Everything You Need to Know about Axolotl in Minecraft

Today, you will learn about Axolotl in Minecraft. You can use the table of contents above to navigate quickly.

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The Axolotl is one of the three mobs added in the new Minecraft Caves & Cliffs Update Part I.

Pink Axolotl.

Axolotl Overview

Pink Axolotl and its baby.

Axolotl spawns in deep and dark areas. Just like Glow Squid, Axolotl can also be found inside caves, as long as there is a water area somewhere. The player can find up to four Axolotls per herd.

Axolotls about to attack drowned.

Axolotls are passive towards the players. But they attack other aquatic mobs such as Salmon, Cod, Drowned, etc. If the player helps Axolotl killing these mobs, the player will receive Regeneration I for 5 seconds and remove Mining Fatigue (if the player got it from Elder Guardian).

Aquatic mobs that don’t get attacked by Axolotls are Dolphins, Turtles, and other Axolotls.

It took about two minutes for an Axolotl before launching another attack after killing a non-hostile aquatic mob. 

Axolotl playing dead.

If Axolotl takes heavy damage, Axolotl will play dead for ten seconds. During this time, Axolotl will stay motionless and even floating while regenerating health. Players can see the particles effect around an Axolotl when it’s playing dead. 

Also, during this time, a hostile aquatic mob that Axolotl currently dealing with won’t attack Axolotl, as if it knows Axolotl is already dead.

All Axolotl Variants.

Axolotls have five different variants: pink, brown, yellow, cyan, and blue. Pink is the default one, and blue is the rarest one (yes, it feels like a shiny Pokémon). They are all generally the same, only colors that are different.

An Axolotl can stay out of water for about five minutes before it starts suffocating and die. But, during rain or thunderstorm, Axolotl is safe on land. 

While on land, Axolotl walks very slow, and it won’t attack aquatic mobs.

Putting Axolotl in a Bucket.

Just like fishes, Axolotl can be picked up using a Bucket of Water.

Breeding Axolotls

Two Axolotls and its baby.

Axolotls can be bred using Buckets of Tropical Fish. Buckets of Tropical Fish can also be used to speed up baby Axolotl growth.

Breeding Axolotls can be tricky. If you feed an Axolotl, your Bucket of Tropical Fish will become a Water Bucket, and if you’re misclicking Axolotl with Water Bucket, you can end up picking up Axolotl with it.

When breeding Axolotls, you have very little chance to get blue Axolotl.

Only in Minecraft Java

Here are a couple of things about Axolotl that only happening in Minecraft Java Edition (Tested in 1.17.1).

1. If you put Axolotl on a leash, Axolotl will move weirdly fast.

There is a bug where if you put Axolotl on a leash, Axolotl will move fast while still having slow-walking animation. This is funny since, in Minecraft Bedrock (1.17.11), this isn’t happening at all.

2. Love Mode is gone if you pick up Axolotl in a Bucket.

Another bug in Minecraft Java 1.17.1 where if you pick up Axolotl using Water Bucket while it’s in love mode, the love mode is gone if you place Axolotl back. This is also not happening in Minecraft Bedrock 1.17.11.

3. Implaing Enchantment works on Axolotls.

In Minecraft Java Edition, Implaing Enchantment will increase your Trident’s damage (melee and ranged) to any Aquatic mobs. Because Axolotls are considered as an aquatic mob, Axototls are certainly affected by Implaing.

4. Players can name Bucket of Axolotl, and the name will reflect on Axolotl’s name.

All you need to do is pick up Axolotl on a Bucket and then go open Anvil, put Bucket of Axolotl on the Anvil, then change the name. The name of the Bucket of Axolotl you just changed will reflect the actual name of your Axolotl as if you’re using Name Tag.

So, that is pretty much about Axolotl in Minecraft. For more guides like this, see Mob Guides. Thank you for reading the article.