:

Baby animals

Baby monsters

Other babies

• Baby Villager

Baby-like^{[note 2]}

Technical babies^{[note 3]}

Non-examples^{[note 4]}

Non-baby ageable mobs^{[note 5]}

Baby animals can be manually spawned by using spawn eggs on an adult mob. Ageable baby mobs may also be spawned using the /summon command with a negative Age tag; for example, using /summon sheep ~ ~ ~ {Age:-100} spawns a baby sheep at the player's position, that matures in 100 game ticks (5 seconds). For non-ageable baby mobs, the IsBaby:1 tag is used instead. In Bedrock Edition summoning a baby mob can be done by the use of SpawnEvent: minecraft:as_baby.

The following mobs have a baby variant, but cannot breed.

• Dolphin
• Glow Squid
• Happy Ghast
  • Ghastlings can be spawned by placing dried ghasts in water and waiting.
• Mule
  • Baby mules are spawned when a horse and a donkey are cross-bred.
• Piglin
• Polar Bear
• Squid
• Sulfur Cube
  • Two small sulfur cubes are spawned when a large sulfur cube dies.
• Undead monsters
  • Zombie
  • Husk
  • Drowned
  • Zombie Villager
  • Zombified Piglin
  • Zoglin
  • Zombie Horse
  • Skeleton Horse
    • Baby zombie horses and skeleton horses cannot spawn in any way in Survival mode.

Most baby mobs do not drop any loot or experience when killed, with the exception of equipment. The following baby mobs do drop loot and/or experience:

Baby zombies, zombie villagers, husks, gurgles, zombified piglins, and zoglins drop both their typical loot as well as experience, while baby hoglins and baby piglins only drop experience, with baby piglins dropping less experience than adults do.

Baby zombies can drop Music Disc Lava Chicken if they are killed while riding a chicken, while adult zombies cannot, even if one is forced to mount a chicken using commands. When a baby turtle grows up, it drops one turtle scute.

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Most baby mobs do not have certain behaviors or traits that their adult versions do. For instance, wool and armadillo scutes cannot be collected from baby sheep or armadillos respesctively. Baby villagers and piglins cannot trade or barter, though baby piglins will still collect gold items, baby cows, mooshrooms, and goats cannot be milked, and all baby mounts cannot be saddled or ridden.

Most baby animals choose and follow an adult within 8 blocks of the same species, regardless of whether it is their parent. Babies can choose new targets to follow whenever they do not have a valid target, such as when the previous target dies or moves further than 16 blocks away. Tamed kittens and puppies follow their owner if the parent is absent or sitting.

Baby animals that do not follow adults consist of:

• Tadpoles (which do not follow frogs)
• Snifflets^[1]
• Baby turtles^[2]
• Baby ocelots^[2]
• Untamed kittens^[2]
• Untamed puppies^[2]
• Baby rabbits in Java Edition ^[3]
• Baby dolphins in Java Edition ^[4][verify]

Humanoid baby mobs (such as villagers, zombies and piglins) never follow adult mobs.

Ghastlings occasionally follow nearby players, most land animals and villagers within a range of 16 blocks, and they prioritize following players.

Most baby mobs take 20 minutes to grow up. This can be accelerated by feeding them their breeding item. Green sparkles appear similar to those caused by bone meal. In Java Edition, each feeding usually reduces the remaining time before the animal grows up by 10%. The less time remains, the less time is saved by each feeding, making it inefficient to feed an animal continuously until it becomes an adult. After the eighth feeding, the time saved by one feeding is less than a minute, as shown in the graph above. In Bedrock Edition, each feeding saves 10% of the total time rather than the remaining time, so no more than ten feedings are needed to age up a single baby into an adult.

Horses, donkeys, mules, llamas, and camels all grow by a different amount depending on which item is fed to them. Each item ages the baby by a constant time rather than a percentage of the remaining time.

Baby mobs can be prevented by growing up by being fed a golden dandelion. Feeding an age-locked baby mob a golden dandelion will cause it to resume aging.

Most baby monsters do not grow up naturally, while baby animals, baby villagers, baby hoglins, small sulfur cubes, and tadpoles do grow up over time.

When a baby of a mob that has variants is born through breeding, they can inherit the pattern of one of their parents, chosen at random with an equal chance for both, with some exceptions:

• Breeding two sheep that have "compatible" colors, meaning that their corresponding dye items could be combined into a third dye, the baby inherits that color rather than either of its parents colors.
• Breeding two mooshrooms of the same variant has a ¹⁄₁₀₂₄ chance to spawn a mooshroom of the opposite variant.
• Baby horses have a ¹³⁄₄₅ chance of having a random color/markings instead of matching either of their parents.
• Breeding two axolotls has a ¹⁄₁₂₀₀ chance of spawning a blue axolotl, with this being the only way to obtain this variant.
• Frogs do not inherit their variants from their parents. A frog's variant is determined by the biome it matures from a tadpole in.
• Breeding two goats that are not screaming goats has a 2% chance of spawning a screaming goat, while breeding two screaming goats has a 100% chance of spawning one.

Using a golden dandelion on a baby mob causes it to become "age-locked". Age-locked mobs cannot grow up into adults. Using another golden dandelion on an age-locked mob removes the age-lock and resets its aging so that it will grow up in 24000 game ticks (20 minutes).

Some baby mobs cannot be fed golden dandelions, neither to lock or unlock their age. These consist of:

• Mobs with the #cannot_be_age_locked entity tag
  • Baby villagers
• Mobs that cannot grow up
  • Baby zombies
  • Baby zombie villagers
  • Gurgles
  • Baby husks
  • Baby piglins
  • Baby zombified piglins
  • Baby zoglins
  • Baby zombie horses
  • Baby skeleton horses

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  Baby armadillo
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  Baby axolotl
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  Baby bee
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  Baby camel
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  Chick
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  Baby cow
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  Baby dolphin
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  Baby donkey
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  Foal
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  Baby fox
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  Ghastling
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  Baby glow squid
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  Baby goat
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  Gurgle
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  Baby hoglin
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  Baby husk
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  Kitten
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  Baby llama
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  Baby mooshroom
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  Baby mule
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  Baby nautilus
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  Baby ocelot
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  Baby panda
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  Baby pig
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  Baby piglin
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  Baby polar bear
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  Puppy
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  Baby rabbit
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  Baby sheep
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  Snifflet
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  Baby skeleton horse
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  Baby squid
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  Baby strider
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  Small sulfur cube
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  Tadpole
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  Baby trader llama
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  Baby turtle
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  Baby villager
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  Baby zoglin
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  Baby zombie
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  Baby zombie horse
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  Baby zombie villager
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  Baby zombified piglin