Elephant

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Elephants are tamable neutral mobs found in the Overworld. Mammoths are larger variants of elephants found in cold biomes.

Spawning

Natural generation

Elephants spawn on opaque blocks at light levels of 9 or more with a large block space above. Mammoths spawn in cold taiga, ice plains, ice mountains and ice spikes biomes.

Appearance

Elephants are very large mobs that have many distinctive features, most noticeably their large tusks and trunk. The African elephant is bigger than the Asian elephant.

The two mammoths are much larger than the elephant species. They are covered in either grey or brown fur, and have much longer tusks. Unlike elephants, mammoths have a "hump" on their head.

Drops

Elephants and mammoths drop 0-2 hide. They drop 1-3 experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

They will also drop anything equipped, such as an elephant harness, chest, garment, howdah, or mammoth platform.

Behavior

Elephants and mammoths act like passive mobs; they wander around aimlessly, avoiding cliffs high enough to cause fall damage, and staying out of water. They will attack the player or other mobs if provoked. They will only attack you on Easy difficulty or higher. Elephants and mammoths can be heard trumpeting often, and occasionally, they will flap their ears and sway their trunks back and forth.

Like other baby animals, elephant or mammoth calves will follow adults. Calves will also attack you if provoked.

Tactics

• Since elephants and mammoths are neutral mobs, it should be advised to play on Peaceful difficulty, as elephants and mammoths have high attack damage. They can also walk at the same speed as your walking pace.
• It is best to sprint away from the elephant or mammoth, and shoot them from afar with a bow, or kill them with an iron or better sword due to their high health.

Taming

Giving an elephant calf cake. Five cakes are needed in order to tame a calf.

To tame an elephant or mammoth, you need to right-click on a baby elephant (calf) with either ten sugar lumps or five cakes. Once you have given an elephant or mammoth calf the food items, the naming screen will then appear. A tamed elephant or mammoth can be renamed with a book, name tag or medallion. After about 4-7 Minecraft days, the tamed elephant or mammoth will be fully grown and will be able to use equipment.

Tamed elephants and mammoths can be healed by feeding them bread, hay stacks or baked potatoes.

Taking care of elephants or mammoths

You should be careful with where you keep their elephant or mammoth, as hostile mobs may try to attack them. However, elephants and mammoths have lots of health, as well as high attack damage, so they should be able to fight back and kill any mob that attempts to hurt them. High walls and a roof are recommended to keep out scorpions, and fences to prevent mobs from jumping over them.

Riding

An elephant harness or mammoth platform allows the player to ride an elephant or mammoth. It can only be placed on tamed, adult elephants or mammoths. It also allows extra items to be added to the elephant or mammoth. Only one player can go on the harness, but a mammoth platform can be used for two players.

If the player 'sneaks' near their elephant or mammoth (shift key by default), it will sit for a short period of time. You can sit on the elephant or mammoth by right-clicking on it. To dismount your elephant or mammoth, press the shift key again.

Storage

Elephants and mammoths can be equipped with an elephant chest, giving it 36 slots of inventory space. Woolly mammoths can carry two extra elephant chests. In order for an elephant/mammoth to wear a chest, it needs to be equipped with an elephant harness.

Decoration

Asian elephants can be equipped with two decorational items; an elephant garment and an elephant howdah. The garment needs to be placed on the elephant first, and then you can place a howdah on it; the howdah is a special luxurious throne.

Breaking blocks

Elephants and mammoths can break blocks. For them to do this, you can place tusks on them. There are three different kinds of tusks: wooden tusks, iron tusks, and diamond tusks. Tusks can be equipped by right-clicking on the tamed adult elephant or mammoth, and can be removed by right-clicking on the elephant or mammoth with a pickaxe or shears.

In multiplayer, elephants or mammoths wearing tusks will not destroy blocks; this is to prevent griefing.

Variations

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The four natural types of elephants and mammoths.

Elephants and mammoths will typically spawn using one of four different skins. Skins include grey skin, dark grey skin, brown fur, and grey fur.

The biome determines the skin used:

• Snowy biomes will have 100% grey fur or brown fur.
• Other biomes will have 100% grey skin or dark grey skin.

 History

Version
v8.0.0 DEVa - Improved elephant animations.
v5.0.7 - Fixed bug when 'shearing' elephants.
v5.0.4 - Tamed elephants and mammoths now drop any armor, inventory contents and bags they were wearing when killed.
v4.5.1 - Made both elephants and mammoths grow slower. - Adjusted fall damage for elephants. - Elephants and mammoths now retaliate when attacked. - Reduced frequency of elephant spawns in deserts.
v4.5.0 - Added elephants.

Trivia

• Elephants and mammoths are the largest mobs in Mo' Creatures, although mother and tier 2 wyverns can grow bigger than Asian and African elephants.
• Currently, there is no food item that can be given to elephant calves that can make them grow faster.
• It is easier and more recommended to tame elephant calves with sugar lumps, as cakes are more expensive to craft.

Gallery

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  A Songhua River mammoth compared to the size of the player.

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  Several mammoths in an ice plains biome.

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  A fully geared Asian elephant.

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  An African elephant in a desert biome.

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  An untamed woolly mammoth.

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  A herd of woolly mammoths.

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  Several Songhua River mammoths.

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  A tamed Songhua River mammoth sitting.

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  A fully geared Songhua River mammoth.