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: lucy/leucistic (lilac), wild (brown), gold (yellow), cyan albino (light blue) and rare (blue).
The first four varieties are equally common, while the blue variety is rarer.
Behavior
Axolotls attack fish, squid, drowneds, guardians and elder guardians. If an axolotl takes near fatal damage, it pretends to be dead, dropping to the ground and gaining the regeneration I effect. Monsters will ignore recovering axolotls.
Axolotls are neutral mobs, only attacking players if an axolotl is attacked first. As axolotls are aquatic mobs, they take extra damage from tridents with the Impaling enchantment.
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.
On land, axolotls try to move to the nearest water source because they die outside of water after five minutes. Axolotls won't die on land if it's raining or thundering. By collecting them in a bucket, players can tame and lead them around. The tamed axolotl is passive to the owner.
Breeding
Axolotls can be led and bred with tropical fish. After breeding, the parents cannot breed again for 5 minutes. Players holding buckets of tropical fish also attract axolotls.
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axolotl dies | Friendly Creatures | ? | entity | subtitles | ? | ? | ? | |
| Axolotl hurts | Friendly Creatures | ? | entity | subtitles | ? | ? | ? | |
| Axolotl chrips | Friendly Creatures | ? | entity | subtitles | ? | ? | ? | |
| Axolotl chrips | Friendly Creatures | ? | entity | subtitles | ? | ? | ? | |
| Axolotl swims | Friendly Creatures | ? | entity | subtitles | ? | ? | ? | |
| Axolotl splashes | Friendly Creatures | ? | entity | subtitles | ? | ? | ? | |
| Axolotl attacks | Friendly Creatures | ? | entity | subtitles | ? | ? | ? |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Axolotl | axolotl | entity.minecraft.axolotl |
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
History
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1.17Tropical fish also have assigned names that can be seen after capture. In Java Edition, the smaller text under the item name is displayed showing the fish name, similar to the text that displays enchantments under enchanted items. In Bedrock Edition, the item name is displayed showing "Bucket of <fish name>". Their colors are mostly named according to the colored block names, though with a few exceptions:
The base color comes first, and if the pattern color is different, it comes after that. Lastly, the fish bucket is given a name according to the shape and pattern of the fish:
Some tropical fish don't follow the normal naming system, and instead, reference real-life fish species. Apart from these names, these types of fish aren't different from regular tropical fish in terms of design or behavior. These varieties are:
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Issues
Issues relating to "Axolotl" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Axolotls are the first ever amphibians added to the game.
- However, they are not the first to be announced; that animals is the frog, announced at MINECON Live 2019.
- Blue is the only color variant of axolotls that are not based on real life. It may have been based on the Pokémon mudkip.
Gallery
Axolotl concept art from Minecraft Live 2020.

