How to breed frogs in Minecraft

Frogs are the new mobs on the block in Minecraft 1.19, with so much variety in colour, you’ll need to know how they breed for you to get them all.

Who doesn’t love frogs? These little guys hop around Minecraft’s new Mangrove Swamp biome eating fireflies, slimes, and even Magma Cubes if you somehow make their paths cross. They’re the latest in a long line of new passive mobs making the world of Minecraft feel more alive than ever, and balancing out the other scary things Minecraft 1.19 added.

These cute creatures can come in three different colours, can produce unique items such as the Froglight, and have unique breeding mechanics. Normally in Minecraft, if you feed animals then they’ll smash their heads together for a few seconds and a baby will pop out, but frogs undergo a more realistic, and more time-consuming process.

Minecraft frog breeding

Minecraft tadpole. Picture: Mojang

First, you need to get two frogs and feed them each a slimeball. After they smash their heads together a bit, one of the frogs will become pregnant and seek out the nearest water source which has air directly above it. Once it gets there it will lay frogspawn, which sits on top of the water, after a little while these will hatch into tadpoles that swim around in the water.

Eventually, these will grow into frogs, but if you’re looking for frogs of a specific colour, then you need to put them in the right environment. For a white frog, your tadpole must grow up in a warm biome like Desert, Badlands, or Mangrove Swamp (where they naturally spawn). For a brown frog, it must grow up in a temperate biome like Plains, Forest, or Taiga. Finally, for a green frog, it must grow up in a cold biome like Snowy Plains, Ice Spikes, or The End.

Tadpoles will follow you through water if you’re holding a slimeball, but it’s far quicker to pick them up in a bucket and put them down wherever you want. Just be careful as any nearby axolotls will attack the tadpoles on sight.

Written by Ryan Woodrow on behalf of GLHF.