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Breeding

What each animal eats to breed, the catches, and how Emma bred all but one of them on her own.

How breeding works

Feeding an adult its breeding food puts it in love for 30 seconds. Two of the same animal in love that can reach each other make a baby.
Both parents then have to wait 5 minutes before they can breed again.
A baby takes 20 minutes to grow up. Feeding it the same food speeds that up.
Each birth also drops 1 to 7 XP.

How Emma does it

Emma builds a fence pen with two gates side by side: 8×8 inside, 10×10 for camels, horses, donkeys, llamas, pandas and sniffers. The fence is two high for animals that jump or step over one.
She brings the closest pair in on leads (never more than 8 blocks ahead, since a lead snaps at 12), lays a rail just inside each gate because mobs won't walk onto rails, and feeds them from outside the fence.
Turtles and pandas ride in a boat instead, and the pen goes up around the boat.
In our lab she bred every animal she tried except the fox, without a single lead breaking. The lab server sped breeding up 20 times with our own server mod, so the times are not normal survival times.

Every animal

CowEmma: Bred: 73 s
Feed
Wheat
MooshroomEmma: Bred: 203 s
Feed
Wheat
SheepEmma: Bred: 207 s
Feed
Wheat
PigEmma: Bred: 116 s
Feed
Carrot Potato Beetroot
ChickenEmma: Bred: 260 s
Feed
Wheat Seeds Melon Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Beetroot Seeds Torchflower Seeds Pitcher Pod
RabbitEmma: Bred: 84 s
Feed
Carrot Golden Carrot Dandelion
GoatEmma: Bred: 106 s
Feed
Wheat
Pen: Goats jump up to 5 blocks onto anything solid, so Emma's goat pen is two fences high.
CamelEmma: Bred: 257 s
Feed
Cactus
Pen: Camels step 1.5 blocks, right over a single fence: give them a fence two high.
ArmadilloEmma: Bred: 219 s
Feed
Spider Eye
HorseEmma: Bred: 99 s
Feed
Golden Carrot Golden Apple Enchanted Golden Apple
Both must be tamed. Other horse food heals or grows them but doesn't breed them.
A horse and a donkey make a mule, which can't breed.
DonkeyEmma: Bred: 335 s
Feed
Golden Carrot Golden Apple Enchanted Golden Apple
Both must be tamed.
LlamaEmma: Bred: 80 s
Feed
Hay Bale
Both must be tamed. Wheat only heals them.
PandaEmma: Bred: 64 s
Feed
Bamboo
Needs a bamboo block within 8 blocks, and the panda must not be scared or have a target.
TurtleEmma: Bred: 164 s (4 eggs)
Feed
Seagrass
The mother lays eggs on sand near the beach she was born on, so breed them there. A turtle carrying an egg won't breed again until it is laid.
Pen: Emma puts both turtles in a boat on their beach and builds the pen around it.
FrogEmma: Bred: 3 in 172 s
Feed
Slimeball
The frog lays frogspawn on water next to land with air above it. Tadpoles grow into frogs.
Pen: Emma's frog pen has a one-block pond in the corner and fences two high.
SnifferEmma: Bred: 296 s
Feed
Torchflower Seeds
Breeding drops a sniffer egg item. Placed, it hatches in 20 minutes, or 10 on a moss block.
FoxEmma: Not yet
Feed
Sweet Berries Glow Berries
Wild foxes run from a player who isn't sneaking, and food doesn't lure them. A cub bred from two foxes trusts you.
Emma's one miss: she never got within 3.5 blocks of the first fox. Next try: catching them in a boat.
Wolf
Feed
Raw Beef Raw Chicken Steak Cooked Chicken Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Rotten Flesh Raw Cod Cooked Cod Raw Salmon Cooked Salmon Tropical Fish Pufferfish Rabbit Stew
Both must be tamed. A hurt wolf eats to heal first; at full health the food breeds it.
Cat
Feed
Raw Cod Raw Salmon
Both must be tamed.
Ocelot
Feed
Raw Cod Raw Salmon
It has to trust you first: offer fish while it walks up to you (1 in 3 each time). After that, fish breeds it.
Bee
Feed
Dandelion Open Eyeblossom Poppy Blue Orchid Allium Azure Bluet Red Tulip Orange Tulip White Tulip Pink Tulip Oxeye Daisy Cornflower Lily of the Valley Wither Rose Torchflower Sunflower Lilac Peony Rose Bush Pitcher Plant Flowering Azalea Leaves Flowering Azalea Mangrove Propagule Cherry Leaves Pink Petals Wildflowers Chorus Flower Spore Blossom Cactus Flower
Axolotl
Feed
Bucket of Tropical Fish
Fed with a bucket of tropical fish; you get the empty water bucket back.
Strider
Feed
Warped Fungus
Hoglin
Feed
Crimson Fungus
Nautilus
Feed
Raw Cod Cooked Cod Raw Salmon Cooked Salmon Pufferfish Tropical Fish Bucket of Pufferfish Bucket of Cod Bucket of Salmon Bucket of Tropical Fish
Both must be tamed first.

Foods are read from Minecraft 26.3's data. Emma's times are from our lab on 26.1.2, with breeding sped up 20 times by our server mod; an empty badge means she hasn't tried that animal yet.