Axolotl

Axolotls are tameable neutral mobs.

Spawning
Axolotls do not spawn naturally in the world, being only available from buckets or spawn eggs in the Creative inventory.

Variants
Axolotls come in five different varieties: leucistic (pink), wild-type (brown), gold (yellow), albino (frosty blue) and rare (blue).

The first four varieties are equally common, while the blue variety is rarer.

Behavior
Axolotls can attack fish, squid, drowned, guardians and elder guardians. Axolotls are automatically hostile to fish and squid and always attack these mobs on sight. Axolotls don't automatically target drowned, guardians and elder guardians, but can be commanded to attack these mobs when fed tropical fish by a player. Feeding one axolotl in a group causes the whole group to attack in unison.

Axolotls are neutral mobs, only attacking players if an axolotl is attacked first. If a player kills a mob that axolotl is in combat with, the regeneration effect is applied for some seconds and mining fatigue is removed.

As axolotls are aquatic mobs, they take extra damage from tridents with the Impaling enchantment.

If an axolotl takes near fatal damage, it pretends to be dead, dropping to the ground and gaining the I effect. Monsters will ignore recovering axolotls.

On land, axolotls try to move to the nearest water source because they die outside of water after five minutes. Axolotls do not die on land if it the weather is rain or thunder. By collecting them in a bucket, players can tame and lead them around. The tamed axolotl is passive to the owner.

Breeding
Adult axolotls can be led and bred with tropical fish or buckets of tropical fish. After breeding, a baby spawns and the parents cannot breed again for 5 minutes, while a player recives 1-7 experience.

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

Trivia

 * Axolotls are small mexican salamanders which are critically endangered, following Mojang's trend of adding endangered species such as giant pandas and bees into the game for awareness purposes.
 * Their regeneration abilities allude to their real-life regeneration capabilities, which are of major interest to science.
 * Axolotls are the first ever amphibians added to the game. However, they are not the first to be announced; that honor goes to the frog, announced at MINECON Live 2019.
 * Blue is the only color variant of axolotls that are not based on real life.
 * While being picked up in a bucket, the player will still get the advancement "Tactical Fishing".

Gallery
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