Wolf

A wolf is a neutral mob that can be tamed and used to assist in combat with most hostile mobs.
== Spawning ==
Wolves spawn naturally above grass blocks, dirt, coarse dirt, snow blocks, or podzol. There are 9 variants of wolf with each has different texture. The variant is determined by the biome they spawn in with a default pack size of 4. The variants are:
* Pale wolf: The wolf variant that most players are familiar with. This variant spawns in the taiga biome.
* Woods wolf: This variant spawns in the forest biome. This is the most likely wolf variant that the player can find in the Overworld since forest biome is very common.
* Ashen wolf: This variant spawns in the snowy taiga biome.
* Black wolf: This variant spawns in the old growth pine taiga biome, in smaller packs of 2-4.
* Chestnut wolf: This variant spawns in the old growth spruce taiga biome, in smaller packs of 2-4.
* Rusty wolf: This variant spawns in the sparse jungle biome, in smaller packs of 2-4.
* Spotted wolf: This variant spawns in the savanna plateau biome, in larger packs of 4-8.
* Striped wolf: This variant spawns in the wooded badlands biome, in larger packs of 4-8.
* Snowy wolf: This variant spawns in the grove biome. This wolf is a rare type as it doesn't spawn in a pack with other wolves.
Naturally-spawned wolves are untamed and become hostile if attacked by the player.
When summoned in other ways (e.g. using the spawn egg or using the command), the variant selection follows the natural spawning biome rules with the extensions of the fact that rusty wolf, spotted wolf, and striped wolf are selected in all jungle biomes, savanna biomes, and badlands biomes respectively.
== Drops ==
Adult wolves drop experience orbs when killed by a player or tamed wolf. A tamed wolf that is killed by its owner still drops experience.
Upon successful breeding, are dropped.
Like other baby animals, killing a pup yields no experience.
== Behavior and appearance ==
Wolves exhibit three different states depending on how the user interacts with them:
* Untamed wolves have gray fur, a drooping tail, and their eyes consist of a white pixel and a black pixel for the pupil (on each side). They are neutral toward the player and hostile toward sheep, rabbits, foxes, baby turtles, and skeletons. They avoid llamas, although wolves may attack a llama that spits on them. They do not despawn, even if they are in an unloaded chunk, or 32 blocks away from the player.
* Angry wolves are characterized by their constant growling and fearsome appearance. Wild wolves become hostile when they are either attacked by a player or mob, if not killed in one hit, or when they see a mob they want to eat. Their tail is held out straight, their eyes become red, their mouth is raised in a slight snarl, and they have angry eyebrows. Angry wolves are hostile only to mobs that attack them, or to the mobs they are hunting. They can see attackers even if they are under the invisibility effect, but they cannot track the attacker down, if they get out of their render distance, or the attacker was able to unload the chunk where the wolves were. Angry wolves cannot be leashed, but a wild wolf may become angry while it is still leashed without dropping the lead.
* Tamed wolves have friendlier-looking eyes. They have a default red collar around their neck, which can be dyed using any color of dye on the wolf. This also includes other wolves owned by other player, where any player can dye that wolf's collar. Pressing on the wolf makes it sit and remain in place and not follow the player around. Tamed wolves that are not sitting attack players or mobs that their owner attacks, or those that injure their owner unless the target has the same owner or is on the same team. They do not attack creepers, ghasts, tamed horses or tamed cats, regardless of owner. Standing tamed wolves attack only skeletons and their variants without provocation. Tamed wolves are always passive to the player, even if the player hits them or kills a tamed wolf on the same team.
A wolf becomes hostile to a player or other mob that attacks it unless the attacker is the wolf's owner, or is otherwise on the same team, or if killed in one hit. It also causes wild wolves and standing tamed wolves in a 33×33×21 cuboid centered on the attacked wolf to become hostile to the attacker, allowing coordination for attacks and team hunts (only in wild wolves).
In Java Edition, any tamed wolf attacked by a player/mob causes all standing wolves on that team to attack that player/mob who attacked the tamed wolf.
If damaged by a mob or entity other than a player or arrow, wolves of any type only take roughly half of the original damage ((damage + 1) / 2).
Skeletons and their variants, foxes, baby turtles and passive rabbits actively avoid both tamed and wild wolves. Killer rabbits attack wolves actively. Sheep ignore wolves, but flee when attacked by one. Sheep ignore tamed wolves but also do not flee from them.
When a player within 8 blocks holds meat or bones near a wolf, the wolf tilts its head as if to 'beg' for the food for 2 to 4 seconds.
The behavior of pups is the same as tamed wolves. Pups have larger heads, similar to other animal babies.
Wolves are 0.85 or 0.8 blocks tall and pups are 0.425 or 0.4 blocks tall.
The textures of the wolves are tinted dark gray once submerged in water.
In Peaceful difficulty, hostile wolves deal no damage to the player.
=== Movement ===
Standing tamed wolves wander randomly when near their owner, but follow if more than 10 blocks away and teleport to a nearby free block (if any) if more than 12 blocks away. Besides making travel easier, teleportation can be used to rescue them from lava, water or pits, as they immediately teleport to a safe area.
* Wolves can be told to "sit" by pressing on them and made to stand again with another press of .
** A wolf automatically sits when first tamed.
** While sitting, they do not follow the player. However, if their owner fights a mob near them, they are still likely to join the fight. When the fight is over, they go back to sitting (if in water, they do not sit until they are on dry land, telling the wolf to sit makes it stand). They sit at their new location instead of returning to wherever they were previously.
** Wolves stand up and follow the player if it is pushed into water or injured while sitting.
* Wolves can either attack (within 16 blocks) or flee (within 24 blocks) from llamas. The wolves' speed is increased by 50% whereas they flee.
* Wolves find paths to their targets if attacking within 16 blocks, even in difficult terrain. They also navigate along the edges of cliffs and occasionally fall far enough to take damage if they leap.
* Wolves attack their targets running about at the player's walking speed and by leaping at them in exactly the same manner as spiders, but cause no damage while in midair. Tamed wolves attack any animal the player starts to attack. They also can navigate and turn around in 1×1 horizontal tunnels.
* After emerging from water, a wolf shakes the water off their fur. This is represented by an animation and water particles.
=== Teleportation ===
Tamed wolves teleport to their owner, if they are more than 12 blocks away, with a few caveats.
* Teleporting resets the focus of a tamed wolf, so if a wolf is attacking a mob and teleports beside a player, it resumes following the player, as its tracking has been reset.
* It is possible for tamed wolves to teleport to an inaccessible location (e.g. under ice) and be injured or die of suffocation as a result. This happens when the wolf considers transparent blocks, such as glass, or slabs, to be open.
* It cannot teleport when it is sitting.
An angry or untamed wolf does not teleport.
Tamed wolves do not teleport if:
* The wolf has been ordered to sit.
** Exception: The wolf is likely to teleport if it is injured while sitting (it no longer sits after teleporting). An example is if a wolf that is sitting is hit by another player, it teleports to their owner.
** Exception: If the wolf is in a loaded chunk, and the player gets damaged by a mob, there's a chance for the wolf to stop sitting, causing them to teleport if the player is far away, then attacking the player's attacker and sitting down afterward.
* The wolf is chasing after a skeleton. This can lead to wolves standing and jumping in one place, such as over a cavern if a skeleton is near. The wolf teleports once the skeleton is killed.
* The wolf is in a minecart or a boat.
* The wolf has been attached to a fence post with a lead.
* The wolf is in an unloaded chunk.
* None of the blocks on the edge of a 5×1×5 region centered on the player are transparent blocks with a solid block below and another transparent block above.
* The player is in another dimension; a wolf remains in its current dimension until the player returns. However, wolves can be transported to another dimension by pushing them into the portal first.
* The owner is not directly touching the ground (e.g. using elytra, swimming, flying, in a boat).
* The wolf is in any body of water, it may not teleport to the owner.
Wolf teleportation is completely silent; this is not an oversight.
=== Taming, health, and feeding ===
A wolf can be tamed by feeding it bones. Once tamed, a wolf does not accept any more bones. Note that the number of bones required is random – each bone has a chance of taming the wolf. If the wolf is tamed, it receives a red collar and, in Java Edition, sits if not swimming. There is no limit to the number of wolves the player can tame.
A wolf's tail rises and lowers depending on its health. The exact health of an individual wolf can be determined by measuring the angle between its hind legs and tail. The angle indicates the percentage of health that the wolf has. Tamed wolves whine when they have low health (below ). Wild wolves have a maximum health of , so their tails always remain significantly lower than those of tamed wolves. Tamed wolves can be healed by feeding them any sort of meat other than fish; listed below, this restores as much of the wolf's health as the same food would restore hunger points when eaten by the player.
The wolf cannot be tamed if it is hostile or already tamed.
Wolves that are tamed by the same player can accidentally attack each other while attacking another mob, leading to a fight.
Food	Heals (Java Edition)	Heals (Bedrock Edition)	Notes
 	N/A 	 	
 	N/A 	 	Pufferfish can be fed to wolves without making them get the Hunger, Poison and Nausea status effects.
 	N/A 	 	
 	 	 	Raw chicken can be fed to wolves without making them get the Hunger status effect.
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	Rotten flesh can be fed to wolves without making them get the Hunger status effect.
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	N/A 	 	
 	N/A 	 	
Wolves do not get food poisoning, so they can freely eat rotten flesh, pufferfish or raw chicken. Feeding a tamed wolf that is already at full health usually starts the "love mode" animation.
A tamed wolf's necklace/collar color can be changed by a dye on the wolf.
=== Breeding === 
Tamed wolves at full health can be bred with any type of meat, including rotten flesh and raw chicken without causing the hunger status effect. There is a 5-minute cooldown for breeding, during which the wolf does not accept meat.
The growth of pups can be slowly accelerated using any type of meat. Each use takes 10% off the remaining time to grow up. Unlike healing, rabbit stew or any type of fish cannot be used for breeding or speeding up growth.
Breeding two wolves that recognize someone else as an owner causes the pup to also be owned by the owner of the original two wolves. If two tamed wolves have different owners, their pups will randomly follow one of their two owners.
If the player attacks an untamed wolf and then feeds it, hearts appear as when entering breeding mode, although the wolf does not breed and remains aggressive toward the player.
== Sounds ==
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Wolves use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.
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== Data values ==
=== ID ===
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=== Entity data ===
Wolves have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.
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: See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.
== Achievements ==
== Advancements ==
== Videos ==
;Wolves when they were in development uploaded by Jeb as shown below.
== History ==
Wolves in working.png|The first screenshot of wolves.
Wolf sitting.png|The second screenshot of wolves. Here, Jeb implemented sitting and has a new texture.
== Issues ==
== Trivia ==
*If a tamed wolf is named with a name tag, its name is shown in the chat to the owner when killed.
*Wolves can teleport into transparent blocks.
*In singleplayer, if the player punches a wild wolf and leaves its field of vision, it stares at the player and does not move at all. Going back into its range causes it to continue pursuing the player.
*A hostile wolf can path-find like most mobs, but may sometimes try to jump across a 1–2 block gap to get to a player. A wolf cannot scale a two-block gap, so it falls, but may still manage to damage the player.
*Untamed wolves use their hostile appearance when they are attacking sheep, skeletons, foxes, baby turtles or rabbits. They change back once the targeted mob dies or gets out of their range.
*Attacking a wild wolf in Peaceful Mode aggravates the wolf and its group, but they do no damage.
*A wild pup's head grows significantly when attacked.
*If the player attacks a wolf, but then moves a large distance away (e.g. 70 blocks), the wolf still appears hostile, but exhibits neutral behavior.
*Wolves chase bats despite being unable to reach them.
*, a glitched adult "red wolf" can be spawned using the command , and a "red pup" can be spawned with . The wolf cannot be tamed, bred or fed, though its model color can be altered by using various dyes. A tamed version of this "red wolf" can be obtained by taming it as soon as it becomes hostile toward a mob such as a skeleton.
*A tamed wolf tilts its head toward the player when the player is holding bones, despite it no longer being able to accept bones.
*If a player uses the command to give a tamed wolf with max health health boost 255, absorption 255 and Regeneration 255, the tamed wolf’s tail may begin spinning all the way around constantly, or it just points directly up.
*In Legacy Console Edition tutorial worlds wolf spawn eggs can be found
== Gallery ==
===Renders===
Angry Wolf.png| Angry wolf
Sitting Wolf.png| Sitting wolf
Sitting Angry Wolf.png| Sitting angry wolf
Baby Wolf.png| Pup
Baby Angry Wolf.png| Angry pup
Sitting Baby Wolf.png| Sitting pup
Sitting Baby Angry Wolf.png | Sitting angry pup
Tamed Wolf with Red Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with White Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Orange Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Magenta Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Light Blue Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Yellow Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Lime Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Pink Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Gray Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Light Gray Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Cyan Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Purple Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Blue Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Green Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Brown Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Red Collar.png|
Tamed Wolf with Black Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with White Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Orange Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Magenta Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Light Blue Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Yellow Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Lime Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Pink Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Gray Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Light Gray Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Cyan Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Purple Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Blue Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Green Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Brown Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Red Collar.png|
Sitting Tamed Wolf with Black Collar.png|
Baby Tamed Wolf.png|
Sitting Tamed Baby Wolf.png|
=== Screenshots ===
Shakeyshakey.png|A tamed wolf shaking off water droplets after a swim.
Hostile Wolf.png|A hostile wolf shaking off water droplets after a swim.
Darkwolves.png|Wolves having a darker texture when they are swimming or when it's raining.
CollaredWolves.png|Tamed wolves with dyed collars.
12w03a Baby Wolf.png|A tamed pup.
Baby Wild Wolf.png|A wild pup.
Fightingwolves.png|An adult wolf fighting a pup.
Wolf Attacking Sheep.png|A wolf killing a sheep.
Angry wolf.png|A hostile wolf looking and running at the player.
CatAndDog.png|A wolf and a cat sitting on carpet.
Wolf family.png|Two tamed adult wolves and a pup.
Wolves sitting in a boat.png|Two wolves sitting in a boat.
Wolfies.png|Wolves in the three main biomes where they are found.
Wolf attack.png|Tamed wolves attacking a pig.
Upside Down Dog.png|A wolf named Dinnerbone.
Minecraft 1.6 2013-06-27 15-48-39.J39858193.png|Another wolf named Dinnerbone (with Dinnerbone).
Pocket Edition Blue Wolf Collar.jpg|A wolf with a blue collar.
File:Sunny Wolf POV.jpg|Sunny from the perspective of a wolf. https://youtube.com/shorts/oM0efF8anO4?feature=share
=== In other media ===
Steve Alex Wolf.png|Steve and Alex with a Wolf.
Wolf Artwork.png|Official tamed wolf artwork.
Wolf Sticker.gif|Tamed wolf art.
Wild key art.png|A tamed wolf in official artwork for The Wild Update.
File:Kai Walking Dog.png|Kai walking their tamed wolf in a Cherry Grove.
File:Kai Crafting.png|Kai crafting cherry planks besides their pet wolf.
File:Kai Pet Doggyhouse.jpg|Kai’s pet wolf thinking of a cherry doghouse.
File:Blocco.png|Blocco, a uniquely colored wolf featured in Minecraft Story Mode.
File:Wolf Fusion.jpg
LEGO Wolf.jpg|Lego Minecraft tamed wolf.
Owner of the Sphere JINX.jpg|Official T-shirt artwork Owner of the Sphere made by JINX.
File:Wolf Shirt.png|Minecraft Jolly Mobs Wolf, an official T-Shirt design.
File:Acid Wolf.png|Acid Wolf, an official T-Shirt design.
Wolf Plush JINX.jpg|Tamed wolf plush made by JINX.
Baby Wolf Plush JINX.jpg|Tamed pup plush made by JINX.
File:Wolf Mug.png|An officially licensed wolf mug.
File:Wolf Jar.png|An officially licensed wolf jar.
File:Wolf Bowl.png|An officially licensed wolf bowl.
File:Puma Wolf.jpg|Promotional image for a collaboration with PUMA.
File:Minecraft Tricky Trials Artwork Background.jpg|Official Artwork for the Tricky Trials update, featuring the wolf.
== References ==
Category:Neutral mobs
Category:Tameable mobs
Category:Animal mobs
cs:Vlk
de:Wolf
es:Lobo
fr:Loup
hu:Farkas
it:Lupo
ja:オオカミ
ko:늑대
nl:Wolf
pl:Wilk
pt:Lobo
ru:Волк
th:หมาป่า
uk:Вовк
zh:狼
Category:Four legged mobs