Foxes also attack baby turtles on land only. In Bedrock Edition, foxes also shake side to side before pouncing and their legs can be seen waving while in midair.įoxes attack chickens, rabbits, cod, salmon, and tropical fish. A fox prepares to pounce by tilting and lowering its head and lowering its body to become shorter. Like rabbits and goats, foxes can jump (pounce) more than one block high without status effects or player input. Naturally spawned kits do not trust players.Īn animation showing a fox's jump during an attack on a chicken.įoxes attack either by running up to the target or by pouncing. Breeding two adults with sweet berries or glow berries produces a kit that trusts the player, but still follows nearby adult foxes. They are unaffected by sweet berry bushes, taking no damage or speed reduction while moving in them.īaby foxes follow adult foxes. However, they do not flee if the player approaches them while sneaking. Upon successful breeding, 1–7 are dropped.įoxes move quickly like ocelots and flee from nearby players and wolves. If a fox is killed while holding a totem of undying, then the fox consumes the totem and revives itself instead of dropping the totem. Like other baby animals, killing a baby fox yields no experience.įoxes always drop any item 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:
Upon death, adult foxes drop 1–2 / 1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf. Foxes spawn in taiga, old growth taiga, snowy taiga and grove biomes, in groups of 2–4.įoxes that spawned in a snowy biome are white.įoxes have a 20% chance to spawn (via spawn egg or naturally) with one of the following items in their mouth: