06-13-2013, 05:11 PM
Looks like it's time for a quick rundown on Minecraft. To befriend animals they have to be either a cat or a wolf, or if you're using the latest snapshot also horses. To befriend a wolf you right click it with a bone, to give it to the wolf, do this until you see it sit down and there are hearts coming out of it, (everytime you right click you use one bone, but if you're in creative you have unlimited bones anyway.) it is now your companion. As for cats, you need to go get a raw fish, and stand still with it in your hands and wait for the cat to approach you, as it will be curious about the fish, after you do that right click it to feed it the fish, keep feeding it fish till it sits and there are hearts coming out of it. As for horses same procedure as the wolfs except you use wheat or carrots I think, I haven't played the more recent snapshots so I'm not positive.
Wolves are used as body guards, they will follow you around when not sitting, (right click a wolf or cat to make it stand or sit when it's friendly toward you.) and attack anything you attack, (or anything attacking you/themselves [excluding you]) except creepers as they will explode killing the wolf or wolves surrounding it, and anything else for that matter. Cats act as a creeper repellent, for some reason creepers avoid cats, cats are also natural predators to chickens and will kill them on sight. To make animals breed right click 2 of the same animal with the correct item (here's a list animals and their respective breeding items----The specific items for each breedable animal are as follows:
Horses, Sheep, Cows and Mooshrooms: Wheat.
Pigs: Carrots
Chickens: Seeds.
Melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, or nether wart can be used to breed chickens, but only wheat seeds can be used to lead them around.
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. Bones should be used instead.
Tamed Cats: raw fish.)
Also to heal your wolves if they get damaged in battle as they certainly will, right click them with some food in you hand to feed them. That's about it for animals, I think you can figure the rest out yourself as the rest is just biomes, hostile mobs and crafting recipes, (well and bartering with villagers, but I don't want to make this wall of text any longer.) and of you need more help the Minecraft wiki is a great resource, as it has everything there, it's basically the manual. Also if you're in creative mode every mob has a spawn egg that you can pick out of the inventory and throw at the ground to spawn the designated mob.
Edit: One more thing, Wolves spawn in forests, and taiga (a snowy forest) biomes, and cats will spawn in jungles.
Wolves are used as body guards, they will follow you around when not sitting, (right click a wolf or cat to make it stand or sit when it's friendly toward you.) and attack anything you attack, (or anything attacking you/themselves [excluding you]) except creepers as they will explode killing the wolf or wolves surrounding it, and anything else for that matter. Cats act as a creeper repellent, for some reason creepers avoid cats, cats are also natural predators to chickens and will kill them on sight. To make animals breed right click 2 of the same animal with the correct item (here's a list animals and their respective breeding items----The specific items for each breedable animal are as follows:
Horses, Sheep, Cows and Mooshrooms: Wheat.
Pigs: Carrots
Chickens: Seeds.
Melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, or nether wart can be used to breed chickens, but only wheat seeds can be used to lead them around.
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. Bones should be used instead.
Tamed Cats: raw fish.)
Also to heal your wolves if they get damaged in battle as they certainly will, right click them with some food in you hand to feed them. That's about it for animals, I think you can figure the rest out yourself as the rest is just biomes, hostile mobs and crafting recipes, (well and bartering with villagers, but I don't want to make this wall of text any longer.) and of you need more help the Minecraft wiki is a great resource, as it has everything there, it's basically the manual. Also if you're in creative mode every mob has a spawn egg that you can pick out of the inventory and throw at the ground to spawn the designated mob.
Edit: One more thing, Wolves spawn in forests, and taiga (a snowy forest) biomes, and cats will spawn in jungles.