Rabbit in Minecraft: Colors, Breeding and the Rabbit's Foot

Rabbits are small, fast passive mobs with just 3 health (one and a half hearts). They hop away from you, eat your carrots, and drop rabbit hide, raw rabbit and, rarely, a rabbit’s foot, the only ingredient for Potions of Leaping.

Stat	Value
Health	3 HP (1.5 hearts)
Spawns	Deserts, snowy biomes, flower forests, meadows, taigas and more
Food	Carrots, golden carrots, dandelions
Drops	Rabbit hide, raw rabbit, rabbit’s foot (10%)
XP	1-7 from breeding

Colors and where they live

The coat depends on the biome:

• Gold in deserts.
• White and white splotched in snowy biomes.
• Brown, salt-and-pepper and black in most other places where rabbits spawn.

Babies inherit a parent’s color, so you can build a herd of any coat you’ve caught. There’s also a hidden skin: name a rabbit “Toast” with a name tag and it gets a black-and-white Dutch pattern, a tribute to a player’s lost pet rabbit. Its babies don’t keep the pattern.

Catching and breeding

Rabbits run from any player within eight blocks unless you’re holding something they eat. Hold a carrot or dandelion and they’ll follow you instead. Walk them into a fenced pen, feed two adults, and a baby appears. Babies take 20 minutes to grow, and feeding them speeds it up.

Wild foxes and wolves hunt rabbits, so a pen near a forest needs a full fence.

Rabbits in your farm

When mob griefing is on, rabbits eat fully grown carrot crops, knocking them back a growth stage. A loose rabbit next to a carrot farm will slowly ruin it. Fence your crops, or put the rabbit pen away from the field.

Drops and what they’re good for

• Rabbit hide: four make one leather, handy if there are no cows around.
• Raw rabbit: cook it for 5 hunger, or make rabbit stew, which restores 10.
• Rabbit’s foot: 10% base chance on a player or tamed-wolf kill, up to about 19% with Looting III. Brew it into an awkward potion for Leaping.

Killing a baby gives nothing, so breed them up first.

The Killer Bunny

On Java, /summon rabbit with variant 99 (evil) creates the Killer Bunny, a white rabbit with red eyes, 8 armor and an 8-damage bite on Normal. It’s a Monty Python joke and has never spawned naturally in a modern version. Bedrock doesn’t have it at all.

Edition differences

• Bedrock rabbits spawn in a few extra cold biomes such as frozen rivers and snowy beaches; Java adds old-growth taigas.
• Bedrock drop chances are rolled per item (50% each for hide, raw and cooked meat).
• Bedrock baby rabbits follow their parents.

Other small animals are listed on the mobs hub.