Cat Mob Wiki Guide

This Minecraft tutorial explains all about cats with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about cats in Minecraft.

Background

In older versions of Minecraft, a cat was a type of mob that was created by taming an ocelot. However, in newer versions of the game, a cat is a new type of mob that is independent of the ocelot. Now, there are stray cats wandering around in the game that you can tame into pets (instead of taming an ocelot).

The following is a picture of what a cat looks like in Minecraft:

Hostility Level	Passive Mob
Health Points	10 health points  x 5
Where to Find	In villages and Witch huts
Weapon	None
Attack Method	Will never attack you
Drops	 0-2 String
Experience Points	1-3 experience points
Special Skills	A cat can be tamed and can make a great pet

Hostility Level (Passive)

A cat is a passive mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and cats. Because a cat is a passive mob, it will never attack you in the game (Creative or Survival mode).

Health Points

In Minecraft, a cat has 5 hearts  for health. This gives a cat 10 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a cat, you need to inflict 10 points of damage to the cat.

Where to Find Cats

In Minecraft, stray cats can be found roaming near villages in most biomes. You can find cats in villages in the Plains, Desert, Savanna, Taiga and Meadow biomes.

Plains Village

Desert Village

Savanna Village

Taiga Village

Meadow Village

Witch Hut

A stray black cat may also spawn in a Witch Hut in the Swamp biome:

If you are having trouble finding a cat, you can summon a cat using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.

Weapon

A cat does not carry a weapon.

Attack Method

You are safe to walk near a cat and it will not attack or cause you any damage. And if you attack a cat, it will just stand there. It will not attack you back.

Drops

When you kill a cat in Minecraft, it may drop string.

Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear. They are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.

Experience Points

As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.

These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a cat, you will gain 1-3 experience points.

Special Skills

A cat is a unique mob in that you can tame as a pet. This makes a great companion in the game as the tamed cat will scare away creepers.

Types of Cats

There are 11 different types of cats in Minecraft. Here are the different types of cats that can spawn in the game:

Tabby

Tuxedo

Red Tabby

Siamese

British Shorthair

Calico

Persian

Ragdoll

White

Jellie

Black

Spawn Egg for Cat

You can spawn a cat using the following spawn egg:

Cat Spawn Egg

Things to Do with Cats

Here are some activities that you can do with cats in Minecraft:

How to Breed Cats
How to Tame a Cat

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a cat in Minecraft:

How to Summon a Cat
How to Summon a Black Cat

NBT Tags for Cat (Java Edition)

Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a cat in Java Edition:

NBT Tags for Cat

Spawn Events for Cat (Bedrock/Education)

Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a cat in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:

Spawn Events for Cat

Cat Seeds

You can use a seed to create a world where you spawn in a biome with cats:

Cat Seeds (Java Edition)
Cat Seeds (Bedrock Edition)

Other Mobs

Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:

Allay
  Axolotl
Bat
  Bee
  Blaze
  Camel
Cave Spider
  Chicken
Cod
  Cow
  Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
  Ender Dragon
  Enderman
  Endermite
  Evoker
Fox
  Frog
  Ghast
  Giant
  Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
  Horse
  Husk
Illusioner
  Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
  Llama
Magma Cube
  Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
  Parrot
  Phantom
  Pig
  Piglin
  Piglin Brute
  Pillager
  Polar Bear
Pufferfish
  Rabbit
  Ravager
  Salmon
  Sheep
  Shulker
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
  Snow Golem
  Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Wandering Trader
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
 Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
NPC