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Learn how to find, tame, breed Minecraft axolotls, the most adorable little amphibians that come in a variety of different colours and can be carried in buckets

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Updated: May 20, 2022

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Want to know how to tame Minecraft axolotls? In case you’re not familiar with these adorable amphibians, the axolotl is a real creature that lives in caves. Axolotls are an incredibly rare species of salamander and are actually critically endangered. They are native to the Valley of Mexico, and in particular to two lakes, one of which no longer exists, so hopefully their appearance in Minecraft will aid conservation efforts for the axolotl.

As in real life, the Minecraft axolotl comes in many colour variations – including pink, green, brown, and blue – and is ludicrously adorable. They can be found in the new Lush Caves biome in the Minecraft 1.18 update, but also have heaps of new mechanics not shared by other Minecraft mobs. What’s brilliant about the axolotl is that you can capture them very easily by scooping them up in a bucket and bringing them along with you. They may look adorable, but these are assault amphibians that you can deploy against ocean-based mobs by emptying the bucket mid-battle.

Join us as we go through everything we know about the axolotl in Minecraft, including where to find them, how to make them yours, and how they fight during combat.

How to find Axolotls in Minecraft

You can currently find axolotls in the new Lush Cave biome. You can locate a Lush Cave by looking out for a new Acacia tree and then digging along its roots until you find one of the vibrant caverns. Axolotls come in five varieties, with the bluish purple one being an extremely rare variety. They also come in pink, blue, orange, and brown.

How to tame Minecraft Axolotls

If you’re planning on making your own army of axolotl, the first thing you’ll need is a bucket. These new creatures can be captured and tamed – in a sense – simply by scooping them up in a bucket.

You can then empty your bucket in a cavern near your Minecraft house to create your own little axolotl ecosystem, or get a few axolotl buckets and bring them along to your next Ocean Monument raid.

Minecraft Axolotl combat

Once you’ve caught some axolotls, when you release them into open water, they will just swim around decimating every fish and enemy in the vicinity. In order to get them to follow you, you will need to be holding a tropical fish (either in your off-hand or main hand).

Axolotls don’t offer too much in raw power on their own, but you can unleash multiple buckets of axolotl at once, so your enemies have a lot to cope with.

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One of the unique mechanics axolotl in Minecraft boasts is that they can ‘play dead’ – this means hostile mobs won’t attack them, giving the axolotl time to recover and re-join the fight. If you get the last hit on an enemy that put one of the axolotls into its ‘play dead’ mode, you will gain a brief regenerative effect.

How to breed Minecraft axolotls

You can also breed any two axolotls by feeding them tropical fish. Babies take 20 minutes to grow to adulthood, with the time remaining reduced by 10% whenever you scoop up the baby into a bucket.

How to get a blue axolotl

You have a very low chance of breeding a blue variant, otherwise, your baby axolotl has one of the two colours of its parents.

If you’re happy to cheat the system then you can use Minecraft console commands to spawn in a blue axolotl. Type in ‘/summon axolotl ~ ~ ~ {Variant:4}’ of you’re playing on Java, and ‘/summon axolotl ~ ~ ~ minecraft:entity_born’ if you’re a Bedrock Edition player.

Updates by Jordan Forward and Dave Irwin