Minecraft 1.9: animals and farming

Boat Breeding

• Put any animal you want to do breed with on some boats that are on top of fences
• Give the animal certain food (depending on what the animal is look at the chart below)

Mob	Items	Other
Horse	Golden Apple Golden Carrot	Sugar,  Wheat,  Apples,  Golden Carrots,  Golden Apples and  Hay Bales to feed for growth and healing.
Sheep Cow Mooshroom	Wheat	Wheat to feed for growth.
Pig	Carrots Upcoming Potatoes Beetroots Pocket Edition only Potatoes Beetroots	Carrots for growth.
Chicken	Seeds Upcoming Pumpkin seeds Melon seeds Beetroot seeds Pocket Edition only Pumpkin seeds Melon seeds Beetroot seeds
Tamed Wolves	Any type of meat, whether cooked, raw, or rotten.	Tamed wolves must be at full health before being fed to breed. Meat cannot be used to tame a wolf. Only Bones can be used to tame wolfs.
Tamed Ocelots (cats)	Raw Fish Raw Salmon Clownfish Pufferfish	None
Rabbits	Dandelions Carrots Golden Carrots	None

• Here is an example boat breeding with mushrooms

Beetroot

• Beetroot
• Restores 1 (Half Hunger.svg).
• Spawns naturally in villages.
• Can be used to craft beetroot soup.
• Can also be used to craft rose red dye.
• Used to be a pocket edition exclusive.
• Beetroot soup
• Restores 6 (Hunger.svgHunger.svgHunger.svg).
• Crafted from 6 beetroots and a bowl.
• Used to be a pocket edition exclusive.
• Beetroot seeds
• Used to grow beetroots.
• Drop chances for beetroot seeds average 2 per crop harvested.
• Used to be a pocket edition exclusive.
• Chorus fruit
• Obtained from chorus plants.
• Can be eaten even if the player is not hungry, similar to golden apples.
• Teleports the player to a random nearby location when eaten (like an enderman).
• Does not heal hunger points if the hunger bar is full.
• Otherwise it will heal 4 (Hunger.svgHunger.svg).
• Can be cooked in the furnace to obtain Popped Chorus Fruits.
• It has a cool down time every time they are eaten, like ender pearls.
• It is visible in the item icon through a "rolling curtain" animation.
• Stacks to 64.
• Popped chorus fruit
• Obtained from cooking chorus fruit.
• Used to craft purpur blocks.
• Cannot be eaten.

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