How to Command, Heal, and Inspect Companion Health

Issuing Follow and Stay Commands

Every tamed diminutive companion can be commanded using basic empty-hand interactions:

1. Approach your tamed mob with an empty hand.

2. Right-click the companion to toggle between Follow mode and Stay mode.

In Follow mode, companions like baby Pillagers (tamed with Gold Ingots) and Skeletons follow you and attack hostiles from a safe distance. In Stay mode, ranged companions turn into stationary sentries, Creepers guard specific perimeters, and Witches open trade shops.

Healing and Health Inspections

Hostile engagements will lower your companions' health. To restore their health points, hold the mob's required recovery item in your hand and right-click the creature:

• Bones: Heals Skeletons, Strays, Bogged, Parched, and Wither Skeletons.
• Gunpowder: Heals tamed baby Creepers.
• Gold Nuggets: Heals tamed baby Pillagers.
• Redstone: Restores health on compatible tamed companions.

To prevent wasting valuable materials on a fully healed companion, hold Shift and right-click the companion with its healing item. This allows you to check its exact current health points without consuming the item.