An axolotl is a passive bucketable aquatic mob found in lush caves that also kills, but it only kills fish, not any players. The Axolotl can also assist players with aquatic combat and grant them Regeneration.
Spawning
Axolotls spawn underwater in the lush caves biome and when there is a clay block less than five blocks below the spawning space.
Colors
Axolotls can be one of five colors: pink (leucistic), brown (wild), gold, cyan and blue.
When breeding Axolotls, there is a 1⁄1200 (0.083%) chance of the offspring having the blue mutation, leaving 1199⁄1200 (99.917%) chance of matching one of the parents (including blue parents).
Pose | Color | ||||
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Leucistic | Wild | Gold | Cyan | Blue | |
Ground crawling | |||||
Ground stationary | |||||
Swimming | |||||
Water stationary | |||||
Animation | Color | ||||
Leucistic | Wild | Gold | Cyan | Blue | |
Ground crawling |
Behavior
Axolotls are passive toward players and can be attached to leads. Axolotls give Regeneration I for 100 game ticks (5 seconds) per Axolotl in the fight, up to a duration of 2400 game ticks (2 minutes)[Java Edition only], and remove Mining Fatigue when a player kills a mob that is in combat with an axolotl.
Axolotls attack all aquatic mobs except turtles, dolphins, frogs and other axolotls. They also attack the drowned. An axolotl deals 2 points of damage per attack. However, axolotls do not attack the player.
After killing a non-hostile mob, there is a two minute cooldown before another non-hostile mob can be hunted. Axolotls prioritize attacking hostile mobs over non-hostile mobs.
If an axolotl takes damage underwater, it may play dead, dropping to the ground for 200 game ticks (10 seconds) while gaining Regeneration I. Hostile aquatic mobs ignore healing axolotls. There is a 1⁄3 chance for an axolotl to play dead to recover 4. In addition, if either a random integer from 0–2 (inclusive) is less than the amount of incoming damage, or the axolotl's health before the damage is dealt is less than 50% of its maximum health, it plays dead.
Axolotls can leave the water and wander about on land. When an axolotl leaves the water, it wanders as far as 8 or 9 blocks beyond the water's edge before returning to the water, as long as there is water at least 2 blocks deep within 16 blocks of the axolotl. If 2-block-deep water is outside this range, the axolotl can wander off randomly on land in search of more deep water, and die after 6000 game ticks (5 minutes) exposure out of water. Axolotls are not attracted to shallow (1 block deep) water. They require water at least 2 blocks deep within 16 blocks to pathfind to the water.[1]
Axolotls can also die out of water as passengers in a boat. Unlike fish, dolphins, and squid, axolotls do not die on land in rain or in a thunderstorm.
Unlike most mobs, axolotls cannot be moved by flowing water. However, they are still affected by bubble columns.
As aquatic mobs, they take extra damage from the Impaling enchantment.[Java Edition only][until JE Edition Combat Tests] Unlike other aquatic mobs, they cause nearby pufferfish to inflate.
Axolotls picked up with a water bucket and re-spawned do not despawn.
Axolotls can be renamed by placing a bucket of axolotl into an anvil, the same as if renaming any other item.
Breeding
Adult axolotls can be led and bred with buckets of tropical fish. After breeding, a baby axolotl spawns and 1–7 experience is generated. The parents cannot be bred again for 5 minutes in Java Edition or 1 minute in Bedrock Edition. The baby axolotl has a 1⁄1200 chance to be the rare blue variant; otherwise, it inherits the color of one parent at random. Babies follow adults, and grow to adulthood in 20 minutes. The growth of baby axolotls can be accelerated using buckets of tropical fish; each use reduces the remaining growing time by 10%.
Sounds
Java Edition:
Axolotls use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
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Axolotl chirps | Friendly Creatures | Randomly when in water | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) | 16 | |
Axolotl chirps | Friendly Creatures | Randomly when not in water | entity | subtitles | 1.0 [sound 1] | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) [sound 2] | 16 | |
Axolotl attacks | Friendly Creatures | When an axolotl attacks something | entity | subtitles | 0.5 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Axolotl dies | Friendly Creatures | When an axolotl dies | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) | 16 | |
Axolotl hurts | Friendly Creatures | When an axolotl is damaged | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) | 16 | |
Axolotl splashes | Friendly Creatures | When an axolotl enters water | entity | subtitles | 0.0-0.9 [sound 3] | 0.72-1.68 | 16 | |
Axolotl swims | Friendly Creatures | While an axolotl is moving through water | entity | subtitles | 0.0-1.0 [sound 4] | 0.6-1.4 | 16 |
Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
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Friendly Creatures | Randomly when in water | mob | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) | |
Friendly Creatures | Randomly when not in water | mob | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) | |
Friendly Creatures | When an axolotl attacks something | mob | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) | |
Friendly Creatures | When an axolotl dies | mob | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) | |
Friendly Creatures | When an axolotl is damaged | mob | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) | |
Friendly Creatures | When an axolotl enters water | mob | 0.9 | 0.96-1.44 (Baby: 1.56-2.04) | |
Friendly Creatures | While an axolotl is moving through water | mob | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7) |
Data values
ID
Name | Identifier | Translation key |
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Axolotl | axolotl | entity.minecraft.axolotl |
Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
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Axolotl | axolotl | 130 | entity.axolotl.name |
Entity data
Axolotls have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.
- Entity data
- Additional fields for mobs that can breed
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
- FromBucket: 1 or 0 (true/false) – if true, indicates the axolotl has been released from a bucket.
- Variant: ID of the axolotl's variant.
Axolotl Variant
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Achievements
Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
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PS4 | Other | |||||
The Healing Power of Friendship! | Team up with an axolotl and win a fight | Team up with an axolotl by killing the hostile aquatic mob [verify] while the axolotl is fighting it (not playing dead). | 30G | Silver |
Advancements
Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
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It Spreads | Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst | Monster Hunter | Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst:
| adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst
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The Parrots and the Bats | Breed two animals together | Husbandry | Breed a pair of any of these 25 mobs:
| husbandry/breed_an_animal
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Two by Two | Breed all the animals! | The Parrots and the Bats | Breed a pair of each of these 25 mobs:
| husbandry/bred_all_animals
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The Cutest Predator | Catch an Axolotl in a Bucket | Tactical Fishing | Use a water bucket on an axolotl. | husbandry/axolotl_in_a_bucket
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The Healing Power of Friendship! | Team up with an axolotl and win a fight | The Cutest Predator | Have the Regeneration effect applied from assisting an axolotl or it killing a mob. | husbandry/kill_axolotl_target
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History
Java Edition | |||||
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October 3, 2020 | Axolotls are announced at Minecraft Live 2020. | ||||
They are shown to spawn in lush caves biomes. | |||||
October 3, 2020 | An unreleased[2] green variant was shown at the Minecraft Live 2020 recap, which was not shown on the live event. | ||||
1.17 | 20w51a | Added axolotls. | |||
When an axolotl is held with a lead on the ground, it begins walking at an exaggeratedly fast speed.[3] | |||||
21w03a | Axolotls attack glow squids. | ||||
21w13a | The texture of the axolotls for four variants except the brown one has been changed. | ||||
Axolotls now spawn naturally underwater in caves. | |||||
21w18a | The lucy texture have been changed from to to remove the unused open mouth. | ||||
21w20a | Axolotls now play dead only when in water. | ||||
Axolotls can no longer be fed tropical fish. | |||||
Pre-release 3 | Axolotls now spawn only in total darkness and where there's a block with base_stone_overworld tag less than 5 blocks below the spawning space. | ||||
1.17.1 | Pre-release 1 | Blue axolotls no longer naturally spawn, and can be obtained only through breeding. | |||
1.18 | 1.18 Experimental Snapshot 1 | Axolotls now spawn only in lush caves. | |||
21w37a | Axolotls now have their own mob cap, separate from glow squids. | ||||
Axolotls now avoid lava.[4] | |||||
21w40a | Axolotls now only spawn when there is a clay block less than five blocks below the spawning space. | ||||
Pre-release 5 | The brown axolotl texture has been changed from to , to solve the issue of its off-centered back. | ||||
1.19 | 22w11a | Axolotls can now attack tadpoles. | |||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.17.0 | beta 1.16.230.52 | Added axolotls behind the "Caves and Cliffs" experimental toggle. | |||
beta 1.17.0.50 | Axolotls now spawn naturally in underground water sources. | ||||
Axolotls no longer get a regeneration effect after killing a mob on their own. | |||||
beta 1.17.0.52 | Axolotls now spawn in any biome and up to Y-63 instead of Y-30. | ||||
Axolotls are now available without enabling experimental gameplay. | |||||
beta 1.17.0.56 | The texture of the axolotls for all variants except the brown one has been changed. | ||||
Axolotls no longer attack invisible mobs. | |||||
1.17.10 | beta 1.17.10.22 | Axolotls now spawn only in complete darkness. | |||
1.17.30 | beta 1.17.20.22 | Axolotls now spawn only where there is a stone block less than 10 blocks below the spawning space. | |||
With experimental gameplay enabled, axolotls spawn only in lush caves. | |||||
1.18.0 | beta 1.18.0.20 | Axolotls now spawn only in lush caves by default without enabling experimental gameplay. | |||
beta 1.18.0.21 | Axolotls now only spawn when there is a clay block less than five blocks below the spawning space. | ||||
beta 1.18.0.24 | Axolotls more frequently spawn in lush caves. | ||||
1.18.10 | beta 1.18.10.24 | Axolotls can now attack tadpoles behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle. |
Issues
Issues relating to "Axolotl" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- In the release notes Minecraft Launcher there is an encrypted message T⍑ᒷ ᔑ ̇/𝙹ꖎ𝙹ℸ ̣ ꖎᓭ ᔑ∷ᒷ リ𝙹ℸ ̣ ∴⍑ᔑℸ ̣ ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ|| ᓭᒷᒷᒲ, which translates to "The Axolotls are not what they seem".
- Axolotls are small salamanders that are endemic to Mexico, which are critically endangered; following Mojang Studios' trend of adding endangered species such as polar bears, giant pandas (no longer endangered as of 2022), sea turtles, and bees to the game in order to raise awareness among players.[5][6]
- The probability of a blue axolotl spawning is 1 in 1200 because that is approximately the number of axolotls left in the wild in real life.[7]
- Axolotls can eat only buckets of tropical fish and not tropical fish items because axolotls in real life eat only living fish.[7]
- Even though they are not in the game, the green variant appears in the Caves & Cliffs: Part I announcement trailer and caves and cliffs recap.[8] When asked on a livestream, Agnes said she cannot say why the green variant was cut from the game.[9]
- Both the "play dead" behavior and the regeneration ability of axolotls are based on the abilities of real life axolotls, who fake their death in the face of a predator or a threat. [7]
- Because real axolotls don't actually vocalize, the sounds of axolotls were recorded from the incidental "hiccups" and "burps" real axolotls occasionally make when surfacing, as well as heavily edited dog sounds.[10]
Gallery
Animations
Screenshots
All 5 types of axolotls swim in a lush cave.
Development images
Early axolotls attacking an elder guardian.
Buckets of axolotl and powder snow in item frames.
Buckets of axolotl and powder snow in item frames.
A screenshot showcasing the addition of axolotls in 20w51a. A sculk sensor can also be seen.
Axolotls as seen during Minecraft Live 2020.
Concept artwork
In other media
An Axolotl in promotional artwork for the Caves & Cliffs: Part I update.
An axolotl in promotional artwork for the Caves & Cliffs: Part II update.
An axolotl in promotional artwork for the GOAT Update.
Axolotls in promotional artwork for Mobile, Multiplayer & More.
An axolotl as it appears on the cover of Minecraft Legends: Return of the Piglins.
Lego Minecraft Axolotl.
Textures
References
- ↑ MCPE-146260
- ↑ MC-208659
- ↑ MC-208626
- ↑ MC-208601
- ↑ "MINECON Live 2019" by Minecraft – youtube.com, September 28, 2019. "...since the bee population is decreasing in the world, which is a big problem, we really felt that we wanted to teach the players..." - Agnes Larsson
- ↑ "Minecraft Live: Caves & Cliffs - First Look" by Minecraft – youtube.com, October 3, 2020. "And then we also found out that axolotls are endangered in the real world, and we think it's good to add endangered animals to Minecraft to create awareness about that." - Agnes Larsson
- ↑ a b c "Dev Diaries: Caves & Cliffs Mobs"
- ↑ Caves & Cliffs Update: Part I - Official Trailer
- ↑ https://www.twitch.tv/cbsunstoppable/clip/YummyClumsyWoodcockBrainSlug-D8T140VjP-Ok2tCk
- ↑ "The Secrets of Minecraft: Death Sounds, Secret Animals, and Other Delights! @3:22" – Minecraft on YouTube, November 19, 2021