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PASSIVE HOSTILE Present since 1.14 or earlier

Rabbit mob in Minecraft

The Rabbit is a small, fast animal hunted mostly for its rare foot, the brewing ingredient of the Potion of Leaping. It breeds with carrots, golden carrots or dandelions, and it will happily eat the carrots in your fields.

Health: 31.5 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Food
Found in: 13 biomes

Rabbit stats

Health: 3 1.5 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Main drop: Rabbit Hide
Spawns in: 13 biomes
Size: 0.49 × 0.6 blocks
XP when killed: 1 to 3none as a baby
Speed: 0.3
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.

How much damage Rabbit deals

Damage to a player without armor, by world difficulty. 1 ♥ = 2 damage points.

Melee attack

Peaceful00 ♥

Easy52.5 ♥

Normal84 ♥

Hard126 ♥

// Armor, Protection and Resistance reduce these values. Base values read from the game code (26.3).

Where to find Rabbit

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

Old Growth Pine Taiga

Old Growth Spruce Taiga

All 13 biomes

Spawning

Group size: 2 to 32 to 6 · depends on the biome
Light level: 9 or more
Spawns on: Grass Block Sand Snow Snow Block

Rabbit drops

Rabbit dropsFrom the loot table · chance per kill

Rabbit Hide+1 per Looting level0–1

Raw Rabbit+1 per Looting level · Cooked if it dies on fire×1

Rabbit's Foot10% chance · 19% with Looting III · Only when killed by a player×1

Health compared

Health vs other passive mobshealth points

Chicken4

Snow Golem4

Cod3

Rabbit3

Salmon3

Tropical Fish3

Variants

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

Brown

White

Black

Black and white

Gold

Salt and pepper

Traits

Properties set in the game files.

Walks on powder snowDoes not sink into powder snow.

Food and breeding

Items it eats, follows or breeds with.

Carrot

Dandelion

Golden Carrot

Baby Rabbit

Bred with

Carrot

Golden Carrot

Dandelion All baby mobs →

Advancements with Rabbit

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

Two by TwoBreed all the animals!

Command

Summon a Rabbit/summon →

/summon minecraft:rabbit ~ ~ ~

Catching and breeding rabbits

Rabbits hop away quickly when you approach, which makes them hard to hit with a sword. Holding a carrot, a golden carrot or a dandelion changes that: rabbits come to you instead. Feed two adults to get a baby, and lead the group into a fenced pen where you can reach them.

Wild rabbits also raid farms. When the mobGriefing game rule is on, they nibble mature carrot crops and set them back a growth stage, so fence off your carrot field if rabbits live nearby.

Rabbit's foot, hide and meat

Rabbit's foot: it only drops when a player kills the rabbit, and not often. Looting raises the chance. Brewed into an awkward potion, it gives the Potion of Leaping, and a cleric villager buys it for emeralds.
Rabbit hide: four hides craft into one leather, a good fallback when you have no cows. A leatherworker villager also buys hides.
Meat: cooked rabbit, a baked potato, a carrot, a mushroom and a bowl make rabbit stew, one of the most filling foods in the game.

Coat colors and where they come from

A rabbit's coat depends on where it spawns. In snowy biomes, rabbits are white or black and white, which hides them in the snow; in the desert they are gold; elsewhere they are brown, black or salt and pepper. Rabbits also walk on powder snow without sinking.

A seventh, hostile variant, the Killer Bunny, never spawns naturally: you only get it with commands, and it attacks players and wolves.

Who hunts rabbits

Foxes and wild wolves chase and kill rabbits. If you are looking for rabbits in a taiga full of foxes, you may find mostly rabbit hide and feet lying around.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026