Why do I keep losing my Allays?
You keep losing your Allays because they can get lost if you move more than 30 blocks away from them, and even running can cause them to lose track of you, especially if there are copies of the item they’re holding dropped nearby, making it difficult for them to follow you. Additionally, in multiplayer worlds, other players can easily take the item from your Allay and give it a new one, changing its allegiance and causing it to follow them instead.
Understanding Allay Behavior
To minimize losing your Allays, it’s essential to understand their behavior and how they interact with their environment. Allays are unique mobs that can be useful for carrying items, but they require specific conditions to follow you and stay by your side.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How do I get my Allays to stay in one spot?
To keep your Allays in one spot, you can create a simple redstone loop that plays a note block every few seconds, making the Allay recognize that spot as a drop-off location.
2. How do you keep Allays at home?
You can keep Allays at home by using a lead on them, which prevents them from running away even when they’re not holding an item, or by swapping out the item they’re holding with a new one to keep them around.
3. Why won’t the Allay follow me in Minecraft?
An Allay will follow you if you look at it while holding an item and then right-click or use the secondary action key to hand the item to the Allay.
4. Will Allays always follow you?
As long as you stay within 64 blocks of the Allay, it’ll follow you anywhere, except underwater.
5. Can you lose your Allays?
Yes, you can lose your Allays if you move too far away from them or if another player takes the item they’re holding and gives them a new one.
6. How do you keep Allays in Minecraft?
Allays can’t be technically tamed like dogs or cats, but you can ensure they’ll always return and follow you by holding an item and giving it to them.
7. How do you keep an Allay as a pet?
Although Allays can’t be tamed, you can provide them with an item by using or placing it while looking at the Allay, making them hold the item and follow you.
8. What happens if you give an Allay a diamond in Minecraft?
Giving an Allay a diamond or any other item makes it follow you, but it can’t be technically tamed.
9. Why can’t I find any Allays?
Allays only spawn in the jails of woodland mansions and pillager outposts, so you need to search for these structures to find them.
10. Can Allays get stuck?
Yes, Allays can get stuck inside non-full blocks, such as fences.
11. Is there a way to heal Allays?
You can give an Allay a Totem of Undying, which will activate and resurrect the Allay to full health if it dies while holding the item.
12. Can Allays wander off?
Yes, Allays can wander off if you remove the item from their hands or move too far away from them.
13. Will Allays stay at your base?
Allays will return to wandering around if a player takes their item back, but they’ll stay at your base if you keep the item in their hands.
14. Can you turn a Vex into an Allay?
No, you can’t turn a Vex into an Allay, but you can tame a Vex by feeding it beetroot after defeating the Evoker.
15. What is the best use of Allays?
The best use of Allays is to help you retrieve items after you die, making it easier to recover from a devastating loss, and they can also pick up items from a 16-block range and bring them to a hopper that stores them in a chest.