Cat - Minecraft Guide - IGN (2024)

Cats are a passive mob found in two biomes, while they are harmless to players they are known to keep certain mobs away, attack mobs, and can be tamed. In this Minecraft Cat guide, we will teach you everything you need to know, such as how to find Cats, how to breed them, quick tips and facts that you may not have known, as well as their available loot drops.

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• What Are Cats and What Do They Do in Minecraft
• Quick Tips and Facts About Cats
• How to Find Cats
• How to Tame a Cat
• How to Breed a Cat
• All Cat Loot

What Are Cats and What Do They Do in Minecraft

Cats are a useful mob to have around, they are known to keep other Hostile mobs away. Cats can also be tamed and similar to tamed wolves you can command them to follow you or stay put. But unlike wolves, cats can come in a variety of colors, and listed below are all the colors you can find a cat in.

• Black Cat: This cat will be black and have orange eyes
• British Shorthair: This cat will be silver and have yellow eyes
• Calico: This cat is dark brown, orange, white, yellow and has blue eyes
• Jellie: This cat is gray and white and has gray-green eyes.
• Persian: This is the only cat with a flat face with a creamy color and blue eyes.
• Ragdoll: This cat is white and gray and has blue eyes.
• Red: This cat is orange and white with green eyes.
• Siamese: This cat is white and light brown and has blue eyes.
• Tabby: This is a brown and white cat with yellow eyes.
• Tuxedo: This is a black and white cat and has green eyes.
• White: This cat is all white and has yellow eyes.

If you have a tamed cat, they are known to give you gifts. If you command the cat to follow you and go to sleep, there’s a 70% chance your cat will give you one of the items listed below.

• Feather
• Rabbit’s Foot
• Rabbit Hide
• Raw Chicken
• Rotten Flesh
• Phantom Membrane
• String

How to Find Cats

Untamed cats can be found in villages, and alongside a witch in a swamp hut.

To learn more about the different types of Biomes that are available to find across Minecraft, be sure to check out our Biomes guide for more details.

Quick Tips and Facts About Cats

• Untamed cats are known to attack baby turtles, chickens, and rabbits within a fifteen-block radius.
• Creepers and Phantoms are known to stay six to sixteen blocks away from cats.
• To heal a cat feed it Raw Cod or Raw Salmon.

How to Tame a Cat

To tame a cat you’ll need either raw cod or raw salmon. Both of these fish are commonly found in just about every ocean biome. You can easily get these fishes by hunting them in the water and they usually die in just a few hits.

Now that you have the food you need, you’re going to need to sneak up on a cat. Cats are easily frightened so when approaching them it’s best to slowly creep up on them by crouching or standing still near them with the food. Once you tame the cat, you’ll notice hearts will appear above their heads, and a red collar will spawn on their neck, just like the wolves.

But similarly to the wolves, you can also change the color of the collar by right-clicking or by pressing the left trigger while holding dye.

How to Breed a Cat

Just like a wolf, you’ll need to tame the cat before you can breed it. Once you’ve done that, you won’t need to build any animal farm to keep the cats from running away.

To breed a cat, you’ll need to feed it either raw cod or raw salmon. Once you’ve fed the cats either one of those fishes, they’ll enter love mode. A baby kitten should spawn within a few seconds after that.

Now that you've learned how to breed cats, why not check out our Taming Guide that details everything you need to know about Taming Animals in Minecraft.

All Cat Loot

When a cat is killed by a player or a tamed wolf, it can drop anywhere between one to three XP orbs. Listed below is all the loot a cat can drop upon death.

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