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Quick answer
- Feed a wild wolf bones. Each bone has a 1 in 3 chance to tame it.
- Tamed wolves get a red collar and jump from 4 hearts to 20 hearts.
- Heal and breed them with meat, and protect them with wolf armour.
A tamed wolf follows you everywhere and attacks whatever you hit. Here's how to get one and keep it alive.
Taming
- Collect a few Bone items from skeletons.
- Hold a bone and use it on a wild wolf. Don't hit the wolf first.
- Hearts mean it worked, smoke means try again.
1 in 3chance per bone
8 → 40health when tamed
Healing and breeding
Feed your wolf meat to heal it. Rotten flesh and raw chicken are safe for wolves.
| Food | Health restored |
|---|---|
 Rotten flesh | 8 |
| Cooked porkchop | 16 |
 Rabbit stew | 20 |
To breed, feed meat to two tamed wolves at full health. The puppy grows up in 20 minutes.
Wolf armour
Craft Wolf armor from 
Armadillo scute items, which armadillos drop when you brush them. It has 64 durability and each scute repairs 8.
Make it yoursUse any dye on your wolf to change its collar colour.
Where to find each wolf
There are 9 wolf variants, each from a different biome.
| Wolf | Biome |
|---|---|
| Pale | Taiga |
| Ashen | Snowy taiga |
| Black | Old growth pine taiga |
| Chestnut | Old growth spruce taiga |
| Rusty | Sparse jungle |
| Snowy | Grove |
| Spotted | Savanna plateau |
| Striped | Wooded badlands |
| Woods | Forest |
Sit it downUse your wolf to make it sit. Sitting wolves stay put and won't teleport to you, which keeps them out of lava and fights.
Cheat sheet
- Bones tame wolves, 1 in 3 chance each
- Meat heals and breeds them
- Wolf armour comes from armadillo scutes
- Wolves teleport to you if they're more than 12 blocks away
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