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PASSIVE Added in 1.20

Camel mob in Minecraft

The Camel is the desert mount: it needs no taming, carries two players and can dash forward over gaps. Saddle it straight away, breed it with cactus, and expect nothing from it when it dies, since it drops no items.

Health: 3216 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Food: Cactus
Found in: Desert

Camel stats

Health: 32 16 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Spawns in: 1 biomes
Size: 1.7 × 2.375 blocks
XP when killed: 1 to 3none as a baby
Speed: 0.09
Detection range: 16 blocks
Tempt range: 10 blocks

// Experience drops only when a player kills it. Speeds are the game’s internal values, not blocks per second.

Where to find Camel

Biomes where it spawns naturally, with its share of the spawns in each group.

Desert

Spawning

Group size: 1
Light level: 9 or more
Spawns on: Red Sand Sand Suspicious Sand

Structures

With the structureVillage

Camel drops

Nothing from its loot table.

Carried items and gearDropped on death, outside the loot table (game code)

Anything a player put on itAlways dropped: Saddle100%

Health compared

Health vs other passive mobshealth points

Camel32

Camel Husk32

Donkey15–30

Horse15–30

Mule15–30

Turtle30

Zombie Horse25

Camel and its family

Mobs built on the same base in the game code, compared on their game values.

Mob	Health	XP	Speed	Dismounts underwater	Breathes underwater	Ignores Poison and Regeneration	Inverted healing	Weak to Smite	Undead
Camel	32	1–3	0.09	✓	·	·	·	·	·
Camel Husk	32	1–3	0.09	·	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Traits

Properties set in the game files.

SaddleCan be saddled and ridden.

Dismounts underwaterRiders are thrown off underwater.

Food and breeding

Items it eats, follows or breeds with.

Cactus

Baby Camel

Bred with

Cactus All baby mobs →

Gear and tools

Items it can wear, and items you use on it.

WearsSaddle

Advancements with Camel

Advancements whose criteria involve this mob, from the game files.

Two by TwoBreed all the animals!

Command

Summon a Camel/summon →

/summon minecraft:camel ~ ~ ~

Where to find camels

Camels spawn in the desert, but rarely in the open. Your best chance is a desert village, where they are often found walking between the houses. Lure one with a cactus in your hand: camels follow anyone holding it.

Riding without taming

Unlike horses, camels do not need to be tamed. Use a saddle on any adult camel and climb on. A second player can sit behind you, which makes the camel the only common mount for two. Camels do not take horse armor and cannot carry a chest.

Camels walk up one-block steps without jumping, and you sit high above the ground, with a clear view across the dunes. They sometimes sit down on their own; a sitting camel takes a moment to stand up before it moves.

The dash

A camel cannot jump like a horse. Instead, the jump key makes it dash: hold it to charge, then release, and the camel lunges forward. It is enough to clear a ravine or outrun a mob. After a dash, the camel needs a short rest before the next one, so plan your route. Like other mounts, it throws you off when it goes underwater, but it floats and swims at the surface with you on it.

Breeding camels

Two adult camels breed when you feed them cactus. The calf follows its parents and grows faster if you keep feeding it cactus. Since cactus grows on its own on sand, a small cactus field next to the pen is all a camel farm needs. Breeding is the only way to get more camels than the desert gives you, as they drop nothing at all when they die.

The camel husk is a different, undead mob that looks like a camel. Do not confuse the two in the dark.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026