Breeding animals in the Minecraft world can be a great way to pass the time and acquire a constant source of food, leather, feathers and other loot.
One aspect of Minecraft is breeding and taming animals. The creation of small zoos allows you to collect useful loot (food, leather) and experience, practically without leaving the inhabited area. Farms can be built for both friendly and unfriendly mobs.
In this tutorial, we will talk about pets, from which you can easily create your personal zoo. By the way, if you want to play Minecraft for free, you don't have to download the client. Just go to CANIPLAY. RU and choose any flash drive for the evening!
What kind of friendly animals are there?
The list of friendly and tameable mobs is not that long. They can be divided into three groups:
- animals that are brought up for food and loot (chicken, cow, mushroom cow, pig, rabbit, sheep, llama);
- animals that are turned on to move or carry things (llama, donkey, horse, skeleton horse, mule);
- animals that are brought in for protection (cat and dog).
Separately, the octopus can be distinguished, which is also often placed in the zoo to receive ink bags, but, unlike other domestic animals, it cannot be propagated.
Why do we need mobile farms and zoos?
If you play Minecraft online, and not use the creative mode, you will have to get food and other loot. Various items can be obtained from animals:
- various types of meat (chicken, cow, mushroom cow, pig, rabbit, sheep);
- wool (sheep);
- eggs (chicken);
- feathers (chicken);
- skin or rabbit skin (cows, mushroom cows, rabbits, llama);
- rabbit foot (rabbit, rare drop);
- milk (cows, mushroom cows);
- stewed mushrooms (mushroom cows);
- red mushrooms (mushroom cows).
Edible loot is used for food, and inedible loot is used in crafting. So, from feathers you can get arrows, from wool - a bed, from eggs - a cake, and from leather - clothes, books, frames. Some items (for example, a hare's foot) are used in potions. The picture contains items that can be obtained from animals.
If you have a home zoo and regularly breed and destroy animals in it, you will never have a shortage of food: almost every animal drops meat. The exception is young animals. You cannot collect items from cubs. Perhaps if you play the Minecraft Lego series of games, then the rules are slightly different. Check this in advance.
How to build a mob farm
The most primitive way to build a mob farm is to create a two-block-high walled courtyard. Any blocks can be used, but a fence is usually recommended. It allows you to observe the animals, moreover, so that your charges do not run away, a 1 block high fence is enough.
Important! The one-block fence has drawbacks: chickens fly over it and you can easily be seen by hostile mobs (archers and creepers can even kill). However, you can always create a fence, two blocks high and save yourself from the attention of enemies.
After you have fenced off the space, you put the animals in there and start feeding them. They breed, the cubs grow up. Then you can either kill the grown animals, leaving a couple or two "for divorce", or continue to keep them in the pen. Mobs don't die without food and water. To breed animals, you need items, you can see them in the screenshot. Flash Minecraft can offer other conditions, but in general the world is arranged about the same.
There are far more complex farms, including those with automatic destruction and collection of things. But their main drawback is that the feeding process takes place only with the participation of the player. Even if you throw food on the ground, the animals will not pick it up. The only species that can reproduce without your attention is the chicken. Birds hatch from eggs, therefore, if there are enough of them in one area, they begin to restore the population on their own.
One of the options for a semi-automatic farm involves placing a pair of individuals in the air on one block. If they are fed periodically, they will breed and the cubs will fall to the ground. As they grow older, the cubs can be destroyed automatically or manually.
Where to get the zoo inhabitants?
Filling your mini zoo in the Minecraft world isn't that hard. Most animals graze free-range around you. Your only task is to bring a pair of the same species into a pre-built paddock. There is no need to select animals by sex: they have no gender.
The easiest way is to get sheep, cows, pigs, rabbits and chickens. They appear in sufficient numbers in many biomes. You can bring a couple with a rope, or by luring them with wheat (for sheep and cows), carrots (for pigs and rabbits), dandelions (for rabbits) or seeds (for chickens). Another option is to put the animal in the trolley and send it to go under its own power to the desired place.
You will have to work hard in search of horses, donkeys, llamas and wolves. Wolves live mainly in the forest (in the taiga), and horses, llamas and donkeys appear on the prairies (in the meadows). It is much easier to bring them home than regular livestock. All three can be tamed. On a horse, after taming, you can easily gallop home, and the wolves will simply come running after. By the way, in Minecraft 2D games, wolves often act only as hostile monsters. Be careful!
Mushroom cows and ocelots are considered the most difficult for the establishment. Mushroom cows, in principle, are found only on islands in the ocean. The chances that you will live nearby are very small. Ocelots are more common, but only in the jungle. They are also very shy. But they can be tamed and they themselves will come to your home for you.
Breeding animals is an interesting and useful activity in the world of Minecraft games. It will definitely delight both you and your associates. With a little perseverance, you'll be provided with food, cheap leather clothing, and potion ingredients that you can easily obtain.
