Talk:Fox

This needs to become a main page when the first 1.14 snapshot comes out. Who agrees?–Preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.190.110.47 (talk) at 18:29, 30 September 2018 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Yep, per the style guide, once features have appeared in development versions, they can be created. So once this does appear in a snapshot, an enthusaistic editor will very likely turn this into a full article. :)-- Madminecrafter12^{👁 Image
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Pictures are great, but I think they should all be in the Vanilla texture pack. -PancakeIdentity (talk) 02:32, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Is that necessary? 180.190.47.27 02:07, 13 April 2019 (UTC) Yes. You need to know who will attack the foxes duh. Don't trust me on everything I say on these JE pages though, I play on Win10 edition. 86.172.15.195 15:53, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

I need PROOF! CreeperCraftTNT (talk) 03:07, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Are the 8.5% probability of holding an item from the list cumulative or do they apply to each item individually? In other words, is there an 8.5% chance for each item and a 68% chance of holding any item (or maybe whatever slightly lower number, if these probabilities don't just stack) OR is there an 8.5% chance to hold anything and each item has a probability of 1.0625%? Fabian42 (talk) 11:30, 29 April 2019 (UTC) I think the former. I'm not sure either though, I'm a BE player 86.172.15.195 15:58, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

How exactly do players make baby foxes trust them? This page currently says the player needs a lead, but the Sweet Berries page says leads are not necessary. Also, is it possible to make foxes trust the player if they're already adults? an_awsome_person (talk) 17:54, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

I dont know how I did it but what I did was just get in my house with my fox ,that was brought in when it was newly born bc I wanted a pet fox, and I hit myself with the bow and arrow by looking up and swiftly right click for the arrow to hit me and it just went near me and made a sound, it was like he was biting me but he didn't do any harm, but! when I turned on easy mode it attacked me and it kept following me even tho there were chickens nearby it didn't attack anything except following me all the time, I tried to hit a chicken bc I thought it would attack it thinking what a wolf do, but it just kept following me. Has anyone experienced this? if so, can you tell me what is going on and how to stop it from following you. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 180.190.171.108 (talk) at 5:32, 16 June 2019 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

I was wondering, if one player feeds one fox and a different player feeds the other, will the resulting baby trust both players? Can someone with two accounts test this? -PancakeIdentity (talk) 19:53, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Or just test it with a friend. I'll hazard a guess that one player is chosen at random to be trusted, or maybe one fox is designated as the "birth parent" in which the pup inherits the birth parent's trust. There's precedent for the concept of birth parent with turtles; you need two to mate, but only one of the two turtles lays eggs. ~ Amatulic (talk) 21:21, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

I am confuse 180.190.47.201 13:35, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

When I breed fox’s to get a trusting baby fox, the baby fox has not been tamed. I have tried multiple times of removing the parents different ways, but the fox dose not trust me no matter what. How can this be fixed, and is it a issue with anyone else? (once again bedrock 1.14.20) Epicadventuresminecraft (talk) 00:45, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

It is possible that the article is wrong. Much of the content on this Wiki is written from a Java Edition perspective, which may not apply to Bedrock. Personally I think that's silly because Bedrock has the larger installed base, although features appear on Java first. ~ Amatulic (talk) 06:12, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Trusted fox behavior also in bedrock (not just in Java), I have tested it, they are trusted, not tamed so they won't follow you, the trusted fox still sleep during day and follow adult fox (if still baby). When you get hurt, the trusted fox will fight for you. I also experienced it in 1.14.20, they sometimes not trusted (maybe bugged). This only happen to baby fox from breeding, as naturally generated baby fox are always untrusted. ImakerB (talk) 12:19, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. It will be handy to know Epicadventuresminecraft (talk) 05:30, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

The page currently says that the different fox breeds prefer different prey. Does this mean foxes will still attack the other mobs when their preferred meal is nowhere to be found, or is this wording poor and actually mean that the different kinds of foxes only eat certain foods? Wonderosity (talk) 01:11, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

How much does a fox need to trust you before it will start attacking mobs alongside you? I know that it will at some point, but how long??? I have a fox in my survival world and I need some help with nighttime. – Unsigned comment added by 172.220.66.14 (talk) at 22:06, 15 January 2021 (UTC). Sign comments with ~~~~

Once it trusts you, try it and see if it attacks a zombie when a zombie hits you. You can always experiment in a throwaway world that you start out in creative and then switch to survival. Amatulic (talk) 03:12, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

This line: "Foxes always drop any items they pick up and are still holding (they cannot drop food that they have eaten, for example) and drop items they spawn with naturally with a 100% chance, so:" is written in a way that makes it sound like the items they spawn with also have a 100% chance to drop, yet the chart below it shows the odds for each possible item dropping (if it spawned with that item). It seems to just be a case of miswording things, and I wanted some clarification on if that assumption was true before making any edits. Stranded at sea (talk) 04:10, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

The information does actually appear to be true (for Bedrock edition). They can pick up armor pieces and seemingly have them equipped (since the armor actually functions on them, providing protection and making them harder to kill). The armor just (naturally) doesn't render on them. Just leaving this here since removing the edits as false information doesn't seem to be the correct decision. Stranded at sea (talk) 23:09, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Since I'm a Minecraft geek, I was sifting through the BE files and stumbled upon a fox texture. It shows its eyes closed on the texture. I uploaded it for example reasons at File:Unused BE Fox texture.png. 👁 Image
(talk|edits) 01:03, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Foxes close their eyes when they sleep, unlike any other mob. I think that's probably why those files exist. -~- Nerdyguy2000   Talk   Edits  01:15, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Maybe so, but when I put the texture on, say, a Blockbench model for a fox, I get this monstrosity: 👁 Image
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(talk|edits) 01:23, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Hmm... Whatever that is, that's not a normal fox... Well, any guess would be speculation. I'm not sure exactly what would be the cause of those files. -~- Nerdyguy2000   Talk   Edits  01:27, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Because you try to use Bedrock Edition texture on Java Edition model, which have different UV mapping compared to Bedrock model. In Java fox uses separate textures for awake and sleeping state, which have the same exact layout with the only difference being closed eyes while in Bedrock Edition both states are bundled into singular texture resulting in completely different layout compared to Java texture. Oakar567 (talk) 08:38, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

When trying to replicate pouncing in a superflat java 1.21.6 world, I simply could not make it pounce at all. I spawned a fox and a chicken, and tried it with and without obstacles, but it will simply walk or jump one block high without an animation. Following the {{verify}} tag added less than an hour ago (from the time this is written), has pouncing been changed recently? --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 08:43, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

I can confirm they do pounce, but maybe only in circumstances where the fox has no other choice. They do seem to be capable of jumping more than two blocks high, though. – ZacNVR (talk) 09:19, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

It looks like about 4, but I only caught one pounce. == Rout (talk/edits) 09:44, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Okay, but how do I make it pounce? --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 09:46, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Try spawning two chickens, so that the fox kills one and is far enough away from the other that it has to pounce. == Rout (talk/edits) 09:47, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

How far away is far away enough? --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 09:48, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Never mind, I got it to pounce. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 09:50, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

@Rout @ZacNVR Update: after 3 trials for me, twice the fox pounced 3 blocks and once 4 blocks. I will update the page to say that it's approximately 3 blocks. I tested with /tick freeze and /tick step to test tick by tick, and placing blocks underneath the fox each tick to see how high it is each tick. Even then, each trial is inconsistent so it might be a random range. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 10:02, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

You could say "up to four blocks". I think it may depend on where the fox and chicken are in relation to one another (but it could also just be random). – ZacNVR (talk) 10:07, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Update again: after like 10 more tests, it never exceeded 4, but with /data get entity <uuid> Pos the y value is quite buggy. When pouncing, visually the model and the hitbox (with hitbox enabled with  + ) could be lower than the given y value the command returns. I even spawned another fox at what looks like a block higher than the hitbox, and yet the y value the command returns for the new fox is lower than the pouncing one. --MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 10:32, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

i have two pet polar bears i raised from babies and when they grew up i put a fox in with them and not one of them attacked the fox i put more in still nothing. Does anyone know why this might be happening? This happend on bedrock edition 1.21.94 and this is very strange. Im not sure if i should put them in with more foxes. I have looked all over the internet and found nothing please help is this a bug or something more? 2A02:C7C:D31B:B200:F082:327E:2457:AF7D 14:05, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

In one of my worlds where its always night i have 52 foxes and sometimes i hear a screech sometimes 2 in a row. I play on a nintendo switch lite so idk if they screech with bedrock on other devices but im gonna be honest i had to look on the internet but they do screech its pretty quiet so if you have loads of foxes turn up your volume. Feel free to reply i will try to respond to you. Have a good day or night! 2A02:C7C:D31B:B200:9910:BD33:9D1F:F254 14:16, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

You're completely right, but where does the article state they don't screech in BE? Two sounds don't play because of a bug, but that doesn't include the screech. MinecraftBedrockPlayer7 (talk) (contribs) 👁 Image
14:54, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Oh ok its just sometimes i can be quite confused about things cause my siblings said they dont screech and they first played minecraft 10 years ago but i guess they sometimes silly 2A02:C7C:D31B:B200:9910:BD33:9D1F:F254 08:45, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

and yet i still wonder why do they do 360s when sitting idk why they do it tho but the most foxes i owned is 78 as im obsessed with them mainly the baby foxes 2A02:C7C:D31B:B200:9910:BD33:9D1F:F254 08:48, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

When I'm in a fox pen, I'm do some fun with my foxes like give them random food or give them random weapon. Suddenly an enderman appear and I accidentally see it's face then the enderman teleport in my fox pen and attack me, my foxes attack that enderman then enderman teleport out and they now outside of my fox pen but still mad at me. Suddenly all of my foxes attempt to leap and some of them successfully leap over the fence and kill that enderman. This happen in bedrock edition and Is this also happen in java edition? RaffaKinils (talk) 00:29, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that's how leaping is supposed to work, so it jumps over obstacles. ‑‑MinecraftExp123^{(talk|contribs)} 02:14, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

Yeah but normally trusting fox do not leap even when they slightly further from their target as long as there isn't any obstacle there. Also trusting fox also leap to their target if the obstacle is water or if target is in water. And I guess trusting fox in java edition never do leap to their target even if there is a obstacle or target is in water. RaffaKinils (talk) 02:28, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

i see some foxes are sit sometime even though it's night time, I think they sit are not because they can't find shaded place to sleep when day time. RaffaKinils (talk) 13:44, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

This is already mentioned under Behavior. == Rout | Talk 06:38, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

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