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Wolves are a wild dog mob.

Wolves were added in Working Dogs 1.0.

Unless configured, Working Dogs wolves do not replace vanilla wolves.

Wild wolves spawn occasionally in forest, dark forest, taiga and snowy biomes. They require low light levels to spawn, and generally appear under the same conditions as hostile vanilla mobs. Packs of wolves range from 1-5 members. There is a 10% chance for a wolf to spawn as a puppy.

Adult wolves are wary of the player, and cannot be tamed. Puppies can be tamed with raw meat: the player needs to crouch while holding the meat and wait for the puppy to approach them, then try to tame it.

Wild wolves have a base health of 10 hearts (20 points), with a base damage of 2.5 hearts (5 points). They have a moderate movement speed, which can vary per wolf. Stat-wise, they are roughly equal to many large breeds in health and damage output, but are considerably more dangerous due to their tendency to spawn in packs and gang up on prey.

Wild wolves will attempt to prey on many mobs, including livestock, tamed cats, parrots, foxes, as well as toy, small, and medium-sized dogs. However, they also pack up and attack zombies, skeletons, spiders, endermen and similar mobs that get within 8 blocks of them. Wolves will flee from the player, and only attack if provoked: if hit, wolves in the area will come to defend their pack mates.

While wolves can be tamed as puppies, they are not effective pet or working dogs. They will attack entities that the player targets, but lack a Looting bonus like a Hunting dog. They also retain their aggression towards livestock and other pets, and stray dogs, or those owned by other players. Wolves can equip a collar, harness or muzzle, but can't use the service vest or hog vest to protect them in a fight. They are also unable to carry saddlebags for their owners.

Wolves can be told to sit, but can't take more detailed instructions. Tamed wolves cannot take Come or Go Here commands from the player, and can only go into Follow or Wander mode. They do not have a working group and cannot enter working mode.

Wolves are not domestic dogs, but can crossbreed with them, or breed with another wolf for a chance to produce several exclusive breeds.

Breeding wolves requires the player to tame a wolf puppy and wait for it to grow up. Female wolves enter heat immediately upon growing up.

Adult tamed wolves can go into heat and be bred in the same way as domestic breeds. A breeding between two tamed wolves has a 10% chance of generating a domestic breed, which is decided by the biome the breeding occurs in. This is the only way, other than shelter chances, to acquire certain high-value breeds like the akita.

Crossing a wolf with a domestic dog breed has a chance to generate a random dog in the same working group, which is a good way to obtain new breeds without trading or finding a shelter.

Wolves are large, social carnivorous canines native to several places with cold, arid grasslands to grow the large herbivore prey they need. Wolves’ natural social nature helped them become our closest companions, in what may possibly be two separate domestication events.

Wild wolves don’t follow a militaristic “alpha” “beta” structure in their lives. Instead, a pair of wolves will sleep, hunt, eat and travel with their offspring, and sometimes siblings or a vagrant from another pack. They have dozens of unique sounds and body language cues, and hunt cooperatively.

Wolves have been killed as livestock predators for centuries, and still are. They are also threatened by the spread of diseases, like rabies and distemper, from feral dogs. Using livestock guardian dogs can non-lethally scare wolves away, and help us coexist.

Humans have bred wolves into hundreds of domesticated dog breeds, to help us with tasks from herding livestock to protecting our homes, to helping perform in circuses and simply keeping our laps warm on cold nights. It’s a wonder why anyone would ever want a pet wolf… however, some do.

Wolves and wolf-cross dogs are not pets, and they were never meant to be. They react poorly to strangers, strange animals and other pets, and can be unpredictable, destructive and anxious. It’s not all good for wolfdogs rescued from neglect, either, who take up space in sanctuaries that could go to preserve wild wolves, increasingly endangered by pollution, habitat loss and illegal culls.

Did you know? Domestic dogs’ closest wolf relative is an extinct species from Japan. The honshu wolf officially went extinct in 1905 due to rabies, distemper and government-supported killings.

Wolves have 4 standard coats. All four of their colors have an equal chance to spawn naturally.

Wolves always spawn white in snowy biomes.

Melanistic wolves are all black with a purple belly, tongue and mouth. Albinistic wolves are white with red eyes.

Coat name	Carried coats	Image	Notes
(0) Black	Gray		Black wolf with silver ticking and yellow eyes.
(1) Brown	Gray		Gray timber wolf with gray sable and ticking, brown accents, and green eyes.
(2) Gray	Brown		Red-brown wolf with brown sable and ticking, cream-white underbelly, and brown eyes.
(3) White	White		All-white wolf with dark face markings and yellow eyes.