Lion

Spawning

Lions spawn in groups of 3-5 above grass blocks at a light level of 9 or more in savanna biomes. There is a likely chance for groups to have at least one lion cub.

Spawn biomes can be edited with a data pack via adding or removing biomes from tags/worldgen/has_lion.json in Naturalist’s data files.

Drops

An adult lion drops upon death:

• 1–3 experience orbs if killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• 1–7 orbs upon breeding.

Item drops can be edited with a data pack via editing loot_tables/entities/lion.json in Naturalist’s data files.

Killing a lion cub yields no items nor experience.

Behavior

Upon spawning, lions assign one of the female lions as the leader of the pride. This is visualized by lions without manes. If this lion dies, they will assign a new leader. Lions will follow the pride leader and they will also hunt in groups at night.

When hunting at night, lions will slowly stalk their prey before getting close enough to sprint and attack them. Some lions are lost in the process if they try to take down a larger, more powerful prey, but otherwise they are usually successful.

Baby lions do not attack animals, but will still follow their parents.