Introduced in “The Wild” update, Allays in Minecraft are some of the cutest and most helpful creatures you can tame. These flying mobs are capable of collecting and delivering items assigned to them. The objects can be anything from Amethyst Shards to Cookies. For instance, Allays can be an excellent means to manage an AFK farm that delivers Pitcher Plants and Torchflowers that ancient Sniffers find you. However, before creating such innovative designs, you first understand how to get and tame Allays in Minecraft.
How To Get Allays in Minecraft
To find the Allay mobs in Minecraft, you need to search for a Pillager Outpost or Woodland Mansions. When you find the blue passive mobs, they will be trapped within cages or prison cells. After clearing the area of any hostiles, you can free the passive mobs and tame them using a simple method — hand the Allays an item.
If you place an object into an Allay’s empty hand, it will follow you wherever you go. This follower behavior stays active when you’re within a radius of 64 blocks from the sprite. You can also attach a Lead to the flying mobs to drag them in any direction you’d like, regardless if they’re holding anything.
What Do Allays Do in Minecraft?
Whenever a tamed Allay in Minecraft is holding a particular item, it becomes somewhat bound to that entity. For instance, suppose you gave one of these passive mobs a stack of Rotten Flesh. If any Zombie dies within a 32-block radius and drops the same item, your Allay will go collect it. Allays can hold up to 64 stacks of a single item type, after which it will deliver the stacks to you when you’re present.
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Alternatively, you can also utilize musical Noteblocks to have the blue pixies deliver items to the sound-making block. With a system of skillfully placed Hoppers, Chests, and Redstone contraptions, you should be able to create an effective delivery service on a farm. Having multiple Allays will make the delivery process even faster, allowing you to move endless resources into storage chests without doing the work yourself.
Remember that if you remove the item that an Allay is holding, the blue fairy will become “untamed.” An untamed Allay goes into a wandering state, when it will not follow the player’s movements but instead just aimlessly fly around an area. Accordingly, it’s quite important to make sure your delivery pixies are always holding objects. This ensures the flying mobs are always tamed and in their “follow mode,” staying close to your position.
If you’d like more information on how the Noteblock mechanic works with tamed Allays in Minecraft, here’s a video by wattles: