Minecraft: How to Tame Foxes

Foxes are some of the cutest animals you can tame in Minecraft, and their adorable appearance and behavior make them popular companions. They aren’t too hard to find in-game, but you will need to be mindful of their behavior to befriend one. We’ll help you find foxes, understand their behavior, and tame them in this Minecraft fox taming guide.

How to Tame Foxes in Minecraft

Taming foxes in Minecraft is actually a bit misleading. Wild adult foxes cannot be tamed and befriended. Instead, players must breed adult foxes to create a baby fox that is tame.

Breeding two adult foxes requires players to have either Sweet Berries or Glow Berries. Wild Foxes will flee from you quickly, so you’ll need to approach them slowly and feed them the berries quickly. They will then come together with lots of red hearts and create a baby fox.

While the baby fox is tame, it will mimic the behavior of any adult fox near it. This will cause it to run away from you as soon as its parents do. To combat this, you must immediately put a lead on the baby fox. It’s recommended to keep the lead attached to the baby fox until it is an adult fox and will no longer run from you.

It is important to know that players can breed an arctic fox with a red fox. The baby from this pairing will take on the appearance of either of its parents.

How to Make a Lead

While making a lead used to require a slime ball, the recipe has actually been simplified in more recent versions of Minecraft. Now, it only requires a crafting table and five strings.

Fill the first two boxes in the top and center rows with string, then place the final string in the lower right corner of the crafting table. This recipe will create two leads.

Where to Find Sweet Berries

Conveniently, Sweet Berry bushes spawn in both Taiga and Snowy Taiga biomes. Each bush drops several Sweet Berries, making it easy to get enough berries to breed a baby fox.

Where to Find Glow Berries

Glow Berries are found hanging from the ceilings of Lush Cave biomes. Gathering a lot of them will be harder than gathering lots of Sweet Berries, so I would not recommend them for breeding foxes.

Where to Find Foxes

There are two types of foxes: red foxes and arctic foxes. Each type of fox spawns in a separate set of biomes. The red fox spawns in five unique biomes, including the following:

• Dappled Forest
• Taiga
• Old Growth Pine Taiga
• Old Growth Spruce Taiga
• Grove

Arctic foxes will only spawn in snowy biomes. Specifically, players can only find them in Snowy Taigas and Grove biomes.

Both types of foxes will spawn in small groups and will be most active at night. This will make finding them at night much easier than searching for sleeping foxes during the day.

That’s pretty much all you need to know about how to tame a fox in Minecraft. If you found this guide helpful, check out our expansive list of Minecraft guides or our collection of Minecraft seeds.

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