Cat

Cat
Health points	10HP
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	Animal
Attack; strength	3HP against rabbits and baby turtles only
Hitbox size	In Java Edition:; Adult:; Height: 0.7 blocks; Width: 0.6 blocks; Baby:; Height: 0.35 blocks; Width: 0.3 blocks; In Bedrock Edition:; Adult:; Height: 0.56 blocks; Width: 0.48 blocks; Baby:; Height: 0.28 blocks; Width: 0.24 blocks
Speed	0.3
Spawn	Villages; Swamp huts (only black cats);
Usable items	Raw Cod; Raw Salmon Lead; Dye;

A cat is a passive mob found in villages and swamp huts. They can be tamed and used to repel creepers and phantoms.

Spawning Edit

Natural spawning Edit

Java Edition Edit

Cats can spawn every 1200 ticks (1 minute). A random player is selected (including spectators) and a random location is chosen 8-32 blocks away from the player horizontally in both directions and at the same height. If that chosen block is less than 2 chunks from a village with fewer than 5 cats, or inside a swamp hut, then a cat can spawn.

Bedrock Edition Edit

Cats spawn similar to iron golems but can spawn on additional blocks, such as on top of fences. However, as the cats are spawned in the northwest corner of the block, they immediately drop to the ground. They do not spawn on a fence block that has a torch on top of it.

Cat spawning generally does not interfere with iron golem spawning, contrary to long-running rumors.

Villages Edit

Untamed cats spawn in villages as long as there are at least five claimed beds within 48 blocks and at most four cats within a 97×17×97 box centered around the spawn position. Cats that spawn with the creation of a village do not despawn, however, any additional cats that spawn within a village may despawn. A village cat spawns with a random appearance, although black cats may spawn only during a full moon; which works in both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition.^[verify] The spawning of cats in villages is a separate process from the natural spawning of passive mobs and thus is not affected by the Creature mob cap.

In Bedrock Edition, a village periodically spawns stray cats to fill a quota of 1 cat per 4 owned beds, up to a maximum of 5 cats for 20 or more owned beds. Only owned beds (those currently claimed by a villager) are counted for this purpose. All cats within the village boundaries are counted, including baby cats, cats that wander in from outside, and tamed cats owned by a player. If the number of cats found is short of the quota, the village tries to spawn one cat or baby cat within a volume of 17×13×17 blocks centered on the village center. (This is the same volume used when a village spawns an iron golem.)

Swamp hut Edit

One untamed black cat generates alongside a witch inside swamp huts upon world generation. This cat never despawns. Additional cats can spawn within the hut similarly to witches; for this to happen, there must be grass blocks present inside the bounding box of the swamp hut. In Java Edition, any other cats to spawn within the swamp hut (from spawn eggs and commands without cat type set) always spawn as black. A new cat does not spawn in a hut if there is already a cat within a 16×8×16 block volume.‌^{[Java Edition only]}^[verify]

Bedrock Edition Edit

25% of cats spawn as babies. During a full moon, 50% of cats that spawn are black.

Drops Edit

Adult Edit

Item		Roll Chance	Quantity (Roll Chance)
Item		Roll Chance	Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	String	100%	0–2	0–2	0–2	0–2

1–3XP when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Upon successful breeding, 1–7XP is dropped.

Baby Edit

Like other baby animals, killing a baby cat yields no item or experience.

Appearance Edit

There are currently eleven variants of cats in Minecraft:

Black (black with orange eyes)
British Shorthair (silver with yellow eyes)
Calico (orange, white and dark brown with yellow and blue eyes)
Jellie (gray and white with gray-green eyes)
Persian (creamy with blue eyes and flat faces)
Ragdoll (white and soft amber with blue eyes)
Red (orange and white with green eyes)
Siamese (white and pale brown with blue eyes)
Tabby (brown and white with yellow eyes)
Tuxedo (black and white with green eyes)
White (white with light blue and yellow eyes)

Cats wearing a collar are considered tamed. When a cat is initially tamed, the collar appears red by default. However, using one of the sixteen colored dyes on a tamed cat changes its collar to the corresponding color.

Despite sharing the same model, cats are smaller than ocelots.

The cat variant Jellie was chosen by the community from three finalists^[1] of an online contest in 2018^[2]. Jellie was submitted to the Cat Contest by her owner GoodTimesWithScar. Jellie died in January 2024 at the age of 17.^[3]

In the default resource pack, a texture file for a tamed gray tabby exists;^[4]‌^{[BE only]} however, it is completely unused and cannot be spawned in-game.

Gray Tabby (gray and white with light blue eyes)

Behavior Edit

Cats are immune to fall damage, but they still avoid falling off cliffs high enough to normally cause fall damage.

Creepers and phantoms avoid cats, even while pursuing a player, keeping a distance of 6 and 16 blocks away respectively from any cats. However, a creeper that has begun its detonation does not flee unless the player leaves its blast radius. Cats hiss at phantoms that are currently pursuing a player.‌^{[JE only]}

Cats can see players even if they have the Invisibility status effect.

Baby cats have a faster movement rate but otherwise have the same behavior as adults.

Stray cat Edit

A stray cat is an untamed cat. Naturally spawned cats always spawn as stray cats. Unlike untamed wolves, stray cats may despawn naturally. They pursue and attack rabbits, baby turtles and chickens‌^{[JE only]} up to a distance of 15 blocks. They flee if a player or another mob approaches. Even though they spawn in villages, they don't necessarily remain there; instead, they explore.

Stray cats sprint away from any player within 7 blocks, and avoid players within 16 blocks. However, they slowly approach a player holding raw cod or salmon within 10 blocks, allowing the player to feed and tame it (see § Taming below). If the player turns too quickly or stops holding the fish within 6 blocks, the cat flees and does not attempt to approach the player for a few seconds.

Stray cats can be leashed.

Tamed cat Edit

Unless commanded to sit (see § Taming below), tamed cats do not remain still for long and explore around the player.

A cat not already sitting attempts to get on top of chests, the foot part of beds, or active furnaces at the cat's current Y-level within a 4-block-radius square horizontally. Once on top, it often assumes a sitting position without a command from the player. A cat also occasionally attempts to sit on these blocks if the blocks are at ground level. A chest with a cat sitting on top of it becomes unusable unless the cat is commanded to stand.

Cats that sit on their own can be ordered to stand by commanding them to sit and then stand again, or they may get up if the player holds a raw fish nearby. The cat can also be brought down by removing the block or pushing it off. A cat does not sit on a block that is obstructed by another block above it. A cat can also be forcibly moved by attacking it, and while fleeing for some time, it sporadically sits and stands before finally staying put.

Like other mobs, cats enter nearby boats and moving minecarts, trapping themselves. A cat in a boat will always appear standing, but still maintains its sitting/standing status it had when entering the boat, and can still be made to change between "standing" and "sitting" by pressing use on it, despite no visual change. A "sitting" cat released from a boat will then immediately re-assume a sitting position. Similar behavior exists for minecarts.

Tamed cats, like stray cats, can be leashed. However, even when leashed, a sitting cat cannot be moved using the lead.

If a player is harmed by a hostile mob or a harming potion, but not by environmental damage, a cat sitting in proximity to the player stands, moves a few blocks from its sitting location, then resumes sitting.

Gifts Edit

When the player sleeps, tamed cats move toward their owner and sleep near them. When the player wakes, their tamed cats also wake. There is a 70% chance for a tamed cat to give the player a gift after they wake up, but only if the player sleeps at night; if the player sleeps during a thunderstorm during the daytime, or if the tamed cat has been ordered to sit, the player receives no gift. The gift is a dropped item from the cat_morning_gift.json loot table:

Gift	Weight	Chance	1 in ...
Rabbit's foot	10 (⁵⁄₃₁)	16.13%	6.2
Rabbit hide
String
Rotten flesh
Feather
Raw chicken
Phantom membrane	2 (¹⁄₃₁)	3.22%	31

After a cat gives a gift, both the cat and the gift are located in the general area of the bed the player slept on, including on the other side of walls or floors.

If a player has multiple standing tamed cats in the area, only the tamed cat that sleeps on the player may provide a gift. If all standing tamed cats in the area are prevented from reaching the player (i.e. trapped in minecarts or boats), then in Java Edition each cat has a 70% chance of providing a gift while in Bedrock Edition only one cat may give a gift.

In Java Edition, in order for a standing tamed cat in a minecart or boat to drop a gift, it must be within a 10-block radius centered on the block above the head of the player's bed.

Teleportation Edit

Tamed cats teleport to their owner if they are more than 12 blocks away, except as listed below. It is possible for a tamed cat to teleport to an inaccessible location (e.g., under ice) and be injured or suffocate as a result.

A cat does not teleport:

If the cat has been ordered to sit.
- Exception: The cat is likely to teleport if it is injured while sitting (it does not sit after it teleports). A dramatic example is if a cat sitting outside is struck by lightning, in which case the cat materializes on fire. This typically kills the cat.
If the cat is attempting to sit on a chest, bed, or furnace.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
If the cat is attempting to lie or is lying on a bed.
If the cat is in a minecart or boat.
If the cat has been attached to a fence post with a lead.
If the cat is in an unloaded chunk.
If none of the blocks on the edge of a 5×5×1 region centered on the player are transparent blocks with an opaque block below and another transparent block above.
If the player is in another dimension.
If the player is in water, the cat teleports to the player when the player leaves the water.
If the cat is in water, teleportation is unreliable. It may or may not occur.

Cat teleportation is completely silent.^[5]

Taming Edit

Stray cats can be tamed using raw cod or raw salmon (see Behavior for how to approach a cat). Each raw cod or raw salmon has a ¹⁄₃ chance of taming the cat. Once tamed, cats follow the player who tamed them. They do not despawn, no longer fear the player, and purr or meow frequently. Like wolves, and with the same limits, they can teleport to a player who moves 12 blocks away.

The player can order a cat to sit or stand by pressing use on it. If the player is holding a raw cod or salmon when commanding a cat to sit or stand, the fish is given to the cat instead, causing it to enter love mode. Once in love mode, the player can command a cat to sit or stand while holding a fish. Cats also sit on certain things of their own accord (see § Tamed cat).

Breeding Edit

When tamed cats are fed a raw cod or salmon, they enter love mode. Breeding creates a baby cat, and the parents cannot breed again for 5 minutes. The baby has the coloring of and belongs to the owner of one of the parents. The color of a baby cat's collar is a mix of the colors of the parents' collars, if it is possible to mix them; otherwise, one of the parents' collars is randomly chosen.

Two sitting cats are unable to breed, but a mobile cat can breed with a sitting cat, in which case the mobile cat's owner also owns the baby.

The 20 minute growth of baby cats can be reduced by feeding them raw cod or salmon. Each fish reduces the growth time remaining by 10%.

When breeding 2 cats of separate owners on a multiplayer server, the user who joined first automatically gets the baby.^[verify]

Healing Edit

An injured tamed cat restores 2HP health when fed a raw cod or salmon by its owner. Unlike tamed wolves, a tamed cat's tail is not an indicator of its health.

Sounds Edit

Java Edition:
Cats use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Cat meows	Friendly Creatures	Randomly while tamed	`entity.cat.ambient`	`subtitles.entity.cat.ambient`	varies ^{[sound 1]}	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Cat meows	Friendly Creatures	Randomly while tamed ^{[sound 2]}	`entity.cat.purreow`	`subtitles.entity.cat.ambient`	0.5	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Cat meows	Friendly Creatures	Randomly while stray	`entity.cat.stray_ambient`	`subtitles.entity.cat.ambient`	0.35	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Cat begs	Friendly Creatures	Randomly while a stray cat is approaching a player holding fish	`entity.cat.beg_for_food`	`subtitles.entity.cat.beg_for_food`	0.7	1.0	16
	Cat purrs	Friendly Creatures	Randomly while in love mode	`entity.cat.purr`	`subtitles.entity.cat.purr`	0.7	0.8-1.2	16
	Cat purrs	Friendly Creatures	Randomly while tamed, sitting on a bed, and within 2.5 blocks of its owner	`entity.cat.purr`	`subtitles.entity.cat.purr`	0.14-0.7	1.0	16
	Cat hisses	Friendly Creatures	Randomly while a phantom is pursuing a player	`entity.cat.hiss`	`subtitles.entity.cat.hiss`	0.4	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Cat eats	Friendly Creatures	When a cat is fed with fish	`entity.cat.eat`	`subtitles.entity.cat.eat`	1.0	1.0	16
	Cat dies	Friendly Creatures	When a cat dies	`entity.cat.death`	`subtitles.entity.cat.death`	0.75	0.72-1.08	16
	Cat hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a cat is damaged	`entity.cat.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.cat.hurt`	0.65	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16

↑ 0.6 for meow1 and meow3, and 0.5 for meow2 and meow4
↑ Has a quarter chance to play over entity.cat.ambient

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly when tamed	`mob.cat.meow`	varies ^{[sound 1]}	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly when stray	`mob.cat.straymeow`	0.35	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly while a stray cat is approaching a player holding fish	`mob.cat.beg`	0.7	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly while in love mode	`mob.cat.purr`	0.4	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly when tamed ^{[more information needed]}	`mob.cat.purreow`	0.4	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	Unused sound event	`mob.cat.hiss`	0.4	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	When a cat is fed with fish	`mob.cat.eat`	1.0	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a cat dies	`mob.cat.hit`	0.45	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a cat is damaged	`mob.cat.hit`	0.5	0.9

↑ 0.4 for meow1 and meow3; 0.3 for meow2 and meow4

Data values Edit

ID Edit

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	[hide]Translation key
Cat	`cat`	`fall_damage_immune`	`entity.minecraft.cat`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Cat	`cat`	`75`	`entity.cat.name`

Entity data Edit

Cats have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Java Edition:

[NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
- Additional fields for mobs that can be tamed by players see Template:Nbt inherit/tameable/template[show]
- Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template[show]
- Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
- Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template[show]
- [Byte] CollarColor: The color of the cat's collar. Present even for stray cats (but does not render); default value is 14.
- [String] variant: The resource location of the variant of the cat.

Cat variants[show][edit]

Collar color[show][edit]

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Advancement criteria Edit

Criteria recorded for *A Complete Catalogue* advancement
Tamed Cat	Criteria
Black	`minecraft:all_black`
British Shorthair	`minecraft:british_shorthair`
Calico	`minecraft:calico`
Jellie	`minecraft:jellie`
Persian	`minecraft:persian`
Ragdoll	`minecraft:ragdoll`
Red	`minecraft:red`
Siamese	`minecraft:siamese`
Tabby	`minecraft:tabby`
Tuxedo	`minecraft:black`
White	`minecraft:white`

Achievements Edit

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Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	—	20	Silver
		Plethora of Cats	Befriend twenty stray cats.	Befriend and tame twenty stray cats found in villages. They do not all need to be tamed in a single world.	20	Silver
		Where have you been?	Receive a gift from a tamed cat in the morning.	The gift must be picked up from the ground.	20	Bronze

Advancements Edit

Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
A Complete Catalogue	Tame all Cat variants!	Tame each of these 11 cat variants: Tabby Tuxedo Red Siamese British Shorthair Calico Persian Ragdoll White Jellie Black
A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Tame one of these 8 tameable mobs: Cat Donkey Horse Llama Mule Parrot Trader Llama Wolf Skeleton Horse and Zombie Horse can be tamed in the same way as a regular horse to gain this advancement with the ride command.
It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst:[show] Armadillo Axolotl Bee Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Giant Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Illusioner Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	–
Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Breed a pair of any of these 26 mobs:[hide] Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.
Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	Breed a pair of each of these 25 mobs:[hide] Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.

History Edit

This page would benefit from the addition of more sounds.

Please remove this notice once you've added suitable sounds to the article.
The specific instructions are: Cat hiss1.ogg and hiss3.ogg before and after the fix of MC-114000.

[hide]Java Edition
1.2.1			12w04a				Added cats, which can be tamed from ocelots.
			12w05a				Taming ocelots into cats is now easier.
							Cats can now be commanded to sit by pressing the use item control.^[6]
							Cats have now become immune to fall damage.
							Cats now frighten creepers.
			12w05b				Tamed cats now sit when right clicked with empty hand.
			12w06a				Cats now have sounds.
			12w06a				Cats now try to jump on a bed if one is present.
1.2.4			release				Jeb has now made cats "more realistic... probably more annoying".^[7] They now sit on beds and also active furnaces and chests.
1.5			pre				Baby cats now can despawn upon becoming adults. This is prevented by feeding them a fish once they are an adult.
1.8			14w02a				Baby cat growth can now be accelerated using raw cod.
1.8			14w10a				Cats named using a name tag now display death messages to the owner.
1.9			15w38a				All cats – even unnamed cats – now display death messages to their owner.
1.10			16w20a				A cat spawn egg has been added, which spawn ocelots with cat textures.
1.10			pre2				The cat spawn egg has been removed.
September 29, 2018							Stray cats are announced at MINECON Earth 2018.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of cats have been changed.
			18w44a				Added stray cats.
							Cats have been split from ocelots into their own mob.
							Cats are now tamed from stray cats rather than ocelots.
							Cats now drop 0-2 string upon death.
							Cats now scare off phantoms, sleep with players and give them gifts when waking up.
							Seven more cat textures have been added.
							Reimplemented the spawn egg.
			November 19, 2018				A vote for the ninth cat has now concluded and the texture has been revealed.
			18w47b				The tuxedo cat's legs are now white.^[8]
			18w50a				Cats can now spawn in villages.
			18w50a				Added a skin of the winner of the community cat contest, Jellie.
			19w14a				Cats can naturally spawn in villages, in addition to during world generation.
1.16			Pre-release 2				"Jellie" cats now spawn naturally in villages.
1.17			21w11a				The texture of the siamese cat has been changed.
1.20			23w14a				The tuxedo cat's texture has been changed. The top texture of legs is now black again in order to fix MC-237556.
1.21.4			24w45a				Breeding two cats with compatible collar colors gives the baby a collar with a mixture of the two colors.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1			build 1				Added cats.
v0.12.1			build 2				Added a tame button for ocelots, so they can now be tamed into cats.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.8.0			beta 1.8.0.8				Added stray cats.
							Cats have been split from ocelots into their own mob.
							Cats are now tamed from stray cats rather than ocelots.
							The textures of cats have been updated.
							Seven more cat textures have been added.
							In the default resource pack, a texture file for a tamed gray tabby cat exists. However, it is completely unused and cannot be spawned in-game.
							Cats now scare off phantoms.
							Cats now sleep with players and give them gifts when waking up.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Added the Jellie skin.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Cats are now healed when fed raw cod and raw salmon.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.3				Cats can now spawn in player created registered villages.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.3				Population of cats is 1 for every 4 valid beds, which is capped at 10 cats per village.
1.20.40			Preview 1.20.40.20				Stray cats now make sounds when approaching a player holding fish.
?			?				The texture of the siamese cat has been changed.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.21				Breeding two cats with compatible collar colors gives the baby a collar with a mixture of the two colors.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU12	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cats, which can be tamed from ocelots.
TU13		1.00					Added a sound for hitting ocelots and cats.
TU14		1.04					Baby ocelots and cats can now be spawned by using // on that mob using a spawn egg.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Baby cat growth can now be accelerated using raw cod. Other fish may or may not be effective.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Cats named using a name tag now display death messages to the owner.
			1.83				Added cats as a separate mob from ocelots
							Added new skins for cats.
							Cats now spawn in villages and can be tamed with fish.
							Cats scare off phantoms, sleep with players and give them gifts.
			1.88				All cats – even unnamed cats – now display death messages to their owner.
			1.90				Added the Jellie skin.
			1.90				Cats are now healed when fed raw cod and raw salmon.

Data history Edit

[hide]Java Edition
1.11	16w32a	The Entity format/Boat ID of cats and ocelots has been changed from `Ozelot` to `ocelot`.
1.19	22w14a	The `CatType` field in entity data is replaced by `variant` with resource locations.
1.21.5	25w04a	Cat variants are now data-driven.

Issues Edit

Issues relating to "Cat" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Java Edition

MC-157385 – Cats prioritize pathfinding to a bed over other tasks, like following the player or breeding
MC-265635 – Cats sitting on chests block the chest below the chest the cat is on (so 2 chests)
MC-144507 – Cats' and ocelots' legs pass through their backs
MC-155668 – Creepers sometimes ignore cats
MC-159907 – Cats don't come to the player if they're sneaking while holding the fish
MC-212616 – "Dye stains" sound does not play when used on tamed wolves/cats
MC-229347 – Untamed cats, ocelots & foxes no longer run away on peaceful difficulty
MC-245409 – Untamed cats and ocelots on a leash glitch out when the player holds raw fish
MC-248092 – Untamed cats on lead despawn when attached to fence post
MC-253396 – Iron golems and cats that spawn within villages can spawn inside of trees
And 40 other open issues.

Bedrock Edition

MCPE-189781 – Cats that sit on beds, chests, or lit furances remain sitting after being pushed off or breaking the block
MCPE-194394 – Cats are entirely black
MCPE-38043 – Cats and wolves will breed even when sitting down
MCPE-38533 – Cats sometimes do not scare away creepers
MCPE-45303 – The legs on cats clip through to the top of the model
MCPE-46881 – Crash when bringing tamed cats or dogs through a Nether portal
MCPE-47340 – Cat / dog / parrot disappear when travelling over water
MCPE-80714 – Cats despawn when chunk unloads
MCPE-101527 – Pet cats will not teleport off cacti
MCPE-113206 – Cats cancel the order to sit
And 10 other open issues.

Trivia Edit

The tuxedo cat is based on Jeb's pet cat, Newton,^[9] who died in 2014.^[10]
The Jellie cat is based on GoodTimesWithScar's cat, Jellie,^[11] who died in 2024.^[12]
In MINECON Earth 2018, Jeb announced that the community could vote for a 9th cat skin to be added with the rest of the other 8 cat skins.^[13]^[14]^[15] As a result, YouTuber GoodTimesWithScar’s cat Jellie won the contest and was added in Village and Pillage, making the second mob variation that was suggested by the community, the first being "Toast", a rabbit skin added as a tribute to a user's deceased pet rabbit.
In real life, cats have been known for their ability to flip upright during a fall, particularly larger ones; though they still might be injured by landing. This fact is reflected in Minecraft because they are not damaged by falls.
In real life, calico cats are almost always female and the few male calicoes that do occur are generally sterile. However, since animals in Minecraft are genderless, two calico cats can be bred with each other.
The cat sounds are recordings from Samuel Åberg's cat, named Oli.^[16]