Blaze

Blaze

Health points	20 × 10
Behavior	Hostile
Attack strength	Fireball: 5 Fire: 1 per 1.25 sec for 5 sec () Contact: Easy: 4 Normal: 6 Hard: 9
Size	Height: 1.8 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks
Spawn	Nether Fortresses, light level of 11 or less
Internal ID	JE: 61 BE: 43
Namespaced ID	blaze

This article is about the mob. For the rod dropped from the death of a Blaze, see Blaze Rod. For the powder crafted from a Blaze Rod, see Blaze Powder.

	“	Alchemy addicts and experience farmers are among the few who might have good things to say about the blaze, a ferocious, flaming mob that spawns in the formidable Nether Fortresses. There they patrol, to unknown purpose, aggressively flambéing any and all adventurers who enter their domain.	„
		— Marsh Davies

Blazes are flying hostile mobs found in nether fortresses.

Spawning

Blazes spawn naturally in nether fortresses at a light level of 11 or less.

Spawners

Blazes spawn from spawners in nether fortresses. They are located on a three-block staircase with a small platform.

Drops

• 0–1 blaze rods (0-4 with the Looting III), if killed by the player or tamed wolf.
• 10 if killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• 0-2 glowstone dust (Exclusively in Legacy Console Edition)

Behavior

Blazes fly, although when not attacking they stay on the ground or sink down slowly through the air. Blazes do not attempt to swim upward in lava or water. Despite taking damage from water, blazes make no attempt to protect themselves if pushed or dropped into water. Their pathfinding does not avoid fire or lava but does avoid water.

Attacking

Blazes target players within 48 blocks. If a blaze is damaged by a player or other mob, it alerts other blazes within 48 blocks to target the attacker. A blaze flies when it acquires a target, slowly approaching while attempting to remain 0.5–3.5 blocks above the target.

A blaze's normal attack is a trio of fireballs, shot from up to 48 blocks. A blaze shoots only when it has line of sight to its target. If line of sight is broken in the middle of its volley, the blaze suspends the remainder of its volley until line of sight returns. When using this attack, the blaze burns with fire for 3 seconds, shoots three fireballs over the course of 0.9 seconds, then extinguishes its flames and waits for 5 seconds before attacking again. A blaze shoots its fireballs with roughly the same lack of accuracy as a dispenser; however, the blaze's shots maintain the same speed all the way to the target, unlike the dispenser's, which start slow and accelerate.

A blaze that touches its target performs a melee attack that does 6 damage on normal difficulty, once per second. This attack is not considered fire damage and does not ignite the target.

Blaze fireball

Blaze Fireball

Size	Height: 0.3125 Blocks Width: 0.3125 Blocks
Internal ID	JE: 13 BE: 94
Network ID	JE: 64
Namespaced ID	small_fireball

Blazes shoot fireballs at players. If a fireball hits a block, fire is placed at that location. If it hits an entity that is not immune to fire and doesn't have the Fire Resistance effect, the entity takes 5 of projectile damage regardless of difficulty level. The target is set on fire for 5 seconds, which does an additional 4 fire damage over time. A blaze's fireball cannot be deflected by melee attacks or arrows, unlike ghast fireballs. However, it can be blocked by shields, which prevents the player from being attacked.

Blaze fireballs can light campfires.

Data values

Blaze fireballs are also entities that have associated entity data.

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  •  direction^{[until JE 1.16]}: List of 3 doubles. Should be identical to Motion.
  •  life^{[until JE 1.16]}: Increments each tick when the projectile is not moving; resets to 0 if it moves. Has no effect, though is still saved/read
  •  power: List of 3 doubles that adds to direction every tick. Act as the acceleration.
  •  Item: The item to render as, may be absent.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template

Combat

Main article: Tutorials/Combat § Blaze

In addition to normal weapons, blazes are hurt by snowballs, taking 3 damage per hit, and by splash water bottles, taking 1 damage per hit. Like endermen, they are also damaged by snow, water and rain by 1 every half second. Like most Nether mobs, they are immune to fire and lava.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Blaze breathes	?	?	entity.blaze.ambient	subtitles.entity.blaze.ambient	?	?	16
	Blaze crackles	?	?	entity.blaze.burn	subtitles.entity.blaze.burn	?	?	16
	Blaze dies	?	?	entity.blaze.death	subtitles.entity.blaze.death	?	?	16
	Blaze hurts	?	?	entity.blaze.hurt	subtitles.entity.blaze.hurt	?	?	16
	Blaze shoots	?	?	entity.blaze.shoot	subtitles.entity.blaze.shoot	?	?	16

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Blazes have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob.

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template

Achievements

Main article: Achievement

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Into Fire	Relieve a Blaze of its rod.	Pick up a blaze rod from the ground.	20G	Bronze
	Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30G	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: Advancement

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Into Fire	Relieve a Blaze of its rod	A Terrible Fortress	Have a blaze rod in your inventory.	nether/obtain_blaze_rod
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration, and combat	—	Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.	adventure/root
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 25 mobs. ‌In Java Edition 1.16‌[upcoming], elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, hoglins, piglins, vexes, withers, and zoglins can also be killed for this advancement. Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_a_mob
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an arrow	Monster Hunter	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot an entity with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.	adventure/shoot_arrow
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 25 mobs. ‌In Java Edition 1.16‌[upcoming], elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, hoglins, piglins, vexes, withers and zoglins are also required for the advancement. Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_all_mobs

History

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Added blazes.
					Blazes shoot fireballs when attacking the player.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4			Blazes now drop items only when they aren't on fire (about to attack); this has since been fixed, and they now have a chance to drop blaze rods any time they are killed.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5			Blazes now drop only a blaze rod when killed by the player.
		RC1			Sounds specific to blazes have been added. They make "breath" sounds and make metallic clunks when hurt.
1.4.2		12w36a			Due to the addition of wither skeletons, blazes now spawn less often in nether fortresses (the chance has been decreased from 43.5% to 35.7%).
1.5		13w02a			The texture of the blaze fireball has been changed from to .
		13w02b			The texture of the blaze fireball has been changed from back to .
1.7.2		1.7-pre			Blazes are no longer provoked when attacked by the player in creative mode.
1.8		14w06a			The blaze's AI has been altered. Blazes now attempt to attack the player even if there are blocks between them.
					A blaze now alerts other blazes in a staggering 50 block radius around itself of the player's presence upon being hit, causing all blazes within the wide radius to swarm the player, if they have a clear path.
					Blazes now have a decreased firing distance: previously, blazes would shoot at the player from about 32 blocks away once angered, but they now shoot from only 16 blocks. When the player moves out of their radius, they slowly "walk" over to the player, flying over obstructions in the way. When within melee range, the blaze now actively rushes toward the player and attempts to hit the player out of melee range, and shoots fireballs once the player is out.
					Blazes no longer attempt to swim in water or lava, instead sinking to the bottom.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID of the blaze has been changed from Blaze to blaze.
					The fireball's entity ID has been changed from SmallFireball to small_fireball.
		16w35a			Blazes are now dealt 1 damage by splash water bottles.
		16w40a			Tags xTile, yTile, zTile, inTile and inGround have been removed from the small fireball entity data.
					The blaze's life tag is no longer used for anything, but still saved/read.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of blazes has been changed.
					The texture of the blaze fireball has been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1		build 1			Added blazes.
					When blazes attack the player, they shoot fireballs when attacking the player.
		build 12			Blazes are now neutral in creative mode.
					Blazes now have sounds.
0.13.0		build 1			Blazes are now passive in creative mode.
0.14.0		build 1			The blaze texture now glows.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			The entity ID for the fireball has been changed from smallfireball to small_fireball.
?					Blazes are now dealt 1 damage by splash water bottles.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of blazes has been changed.
					The texture of the blaze fireball has been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.00	Patch 1		Added blazes.
					When blazes attack the player, they shoot fireballs when attacking the player.
TU8					Blazes now drop 0–2 glowstone dust when killed.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of blazes has been changed.
					The texture of the blaze fireball has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added blazes.
					When blazes attack the player, they shoot fireballs when attacking the player.

Issues

Issues relating to "Blaze" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Blazes can see the player through walls, like spiders and slimes.
• When throwing a potion of invisibility on a blaze, the smoke remains visible.
• According to Jeb, blazes look the way they do because all mobs in Minecraft are cuboid-shape, so to make them flame-like and magical, he created them as a core surrounded by rotating rods, and he gave them eyes so they had personality.
• Despite not having visible feet, blazes are still capable of making footstep sounds.

Gallery

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  An edited blaze without particle effects. This shows that there is no core present.

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  A close up look at a blaze spawner in a nether fortress.

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  A blaze up close, with particles turned off. There is no core to the body, there is just smoke and fire hovering around its head.

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  A blaze on fire being "angry", preparing to shoot fireballs at the "targeted" player.

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  A Blaze that was spawned in the Overworld is taking damage from snowy weather.

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  Zoomed out view of the blaze spawner, showing the spawner area and a spawned blaze.

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  Multiple blazes shooting fireballs at the player as they hover around their spawner.

In other media

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  Blaze as it appears in Minecraft: Story Mode.

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  Official LEGO Blaze minifigure.

References

Entities

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