Frog

A frog is a passive mob found in swamps. Frogs eat small slimes and magma cubes. A frog can produce one of three kinds of froglights from eating magma cubes, depending on the type of frog.

Spawning[]

Groups of two to five frogs can spawn in swamp and mangrove swamp biomes. Frogs can also be spawned by growing from tadpoles. There are three frog variants, determined by the biome in which the tadpole grew up:

Notes

Drops[]

Frogs drop 1–3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf, while 1–7 is dropped upon successful breeding.

Behavior[]

On land, frogs will slowly wander, jumping at random. They can jump 8 blocks high and take 5 less damage from falling than most other mobs. They prefer jumping on lily pads and big dripleaves, and will usually jump to blocks that are higher up.

In water, frogs move much faster. They will generally swim upwards and remain at the water's surface, but will swim downwards if lured by a player. Frogs cannot be hurt by drowning.

Occasionally, they may croak and inflate their vocal sac.

Breeding[]

Frogs will follow any player holding a slimeball within 6 blocks of them.

Feeding two frogs a slimeball causes them to enter love mode, causing one of the frogs to become pregnant, similar to turtles. The pregnant frog then searches for a water block with at least one adjacent water block (flowing or source) with air above to lay frogspawn. This spawn later hatches into tadpoles, which subsequently grow into frogs.

Unlike all other mobs with baby variants, the tadpole is treated by the game as a completely different mob from the frog.

Attacking[]

Frogs attack by using their tongue to pull certain mobs into their mouth, whereupon the mob instantly despawns without a death animation.

Frogs attack small slimes, which drop slimeballs when killed.

Frogs also attack small magma cubes, leaving a froglight block. When the magma cube gets targeted, the frog will walk towards it at a faster pace before attacking. The color of froglight that drops depends on the type of frog that attacks the magma cube:

Sounds[]

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

Bedrock Edition:

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Entity data[]

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

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 25 mobs: Armadillo 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
	When the Squad Hops into Town	Get each Frog variant on a Lead	Bukkit Bukkit	The frogs don't need to be leashed at the same time.[1]	husbandry/leash_all_frog_variants

Video[]

History[]

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September 23, 2019					The swamp is announced as a contender for the Biome Vote at MINECON Live 2019. Frogs, boats with chests, and mangrove trees are announced.
September 28, 2019					The swamp comes in second place in the Biome Vote, setting the release date of new swamp content further than new mountain content.
October 16, 2021					Frogs are announced at Minecraft Live 2021. The eye texture has also changed.
Java Edition
1.19		22w11a			Added frogs.
					Frogs can be tempted and bred using slimeballs.
Bedrock Edition
Wild Update (experimental)		beta 1.18.10.24			Added frogs.
					Frogs can be tempted and bred using seagrass. This is confirmed to be a placeholder.
					When they are hit, they make the same sound as the player.
		beta 1.18.10.26			Frogs now have their unique sounds.
					Frogs now attack small magma cubes and drop a froglight depending on the type of frog.
		beta 1.18.20.21			Frogs that spawn on meadow biomes are now of the temperate rather than cold variety.
		beta 1.18.20.23			Frogs can now be bred and tempted by using slimeballs instead of seagrass and spawn in groups of two to five instead of one to four.
1.19.0		beta 1.19.0.20			Frogs are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.

Issues[]

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Trivia[]

• The warm frog is based on the grey foam-nest tree frog, a real-life species of frog native to Africa.^[2]
• The temperate frog is based on brown bullfrogs.^[3][4]
• Originally, frogs were meant to eat fireflies, but this was scrapped as in real life some fireflies are poisonous to some frogs. Instead, now they can eat small slimes and small magma cubes.^[5]
• During the frog's early development, the developers didn't know what the frog was going to eat, so they made the mouth huge. Some early ideas for what the frog was going to eat included bees.^[6]
• At one point in Bedrock Edition's development, in beta 1.18.10.26, frogs could eat goats. However, this was later removed as it was leftover prototype code.^[7] This was later referenced in the trailer for Minecraft Live 2022, where a frog eats a goat.
• Despite frogs only spawning in mangrove swamps and swamps, a cold frog can spawn naturally if a cold biome borders a swamp or mangrove swamp.
• In Minecraft, all frogs seems to have vocal sacs. But in real life, female frogs lack the vocal sacs present in the males. However, since all Minecraft animals are sexless, it's logical for all frogs to have vocal sacs.
• Photographing a frog in the 15 Year map would not get the sticker. it can only be found after finising the Feeding Frenzy minigame.

Gallery[]

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  An image of the final stage of the frog types after development.

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  Animation of walking frogs posted on twitter by Brandon Pearce.^[8]

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  Croaking temperate frog.

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  Croaking warm frog.

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  Croaking cold frog.

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  A temperate frog eating a slime.

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  Walking temperate frog.

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  Walking warm frog.

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  Walking cold frog.

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  Tongue temperate frog.

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  Jumping temperate frog.

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  Swimming temperate frog.

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  Idling underwater temperate frog.

Cosmetics[]

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  Frog Hat by InPvP

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  Frog Headset by DogHouse

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  A secondary Frog Headset by ChewMingo

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  Plastic texture pack

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  Froggy Shirt

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  Frog Slippers by Sapix

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  Secondary Frog Slippers by Cyclone

Developer screenshots[]

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  An early model of the frog.

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  The frog model in Blockbench, in which it was made.

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  A screenshot in Blockbech showing the animation of the frog.

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  Old model and texture for a frog.^[9]

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  Two frogs in love.

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  A frog at Minecraft Live 2022.

Concept artwork[]

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  Concept art of the frog. Although it was designed for the swamp, it seems to be based on the red-eyed tree frog.

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  An early model of the frog.

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  Ditto

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  An early model of the frog croaking.

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  An early model of the frog flicking its tongue.

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  Concept art for the frog.

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  Concept art for the frog's limbs.

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  Concept art for the frog's legs and movement.

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  An unused concept of a blue tropical frog based on a poison dart frog.

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  Concept art for the frog with closed eyes and tongue function.

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  An early models of the frog.

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  Another early model of the frog.

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  Model with new texture.

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  Early models of the frog compared to the player.

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  Mangrove swamp concept art with a frog.

In other media[]

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  Frogs in official artwork for The Wild Update.

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  A frog on a tree stump.

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  A temperate frog sticking its tongue out.

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  Render of a warm frog.

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  Render of a temperate frog from behind.

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  Noor with a frog.

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  A frog eating a goat, from the Minecraft Live 2022 trailer.

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  Kai and Makena running past a frog.

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  Lego Minecraft frog.

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  An official T-Shirt eponymously named after and featuring frogs.

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  A collection of official plush toys, including one of a frog.

References[]

External Links[]

• Meet the Frog — Minecraft.net on May 30, 2022
• Which Frog Are You — Minecraft.net on June 13, 2022
• Mob Menagerie: Frog — Minecraft.net on November 22, 2022