What do Camels Eat in Minecraft? – Answered

One of the many new arrivals in the Minecraft 1.20 version is camels. Those hunchback fellas are now also another part of the seemly infinite sandbox game, and you can tame them, ride them and take care of them in any way you want! But just like with most tameable animals in this game, you first gotta win them through the stomach.

You’ll first have to give them something they enjoy eating, and only then they’ll start trusting you. So let’s find out what type of food camels enjoy here.

What Can You Feed Camels With In Minecraft?

Camels love to eat cactus. Yeah, you heard that right, cactus. This is actually accurate with real-life camels, even though it kinda impressed me at first. Guess we learn something new every day. Anyways, as soon as you feed some cacti to a camel, it will start to follow you and restore some health. They still hurt themselves if they touch a cactus, though.

They will follow you as long as they can and will only stop to sit down for some moments. Eventually, they’ll resume following you if you don’t go far enough from them. 

Cactus can be naturally found in desert biomes as well as camels themselves, which makes it pretty easy to tame them. If you brought an extra saddle with you, you can even start riding them at the spot.

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Those spiky plants are also important in their reproduction and growth. Feeding two adult camels will make them breed and, eventually, spawn a baby camel too. Babies will grow faster if you feed them with more cactus. Unfortunately, we cannot make some yummy juice with it. 0/10 update.

So with that, you can see that camels and cacti will always go together in Minecraft. Check out more of the new features that were introduced in this same update.