Minecraft Armadillo Guide: Spawn, Food, Breeding, and More

There are lots of different mobs in Minecraft. While some mobs are cute-looking, others look just as terrifying. But let’s be real, we always want more adorable mobs to join the game so we can pet them and add them to our village builds. Today, we’ll cover one of those cuties, the armadillo, a mob with a shield of its own. In this guide, let’s learn everything you need to know about the armadillo, from its spawn location to its basic properties.

What is an Armadillo in Minecraft?

Armadillo is an adorable passive mob. It will curl into a ball if it feels threatened. These threats to the armadillo include:

• Sprinting players
• Players on mounts or in vehicles
• Undead mobs like zombies, wither skeletons, and more

The Armadillo usually gets scared of these threats, even if they are around 5-7 blocks away. When an armadillo is rolled up into a ball, it will not walk or eat. Also, it won’t curl in a ball if it’s in water, air, fleeing, or being led.

This mob can peek from its shell and check for threats at times, and it will unroll if it doesn’t detect a threat for three seconds. This sweet mob, for those unaware, was the winner of the Minecraft Mob Vote 2023. It won the battle against the crab and the penguin.

Armadillo Spawn Location in Minecraft

Armadillos love warm climates and naturally spawn in all variants of the Savanna and Badlands biomes in Minecraft. Moreover, they seem to be quite rare, so you’ll have to explore one of these areas thoroughly to locate a couple of armadillos.

For a detailed answer, you’ll find the Armadillo in the following regions with the given group size:

Biome	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition
Savanna	2-3	4
Savnna Plateau	2-3	4
Windswept Savanna	2-3	4
Badlands	1-2	1-2
Wooden Badlands	1-2	1-2
Eroded Badlands	1-2	1-2

Now that we know what the armadillo is and where it can be found, let’s examine its properties, starting with its health and then its breeding mechanics and drops.

What Does an Armadillo Eat in Minecraft?

The armadillo mob eats spider eyes. Anyway, in case you didn’t know, spider eyes can only be obtained by killing the spider mob. This can be either done by the player or by a tamed wolf.

Furthermore, the looting enchantment in Minecraft helps increase the chance and the number of spider eyes drops. You can also obtain spider eyes by killing witches and looting desert pyramid chests.

Because armadillos love spider eyes, spiders and cave spiders are scared of them, like skeletons are afraid of wolves, and creepers are afraid of cats. So, if you hate spider noises, you can bring all these cuties to your base, and you won’t be bothered by spiders any time soon.

How to Breed Armadillo in Minecraft

Armadillos spawn pretty rarely, but fortunately, we can breed them. This will not only allow you to have an adorable army of cute baby armadillos, but it will also offer infinite armadillo drops (more on this below). To breed armadillos, you’ll need two adults and two pieces of their favorite food, i.e. spider eyes.

Here’s how to breed two Armadillos:

• Once you get the spider eyes, right-click the adult armadillos with them.
• The Armadillo will enter love mode after you do that.
• After that, the two mobs will get close to each other, and a baby armadillo will spawn.

The baby can then take a few minutes to grow up, but this process can be accelerated by feeding it more spider eyes. If the armadillos are curled up, they won’t accept food, so they cannot breed. You must wait for the cooldown to wear off to breed them again.

How Does an Armadillo Drop Scutes?

Now, let’s focus on the most important property of armadillos. Don’t worry as no armadillo killing will be required. If you go ahead and make a brush tool, you can use it on an adult armadillo, and it will drop one armadillo scute.

You will be able to get it regardless of whether the armadillo is curled up or not. In addition, there is no cooldown between the brush uses on an armadillo, as you can use it repeatedly without stopping. However, there is a catch.

Using a brush in this way will deplete its durability rapidly. So, depending on the game edition, you can get only 4-5 scutes from an armadillo with one unenchanted brush.

The armadillo can drop the scutes by itself occasionally – one every 5-10 minutes. You will get some XP to breed two armadillos besides the scutes. And in case you’re curious, you only get XP from killing the adult armadillo and absolutely nothing after slaying a baby armadillo.

What is Armadillo’s Health in Minecraft?

Small mobs usually have low HP, and the armadillo is no different. This little animal has a total of 12 health points, or six hearts. This means that the armadillo is quite fragile and can easily die if attacked.

Moreover, while the armadillo is curled in a ball, its hard shell actually protects it from oncoming damage. This is why weak hits, like punches, don’t deal any damage to the armadillo. It will peek out of its shell occasionally to see if there are any threats nearby.

Armadillos are not immune to fall damage and will die if they fall from a height equal to or greater than 15 blocks. They also take damage from fire or lava as well and can drown in water. If the armadillo takes damage, it will roll up and stay like that for a longer period than if it were just scared.

How to Use Armadillo Scutes to Make Wolf Armor

The Armadillo mob also makes it possible for players to make armor for their beloved companions – the wolves. A single wolf armor requires six scutes. So, you will need at least two unenchanted brushes to get sufficient scutes to make one wolf armor.

Once collected, open the crafting table UI, place three scutes on the middle row, and the remaining three at each corner, except for the top right cell. This will give you the Wolf armor in the right cell.

If you put the Unbreaking enchantment on the brush, it will last significantly longer. Moreover, a dispenser filled with brushes can also harvest armadillo scutes, which allows us to automate this process.

Scutes are also useful if you want to repair the wolf armor. Hold them in your main hand and use them on a wolf with damaged wolf armor to restore 8 durability.

That’s everything you need to do about the armadillo in Minecraft. It’s a wonderful addition to the game and finally makes the long-asked-for feature a reality. So, in our opinion, the armadillo won the competition fair and square.

With that said, what are your thoughts on this adorable animal? Tell us in the comments section below.