Minecraft has a variety of wild mobs, but none of them are as unpredictable as the fox. They are small, fast, and fans of stealing items from players. Moreover, foxes are also one of the cutest addition that you can make to your house in Minecraft. But that’s only possible after you befriend them. That’s where we step in to cover how to tame a fox in Minecraft so that it doesn’t leave your side. Our method works on both Minecraft Java and Bedrock edition. But it can take some time to get it right. So, let’s not waste any time and figure out how to tame a fox in Minecraft right away!

Taming a fox involves a multi-step process, which is why we have divided our guide into different easy-to-follow sections. You can use the table below to explore each of them at your convenience.

  • Where to Find Foxes in MinecraftTypes of Foxes in MinecraftWhat Do Minecraft Foxes EatHow to Tame a Fox in MinecraftBest Features of a Tamed FoxFrequently Asked Questions

Where to Find Foxes in Minecraft

Before you can tame a fox, you have to find one in your Minecraft world. Fortunately, that is quite an easy task. Foxes usually spawn in the following Minecraft biomes:

In these biomes, they spawn in a group of 2 to 4 foxes. Only 5% of these foxes can be baby foxes, making them quite rare. If you can’t find foxes in the wild areas of these biomes, you should wait in a nearby village. Foxes sometimes go to nearby villages at night to hunt for chickens.

Minecraft has two types (or breeds) of foxes – Red Foxes and Arctic Foxes. Other than the textures and spawning, there are no differences between the two fox variants. The arctic or white foxes only spawn in the snowy biomes of Minecraft and are comparatively rarer.

What Do Minecraft Foxes Eat

Before we can tame a fox in Minecraft, you need to collect its favorite food. In Minecraft, foxes eat the following items:

Both of these food items help the foxes heal and even start their breeding process. The glow berries can usually be found in the lush caves of Minecraft. Meanwhile, the sweet berries commonly spawn as bushes in taiga and its variant biomes.

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.

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.

If you are unable to get your hands on a lead, there is also a violent way to tame baby foxes. Here, you have to kill the adult foxes with a ranged attack before the baby fox grows up.

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:

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How to Get an Item Back From a Fox?

Tamed or not, every fox prefers food over anything else. So, if they steal anything important from you, you just have to drop glow berries or sweet berries around the fox. It will then drop the item in their mouth to pick up the food.

Q: Should I Trap Foxes Before Breeding Them?

It is not necessary to trap the two foxes before breeding them. But since they are fast and hard to catch, there is no harm in creating a boundary around them.

Naturally, arctic foxes only spawn in snowy biomes of Minecraft. But if you don’t mind cheating, you can use the following Minecraft command to spawn an arctic fox anywhere:

Tamed foxes are loyal to you, but their movement isn’t usually dependent upon the player. So, you have to use a lead to bring the fox on your adventures.