Frog Minecraft Mob

Spawning

Groups of two to five frogs can spawn in swamp and mangrove swamp‌[upcoming: JE 1.19 & BE 1.19] biomes. Frogs can also be spawned by growing from tadpoles. There are three frog variants, determined by the biome in which the tadpole grew up[more information needed]:

Drops

In Java Edition, frogs have no drops other than 1-3 experience points when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

Frogs can jump 8 blocks high and take 10 less damage from falling than most other mobs. Frogs prefer jumping on lily pads and big dripleaves.

Occasionally they may croak and inflate their vocal sac.

Breeding

Feeding two frogs a slimeball causes them to enter love mode, causing one of the frogs to become pregnant, similar to turtles. The pregnant frog then searches for a water tile with air above to lay frogspawn. This spawn later hatches into tadpoles, which subsequently grow into frogs.

Unlike all other mobs with baby variants, the tadpole is treated by the game as a completely different mob from the frog.

Attacking

Frogs attack by using their tongue to pull certain mobs into their mouth, whereupon the mob instantly despawns.

They attack small slimes, which drop slimeballs when killed, as well as small magma cubes, leaving a froglight block. The type of froglight depends on which type of frog attacked the magma cube: temperate frogs leave ochre froglights, cold frogs leave verdant froglights, and warm frogs leave pearlescent froglights.

Sounds

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Data values

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ID

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Entity data

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

Java Edition:

Advancements

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History

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Issues

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Trivia

• The warm frog is based on the grey foam-nest tree frog, a real-life species of frog native to Africa.[1]
• The temperate frog is based on brown bullfrogs.[2][3]
• Despite the fact that swamps lost the Biome Vote in MINECON Live 2019 taking second place, frogs were implemented in the game three years later in Bedrock Edition and Java Edition.
• Frogs were shown in Minecraft Live 2021 to enjoy jumping on big dripleaves.
• Originally, frogs could eat fireflies, but this changed, as in real life fireflies are poisonous to frogs. Instead, now they can eat small slimes and small magma cubes.[4]
• In Bedrock Edition, the fifth hurt sound https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Frog_hurt5.ogg of frogs is unused.‌[until BE 1.19.0] However, it is used in Java.
• At one point in Bedrock Edition's development, in beta 1.18.10.26, frogs can eat goats. However, it was later removed as it was a leftover prototype code.[5]

Gallery

• The frog as it appeared in the swamp biome vote video from MINECON Live 2019.
• An image of the final stage of the frog types after development.
• Animation of walking frogs posted on twitter by Brandon Pearce.[6]
• Croaking temperate frog.
• Croaking warm frog.
• Croaking cold frog.
• A temperate frog eating a slime

Developer screenshots

• An early model of the frog.
• The frog in Blockbench, in which it was made.
• A screenshot in Blockbech showing the animation of the frog.

Concept artwork

• Concept art of the frog. Although it was designed for the swamp, it seems to be based on the Red-eyed tree frog.
• An early model of the frog.
• Ditto
• An early model of the frog croaking.
• An early model of the frog flicking its tongue.
• Concept art for the frog.
• Concept art for the frog's legs and movement.
• An unused concept of a blue tropical frog based on the real life poison dart frog.
• Concept art for the frog with closed eyes and tongue function.
• An early model of the frog.
• Another early model of the frog.
• Ditto
• Early models of the frog compared to the player.