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This article is about the mob. For the music track, see Music § Underwater music.

Axolotls are aquatic passive mobs that attack most other underwater mobs.

Spawning

After the world generation, axolotls spawn individually below sea level (y63) in a water source in total darkness and where there is a block with base_stone_overworld tag (i.e. stone, deepslate, andesite, diorite, granite, or tuff) less than 5 blocks below the spawning space.

Creative mode

Axolotls can be spawned in Creative mode with a spawn egg, axolotl bucket, or with the /summon command.

Colors

Axolotls can be one of five colors: pink (leucistic, referred to as "lucy" in its texture file), brown (wild), yellow, cyan and blue. The blue variety cannot spawn naturally.

Pose Color
Lucy Wild Gold Cyan Blue
Ground crawling Lucy Axolotl Wild Axolotl Gold Axolotl Cyan Axolotl Blue Axolotl
Ground stationary Axolotl Lay Still Ground (lucy) Axolotl Lay Still Ground (wild) Axolotl Lay Still Ground (gold) Axolotl Lay Still Ground (cyan) Axolotl Lay Still Ground (blue)
Swimming Axolotl Swimming (lucy) Axolotl Swimming (wild) Axolotl Swimming (gold) Axolotl Swimming (cyan) Axolotl Swimming (blue)
Water stationary Axolotl Hovering in Water (lucy) Axolotl Hovering in Water (wild) Axolotl Hovering in Water (gold) Axolotl Hovering in Water (cyan) Axolotl Hovering in Water (blue)
Animation Color
Lucy Wild Gold Cyan Blue
Ground crawling Lucy Axolotl JE2 Wild Axolotl JE1 Gold Axolotl JE2 Cyan Axolotl JE2 Blue Axolotl JE2

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), and remove Mining Fatigue when a player kills a mob that is in combat with an axolotl.

Axolotls attack all aquatic mobs except turtles and dolphins. They also attack drowned. An axolotl deals 2♥ points of damage per attack.

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 13 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.

On land, axolotls move toward the nearest water source because they die outside of water after 6000 game ticks (5 minutes). Unlike fish, dolphins, and squid, axolotls do not die on land in rain or 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. Unlike other aquatic mobs, they cause nearby pufferfish to inflate.

Axolotls picked up with a bucket and re-spawned do not despawn.

Breeding

Main article: 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. The baby axolotl has a 11200 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

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
Axolotl attacksFriendly CreaturesAttacking a mobentity.axolotl.attacksubtitles.entity.axolotl.attack???
Axolotl diesFriendly CreaturesDyingentity.axolotl.deathsubtitles.entity.axolotl.death???
Axolotl hurtsFriendly CreaturesTaking damageentity.axolotl.hurtsubtitles.entity.axolotl.hurt???
Axolotl chirpsFriendly CreaturesRandomly when in waterentity.axolotl.idle_watersubtitles.entity.axolotl.idle_water???
Axolotl chirpsFriendly CreaturesRandomly when not in waterentity.axolotl.idle_airsubtitles.entity.axolotl.idle_air???
Axolotl splashesFriendly CreaturesEntering waterentity.axolotl.splashsubtitles.entity.axolotl.splash???
Axolotl swimsFriendly CreaturesMoving through waterentity.axolotl.swimsubtitles.entity.axolotl.swim???

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierTranslation key
Axolotlaxolotlentity.minecraft.axolotl

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Axolotlaxolotl130entity.axolotl.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

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

Main article: Axolotl/DV
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Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
The Healing Power of Friendship!Team up with an Axolotl and win a fightTeam up with an axolotl by fighting any hostile ocean mob30GSilver

Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawThe Cutest Predator
Catch an Axolotl in a Bucket Tactical FishingUse a water bucket on an axolotl.husbandry/axolotl_in_a_bucket
Advancement-plain-rawThe Healing Power of Friendship!
Team up with an axolotl and win a fight The Cutest PredatorHave the Regeneration effect applied from assisting an axolotl or it killing a mob.husbandry/kill_axolotl_target

History

October 3, 2020Lucy Axolotl (pre-release) Wild Axolotl (pre-release) Axolotls are announced at Minecraft Live 2020.
They are shown to spawn in lush caves biomes.
October 3, 2020Green Axolotl (pre-release) An unreleased[1] green variant was shown at the Minecraft Live 2020 recap, which was not shown on the live event.
Java Edition
1.1720w51aLucy Axolotl JE1 Wild Axolotl JE1 Gold Axolotl JE1 Cyan Axolotl JE1 Blue Axolotl JE1 Added axolotls.
Axolotls do not avoid lava.[2]
When an axolotl is held with a lead on the ground, it begins walking at an exaggeratedly fast speed.[3]
21w03aAxolotls attack glow squids.
21w13aLucy Axolotl JE2 Gold Axolotl JE2 Cyan Axolotl JE2 Blue Axolotl JE2 The texture of the axolotls for four variants except the wild has been changed.
Axolotls now spawn naturally underwater in caves.
Axolotls now give the player Regeneration I, as well as remove Mining Fatigue, when engaged in combat.[4]
Axolotls now correctly attack elder guardians.[5]
21w20aAxolotls now only play dead when in water.
Axolotls can no longer be fed tropical fish.
Pre-release 3Axolotls now only spawn in total darkness and where there's a block with base_stone_overworld tag less than 5 blocks below the spawning space.
Baby Axolotls will no longer despawn.[6]
Upcoming Java Edition
1.17.1Pre-release 1Blue axolotls no longer naturally spawn, and can only be obtained through breeding, matching Bedrock Edition.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.0beta 1.16.230.52Lucy Axolotl JE1 Wild Axolotl JE1 Gold Axolotl JE1 Cyan Axolotl JE1 Blue Axolotl JE1 Added axolotls.
beta 1.17.0.50Axolotls now spawn naturally in underground water sources.
Axolotls no longer get a regeneration effect after killing a mob on their own.
beta 1.17.0.52Axolotls now spawn in any biome and up to Y-63 instead of Y-30.
Axolotls are no longer available only through Experimental Gameplay.
beta 1.17.0.56Lucy Axolotl JE2 Gold Axolotl JE2 Cyan Axolotl JE2 Blue Axolotl JE2 The texture of the axolotls for all variants except the wild has been changed.
Axolotls no longer attack invisible mobs.
Bred axolotls now maintain their color after being placed from a bucket.[7]
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.17.10beta 1.17.10.22Axolotls now only spawn in complete darkness.

Issues

Issues relating to "Axolotl" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

  • 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, sea turtles, and bees into the game for awareness purposes.[8][9]
  • 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.[10]
  • Axolotls can eat only buckets of tropical fish and not tropical fish items because axolotls in real life only eat living fish.[10]
  • Axolotls are the first amphibian mobs implemented into Minecraft, although it was not the first announced amphibian because frogs were announced at MINECON Live 2019. In addition, Rana was based on a frog.
  • Blue is the only color variant of axolotls not based on real life. The blue variant was a suggestion by user Darkiceflame on the r/minecraftsuggestions subreddit. It is a reference to Mudkip from the Pokémon series.[11]
  • Even though they are not in the game, the green variant appears in the Caves & Cliffs Part I announcement trailer.[12] When asked on a livestream, Lady Agnes said she cannot say why the green variant was cut from the game.[13]
  • Both the "play dead" behavior and the regeneration ability of axolotls are based on the abilities of real life axolotls.[10]

Gallery

Screenshots

In other media

References

  1. MC-208659
  2. MC-208601
  3. MC-208626
  4. MC-208703
  5. MC-208647
  6. MC-222223
  7. MCPE-123328
  8. "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
  9. "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
  10. a b c "Dev Diaries: Caves & Cliffs Mobs"
  11. https://www.reddit.com/r/minecraftsuggestions/comments/j58qmi/the_blue_axolotl_a_rare_gaming_reference/
  12. Caves & Cliffs Update: Part I - Official Trailer
  13. https://www.twitch.tv/cbsunstoppable/clip/YummyClumsyWoodcockBrainSlug-D8T140VjP-Ok2tCk
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