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Parrots are flying tamable mobs found in Jungle biomes.

Spawning

Parrots spawn naturally in Jungle biomes.

Appearance

File:ParrotColors.png

5 parrots of different colors

Parrots come in five different colors: red, green, blue, cyan and gray.

Drops

When killed, they will drop 1 or 2 feathers.

Behavior

ParrotsInJungle

Parrots flying through the jungle. (Click to play animation)

Movement

Parrots are passive mobs, and will never attack, even if provoked. They are able to fly, and will usually fly upwards if struck. They will fly under normal conditions, but they can "tire"[1] and return to the ground.

Parrots crowd and settle around other nearby mobs, including neutral and hostile mobs.

If they end up in water, they will swim by flapping their wings.

If you put a music disc in a jukebox and there are parrots nearby, the parrots will dance.

Taming

They can be tamed by feeding them seeds. Once tamed, they can be told to sit with a right-click.

Like tamed wolves and cats, a tamed parrot will follow the player unless told to sit, and may teleport if there is a sufficient distance. Like all tame animals, a death message will be displayed to their owner if they are killed.

Unlike other tamable mobs, parrots cannot be bred.

Perching on shoulders

A tamed parrot on the ground will perch on its player's shoulder, if the player moves through the parrot. A tamed parrot also sometimes will independently fly to and perch on its player's shoulder. A parrot that has been told to sit will not attempt to perch. A player can have one parrot on each shoulder. Parrots always prefer a player's left shoulder first, if it is empty.

A parrot will dismount if its player jumps and does not land on a high-enough surface (12 block up or higher), or if its player drops off a ledge of higher than 34 of a block, or if its player enters water of any height. This means, a parrot can ride a player's shoulder as the player jumps up blocks of natural terrain, but not down natural terrain.

A parrot on a shoulder cannot take any kind of damage.

Parrots sitting on shoulders will also display in the inventory interface.

Imitating sounds

Parrots may also imitate the idle sounds of hostile mobs nearby (including the hiss of creepers for example); they have a detection range of 20 blocks (cubical). The sound produced by the parrots are simply the same sound with a higher pitch. They tend to look in the direction of the mob they are mimicking.

Dancing

Parrots near a jukebox will dance if a music disc is played. This is a reference to the Party Parrot meme.

Cookies

Attempting to feed a parrot a cookie will instantly kill the parrot, and it will give off Poison particles as it dies.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Parrots have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is parrot.

When a parrot is resting on the player's shoulder, it ceases to be a distinct entity, and its entity data is stored meanwhile in the player's ShoulderEntityLeft or ShoulderEntityRight tags. See also Player.dat.

  • Entity data
    • Additional fields for mobs that can be tamed by players
    • Tags common to all entities
    • Tags common to all mobs
    •  Variant: Specifies the color variant of the parrot, default is 0.

Parrot Variant

Main article: Parrot/DV
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Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawBest Friends Forever
Tame an animal HusbandryTame one of these 8 tameable mobs: husbandry/tame_an_animal

History

release
1.12
{{Extension DPL}}<ul><li>[[Cooked Mutton|Cooked Mutton]]<br/>{{Item
| title = Cooked Mutton
| heals = {{hunger|6}}
| renewable = Yes
| stackable = Yes (64)
| rarity = Common}}
{{redirect|Mutton|the raw version|Raw Mutton}}
'''Cooked mutton''' is a [[food]] item obtained from cooking [[raw mutton]].

== Obtaining ==

=== Mob loot ===

==== Sheep ====
Adult [[sheep]] drop 1–2 cooked mutton if killed while on fire. The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of [[looting]], for a maximum of 1-5 with Looting III.

=== Cooking ===
Cooked mutton can be obtained by cooking raw mutton in a [[furnace]], [[smoker]], or [[campfire]].

{{Smelting
  |showname=1
  |Raw Mutton
  |Cooked Mutton
  |0,35
}}

=== Trading ===
{{IN|bedrock}}, apprentice-level butcher [[villager]]s have a 25% chance to sell 4 cooked mutton for one [[emerald]] as part of their trades.

{{IN|java}}, butcher villagers may give the players with the [[Hero of the Village]] effect cooked mutton.

== Usage ==

=== Food ===
To eat cooked mutton, press and hold {{control|use}} while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores {{hunger|6}} [[hunger]] and 9.6 [[Hunger#Mechanics|saturation]], the same as [[cooked salmon]].

=== Wolves ===
Cooked mutton can be used to [[breed]] and heal tamed [[wolves]], lead them around, and make baby tamed wolves grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.

==Sounds==
{{Sound table/Entity/Food}}

== Data values ==
=== ID ===
{{edition|java}}:
{{ID table
|edition=java
|showforms=y
|generatetranslationkeys=y
|displayname=Cooked Mutton
|spritetype=item
|nameid=cooked_mutton
|form=item
|foot=1}}

{{edition|bedrock}}:
{{ID table
|edition=bedrock
|showaliasids=y
|shownumericids=y
|showforms=y
|notshowbeitemforms=y
|generatetranslationkeys=y
|displayname=Cooked Mutton
|spritetype=item
|nameid=cooked_mutton
|aliasid=muttoncooked
|id=551
|form=item
|translationkey=item.muttonCooked.name
|foot=1}}

== Advancements ==
{{load advancements|Husbandry;A Balanced Diet}}

== Video ==

<div style="text-align:center">{{yt|PXlW-sZygTs}}</div>

== History ==

{{History|java}}
{{History||1.8|snap=June 30, 2014|slink=https://twitter.com/TheMogMiner/status/483636993780232192|[[Ryan Holtz]] tweeted images of cooked mutton and some other new [[item]]s.}}
{{History|||snap=14w27a|[[File:Cooked Mutton JE1.png|32px]] Added cooked mutton.}}
{{History|||snap=14w33b|[[File:Cooked Mutton JE2 BE1.png|32px]] The texture of raw mutton has been changed. The new texture was created by [[wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]] user [http://www.reddit.com/u/zeldahuman zeldahuman].<ref>{{reddit|2bjzes/a_reminder_of_the_blocks_and_items_added_in_18_so|cj69zie|context=3}}</ref>}}
{{History||1.13|snap=17w47a|Prior to [[1.13/Flattening|''The Flattening'']], this [[item]]'s numeral ID was 424.}}
{{History||1.14|snap=18w43a|[[File:Cooked Mutton JE3 BE2.png|32px]] The texture of cooked mutton has been changed.}}
{{History|||snap=19w13a|Butcher villagers now give cooked mutton to players under the [[Hero of the Village]] effect.}}

{{History|pocket alpha}}
{{History||v0.15.0|snap=build 1|[[File:Cooked Mutton JE2 BE1.png|32px]] Added cooked mutton.}}
{{History|bedrock}}
{{History||1.10.0|snap=beta 1.10.0.3|[[File:Cooked Mutton JE3 BE2.png|32px]] The texture of cooked mutton has been changed.}}
{{History||1.11.0|snap=beta 1.11.0.4|Cooked mutton can now be [[trading|bought]] from butcher [[villager]]s.}}
{{History||1.16.100|snap=beta 1.16.100.56|The ID of cooked mutton has been changed from <code>muttoncooked</code> to <code>cooked_mutton</code>.}}

{{History|console}}
{{History||xbox=TU31|xbone=CU19|ps=1.22|wiiu=Patch 3|[[File:Cooked Mutton JE2 BE1.png|32px]] Added cooked mutton.}}
{{History|PS4}}
{{History||1.90|[[File:Cooked Mutton JE3 BE2.png|32px]] The texture of cooked mutton has been changed.}}

{{History|3ds}}
{{History||0.1.0|[[File:Cooked Mutton JE2 BE1.png|32px]] Added cooked mutton.}}
{{History|foot}}

== Issues ==

{{issue list}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Rabbit Items 3 Ryan Holtz.png|First image of the item by [[Ryan Holtz]].
</gallery>

== References ==

{{reflist}}

{{items}}

[[Category:Food]]
[[Category:Renewable resources]]

[[de:Gebratenes Hammelfleisch]]
[[es:Cordero asado]]
[[fr:Mouton cuit]]
[[it:Carne ovina cotta]]
[[ja:焼き羊肉]]
[[ko:익힌 양고기]]
[[nl:Gebraden schapenvlees]]
[[pl:Pieczona baranina]]
[[pt:Carneiro assado]]
[[ru:Жареная баранина]]
[[zh:熟羊肉]]</li><li>[[:Category:Joke items|Category:Joke items]]<br/>[[Category:Joke features|Items]]
[[Category:Items]]</li></ul>
March 23, 2017Maria Lemón tweets that her new mob, created with the help of RazzleberryFox, will be showcased in the next snapshot. "It's flytastic!"
Later the same day, she revealed that the new mob will be parrots.[2]
March 26, 2017Maria reveals that parrots will be able to copy the sounds of other mobs around it.
Later the same day, she tweets an image of Steve "the parrot king" carrying parrots on his shoulder.[3]
March 28, 2017Maria tweets another image of parrots, showcasing their ability to fly and slowly drift downwards.
March 30, 2017Shortly before the snapshot was released, Maria revealed that parrots are attracted to cookies. This is a reference to the popular phrase "Polly wants a cracker".[4] In real life, parrots should not be fed chocolate chip cookies, as chocolate is toxic to parrots.
17w13aAdded parrots.
17w13bAdded gray-yellow parrot.
17w14aChanged the right-click action: right-clicking on a tamed parrot tells it to sit down
Having a parrot sit on the player's shoulders now requires the player to walk through the parrot
Parrots now dance and change colors if music is playing on a nearby jukebox
Now make sounds when sitting on the player's shoulders
17w15aParrots no longer change colors while dancing.
pre3Parrots are now tamed with seeds, instead of cookies, after outcry on Reddit.
Attempting to feed cookies to a parrot will now instantly kill the parrot, causing it to emit poison particles. In an e-mail to Motherboard, Jens Bergensten explained: "Our reasoning for originally using cookies was twofold; it gave cookies a reason to exist within Minecraft, and it was a subtle reference to the Nirvana song 'Polly.' However, we didn't consider what the chocolate ingredient would mean to real life parrots!"[5]
Legacy Console Edition
TU54CU44 1.52 Patch 24Patch s4Added parrots.

Issues

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

Trivia

  • Parrots are based on real-life macaws, "with a little Minecraft twist."[6]
  • Parrots dancing to jukebox music is a reference to the Party Parrot internet meme.
  • Warnings against feeding chocolate or avocados to parrots are referenced in two different splash texts.
  • The Minecraft team uses various party parrot emojis when communicating with each other.[7]

Gallery

References

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