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This article is about the Minecraft counterpart. For the mob in Minecraft Earth, see Minecraft Earth:Glow Squid.
This article is about the glowing variant. For the regular squid, see Squid.
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The glow squid is a variant of squid with an aqua luminescent texture.

Spawning

Glow squids do not spawn naturally yet but can be spawned using spawn eggs found in the Creative inventory or with the /summon command.

Drops

Behavior

Glow Squid Shooting Ink

Ink cloud produced by a glow squid.

Glow squids behave like normal squids, swimming around in water aimlessly. They emit particles wherever they swim. They suffocate to death if they are beached on land for 300 game ticks (15 seconds), are targeted by guardians and axolotls, and are affected by the impaling enchantment. Glow squids on land will continue to use the swimming animation but will be unable to move more than 1 block.

When attacked, they will stop glowing for 100 game ticks (5 seconds) and flee at a speed much faster than that of the squid.

Glow squids are not affected by the NoAI NBT tag.[1]

Sounds

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
Glow Squid swimsFriendly CreaturesRandomentity.glow_squid.ambientsubtitles.entity.glow_squid.ambient???
Glow Squid diesFriendly CreaturesDyingentity.glow_squid.deathsubtitles.entity.glow_squid.death???
Glow Squid hurtsFriendly CreaturesTaking damageentity.glow_squid.hurtsubtitles.entity.glow_squid.hurt???
Glow Squid shoots inkFriendly CreaturesShooting inkentity.glow_squid.squirtsubtitles.entity.glow_squid.squirt???

Data values

ID

NameIdentifierEntity tags (JE)Translation key
Glow Squidglow_squidaxolotl_always_hostilesentity.minecraft.glow_squid

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

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

  • Entity data
    • Tags common to all entities
    • Tags common to all mobs
    •  DarkTicksRemaining: Countdown of ticks remaining until the glow squid starts glowing. Not glowing while positive, glowing when countdown reaches zero.

History

September 27, 2020The glow squid is announced as one of the three mobs in the Minecraft Live 2020 mob vote.
October 3, 2020The glow squid wins the mob vote.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.1721w03aGlow Squid JE1 Added the glow squid.

Issues

Issues relating to "Glow Squid" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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 eyes and magma cube cores.
  • The glow squid is the first mob from a spin-off game to make it into the base game.

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References

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