Parrots are a passive bunch that make for the ideal companion to keep you company. You can usually find them flying through jungles. But how to tame parrots in Minecraft?

While a parrot doesn’t offer much in utility or items like a cow or chicken in It would be a shame to leave such a creature out of your collection, even though it doesn’t offer protection like a wolf or a polar bear does in Minecraft.

Learn more about taming parrots in Minecraft by reading on.

How to Tame Parrots in Minecraft?

Before taming a parrot, we should let you know that parrots can only be tamed, not bred. Let’s put it out of our minds if you’ve decided to locate them for breeding.

1. Obtain Food for Parrots

Parrots only eat a certain of seeds in Minecraft and there is a low chance for each seed to successfully tame a parrot. Therefore, before taming one, you ought to acquire many of them.

You need wheat seeds, pumpkin seeds, melon seeds, or beetroot seeds to tame a parrot. The farmland of the village structure is a great place to find wheat and beetroot seeds. Dungeons, mine shafts, end cities, and woodland mansions are some other buildings where they can spawn.

Melon spawn can be found naturally in the savanna and the desert village structure, or you can find melon seeds in the woodland mansions. In mineshafts and dungeons, melon seeds can also spawn in chests. You could also exchange 1 emerald for 1 melon seed with the wandering trader.

Since they only naturally spawn in the taiga and snowy taiga, pumpkin seeds cannot be obtained through the same methods as melon seeds.

However, breaking grass for wheat seeds is the most effective way to obtain seeds for taming a parrot. Use a Fortune tool to farm wheat later on to obtain more wheat seeds.

Also Read: What Do Parrots Eat in Minecraft?

2. Find a Parrot

Only the jungle biome and its variations, such as the bamboo jungle and sparse jungle, support the spawn of parrots. Unlike other mobs, parrots can only spawn on top of the following 3 types of blocks: grass, logs, and leaves.

If you are already in the jungle and are unable to locate any parrots, press F3 to bring up the debug screen and look for your Y coordinate. Only between Y layer 1 and layer 70 do parrots spawn.

3. Tame a Parrot

When you’ve found a parrot and have seeds on you, put the seeds into your hot bar and choose it. Click the right mouse button after looking at the parrot.

The likelihood of taming a parrot with each seed is 10%. When the red heart shaped particles are floating above it, you will know! Consequently, that is how to train a parrot in Minecraft.

They can only sit or perch on your shoulder once they’ve been trained. In Minecraft, you can no longer feed them to raise parrots.

Where to Find a Parrot?

Parrots are extremely rare to find, they have a 0.2% chance of spawning. But they can be found in biomes with jungles.

The following is a comprehensive list of all the Biomes where Parrots can spawn.

• Jungle
• Jungle Edge‌ (Bedrock Version)
• Bamboo Jungle

How to Get a Parrot on Your Shoulder?

When a parrot is trained, it will follow you around and jump onto your shoulder if you accidentally step on one.

Additionally, you could carry two tamed parrots on your shoulder.

Final Words: How to Tame Parrots in Minecraft

Once you have your tamed parrot, you will have a limited number of things that you can accomplish with your new pet.

When you press the use button on a parrot, which instructs them to sit and remain in place, they will follow you like many other pets you have trained.

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