Glow Squid

The glow squid is a variant of squid with an aqua luminescent texture.

Spawning
Glow squid currently do not spawn naturally but can be spawned using spawn eggs found in the Creative inventory or with the command.

Drops

 * 1–3 s. The maximum amount is increased by 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 1–6 with Looting III.
 * Experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior
Glow squid, like regular squid, wander around aimlessly in three dimensions as long as they are in water opening and closing their tentacles, which gives them the appearance of pushing themselves leisurely forward.

Glow squid suffocate when out of water, dying after 300 game ticks. While on land, they remain stationary until they suffocate. They can take fall damage and burn like any other land mob, but they cannot drown. When out of the water, glow squid are extremely resistant to knockback.

Glow squid are passive toward the player. They are not attracted to light and do not deliberately interact with the player.

Glow squid seem to glow, which doesn't actually affect the light level and is purely aesthetic. When attacked, they will stop glowing for 5 second.

Glow squid cannot swim in lava, even if given a effect. They simply pass through the lava and behave as if on land.

Unlike land-based mobs, glow squid can swim against a current and not get pushed by it.‌

Guardians and elder guardians attack glow squid in the same manner as they would do to a player or regular squid.

Glow squid are affected by the Impaling enchantment, because they are aquatic mobs.

Glow squid constantly produce star-shaped particles around them as well as a cloud of turquoise ink particles and swim away covering much longer distances when attacked, both of which remain visible when the glow squid has the effect.

Glow squid sometimes beach themselves and suffocate on the banks of rivers and occasionally on ocean beaches.

Glow squid are attacked by axolotls.

If the player is in spectator mode or is far away from glow squid, they remain stationary. When attacked in this state, glow squid cannot flee.

Glow squid are not affected by the  NBT tag.

Although glow squid have a baby variant in, there is currently no way to breed them.

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Entity data
Glow squids have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Trivia

 * The glow squid won the Minecraft Live 2020 mob vote, in a vote with 3 candidates: the Iceologer, the Moobloom, and the Glow Squid.
 * Glow squids "glow" in the same way as enderman and spider eyes and magma cube cores.
 * The glow squid is the first mob from a spin-off game to make it into the base game.
 * Like normal squids, glow squids will not move and stay stationary when the player is in spectator mode or is far enough from the squid for this behavior to occur. When attacked in this state, they are unable to flee.
 * Though Glow Squids had a unique pulsating-like animation in the spin-off game from which they originate (Minecraft Earth), they do not have this animation in either the Bedrock Edition of the game nor the Java Edition as neither of these versions have official support for animated entity textures. It has not been confirmed whether Glow Squids will eventually be animated or not, nor has it been confirmed whether or not entities will ever officially support animated textures.
 * Glow squids are one of the 4 mobs added as the result of the community, the others being phantoms, foxes, and goats.