Cats are common tameable passive mobs found in villages.
Spawning
Cats typically spawn wandering around in villages as strays, though black cats also spawn in witch huts. Unlike wolves, untamed cats can despawn.
Drops
Upon death, cats drop:
- 0–2 string
- 1–3 experience orbs when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
Like other baby animals, killing a kitten yields no items or experience.
Behavior
Creepers and phantoms will try and avoid cats. However, this will not deter them from chasing a player, only keeping themselves 16 blocks away from the cat.
Cats are immune to fall damage, but will still avoid falling off cliffs high enough to normally cause fall damage.
Cats can still see players even with the invisibility status effect.
With the exception of a faster movement rate, kittens obey the same behavior as adults.
Cats will hiss and flee around if attacked by a player. They also hiss at creepers and phantoms.
Stray
Stray cats pursue and attack rabbits and baby turtles.
Tamed
Once tamed, cats will no longer despawn.
When the player sleeps, tamed cats will go toward their owner and sleep near them.
When the player awakes, their tamed cats will also awake.
There is a chance that a tamed cat will give the player a gift after they wake up. The gift is a dropped item from the cat_gift.json loot table, which contains:
- Rabbit's foot:
weight: 10 - Rabbit hide:
weight: 10 - String:
weight: 10 - Rotten flesh:
weight: 10 - Feather:
weight: 10 - Raw chicken:
weight: 10 - Phantom membrane:
weight: 2
Breeding
Two cats with a newly bred kitten.
When tamed cats are fed an uncooked fish, they will enter love mode. Breeding will create a kitten, and the parents cannot be bred again until 5 minutes has passed. The kitten will have the coloring and belong to the owner of one of the parents. Two sitting cats are unable to breed, but a mobile cat can breed with a sitting cat, in this case the kitten's breed will always match that of the mobile cat's breed, and the mobile cat's owner will be the owner of the kitten.
The growth of kittens can be slowly accelerated using raw fish. Each fish takes 10% off the remaining time to grow up.
One Of The Cat Variants Will Be Voted At MINECON Earth And That Cat Was Jellie. She Was Added In The Latest Snapshot.
Appearance
From left to right: tabby, tuxedo, red, siamese, british shorthair, calico, persian, ragdoll, white and black.
The unused tamed gray tabby texture in Bedrock Edition.[1]
Despite sharing the same model, cats are visibly smaller than ocelots. There are currently 11 skins that cats can have, with one being Jellie, the cat of YouTuber GoodTimesWithScar, who was chosen by the community in a Twitter vote.[2] The current skins are:
Tabby (Brown and white with yellow eyes)
Tuxedo (Black and white with green eyes)
Red (Orange and white with green eyes)
Siamese (White and pale brown with blue eyes)
British Shorthair (Silver with yellow eyes)
Calico (Orange, white and dark brown with yellow and blue eyes)
Persian (Creamy with blue eyes)
Ragdoll (White and soft amber with blue eyes)
White (White with light blue and yellow eyes)
Jellie (Gray and white with gray-green eyes)
Black (Black with orange eyes)
In the default resource pack for Bedrock Edition, a texture file for a tamed gray tabby exists.[1] It is however completely unused and can't be spawned in-game.
Like tamed wolves, tamed cats also have a collar on their necks. The color of the cat's collar can be changed by using dyes.
Taming
A sitting tamed black cat.
Stray cats can be tamed using raw cod or raw salmon. Once tamed, cats will follow the player who tamed them. They will no longer be afraid of players and will purr or meow frequently. Like wolves, and with the same limits, they can teleport to a player who moves 12 blocks far away. Players can make cats sit by pressing use on them, and they will also sit on certain things of their own accord (see below).
Cats sitting on a bed.
Unless commanded to sit, cats do not remain still for long, and would rather explore around the player.
Cats not already sitting will attempt to get on top of chests, the foot part of beds or active furnaces at the cat's current Y-level within a 4-block-radius square horizontally, and once on top will often assume a sitting position without a command from the player. Only chests will become unusable due to a cat sitting on top of them, even double chests. Cats will often sit in nearby boats, trapping themselves. Cats that sit on their own will not get up on command, but will get up if the player holds a fish nearby. The cat can also be brought down by removing the block or pushing it off. A cat will not attempt to sit on these blocks if they are at ground level (part of the floor), or if there is a block above them.
A cat sitting in proximity to the player will, if the player is harmed by a hostile mob (or by careless use of a damaging potion, but not by environmental damage), stand and move from its sitting location a few blocks and then resume sitting, such that the player will need to place the cat again.
Teleportation
Cats will teleport to the player if they are more than 12 blocks from the player, with a few exceptions.
- It is possible for a tamed cat to teleport to an inaccessible location (e.g. under ice) and be injured or suffocate of various causes as a result.
A cat will not teleport:
- If the cat has been ordered to sit.
- Exception: The cat is likely to teleport if it is injured while sitting (it will no longer be sitting after it teleports). A dramatic example is if a cat sitting outside is struck by lightning, in which case it will be on fire when they appear.
- Exception: If a kitten is told to sit, and grows up while the chunk it is sitting in is still loaded, it will teleport to the player and still be sitting when it appears.
- If the cat is in a minecart.
- If the cat has been attached to a fence post with a lead.
- If the cat is in an unloaded chunk.
- If none of the blocks on the edge of a 5×5×1 region centered on the player are transparent blocks with an opaque block below and another transparent block above.
- If the player is in another dimension; a cat will remain in its current dimension until the player returns.
Data values
Cats have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is cat.
- Entity data
- Additional fields for mobs that can be tamed by players
- Additional fields for mobs that can breed
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
- CollarColor: The color of the cat's collar. Present even for stray cats (but does not render); default value is 14.
- variant: The resource location of the variant of the cat.
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | The Parrots and the Bats | Breed two animals together | Husbandry | Breed a pair of any of these 25 mobs:
| husbandry/breed_an_animal
|
![]() | Best Friends Forever | Tame an animal | Husbandry | Tame one of these 8 tameable mobs: | husbandry/tame_an_animal
|
![]() | Two by Two | Breed all the animals! | The Parrots and the Bats | Breed a pair of each of these 24 mobs:
| husbandry/bred_all_animals
|
![]() | A Complete Catalogue | Tame all Cat variants! | Best Friends Forever | Tame each of these 11 cat variants: | husbandry/complete_catalogue
|
History
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2.1 | 12w04a | File:Tuxedo Cat Revision 0.pngFile:Red Tabby Cat Revision 0.pngFile:Siamese Cat Revision 0.png Added cats, which can be tamed from ocelots. | |||
| 12w05a | Taming ocelots into cats is now easier. | ||||
| Cats can now be sat down by pressing the use item control.[3]. | |||||
| Cats have now become immune to fall damage. | |||||
| Cats will now frighten creepers. | |||||
| 12w06a | Cats will now have sounds. | ||||
| Cats will now try to jump on a bed if one is present. | |||||
| 1.2.4 | Jeb has now made cats "more realistic... probably more annoying".[4] They will now sit on not only beds, but also active furnaces and chests. | ||||
| 1.5 | ? | Kittens will now sometimes despawn upon becoming adults. This can be prevented by feeding them a fish once they are an adult. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Baby cat growth can now be accelerated using raw fish. | |||
| 14w10a | Cats named using a name tag will now display death messages to the owner. | ||||
| 1.9 | 15w38a | All cats – even unnamed cats – will now display death messages to their owner. | |||
| 1.10 | 16w20a | A cat spawn egg has now been added, which will spawn ocelots with cat textures. | |||
| pre2 | The cat spawn egg has now been removed. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | The entity ID of cats and ocelots is changed from Ozelot to ocelot. | |||
| September 29, 2018 | Stray cats are announced at MINECON Earth 2018. | ||||
| 1.13 | ? | Cats will now scare phantoms | |||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w44a | Added stray cats. | |||
| Cats have now been split from ocelots into their own mob. | |||||
| Cats are now tamed from stray cats rather than ocelots. | |||||
| File:Tuxedo Cat Revision 2.png | |||||
| November 19, 2018 | A vote for the ninth cat has now concluded and the texture has now been revealed. | ||||
| 18w47b | |||||
| 18w50a | Cats can now spawn in villages. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | File:Tuxedo Cat Revision 0.pngFile:Red Tabby Cat Revision 0.pngFile:Siamese Cat Revision 0.png Added cats. | |||
| build 2 | Added tame button for ocelots, so they can now be tamed into cats. | ||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.8 | beta 1.8.0.8 | Added stray cats. | |||
| Cats have now been split from ocelots into their own mob. | |||||
| Cats are now tamed from stray cats rather than ocelots. | |||||
| File:Tuxedo Cat Revision 2.png | |||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.9 | beta 1.9.0.2 | Adult stray cat has small chance to spawn already in love mode. | |||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.84 | Added cats as a seperate mob from ocelots. | ||||
| Spawns in villages and can be tamed with fish. | |||||
| Scare off phantoms. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Cat" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- The tuxedo cat is based on Jeb's pet cat, Newton,[5] who has unfortunately passed away.[6]
- In real life, cats are known for their ability to flip upright during a fall, particularly larger ones; though they still might be injured by landing. This fact is reflected in Minecraft because they take absolutely no fall damage.
- Unlike in Minecraft, real-life cats were domesticated from African wildcats, which primarily inhabit savannas.
- In Minecon Earth 2018, Jeb announced that the community would be able to vote for a 9th cat skin to be added with the rest of the other 8 cat skins, and as a result, GoodTimesWithScar’s cat, Jellie, won the contest and was added in 1.14, making the 2nd mob variation which was suggested by the community, the first being “Toast”, a rabbit skin.
Gallery
An image tweeted by Dinnerbone of his attempt at making a cat laying down animation.
- Jeb cat.jpeg
Minecraft tuxedo cat next to Jeb's tuxedo cat.
The new cat skins, announced at MINECON Earth 2018.
The new cats seen in Bedrock Edition 1.8.0.8.
References
- ↑ a b
- ↑ "Which cat do you want to see added to Minecraft? Cast your vote!" – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X, November 16, 2018
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jonkagstrom/status/163970822497763328
- ↑ http://mcupdate.tumblr.com/post/19734344120/minecraft-1-2-4
- ↑ https://twitter.com/LydiaWinters/status/162557057407520769
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/469403596455673856







