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
Common drops	Blaze Rod (0–1) when killed by player or tamed wolf Glowstone Dust (0–2) when killed by player or tamed wolf
Experience	10
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^[1]

Blazes are fiery hostile mobs found in nether fortresses.

Spawning[edit]

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

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]

Blazes can fly, although when not attacking they stay on the ground or sink down slowly through the air. Blazes do not attempt to swim upwards in lava or water. Despite taking damage from water (see "Combat" section below), 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.

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 long range. Blazes shoot even without line of sight to the target. When using this attack, the blaze burns with fire for 3 seconds, shoots three fireballs over the course of 0.9 second, 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 perform 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[edit]

Blaze Fireball

Internal ID	JE: 13 BE: 94
Network ID	JE: 64
Namespaced ID	small_fireball

Blazes shoot fireballs at their target. 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 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.

Blaze fireballs can light campfires.‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.15]}

Data values[edit]

Blaze fireballs are also entities that 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 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[edit]

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 water and rain by 1 every half second. Like most Nether mobs, they are immune to fire and lava.

Sounds[edit]

Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	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[edit]

Achievements[edit]

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo	Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Into Fire	Relieve a Blaze of its rod	Pick up a blaze rod from the ground.	Yes	PS3	Yes	Wii U, Switch	20G	Silver
	Into Fire	Relieve a Blaze of its rod	Pick up a blaze rod from the ground.	Yes	PS4, PSVita	Yes	Wii U, Switch	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.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	30G	Bronze

Advancements[edit]

Main article: Advancements

Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
Into Fire	Relieve a Blaze of its rod	A Terrible Fortress	Have a blaze rod in your inventory.	`minecraft:nether/obtain_blaze_rod`
Adventure	Adventure, exploration, and combat	—	Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.	`minecraft:adventure/root`
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`
Take Aim	Shoot something with a bow and arrow	Monster Hunter	Using a bow, shoot an entity with an arrow or tipped arrow. In Java Edition 1.15,‌^[upcoming] spectral arrows can also be used.	`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
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease		Added blazes.
		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 now 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 now been decreased from 43.5% to 35.7%).
1.5		13w02a		Fireball texture changed from to .^[2]
1.5		13w02b		Fireball texture changed from back to .
1.8		14w06a		The blaze's AI has now 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 now been changed from `Blaze` to `blaze`.
		16w32a		The fireball's entity ID has now 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 now been removed from the small fireball entity data.
		16w40a		The blaze's `life` tag is now no longer used for anything, but still saved/read.
1.14		18w43a		The texture of blazes has now been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1		build 1		Added blazes.
		build 12		Blazes are now neutral in creative mode.
		build 12		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 now 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 now been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	Added blazes.
TU8	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	Blazes now drop 0–2 glowstone dust when killed.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90				The texture of blazes has now been changed.
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 can see the player through walls, like zombies, 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.^[1]
Despite not having visible feet, blazes are still capable of making footstep sounds.^[3]

Gallery[edit]

An edited blaze without particle effects. This shows that there is no core present.
A close up look at a blaze spawner in a nether fortress.
A blaze up close, with particles turned off. There is no core to 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 in 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.