With the latest release of Minecraft 1.21 one of the new Mobs is the Minecraft Armadillo. The Armadillo won the 2023 Minecraft Live Mob vote beating the Penguin and Crab Mob. The 2023 Mob vote had over 5 million players register their votes, the Armadillo gained 42.4% of the votes, while the Crab had 32.5% and the Penguin had 25.2% of the votes.
In this guide we will cover everything that you need to know about the Minecraft Armadillo.
Where can you find Minecraft Armadillos
Armadillos in Minecraft can be found in all variants of Savanna and Badland biomes.They love warm climates and therefore they naturally spawn in those biomes. Armadillos seem to be quite rare so you need to thoroughly explore those biomes in order to find them.
When you spot Minecraft Armadillos make sure to approach them slowly because if they feel threatened they will curl into a ball and stay like that for 3 seconds. Things that scare the Armadillo in Minecraft are:
- Sprinting Players
- Players on mounts or in vehicles
- Undead Mobs like Zombies, Skeletons and others
What do Armadillos eat in Minecraft
To feed Armadillos you will need to find Spiders and kill them in order to get Spider Eyes. The Armadillo will only eat Spider Eyes, and it is the only food that it will eat, unlike some other mobs like the Minecraft Pig that eats both potatoes and carrots.
Feeding a baby Armadillo will make it grow faster, and feeding an adult Armadillo will heal it.
Minecraft Spider Eyes are easy to farm, one of the ways is to find a Mineshaft and make a farm around the Spider Spawner, luckily Mine Shafts are common under Savanna biomes. The other way is to wait for night to set and go around looking for Spiders that spawn naturally.
How to breed Armadillos in Minecraft
Minecraft Armadillos appear to be quite rare, luckily we have the ability to breed them. To breed Minecraft Armadillos you will need to feed two adult Armadillos with Spider Eyes. Like we mentioned above slaying Spiders will get you Spider Eyes, we recommend you to use a sword enchanted with looting to increase the amount of Spider Eyes that get dropped.
You can also get Spider eyes by killing Witches or looting desert pyramid chests, but those methods are very time consuming as both witches and pyramids are quite rare.
Once you get the Spider Eyes, right click both adult Armadillos and wait for them to enter love mode. After that a baby Armadillo will spawn between them. The baby Armadillo will take a few minutes to fully grow into an adult Minecraft Armadillo, like we mentioned you can speed up the process by feeding the baby with Spider Eyes.
Because Armadillos love Spider Eyes, Spiders and Cave Spiders are scared of them, like Skeletons are afraid of Wolves.
What can you do with Armadillo Scutes in Minecraft
To get Armadillo Scutes you will firstly need to craft a Brush. If you are struggling with remembering all the various Minecraft recipes, especially the relatively new ones
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Once you have crafted the Brush, find yourself an Armadillo and right click on it with the Brush. With one Brush you will be able to get 4 Armadillo Scutes. If you enchant your Brush with Unbreaking 3 you will be able to get 18 Armadillo Scutes. You will be able to obtain them 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.
Also, Minecraft Armadillos drop Scutes by themselves every 10-15 minutes, if you do not have Brush you can still get Scutes but it will take you a long time to gather enough to craft the Wolf Armor.
How to make Wolf Armor in Minecraft
To craft Wolf Armor in Minecraft you will need 6 Armadillo Scutes. After you have used your Brush and gathered the required 6 Scutes find a crafting table and place them like shown below:
After that, all you have to do is to find a Wolf and tame it with bones, then take the Wolf Armor that you just crafted and right click on your Wolf.
With that being said, we have covered everything that you need to know about the Minecraft Armadillo. If this article helped you
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