In some modpacks, rats will only be tamed by cheese dropped one-by-one from your hotbar, using the eject keybind (default Q). Possible difficulty while trying to tame a rat: Rats are tamed when they make heart particles and can be interacted with.Ĭheese items from other mods can be used as well. It can take up to 15 times to tame a rat. Once the rat has been fed cheese 10 times, each additional feeding will have a 33% chance of taming the rat. As the rat slowly trusts the player it will not flee as fast or far, and by the time it has had 10 cheese, it will trust the player enough not to flee. However, wild rats have a trust variable that increases with each feeding of cheese. Like other food items, rats will eat cheese items that are thrown on the floor. It is impossible to tame a Plague Rat, but a normal Rat is tamed using Cheese. Taming a rat is considered difficult as they actively try and avoid players. Rats will only squeak when their health is below 50%, when they are hurt, or when they die. In order to thwart rodent infestations, players can tame cats, which rats naturally fear, as well as craft Rat Traps to bait and kill the rodents. Rats will not flee from a player wearing a Piper Hat. In addition to their thievery, wild rats will also flee players when seen or when stealing items.

Placing food items in chests does not provide much protection, as rats will steal items from chests, occasionally leaving behind Contaminated Food, and will dig through any wooden walls to create Rat Holes. Rats will seek out planted crops, which they will break and consume. They will target any items they consider edible, which they will try and eat. Wild rats are considered voracious pests that seek to eat as much as possible.

2.1 Possible difficulty while trying to tame a rat:.

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