Foxhound

The Foxhound is a hostile mob added by Quark.

Spawning
Spawns in groups of 4 to 6 in the Nether on Netherrack. As a hostile mob, they do contribute to the hostile mob cap. This may be considered as a bug as they do not adhere to the standard despawn algorithm and will not despawn even if they player exceeds a distance of 128 meters from the mob. This can impact the spawn rate of other mobs drastically.

Behavior and Appearance
Foxhounds are similar to the Wolf in appearance and behavior. Like most mobs native to the nether, they are immune to fire damage. Foxhounds growl and will attack skeletons. An attack from a Foxhound will damage the player and set them on fire.

They can not be tamed with bones, but with coal instead. You also need to have fire resistance to be able to tame one. Tamed foxhounds will snooze on top of hot blocks such as magma blocks. They have the added benefit when sleeping on an active Furnace where they will speed up the furnace. This effect cannot be stacked with more foxhounds on a furnace.

Foxhounds are small creatures, able to pass though a 1x1 hole.



Drops
Foxhounds can drop 1-3 leather when killed. With looting it can drop one extra leather.

They will drop 1-2 blaze powder when killed. With looting it will drop 0-2 extra.

Foxhounds may drop Leather, Sulfur and/or Blaze Powder when killed.

Trivia
Foxhounds were added to Quark by WireSegal

Petting a tamed Foxhound by shift-right-clicking sets the player on fire.