Rabbit

A rabbit is an uncommon passive mob and is a source of rabbit's foot, rabbit hide, and raw rabbit.

Spawning[]

Rabbits spawn above grass, snow blocks, or sand. They generate individually after the generation of the world.

Rabbits of the following colors spawn in the following biomes:

• Yellow:
  • Desert
• White, Black & White:
  • Snowy Plains
  • Snowy Taiga
  • Grove
  • Snowy Slopes
  • Frozen Ocean‌^{[BE only]}
  • Frozen River‌^{[BE only]}
  • Snowy Beach‌^{[BE only]}
• Black, Brown, Brown & White:
  • Flower Forest
  • Taiga
  • Meadow
  • Old Growth Pine Taiga‌^{[JE only]}
  • Old Growth Spruce Taiga‌^{[JE only]}
  • Cherry Grove

Creamy rabbits are the most common rabbit color and are found only in deserts and its variants. White and black and white rabbits are also quite common and spawn in snowy biomes such as snowy taigas, snowy plains, groves and snowy slopes. Default rabbit colors such as brown, black and salt and pepper spawn naturally in flower forests, taigas and meadows, but can also spawn in any other non-snowy biome via spawn eggs, commands, spawners or breeding. In all these places, groups of an adult and one to two babies spawn.

In Bedrock Edition, up to three kits spawn in flower forests and rabbits can also spawn in frozen aquatic biomes: snowy beaches, frozen oceans, and frozen rivers.

In Java Edition, rabbits can also be found in giant tree taigas.

In taigas, wolves and foxes are also found. If left alone, these may quickly kill rabbits, so rabbits are generally more plentiful in the desert, flowery or icy biomes.

The Killer Bunny does not spawn naturally and must instead be spawned using the /summon command, although it is exclusive to Java Edition.

	Desert	Forest	Taiga	Frozen	Snowy plains	Mountain
Biome	Desert	Flower forest	Taiga Old growth taiga‌[JE only] Snowy taiga	Frozen river Legacy frozen ocean‌[BE only] Snowy beach‌[BE only] Frozen ocean‌[BE only]	All snowy plains variants	Meadow Grove Snowy slopes

Drops[]

When killed, an adult rabbit drops:

• 0–1 rabbit hide. The maximum is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-4 with Looting III.
• 0–1 raw rabbit (cooked rabbit if killed while on fire).‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-4 with Looting III.
• 1 raw rabbit (cooked rabbit if killed while on fire).‌^{[Java Edition only]} The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 1-4 with Looting III.
• There is a 10% chance of dropping a rabbit's foot upon death when killed by the player or a tamed wolf. The chance can be increased by 3% per level of Looting, up to a maximum chance of 19% with Looting III.
• 1–3 upon player kills.
• Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped.

Behavior[]

Rabbits hop around aimlessly instead of walking. They can jump up almost 2 blocks in height. They slowly approach players holding carrots, golden carrots or dandelions within 8 blocks. They don't follow the players that hold carrot on a stick although pigs do.^[1] Rabbits also jump off of cliffs to reach carrots but do not go into lava for them. They randomly flee around if attacked. All non-hostile rabbits avoid players within 8 blocks and avoid most hostile mobs within 4 blocks (except slimes, magma cubes, and ghasts). They also avoid wolves within 10 blocks.

If /gamerule mobGriefing is true, rabbits find and eat mature carrot crops‌^{[Java Edition only]} / carrot crops with growth stage greater than 1‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}. This reduces the growth stage by one, removing the crop completely when the growth stage reaches 0.

Wild wolves, foxes, and stray cats track down and kill any rabbits.

Breeding[]

Rabbits can be bred using carrots, golden carrots or dandelions.

Baby rabbits usually inherit the same type of fur as one of the parents (47.5% chance of each), but there is a 5% chance for the baby to have the fur type matching the current biome. Baby rabbits grow to adulthood after 20 minutes, although their growth can be slowly accelerated using carrots, golden carrots or dandelions; each use reduces 10% of the remaining time to grow up.

Despite their hostile nature, killer bunnies can breed with other rabbits and with each other, having the unusual chance of creating a baby killer bunny.

A Toast rabbit does not produce a Toast rabbit baby, however.

In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, baby rabbits follow their parents; this behavior is absent in Java Edition.^[2]

Variations[]

Rabbits typically spawn using one of six different skins. Skins include regular brown fur, white fur with red eyes (albino), black mottled fur, black and white spotted fur, gold (cream) fur, and salt and pepper fur. The biome determines the skin used:

• Rabbits in snowy biomes have 80% white fur and 20% black and white fur.
• Rabbits in deserts have 100% gold fur.
• Rabbits in other biomes have 50% brown fur, 40% salt & pepper fur, and 10% black fur.
• Rabbits with specific skins can be spawned using /summon rabbit ~ ~ ~ {RabbitType: (Number from 0 - 5)}‌^{[Java Edition only]} or /summon rabbit ~ ~ ~ in_desert (gold)/in_snow (white)‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}.
• While it is possible to go above 5, this results in rabbits with skins identical to RabbitType: 0, with the exception of RabbitType: 99, the Killer Bunny.

There are two special variants of rabbits:

The Killer Bunny[]

The killer bunny is an aggressive variant of the rabbit exclusive to Java Edition that is hostile toward players, foxes, and wolves. Its fur is pure white with blood-red eyes that are horizontal, compared to a normal rabbit's vertical eyes. It can be spawned only by using the /summon rabbit ~ ~ ~ {RabbitType:99} command. It appears with a nameplate over its head reading "The Killer Bunny".

If the killer bunny finds any player within a 16-block radius, it hops toward the player much faster than a normal rabbit. It moves in a style similar to that of a spider. Once it closes in, it jumps at the player, dealing 8 damage on Normal difficulty. If the player strikes at the killer bunny, it runs away for a brief moment, then returns to lunging at the player. Killer bunnies are immune to the Thorns enchantment.

If it cannot find a player, the killer bunny actively seeks out and attacks any foxes or wolves, including tamed wolves. These mobs, in return, attack the killer bunny, leading to a vicious fight.

On peaceful difficulty, the killer bunny does not despawn, despite its hostile nature. It still attacks wolves and tamed wolves, but not the player.

The killer bunny can be bred and leashed and follows players holding carrots, despite its hostile nature.

Toast[]

Naming a rabbit Toast (using either a name tag or a renamed spawn egg) re-textures it to have the appearance of a black dutch, with a large black and white patch and more black fur around the face than the natural black and white spotted rabbit. Other than its name and skin, Toast behaves exactly like it would if it were unnamed. When Toast rabbits are bred, whether with each other or with regular rabbits, their offspring do not have the Toast pattern; they have a pattern consistent with the parents' original coloring prior to renaming. If the player renames a killer bunny to Toast, it still attacks players and wolves. Like the killer bunny, Toast does not spawn naturally.

This rabbit is the skin of user xyzen420's girlfriend's missing rabbit, which Ryan Holtz implemented as a memorial.^[3]

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Regular rabbits use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events. Killer bunnies use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Rabbit squeaks	Friendly Creatures(normal) Hostile Creatures(killer)	Randomly	entity.rabbit.ambient	subtitles.entity.rabbit.ambient	0.25	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Rabbit attacks	Hostile Creatures	When the killer bunny attacks something	entity.rabbit.attack	subtitles.entity.rabbit.attack	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
	Rabbit dies	Friendly Creatures(normal) Hostile Creatures(killer)	When a rabbit dies	entity.rabbit.death	subtitles.entity.rabbit.death	0.5	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Rabbit hurts	Friendly Creatures(normal) Hostile Creatures(killer)	When a rabbit is damaged	entity.rabbit.hurt	subtitles.entity.rabbit.hurt	0.5	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)	16
	Rabbit hops	Friendly Creatures(normal) Hostile Creatures(killer)	When a rabbit hops	entity.rabbit.jump	subtitles.entity.rabbit.jump	0.1	0.64-0.96	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	Randomly	mob.rabbit.idle	0.2	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a rabbit dies	mob.rabbit.death	0.4	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	When a rabbit is damaged	mob.rabbit.hurt	0.4	0.8-1.2 (Baby: 1.3-1.7)
	Friendly Creatures	Unused sound event	mob.rabbit.hop	0.1	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags (JE)	Translation key
Rabbit	rabbit	powder_snow_walkable_mobs	entity.minecraft.rabbit

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Rabbit	rabbit	18	entity.rabbit.name

Entity data[]

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements[]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Rabbit Season	Cook and Eat Rabbit Meat	—	15G	Bronze

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Monster Hunter	Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Axolotl Bee Blaze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Chicken Jockey Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Skeleton Horseman Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Spider Jockey Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 25 mobs: Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/breed_an_animal
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed a pair of each of these 24 mobs: Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/bred_all_animals

Video[]

Note: this video is outdated as rabbits can no longer be tamed, rabbits are smaller now, and the killer rabbit is now called the killer bunny.

History[]

Java Edition Classic
May 19, 2009					Bunnies were originally an idea for a mob in Survival Test. They would spawn randomly and jump around. When attacked, they would pop into many pieces and start bleeding.
May 20, 2009					Bunnies were ultimately rejected at the time due to negative feedback.
Java Edition
1.8		May 17, 2014			Screenshots of rabbits were released by Ryan Holtz.
		June 5, 2014			Rabbits are revealed as a feature to be added to Minecraft.
		June 6, 2014			Twitter user @xyZenTV asks Ryan Holtz to add Toast to the game.
					Ryan Holtz accepts the Toast suggestion, and reveals he is planning for rabbits to have multiple skins, similar to horses and cats.
		June 30, 2014			Holtz uploaded a "video" showcasing the mob's path-finding and animation.
					Holtz reveals a preview of the rabbit's drops.
		July 1, 2014			Holtz reveals a hostile variant of rabbits, the "Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog".
		July 2, 2014			Holtz tweets a screenshot of all six natural rabbit types, just prior to their introduction.
		14w27a			Added rabbits.
					Added baby rabbits.
		14w28a			The spawn rate of killer rabbits has been reduced from 1/1000 to 1/2500.
		14w29a			Killer rabbits no longer spawn in peaceful difficulty.
		14w31a			Rabbits now have sounds.
					Rabbits now have a revised model that includes a tail.
					Rabbits can now take fall damage.
		14w34a			Rabbits can no longer be tamed and do not flee from players.
					The texture of hostile rabbits has been changed.
					"Killer Rabbit" has been been renamed to 'The Killer Bunny'.
					Killer bunnies now ignore creative mode players.
					Killer bunnies no longer spawn without the use of commands. According to a later comment by Jeb, the Killer Bunny was removed from normal gameplay because "it's a tired joke and it's been referenced in so many games," another reason being "they're basically a random death event."[4]
					Black and white mottled fur rabbit's eye color has been changed from pink to black.
		pre1			The textures of the killer bunny has been changed, the blood has been removed
1.8.1		pre1			Rabbits now follow players holding dandelions or golden carrots.
1.9		15w46a			Rabbits are now smaller.
					The drop chance of rabbit's foot from rabbits has been increased from 2.5% to a 10% chance.
					Rabbits no longer spawn in all "usual" passive mob biomes. The groups are smaller and rare (weight 4 out of 44–52 rather than 10 out of 50–58).
					The speed of rabbits has been increased when they're panicking.
					Rabbits now avoid all players within 8 blocks and most hostile mobs within 4 blocks.
					The rabbit's avoidance range for wolves has been reduced from 16 blocks.
					Rabbits no longer prefer begging for food to mating.
					The health of rabbits has been reduced from 10 to 3.
					The speed of rabbits has been generally increased.
					The skins of rabbits now depend on their spawning biome. There is now a 5% chance a bred baby matches the biome rather than the parents.
					The crop eating of rabbits is now less destructive (used to completely destroy the crop block regardless of growth), but MoreCarrotTicks is now reduced and ignored.
		15w47b			Added killer rabbit attack sounds.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID of rabbits has been changed from Rabbit to rabbit.
1.14		18w43a			Added illager beasts, which flee from rabbits.
					The textures of rabbits have been changed.
					The textures of baby rabbits have been changed.
		18w44a			Illager beasts no longer flee from rabbits.[5]
1.18		Experimental Snapshot 1			Rabbits now spawn in the newly added meadow, grove and snowy slopes biomes.
		experimental snapshot 2			Rabbits now spawn more frequently in meadows.
		21w37a			Rabbits can now spawn on snow blocks.
1.19.3		22w42a			Rabbits now have a 100% chance to drop raw rabbit when killed.[6]
1.20 (Experimental)		23w07a			Rabbits now spawn in cherry groves.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.13.0		build 1			Added rabbits. They have all the changes that were later ported to Java Edition 1.9.
					Added baby rabbits.
					The spawn rate of rabbits has weight 20, while usual passive mobs have a weight of 100.
v0.15.0		build 1			Rabbits named as "Toast" now use the Toast texture.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Added stray cats, which try to attack and kill rabbits.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of rabbits have been changed.
					The texture of the white rabbit has been changed to the albino rabbit texture, which has changed the texture from to .
					The textures of baby rabbits have been changed.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.1			Added foxes, which attack rabbits.
Caves & Cliffs (experimental)		beta 1.16.220.50			Rabbits now spawn in mountain groves.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added rabbits.
					Added baby rabbits.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added rabbits.
					Added baby rabbits.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Rabbit" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• The Killer Bunny is a reference to the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog from the British comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which it was formerly named.
• The Killer Bunny was suggested by Twitter user @88bully.^[7]
• The death sound for the rabbit is called bunnymurder.ogg.

Gallery[]

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Animations[]

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  A brown rabbit running.

Screenshots[]

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  Ryan Holtz modeling the rabbit.

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  The first image of a rabbit tweeted by Ryan Holtz.

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  The second image of a rabbit tweeted by Ryan Holtz.

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  The third image of a rabbit tweeted by Ryan Holtz.

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  The fourth image of a rabbit tweeted by Ryan Holtz.

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  The fifth image of a rabbit tweeted by Ryan Holtz.

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  Baby rabbits.

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  First image of Toast.

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  Second image of Toast.

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  Third image of Toast.

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  Fourth image of Toast.

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  The first image of the Killer Bunny.

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  The second image of the Killer Bunny.

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  A pen of rabbits.

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  The second Killer Bunny texture, similar to a normal white rabbit.

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  All of the available rabbit skins.

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  The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog as a baby.

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  The third Killer Bunny texture, with blood on its mouth and paws.

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  Killer bunny.

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  A rabbit eating a carrot.

In other media[]

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  Lego Minecraft Black Rabbit.

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  Lego Minecraft Baby Brown Rabbit.

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  A rabbit in official artwork for The Wild Update.

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  Rabbit art.

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  Jumbo Rabbit from Minecraft Earth.

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  A rabbit preparing to shoot Steve with a crossbow.^[8]

Textures[]

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  The White Rabbit texture in Bedrock Edition 1.9.

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