How to Breed Armadillos in Minecraft

With the addition of armadillos in the Minecraft 1.20.5 update, you can create special protection for your dog in the form of wolf armor. However, these adorable animals spawn only in some biomes and can be quite rare. Not only that, but they’re also quite fragile with low HP. That’s why breeding armadillos is essential, as it will ensure you never run out of scutes. With that said, let’s see how you can breed armadillos in Minecraft.

What Does the Armadillo Eat in Minecraft?

Unlike camels, armadillos love an item that’s also food for the players, but it’s not really beneficial. Have you guessed it already? Yes, it’s the spider eyes. This food item inflicts poison effect on the players, but apparently, armadillos don’t mind. So, to breed armadillos in Minecraft, you’ll need to find two adult armadillos, as well as two spider eyes.

These items are drops from spider Minecraft mobs. They only drop spider eyes when they have been slayed by the player or by a tamed wolf. So, environmental damage, like fall or fire damage, cannot grant spider eyes.

Having looting enchantment on your sword in Minecraft vastly increases the chances of you getting spider eyes and their quantity.

Furthermore, you may also get these poisonous food items by killing witches, which by default drop up to 6 spider eyes. This quantity increases with looting, yielding up to 15 spider eyes per witch kill.

However, if you’re not in the mood to kill mobs, you can always loot chests of the desert pyramids, where you have about a 30% chance of getting 1-3 spider eyes. Furthermore, since armadillos eat spider eyes, regular and cave spiders are afraid of them, like skeletons are scared of wolves. So, that’s another reason why breeding armadillos is useful.

How to Breed Armadillos: A Step-by-Step Process

When you locate two adult armadillos and have obtained two spider eyes, follow the steps below to breed these mobs in Minecraft.

• First, have the spider eyes selected on your hot bar. As you will notice soon, the armadillos will start walking towards you, similarly to other breedable mobs.
• Also, ensure you don’t sprint near the armadillos, as that will scare them and force them to curl into a ball. They won’t accept food if rolled up. These scary threats for armadillos also include players on mounts and undead mobs.
• If they are not curled up and are actively looking for the spider eyes in your hand, you’re free to simply right-click them or use the secondary action button on them with spider eyes.
• Once you do that, How to Breed Armadillos: A Step-by-Step Process will appear above the armadillos, indicating that they have entered love mode.
• Now, they will get close to each other, and the baby armadillo will spawn immediately.

These little cuties need several minutes to grow into adults, but you could speed up that process if you feed it more spider eyes. The two armadillos will require a few minutes of cooldown before they can breed again.

That’s about it. Now you know how to breed armadillos in Minecraft. Suppose you are wondering why we need to breed these mobs when we can get scutes infinitely from a single armadillo and a bunch of brushes. In that case, armadillos can die quite easily, especially if you’re transporting them across dangerous terrain.

So, by breeding them, you will ensure you always have a ‘backup’ armadillo in your village. Frankly, breeding armadillos can also provide us with an army of cute baby armadillos. Who doesn’t want that? With that said, stop wasting time and create your baby armadillo army right now.