Baby

Babies are smaller variations of their adult counterparts, typically having small bodies, relatively big heads​^{[until First Drop 2026]}, and faster walking speeds. Some have unique sounds, while others use the same sounds as their adult variants but 50% faster and pitched up by 6 semitones. With the exception of the tadpole, the baby version of the frog, baby mobs are considered the same mob as their adult counterpart.

Many baby mobs have different interactions or behaviors compared to their elders, which depend on the mob. For example, baby sheep cannot be sheared for their wool; baby cows, baby mooshrooms, and baby goats cannot be milked; and baby piglins take gold but do not barter. Most baby mobs do not drop loot or experience when killed, with the exception of items they pick up. The following baby mobs do drop loot and/or experience:

• Baby zombies, zombie villagers, husks, drowned, zombified piglins, and zoglins (both loot and experience)
• Baby hoglins (only experience)
• Baby piglins (only experience, less than adults)

The following baby variants exist. Unique names for baby mobs that have them are shown in brackets:

Baby animals

Baby monsters

Others

• Baby Villager

Baby animals can be manually spawned by using spawn eggs on a grown animal. This also works on zombies or variants. Baby animals 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 ticks (5 seconds). For baby mobs that don't grow up like zombies and piglins, the IsBaby:1 tag is used instead.

The following mobs have a baby variant, but they cannot breed:

• Dolphin
• Glow Squid
• Happy Ghast
  • Ghastlings can be spawned by placing dried ghasts in water and waiting.
• Mule
  • Baby mules can be spawned by cross-breeding a horse and a donkey.
• Piglin
• Polar Bear
• Squid
• Undead monsters (zombie, husk, drowned, zombie villager, zombified piglin, zoglin, zombie horse, skeleton horse, and camel husk)
  • Baby variants of the zombie horse, skeleton horse, and camel husk do not spawn naturally and are not obtainable.
    • The baby camel husk only exists in Java Edition.​^{[until JE 26.1]}

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]

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. 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.

Horses, donkeys, mules, llamas, and camels have different mechanics: different breeding items grow babies by different amounts, and each item ages babies by a constant time rather than a percentage of the remaining time.

If a baby mob is fed with a golden dandelion, it cannot grow up and will always stay as a baby. However, if the item is used twice, the mob will age.

When a baby of a species with different fur/pattern variants is born, they usually inherit the pattern of one of their parents, chosen at random, with some exceptions:

• In the case of sheep, if the parents have "compatible" colors (meaning that their corresponding dye items could be combined into a third dye), the baby inherits a mix of the parents' colors.
• In the case of mooshrooms, breeding two of the same variant has a ¹⁄₁₀₂₄ chance to spawn a mooshroom of the opposite variant. Breeding two mooshrooms of differing variants has an equal chance of a baby mooshroom of either type.
• In the case of horses, there is a ¹³⁄₄₅ chance of having a random color/markings instead of matching either of its parents.
• In the case of axolotls, a baby axolotl bred by a player (not found in the world) has a ¹⁄₁₂₀₀ chance to be the rare blue variant, with this being the only way to obtain this variant. Otherwise, it inherits the color of one of its parents at random.
• Frogs do not inherit their variants from their parents. A frog's variant is determined by the biome it matures from a tadpole in.
• In the case of goats, the baby has a 2% chance to be a screaming goat. Similarly, when breeding a normal goat and a screaming goat, the baby has 50% chance to be either one of the two sound variants, and when breeding two screaming goats, the baby will always be a screaming variant.

This section describes an experimental feature in Bedrock Edition.

 

This feature is not enabled in-game by default and requires enabling the "Drop 1 of 2026" setting in the "Experiments" section in Bedrock Edition​^{[until BE 26.10]}.

This section describes content that is currently in development for Java Edition.

 

This content has appeared in development versions for Java Edition 26.1, but the full update adding it has not been released yet.

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 causes it to no longer be age-locked, and resets its aging so that it grows up in one Minecraft day. Certain baby mobs cannot be age-locked, which consist of:

• Baby villagers
• Monsters
  • Baby zombies
  • Gurgles
  • Baby husks
  • Baby piglins
  • Baby zombified piglins
  • Baby zoglins
  • Baby zombie horses
  • Baby skeleton horses

These baby mobs age naturally.

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  Baby armadillo​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby armadillo​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby axolotl​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby axolotl​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby bee in Java Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby bee in Bedrock Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby bee in Java Edition​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby bee in Bedrock Edition​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby camel​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby camel​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby camel husk^[5]‌^{[JE only]}​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Kitten​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Kitten​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Tamed kitten​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Tamed kitten​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Chick​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Chick​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby cow​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby cow​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby dolphin​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby dolphin​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby donkey​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby donkey​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby fox​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby fox​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Ghastling
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  Baby glow squid in Java Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby glow squid in Bedrock Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby glow squid in Java Edition​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby glow squid in Bedrock Edition​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby goat​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby goat​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby hoglin in Java Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby hoglin in Bedrock Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby hoglin​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Foal​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Foal​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby llama​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby llama​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby mooshroom​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby mooshroom​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby mule​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby mule​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby nautilus in Java Edition
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  Baby nautilus in Bedrock Edition
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  Baby ocelot​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby ocelot​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby panda in Java Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby panda in Bedrock Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby panda​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby pig​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby pig​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby polar bear in Java Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby polar bear in Bedrock Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby polar bear​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby rabbit​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby rabbit​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby sheep​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby sheep​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Snifflet​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Snifflet​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby squid​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby squid​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby strider​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby strider​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Tadpole
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  Baby trader llama​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby trader llama​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby turtle​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby turtle​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby villager in Java Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby villager in Bedrock Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby villager​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Puppy​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Puppy​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Tamed puppy​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Tamed puppy​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}

These baby mobs do not grow up.

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  Gurgle in Java Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Gurgle in Bedrock Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Gurgle in Java Edition​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Gurgle in Bedrock Edition​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby husk​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby husk​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby piglin​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby piglin​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby skeleton horse​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby skeleton horse​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby zoglin in Java Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby zoglin in Bedrock Edition​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby zoglin​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby zombie​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby zombie​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby zombie horse​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby Zombie horse​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby zombie villager​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby zombie villager​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby zombified piglin​^{[until First Drop 2026]}
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  Baby zombified piglin​^{[upcoming First Drop 2026]}

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