Frog

The features on this page are exclusive to Experimental Gameplay in Bedrock Edition.

These features may be properly added in a future update, but currently require enabling one or more settings in the "Wild Update" section of the Game Settings menu.

This article describes a feature planned for Java Edition.

It has not appeared in any development versions yet, but is planned to be included in Java Edition 1.19.

A frog is a passive mob that can spawn in swamps.

Spawning

Groups of one to four frogs can spawn in swamp and mangrove swamp‌^{[upcoming: JE Edition 1.19 & BE Edition 1.19]} biomes. Frogs can also be spawned by growing from tadpoles. There are three frog variants, determined by the biome in which the tadpole grew up^{[more information needed]}:

Variants
Variants	Temperate	Cold	Warm
Biomes
	River Beach Birch Forest Old Growth Birch Forest Dark Forest Forest Flower Forest Meadow‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.18.20]} Plains Sunflower Plains Swamp	Frozen River Snowy Beach Frozen Peaks Grove Jagged Peaks Snowy Plains Ice Spikes Snowy Slopes Snowy Taiga Old Growth Pine Taiga Old Growth Spruce Taiga Taiga Windswept Hills Windswept Gravelly Hills Windswept Forest Meadow‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.18.10]} Cold Ocean Deep Cold Ocean Frozen Ocean Deep Frozen Ocean	Jungle Bamboo Jungle Sparse Jungle Stony Peaks Badlands Eroded Badlands Wooded Badlands Desert Savanna Savanna Plateau Windswept Savanna Basalt Deltas Crimson Forest Nether Wastes Soul Sand Valley Warped Forest

Behavior

Frogs can jump 3 blocks high and take 10 less damage from falling than most other mobs.

Occasionally they may croak and inflate their vocal sac.

Breeding

Feeding two frogs seagrass (placeholder) causes them to enter love mode, causing one of the frogs to become pregnant, similar to turtles. The pregnant frog then searches for a water tile with air above to lay frog spawn. This spawn later hatches into tadpoles, which subsequently grow into frogs.

Unlike all other mobs with baby variants, the tadpole is treated by the game as a completely different mob from the frog.

Attacking

Frogs attack by using their tongue to pull certain mobs into their mouth, whereupon the mob instantly despawns.

They attack small slimes, which drop slimeballs when killed, as well as small magma cubes, leaving a froglight block. The type of froglight depends on which type of frog attacked the magma cube; temperate frogs leave ochre froglights, cold frogs leave verdant froglights, and warm frogs leave pearlescent froglights.

Sounds

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Data values

ID

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Frog	`frog`	`132`	`entity.frog.name`

History

Upcoming Bedrock Edition
September 23, 2019		The swamp was announced as a contender for the Biome Vote at MINECON Live 2019. Frogs, boats with chests, and mangrove trees were announced.
September 28, 2019		The swamp comes in second place in the Biome Vote, setting the release date of new swamp content further than new mountain content.
October 16, 2021		File:Frog (pre-release).png File:Snowy Frog (pre-release).png Frogs were announced at Minecraft Live 2021.
The Wild Update (experimental)	beta 1.18.10.24	File:Swamp Frog BE1.png File:Snowy Frog BE1.png Added frogs.
		Frogs can be bred and tempted using seagrass. This is confirmed to be a placeholder.
		When they are hit, they make the same sound as the player.
	beta 1.18.10.26	Frogs now have their unique sounds.
	beta 1.18.10.26	Frogs now attack small magma cubes and drop a froglight depending on the type of frog.
	beta 1.18.20.21	Frogs that spawn on meadow biomes are now of the temperate rather than snowy variety.

Issues

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

Trivia

The warm frog is based on the grey foam-nest tree frog.^[1]
Despite the fact that swamps lost the Biome Vote in MINECON Live 2019 taking second place, frogs were implemented in the game two years later in Bedrock Edition and three years later in Java Edition.
Frogs were shown in Minecraft Live 2021 to enjoy jumping on big dripleaves.
Originally, frogs could eat fireflies, but this changed, as in real life fireflies are poisonous to frogs. Instead, now they can eat small slimes and small magma cubes.^[2]