If the sky light at the fox's position becomes 15 or above, either due to a block above being destroyed or the fox being moved, the fox wakes up.Р”Р‡oxes can drop and pick up items in their sleep. Foxes do not flee if the player approaches while sneaking until the player gets on an adjacent block. A fox wakes if approached by a player or mob. While it sleeps, it slowly moves its head up and down. When attacking phantoms, foxes do not jump to attack.Р”Р‡oxes are one of the few mobs in the game that can sleep, along with cats, villagers, and bats.Р”Вuring the day, if a thunderstorm is not occurring, foxes attempt to find a space with a sky light level of 14 or less and sleep. They also do not attack zombie villagers despite the fact that they are a zombie variant.Р”Р„ fox will attack a tamed wolf even if it trusts the player.Р”Р‡oxes that trust the player still run away from wolves and polar bears, and polar bears and wolves still attack them. They do not attack any mob the player attacks, unlike tamed wolves. Baby foxes following adults into the water cannot swim, and eventually drown.Р”Р‡oxes attempt to run toward the closest attackable mob, even if attached to a lead, but do not attempt to break the lead.Р”Р‡oxes that trust the player attack zombies, drowned, husks, zombified piglins, skeletons, wither skeletons, strays, phantoms, silverfish, endermites, spiders, cave spiders, vexes, vindicators, evokers, pillagers, ravagers, blazes, endermen, goats and pandas, when those mobs attack the player. Red foxes prefer to attack chickens, rabbits, and baby turtles, all of which are on land, over cod, salmon, and tropical fish conversely, arctic foxes prefer to attack cod, salmon, and tropical fish over land-dwelling creatures.Р”Р„n arctic fox stuck in a snow layer when attacking.Р”Р„ fox that pounces into a snow layer becomes momentarily stuck, remaining face-down, emitting particles while shaking, and returning to normal shortly after.Р”Р‡oxes swim to attack fish in water for food. Foxes also may attack mobs that hurt a player they trust.

However, foxes don't attack wolves, even if they are being attacked by them. Foxes also attack baby turtles on land only. In Bedrock Edition, foxes also shake side to side before pouncing and their legs can be seen waving while in midair.Р”Р‡oxes attack chickens, rabbits, cod, salmon, and tropical fish.

A fox prepares to pounce by tilting and lowering its head and lowering its body to become shorter. Like rabbits and goats, foxes can jump (pounce) more than one block high without status effects or player input. Naturally spawned kits do not trust players.Р”Р„n animation showing a fox's jump during an attack on a chicken.Р”Р‡oxes attack either by running up to the target or by pouncing. Breeding two adults with sweet berries or glow berries produces a kit that trusts the player, but still follows nearby adult foxes. They are unaffected by sweet berry bushes, taking no damage or speed reduction while moving in them.Р”В«aby foxes follow adult foxes. However, they do not flee if the player approaches them while sneaking. Upon successful breeding, 1РІР‚вЂњ7 are dropped.Р”Р‡oxes move quickly like ocelots and flee from nearby players and wolves. If a fox is killed while holding a totem of undying, then the fox consumes the totem and revives itself instead of dropping the totem. Like other baby animals, killing a baby fox yields no experience.Р”Р‡oxes always drop any item they pick up and are still holding (they cannot drop food that they have eaten, for example) and drop items they spawn with naturally with a 100% chance, so: Upon death, adult foxes drop 1РІР‚вЂњ2РІР‚РЉ / 1РІР‚вЂњ3РІР‚РЉ when killed by a player or tamed wolf. Foxes spawn in taiga, old growth taiga, snowy taiga and grove biomes, in groups of 2РІР‚вЂњ4.Р”Р‡oxes that spawned in a snowy biome are white.Р”Р‡oxes have a 20% chance to spawn (via spawn egg or naturally) with one of the following items in their mouth:

Foxin snow