Elephants and mammoths are great when it comes to climbing up hills or mountains, as they can jump high enough to clear up to four or five block heights. They cannot fit through single or more block-wide openings due to their size, however.

Once the elephant or mammoth has become fully grown, the player will be able to place equipment on it.ĭespite not being very fast when it comes to speed, elephants and mammoths can still be useful nonetheless. A tamed elephant or mammoth can be renamed with a book, name tag, or medallion, and can be healed with sugar lumps, bread, wheat, or baked potatoes.

When the calf has accepted the food items, the naming screen will appear and it will become tamed to the player. This only works on calves if the calf is an adolescent or has grown into an adult, it will not accept the food. Like other baby animals, elephant or mammoth calves will follow adults.Įlephants and mammoths are tamed by feeding them 10 sugar lumps or 5 cakes. Elephants and mammoths can be heard trumpeting often. Elephants and mammoths wander around aimlessly, just like any other mob. Elephant or mammoth calves will also fight back if provoked, though they do not attack as directly as adults due to their 'parent-following' AI. Mammoth Platform (1) (Songhua River mammoths only) if equippedĮlephants are neutral mobs, and will attack mobs and players when hit.Elephant Howdah (1) (Asian elephants only) if equipped.Elephant Garment (1) (Asian elephants only) if equipped.Elephant Chest (1–2) + contents if equipped.1–3 experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.Hide (0–2) (can be increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 0-5 with Looting III).When killed, elephants and mammoths drop: Elephants spawned using the elephant spawn egg will spawn as a mammoth. Mammoths spawn in cold taiga, ice plains, ice mountains and ice spike biomes, in herds of 1–3. African elephants can be found in deserts, and Asian elephants spawn in jungles. African and Asian elephants spawn on opaque blocks at light levels of 9 or more with a large block space above, often in herds of 3.

Minecraft elephant skin