Minecraft cat taming guide: All you need to know

Cats are some of the cutest passive mobs in Minecraft. Like other friendly passive mobs, they can be tamed and kept as pets. Many players keep cats in their bases since they offer various benefits against hostile mobs. However, one must find these uncommon mobs and be careful while taming them in the sandbox game.

Here is a complete guide for taming cats in Minecraft.

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How to tame a cat in Minecraft?

A cat can be tamed by feeding them raw cod or salmon (Image via Mojang Studios)

Taming a cat in Minecraft can be quite tricky. You will need a raw cod or salmon for this purpose. Usually, you can easily approach any mob and feed them food items to tame them. But when it comes to cats, being silent and sneaky is a must.

Stray cats are quite timid and will bolt if you come near them. When in stealth mode, cats won't flee from players in the Bedrock Edition, but they will in the Java Edition. The best technique to entice them is to just hold a raw cod or salmon while remaining motionless in their detection range.

Keep several raw cod or salmon since the number of fish needed is random. A cat can be tamed with either one or multiple fish.

After being tamed, cats will get a collar around their neck and start following you around.

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Where to find cats in Minecraft?

Cats can be found in villages and swamp huts (Image via Mojang Studios)

Before taming cats, however, you'll have to find them in Minecraft. These felines are rarer than mobs like cows, pigs, sheep, and wolves. They only spawn in villages and swamp huts. Searching for a village and traveling the world in all four directions is the most effective technique to locate cats. A swamp hut might not be the best place to search for a cat since they're rarer than villages. However, a swamp hut will always have one black cat in it.

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What do cats do in Minecraft?

Cats have various features in the game (Image via Mojang Studios)

Once a cat is tamed, they will follow their master wherever they go, unless they are commanded to sit on a block. Their most useful feature is that creepers and phantoms are scared of it. Hence, a cat can protect a base or a player from these hostile mobs.

They can randomly sit on their own on chests, active furnaces, and beds. When a player sleeps on a bed, tamed cats will sleep on top of them and purr loudly.

They can also offer gifts to players in the morning, such as rabbit's foot, rabbit's hide, string, rotten flesh, a feather, raw chicken, and even phantom membrane.