Best Food for Parrots in Minecraft: Feeding Tips

Parrots eat Seeds in Minecraft, like Wheat Seeds, Melon Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Beetroot Seeds, or Torchflower Seeds. Any of these items will work for taming Parrots, and there’s no difference between which one you pick.

While Seeds are completely safe for Parrots, a Cookie will be poisonous. In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about feeding Parrots in Minecraft, how to tame one, whether you can breed them, and how to heal an injured Parrot.

What Do Parrots Eat in Minecraft?

You can feed Parrots any type of Seeds in Minecraft. They’re granivores, which means Seeds are the only food group that works on them. Minecraft Seeds include:

• Wheat Seeds
• Melon Seeds
• Pumpkin Seeds
• Beetroot Seeds
• Torchflower Seeds

When you feed Seeds to a Parrot, your odds of taming them increase. All five Seeds have the same benefits for Parrots. There’s no “best” Seed, no faster taming odds, and no nutritional difference between them. Other animals, like Donkeys, have that one best food item, which tends to be better than other alternatives, but that’s not the case for Parrots.

Why You Should NEVER Feed Parrots a Cookie in Minecraft?

Cookies are poison for Parrots in Minecraft. If you feed them one, the Parrot will lose all its HP, and despawn.

This is an intentional mechanic since chocolate is toxic to real Parrots. There’s some history here too. Before Parrots were added to the game, you could use Cookies to tame them in test versions. That was changed before release, and the Cookie was flipped into a hazard instead.

How to Tame a Parrot in Minecraft

You tame a Parrot in Minecraft by feeding it Seeds repeatedly until taming succeeds. Each attempt has a 1 in 10 chance of working, so it can take a few tries.

Here’s the step-by-step process:

• Find a Parrot.
  • Parrots spawn in Jungle, Sparse Jungle, and Bamboo Jungle biomes.
• Feed them any of the five Seed types.
  • (Wheat Seeds, Melon Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Beetroot Seeds, or Torchflower Seeds).
• Repeat as needed until the taming happens.
  • Hearts will appear when a Parrot becomes tamed.

Once a Parrot is tamed, you’ll unlock a few new mechanics:

• Sit and stand.
  • Interacting with a tamed Parrot toggles it between sitting and standing. A sitting Parrot stays put and won’t follow you.
• Following and teleporting.
  • A standing tamed Parrot follows you around. If it falls more than 12 blocks behind, it teleports next to you.
• Shoulder perching.
  • Walk through a tamed Parrot on the ground, and it’ll hop onto your shoulder. You can carry one Parrot on each shoulder, and it’ll default to your left shoulder if it’s free.
• Mob mimicry.
  • Tamed or wild, Parrots copy the ambient sounds of nearby monsters.
• Jukebox dancing.
  • Play a Music Disc in a Jukebox, and any Parrot within 3 blocks will dance.

The mimicry mechanics, especially, makes Parrots a powerful ally in hardcoresurvival servers, like the ones on MineRank. If your Parrot starts mimicking the voice of a hostile mob, you can tell that danger is nearby. 

Can You Breed Parrots in Minecraft?

No. You cannot breed Parrots in Minecraft, no matter what you feed them.

This trips a lot of players up, especially if they’re used to breeding other animals with food. Chickens, for example, breed when fed Seeds. However, there’s no food, item, or combination that triggers Parrot breeding.

If you want more Parrots, there’s only one way to get them: head back into a Jungle biome and tame more wild Parrots.

How to Heal a Parrot in Minecraft

You heal a Parrot in Minecraft with Splash Potions. Feeding won’t heal a Parrot, which is also different from most animals, like Wolves and Cats that can regain health when fed.

The most effective way to heal an injured Parrot is with a Splash Potion of Healing or a Splash Potion of Regeneration:

• Craft the potion.
• Throw it near the Parrot.
  • The splash effect needs to hit the Parrot directly, so aim for the ground right next to it.

Overall, Parrots are simple to feed once you know the rules: Seeds for taming, Cookies never, and Potions for healing. If you happen to find a Blue Parrot, the rarest one, you might want to keep a few resources on you so you can keep them alive as long as possible. Make sure to drop a comment and let us know which color of Parrots you’ve tamed so far in Minecraft as well!

Parrot FAQs in Minecraft

What’s the rarest Parrot color in Minecraft?

The Blue Parrot is the rarest Parrot color in Minecraft, since it has a lower spawn chance than Red, Green, Cyan, or Gray Parrots.

Do Minecraft Parrots eat Cookies?

No, Parrots don’t eat Cookies in Minecraft. If you feed a Cookie to a Parrot, it’ll get poisoned.

Are Parrots useful in Minecraft?

Parrots are mostly a companion mob rather than a practical one. They ride your shoulder, mimic nearby mob sounds, and dance to Music Discs. Minecraft Parrots don’t have combat or farming benefits.

Why can’t you breed Parrots in Minecraft?

Parrots don’t have a breeding mechanic in Minecraft. The only way to get more is to tame additional wild Parrots found in Jungle biomes.

Will Parrots follow you in a boat in Minecraft?

Yes, tamed Parrots will follow you when you travel in a boat, as long as they are not to sit. Tamed Parrots will continuously teleport to your location as you row away.