Blaze

Blazes are floating hostile mobs found in nether fortresses, and are the only source of blaze rods.

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

Spawners
Blazes spawn from spawners in nether fortresses. They are located on a three-block staircase with a small platform.

Drops

 * 0–1 s (0-4 with Looting III), if killed by the player or tamed wolf
 * if killed by a player or tamed wolf

Behavior
Blazes fly, although when not attacking they stay on the ground or sink down slowly through the air. Blazes attempt to swim upward in lava or water. When idle, they fall through lava and water. Despite taking damage from water, 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. They immediately take damage from powder snow.

Blazes are also hurt by snowballs, taking damage per hit. It takes 7 snowballs to kill a blaze. They are also damaged by splash water bottles, taking damage per hit. Like endermen, they are also damaged by rain by every half second. Like most Nether mobs, they are immune to damage from fire and lava.

Attacking


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 small fireballs, shot from up to 48 blocks or 16 blocks. A blaze shoots only when it has line of sight to its target. If line of sight is broken in the middle of its volley, the blaze suspends the remainder of its volley until line of sight returns. When using this attack, the blaze burns with fire for 3 seconds, shoots three small fireballs over the course of 0.9 seconds, then extinguishes its flames and waits for 5 seconds before attacking again. A blaze shoots its small 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 performs a melee attack that does damage on normal difficulty, once per second. This attack is not considered fire damage and does not ignite the target. This cannot be prevented by fire resistance potions. The blaze does not try to approach the player to perform this attack.

ID




Entity data


Blazes have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.


 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.
 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Trivia

 * Blazes can see the player through walls, like 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.
 * Blazes originally didn't have eyes when Jeb was first creating them and "just looked like a yellow rock". Eyes were added to "give it more personality".
 * Despite not having visible feet, blazes are still capable of making footstep sounds.
 * According to Minecraft's "Visit the Nether!" blazes are sentient beings made of pure lava. The article theorizes they were created by the original inhabitants of nether fortresses to serve as guards, but their creators lost control over the blazes and were subsequently destroyed by them.