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

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

Spawning

Natural spawning

Java Edition

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

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

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. 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

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.‌

Bedrock Edition

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

Drops

Adult

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	String	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–2	66.67%	1.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	String	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–2	2⁄3	1

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	String	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	String	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	String	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–2	66.67%	1.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	String	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–2	2⁄3	1

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	String	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
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		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	String	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

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

Upon successful breeding, 1–7XP is dropped.

Baby

Like other baby animals, killing a baby cat yields no item nor experience.

Appearance

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 the cat by the owner of the 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]‌ however, it is completely unused and cannot be spawned in-game.

• Gray Tabby (gray and white with light blue eyes)

Behavior

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.‌

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

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 and baby turtles they see within 15 blocks. Similar to ocelots, they sneak and stalk their prey until they are within 4 blocks, then chase it down. 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 actively try to 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

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

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

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.‌
• 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

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).

Using a cat spawn egg on a tamed cat makes the baby automatically be tamed to the parent cat's owner.

Breeding

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.

Baby cats take 24000 ticks (20 minutes) to grow up, but the growth time can be accelerated using cod or salmon. Each use takes 10% off the remaining time to grow up.

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

Healing

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

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

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Cat	cat	fall_damage_immune	entity.minecraft.cat

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Cat	cat	75	entity.cat.name

Entity data

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

Java Edition:

Variant	Resource location (Java Edition)	Data Value (Bedrock)
White	minecraft:white	0
Tuxedo	minecraft:black	1
Ginger	minecraft:red	2
Siamese	minecraft:siamese	3
British Shorthair	minecraft:british_shorthair	4
Calico	minecraft:calico	5
Persian	minecraft:persian	6
Ragdoll	minecraft:ragdoll	7
Tabby	minecraft:tabby	8
Black	minecraft:all_black	9
Jellie	minecraft:jellie	10

Color	Data value
White	0
Orange	1
Magenta	2
Light Blue	3
Yellow	4
Lime	5
Pink	6
Gray	7
Light Gray	8
Cyan	9
Purple	10
Blue	11
Brown	12
Green	13
Red	14
Black	15

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Advancement criteria

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		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	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
		Plethora of Cats	Befriend twenty stray .	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

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Complete Catalogue	Tame all Cat variants!	Tame each of these 11 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: 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: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel 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	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.
	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: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel 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: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel 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

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The specific instructions are: Cat hiss1.ogg and hiss3.ogg before and after the fix of MC-114000.

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.
							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 raw fish once they are an adult.
1.6.1			13w16a				Added leads, which can be used to leash cats.
1.7.2			13w36a				Cats can now be fed using raw salmon, pufferfish and clownfish.
1.8			14w02a				Baby cat growth can now be accelerated using raw fish, raw salmon, pufferfish and clownfish.
			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.
			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 can no longer be fed pufferfish and tropical fish.
							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.
							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.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1			build 1				Added cats.
			build 2				Added a tame button for ocelots, so they can now be tamed into cats.
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.
							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.
							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 raw cod and raw salmon.
?			?				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.
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							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 fish. Other fish may or may not be effective.
							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 raw cod and raw salmon.
							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.
							Cats are now healed when fed raw cod and raw salmon.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added ocelots and cats.

Data history

Issues

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

Trivia

• The tuxedo cat is based on Jeb's pet cat, Newton.^[9][10]
• 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.^[11][12][13] As a result, YouTuber GoodTimesWithScar’s cat Jellie won the contest^[14] and was added as the Jellie cat 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.
• Information about the cat sounds
  • Some of the cat sounds are recordings from C418's cat who also made the Ghast sounds. This is also why one of the songs that play in the Nether is called Ballad of the Cats.^[15][16]
    • These sounds are of the cat purring and the cat purreowing. C418 wanted to get all of the necessary cat sounds from his cat, but it refused to cooperate. So C418 got some of the other cat sounds from Freesound instead.^{[17][18][19][20][21]}
  • Some of the cat sounds are recordings from Samuel Åberg's cat, named Oli.^[22]
    • These sounds are of the cat begging for food, the cat eating, and the stray cat meowing.
• 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.

Gallery

Renders

Skin	Default	Baby	Tamed	Tamed baby	Sitting	Sitting baby	Lying down
Tabby
Tuxedo
Red
Siamese
British Shorthair
Calico
Persian
Ragdoll
White
Jellie
Black

Mojang images

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  Jeb's cat in-game.
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  Dinnerbone experiments at having cats lie down.
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  Jellie, Zach, and Coco in the Cat Contest.
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  A white cat holding fish.
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  Ari surrounded by cats.
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  Efe surrounded by a bunch of cats.

Screenshots

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  A tamed cat and a tamed baby cat sitting next to each other.
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  Stray cats spawn in villages.
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  Stray black cats can spawn in witch huts.
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  A tamed cat lying on a bed.
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  Tamed cats sitting on chests.
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  Two baby Villagers looking at a tamed calico cat.
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  A tamed cat sitting on a bed.
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  A demonstration of how Creepers run away from cats.
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  A GIF of all cat faces.

Textures

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  Black cat texture file.
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  British shorthair cat texture file.
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  Calico cat texture file.
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  Jellie cat texture file.
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  Persian cat texture file.
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  Ragdoll cat texture file.
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  Red cat texture file.
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  Siamese cat texture file.
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  Tabby cat texture file.
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  Tuxedo cat texture file.
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  White cat texture file.

In other media

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  Cats appear in promotional artwork for Bedrock Edition 1.8.
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  A cat in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update.
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  LEGO Minecraft cat
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  A customizable bottle featuring a cat.
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  Winner of the Cat Contest.
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  A cat relaxing after tearing up Monday's calendar page.
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  A cat peeking out of a mangrove trapdoor.
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  A cat statue, as it appears in a room on a woodland mansion
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  Calico cat figure of Flippin' Figs
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  British shorthair cat figure of Flippin' Figs
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  A stylised artwork of the red cat.

References

External links

• "Your cat could be in Minecraft" by Tom Stone – Minecraft.net, October 13, 2018.
• "Mob Menagerie: Cat" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, August 18, 2023.

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