Frog

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A frog is a passive mob that can spawn in swamps.

Spawning
Groups of one to four frogs spawn in swamp biome. Frogs can also be spawned by growing from tadpoles. There are three frog variants, determined by the biome in which the tadpole grew up: swamp (orange), snowy (green) and tropical (white).

They are planned to spawn in the upcoming mangrove swamp biomes as well.

Behavior
Frogs can jump 3 blocks high and take less damage from falling than most other mobs.

Occasionally they may croak and swell the throat.

Breeding
Feeding two frogs seagrass (placeholder) causes them to enter love mode, causing one of the frogs to become pregnant, similar to turtles. The pregnant frog then searches for a water tile with air above to lay frog eggs. These frog eggs later hatch into tadpoles, which subsequently grow into frogs.

Unlike all other mobs with baby variants, the tadpole is treated by the game as a completely different mob from the frog.

Attacking
The frog attacks by using its tongue to pull certain mobs into its mouth, whereupon the mob instantly despawns.

Frogs attack small slimes, which drop slimeballs when killed.

They also attack small magma cubes, in which they leave a froglight block. The type of froglight depends on which type of frog attacked the magma cube; normal frogs leave ochre froglights, tropical frogs leave pearlescent froglights, and snowy frogs leave verdant froglights.

Trivia

 * The tropical frog is based on the grey foam-nest tree frog.
 * Despite the fact that swamps lost the Biome Vote in MINECON Live 2019 taking second place, frogs were implemented in the game two years later $$ and three years later $$.
 * Frogs were shown in Minecraft Live 2021 to enjoy jumping on dripleaves.
 * Originally, frogs could eat fireflies, but this changed, as in real life fireflies are poisonous to frogs. Instead, now they can eat small slimes and small magma cubes.