Nautilus

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A nautilus is a neutral mob that can be tamed, saddled, and ridden as an underwater mount that can dash and protects the rider from drowning. With no rider, it uses its dash to hunt pufferfish and to briefly retaliate if attacked. It can also be equipped with nautilus armor.

Nautiluses spawn in all ocean biomes, in groups of 1-3. Nautiluses spawn between Y-levels 38 and 58.

In Bedrock Edition, nautiluses have a 10% chance to spawn as a baby.

Nautiluses count towards the "water creature" mob cap and can despawn like other such mobs until the first time any player interacts with it, which at that point it becomes persistent and no longer counts towards any mob cap.

• 1–3XP when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• If equipped with a saddle or nautilus armor, they drop those items.

Like its real-world namesake, a nautilus's mouth and tentacles face backward with respect to their movement direction. Being an aquatic mob, they are affected by the Impaling enchantment in Java Edition.

Nautiluses follow players holding any fish or bucket of fish within a 10-block radius.

Nautiluses are immune to the Poison effect.

Tamed nautiluses randomly swim around up to 32 blocks away, or 16 blocks if saddled.^[verify]​^{[more information needed]}

Adult nautiluses occasionally dash toward and attack nearby pufferfish. They also retaliate against players and mobs if provoked, using their dash attack. When dashing toward a target on land, nautiluses can launch themselves out of the water and accidentally become beached on land, where they are unable to move.

They may also unintentionally attack a mob or player that stands between them and their target.

When they are hostile, nautiluses cannot be leashed.

Nautiluses can be tamed by being fed pufferfish or buckets of pufferfish. Each pufferfish or bucket of pufferfish has a ¹⁄₃ chance of taming the nautilus.

Adult nautiluses can be healed (or bred if at full health) by being fed any fish or any bucket of fish.

Baby nautiluses require 20 minutes (24000 game ticks) to grow up into adult nautiluses. This process can be sped up using any fish or any bucket of fish:

• in Bedrock Edition, it takes 10 fish or bucket of fish for a baby nautilus to become an adult;
• in Java Edition, each fish or bucket of fish fed to a baby nautilus reduces its remaining growth time by 10%.

Nautiluses take suffocation damage on land, like most other aquatic mobs. Similarly to squid, nautiluses on land remain stationary rather than flopping around like fish. They can be controlled and even dash when on land, with their movement being much slower.

Tamed and saddled nautiluses can be used as a means of underwater transportation. When ridden, the player is granted the Breath of the Nautilus effect, which pauses the oxygen bar while underwater, making it so resurfacing for air is no longer needed. The effect is ambient, meaning that the effect on the HUD has a blue outline, similar to effects from beacons.

Tamed adult nautiluses have two equipment slots:

• 👁 SlotSprite Saddle.png: Sprite image for Saddle in Minecraft
  Saddle slot: for equipping a saddle.
• 👁 SlotSprite Nautilus Armor.png: Sprite image for Nautilus Armor in Minecraft
  Nautilus armor slot: for equipping nautilus armor.

Baby nautiluses cannot be equipped, as they cannot be ridden.

Equipment can be placed on a nautilus by holding it and then pressing the use control on the nautilus, or by accessing the nautilus's inventory. This can be done by pressing the use control on the nautilus while sneaking, or by mounting the nautilus and pressing the inventory control. A dispenser can also place a saddle or nautilus armor if it is facing a tamed nautilus.

The equipment can be removed by two methods:

• Removing the equipment from their slots in the nautilus's inventory.
• Using shears on the nautilus. If both a saddle and nautilus armor are equipped, they are removed one at a time. The first use removes the nautilus armor, and a second use removes the saddle.

Once a nautilus is tamed and saddled, the player can control it with the standard directional controls; pressing forward moves the nautilus in the direction the player is facing. The player dismounts using the dismount control. In Bedrock Edition, it is impossible for a player to use a Nether portal or End portal while on a nautilus.

A nautilus gradually gains speed while moving in a straight line, up to a swimming speed of 6.5 m/s. A nautilus can still move on land when controlled by a player, but is significantly slower, moving at a maximum of 0.88 m/s.

Saddled nautiluses also have the ability to dash. When the player rides them, the experience bar on the HUD is replaced by a dash charging bar. Dashing is done using the jump control: holding the control charges for a longer dash. When dashing, a nautilus launches up to about 12 blocks forward. A nautilus can dash every 2 seconds. Dashing while moving upward near the surface results in a quick breach, wherein the nautilus and its rider break the surface briefly.

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Bedrock Edition:

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Bedrock Edition:

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Issues relating to "Nautilus", "Nautiluses", or "Nautili" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Prior to their addition to the game, in a 2023 Taking Inventory article on Minecraft.net, Duncan Geere stated that nautiluses may have once existed in the Minecraft world but possibly became extinct.^[1]
• While named after real-life nautiluses, the mob in the game is intended to be a "fantasy creature,"^[2] with its design being inspired by ammonites and the pre-existing nautilus shell item.^[3]
• The reasoning given for nautiluses pausing players' oxygen meters through the Breath of the Nautilus effect is that they eat pufferfish, which are used to brew potions of Water Breathing,^[4] despite the fact that the fish is poisonous to their real-life namesakes.
• Minecraft's Instagram account used a freeze frame of the second upload of Nautilus JE1 BE2.png in one of its posts.^[5]

• 👁 Nautilus front side
  
  Nautilus front side
• 👁 Nautilus back side
  
  Nautilus back side
• 👁 Nautilus back side with a saddle equipped
  
  Nautilus back side with a saddle equipped
• 👁 Baby Nautilus from side
  
  Baby Nautilus from side
• 👁 Baby nautilus back side
  
  Baby nautilus back side

• 👁 Nautilus breathing and swimming
  
  Nautilus breathing and swimming
• 👁 Nautilus swimming‌[BE only]
  
  Nautilus swimming‌^{[BE only]}
• 👁 Nautilus charging (this animation is not used in-game)‌[BE only]
  
  Nautilus charging (this animation is not used in-game)‌^{[BE only]}
• 👁 Baby nautilus breathing and swimming
  
  Baby nautilus breathing and swimming
• 👁 Baby nautilus swimming‌[BE only]
  
  Baby nautilus swimming‌^{[BE only]}

• 👁 Nautilus with copper nautilus armor swimming
  
  Nautilus with copper nautilus armor swimming
• 👁 Saddled nautilus with copper nautilus armor swimming
  
  Saddled nautilus with copper nautilus armor swimming
• 👁 Nautilus with iron nautilus armor swimming
  
  Nautilus with iron nautilus armor swimming
• 👁 Saddled nautilus with iron nautilus armor swimming
  
  Saddled nautilus with iron nautilus armor swimming
• 👁 Nautilus with golden nautilus armor swimming
  
  Nautilus with golden nautilus armor swimming
• 👁 Saddled nautilus with golden nautilus armor swimming
  
  Saddled nautilus with golden nautilus armor swimming
• 👁 Nautilus with diamond nautilus armor swimming
  
  Nautilus with diamond nautilus armor swimming
• 👁 Saddled nautilus with diamond nautilus armor swimming
  
  Saddled nautilus with diamond nautilus armor swimming
• 👁 Nautilus with netherite nautilus armor swimming
  
  Nautilus with netherite nautilus armor swimming
• 👁 Saddled nautilus with netherite nautilus armor swimming
  
  Saddled nautilus with netherite nautilus armor swimming

• 👁 Nautilus breathing (model used in Bedrock Edition from preview 1.21.130.20 to 1.21.130.26)
  
  Nautilus breathing (model used in Bedrock Edition from preview 1.21.130.20 to 1.21.130.26)
• 👁 Nautilus swimming (model used in Bedrock Edition from preview 1.21.130.20 to 1.21.130.26)
  
  Nautilus swimming (model used in Bedrock Edition from preview 1.21.130.20 to 1.21.130.26)
• 👁 Nautilus charging (this animation is not used in-game and model used in Bedrock Edition from preview 1.21.130.20 to 1.21.130.26)
  
  Nautilus charging (this animation is not used in-game and model used in Bedrock Edition from preview 1.21.130.20 to 1.21.130.26)
• 👁 Baby nautilus breathing (model used in Bedrock Edition from preview 1.21.130.20 to 1.21.130.26)
  
  Baby nautilus breathing (model used in Bedrock Edition from preview 1.21.130.20 to 1.21.130.26)
• 👁 Baby nautilus swimming (model used in Bedrock Edition from preview 1.21.130.20 to 1.21.130.26)
  
  Baby nautilus swimming (model used in Bedrock Edition from preview 1.21.130.20 to 1.21.130.26)

• 👁 A nautilus underwater
  
  A nautilus underwater
• 👁 An adult nautilus and baby nautilus
  
  An adult nautilus and baby nautilus
• 👁 A baby nautilus with a nautilus in the background
  
  A baby nautilus with a nautilus in the background
• 👁 A nautilus swimming in a kelp forest
  
  A nautilus swimming in a kelp forest
• 👁 Zuri riding on a nautilus underwater
  
  Zuri riding on a nautilus underwater
• 👁 Zuri escaping from a group of drowned while riding a nautilus
  
  Zuri escaping from a group of drowned while riding a nautilus
• 👁 Multiple nautiluses swimming around a coral reef.
  
  Multiple nautiluses swimming around a coral reef.
• 👁 Some nautiluses with armors in a coral reef.
  
  Some nautiluses with armors in a coral reef.
• 👁 Many nautiluses together
  
  Many nautiluses together
• 👁 Ditto, but with armor equipped
  
  Ditto, but with armor equipped
• 👁 Three nautiluses, two being babies
  
  Three nautiluses, two being babies
• 👁 Zuri riding a nautilus on the surface
  
  Zuri riding a nautilus on the surface
• 👁 Nautiluses being shown on Minecraft Live
  
  Nautiluses being shown on Minecraft Live
• 👁 Ari and Efe riding nautiluses
  
  Ari and Efe riding nautiluses

• 👁 Nautilus texture file
  
  Nautilus texture file
• 👁 Baby nautilus texture file
  
  Baby nautilus texture file
• 👁 Nautilus saddle texture file
  
  Nautilus saddle texture file

• 👁 Nautilus in the ocean
  
  Nautilus in the ocean
• 👁 Ditto but cutaway of pufferfish controlling the nautilus
  
  Ditto but cutaway of pufferfish controlling the nautilus
• 👁 Render of the nautilus used
  
  Render of the nautilus used
• 👁 A nautilus named Egg.
  
  A nautilus named Egg.
• 👁 A nautilus statue at TwitchCon
  
  A nautilus statue at TwitchCon
• 👁 A nautilus swimming, as shown in statistics for mounts tamed
  
  A nautilus swimming, as shown in statistics for mounts tamed
• 👁 Various mounts, where the nautilus is in the water category
  
  Various mounts, where the nautilus is in the water category
• 👁 Its color scheme being compared to a candy cane
  
  Its color scheme being compared to a candy cane
• 👁 An officially licensed hoodie featuring a nautilus
  
  An officially licensed hoodie featuring a nautilus