How to Breed Axolotls in Minecraft

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Axolotls have quickly become a popular amphibian. Since their addition to Minecraft in the 1.17, Caves & Cliffs: Part I update, axolotl products are everywhere. Even Build-A-Bear Workshop had an axolotl teddy bear! Kids were so entranced with axolotls that their parents were warned not to buy the real versions as pets.

However, inside Minecraft, we all can continue to be obsessed with these adorable and curious mobs. As of 1.18, their spawn location has changed, making them a little harder to come by. So when you finally manage to find two of them, how do you breed axolotls?

Here’s our guide to help find and breed axolotls in Minecraft, so you can create your own axolotl army! Or at least have some wildlife around your home.

1 – Gather Supplies

Before leaving home, make sure you have everything you need! Beside having a place to both breed and maintain axolotls, you’ll need:

• 4 Water Buckets
• Anvil or Name Tags
• Boat

2 – Find Axolotls

In 1.17, you could find axolotls in any deep underwater area. However, in 1.18, that changed. Axolotls spawn underwater in lush cave biomes and when there is a clay block less than five blocks below their spawning space. If you’re having trouble finding a lush cave, check out this guide! Axolotls are passive toward players and can be attached to leads.

The best way to catch them, however, is with a water bucket. Simply right click them with a water bucket in the main hand, and they’ll pop right into your inventory!

Once you’ve located the two axolotls you want, move on to the next step.

3 – Time To Go Fishing

The next stop before home will require sailing the seas. Axolotls require a bucket of tropical fish each to breed. Tropical fish only spawn in the following biomes:

• Lukewarm Ocean
• Deep Lukewarm Ocean
• Warm Ocean
• Lush Caves

Chances are, by the time you’ve found axolotls inside a lush cave, they’ve already depleted the population of tropical fish. Personally, that’s a bit of an oversight on Mojang’s part, but we digress.

Take to the ocean and use F3 or a map mod to find the correct biome. The best way to spot a possible tropical fish location is by looking out for a brightly colored coral reef.

Just like with the axolotls, grab up two tropical fish inside a bucket. Do not kill a tropical fish! Axolotls prefer their prey alive.

Now it’s time to head home and get busy!

4 – Get Down to Business

Before you place down your axolotls, make sure you rename them at an anvil or with a name tag. While usually an axolotl picked up with a water bucket won’t despawn, it’s best to stay on the safe side.

Once your axolotls are placed where you want them, it’s time for them to get…busy. As soon as you hold out a bucket of tropical fish, they’ll become very interested in you. Simply right click each axolotl with a bucket of tropical fish, and they’ll begin breeding!

The coloring of the baby axolotl will be random, inheriting one of their parents’ color. A baby axolotl has a 1/1200 chance to be the rare blue variant. It’ll take 20 minutes for the babies to grow into adulthood, so you’ll have some time to cherish how tiny they are.

There you have it! The beginning of your axolotl army!

If you’re interested in what other changes occurred in Minecraft’s 1.18 update, check out this overview!

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How To Breed Frogs in Minecraft

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While you can’t tame frogs, you can breed them, lead them, and put tadpoles into buckets. Frogs croak, jump, swim, and (slowly) walk on land. They can jump over five blocks and prefer lily pads and big dripleaf.

Generally, they’re just out here living their best froggy lives!

Read on to learn how to find and tame frogs!

1 – Get slimeballs

To activate a frog’s love mode, you’ll need slimeballs. The easiest way to get them is from slimes! Slimes spawn in the Overworld in specific “slime chunks” below layer 40, regardless of light levels. They can also spawn in swamp biomes between layers 50 and 70 in light levels of 7 or less.

An adorable fact: Baby pandas have a chance of dropping one slimeball when sneezing.

2 – Find frogs

Frogs spawn in swamp and mangrove swamp biomes, in groups of 2-5 frogs. They grow from tadpoles, and their variants are determined by the temperature of the biome the tadpole grew up in.

Frogs have three variants: temperate (orange), warm (white), and cold (green). To get different variants of the frogs, currently the best way is by bringing a bucket of tadpole to a different temperature biome and letting them grow up there.

3 – Breed frogs

Simply give each frog a slimeball and let the magic happen (aka love mode). One of the frogs will head towards water to lay their eggs. In the case of Minecraft, frog spawn will appear over water (similar to how lily pads or glow lichen appear).

You cannot pick up this block and there’s no collision, so you won’t have to worry about stepping on the eggs as you would with turtle eggs.

If you’d like to know more on what else was included in the Wild Update, check out this comprehensive overview!

Top 10 Enchantments in Minecraft

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Top 10 Enchantments in Minecraft

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The longer you play Minecraft, the more you realize that early-game tools just won’t cut it. Exploring the enchantment feature of Minecraft can be exciting, but also intimidating. Rather than worry about researching enchantments, below are the best enchantments in Minecraft!

To learn how to enchant items, check out this guide!

In this guide, you’ll see a list of Primary Items and Secondary Items. Primary Items can receive the enchantment through an enchanting table, which Secondary Items require an enchanted book applied at an anvil.

1 – Mending

Primary Items: None
Secondary Items: All armor, tools, elytra, and weapons.
Max Enchantment Level: 1
Incompatibilities: Infinity

What does the Mending enchantment do?

This is the most important enchantment to get, especially once you’ve reached diamond tools and armor. Mending uses XP orbs to repair the item it’s bound to. It can only be found as an enchanted book through chest loot, fighting, raids or villager trading. The rate of repair is two durability per point of experience.

2 – Unbreaking

Primary Items: All armor and tools, crossbow, trident, bow, and turtle shell.
Secondary Items: Shears, flint and steel, shield, carrot on a stick, warped fungus on a stick, and elytra.
Max Enchantment Level: 3
Incompatibilities: None

What does the Unbreaking enchantment do?

Essentially, the Unbreaking enchantment increases an item’s durability by giving a chance for an item to avoid durability reduction during use. With Unbreaking III, an item’s average lifetime increases by 300%!

3 – Silk Touch

Primary Items: Pickaxe, shovel, axe, and hoe.
Secondary Items: Shears (Bedrock Edition only)
Max Enchantment Level: 1
Incompatibilities: Fortune

What does the Silk Touch enchantment do?

One of the most sought after enchantments, Silk Touch allows blocks to drop themselves rather than their usual items while mined. For example, mushroom blocks and mycelium can only be acquired with Silk Touch.

4 – Knockback

Primary Items: Sword
Secondary Items: None
Max Enchantment Level: 2
Incompatibilities: None

What does the Knockback enchantment do?

Players and mobs can be knocked back when receiving damage. The resulting disorientation could be fatal, as it’s possible to be knocked back over a cliff or into lava. The Knockback enchantment increases a sword’s knockback. For each level of enchantment, Knockback adds three blocks distance to the base knockback.

5 – Efficiency

Primary Items: Pickaxe, shovel, axe, hoe
Secondary Items: Shears
Max Enchantment Level: 5
Incompatibilities: None

What does the Efficiency enchantment do?

Simply put, Efficiency increases the player’s mining speed. Stone tools can only receive up Efficiency V by combining two items with Efficiency IV. Diamond tools cannot be given Efficiency V, but they can be found in an end city or bastion remnant chest. The best tools to have Efficiency on is an iron or netherite pickaxe. After all, what’s a better feeling than mining through terracotta like a knife through butter?

6 – Feather Falling

Primary Items: Boots
Secondary Items: None
Max Enchantment Level: 4
Incompatibilities: None

What does the Feather Falling enchantment do?

Feather Falling reduces fall damage, which is what makes it so vital for hardcore difficulty players. It’s one of the rarest enchantments, with only a 2.7% chance of Feather Falling IV appearing on boots enchanted with the enchanting table.

7 – Fire Protection

Primary Items: All armor and the turtle shell.
Secondary Items: None
Max Enchantment Level: 4
Incompatibilities: Blast Protection, Protection, Projectile Protection

What does the Fire Protection enchantment do?

Fire Protection is an armor enchantment that reduces damage from fire. It’s especially helpful to have this enchantment when exploring the Nether. Hypothetically, if all armor a player was wearing was enchanted with Fire Protection, the only way they’d burn is by standing in a fire or lava.

8 – Aqua Affinity

Primary Items: Helmet and turtle shell.
Secondary Items: None
Max Enchantment Level: 1
Incompatibilities: None

What does the Aqua Affinity enchantment do?

When mining underwater, blocks take five times as long to mine. With Aqua Affinity, players can increase their underwater mining speed. Match this enchantment with Depth Strider for boots, and you’ll be able to mine and move around quickly while underwater!

9 – Looting

Primary Items: Sword
Secondary Items: None
Max Enchantment Level: 3
Incompatibilities: None

What does the Looting enchantment do?

For anyone who has a mob farm in order to get more item drops, Looting is a perfect sword enchantment to have. The Looting enchantment causes mobs to drop more items and increases the chance of rare drops.

Keep in mind that there are a few restrictions to Looting:

• Mobs with no drops are not affected.
• Withers, iron golems, and snow golems are not affected.
• Looting does not increase the amount of wool dropped by sheep or the sponge drop from an elder guardian.
• Totems of undying dropped by evokers are not affected.

10 – Fortune

Primary Items: Pickaxe, shovel, axe, and hoe.
Secondary Items: None
Max Enchantment Level: 3
Incompatibilities: Silk Touch

What does the Fortune enchantment do?

The Fortune enchantment increases the number and/or chances of specific item drops. The best use case for the Fortune enchantment is with a pickaxe on ore blocks. For example, with Fortune II, a nether gold ore could drop up to 18 gold nuggets rather than the standard 2-6!

To learn how to remove an enchantment, check out this guide!

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