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Blazes are fiery hostile mobs found in nether fortresses.
Spawning
Blazes can spawn naturally in nether fortresses at a light level of 11 or less.
Monster spawners
Blazes spawn from spawners found in nether fortresses.
Drops
Blazes drop:
- 0-1 blaze rods (or up to 4 with the Looting enchantment), but only if killed by the player.
- 0-2 glowstone dust if killed by the player.[Legacy Console Edition only]
- 10 experience points if killed by a player or tamed wolf.
Behavior
Although blazes are able to fly, they will stay on the ground or sink down slowly in the air when not attacking. Blazes will not attempt to swim upwards in lava or water, unlike zombie pigmen. Despite taking damage from water (see "Combat" section below), blazes will make no attempts at their protection if somehow pushed or dropped into water. Blazes' pathfinding does not avoid fire, avoids water like other mobs avoid lava, and treats lava like other mobs treat water.
Blazes will target players within 48 blocks. If a blaze is damaged by a player or other mob, it will alert other blazes within 48 blocks to target the attacker. When a blaze has a target, it will begin flying (attempting to remain 0.5–3.5 blocks above the target) and slowly approach the target.
The blaze's normal attack is a trio of fireballs, shot from up to 16 blocks away. Blazes will shoot even without line of sight to the target. When using this attack, the blaze will catch fire for 3 seconds, shoot three fireballs over the course of 0.9 second, then extinguish the fire and wait for 5 seconds before attacking again. A blaze shoots its 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 starts slow and accelerates.
Blazes within 2 blocks of their target will instead perform a melee attack that does 6![]()
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damage on normal difficulty, once per second. This attack is not considered fire damage and will not ignite the target.
In Bedrock Edition, Blazes have much lower attack and sight range.
Blaze fireball
Blazes shoot fireballs at their target. If the fireball hits a block, fire will be placed at that location. If it hits an entity that is not immune to fire or does not have the Fire Resistance effect, the entity will take 5![]()
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of projectile damage regardless of difficulty level. The target will also be set on fire for 5 seconds, which typically does an additional 4![]()
fire damage over time. A blaze fireball cannot be deflected by melee attacks or arrows, unlike ghast fireballs. However, it can be blocked by shields, which prevents the player from taking direct damage but not from being set on fire.
Data values
Blaze fireballs are also entities which have associated entity data. Their entity ID is small_fireball.
Fire Charge/ED
Combat
In addition to normal weapons, blazes are hurt by snowballs, taking 3![]()
damage per hit, and by splash water bottles, taking 1
damage per hit. Like endermen, they are also damaged by water and rain by 1
every half second. Like most Nether mobs, they are immune to fire and lava.
Data values
Blazes have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is blaze.
- Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
Video
Blaze/video
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
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| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Into Fire | Relieve a Blaze of its rod. | Pick up a blaze rod from the ground. | 20G | Bronze | ||
| Overkill | Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit. | Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall. | 30G | Bronze | ||
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
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![]() | Into Fire | Relieve a Blaze of its rod | A Terrible Fortress | Have a blaze rod in your inventory. | nether/obtain_blaze_rod
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![]() | Adventure | Adventure, exploration and combat | — | Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity. | adventure/root
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![]() | Monster Hunter | Kill any hostile monster | Adventure | Kill one of these 34 mobs:
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![]() | Take Aim | Shoot something with an Arrow | Monster Hunter | Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot an entity with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow. | adventure/shoot_arrow
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![]() | Monsters Hunted | Kill one of every hostile monster | Monster Hunter | Kill each of these 34 mobs:
| adventure/kill_all_mobs
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History
| Java Edition | |||||
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| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease | Added blazes. | |||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Blazes only dropped items when they aren't on fire (about to attack); this has since been fixed, and they will now have a chance to drop Blaze Rods any time they are killed. | ||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 | Blazes only drop a blaze rod when killed by the player. | ||||
| RC1 | Sounds specific to Blazes added. They make "breath" sounds and make metallic clunks when hurt. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w36a | Due to the addition of wither skeletons, blazes spawn less often in nether fortresses (chance decreased from 43.5% to 35.7%). | |||
| 1.8 | 14w06a | The blaze's AI has been altered. Blazes will now attempt to attack the player even if there are blocks between them. A blaze will also alert other blazes in a staggering 50 block radius around itself of the player's presence upon being hit, causing all blazes within the wide radius to swarm the player, if they have a clear path. They now have a decreased firing distance: previously, blazes would shoot at the player from about 32 blocks away once angered, but they now shoot from only 16 blocks. When the player moves out of their radius, they will slowly "walk" over to the player, flying over obstructions in the way, but no longer pathfinding around walls and corners.[verify] When within melee range, the blaze will now actively rush towards the player and attempt to hit them out of melee range, and shoot fireballs once the player is out. They will not attempt to swim in water or lava, instead sinking to the bottom. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | Changed entity ID from Blaze to blaze.
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The fireball's entity ID is changed from SmallFireball to small_fireball. | |||||
| 16w35a | Blazes are now dealt 1 | ||||
| 16w40a | Tags xTile, yTile, zTile, inTile and inGround were removed from the small fireball entity data.
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The life tag is no longer used for anything, but still saved/read. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Added blazes. | |||
| build 12 | Blazes are neutral in Creative mode. | ||||
| Blazes now have sounds. | |||||
| 0.13.0 | build 1 | Blazes are now passive in Creative mode. | |||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | Blaze texture now glows. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | The entity ID for the fireball is changed from smallfireball to small_fireball. | |||
| ? | Blazes are now dealt 1 | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | Added blazes. | |
| TU8 | Blazes drop 0–2 glowstone dust when killed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added Blazes. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Blaze" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Blazes are one of the only mobs that can see the player through walls, the other being zombies, spiders, and slimes.
- When throwing a potion of invisibility on a blaze, the smoke will stay 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, and he gave them eyes so they had personality.[1]
- Despite not having visible feet, blazes are still capable of making footstep sounds.[2]
Gallery
A close up look at the blaze spawner in a nether fortress.
- BlazeOnFire.png
A blaze on fire being "angry", preparing to shoot its fireballs.










