How to tame a fox in minecraft? Foxes have been part of Minecraft since 2018, and it’s one of the game’s cutest “mobs” — the game’s term for its NPCs. Like most animal mobs, foxes can be tamed so they’ll follow and obey you. However, unlike those other animals, you can’t simply convince any random fox to like you. Instead, you’ll need to breed a new fox into existence.

Here’s how to tame foxes in “Minecraft,” whether playing in Survival mode or Creative mode.

Find and capture two foxes

First you’ll need to find your wild foxes.

Foxes can be found in the taiga biome and taiga biome only, with the small caveat that they might wander to adjacent biomes. The taiga biome is characterized by its tall, green spruce trees. There’s a few variations of the taiga biome, including snowy taigas that feature white foxes.

An untamed fox is a fickle, skittish creature. You’ll want to search for them during the day, when most of them will be asleep.

The moment you see a curled up, conked-out fox, make sure you start crouching right away. You’ll use the shift key to crouch on a computer, or your controller-specific crouch button if playing on a console.

Now, still crouching, build a pen around the fox to trap it. You can use any block to make your pen, but you’ll want to make the walls tall — at least three blocks. This will make sure it can’t escape. You can’t stop crouching until the fox is cordoned in its pen. The moment you uncrouch, a fight-or-flight switch flips in the foxes and they’ll run away.

If you see two foxes near each other, that’s even better — trap them both in the same pen.

This is rare, though, so you’ll probably need to find and trap the foxes separately. Once you’ve done this, you’ll need to connect the two traps with a wall of blocks.

However, if the foxes you find are pretty far apart, and you don’t want to take on a large construction gig, you can use a boat. Place a boat in front of a fox, and when it walks into it, it’ll be trapped inside. You can then row the boat (even across land) to the other fox, and pen them both in.

Regardless which option you choose, you ultimately want to end up with a fairly tight enclosure to hold the two foxes.

Feed the foxes sweet berries

Whether you’ve spent the last hour wrangling foxes, or simply threw down a few Fox Spawn Eggs, you should now have two adult foxes penned in. If you caught a baby fox, wait for it to age up.

Get close to the two adult foxes, and equip a sweet berry. These come from the green-and-red bushes you occasionally see which slow and hurt you when you walk through them. They’re fairly commonplace in the taiga, if you haven’t gathered any already.

Feed berries to both foxes by using it on them. If you’re struggling to get near enough to feed the foxes, make sure you’re crouching.

Equip the sweet berries in your hotbar, and then approach the fox and use the berries on it to feed it a berry. If you’re struggling to get near enough to feed the foxes, make sure you’re crouching.

Upon feeding sweet berries to both foxes, they’ll immediately breed a baby fox.

Get the baby fox to stop following its parents

While the new baby fox might fall far from the tree in terms of attitude, if you leave it be, it’ll always stay with its parents. This means that if they run from you, it’ll run too.

You can fix this by attaching a lead to the baby fox, and walking it away from its parents. You can craft a lead by combining string and a slime ball, or randomly find one in a chest throughout the world.

Attach the lead by equipping it and using it on the baby fox. From there, you can gently lead him away to begin a new life with you. Once you’re a few chunks away, it’ll forget about its parents and stop following them.

Congratulations on earning your first tamed fox. And once you’re there, rinse and repeat: By continuing the same breeding process, you’ll soon have a whole brood of obedient fox friends.

To keep track of your new tame foxes, it’s also a good idea to give the tame ones Name Tags. Learn the ins and outs of Minecraft’s Name Tags in our handy guide.

Where to find foxes in Minecraft

There are two types of foxes in Minecraft, and they both spawn in different biomes. Red foxes spawn inside Taiga and Giant Tree Taiga biomes, while white foxes spawn inside Snowy Taiga biomes. This shouldn’t change when Minecraft 1.18 (which brings terrain changes and Dripstone) drops later this year.

Red and white foxes behave in exactly the same manner, and you can breed and tame them in the same way. The only difference is their colour, in much the same way as Axolotls vary in colour but remain functionally identical. If you breed a red fox with a white fox, then there is a 50% chance of the baby fox being either colour.

If you want more variance in the looks of foxes in Minecraft, your best bet is to dress up your world with a new Texture Pack or Shader Pack, or find a suitable Minecraft mod that does the trick for you.

How to Tame a Fox in Minecraft

Taming a fox is different from the other taming processes in Minecraft. Unlike the process to tame a cat or tame axolotls in Minecraft, you can’t directly feed the fox to tame it. Instead, you need to get a baby fox first, and only then can you tame it. So, let’s go over both aspects of this process individually.

How to Breed Foxes in Minecraft

To breed foxes, you have to feed glow berries or sweet berries to two foxes in close proximity. These foxes will breed and spawn a baby fox. The baby has the same variant as its parents. If the parents are of different variants, the baby has a 50% chance of spawning as either.

Then, similar to the real world, the baby fox follows and focuses on the adult foxes around it. But if we interfere with this process by taking the baby far enough from the parents, it follows and trusts you instead.

How to Gain a Fox’s Trust

Once a baby fox spawns, you have two options to gain its trust. The first option is to use a lead to carry the baby far away from adult foxes before it matures. You just have to right-click or use the secondary action key on the fox to attach the lead to it.

Best Features of a Tamed Fox

If there are no adults nearby, a baby fox grows up to become a tamed fox. It trusts and is loyal to the closest player. If the taming process works accurately, the tamed fox will have the following characteristics:

Tamed foxes run away from wild wolves and polar bears. But if the wolf is tamed, the fox doesn’t retreat from it.
If a mob attacks the player, the tamed foxes attack that mob. But this doesn’t happen if that hostile mob isn’t attacking the player or if the player is attacking that mob.
Naturally, foxes attack other smaller mobs, including fishes, chickens, rabbits, and more.
Unlike tamed wolves and cats, you can’t make the tamed fox sit in one place. But at the same time, it won’t run away from seeing you like wild foxes.

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