Tutorials/Creepers

Do creepers keep on blowing you up? Not any more! This tutorial will teach you how to farm gunpowder/kill those pesky creepers!
 * Requirements: Bow, at least 10 Arrows, Stone Sword or better.
 * Find a Creeper, make sure you have some armor (this is heavily recommended).
 * Get in range of the Creeper or on a Sniping Tower. Shoot the creeper with the bow fully charged then sprint-hit it with your sword.
 * If creeper is not killed, Keep on sprint-hitting it.
 * Repeat.

Carry some flint and steel. Then you can light the ground on fire and lead a creeper through it, catching it on fire (which damages it) while you battle it!

Damage
Creepers have 10 hearts. Iron swords do 3 hearts damage, so you will need to hit it 4 times. Diamond swords do 3.5 hearts damage, so you will need to hit it 3 times. Fully charged bows do 4.5 hearts damage, so you will need to shoot it 3 times.

Exploding
If there is 1 block or less between you and the creeper and he knows you're there, he will start his 1.5 second countdown before he explodes. Hitting him and moving back or sprint-hitting him will move him far enough away that he stops his countdown, and starts his cooldown.His cooldown will as long as the countdown did.So, if he had been counting down for 0.75 seconds when you hit him with your sword, then he would have to spend the next 0.75 seconds cooling down. If there are 2 blocks between you and the creeper, you're safe unless he has already started his countdown.

Easy Way to Kill a Creeper
See a creeper near your home, but have nothing other than wooden sword and some blocks ? You can kill him without worrying about exploding, just follow these steps :


 * Make sure you have at least 3 or 4 dirt/sand in your inventory
 * Check if there is no skeletons or spiders (If yes, kill them first)
 * Walk slowly to creeper, and when he will start walking in your direction
 * Make a 3-4 block pillar of dirt/sand by pillar-jumping
 * Wait until the creeper comes next to your pillar
 * Now you can kill him, and he will not explode! Now you can rest worry free!

Tips

 * Creepers will sometimes circle around you, always moving to your left while still moving closer to you. A way to counter this is to aim with your sword just in front of where the Creeper is and wait until he moves in front of your sword.


 * If there are multiple Creepers after you, try to get one Creeper to explode a safe distance away from you and damage the other Creeper(s). (Note: This is very dangerous, especially if you do not have armor on)


 * If there are multiple types of mobs after you at once (say a Creeper, a Skeleton, and a Zombie), the Creeper should always be your priority. He is capable of one-shotting you if he explodes right next to you, so try to finish him off with a Bow or Sprint-hit him repeatedly.