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Who this is for: Minecraft players wanting to breed and collect axolotls in their aquatic builds.
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What You Need to Breed Axolotls
To breed axolotls in Minecraft 1.19, you’ll need two adult axolotls and tropical fish as their breeding item. You can’t use any other food – it must be tropical fish specifically. You can catch tropical fish using a water bucket in warm ocean biomes, or find them in lush caves where axolotls naturally spawn.
Step-by-Step Breeding Process
First, make sure you have at least two axolotls in a water-filled area. They need to be in water to survive, so create a pool or use a natural water source. Hold tropical fish in your hand and right-click (or use your interact button) on each axolotl to feed them.
After feeding both axolotls tropical fish, you’ll see heart particles appear above them. They’ll move toward each other and eventually produce a baby axolotl. The breeding process takes a few seconds, and the baby will be much smaller than its parents.
Important Breeding Details
Baby axolotls take 20 minutes of real-time to grow into adults, though you can speed this up by feeding them more tropical fish. Each tropical fish reduces the growing time by 10% of the remaining time. There’s also a 5-minute cooldown period after breeding before the same axolotls can breed again.
The baby axolotl will randomly inherit the color of one of its parents, with one exception: there’s a 1 in 1200 chance of getting a rare blue axolotl, regardless of the parents’ colors. This makes blue axolotls extremely valuable and sought-after.
Color Variations and Genetics
Axolotls come in five different colors: leucistic (pink), wild (brown), gold, cyan, and the ultra-rare blue. Most axolotls you find will be leucistic, wild, gold, or cyan. The blue variant can only be obtained through breeding – you’ll never find one naturally spawning in the wild.
Each parent has an equal chance of passing their color to the offspring, making it possible to selectively breed for specific colors over time. However, remember that the blue axolotl chance overrides normal inheritance, so even two pink axolotls could theoretically produce a blue baby.
Whether you’re building an underwater base or just want these adorable aquatic companions, breeding axolotls adds a fun collecting element to your Minecraft adventures.
TL;DR
Feed two adult axolotls tropical fish to breed them. Baby axolotls inherit parent colors randomly, with a rare 1/1200 chance for blue variants.
