Minecraft Fox Trust Guide: Breeding, Locations, and Uses

Foxes are among Minecraft’s best-looking animals, but they do not tame like wolves or cats. You cannot make a naturally spawned fox fully yours. You can, however, breed foxes to create a baby fox that trusts you.

Where Foxes Spawn

Foxes naturally appear in groves, taiga, snowy taiga, old growth pine taiga, and old growth spruce taiga biomes. They spawn in groups of two to four, and each fox has a 5% chance to spawn as a baby.

Foxes from groves and snowy taiga biomes have white coats instead of the usual red coat.

How Fox Trust Works

Foxes cannot be tamed directly in Minecraft. The closest version of taming is breeding two foxes, because the kit they produce will trust the player.

To do this, gather at least two sweet berries or glow berries. Leads, extra berries, and an enclosure at least three blocks tall also help. Foxes are fast, skittish, and very committed to not making your life easy.

Capture two foxes, feed each one a sweet berry or glow berry, and they will produce a baby fox. The kit will match one of the parent colors and will trust the player.

What Trusted Foxes Do

A fox that trusts you will not run away when approached. It will also try to defend trusted players if they are attacked.

That said, trusted foxes are not wolves. They will not follow you around, and you cannot tell them to sit. They continue behaving like normal foxes outside of the trust-specific behavior.

The practical benefits are limited, but they are still charming animals to keep nearby. Just protect any chicken pens with proper walls. Even trusted foxes can jump over anything less than three blocks tall, and chickens remain extremely tempting.