Battle Fox

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Fox Whisperer

Bond your first fox

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Evolution!

Your fox reached level 50

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Master Crafter

Learn all the recipes

Ever wanted a combat companion that’s smarter than a wolf, fights creepers without blowing itself up, and looks cooler the stronger it gets? That’s Battle Fox. Find a wild fox, bond it with a charm, and raise it from a scrappy level 1 pup into an evolved, fire-breathing, rideable war mount — all without any client mods.

Bonding Your First Fox

Your journey starts with a Fox Bond Charm Fox Bond Charm — four Gold Ingot gold ingots around an Ender Pearl ender pearl. Find a wild fox in a taiga biome, right-click it with the charm, and you’ve got a companion for life. The charm is consumed on use, so craft a few extras.

Once bonded, your fox follows you everywhere and teleports to you if you get more than 24 blocks away. It’ll fight anything that attacks you — or anything you attack first.

You’ll also want two more things right away: a Fox Command Whistle Fox Command Whistle to control your fox’s behavior, and a Fox Guide Book Fox Guide Book (just a Book book + Sweet Berries sweet berries) that doubles as both an in-game manual and your fox management tool. The book is important — sneak+right-click it to open the Fox Roster, where you can store, release, rename, and recall all your foxes.

Controlling Your Fox

Click your fox with the Fox Command Whistle Command Whistle to cycle through four modes:

Passive — follows you around, only fights back if attacked
Aggressive — hunts down hostile mobs on its own
Stand — guards a spot and fights anything that wanders close
Sleep — rests and heals, won’t fight or move

Hold shift+click the whistle to set all your foxes at once.

Rallying Your Pack

Right-click a block (not a fox) with the whistle and every bonded fox nearby runs to that spot. Far-away foxes teleport in. After a few seconds they go back to whatever they were doing — it’s just a quick “everyone get over here” before a fight.

Growing Stronger

Lv 1 → 50

Your fox levels up by fighting alongside you. Kill hostile mobs, take on variety (farming the same mob over and over gives less XP), and your fox grows. Early levels come fast — later ones take a while.

Feed your fox Training Treat Training Treats to double XP for 5 minutes, or hand it a Nether Star Nether Star for an instant level-up. Max level is 50.

Spending Upgrade Points

You earn one point every two levels (25 total). Right-click your fox with an empty hand to open the stat screen and spend them across five tracks:

Bite — more attack damage
Armor — more damage reduction
Leap — faster pounce attacks
Instinct — faster movement and longer detection range
Recovery — heals over time when out of combat

Each track maxes at 5, so if you hit level 50 you can max them all.

How Your Fox Fights

Your fox is smarter than you’d expect. It doesn’t just rush everything — it adapts to what it’s fighting. Melee mobs get pounced on head-first. Ranged mobs like skeletons get strafed and hit-and-run’d. Dangerous stuff like creepers and the Warden? Your fox keeps its distance and plays it safe.

If you’re about to die, your fox kicks into overdrive — a short burst of extra damage and armor to protect you.

Between fights, injured foxes will snack on nearby Sweet Berries sweet berry bushes to heal up on their own.

Gearing Up

Right-click your fox with a sword or armor to equip it. Swords add their damage to every bite — a Netherite Sword Netherite Sword even applies Wither on hit.

Fox Armor upgrades through four tiers: Fox Leather Armor leather → Fox Iron Armor iron → Fox Diamond Armor diamond → Fox Netherite Armor netherite. Each tier wraps around the previous one, and netherite is done at a smithing table. Armor stacks with the Armor upgrade track.

Keeping Your Fox Alive

Feed your fox to heal it. Better food heals more:

Sweet Berries Sweet Berries — 2 HP (cheap and easy)
Cooked Cod Cooked Fish / Cooked Rabbit Rabbit — 3 HP
Cooked Chicken Chicken / Cooked Mutton Mutton — 4 HP
Cooked Beef Beef / Cooked Porkchop Porkchop — 5 HP
Golden Apple Golden Apple — 10 HP (emergency heal)

For group healing, Battle Rations Battle Rations heal all nearby foxes at once.

Watching Your Fox Transform

As your fox levels up, it visually changes:

Tier 1 Fox Lv 1–9 — normal red fox
Tier 2 Fox Lv 10+ — shifts to white snow fox
Tier 3 Fox Lv 20+ — particles start swirling around it
Evolved Fox Evolved — grows bigger with soul flame particles

Use /battlefoxes stats on to show a floating stat board above your fox.

Evolution — The Endgame

Lv 50 → 100

At level 50, feed your fox an Enchanted Golden Apple Enchanted Golden Apple to evolve it. This is a big deal — HP goes up, the level cap extends to 100, your fox grows physically larger, and six Special Moves unlock.

Riding Your Evolved Fox

Slap a Saddle Saddle on your evolved fox and you can ride it with WASD. It moves at whatever speed you’ve upgraded Instinct to, so a maxed-out fox is a seriously fast mount.

Special Moves

You earn evolution points past level 50 to spend on six abilities. Your fox uses them automatically in combat:

Flame Pounce Flame Pounce — fiery leap that sets the target on fire
Shadow Dash Shadow Dash — speed burst with brief invisibility
Feral Roar Feral Roar — AoE shout that slows and weakens nearby enemies
Soul Shield Soul Shield — temporary absorption hearts and damage resistance
Venom Bite Venom Bite — poisons (and eventually withers) the target
Spirit Bolt Spirit Bolt — ranged fireballs, great against creepers

Each move upgrades to level 5 and gets stronger with each rank.

What Happens When Your Fox Dies

Don’t panic — bonded foxes are never permanently lost. When your fox dies, it saves everything (level, gear, upgrades, name) and returns to your Fox Guide Book Fox Guide Book automatically. If you don’t have the book on you, it’ll find its way to your ender chest, your feet, or worst case the spot where it died.

To bring it back, just open the Fox Roster and release it.

Managing Your Pack — Fox Roster

Sneak+right-click the Fox Guide Book Fox Guide Book to open the roster. From here you can store foxes into the book, release them, recall all your foxes to your location, rename them, and check where each one is. Think of it as your fox inventory.

Wolf Companions

Prefer wolves? Name any tamed wolf with a Name Tag Name Tag and it gets its own leveling system — up to level 30 with upgrades for HP, damage, and speed. Wolves level up from kills, and they show up in their own tab in the Fox Roster.