Axolotl Guide

Quick answer

• Axolotls live underwater in lush caves, near clay.
• Catch one with a Water bucket. Breed them with a Bucket of tropical fish.
• Blue axolotls are a 1 in 1,200 chance when breeding.

Axolotls are cute, but they're also useful. They hunt drowned and guardians, and help you heal while you fight.

Where to find them

Look in the water pools of lush caves. They only spawn where there's clay less than 5 blocks below the water.

Catching and breeding

1. Use a water bucket on an axolotl to scoop it up.
2. Catch a tropical fish in another water bucket.
3. Feed buckets of tropical fish to two axolotls to breed them.

Colours

There are 5 colours: pink, brown, gold, cyan and blue. Blue never spawns naturally. Every baby has a 1 in 1,200 chance of being blue.

Fighting buddies

Axolotls attack drowned, guardians, elder guardians, squid and fish. When a mob they're fighting dies, you get Regeneration and they clear your Mining Fatigue.

When an axolotl gets hurt, it sometimes plays dead for 10 seconds to heal.

Cheat sheet

• Lush caves, above clay
• Water bucket to catch, tropical fish bucket to breed
• Blue: 1 in 1,200 babies
• Dies after 5 minutes on land

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