Tadpole

A tadpole is the larval form of the frog. They mature into one of the three frog variants, depending on the biome in which they mature.

Spawning
Tadpoles hatch from frogspawn in groups of 2-5. Besides this, they don't spawn naturally.

Drops
As with other baby animals, tadpoles do not drop any items or experience on death.

Behavior
Tadpoles swim aimlessly in water. On land, they flop around like fish and seek out nearest water. They quickly die on land.

Unlike frogs, tadpoles are hunted by axolotls.

Tadpoles follow a player that is holding a slimeball.

A player can pick up a tadpole with a bucket of water.

A tadpole grows up into one of the variants of a frog depending on the tadpole's location, as shown on the table below. Tadpoles take one Minecraft day to grow up (20 minutes). Its growth may be accelerated by feeding it slimeballs. Each use reduces the remaining growth duration by 10%.
 * Notes

Sounds
Tadpoles use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.



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Entity data
Tadpoles have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.