Baby Butcher

Quickstart

1. Find a Baby Butcher in a taiga, or spawn one with the Baby Butcher Spawn Egg from the Creative Spawn Eggs tab.
2. Give it 3 gold ingots, one at a time, by interacting with it while holding an ingot. It will show your taming progress and become your companion after the third.
3. Keep chickens, pigs, cows, or sheep within about 20 blocks of you. The Baby Butcher hunts nearby animals when it isn’t night.
4. At night, it returns to you and drops the loot it collected nearby. If it has stored loot, interact with it to transfer that loot to your inventory; any overflow drops beside you.

Overview

Baby Butcher is an axe-wielding hunter that can be tamed with gold. Once tamed, it follows you, hunts nearby farm animals, and brings its collected drops back at night.

What It Adds

• The Baby Butcher mob
• A Baby Butcher Spawn Egg

How To Use

Interact with an untamed Baby Butcher using a gold ingot in your main hand to tame it. Each ingot counts toward the three needed; ingots are consumed unless you are in Creative mode.

A tamed Baby Butcher hunts chickens, pigs, cows, and sheep it can see within about 20 blocks of you. It collects item drops from animals it kills. At night, it heads back to you and drops its stored loot when it gets close.

If it has stored loot, interacting with it collects that loot instead of feeding it an ingot. Any items that do not fit in your inventory are dropped beside you.

Crafting And Obtaining

Baby Butchers can spawn naturally in taiga biomes. The Spawn Egg is available in the Creative Spawn Eggs tab. No crafting recipe is available.

Abilities And Mechanics

• Taming: Three gold ingots tame a Baby Butcher and bind it to you.
• Hunting: It seeks nearby chickens, pigs, cows, and sheep that it can see, then attacks with its axe.
• Loot delivery: It stores drops from animals it kills and brings them to you at night.
• Retaliation: An untamed Baby Butcher may fight back if you attack it.

Progression And Strategy

Tame one before relying on it to hunt: untamed Baby Butchers do not gather animal loot for you. Keep the companion near suitable animals and within range of you so it can find prey. Check around yourself at night for its delivered drops, or interact with it to collect any loot it is still carrying.