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For the music disc titled "cat", see Music Disc.

Cats are tameable passive mobs found in villages.

Spawning

Villages

Untamed cats generate in villages as long as there is at least one villager and four beds. One cat is generated for every four valid beds, with a maximum of 10 cats.

Cats can spawn every 1200 ticks (1 minute) in a village (5 occupied beds). A random player is selected (including spectators), a random location 8-32 blocks in +/- x/z (based on player location) is chosen and if that is less than 2 chunks from a village with less than 5 cats, a cat spawns there.

Swamp Hut

One untamed black cat generates along with a witch inside swamp huts upon world generation. This cat never despawns.

Bedrock Edition

During a full moon, 50% of cats that spawn are black. 25% of cats spawn as kittens.

Drops

Adult cats drop:

Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped.

Like other baby animals, killing a kitten yields no items or experience.

Behavior

Cats are immune to fall damage, but they 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 pace, kittens obey the same behavior as adults.

Cats hiss at phantoms that are currently pursuing a player.‌[JE only]

Creepers and phantoms avoid cats, even while pursuing a player, keeping a distance of 6 and 16 blocks away respectively from any cats. However, a creeper that has begun its detonation does not flee unless the player leaves its blast radius.

Cats float in water; kittens in the water eventually perish from drowning if not rescued. A drowning kitten can be rescued with a lead or by teleporting to its owner.

Stray

A stray cat is an untamed cat. Naturally spawned cats always spawn as strays.

Unlike untamed wolves, stray cats may despawn.

Stray cats pursue and attack chickens[JE only], rabbits and baby turtles up to a distance of 15 blocks.

Even though they spawn in villages, they don't necessarily remain there; instead, they explore.

Stray cats avoid being 8 blocks or nearer from any player unless they are sneaking‌[BE only]. If a player holds a raw cod or salmon, the stray cat slowly gets close enough to feed it, taming the cat (see § Taming below).

Breeding

Main article: Breeding
Cats and kitten

Two cats with a newly bred kitten.

When tamed cats are fed an uncooked cod or salmon, they enter love mode. Breeding creates a kitten, and the parents cannot breed again for 5 minutes. The kitten has the coloring of and belongs 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 which case the mobile cat's owner also owns the kitten.

The growth of kittens can be slowly accelerated using raw cod or salmon. Each fish reduces the growth time remaining by 10%.

Healing

Feeding a damaged tamed cat an uncooked cod or salmon restores its health by 2♥. Unlike tamed wolves, a tamed cat's tail is not an indicator of its health.

Appearance

New Cats

From left to right: tabby, tuxedo, red, siamese, British shorthair, calico, Persian, ragdoll, white, and black.

Tamed Gray Tabby Cat with Red Collar

The unused tamed gray tabby texture in Bedrock Edition.[1]

Despite sharing the same model, cats are smaller than ocelots. There are currently 22 skins (11 cat skins for adult, 11 cat skins for baby) 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 Cat Tabby (brown and white with yellow eyes)
  • Tuxedo Cat Tuxedo (black and white with green eyes)
  • Red Cat Red (orange and white with green eyes)
  • Siamese Cat Siamese (white and pale brown with blue eyes)
  • British Shorthair Cat British shorthair (silver with yellow eyes)
  • Calico Cat Calico (orange, white and dark brown with yellow and blue eyes)
  • Persian Cat Persian (creamy with blue eyes)
  • Ragdoll Cat Ragdoll (white and soft amber with blue eyes)
  • White Cat White (white with light blue and yellow eyes)
  • Jellie Cat Jellie (gray and white with gray-green eyes)
  • Black Cat Black (black with orange eyes)
  • Baby Tabby Cat Tabby (Baby) (brown and white with yellow eyes)
  • Baby Tuxedo Cat Tuxedo (Baby) (black and white with green eyes)
  • Baby Red Cat Red (Baby) (orange and white with green eyes)
  • Baby Siamese Cat Siamese (Baby) (white and pale brown with blue eyes)
  • Baby British Shorthair Cat British shorthair (Baby) (silver with yellow eyes)
  • Baby Calico Cat Calico (Baby) (orange, white and dark brown with yellow and blue eyes)
  • Baby Persian Cat Persian (Baby) (creamy with blue eyes)
  • Baby Ragdoll Cat Ragdoll (Baby) (white and soft amber with blue eyes)
  • Baby White Cat White (Baby) (white with light blue and yellow eyes)
  • Baby Jellie Cat Jellie (Baby) (gray and white with gray-green eyes)
  • Baby Black Cat Black (Baby) (black with orange eyes)

In the default resource pack, a texture file for a tamed gray tabby exists.‌[BE only][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 is red when tamed and can be changed by using dyes.

Taming

Tamed black cat

A sitting tamed black cat.

Stray cats can be tamed using raw cod or raw salmon. Once tamed, cats follow the player who tamed them. They do not despawn, no longer fear the player and purr or meow frequently. Like wolves, and with the same limits, they can teleport to a player who moves 12 blocks away.

The player can order a cat to sit by pressing use on it, and order a sitting cat to stand by pressing use again. The player cannot be holding raw cod or salmon to command a cat to sit or stand. Cats also sit on certain things of their own accord (see below).

1.2

Cats sitting on a bed.

Unless commanded to sit, tamed cats do not remain still for long and explore around the player.

A cat not already sitting attempts 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 often assumes a sitting position without a command from the player. A chest with a cat sitting on top of it becomes unusable unless the cat is commanded to stand. Cats often enter nearby boats, trapping themselves. Cats that sit on their own can be ordered to stand, or they may get up if the player holds a raw fish nearby. The cat can also be brought down by removing the block or pushing it off. A cat occasionally attempts to sit on these blocks if the blocks are at ground level, part of the floor. A cat does not sit on a block that is obstructed by another block above it. The cat can also be forcibly moved by attacking it, but this is not a good idea, as all tools and weapons will instantly kill cats. Use any type of hoe or the player's fists to punch a cat off a block instead.

If a player is harmed by a hostile mob or a harming potion, but not by environmental damage, a cat sitting in proximity to the player stands, moves a few blocks from its sitting location and then resumes sitting.

Teleportation

Cats teleport to the player if they are more than 12 blocks from the player, except where listed below. 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 does not teleport:

  • If the cat has been ordered to sit.
    • Exception: The cat is likely to teleport if it is injured while sitting (it does not sit after it teleports). A dramatic example is if a cat sitting outside is struck by lightning, in which case the cat materializes on fire.
    • Exception: If a kitten is told to sit, and grows up while the chunk it is sitting in is still loaded, it teleports to the player and materializes still sitting.
  • If the cat is attempting to sit on a chest, bed, or furnace.
  • 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 remains in its current dimension until the player returns.
  • If the cat is in water: The cat teleports to the player upon leaving the water.

Cat teleportation is completely silent, which is not an oversight.[3]

Gifts

When the player sleeps, tamed cats move toward their owner and sleep near them. When the player wakes, their tamed cats also wake. There is a 70% chance for a tamed cat to give the player a gift after they wake up, but only if the player sleeps at night (if the player sleeps during a thunderstorm during the daytime, the player receives no gift). The gift is a dropped item from the cat_morning_gift.json loot table:

Gift Weight Chance
Rabbit's foot 531 16.13%
Rabbit hide 531 16.13%
String 531 16.13%
Rotten flesh 531 16.13%
Feather 531 16.13%
Raw chicken 531 16.13%
Phantom membrane 131 3.22%

Sounds

The following sounds section uses an outdated format and should be redone using {{Sound table}}. 
You can help by converting the contents of this section into a sound table template.
Examples can be seen at Bee#Sounds and Ladder#Sounds.
The wikicode should be laid out neatly as in these examples for improved readability.
Remember to include a foot parameter so the table appears in the correct place. Do NOT convert the table using Visual Editor.
Sound Subtitle Namespaced ID Subtitle ID Source Pitch Volume Attenuation distance
Cat meows entity.cat.ambient subtitles.entity.cat.ambient ? ? 1, 3 = 0.6
2, 4 = 0.5
16
Cat chirps entity.cat.beg_for_food (Strays play this when players holding fish) ? ? 0.7 16
Cat dies entity.cat.death subtitles.entity.cat.death ? 0.9 0.75 16
Cat eats entity.cat.eat (Plays when fed with fish) ? ? 1 16
Cat hiss entity.cat.hiss (Plays when phantom comes near) ? ? 0.4 16
Cat hurts entity.cat.hurt subtitles.entity.cat.hurt ? ? 0.65 16
Cat purrs entity.cat.purr subtitles.entity.cat.ambient ? ? 0.7 16
Cat meows entity.cat.purreow subtitles.entity.cat.ambient ? ? 0.5 16
Cat meows entity.cat.stray_ambient subtitles.entity.cat.ambient ? ? 0.35 16

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Cats have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob.

  • 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.

Cat variants

Main article: Cat/DV
[edit]

Collar color

Main article: Cat/DV2
[edit]

Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
Where Have You Been?Receive a gift from a tamed cat in the morning.The gift must be picked up from the ground.20GBronze
Plethora of CatsBefriend twenty stray cats.Befriend and tame twenty stray cats found in villages. They do not all need to be tamed in a single world.20GSilver

Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawThe Parrots and the Bats
Breed two animals together HusbandryBreed a pair of any of these 25 mobs: A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.husbandry/breed_an_animal
Advancement-plain-rawBest Friends Forever
Tame an animal HusbandryTame one of these 8 tameable mobs: husbandry/tame_an_animal
Advancement-fancy-rawTwo by Two
Breed all the animals! The Parrots and the BatsBreed a pair of each of these 24 mobs: A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.husbandry/bred_all_animals
Advancement-fancy-rawA Complete Catalogue
Tame all Cat variants! Best Friends ForeverTame each of these 11 cat variants: husbandry/complete_catalogue

History

Missing Model JE3
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Please remove this notice once you've added suitable images to the article.
The specific instructions are: Tuxedo kitten during 18w43a (including its tamed kitten).
Note red
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Please remove this notice once you've added suitable sounds to the article.
The specific instructions are: Cat hiss1.ogg and hiss3.ogg before and after the fix of MC-114000
Java Edition
1.2.112w04aFile:Tuxedo Cat Revision 0.png File:Red Tabby Cat Revision 0.png File:Siamese Cat Revision 0.png
Baby Tuxedo Cat Revision 0 Baby Red Tabby Cat Revision 0 Baby Siamese Cat Revision 0 Added cats, which can be tamed from ocelots.
12w05aTaming ocelots into cats is now easier.
Cats can now be sat down by pressing the use item control.[4]
Cats have now become immune to fall damage.
Cats now frighten creepers.
12w06aCats now have sounds.
Cats now try to jump on a bed if one is present.
1.2.4Jeb has now made cats "more realistic... probably more annoying".[5] They now sit on beds and also active furnaces and chests.
1.5preKittens now sometimes despawn upon becoming adults. This can be prevented by feeding them a fish once they are an adult.
1.814w02aBaby cat growth can now be accelerated using raw cod.
14w10aCats named using a name tag now display death messages to the owner.
1.915w38aAll cats – even unnamed cats – now display death messages to their owner.
1.1016w20aA cat spawn egg has now been added, which spawn ocelots with cat textures.
pre2The cat spawn egg has now been removed.
1.1116w32aThe entity ID of cats and ocelots has now been changed from Ozelot to ocelot.
September 29, 2018Stray cats are announced at MINECON Earth 2018.
1.1418w43aFile:Tuxedo Cat Revision 2.png Red Cat Siamese Cat The textures of cats have now been updated.
18w44aAdded stray cats.
Cats have now been split from ocelots into their own mob.
Cats are now tamed from stray cats rather than ocelots.
Cats now scare off phantoms, sleep with players and give them gifts when waking up.
Tabby Cat British Shorthair Cat Calico Cat Persian Cat Ragdoll Cat White Cat Black Cat Seven more cat textures have now been added.
Reimplemented the spawn egg.
November 19, 2018A vote for the ninth cat has now concluded and the texture has now been revealed.
18w47bTuxedo Cat The tuxedo cat's texture has now been changed.
18w50aCats can now spawn in villages.
Jellie Cat Added a skin of the winner of the community cat contest, Jellie.
19w14aCats can now naturally spawn in villages, instead of only upon world generation.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1build 1File:Tuxedo Cat Revision 0.png File:Red Tabby Cat Revision 0.png File:Siamese Cat Revision 0.png Added cats.
build 2Added a tame button for ocelots, so they can now be tamed into cats.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0beta 1.8.0.8Added 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 Red Cat Siamese Cat The textures of cats have now been updated.
Tabby Cat British Shorthair Cat Calico Cat Persian Cat Ragdoll Cat White Cat Black Cat Seven more cat textures have now been added.
Tamed Gray Tabby Cat with Red Collar In the default resource pack, a texture file for a tamed gray tabby cat exists. However, it is completely unused and cannot be spawned in-game.
Cats now scare off phantoms.
Cats now sleep with players and give them gifts when waking up.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Jellie Cat Added the Jellie skin.
Cats are now healed when fed raw cod and raw salmon.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.3Cats can now spawn in player created registered villages.
Population of cats is 1 for every 4 valid beds, which is capped at 10 cats per village.
Legacy Console Edition
TU12CU1 1.0 Patch 11.0.1File:Red Tabby Cat Revision 0.png File:Tuxedo Cat Revision 0.png File:Siamese Cat Revision 0.png Added cats, which can be tamed from ocelots.
TU13Added a sound for hitting ocelots and cats.
TU14 1.04 Baby ocelots and cats can now be spawned by using Left trigger/L2 button/ZL button on an adult form of that mob using a spawn egg.
TU31CU19 1.22 Patch 3Baby cat growth can now be accelerated using raw cod. Other fish may or may not be effective.
1.83 Added cats as a separate mob from ocelots
Tabby Cat British Shorthair Cat Calico Cat Persian Cat Ragdoll Cat White Cat Black Cat Added new skins for cats.
Cats now spawn in villages and can be tamed with fish.
Cats scare off phantoms, sleep with players and give them gifts.
1.90 Jellie Cat Added the Jellie skin.
Cats are now healed when fed raw cod and raw salmon.

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,[6] who has since passed away.[7]
  • 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. As a result, GoodTimesWithScar’s cat Jellie won the contest and was added in Village and Pillage, making the second mob variation that was suggested by the community, the first being "Toast", a rabbit skin.
  • The calico cat and white cat appear to have heterochromia (The eyes are two different colors).
  • It is currently possible to breed two calico variants together. This is not possible in real life, as almost all calico cats are female, and males are sterile.
  • In real life, cats have been 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.

Gallery

References

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