Dolphin

Dolphin

Health points	10HP
Behavior	Neutral (adult) Passive (baby)
Mob type	Animal, Aquatic
Attack strength	Easy: 2.5HP × 1.25 Normal: 3HP Hard: 4.5HP × 2.25
Hitbox size	Adult: Height: 0.6 blocks Width: 0.9 blocks Baby: Height: 0.39 blocks Width: 0.585 blocks
Speed	1.2
Spawn	Lukewarm Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean Ocean Deep Ocean Warm Ocean Cold Ocean‌ Deep Cold Ocean‌
Usable items	Lead Raw Cod Raw Salmon Tropical Fish Pufferfish

{
    "title": "Dolphin",
    "rows": [
        {
            "field": "10<span class=\"hidden-alt-text\">HP</span><span class=\"nowrap mc-hearts\"><span class=\"iconbar pixel-image nowrap\" style=\"--icon-offset:-1px;\" title=\"5  hearts\">(link to File:Heart (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=&#9829)(link to File:Heart (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=&#9829)(link to File:Heart (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=&#9829)(link to File:Heart (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=&#9829)(link to File:Heart (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=&#9829)</span></span>",
            "label": "(link to Health article, displayed as Health points)"
        },
        {
            "field": "Neutral (adult)<br> Passive (baby)",
            "label": "Behavior"
        },
        {
            "field": "(link to Animal article, displayed as Animal), (link to Aquatic article, displayed as Aquatic)",
            "label": "(link to Mob article, displayed as Mob) type"
        },
        {
            "field": "'''Easy:''' 2.5<span class=\"hidden-alt-text\">HP</span><span class=\"nowrap mc-hearts\"><span class=\"iconbar pixel-image nowrap\" style=\"--icon-offset:-1px;\" title=\"1  heart\">(link to File:Heart (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=&#9829)</span> × 1.25</span><br>'''Normal:''' 3<span class=\"hidden-alt-text\">HP</span><span class=\"nowrap mc-hearts\"><span class=\"iconbar pixel-image nowrap\" style=\"--icon-offset:-1px;\" title=\"1.5  hearts\">(link to File:Heart (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=&#9829)(link to File:Half Heart (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=&#9829)</span></span><br>'''Hard:''' 4.5<span class=\"hidden-alt-text\">HP</span><span class=\"nowrap mc-hearts\"><span class=\"iconbar pixel-image nowrap\" style=\"--icon-offset:-1px;\" title=\"1  heart\">(link to File:Heart (icon).png article, displayed as 9px|link=|alt=&#9829)</span> × 2.25</span>",
            "label": "Attack<br/>strength"
        },
        {
            "field": "'''Adult:'''<br>Height: 0.6 blocks<br>Width: 0.9 blocks<br>\n'''Baby:'''<br>Height: 0.39 blocks<br>Width: 0.585 blocks",
            "label": "(link to Hitbox article, displayed as Hitbox size)"
        },
        {
            "field": "1.2",
            "label": "(link to Attribute#movementSpeed article, displayed as Speed)"
        },
        {
            "field": "(values exceeds 1000 characters...)",
            "label": "(link to Mob spawning article, displayed as Spawn)"
        },
        {
            "field": "(values exceeds 1000 characters...)",
            "label": "Usable items"
        }
    ],
    "invimages": [
        "Dolphin Spawn Egg"
    ],
    "images": [
        "Dolphin.gif"
    ]
}

Dolphins are aquatic neutral mobs that live in non-frozen oceans. They grant a speed boost to players that swim near them and follow the player while swimming.

Spawning

Dolphins are found in groups (pods) of 1-2‌ or 3–5‌ in all ocean biomes, excluding frozen oceans and cold oceans‌. They spawn exclusively between levels 50 and 64. Dolphins continuously spawn as long as their spawn requirements are met, and naturally despawn if no players are near by, similar to squid.

In Java Edition, dolphins and squids together make up the water creatures mob cap.

Dolphins have a 10% chance to spawn as a baby.

Spawning information per biome

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	75.00%	1.00	0–3	87.50%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00
	Cooked Cod[B]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	75.00%	1.00	0–3	87.50%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	3⁄4	1	0–3	7⁄8	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2
	Cooked Cod[B]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	3⁄4	1	0–3	7⁄8	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)
	Cooked Cod[B]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	0.50	1.00	1.50	2.00
	Cooked Cod[B]	0.50	1.00	1.50	2.00

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	50.00%	0.75	0–3	50.00%	1.00	0–4	50.00%	1.25
	Cooked Cod[B]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	50.00%	0.75	0–3	50.00%	1.00	0–4	50.00%	1.25

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	1⁄2	3⁄4	0–3	1⁄2	1	0–4	1⁄2	5⁄4
	Cooked Cod[B]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	1⁄2	3⁄4	0–3	1⁄2	1	0–4	1⁄2	5⁄4

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	3⁄4 (0.75)	1 (1.00)	5⁄4 (1.25)
	Cooked Cod[B]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	3⁄4 (0.75)	1 (1.00)	5⁄4 (1.25)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Raw Cod[A]	0.50	0.75	1.00	1.25
	Cooked Cod[B]	0.50	0.75	1.00	1.25

• 1–3XP, if kill credit is given to the player.

Killing a baby dolphin yields neither items nor experience.

Behavior

Dolphins normally swim in pods, occasionally leaping out of the water to get air. They are also able to jump from one body of water to another. Additionally, they chase after players in boats but don't give the speed boost effect.

Players who sprint-swim within a 9 block spherical radius of a dolphin receive a swimming speed boost for 5 seconds, replenished as long as the player continues to sprint-swim within a 15 block spherical radius of a dolphin. Invisibility reduces both of these ranges like normal, based on the amount of armor the player is wearing. In Java Edition, the speed boost is granted by the Dolphin's Grace effect, while in Bedrock Edition the player simply gets the speed boost without a status effect. The dolphin keeps following the player as long as they are sprint-swimming, allowing the player to swim under the speed boost for long distances.

In Java Edition, dolphins are lured by dropped items that are inside nearby water blocks, knocking them around and chasing them. If the dolphin can not find a path to a dropped item, the dolphin may stay underwater to the point of drowning.^[1] If the dolphin is in, or on, a waterlogged bottom slab or chest with an air block above, or a bubble column, the dolphin is prevented from drowning.

When a player or another mob hits a dolphin (unless the dolphin is killed in one hit in Java Edition), the whole pod retaliates, attacking all at once, similar to wolves and zombified piglins. Hostile dolphins remain hostile even if they are fed fish. Hostile dolphins are far more vicious in Bedrock Edition.

Feeding dolphins raw cod or raw salmon improves their "trust" and interactions with the player, depending on the amount of fish fed.

When dolphins are fed raw cod or raw salmon, they swim to the nearest shipwreck or ocean ruins; in Java Edition, the structures a dolphin can locate are defined in the dolphin_located tag. Dolphins also avoid guardians and elder guardians.

Unlike most “animal” mobs, dolphins cannot breed. Baby dolphins can only be found when they naturally spawn. A baby dolphin eventually turns into an adult after 24000 ticks (20 minutes), and its growth time can be accelerated by 10% each time it is fed fish. A baby dolphin fed a fish once per second grows up in approximately 48 seconds using 47 fish.

Dolphins do not deal any damage in Peaceful difficulty and are completely passive.

Weaknesses

If a dolphin leaves the water in dry weather, it starts taking suffocation damage after two minutes, and eventually dies. It takes no damage out of water during rain. Regardless of weather, a dolphin on land actively seeks out a body of water, or seeks its target if in a hostile state.

They cannot survive without air, so if they stay submerged for about four minutes, they begin drowning. The water breathing effect prevents them from drowning.

Like most other aquatic mobs, dolphins cannot ride boats.‌

Dolphins can be towed by a lead.

Because the dolphin is an aquatic mob, it is affected by the Impaling enchantment.‌

Breeding

Dolphins cannot be bred by the player. Baby dolphins only occur through natural spawning in the wild.

Sounds

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

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Dolphin	dolphin	aquatic not_scary_for_pufferfish sensitive_to_impaling	entity.minecraft.dolphin

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Dolphin	dolphin	31	entity.dolphin.name

Entity data

Dolphins have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Echolocation	Feed a fish to have it lead you to treasure	Feed a dolphin cod or salmon and have it lure you to treasure.	20	Silver
		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

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	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.
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 33 status effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Oozing Poison Raid Omen Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Trial Omen Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged Wither The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. See also: Tutorial:Advancement guide/Nether tab § How Did We Get Here? 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.
	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 Cat Cave Spider Chicken Cod Cow Creeper Donkey 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.

History

November 18, 2017							Dolphins were shown in a video clip during MineCon Earth.
Java Edition
1.13			18w15a				Added dolphins.
			18w19a				Dolphins now swim to the surface, if drowning.
							Dolphins now give the player the "Dolphin's Grace" status effect that allows the player to swim faster, if the player swims near them.
			18w19b				Dolphins now drop experience.[3]
			18w20c				Dolphins on land now jump to try to get back into the water.
							Dolphins now survive for two minutes out of water, instead of ten seconds.
			18w21a				Dolphins now lead players to buried treasure.
							Dolphins can no longer wear armor.[4]
			pre2				Dolphins can no longer sit in boats.[5]
			pre6				Dolphins now bring the player to buried treasure more accurately.
1.14			19w08a				Dolphins can no longer have armor equipped onto them with a dispenser.
1.16			20w10a				Firework damage now provokes dolphins.[6]
1.18			21w40a				Dolphins now spawn only between Y=50 and Y=64.
1.21.2			24w33a				Added baby variants of dolphins, to match parity with Bedrock Edition.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.20.1				Added dolphins and baby dolphins.
			beta 1.2.20.2				The models of dolphins have been updated with minor adjustments to the orientation of their fins.
							Dolphins now have sounds.
1.5.0			beta 1.5.0.0				Dolphins now lead players to shipwrecks and underwater ruins.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.51				Dolphins now dry out at the same rate as they do in Java Edition; 120 seconds.
							Dolphins on land now try to get back into the water.
1.18.0			beta 1.18.0.21				Dolphins now spawn only between Y=50 and Y=64.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added dolphins.
							Baby dolphins can be spawned when the player uses its spawn egg on a dolphin.
							The maximum number of dolphins in a world is 18.

Data History

Issues

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

Trivia

• To create the sounds that the dolphins make in the game, Mojang Studios' lead sound designer, Samuel Åberg, went to Kolmården Wildlife Park to record real dolphins.^[7]
• Dolphins originally had a separate head and body when shown in a clip at MINECON 2017. It is also shown in artwork for Java Edition 1.13, the Bundles of Bravery trailer, and a video detailing AI.^[8]
• Real-life dolphins don't suffocate outside of water; they breathe air like all mammals, although they can die of dehydration out of water.
• In 2018, a prediction poll was held in which Chinese users could vote on which Chinese animal they expected to see in Minecraft, to promote the release of Minecraft China. One of the options for voting was the possibly extinct baiji dolphin. The panda won the poll and was announced days later at MINECON Earth 2018.^[9]
• Mojang has considered and rejected the suggestion to allow dolphins to be tamed or ridden.^[10]
  • They also decided against adding behaviors that deviate significantly from real-life dolphins, such as fleeing from drowned.^[11]

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A pod of dolphins.
• 
  A dolphin taking damage because it is not in water.
• 
  2 dolphins leaping above the ocean at sunset.
• 
  4 dolphins swimming above an ocean ravine and a coral reef.
• 
  Dolphins chasing after a raw cod item.
• 
  A Dolphin seen underwater.
• 
  Several dolphins attacking the player, after the player hit one of them.
• 
  Dolphins swimming with the player.
• 
  A dolphin in bedrock edition.

Textures

• 
  Dolphin texture file.

In other media

• 
  Dolphins in promotional artwork for the Update Aquatic.
• 
  Official dolphin artwork.
• 
  Animated dolphin artwork.
• 
  Dolphin in official artwork.
• 
  Ari following a dolphin.
• 
  Lego Minecraft Dolphin.
• 
  A dolphin on the cover of Minecraft: The Manga.
• 
  Noor and Kai watching several dolphins.^[12]
• 
  Dolphin figure of Flippin' Figs
• 
  A dolphin as seen in A Minecraft Movie.

References

External links

• Meet the Dolphin – Minecraft.net on April 19, 2018

Navigation

v t e Entities
Mobs Passive Allay Armadillo Axolotl Bat Camel Cat Chicken Cod Cow Donkey Frog Glow Squid Happy Ghast Horse Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Parrot Pig Pufferfish Rabbit Salmon Sheep Skeleton Horse Sniffer Snow Golem Squid Strider Tadpole Tropical Fish Turtle Villager Wandering Trader BE & edu only Agent Camera NPC Upcoming Copper Golem Neutral Bee Cave Spider Drowned Enderman Fox Goat Iron Golem Llama Panda Piglin Polar Bear Spider Trader Llama Wolf Zombified Piglin Jockey Hostile Blaze Bogged Breeze Creaking Creeper Elder Guardian Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Jockey Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Jockey Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Jockey Slime Stray Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Jockey Zombie Villager Bosses Ender Dragon Wither Unused Zombie Horse JE only Giant Illusioner BE & edu only Elder Guardian Ghost Old Villager Old Zombie Villager Joke Angry Ghast Batato Diamond Chicken Love Golem Mega Spud Moon Cow Nerd Creeper Pink Wither Plaguewhale Slab Poisonous Potato Zombie Ray Tracing Redstone Bug Smiling Creeper Spectator Villager Spectator Witch Toxifin Slab Warden (boss) Pet variants Pet Armadillo Pet Axolotl Pet Bee Pet Cat Pet Chicken Pet Cow Pet Creeper Pet Fox Pet Frog Pet Mooshroom Pet Polar Bear Pet Slime Pet Turtle Pet Wolf Mentioned Alpaca Barnacle Crab Firefly Glare Great Hunger Iceologer Meerkat Moobloom Ostrich Penguin Pigman Rascal Red Dragon Shade Termite Tuff Golem Vulture Wildfire Removed Builder MD3 Test Mob Mob Monster Mob types Animal Aquatic Arthropod Illager Jockey Monster Undead Other Mob variants
Other entities Player Alex Ari Efe Kai Makena Noor Steve Sunny Zuri Blocks Falling Blocks Anvil Concrete Powder Dragon Egg Gravel Pointed Dripstone Sand Red Sand Scaffolding Suspicious Gravel Suspicious Sand Primed TNT BE & edu only Falling Block Deprecated Anvil Snow Primed Underwater TNT Vehicles Bamboo Raft Boat with Chest Minecart with Chest with Command Block with Hopper with TNT Java Edition only Minecart with Furnace with Monster Spawner Projectiles Fireball Small Dragon Launched Firework Rocket Llama Spit Shot Arrow Tipped Shulker Bullet Thrown Bottle o' Enchanting Thrown Egg Thrown Ender Pearl Thrown Eye of Ender Thrown Snowball Thrown Splash Potion Lingering Potion Thrown Trident Wind Charge Wither Skull Java Edition only Shot Spectral Arrow BE & EE only Thrown Ice Bomb Stationary objects Armor Stand End Crystal Leash Knot Painting Java Edition only Item Frame Glow Miscellaneous Area Effect Cloud Evoker Fangs Experience Orb Fishing Bobber Items Lightning Bolt Ominous Item Spawner BE & edu only Balloon Technical objects JE only Display Block Item Text Interaction Marker Joke Falling Block Gravtater Obsidian Boat Pink Wither Skull Mentioned Minecart with Dispenser Removed Shot Purple Arrow