Mob

Some of the many monsters that can spawn in the overworld. From left to right: Zombie, Spider, Enderman, Creeper, Skeleton, Drowned, Witch, Slime.

A mob is a living, moving game entity. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". All mobs can be attacked and hurt (from falling, attacked by player or another mob, falling into the void, etc.) and some of them can drown or burn. Different types of mobs often have unique AI and loot.

Spawning

Main article: Spawn cycle

Different mobs spawn in diverse habitats/structures, depending on their light level or temperature.

Mobs spawn in various ways. Most mobs spawn naturally, depending on their light level, habitat, and their surroundings, for example, most animals are found in brighter, outside areas whilst hostile monsters are commonly found in the dark (whether if it’s a cave, dungeon, mansion or at night). These mobs usually spawn upon chunk generation. Most animals including those that are passive, neutral, and even hoglins have the ability to be bred by the player, creating offspring. Villagers also breed randomly depending on the time and the number of beds (though they can’t be bred by the player). Mobs never spawn on transparent blocks, in water (except fish, dolphins, turtles, and other aquatic creatures), in lava (except for striders), on bedrock, or on blocks less than a full block tall (such as slabs placed on the bottom half). The exception is monster spawners, from which they can spawn naturally on any block including air.

Some mobs (like the snow golem, and the wither) require that the player needs to "construct" them before being able to spawn. The iron golem can spawn naturally and can also be constructed. The ender dragon can be respawned with 4 end crystals.

Players can also spawn mobs easily by using spawn eggs in Creative mode, or the /summon command.

Despawning

Main article: Spawn§ Despawning

Many mobs despawn (cease to exist) after a certain amount of time if far enough from the player. Πρότυπο:IN, most passive mobs do not despawn, while most hostiles do. Πρότυπο:IN, almost all passive or hostile mobs despawn.

Behavior

A pig emitting smoke particles upon death.

Mobs are affected by the environment in the same ways as the player: they are subject to physics, and they can be hurt by the same things that harm the player (catching on fire, falling, drowning, attacked by weapons, /kill, etc.). Some mobs may be resistant or immune to certain hazards, such as Nether mobs, which are immune to fire. Mobs like cod, salmon, tropical fish, pufferfish, drowned, guardian, elder guardian cannot be drowned. Mobs can ride minecarts and other mobs can climb up ladders. When mobs are killed, they turn to dust and drop items that may be useful resources. Each type of mob in Minecraft has a certain AI (Artificial Intelligence) system with different behaviors and mechanics. Mobs ordinarily wander around at random if there is a player nearby and usually avoid walking off blocks high enough to cause falling damage. Many mobs have an advanced pathfinding system that allows them to navigate through obstacles to get to a desired object or destination. Passive mobs flee in random directions after being hurt, while hostile mobs face and chase/attack the player as soon as the player comes close. Neutral mobs remain neutral until a player or mob provokes it (usually by attacking), at which point the neutral mob becomes hostile toward and attack the entity that hit it. Most mobs are aware of players within 16 blocks of them, but some can see farther. Conversely, most mobs can be heard by players up to 16 blocks (spherical) away.

Most mobs cannot see through most solid blocks, including semi-transparent blocks such as ice, glass, tall grass, or glass panes. Mobs do not attempt to walk on rail tracks unless pushed on by other mobs.

List of mobs

Mobs are listed and classified by their nature from the player's perspective. For more details on a particular mob, click and view their individual page.

Passive mobs

Passive mobs are harmless mobs that do not attack the player, even when provoked or attacked. Most of them are breedable and/or tameable.

Bat	Cat	Chicken	Cod	Cow	Donkey	Fox	Horse

Mooshroom	Mule	Ocelot	Parrot	Pig	Piglin (baby)	Polar Bear (baby)	Rabbit	Salmon	Sheep

Skeleton Horse	Snow Golem	Squid	Strider	Tropical Fish	Turtle	Villager	Wandering Trader

Neutral mobs

Neutral mobs are sometimes passive and sometimes hostile toward the player. Many neutral mobs become hostile only when attacked first, but other neutral mobs have other ways of being provoked. Some may be naturally hostile with provocation.

Bee	Cave Spider	Dolphin	Enderman	Iron Golem (Naturally spawned)	Llama	Piglin (adult)

Panda	Polar Bear (adult)	Pufferfish	Spider	Wolf	Zombified Piglin

Hostile mobs

Hostile mobs are dangerous, aggressive mobs that always attack the player on sight.

Blaze	Chicken Jockey	Creeper	Drowned	Elder Guardian	Endermite	Evoker	Ghast	Guardian	Hoglin

Husk	Magma Cube	Phantom	Piglin Brute	Pillager	Ravager	Ravager Jockey	Shulker	Silverfish	Skeleton	Skeleton Horseman

Slime	Spider Jockey	Stray	Vex	Vindicator	Witch	Wither Skeleton	Zoglin	Zombie	Zombie Villager

Boss mobs

Boss mobs are special hostile mobs that are distinctly more dangerous and tougher than other mobs. They do not spawn randomly, and are confronted intentionally. They also have a boss bar featuring their name and health. Boss mobs provide unique challenges but also equivalent rewards. Some players also consider elder guardians and ravagers as bosses, even though they don't have a bar.

Ender Dragon	Wither

Upcoming mobs

Upcoming mobs are new mobs that are present only in development versions for an upcoming version. This excludes mobs that were announced (confirmed) to be added but yet did not appear in development versions. For announced mobs see Planned versions and for possible future mobs see Mentioned features.

Axolotl	Goat

Unused mobs

See also: Java Edition unused features and Bedrock Edition unused features

Only contains a few mobs that never spawn naturally in-game as they can only be summoned with the /summon command though the zombie horse can also be spawned in with a spawn egg.

Giant[Java edition only]	Zombie Horse	The Killer Bunny[Java edition only]	Illusioner[Java edition only]	Old Villager [Bedrock edition only]	Old Zombie Villager [Bedrock edition only]

Removed mobs

See also: Java Edition removed features

Removed mobs no longer exist in current versions of the game.

Beast Boy	Black Steve	Human	Pigman	Rana	Steve

Joke mobs

See also: Easter Eggs§ April Fools' Day

Mobs that were added as a joke for April Fools' Day Πρότυπο:In.

Horse	Pony	Pink Wither	Diamond Chicken	Redstone Bug	Nerd Creeper

Mentioned mobs

See also: Java Edition mentioned features§ Voted updates

These mobs were part of the biome vote that took place in MINECON Earth 2018, the biome vote from MINECON Live 2019 and the mob vote on Minecraft Live 2020.

These mobs either lost the votes and were said to be added in a future update, or were announced but are not in any development versions of minecraft.

Ostrich	Termite	Meerkat	Vulture	Frog	Moobloom	Iceologer

Unimplemented mobs

See also: Java Edition Mentioned features

Forgotten mobs that were planned to be added but either got replaced by other mobs or scrapped.

N/A
Red Dragon	Mob A "The Monster of The Ocean Depths"	Mob C "The Great Hunger"	Mob D "The Hovering Inferno"

Education Edition exclusive mobs

These mobs are exclusive to Education Edition.

Agent	NPC

Mob vote

In two of the annual Minecraft events (MINECON Earth 2017 and Minecraft Live 2020) or other occasions, sometimes a vote is made in which the public votes on the mob that will be added, with the first vote the phantom (then known as 'Mob B' or 'The Monster of the Night Skies'), won and was added, the second time the glow squid won and is pending to be added.

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Classification

Weaknesses and immunities

Some mobs are weak or immune to certain kinds of damage. Sea creatures, such as turtles, take more damage from tridents that are enchanted with Impaling.^{[Java edition only]}Πρότυπο:Until Skeletons and their variants are immune to drowning. All undead mobs are healed by Potions of Harming, but take extra damage from weapons enchanted with Smite, along with taking damage from Potions of Healing. Many of these weaknesses and immunities are a result of what category (see below) of mobs that the mob falls into.

Undead mobs

A dying zombie.

This group of mobs includes drowned, husks, phantoms, skeletons, skeleton horses, strays, withers, wither skeletons, zoglins, zombies, zombie horses, zombie villagers, and zombified piglins. These mobs are damaged by potions of Healing, healed by potions of Harming, and are immune to drowning (except for husks and zombies) and poison damage. Zombies, zombie villagers, drowned, skeletons, strays, and phantoms burn when under direct sunlight, unless they are touching water or wearing a helmet. Under the fire resistance effect, undead mobs still catch fire in direct sunlight but do not take damage. All undead mobs except for drowned, phantom, and wither sink in water. All undead mobs take extra damage from weapons enchanted with Smite, and are ignored by withers.

Most undead mobs have the ability to pick up items. Some can spawn wearing armor, or holding tools or weapons.

Water-based mobs

Dolphins chasing after a raw cod item.

This group of mobs includes axolotls, dolphins, squid, guardians, elder guardians, turtles, cod, salmon, pufferfish, and tropical fish, but not drowned. They take extra damage from tridents enchanted with Impaling,^{[Java edition only]}Πρότυπο:Until and do not cause pufferfish to inflate nor take damage from them. All water mobs except dolphins are immune to drowning, and all except guardians, elder guardians, and turtles take suffocation damage if out of water for too long. Water mobs have the ability to swim, whereas other mobs simply float on water or sink.

Arthropods

A spider.

This group consists of mobs based on arthropods, namely bees, cave spiders, endermites, silverfish, and spiders. They take extra damage and receive the Slowness IV effect when attacked with weapons enchanted with Bane of Arthropods. Both types of spider are immune to the effects of poison. Silverfish infest infested blocks.

Illagers

Main article: Illager

Illagers on a raid

This group includes pillagers, illusioners, evokers, vindicators, and ravagers. They are immune to evoker fangs damage and ignored by vindicators named "Johnny". They are hostile to villagers, wandering traders, iron golems and players. Witches, and vexes may accompany them in raids. Illusioners (and witches^{[Bedrock edition only]}) can see players or targets through blocks. Vindicators named "Johnny" attack ravagers, as they are not illagers^{[Java edition only]}.

Knockback resistance

Some non-boss mobs resist a percentage of knockback from attacks.

• Iron golems: 100%
• Shulkers: 100%
• Squid: 85% when out of water^[Verify]
• Ravagers: 75%
• Hoglins and zoglins: 60%
• Drowned, Husks, Zombies, Zombie Villagers, Zombified Piglins: 0–5% (determined upon spawning)

Platform availability

Mob	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition	Education Edition
Agent	No	No	Yes
Axolotl	Upcoming	Planned	No
Bat	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bee	Yes	Yes	Yes
Blaze	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cat	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cave Spider	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chicken	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chicken Jockey	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cod	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cow	Yes	Yes	Yes
Creeper	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dolphin	Yes	Yes	Yes
Donkey	Yes	Yes	Yes
Drowned	Yes	Yes	Yes
Elder Guardian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ender Dragon	Yes	Yes	Yes
Enderman	Yes	Yes	Yes
Endermite	Yes	Yes	Yes
Evoker	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fox	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ghast	Yes	Yes	Yes
Giant	Yes	No	No
Goat	Planned	Upcoming	No
Guardian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Horse	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hoglin	Yes	Yes	n/a
Husk	Yes	Yes	Yes
Illusioner	Yes	No	No
Iron Golem	Yes	Yes	Yes
Killer Bunny	Yes	No	No
Llama	Yes	Yes	Yes
Magma Cube	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mooshroom	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mule	Yes	Yes	Yes
NPC	No	Yes	Yes
Ocelot	Yes	Yes	Yes
Old Villager	No	Yes	No
Old Zombie Villager	No	Yes	No
Panda	Yes	Yes	Yes
Parrot	Yes	Yes	Yes
Phantom	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pig	Yes	Yes	Yes
Piglin	Yes	Yes	n/a
Piglin Brute	Yes	Yes	n/a
Pillager	Yes	Yes	Yes
Polar Bear	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pufferfish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rabbit	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ravager	Yes	Yes	Yes
Salmon	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sheep	Yes	Yes	Yes
Shulker	Yes	Yes	Yes
Silverfish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Skeleton	Yes	Yes	Yes
Skeleton Horse	Yes	Yes	Yes
Skeleton Horseman	Yes	Yes	Yes
Slime	Yes	Yes	Yes
Snow Golem	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spider	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spider Jockey	Yes	Yes	Yes
Squid	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stray	Yes	Yes	Yes
Strider	Yes	Yes	n/a
Trader Llama	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tropical Fish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Turtle	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vex	Yes	Yes	Yes
Villager	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vindicator	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wandering Trader	Yes	Yes	Yes
Witch	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wither	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wither Skeleton	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wolf	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zoglin	Yes	Yes	n/a
Zombie Horse	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zombie Villager	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zombified Piglin	Yes	Yes	Yes

Damage dealt by hostile and neutral mobs

The damage mobs deal to players is affected by the difficulty of the game. The below values represent the amount of damage taken per hit.

• This only applies to mobs attacking the player. Mobs attacking other mobs (wolves, iron golems, etc.) always deal the 'Normal' damage listed, regardless of difficulty.
• Values for the creeper and ghast assume the player is directly adjacent to the explosion.
• The damage of slimes and magma cubes depends on their size. Tiny-sized slimes, while hostile, are unable to do damage directly.
• In contrast, the damage for an iron golem just has a large random factor.
• Mobs deal no damage on peaceful, apart from the wolf.

Mob	Difficulty
	Easy	Medium	Hard
Blaze	4 ()	6 ()	9 ()
Blaze's fireball	5 ()	5 ()	5 ()
Cave spider	2 ()	2 ()	3 ()
Creeper's explosion	25 ( × 12.5)	49 ( × 24.5)	73 ( × 36.5)
Charged creeper's explosion	49 ( × 24.5)	97 ( × 48.5)	145 ( × 72.5)
Elder guardian	5 ()	8 ()	12 ()
Ender dragon	6 ()	10 ()	15 ()
Enderman	4 ()	7 ()	10 ()
Endermite	2 ()	2 ()	2 ()
Evoker's fangs	6 ()	6 ()	6 ()
Ghast's fireball impact	6 ()	6 ()	6 ()
Ghast's fireball explosion	9 ()	17 ()	25 ( × 12.5)
Giant (unused)	26 ( × 13)	50 ( × 25)	75 ( × 37.5)
Guardian	4 ()	6 ()	9 ()
Iron golem	4 () – 11 ()	7 () – 21 ( × 10.5)	10 () – 31 ( × 15.5)
The Killer Bunny	5 ()	8 ()	12 ()
Llama's spit	1 ()	1 ()	1 ()
Magma cube (big)	4 ()	6 ()	9 ()
Magma cube (small)	3 ()	4 ()	6 ()
Magma cube (tiny)	2 ()	3 ()	4 ()
Polar bear	4 ()	6 ()	9 ()
Shulker's bullet	4 ()	4 ()	4 ()
Silverfish	1 ()	1 ()	1 ()
Skeleton's arrow	1 () – 4 ()	1 () – 4 ()	1 () – 5 ()
Slime (big)	3 ()	4 ()	6 ()
Slime (small)	2 ()	2 ()	3 ()
Slime (tiny)	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()
Spider	2 ()	2 ()	3 ()
Vex	5 ()	9 ()	13 ()
Vindicator	7 ()	13 ()	19 ()
Wither skeleton	4 ()	7 ()	10 ()
Wither skull	5 ()	8 ()	12 ()
Wolf (tamed)	3 ()	4 ()	6 ()
Wolf (hostile)	2 ()	2 ()	3 ()
Zombie	2 ()	3 ()	4 ()
Zombie pigman	5 ()	9 ()	13 ()

Common NBT data

Main article: Mob/ED

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Advancements

Advancements are made when a player accomplishes something that is either rare to accomplish or sometimes easy to do so (such as Adventure for killing or getting killed by an entity).Πρότυπο:Load advancements

Issues

For issues unique to specific mobs, see that mob's issues section.

Issues relating to “Mob“ are maintained on the issue tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Renaming a mob "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" using a spawn egg or name tag causes it to flip upside down.
• Renaming a sheep "jeb_" makes its wool change color with a smooth transition between colors. Note that the sheep named "jeb_" drops only the color of wool it had when named (e.g., when a pink sheep is named "jeb_" and then sheared when its color has changed to blue, it still drops pink wool).
• Renaming a vindicator "Johnny" makes it attack all nearby mobs, except other illagers.
• Renaming a rabbit "Toast" gives the rabbit a new texture, as an Easter egg to xyzen420's girlfriend's missing rabbit.
• Spiders, cave spiders, slimes, silverfish and illusioners are some of the few mobs that can see players behind walls.
• Cats and villagers can see players with the invisibility effect.
• There are many blocks in the game that do not take up a full block, and mobs actually see many of these as full blocks.
  • With some blocks, mobs mistake them for air, such as carpets, snow, and string.

References

Entities

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