Cat

For the music disc, see Music Disc.

For the similar mob that spawns in jungles, see Ocelot.

Cat

Health points	10
Behavior	Passive
Attack strength	3 against rabbits, chickens and baby turtles only
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Adult: Height: 0.7 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.35 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks In Bedrock Edition: Adult: Height: 0.56 Blocks Width: 0.48 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.28 Blocks Width: 0.24 Blocks
Spawn	Villages, Swamp huts
Items usable on	Any raw fish Lead Dye

Cats are tameable passive mobs that are found in villages and swamp huts. Oh my god. What is that? 1

Spawning

Villages

Untamed cats spawn in villages as long as there is at least one villager and four beds. One cat spawns for every four valid beds, with a maximum of 10 cats.

Cats can spawn every 1200 ticks (1 minute) in a village (5 occupied beds). A random player is selected (including spectators), a random location 8-32 blocks in +/- x/z (based on player location) is chosen and if that is less than 2 chunks from a village with less than 5 cats, a cat spawns there.

Swamp hut

One untamed black cat generates alongside a witch inside swamp huts upon world generation. This cat never despawns. Additional black cats can spawn within the hut similarly to witches, however require a grass block to do so. Any other cats to spawn within the witch hut (from spawn eggs, breeding and commands without cat type set) always spawn as black.

Bedrock Edition

During a full moon, 50% of cats that spawn are black. 25% of cats spawn as kittens.

Drops

Adult cats drop:

• 0–2 string
• 1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped.

Like other baby animals, killing a kitten yields no item or experience.

Behavior

Cats are immune to fall damage, but they still avoid falling off cliffs high enough to normally cause fall damage.

Cats can see players even if they have the Invisibility status effect.

With the exception of a faster movement rate, kittens have the same behavior as adults.

Cats hiss at phantoms that are currently pursuing a player.‌^{[JE only]}

Creepers and phantoms avoid cats, even while pursuing a player, keeping a distance of 6 and 16 blocks away respectively from any cats. However, a creeper that has begun its detonation does not flee unless the player leaves its blast radius.

Stray cat

A stray cat is an untamed cat. Naturally spawned cats always spawn as stray cats.

Unlike untamed wolves, stray cats may despawn naturally.

Stray cats pursue and attack rabbits and baby turtles up to a distance of 15 blocks.

Even though they spawn in villages, they don't necessarily remain there; instead, they explore.

Stray cats sprint away from players within 7 blocks or nearer (unless they are sneaking‌^{[BE only]}), and avoid players within 16 blocks. However, they slowly approach players holding raw cod or salmon within 10 blocks, allowing the player to feed and tame it (see § Taming below). If the player moves, turns their head too quickly, or stops holding the item while within 6 blocks, the cat flees and does not attempt to approach the player for a few seconds.

Stray cats can be leashed.

Breeding

Main article: Breeding

Two cats with a newly bred kitten.

When tamed cats are fed an uncooked cod or salmon, they enter love mode. Breeding creates a kitten, and the parents cannot breed again for 5 minutes. The kitten has the coloring of and belongs to the owner of one of the parents.

Two sitting cats are unable to breed, but a mobile cat can breed with a sitting cat, in which case the mobile cat's owner also owns the kitten. The growth of kittens can be slowly accelerated using raw cod or salmon. Each fish reduces the growth time remaining by 10%.

Healing

Feeding a damaged tamed cat an uncooked cod or salmon restores its health by 2. Unlike tamed wolves, a tamed cat's tail is not an indicator of its health.

Appearance

From left to right: tabby, tuxedo, red, siamese, British shorthair, calico, Persian, ragdoll, white, and black.

The unused tamed gray tabby texture in Bedrock Edition.

Despite sharing the same model, cats are smaller than ocelots. There are currently 11 skins that cats can have. One of the cat skins was designed after Jellie, the cat of YouTuber GoodTimesWithScar, who was chosen by the community in a Twitter vote. The current skins are:

• Black (black with orange eyes)
• British Shorthair (silver with yellow eyes)
• Calico (orange, white and dark brown with yellow and blue eyes)
• Jellie (gray and white with gray-green eyes)
• Persian (creamy with blue eyes and flat faces)
• Ragdoll (white and soft amber with blue eyes)
• Red (orange and white with green eyes)
• Siamese (white and pale brown with blue eyes)
• Tabby (brown and white with yellow eyes)
• Tuxedo (black and white with green eyes)
• White (white with light blue and yellow eyes)

In the default resource pack, a texture file for a tamed gray tabby exists.‌^{[BE only]} It is however completely unused and cannot be spawned in-game.

Like tamed wolves, tamed cats also have a collar on their necks. The color of the cat's collar is red when tamed and can be changed by using dyes.

Taming

A sitting tamed black cat.

Stray cats can be tamed using raw cod or raw salmon (see #Behavior for how to approach a cat). Once tamed, cats follow the player who tamed them. They do not despawn, no longer fear the player and purr or meow frequently. Like wolves, and with the same limits, they can teleport to a player who moves 12 blocks away.

The player can order a cat to sit/stand by pressing use on it. If the player is holding a raw cod or salmon to command a cat to sit or stand, the player will end up using the fish to make the cat enter love mode instead. Once in love mode, the player can command a cat to sit or stand while holding the fish. Cats also sit on certain things of their own accord (see below).

Cats sitting on a red bed.

Unless commanded to sit, tamed cats do not remain still for long and explore around the player.

A cat not already sitting attempts to get on top of chests, the foot part of beds, or active furnaces at the cat's current Y-level within a 4-block-radius square horizontally, and once on top often assumes a sitting position without a command from the player. A cat also occasionally attempts to sit on these blocks if the blocks are at ground level. A chest with a cat sitting on top of it becomes unusable unless the cat is commanded to stand. Cats often enter nearby boats, trapping themselves. Cats that sit on their own can be ordered to stand, or they may get up if the player holds a raw fish nearby. The cat can also be brought down by removing the block or pushing it off. A cat can also be forcibly moved by attacking it. A cat does not sit on a block that is obstructed by another block above it.

If a player is harmed by a hostile mob or a harming potion, but not by environmental damage, a cat sitting in proximity to the player stands, moves a few blocks from its sitting location, and then resumes sitting.

Teleportation

Cats teleport to the player if they are more than 12 blocks from the player, except where listed below. It is possible for a tamed cat to teleport to an inaccessible location (e.g. under ice) and be injured or suffocate of various causes as a result.

A cat does not teleport:

• If the cat has been ordered to sit.
  • Exception: The cat is likely to teleport if it is injured while sitting (it does not sit after it teleports). A dramatic example is if a cat sitting outside is struck by lightning, in which case the cat materializes on fire. This kills the cat.
  • Exception: If a kitten is told to sit, and grows up while the chunk it is sitting in is still loaded, it teleports to the player and materializes still sitting.
• If the cat is attempting to sit on a chest, bed, or furnace.
• If the cat is in a minecart or boat.
• If the cat has been attached to a fence post with a lead.
• If the cat is in an unloaded chunk.
• If none of the blocks on the edge of a 5×5×1 region centered on the player are transparent blocks with an opaque block below and another transparent block above.
• If the player is in another dimension: A cat remains in its current dimension until the player returns.
• If the player is in water: The cat teleports to the player upon leaving the water.

Cat teleportation is completely silent, which is not an oversight.

Gifts

When the player sleeps, tamed cats move toward their owner and sleep near them. When the player wakes, their tamed cats also wake. There is a 70% chance for a tamed cat to give the player a gift after they wake up, but only if the player sleeps at night (if the player sleeps during a thunderstorm during the daytime, or if the tamed cat has been ordered to sit, the player receives no gift). The gift is a dropped item from the cat_morning_gift.json loot table:

Gift	Weight	Chance
Rabbit's foot	5⁄31	16.13%
Rabbit hide	5⁄31	16.13%
String	5⁄31	16.13%
Rotten flesh	5⁄31	16.13%
Feather	5⁄31	16.13%
Raw chicken	5⁄31	16.13%
Phantom membrane	1⁄31	3.22%

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Cat meows	?	Randomly when tamed	entity.cat.ambient	subtitles.entity.cat.ambient	0.6 / 0.5 / 0.6 / 0.5	?	16
	Cat begs	?	Cat is a stray and player is holding fish	entity.cat.beg_for_food	?	0.7	?	16
	Cat dies	?	Cat dies	entity.cat.death	subtitles.entity.cat.death	0.75	0.9	16
	Cat eats	?	Fed with fish	entity.cat.eat	?	1	?	16
	Cat hisses	?	Hissing at phantoms	entity.cat.hiss	?	0.4	?	16
	Cat hurts	?	Cat takes damage	entity.cat.hurt	subtitles.entity.cat.hurt	0.65	?	16
	Cat purrs	?	Randomly while sitting on a bed, or when entering love mode	entity.cat.purr	subtitles.entity.cat.ambient	0.7	?	16
	Cat meows	?	?	entity.cat.purreow	subtitles.entity.cat.ambient	0.5	?	16
	Cat meows	?	Randomly when stray	entity.cat.stray_ambient	subtitles.entity.cat.ambient	0.35	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Cat	cat	entity.minecraft.cat

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Cat	cat	75	entity.cat.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Cats have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

• Entity data
  • Additional fields for mobs that can be tamed by players see Template:Nbt inherit/tameable/template
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  •  CatType: The ID of the skin the cat has. Any invalid ID is discarded, resulting in a randomized skin.
  •  CollarColor: The color of the cat's collar. Present even for stray cats (but does not render); default value is 14.

Cat type

Main article: Cat/DV

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Collar color

Main article: Cat/DV2

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Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		Where Have You Been?	Receive a gift from a tamed cat in the morning.	The gift must be picked up from the ground.	20G	Bronze
		Plethora of Cats	Befriend twenty stray cats.	Befriend and tame twenty stray cats found in villages. They do not all need to be tamed in a single world.	20G	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed pairs of one of these 19 mobs: Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/breed_an_animal
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Husbandry	—	husbandry/tame_an_animal
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed pairs of each of these 19 mobs: Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/bred_all_animals
	A Complete Catalogue	Tame all cat variants!	Best Friends Forever	Tame each of these 11 cat variants: Tabby Tuxedo Red Siamese British Shorthair Calico Persian Ragdoll White Jellie Black Other cat variants, if any, can be tamed, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/complete_catalogue

History

Java Edition
1.2.1		12w04a			Added cats, which can be tamed from ocelots.
		12w05a			Taming ocelots into cats is now easier.
					Cats can now be sat down by pressing the use item control.
					Cats have now become immune to fall damage.
					Cats now frighten creepers.
		12w06a			Cats now have sounds.
					Cats now try to jump on a bed if one is present.
1.2.4					Jeb has now made cats "more realistic... probably more annoying". They now sit on beds and also active furnaces and chests.
1.5		pre			Kittens now sometimes despawn upon becoming adults. This can be prevented by feeding them a fish once they are an adult.
1.8		14w02a			Baby cat growth can now be accelerated using raw cod.
		14w10a			Cats named using a name tag now display death messages to the owner.
1.9		15w38a			All cats – even unnamed cats – now display death messages to their owner.
1.10		16w20a			A cat spawn egg has been added, which spawn ocelots with cat textures.
		pre2			The cat spawn egg has been removed.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID of cats and ocelots has been changed from Ozelot to ocelot.
September 29, 2018					Stray cats are announced at MINECON Earth 2018.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of cats have been updated.
		18w44a			Added stray cats.
					Cats have been split from ocelots into their own mob.
					Cats are now tamed from stray cats rather than ocelots.
					Cats now scare off phantoms, sleep with players and give them gifts when waking up.
					Seven more cat textures have been added.
					Reimplemented the spawn egg.
		November 19, 2018			A vote for the ninth cat has now concluded and the texture has been revealed.
		18w47b			The tuxedo cat's texture has been changed.
		18w50a			Cats can now spawn in villages.
					Added a skin of the winner of the community cat contest, Jellie.
		19w14a			Cats can now naturally spawn in villages, instead of only upon world generation.
1.16		Pre-release 2			"Jellie" cats now spawn naturally in villages.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.17		20w45a			Cats now have three legs.
		20w46a			Cats no longer have three legs.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1		build 1			Added cats.
		build 2			Added a tame button for ocelots, so they can now be tamed into cats.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Added stray cats.
					Cats have been split from ocelots into their own mob.
					Cats are now tamed from stray cats rather than ocelots.
					The textures of cats have been updated.
					Seven more cat textures have been added.
					In the default resource pack, a texture file for a tamed gray tabby cat exists. However, it is completely unused and cannot be spawned in-game.
					Cats now scare off phantoms.
					Cats now sleep with players and give them gifts when waking up.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Added the Jellie skin.
					Cats are now healed when fed raw cod and raw salmon.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.3			Cats can now spawn in player created registered villages.
					Population of cats is 1 for every 4 valid beds, which is capped at 10 cats per village.
Legacy Console Edition
TU12	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cats, which can be tamed from ocelots.
TU13					Added a sound for hitting ocelots and cats.
TU14		1.04			Baby ocelots and cats can now be spawned by using // on an adult form of that mob using a spawn egg.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Baby cat growth can now be accelerated using raw cod. Other fish may or may not be effective.
		1.83			Added cats as a separate mob from ocelots
					Added new skins for cats.
					Cats now spawn in villages and can be tamed with fish.
					Cats scare off phantoms, sleep with players and give them gifts.
		1.90			Added the Jellie skin.
					Cats are now healed when fed raw cod and raw salmon.

Issues

Issues relating to "Cat" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• The tuxedo cat is based on Jeb's pet cat, Newton, who died in 2014.
• Unlike in Minecraft, real-life cats were domesticated from African wildcats, which primarily inhabit savannas.
• In MINECON Earth 2018, Jeb announced that the community would be able to vote for a 9th cat skin to be added with the rest of the other 8 cat skins. As a result, GoodTimesWithScar’s cat Jellie won the contest and was added in Village and Pillage, making the second mob variation that was suggested by the community, the first being "Toast", a rabbit skin.
• The calico cat and white cat appear to have heterochromia (The eyes are two different colors).
• It is currently possible to breed two calico variants together. This is nearly impossible in real life, as almost all calico cats are female, and males are very rarely fertile.
• The calico cat skin's fur pattern bares a striking resemblance to that of Winslow, from Minecraft: Story Mode, with the only differences being the eye color and the mirrored fur pattern. These differences can easily be ignored as the episode in which the cat appears was released two years before calico cats were added into the game.
• In real life, cats have been known for their ability to flip upright during a fall, particularly larger ones; though they still might be injured by landing. This fact is reflected in Minecraft because they take absolutely no fall damage.
• Prior to Village and Pillage instead of untamed cats, there were ocelots that would become a cat when tamed.

Gallery

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  Screenshot demonstrating the size difference between a cat and a kitten.

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  An image tweeted by Dinnerbone of his attempt at making a cat laying down animation.

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  The three original types of cats.

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  Minecraft tuxedo cat next to Jeb's tuxedo cat.

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  The new cat skins announced at MINECON Earth 2018.

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  The new cats seen in Bedrock Edition 1.8.0.8.

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  A list of cats, excluding Jellie and Tuxedo.

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  Cats spawn in the village.

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  Black cats can also spawn in swamp huts.

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  Cat with a wolf sitting on the carpet.

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  Lying Jellie Cat.

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  A black cat lying on a bed.

Renders

Main article: Cat/renders

References

Entities

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