Q&A for How to Make a Zoo in Minecraft

Yes, hostile mobs will not despawn if they have a name tag, unless you go into peaceful mode of course.

It's up to you, but make sure you have enough space; you don't want to overbuild.

If you separate them with something like fences, you don't need to keep them very far apart.

Simple.Just make a pen out of glass with a wooden roof and then spawn them inside with a spawn egg.

It depends on the mob. You put the plants into their cages depending on the biome or area's surroundings.

Make an enclosure out of glass, then put snow blocks and ice blocks in it. Use a polar bear spawn egg inside the enclosure.

Yes, but you need to do: /summon bat, then leash the bat as soon as possible. If you have achievements, then no.

You can buy it, or get a free trial of it.

There is a very slight chance they might. For example, zombies can attack horses.

Yes, it is. Put the birds inside a glass enclosure, then make a pathway for you to walk through.

It is hard to do but it is possible, you have to go to the middle of an ocean, with no islands or any bit of land within your render distance. They can still teleport to other dimensions such as the nether or end, so keep plenty of spawn eggs in a chest or shulker nearby.

Taming an ocelot requires a lot of patience, but it can be done. Hold shift to crouch, and have fish in your hand. Wait for the cat to slowly walk towards you, begging for the fish. Then, right-click on the cat to feed them fish until they change color. You now have a domestic cat who will sit and stay like a dog.

Yes, then if you have multiple animals, there wouldn’t be a chance of entity-crowding.

You can hold their breeding food in your hand and any nearby animals will follow you. For example: sheep & cows = wheat, pigs= carrot, dogs= any meat, cats= any fish, chickens= seeds, foxes= sweet berries, etc.

You can’t tame a bat or lure it to a pen with food. You have to use spawn eggs or a lead.

Any pen would do, even better if it's made of glass. Remember to add grass, and a few trees.

Make sure to add lots of torches (and or lanterns) around the walkways. Light usually keeps away wild mobs.

Make a pool of water, and in the water add sea lanterns so mobs won't spawn. You can decorate the pool with coral, kelp, and sea grass.

Usually, you can name any mob in the game. To do it, you name the nametag in a anvil. Then, you right click the animal (in PC). Or, if on mobile, press the "name" button the appears.

You need a mod to do that. Otherwise, there is no way. Some mods are Mo' creatures, Zoocraft Discoveries, or watch the I'm Building a Zoo - Mods video for others.

You cannot get villagers to come to your zoo. One solution though is to put your zoo next to a village. You can also build a farm inside the zoo, so that the villagers get interested.

Yes, there are public modes. Make your own server. This is how you do it: Click Multiplayer. Then, Click Add Server. Then, Enter a server name. After that, Enter the server address.

Yes it will. Zombies are hostile mobs. If you don't want it to attack you, build a cage around it.

Keep the zombie out of the sunlight and the villager in a cage made of anything you like. If you're worried about the zombie turning the villager into a zombie villager, just separate them with a 2-block high wall.

To get a bat in a pen, you can use spawn eggs, but if you want cheats off, you can use a lead.

If you run out of room, find another good place to build a zoo, and build a new one. Once you are done with that, create a minecart/boat system that leads to the new zoo.

As long as you are not eating the animals, then yes, it is vegan. You can just eat the non-meat foods.

Wild ocelots can only spawn and be found in the jungle biome. They're quite elusive.

Separate the animals by species so they don't eat (or get eaten by) one another.

The size of the zoo depends on how many animals you want. If you want a zoo for chickens, then it doesn't have to be very big, but if you have a dozen animals, then you might want to make the zoo a bigger place.