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PASSIVE Added in 1.19

Frog mob in Minecraft

The Frog is a swamp mob that hops between lily pads and catches small slimes and magma cubes with its tongue. Its main use is light: a frog that eats a small magma cube leaves a froglight, and the color depends on the frog's variant.

Health: 105 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Food: Slimeball
Found in: Mangrove Swamp+1 more

Frog stats

Health: 10 5 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Spawns in: 2 biomes
Size: 0.5 × 0.5 blocks
XP when killed: 1 to 3none as a baby
Speed: 1
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 Frog

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

Mangrove Swamp

Swamp

Spawning

Group size: 2 to 5
Light level: 9 or more
Spawns on: Grass Block Mangrove Roots Mud Muddy Mangrove Roots

Frog drops

Nothing.

Also gives you

FrogspawnLays it—

Health compared

Health vs other passive mobshealth points

Cat10

Cow10

Fox10

Frog10

Glow Squid10

Mooshroom10

Ocelot10

Variants

3 variants. The game picks one when the mob spawns, based on where it appears.

Cold Spawns in cold biomes

Temperate

Warm Spawns in warm biomes

Traits

Properties set in the game files.

Breathes underwaterDoes not drown.

Food and breeding

Items it eats, follows or breeds with.

Slimeball

Baby Frog

Hatches from

Frogspawn Bred with

Slimeball The baby is a Tadpole, which turns into a Frog. All baby mobs →

Advancements with Frog

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

When the Squad Hops into TownGet each Frog variant on a Lead Two by TwoBreed all the animals!

Command

Summon a Frog/summon →

/summon minecraft:frog ~ ~ ~

Where frogs live

Frogs spawn in the Swamp and the Mangrove Swamp. They swim well, breathe underwater and like to jump onto lily pads and big dripleaf. Their color tells you about the climate they grew up in: the orange temperate frog is the default, the pale warm frog comes from warm places such as the Mangrove Swamp, and the green cold frog from snowy biomes.

What frogs eat

Frogs hunt small Slimes and small Magma Cubes, grabbing them with their tongue and swallowing them in one go. A small slime eaten this way drops a slimeball. A small magma cube drops a froglight instead of magma cream, and which one depends on the frog:

a temperate frog gives an ochre froglight;
a warm frog gives a pearlescent froglight;
a cold frog gives a verdant froglight.

Froglights are full light blocks as bright as glowstone, and their three soft colors make them popular for builds.

How to farm froglights

Frog in Minecraft: A Frog’s tongue grabs a small Magma Cube, an Ochre Froglight already on the ground — A Frog’s tongue grabs a small Magma Cube, an Ochre Froglight already on the ground Scene setup: Pen built in the Basalt Deltas; Frog and Magma Cube held in place. The froglight comes from an earlier meal. In-game screenshot · Java Edition 26.3

Magma cubes live in the Nether, so either the frogs travel or the cubes do. Taking frogs through a portal is usually easier. Lead them on a lead, set them up in a fenced area near Basalt Deltas, where magma cubes are common, and let them work. Large magma cubes split into smaller ones when you hit them, and the frogs finish the job. For all three colors, bring one frog of each variant.

Breeding frogs

Feed two frogs a slimeball each. One of them then lays frogspawn on the surface of nearby water, which hatches into tadpoles. Frogspawn cannot be picked up, so pick the pond carefully. Each tadpole becomes a frog whose variant depends on the biome where it grows up, not on its parents: raise tadpoles in a snowy biome and you get cold frogs.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026