Blaze
| Health points |
20 |
|---|---|
| Attack strength |
Fireball: |
| Size |
Height: 1.8 Blocks |
| Spawn |
Nether Fortresses, light level of 11 or less |
| Common drops |
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| Experience |
10 |
| Sounds |
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| Internal ID | |
| Namespaced ID |
blaze |
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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.
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Blazes are fiery hostile mobs found in nether fortresses.
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Spawning[edit]
Blazes can spawn naturally in nether fortresses at a light level of 11 or less.
Monster spawners[edit]
Blazes spawn from spawners found in nether fortresses.
Drops[edit]
Blazes drop:
- 0-1 blaze rods (or up to 4 with the Looting enchantment), but only if killed by the player or tamed wolf.
- 0-2 glowstone dust if killed by the player or tamed wolf.[Legacy Console Edition only]
- 10 experience points if killed by a player or tamed wolf.
Behavior[edit]
Although blazes are able to fly, they will stay on the ground or sink down slowly in the air when not attacking. Blazes will not attempt to swim upwards in lava or water. Despite taking damage from water (see "Combat" section below), blazes will make no attempts at their protection if somehow pushed or dropped into water. Blazes' pathfinding does not avoid fire or lava, but does avoid water.
Blazes will target players within 48 blocks. If a blaze is damaged by a player or other mob, it will alert other blazes within 48 blocks to target the attacker. When a blaze has a target, it will begin flying (attempting to remain 0.5–3.5 blocks above the target) and slowly approach the target.
The blaze's normal attack is a trio of fireballs, shot from long range. Blazes will shoot even without line of sight to the target. When using this attack, the blaze will catch fire for 3 seconds, shoot three fireballs over the course of 0.9 second, then extinguish the fire and wait 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 starts slow and accelerates.
Blazes touching their target will instead perform a melee attack that does 6
damage on normal difficulty, once per second. This attack is not considered fire damage and will not ignite the target.
Blaze fireball[edit]
Blazes shoot fireballs at their target. If the fireball hits a block, fire will be 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 will take 5
of projectile damage regardless of difficulty level. The target will also be set on fire for 5 seconds, which typically does an additional 4 fire damage over time. A blaze fireball cannot be deflected by melee attacks or arrows, unlike ghast fireballs. However, it can be blocked by shields, which prevents the player from taking direct damage but not from being set on fire.
Data values[edit]
Blaze fireballs are also entities which have associated entity data.
- Entity data
- Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
- direction: List of 3 doubles. Should be identical to Motion.
- life: 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
directionevery 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[edit]
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 water and rain by 1 every half second. Like most Nether mobs, they are immune to fire and lava.
Data values[edit]
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[edit]
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Availability | Xbox points earned | Trophy type (PS) | |||
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| Xbox | PS | Bedrock | Nintendo | ||||||
| Into Fire | Relieve a Blaze of its rod | Pick up a blaze rod from the ground. | Yes | PS3 | Yes | Wii U, Switch | 20G | Silver | |
| PS4, PSVita | 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. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 30G | Bronze | |
Advancements[edit]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Internal ID |
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| Into Fire | Relieve a Blaze of its rod | A Terrible Fortress | Have a blaze rod in your inventory. | minecraft:nether/obtain_blaze_rod |
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| Adventure | Adventure, exploration, and combat | — | Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity. | minecraft:adventure/root |
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| Monster Hunter | Kill any hostile monster | Adventure | Kill one of these 25 mobs. Other mobs are ignored for this advancement. | minecraft:adventure/kill_a_mob |
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| Take Aim | Shoot something with a bow and arrow | Monster Hunter | — | minecraft:adventure/shoot_arrow |
| Monsters Hunted | Kill one of every hostile monster | Monster Hunter | Kill each of these 25 mobs. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement. | minecraft:adventure/kill_all_mobs |
Video[edit]
History[edit]
| Java Edition | |||||
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| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease | Added blazes. | |||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Blazes only dropped items when they aren't on fire (about to attack); this has since been fixed, and they will now have a chance to drop Blaze Rods any time they are killed. | ||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 | Blazes only drop a blaze rod when killed by the player. | ||||
| RC1 | Sounds specific to Blazes added. They make "breath" sounds and make metallic clunks when hurt. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w36a | Due to the addition of wither skeletons, blazes spawn less often in nether fortresses (chance decreased from 43.5% to 35.7%). | |||
| 1.8 | 14w06a | The blaze's AI has been altered. Blazes will now attempt to attack the player even if there are blocks between them. A blaze will also alert 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. They 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 will slowly "walk" over to the player, flying over obstructions in the way. When within melee range, the blaze will now actively rush towards the player and attempt to hit them out of melee range, and shoot fireballs once the player is out. They will not attempt to swim in water or lava, instead sinking to the bottom. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | Changed entity ID from Blaze to blaze.
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The fireball's entity ID is 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 were removed from the small fireball entity data.
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The life tag is no longer used for anything, but still saved/read. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Added blazes. | |||
| build 12 | Blazes are 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 | Blaze texture now glows. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | The entity ID for the fireball is changed from smallfireball to small_fireball. | |||
| ? | Blazes are now dealt 1 damage by splash water bottles. | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | Added blazes. | |
| TU8 | Blazes drop 0–2 glowstone dust when killed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added Blazes. | ||||
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Blaze" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- Blazes are one of the only mobs that can see the player through walls, the other being zombies, spiders, and slimes.
- When throwing a potion of invisibility on a blaze, the smoke will stay 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.[1]
- Despite not having visible feet, blazes are still capable of making footstep sounds.[2]
Gallery[edit]
An edited blaze without particle effects. It is clearly to see there's no main 'spine'.
A close up look at the blaze spawner in a nether fortress.
A blaze up close. There is no core of the body, just smoke and fire hovering around its head.
A blaze on fire being "angry", preparing to shoot its fireballs.
A Blaze that was spawned into the Overworld is taking damage from snowy weather.
Zoomed out view of the blaze spawner, showing the spawner area and a spawned blaze.
Multiple blazes shooting fireballs at the player as they hover around their spawner.
In other media[edit]
Blaze as it appears in Minecraft: Story Mode.
Official LEGO Blaze minifigure.
References[edit]
