Tutorials/Defeating a dungeon

Dungeons are special structures that generate underground connected to caves or other generated structures. They contain up to 2 loot chests and a spawner that spawns zombies, skeletons, or spiders. The spawner can be farmed for XP and mob drops and the chests can contain useful and valuable items as well, so they are very good to find.

Item loadout

 * Iron sword enchanted with Sweeping Edge[Java Edition only] if possible
 * A full set of iron or better armor (enchanted if possible)
 * Iron pickaxe or better
 * Nutritious food like bread or steak
 * A golden apple (optional)
 * Torches or other light emitting block to disable the spawner
 * Shield (optional)
 * Potions (optional)

Finding a dungeon
Dungeons generate at any altitude (even if Generated Structures is turned off) provided they are next to a cave. If mining and you stumble along cobblestone, that's a good sign you might have found a dungeon, but water and lava mixing also generates cobblestone, so be careful when investigating. Mossy cobblestone generates a lot in the floor, and there are only two naturally occuring sources of mossy cobblestone: dungeons and jungle temples. So if you're not in a jungle biome or aboveground, you've found a dungeon.

Dungeons also generate next to caves. Turning sound on can be significantly helpful and subtitles still help. If you hear a lot of a mob in one direction, chances are there's a spawner in a dungeon. The spawner has a chance to be a zombie (50% chance), skeleton (25% chance), or spider (25% chance) spawner. Dungeons cannot be located with /locate.

Defeating the dungeon
Once you've located your dungeon, turn on subtitles or sound to determine what type of dungeon it is and how to prepare.


 * If it's a zombie dungeon, take care to note what difficulty you are on. If you are on hard difficulty, additional zombies can spawn as you're dealing with the zombies in the spawner, attacking you from behind[needs in-game testing]. Smite will be the most effective sword enchantment here, as well as wielding a shield and good armor.