At a Glance
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Vanilla pets | Wolves, cats, parrots, horses, and axolotls (tamed with specific items) |
| Marketplace pets | Capybaras, hamsters, hedgehogs, mini pigs, snakes, platypus, and more |
| Products featured | PETS!, Pets Pack, and Cute Furniture + Pets by Dodo Studios |
| Price range | 490 to 830 Minecoins depending on the product |
| Platforms | All Minecraft Bedrock devices (mobile, Windows, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch) |
You get pets in Minecraft Bedrock by finding and taming animals in the wild. In the base game, you can tame wolves, cats, parrots, horses, and axolotls using specific food or items. Each animal has its own taming method, but the core idea is the same: hold the right item, approach the animal, and interact with it until hearts appear. Once tamed, the pet follows you, sits when you tell it to, and fights alongside you.
Vanilla Minecraft limits you to a handful of tameable animals. If you want pets like capybaras, hamsters, hedgehogs, mini pigs, or butterflies, Marketplace products add entirely new species with interactive features like washing, brushing, walking on a leash, and letting them sleep in pet beds.
Here is how to tame the most popular vanilla pets step by step.
Find wolves in forest or taiga biomes. Hold a bone and interact with the wolf. It may take several bones before hearts appear and the wolf is tamed. Once tamed, it gains a collar and follows you everywhere. Wolves attack enemies that hit you.
Cats spawn in villages (at least one villager and four beds required). Hold raw cod or raw salmon and slowly approach the cat without making sudden movements. Stand still and let the cat come to you, then feed it. Tamed cats scare away creepers and phantoms, making them one of the most useful pets in the game.
Parrots spawn in jungle biomes. Feed them any type of seed (wheat seeds, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, or beetroot seeds). Never feed them cookies, as cookies are toxic to parrots in Minecraft and will kill them. Tamed parrots sit on your shoulder and mimic nearby mob sounds.
Horses spawn in plains and savanna biomes. Taming a horse does not require food. Instead, mount the horse by interacting with it empty-handed. It will buck you off several times. Keep mounting until hearts appear. Once tamed, you can saddle and ride it.
Axolotls spawn in lush caves. They cannot be tamed in the traditional sense, but you can pick them up in a bucket of water and release them wherever you like. Lead them with a bucket of tropical fish. They fight underwater mobs for you and play dead to regenerate health.
These are all the tameable pets in vanilla Minecraft Bedrock. If you want more variety, more interaction, and pets that are not in the base game, Marketplace products are the way to go.
Dodo Studios offers three products that add pets to Minecraft Bedrock, each with a different approach. All three are available on the Dodo Studios website.
Pets Pack is a dynamic world that adds 10 new pets directly into your own survival world. Capybaras spawn in savannas, hamsters appear in deserts, hedgehogs roam through forests, and more. Each pet spawns naturally in its matching biome, so finding and taming them feels just like taming vanilla animals. Hold the right food item and the pet tilts its head, ready to be tamed.
Once tamed, you can wash your pets, brush them, play with them, and let them sleep in their own little beds. The product also includes 5 pet-themed skins.
Best for: Players who want new pets spawning naturally in the survival world they already play in.
PETS! is a standalone world built around a fun animal village. You start at a pet zoo with 10 brand-new pets waiting for you, including cats, dogs, capybaras, hamsters, snakes, and mini pigs. Next to each pet’s enclosure you will find the items needed to tame them, and Bloom, the in-game trader, sells all the taming items and spawn eggs so you can get even more.
What makes PETS! stand out is the interaction. You can wash your pets in a bath, walk them in the park with a leash, let them sleep on pet beds, and place custom furniture to make them feel at home. The animal village has shops to explore and custom vehicles to drive. You can also breed your pets using taming items.
Best for: Players who want a dedicated pet experience with a village, shops, and the most interactive pet features.
Cute Furniture + Pets is the biggest package, combining 40+ pet variations with 185+ cute furniture variations in one giant world. The world includes pet parks, furniture stores, pre-decorated houses, and empty houses you can furnish yourself using Change, Move, Rotate, and Remove tools.
The pet roster goes beyond the other two products: dogs, cats, butterflies, capybaras, hamsters, hedgehogs, mini pigs, and even a platypus. Hold a pet’s favourite food and it tilts its head, ready to be tamed. At 830 Minecoins it is the most expensive option, but you are getting the most pets and the most furniture in one purchase.
Best for: Players who want pets and furniture together to build a cozy, decorated world full of life.
If you want pets in a dynamic world, Pets Pack at 490 Minecoins is the most affordable and flexible pick. If you want a dedicated pet world with a village, shops, baths, leashes, and breeding, PETS! at 660 Minecoins gives you the richest interactive experience. And if you want the most content in one purchase, with 40+ pets and 185+ furniture items, Cute Furniture + Pets at 830 Minecoins is the all-in-one option.
All three are created by Dodo Studios, work on every Bedrock platform, and support multiplayer. You can find them on the Dodo Studios website.
Yes. All vanilla taming methods work on every Bedrock platform. All three Dodo Studios pet products also work on iOS, Android, Windows 10/11, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch.
Hold the right food item near the pet. The animal will tilt its head when you are holding the correct item, and then you can interact with it to tame it. In PETS!, items are found next to each enclosure and through the trader Bloom. In Pets Pack, taming items are in chests at spawn. In Cute Furniture + Pets, they are in chests around the map.
Yes. In PETS!, you can breed your tamed pets using taming items to get even more animals. Bloom the trader also sells spawn eggs if you want specific pets right away.
No. Only the host needs to own the product. Friends can join and interact with all the pets for free.
All three are created by Dodo Studios, an official Minecraft Marketplace partner with over 400 products and an average rating of 4.6 out of 5 from 488,000+ reviews. You can browse the full collection on the Dodo Studios website.