If you’re looking for shipwrecks or ocean ruins in Minecraft, it might be helpful to know what kind of food dolphins like to eat. Similar to gaining a wolf’s trust with chunks of raw meat, dolphins will aid you in your quest for underwater treasure chests if you manage to find one and feed it. Additionally, staying near these aquatic creatures gives you a boost that allows you to swim faster through water, similar to the haste buff granted by a Conduit.
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how to feed dolphins in minecraft
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As you would expect from an aquatic carnivore, dolphins in Minecraft eat fish. When you feed a fish to a dolphin, you will know you have successfully fed it when green particle effects appear on the animal. Then he might happily swim around you before heading to an underwater treasure chest, if he’s nearby. Unfortunately, you can’t mount or ride these “tamed” dolphins, but your avid swimmer should come in handy to explore all the submerged hotspots. Remember that they don’t provide a buff to your water breathing, so be sure to keep an eye on the bubble bar next to your stats.
If you search the internet, most community sources and YouTube videos will list raw cod and raw salmon as the foods you can use to feed dolphins in Minecraft. However, based on our tests, we have found that dolphins also eat the cooked variants of salmon and cod. Additionally, the lukewarm marine dolphins we encountered even consumed puffer fish and tropical fish.
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Therefore, it is safe to say that any type of fish is acceptable to feed dolphins. Of course, there is no way of knowing if aquatic mammals prefer one fish over another, since the same green particle effects appeared for each feeding session with all fish. Either way, always make sure you have multiple fish in your inventory if you plan on befriending dolphins in Minecraft.
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