What happens if you give a parrot a cookie in Minecraft?

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Parrots were initially drawn to cookies and could only be tamed by feeding them a cookie when they were originally introduced to the game. When Mojang was informed that chocolate is poisonous to birds and can even kill them, they promptly changed their minds. So, in Minecraft, if you give a parrot a cookie, it will die from the chocolate chips.

Perks Of Having A Pet Parrot

Parrots are one of the most beneficial animals in Minecraft. They act exactly the same in the game as they do in real life, copying sounds. They will imitate the sounds of adjacent mobs, and they will notice mobs up to 20 blocks away, however, this is not always the case.

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Crawlers, zombies, spiders, phantoms, drowned, ravagers, and pillagers are just a few of the creatures that parrots may imitate. If you’re too preoccupied with your chores to notice a monster approaching, this can serve as an excellent warning sign.

How To Tame

Parrots are intriguing and beautiful creatures in real life, and they’re just as fascinating to possess in Minecraft. The game features five different parrot colors, all of which are based on real-life parrot breeds: red, blue, green, cyan, and gray.

When it comes to taming a parrot, there are four alternatives, all of which involve seeds. You can use beetroot seeds, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, or wheat seeds to tame the bird.

However, you must first locate any parrots. They’re an uncommon species that don’t reproduce very often. If you’re having difficulties finding one, consider enabling on-screen coordinates. They will always spawn on logs, leaves, or grass blocks at Y-level 70 or above.

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The player’s chances of successfully taming the parrot are only 33 percent, so keep giving it seeds if necessary. Hearts will appear all around the bird once this has occurred. Then, as long as it’s not sitting down, you’ll be able to make it sit on your shoulder simply by walking past it.

How To Breed

In the original version of Minecraft, you can’t breed parrots. Seeds are the only way to tame them. There is a technique to breed Parrots, but it requires the installation of an add-on. You may breed the parrots with this Baby Parrots add-on.

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If you give a parrot a chocolate chip cookie in Minecraft, it will become your friend. If you give a parrot a chocolate chip cookie in real life, it could die.

A Redditor pointed this out on the Minecraft subreddit this week and the post blew up, garnering over 37,000 upvotes within a few days, and catching the attention of Minecraft's developer Mojang. Mojang is going to patch Minecraft so players will have to use a different, less poisonous food to tame and breed the colorful jungle birds, Motherboard reported.

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Minecraft is one of the most popular video games in the world, especially among kids. There's a possibility that some young players who don't know any better could take what they see in Minecraft and try it in real life with potentially deadly consequences.

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Reddit user 1jl noted this in their popular Reddit post, "Dear Mojang. Please remove feeding chocolate to birds to make them breed. Millions of kids will play this game. You picked the one food in the game that will kill them to make them breed and tame them":

I get that you want to give chocolate chip cookies a use in the game, but literally millions of kids will play this game and chocolate and pet parrots are common enough that this will cause a problem. There is no question about that. You can't tell me some 6 year old is going to play Minecraft and then try to feed their Mom's 45 year old Macaw chocolate chips or a chocolate chip cookies.

Minecraft's lead creative designer Jens Bergensten told Motherboard that the possibility of negatively influencing kids' behavior is not something the team wants to do, so they'll be changing the parrot/cookie relationship before the next big update.

"If Minecraft has any effect on children's behavior, we want it to be a positive one, so we'll change the item used to breed parrots before the 1.12 update is released," Bergensten told Motherboard. "Our reasoning for originally using cookies was twofold; it gave cookies a reason to exist within Minecraft, and it was a subtle reference to the Nirvana song 'Polly.' However, we didn't consider what the chocolate ingredient would mean to real life parrots!"

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