How to Build a Wolf Den for Your Wolf on Minecraft

Last Updated: October 7, 2019

Minecraft has a wide range if amazing animals, including the wolf. These are awesome animals to tame and keep as a pet, but do you know how to keep them or where to keep them?

Steps

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Get a dog. In creative mode, you can spawn a wolf and it will automatically be tamed, but if you're in Survival, you'll need to find a wolf and tame it
- Right click on the wolf to give it the bone. If you see the hearts rising from the wolf, you've done it right. If the wolves eyes go red, you've attacked it by mistake. Feed the wolf enough times, and a shiny red collar will appear on your new pet's neck.
- When you right click on the wolf, it should sit or stand. When it's sitting it stays put for you while in the standing position the wolf will follow you.
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Find a safe place for you both to live. For a wolf, the safest place would be nowhere up high, because if your wolf falls, it will die. For the rest, you can build your wolf den virtually anywhere.

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Put your wolf in a temporary den. This way it won't wander off while you make its real house.
- The easiest way to make a pen is to build a 10x10 square from fences around your wolf, then attaching the wolf to one of the fences with a lead. Make sure you put a fence in this pen, so you can go and get your wolf when you're done.
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Find a nice quiet place to start building.
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Build a small gateway, using wood, that is 5 blocks up, 5 blocks across and 5 blocks down again.
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Get your fences again and fence the opening, leaving a gate there as well.
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Continue the opening into a tunnel, which will widen out 10 blocks up. The widened room should be at least a 20x20 square. This will give your wolf enough room to roam about, instead of being cramped up in a pen.
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Inside your new den, make a small 5x5 room, which should be enough to fit a bed in there. If the bed doesn't fit, make the room bigger. Light up the whole place with torches, and then go back to your waiting wolf, whom should still be locked up in the pen you made earlier.
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Open the pen and let your wolf out. You can destroy the small pen if you want, or leave it. You could even build the same one directly next to your bigger one!
- Let your wolf into its new den and let it sniff around. You may have to walk around to get it to follow you around the den.
- Once your wolf has settled in, you can build a whole better house for yourself, or do anything for your wolf. But with this perfect den, you can be sure that your wolf is safe, and you have your very own room to be right next door to your furry friend! You could even get more wolves and raise your very own wolf breeding centre!
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You can build a den like this for other animals too. Just don't put a chicken with a wild wolf! Create your own animal farm or a place to live! There is always something to do in Minecraft!

Community Q&A

Question

Will the dog open the gate and go into its own den?

Wolf Girl

Community Answer

No, it is impossible for ANY mob to go through a fence, but if you go 12 blocks away or more, your wolf will teleport to you.
Question

Every time I leave my base, my wolf teleports to me, how does this work?

PreuxFox

Top Answerer

If you make the wolf sit, it won't teleport to you. You could also build it a house inside your house and just put it there when you're at home.
Question

Can wolves run away or dig?

Community Answer

Nope! The wolves don't appear to have the ability to dig, but it can teleport next to you if you are too far away from your wolf (and it's in a standing position).