Changes: Mob

Revision as of 11:20, 23 February 2021

OverWorld Monsters — 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".^[1] 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

Most monsters are found in dark areas such as caves, whilst most animals are found commonly in bright light levels. Most other mobs are also found in different biomes/structures. — Different mobs spawn in diverse habitats/structures, depending on their light level or biome.

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

Many mobs despawn (cease to exist) after a certain amount of time if far enough from the player. In Java Edition, most passive mobs do not despawn, while most hostiles do. In Bedrock Edition, 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)	Pufferfish	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^{[n 1]}^{[n 2]}	Cave Spider^{[n 3]}^{[n 4]}	Dolphin^{[n 1]}	Enderman^{[n 4]}^{[n 5]}	Iron Golem (Naturally spawned)^{[n 6]}	Llama^{[n 7]}


Piglin (adult)^{[n 4]}^{[n 8]}	Panda^{[n 9]}	Polar Bear (adult)^{[n 10]}	Spider^{[n 3]}^{[n 4]}	Wolf^{[n 1]}	Zombified Piglin^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d All nearby mobs of the same type become hostile when a single one is provoked.
↑ In addition to attacking when provoked, bees become aggravated when a nearby beehive is broken. Bees who claim a beehive become angry when honey is harvested unless a campfire is placed beneath the beehive. A bee can sting the player only once, and ceases to attack thereafter although the bee's hostile texture remains. In addition, they become passive after a short time.
↑ ^a ^b This mob is naturally hostile when in a light level 7 or lower; meaning they are naturally hostile whenever they spawn. They become neutral when in a light level higher than 7, although they continue attacking any players they were attacking before being in this light level.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e This mob is subject to advancements by Monster Hunter, Monsters Hunted.‌^{[JE only]}
↑ In addition to attacking when provoked, endermen become hostile when their head is being looked at.
↑ In addition to attacking when provoked, iron golems attack players with low village popularity.
↑ This mob becomes neutral after attacking the player a single time.
↑ Piglins are naturally hostile, but if the player is wearing at least one piece of gold armor, then the piglin becomes neutral. In its neutral state, if one piglin or piglin brute is attacked, or if the player opens or breaks these containers or breaks these golden blocks, all nearby piglins become hostile, even if the player is wearing gold armor.
↑ Most panda personalities attack the player once. Aggressive pandas attack more similarly to a hostile mob when provoked.
↑ Like all mobs, adult polar bears are passive on Peaceful difficulty. When the player is near a cub, the parent polar bear becomes hostile toward the player, although it seldom happens in Easy difficulty. When a cub is attacked, nearby polar bears become hostile toward the attacker.

Hostile mobs

Hostile mobs are dangerous, aggressive mobs that always attack the player within 16 blocks.


Blaze	Chicken Jockey^{[h 1]}	Creeper	Drowned^{[h 2]}	Elder Guardian	Endermite	Evoker	Ghast	Guardian	Hoglin^{[h 3]}


Husk	Magma Cube	Phantom	Piglin Brute	Pillager^{[h 4]}	Ravager	Ravager Jockey	Shulker	Silverfish	Skeleton	Skeleton Horseman^{[h 1]}


Slime	Spider Jockey^{[h 5]}	Stray	Vex	Vindicator	Witch	Wither Skeleton	Zoglin	Zombie	Zombie Villager

↑ ^a ^b Only the riding mob of the pair is hostile. The mount remains passive after its rider is killed.
↑ Becomes passive when not touching water during daytime.
↑ If a baby hoglin is attacked by the player, it temporarily becomes neutral, fleeing the player after getting attacked.
↑ If a pillager breaks its crossbow, then it becomes passive.‌^{[JE only]}
↑ The skeleton variant is always hostile, while the spider follows its normal rules.

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, ravagers, evokers, piglin brutes, Skeleton Horsemans and illusioners as mini 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	Glow Squid	Goat

Unused mobs

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^{[JE only]}	Zombie Horse	The Killer Bunny‌^{[JE only]}	Illusioner‌^{[JE only]}	Old Villager ‌^{[BE only]}	Old Zombie Villager ‌^{[BE only]}

Removed mobs

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


Beast Boy	Black Steve	Human	Pigman	Rana	Steve

Joke mobs

Mobs that were added as a joke for April Fools' Day in Java Edition.


Horse	Pony	Pink Wither	Diamond Chicken	Redstone Bug	Nerd Creeper

Mentioned mobs

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 lost the votes and were said to potentially be added in a future update.^[2]^[3]^[4]

File:Ostrich.jpg	File:Termite.jpg	File:Meerkat.jpg
Ostrich	Termite	Meerkat	Vulture	Frog	Moobloom	Iceologer

Unimplemented mobs

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

This page describes an education-related feature.

This feature is available only in Minecraft Education or when enabling the "Education" option in Bedrock Edition.


Agent	NPC

Mob vote

In two of the annual Minecraft events (MINECON Earth 2017 and Minecraft Live 2020), the public voted on a mob to be added to Minecraft. In the first vote, the winner was the phantom (then known as 'Mob B' or 'The Monster of the Night Skies'). In the second, the winner was the glow squid, which is pending to be added.

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]}‌^{[until JE Combat Tests]} 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

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, phantoms, and withers 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

This group of mobs includes axolotls, dolphins, squids, glow squids, guardians, elder guardians, turtles, cod, salmon, pufferfish, and tropical fish, but not drowned.^[5] They take extra damage from tridents enchanted with Impaling,‌^{[Java Edition only]}‌^{[until JE Combat Tests]} 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. In Bedrock Edition there is no in-game classification for these mobs.

Dolphins and Item — Dolphins chasing after a raw cod item.

Arthropods

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 spiders are immune to the effects of poison. Silverfish infest infested blocks.

Illagers

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.

Mob	Knockback resistance
Drowned	0% - 5% (determined upon spawning)
Hoglin	60%
Husk	0% - 5% (determined upon spawning)
Iron Golem	100%
Squid	85% (outside water)^[verify]
Ravager	75%
Shulker	100%
Zoglin	60%
Zombie	0% - 5% (determined upon spawning)
Zombie Villager	0% - 5% (determined upon spawning)
Zombified Piglin	0% - 5% (determined upon spawning)

Platform availability

Mob	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition	Minecraft Education
Agent	No	Yes	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
Glow Squid	Upcoming	Upcoming	No
Goat	Planned	Upcoming	No
Guardian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Horse	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hoglin	Yes	Yes	Planned
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	Planned
Piglin Brute	Yes	Yes	Planned
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	Planned
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	Planned
Zombie	Yes	Yes	Yes
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 applies only to mobs attacking the player. Mobs attacking other mobs 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.
Mobs deal no damage to players on peaceful.

Mob	Difficulty			Status effect(s)ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ[edit]
Mob	Easy	Normal	Hard	Status effect(s)ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ[edit]
Bee	2	2	3	Poison for 10 seconds on Normal difficulty and for 18 seconds on Hard difficulty
Blaze (melee)	4	6	9	No
Blaze fireball	9 + fire for 5 seconds			No
Cave Spider	2	2	3	Poison for 7 seconds on Normal difficulty and for 15 seconds on Hard difficulty
Chicken Jockey	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No
Creeper explosion (normal)	22.5 × 11.25	43 × 21.5	64.5 × 32.25	When exploding: No If having a potion effect when exploding, it leaves an effect cloud with the effect, like a lingering potion.
Creeper explosion (charged)	43.5 × 21.75	85 × 42.5	127.5 × 63.75
Dolphin	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No
Drowned	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No
Drowned trident (Ranged)	8			No
Drowned trident (Melee)‌^{[BE only]}	5	9	12 × 6	No
Elder Guardian (Laser)	5	8	12 × 6	Inflicts Mining Fatigue III for 5 minutes on nearby players
Elder Guardian (Spikes)	2		3	Inflicts Mining Fatigue III for 5 minutes on nearby players
Elder Guardian Ghost (Spikes)	2		3	No
Ender Dragon (Melee)	6	10	15 × 7.5	No
Ender Dragon (Wings)	3	5	7	No
Ender Dragon (Breath)	3 per second			Area effect cloud of Instant Damage
Ender Dragon Dragon Fireball	6 per second			Area effect cloud of Instant Damage
Enderman	4.5 × 2.25	7	10.5 × 5.25	No
Endermite	2		3	No
Evoker fangs	6			No
Ghast fireball (Impact)	6			No
Ghast fireball (Explosion)	7	12 × 6	22.5 × 11.25	No
Giant	26 × 13	50 × 25	75 × 37.5	No
Goat	1	2	3	No
Guardian (Laser)	4	6	9	No
Guardian (Spikes)	2		3	No
Hoglin‌^{[JE only]}	2.5 × 1.25 to 5	3 to 8	4.5 × 2.25 to 12 × 6	No
Hoglin (baby)‌^{[JE only]}	0.5 × 0.25		0.75 × 0.375	No
Hoglin‌^{[BE only]}	3	6	9	No
Husk	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	Hunger when attacking any mob for 7 × floor of RD seconds
Illusioner arrow	2 to 5	3 to 5		Throws Blindness spells on the player, if regional difficulty is 2 or greater
Iron Golem	4.75 × 2.375 to 11.75 × 5.875	7.5 × 3.75 to 21.5 × 10.75	11.25 × 5.625 to 32.25 × 16.125	No
The Killer Bunny	5	8	12 × 6	No
Llama spit	1			No
Magma Cube (big)	4	6	9	No
Magma Cube (medium)	3	4	6	No
Magma Cube (small)	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No
Panda	4	6	9	No
Phantom‌^{[JE only]}	2		3	No
Phantom‌^{[BE only]}	4	6	9	No
Piglin arrow‌^{[JE only]}	3 to 4		4	No
Piglin arrow‌^{[BE only]}	1 - 5			No
Piglin (Melee with Sword)‌^{[JE only]}	5	8	12 × 6	No
Piglin (Melee without Sword)‌^{[JE only]}	3.5 × 1.75	5	7.5 × 3.75	No
Piglin‌^{[BE only]}	5	9	13 × 6.5	No
Piglin Brute	7.5 × 3.75	13 × 6.5	19.5 × 9.75	No
Pillager arrow	3 to 4		4	No
Polar Bear	4	6	9	No
Pufferfish	2		3	Poison for 5 seconds
Ravager (Melee)	7	12 × 6	18 × 9	No
Ravager (Roar)	4	6	9	No
Shulker bullet	4			Levitation for 10 seconds
Silverfish	1			No
Skeleton arrow‌^{[JE only]}	2 to 4	3 to 4	4 to 5	No
Skeleton arrow‌^{[BE only]}	1 to 4, varies with proximity		1 to 5, varies with proximity	No
Skeleton (melee)	2		3	No
Skeleton Horseman arrow‌^{[JE only]}	Varies with skeleton bow enchantment			No
Skeleton Horseman arrow‌^{[BE only]}	Varies with skeleton bow enchantment			No
Slime (big)	3	4	6	No
Slime (medium)	2		3	No
Slime (small)	0			No
Spider	2		3	No, but can spawn with effects
Spider Jockey (spider)	2		3	No, but can spawn with effects
Spider Jockey arrow‌^{[JE only]}	3 to 5			No
Spider Jockey arrow‌^{[BE only]}	Damage varies with proximity			No
Stray arrow‌^{[JE only]}	3 to 5			Slowness for 30 seconds when their tipped arrow hits any mob (including another stray)
Stray arrow‌^{[BE only]}	Damage varies with proximity
Stray (melee)	2		3	No
Trader Llama spit	1			No
Vex	5.5 × 2.75	9	13.5 × 6.75	No
Vindicator	7.5 × 3.75	13 × 6.5	19.5 × 9.75	No
Warden (Melee)	16 × 8	30 × 15	45 × 22.5	No
Warden (Ranged)	6	10	15 × 7.5	No
Witch	Deals damage by throwing potions			Throws splash potions of Poison, Instant Damage, Slowness, and Weakness
Wither Skeleton	5	8	12 × 6	Wither for 10 seconds
Wither (birth explosion)	35.5 × 17.75	69 × 34.5	103.5 × 51.75	No
Wither Skull	8	8		Wither II for 10 seconds on Normal difficulty and 40 seconds on Hard difficulty
Wither (dash attack) ‌^{[BE only]}	15 × 7.5			No
Wolf (hostile)	3	4	6	No
Wolf (tamed)	4			No
Zoglin	2.5 × 1.25 to 5	3 to 8	4.5 × 2.25 to 12 × 6	No
Zoglin (baby)	0.5 × 0.25		0.75 × 0.375	No
Zombie	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No
Zombified Piglin	5	8	12 × 6	No
Zombie Villager	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No

Common NBT data

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Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider.	15G	Bronze
		Cow Tipper	Harvest some leather.	Pick up leather from the ground.	15G	Bronze
		When Pigs Fly	Use a saddle to ride a pig, and then have the pig get hurt from fall damage while riding it.	Be riding a pig (e.g. using a saddle) when it hits the ground with a fall distance greater than 5.	40G	Silver
		Sniper Duel	Kill a Skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 meters.	Use a launched arrow to kill a skeleton, spider jockey, wither skeleton, or a stray from 50 or more blocks away, horizontally.	30G	Bronze
		Return to Sender	Destroy a Ghast with a fireball.	Kill a ghast using a ghast fireball.	30G	Silver
		The Beginning?	Spawn the Wither	Be within a 100.9×100.9×103.5 cuboid centered on the Wither when it is spawned.	20G	Bronze
		The Beginning.	Kill the Wither	Be within a 100.9×100.9×203.5 cuboid centered on the Wither when it drops the nether star.	40G	Silver
		Repopulation	Breed two cows with wheat.	Breed two cows or two mooshrooms.	15G	Bronze
		Leader of the Pack	Befriend five wolves.	This does not have to be in a single game, so multiple games or reloading old saves does count toward this achievement.	20G	Bronze
		Have a Shearful Day	Use Shears to obtain wool from a sheep.	—	15G	Bronze
		Body Guard	Create an Iron Golem	—	20G	Bronze
		Zombie Doctor	Cure a zombie villager.	Throw a splash potion of weakness at a zombie villager and give it a golden apple (by facing the zombie and pressing the use key with a golden apple in your hand)	40G	Gold
		Archer	Kill a creeper with arrows.	—	10G	Bronze
		The Deep End	Defeat an Elder Guardian	—	30G	Silver
		The End... Again...	Respawn the Enderdragon [sic]	—	30G	Silver
		Great View From Up Here	Levitate up 50 blocks from the attacks of a Shulker	—	20G	Bronze
		Echolocation	Feed a dolphin fish to have it lead you to treasure	Feed a dolphin cod or salmon and have it lure you to treasure.	20G	Silver
		Where Have You Been?	Receive a gift from a tamed cat in the morning.	The gift must be picked up from the ground.	20G	Bronze
		Zoologist	Breed two pandas with bamboo.	—	40G	Gold
		Plethora of Cats	Befriend twenty stray cats.	Befriend and tame twenty stray cats found in villages. They do not all need to be tamed in a single world.	20G	Silver
		Kill the Beast!	Defeat a Ravager.	—	30G	Silver
		I've got a bad feeling about this	Kill a Pillager Captain.	—	20G	Bronze
		Bee our guest	Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Bottle without aggravating the bees.	—	15G	Bronze
		Total Beelocation	Move and place a Bee Nest, with 3 bees inside, using Silk Touch.	—	30G	Silver
		Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold	Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.	30G	Silver

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).

Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
Zombie Doctor	Weaken and then cure a Zombie Villager	We Need to Go Deeper	Use a golden apple on a zombie villager under the Weakness effect; the advancement is granted when the zombie villager converts into a villager. In multiplayer, only the player that feeds the golden apple gets the advancement.	`story/cure_zombie_villager`
Return to Sender	Destroy a Ghast with a fireball	Nether	Kill a ghast by deflecting a ghast fireball back into it via hitting or shooting a projectile at the fireball.	`nether/return_to_sender`
Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	Nether	While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the `#piglin_loved` item tag: Bell Block of Gold Block of Raw Gold Clock Enchanted Golden Apple Gilded Blackstone Glistering Melon Slice Gold Ingot Gold Ore Golden Apple Golden Axe Golden Boots Golden Carrot Golden Chestplate Golden Helmet Golden Hoe Golden Horse Armor Golden Leggings Golden Pickaxe Golden Shovel Golden Sword Light Weighted Pressure Plate Nether Gold Ore Deepslate Gold Ore Raw Gold Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.	`nether/distract_piglin`
This Boat Has Legs	Ride a Strider with a Warped Fungus on a Stick	Nether	Boost^[6] a strider with a warped fungus on a stick.	`nether/ride_strider`
Uneasy Alliance	Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld... and then kill it	Return to Sender	Kill a ghast while the player is in the Overworld.	`nether/uneasy_alliance`
Spooky Scary Skeleton	Obtain a Wither Skeleton's skull	A Terrible Fortress	Have a wither skeleton skull in your inventory.	`nether/get_wither_skull`
Into Fire	Relieve a Blaze of its rod	A Terrible Fortress	Have a blaze rod in your inventory.	`nether/obtain_blaze_rod`
Withering Heights	Summon the Wither	Spooky Scary Skeleton	Be within a 100.9×100.9×103.5 cuboid centered on the wither when it is spawned.	`nether/summon_wither`
How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	A Furious Cocktail	Have all of these 27 status effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Poison Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Water Breathing Weakness Wither The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.	`nether/all_effects`
Free the End	Good luck	The End	Kill the ender dragon. If multiple players are involved in the dragon fight, only the player that deals the final blow to the dragon receives the advancement.^[7]	`end/kill_dragon`
The End... Again...	Respawn the Ender Dragon	Free the End	Be within a 192 block radius from the coordinates (0.0, 128, 0.0) when an ender dragon is summoned using end crystals.	`end/respawn_dragon`
You Need a Mint	Collect Dragon's Breath in a Glass Bottle	Free the End	Have a bottle of dragon's breath in your inventory.	`end/dragon_breath`
Great View From Up Here	Levitate up 50 blocks from the attacks of a Shulker	The City at the End of the Game	Move a distance of 50 blocks vertically with the Levitation effect applied, regardless of direction or whether it is caused by the effect.	`end/levitate`
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 34 mobs: Blaze Cave Spider Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	`adventure/kill_a_mob`
What a Deal!	Successfully trade with a Villager	Adventure	Take an item from a villager or wandering trader's trading output slot, and put it in your inventory.	`adventure/trade`
Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 34 mobs: Blaze Cave Spider Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.	`adventure/kill_all_mobs`
Hired Help	Summon an Iron Golem to help defend a village	What a Deal!	Summon an iron golem.	`adventure/summon_iron_golem`
Who's the Pillager Now?	Give a Pillager a taste of their own medicine	Ol' Betsy	Kill a pillager with a crossbow.	`adventure/whos_the_pillager_now`
Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Ol' Betsy	This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.	`adventure/arbalistic`
Sniper Duel	Kill a Skeleton from at least 50 meters away	Take Aim	Be at least 50 blocks away horizontally when a skeleton is killed by an arrow after the player has attacked it once.	`adventure/sniper_duel`
Bee Our Guest	Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Glass Bottle without aggravating the Bees	Husbandry	Use a glass bottle on a beehive or bee nest while not angering the bees inside.	`husbandry/safely_harvest_honey`
The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 25 mobs: Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/breed_an_animal`
Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Husbandry	Tame one of these 8 tameable mobs: Cat Donkey Horse Llama Mule Parrot Trader Llama Wolf	`husbandry/tame_an_animal`
Total Beelocation	Move a Bee Nest, with 3 Bees inside, using Silk Touch	Husbandry	—	`husbandry/silk_touch_nest`
Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed a pair of each of these 24 mobs: Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/bred_all_animals`

Issues

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

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

Videos

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.^[8]
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

↑ wikipedia:Mob (gaming) or a single entity in a group when referring to Minecraft.
↑ "It will not be like last year where one biome gets updated but the rest don't- instead the vote is just choosing which biome will get updated first but all of those biomes will get updated." – u/HelenAngel on Reddit, September 17, 2018
↑ "We haven't forgot about them :)" – @_LadyAgnes (Agnes Larsson) on X, September 17, 2019 in response to "What happened to last year's?" – @PancakeIdentity on X, September 17, 2019
↑ "For the mobs that don't win we will add them in the future if we think they add lots to the game at that point. So they are not gone forever, but also not promised because we want to make sure we add what we believe adds most value at that time :)" – @_LadyAgnes (Agnes Larsson) on X, October 1, 2020
↑ MC-128249 - comment from cojomax99
↑ MC-183764
↑ MC-199994 — Advancement "Free the End" is only granted to one player
↑ "@xyZenTV The skin appears only when you name the rabbit Toast using a name tag, it isn't in the random pool:" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X, July 1, 2014

Entities

Environment

[group-2] All nearby mobs of the same type become hostile when a single one is provoked.

[bees-3] In addition to attacking when provoked, bees become aggravated when a nearby beehive is broken. Bees who claim a beehive become angry when honey is harvested unless a campfire is placed beneath the beehive. A bee can sting the player only once, and ceases to attack thereafter although the bee's hostile texture remains. In addition, they become passive after a short time.

[spider-4] This mob is naturally hostile when in a light level 7 or lower; meaning they are naturally hostile whenever they spawn. They become neutral when in a light level higher than 7, although they continue attacking any players they were attacking before being in this light level.

[monster-5] This mob is subject to advancements by Monster Hunter, Monsters Hunted.‌^{[JE only]}

[enderman-6] In addition to attacking when provoked, endermen become hostile when their head is being looked at.

[iron_golem-7] In addition to attacking when provoked, iron golems attack players with low village popularity.

[llamas-8] This mob becomes neutral after attacking the player a single time.

[gold_armor-9] Piglins are naturally hostile, but if the player is wearing at least one piece of gold armor, then the piglin becomes neutral. In its neutral state, if one piglin or piglin brute is attacked, or if the player opens or breaks these containers or breaks these golden blocks, all nearby piglins become hostile, even if the player is wearing gold armor.

[pandas-10] Most panda personalities attack the player once. Aggressive pandas attack more similarly to a hostile mob when provoked.

[polar_bear-11] Like all mobs, adult polar bears are passive on Peaceful difficulty. When the player is near a cub, the parent polar bear becomes hostile toward the player, although it seldom happens in Easy difficulty. When a cub is attacked, nearby polar bears become hostile toward the attacker.

[rider-12] Only the riding mob of the pair is hostile. The mount remains passive after its rider is killed.

[outside_of_water_during_daytime-13] Becomes passive when not touching water during daytime.

[baby-14] If a baby hoglin is attacked by the player, it temporarily becomes neutral, fleeing the player after getting attacked.

[unarmed-15] If a pillager breaks its crossbow, then it becomes passive.‌^{[JE only]}

[jockey-16] The skeleton variant is always hostile, while the spider follows its normal rules.

[1] wikipedia:Mob (gaming) or a single entity in a group when referring to Minecraft.

[17] "It will not be like last year where one biome gets updated but the rest don't- instead the vote is just choosing which biome will get updated first but all of those biomes will get updated." – u/HelenAngel on Reddit, September 17, 2018

[18] "We haven't forgot about them :)" – @_LadyAgnes (Agnes Larsson) on X, September 17, 2019 in response to "What happened to last year's?" – @PancakeIdentity on X, September 17, 2019

[19] "For the mobs that don't win we will add them in the future if we think they add lots to the game at that point. So they are not gone forever, but also not promised because we want to make sure we add what we believe adds most value at that time :)" – @_LadyAgnes (Agnes Larsson) on X, October 1, 2020

[20] MC-128249 - comment from cojomax99

[21] MC-183764

[22] MC-199994 — Advancement "Free the End" is only granted to one player

[23] "@xyZenTV The skin appears only when you name the rabbit Toast using a name tag, it isn't in the random pool:" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on X, July 1, 2014

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