Tadpole

A tadpole is a bucketable aquatic baby passive mob hatched from frogspawn. They mature into one of the three frog variants depending on the biome in which they mature.

Spawning[]

Tadpoles hatch from frogspawn in groups of 2-5.

Drops[]

As with other baby animals, tadpoles do not drop any items or experience on death.

Behavior[]

Tadpoles swim aimlessly in water. On land, they flop around like fish and seek out nearest water. They quickly die on land.

Unlike frogs, tadpoles are hunted by axolotls.

Tadpoles follow a player that is holding a slimeball.

A player can pick up a tadpole with a bucket of water.

A tadpole grows up into one of the variants of a frog depending on the tadpole's location, as shown on the table below. Tadpoles take one Minecraft day to grow up (20 minutes). Its growth may be accelerated by feeding it slimeballs. Each use reduces the remaining growth duration by 10%.

Variants
Variants	Temperate	Cold	Warm
Biomes
	River Beach Taiga Old Growth Pine Taiga Old Growth Spruce Taiga Birch Forest Old Growth Birch Forest Dark Forest Forest Flower Forest Mushroom Fields Meadow Plains Sunflower Plains Snowy Taiga Swamp^{[n 1]} Windswept Hills Windswept Gravelly Hills Windswept Forest Ocean Dripstone Caves Lush Caves Stony Shore Stony Peaks‌^{[JE only]} Cold Ocean‌^{[JE only]} Deep Cold Ocean‌^{[JE only]} Lukewarm Ocean‌^{[JE only]} Deep Lukewarm Ocean‌^{[JE only]} The Void‌^{[JE only]}	Frozen River Snowy Beach Grove Frozen Peaks Jagged Peaks Snowy Plains Ice Spikes Snowy Slopes Frozen Ocean Deep Frozen Ocean The End Deep Dark End Barrens‌^{[JE only]} End Highlands‌^{[JE only]} End Midlands‌^{[JE only]} Small End Islands‌^{[JE only]} Cold Ocean‌^{[BE only]} Deep Cold Ocean‌^{[BE only]}	Jungle Bamboo Jungle Sparse Jungle Badlands Eroded Badlands Wooded Badlands Desert Savanna Savanna Plateau Windswept Savanna Warm Ocean Mangrove Swamp^{[n 1]} Basalt Deltas Crimson Forest Nether Wastes Soul Sand Valley Warped Forest Stony Peaks‌^{[BE only]} Lukewarm Ocean‌^{[BE only]} Deep Lukewarm Ocean‌^{[BE only]}

Notes

↑ ^a ^b Frogs spawn naturally in this biome.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Tadpoles use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Tadpole dies	Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole dies	`entity.tadpole.death`	`subtitles.entity.tadpole.death`	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
Tadpole hurts	Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole is damaged	`entity.tadpole.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.tadpole.hurt`	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
Tadpole flops	Friendly Creatures	While a tadpole is on land	`entity.tadpole.flop`	`subtitles.entity.tadpole.flop`	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
Tadpole grows up	Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole grows up into a frog	`entity.tadpole.grow_up`	`subtitles.entity.tadpole.grow_up`	0.1125	1.2	16
Bucket empties	Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole is placed from a bucket	`item.bucket.empty_tadpole`	`subtitles.item.bucket.empty`	0.5	1.5	16
Tadpole captured	Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole is collected into a bucket	`item.bucket.fill_tadpole`	`subtitles.item.bucket.fill_tadpole`	0.5	1.5	16
Tadpole hatches	Blocks	When a frogspawn hatches into a tadpole	`block.frogspawn.hatch`	`subtitles.block.frogspawn.hatch`	0.6	1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole dies	`mob.tadpole.death`	0.65	1.3-1.7
Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole is damaged	`mob.tadpole.hurt`	1.0	1.3-1.7
Friendly Creatures	While a tadpole is on land	`mob.fish.flop`	1.0	1.0
Friendly Creatures	When a tadpole grows up into a frog	`mob.tadpole.convert_to_frog`	varies ^{[sound 1]}	varies ^{[sound 2]}
Blocks	When a tadpole is placed from a bucket	`bucket.empty_fish`	1.0	1.0
Blocks	When a tadpole is collected into a bucket	`bucket.fill_fish`	1.0	1.0
Blocks	When a frogspawn hatches into a tadpole	`hatch.frog_spawn`	1.2	0.6

↑ For volumes, idle1 and idle4 are 0.8, idle2 is 0.82, idle3 is 0.9, idle5 is 0.85, idle6 is 0.9, idle7 is 0.7, and idle8 is 0.3
↑ For pitches, idle1 and idle4 are 0.95, while all others are 0.9

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags (JE)	Translation key
Tadpole	`tadpole`	`axolotl_hunt_targets`	`entity.minecraft.tadpole`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Tadpole	`tadpole`	`133`	`entity.tadpole.name`

Entity data[]

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

Java Edition:

Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
- Age: Represents the age of the tadpole in ticks. When greater than or equal to 24000 game ticks (20 minutes), the tadpole grows up to a frog.
- FromBucket: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Whether the tadpole had ever been released from a bucket.

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Bukkit Bukkit	Catch a Tadpole in a Bucket	Husbandry	—	`husbandry/tadpole_in_a_bucket`

History[]

Java Edition
October 16, 2021		Tadpoles are announced at Minecraft Live 2021.
1.19	22w11a	Added tadpoles.
	22w19a	Tadpole hitbox reduced from 0.5×0.4 to 0.4×0.3.
	Pre-release 1	Tadpoles no longer drop experience on death.
	Pre-release 1	Tadpoles may now be tempted with slimeballs.
1.19.3	22w42a	Tadpoles now have a subtitle for growing up.^[1]
Bedrock Edition
Wild Update (experimental)	beta 1.18.10.24	Added tadpoles behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle. They can spawn naturally in swamp water sources.
	beta 1.18.10.26	Tadpoles now have their unique sounds.
	beta 1.18.20.21	Tadpole hitbox is now larger.
	beta 1.18.20.23	The health of tadpoles has been increased to 6.
1.19.0	beta 1.19.0.20	Tadpoles are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
1.19.0	beta 1.19.0.20	Tadpoles can no longer spawn naturally in swamp water sources.