Mob

A mob is an AI-driven game entity resembling a living creature. The term "mob" is short for "mobile entity".^[1] All mobs can be attacked and hurt (from falling, attacked by a player or another mob, falling into the void, hit by an arrow, etc), and have some form of voluntary movement. Different types of mobs often have unique AI and loot.

Spawning

Most monsters are found in dark areas such as caves, while most animals are found commonly in bright light levels. Most other mobs are also found in different biomes/structures. — Different mobs spawn in diverse habitats/structures, depending on the light level, biome and surface material.

Some of the many monsters that can spawn in the Overworld. From left to right: Zombie, Spider, Enderman, Creeper, Skeleton, Drowned, Witch, Slime.

Mobs spawn in various ways. Most mobs spawn naturally, depending on the light level, biome, and their surroundings. For example, most animals are found in bright areas on the surface, while hostile monsters are commonly found in the dark (whether it's a cave, dungeon, mansion, or at night). Animals usually spawn upon chunk generation, while hostile monsters spawn and despawn in certain radii around the player. Some mobs including passive and neutral animals, and even hoglins have the ability to be bred by the player, creating offspring. Villagers also breed randomly depending on the time of day and the number of beds (though they can’t be directly bred by the player). Most mobs never spawn on transparent blocks, in water (except fish, dolphins, turtles, and other aquatic creatures), in lava (except for striders), on bedrock, or on blocks less than a full block tall (such as slabs placed on the bottom half). The exception is monster spawners, from which monsters can spawn naturally on any block including air.

Some mobs (like the snow golem and the wither) require that the player "construct" them before being able to spawn. The iron golem can spawn naturally and can also be constructed. The ender dragon can be respawned with four end crystals.

Players can also spawn mobs easily by using a spawn eggs in Creative mode, or the /summon command.

Despawning

Many mobs despawn (cease to exist) after a certain amount of time if far enough from the player. In Java Edition, most passive mobs do not despawn, while most monsters do. In Bedrock Edition, almost all mobs despawn.

Behavior

A pig emitting smoke particles upon death.

Mobs are affected by the environment in the same ways as the player: they are subject to physics, and they can be hurt by the same things that harm the player (catching on fire, falling, drowning, attacked by weapons, /kill command, etc.). Some mobs may be resistant or immune to certain hazards, such as some Nether mobs, which are immune to fire. All aquatic mobs except dolphins are immune to drowning. Mobs can ride minecarts and other mobs can climb up ladders. When mobs are killed, they turn to dust and drop items that may be useful resources. Each type of mob in Minecraft has a certain AI (artificial intelligence) system with different behaviors and mechanics. Mobs ordinarily wander around at random if there is a player nearby and usually avoid walking off blocks high enough to cause falling damage. Many mobs have an advanced path-finding system that allows them to navigate through obstacles to get to a desired object or destination. Passive mobs flee in random directions after being hurt, while hostile mobs face and chase/attack the player as soon as the player comes close. Neutral mobs remain neutral until a player or mob provokes it (usually by attacking), at which point the neutral mob becomes hostile toward and attack the entity that hit it. Most mobs are aware of players within 16 blocks of them, but some can see farther. Conversely, most mobs can be heard by players up to 16 blocks (spherical) away. Mobs in creative mode are harmless.

Most mobs cannot see through most solid blocks, including semi-transparent blocks such as ice, glass, tall grass, or glass panes. Mobs do not attempt to walk on rail tracks unless pushed onto the rails by other mobs.

List of mobs

Mobs are listed and classified by their nature from the player's perspective. For more details on a particular mob, click on them to view their individual page.

Passive mobs

Passive mobs are harmless mobs (except for pufferfish) that do not attempt to attack the player, even when provoked or attacked. Most of them can be bred or tamed.


Allay	Axolotl	Bat	Cat	Chicken	Cod	Cow	Donkey	Fox	Frog


Glow Squid	Horse	Mooshroom	Mule	Ocelot	Parrot	Pig	Pufferfish (defensive)	Rabbit	Salmon


Sheep	Skeleton Horse	Snow Golem	Squid	Strider	Tadpole	Tropical Fish	Turtle	Villager	Wandering Trader

Neutral mobs

Neutral mobs are sometimes passive and sometimes hostile toward the player. All of these mobs (except goats) are provoked when the player attacks it first. Some mobs may also be naturally hostile with provocation, and some mobs also have some additional way to be provoked.


Bee	Cave Spider	Dolphin	Enderman	Goat	Iron Golem (naturally spawned)	Llama


Panda	Piglin	Polar Bear	Spider	Trader Llama	Wolf	Zombified Piglin

Hostile mobs

Hostile mobs are dangerous, aggressive mobs that always attack the player within their respective detection ranges. Some passive mobs such as chickens and skeleton horses can be hostile if ridden by a hostile mob on rare occasions.


Blaze	Chicken Jockey	Creeper	Drowned	Elder Guardian	Endermite	Evoker	Ghast	Guardian	Hoglin


Husk	Magma Cube	Phantom	Piglin Brute	Pillager	Ravager	Shulker	Silverfish	Skeleton	Skeleton Horseman


Slime	Spider Jockey	Stray	Vex	Vindicator	Warden	Witch	Wither Skeleton	Zoglin	Zombie	Zombie Villager

Boss mobs

Boss mobs are special hostile mobs that are distinctly more dangerous and tougher than other mobs. They do not spawn randomly, and are confronted intentionally. All of them also have a boss bar featuring their name and health. Boss mobs provide unique challenges but also equivalent rewards.


Ender Dragon	Wither

Unused mobs

Only contains a few mobs that never spawn naturally in-game as they can only be summoned with the /summon command though the zombie horse can be spawned in with a spawn egg.


Giant ‌^{[JE only]}	Zombie Horse	The Killer Bunny ‌^{[JE only]}	Agent ‌^{[BE & EE only]}	NPC ‌^{[BE & EE only]}	Illusioner ‌^{[JE only]}	Elder Guardian Ghost ‌^{[BE only]}

Removed mobs

Removed mobs no longer exist in current versions of the game.


Beast Boy	Black Steve	Human	Pigman	Rana	Steve

Joke mobs

Mobs that were added as a joke for April Fools' Day in Java Edition.


Diamond Chicken	Horse	Love Golem	Nerd Creeper	Pink Wither	Pony	Redstone Bug	Smiling Creeper

Unimplemented mobs

Mobs that were announced by Mojang as confirmed, mentioned or potential future additions, but either got replaced by other mobs or scrapped.

These mobs either:

Were said to not be added in a future update (the mobs that lost the MINECON Earth 2017 mob vote)
Were said to have a possibility of being added in a future update (the mobs that that lost the Minecraft Live 2020 and Minecraft Live 2021 mob votes, and the Firefly)^[2]
Are not known to be under consideration for a future update (the Red Dragon and the mobs that lost the China Edition mob vote)

N/A
Red Dragon	Barnacle	Mob C "The Great Hunger"	Wildfire	Chinese Alligator	Golden Monkey	White-Lipped Deer	Baiji Dolphin


Moobloom	Iceologer	Glare	Copper Golem	Firefly

Mob vote

In 2016, Jeb held an informal poll on Twitter in which the public voted on adding the llama to Minecraft over the alpaca.^[3]^[4] In the five annual Minecraft events MINECON Earth 2017, MINECON Earth 2018, MINECON Live 2019, Minecraft Live 2020 and Minecraft Live 2021, the public also voted on a mob to be added to Minecraft. In the first vote, the winner was the phantom (then known as "Mob B" or "The Monster of the Night Skies"). In the second, the winner was the taiga biome and the fox. In the third, the winner was the mountain biome and the goat. In the fourth, the winner was the glow squid. In the fifth, the winner was the allay. Before the second vote, the China Edition also had a mob vote, the winner of which was the panda.

Classification

Most of the mobs are divided into different types, such as the animals or the monsters, but some creatures are assigned to a more detailed group. There are a total of four mob classifications that have different effects than other mobs.

Weaknesses and immunities

Some mobs are weak or immune to certain kinds of damage. Sea creatures, such as turtles, take more damage from tridents that are enchanted with Impaling.‌^{[Java Edition only]}‌^{[until JE Combat Tests]} Skeletons and their variants are immune to drowning. All undead mobs are healed by potions of Harming, but take extra damage from weapons enchanted with Smite, along with taking damage from Potions of Healing. Many of these weaknesses and immunities are a result of what category (see below) of mobs that the mob falls into.

Undead mobs

This group of mobs includes drowned, husks, phantoms, skeletons, skeleton horses, strays, withers, wither skeletons, zoglins, zombies, zombie horses, zombie villagers, and zombified piglins. These mobs are damaged by potions of Healing, healed by potions of Harming, and are immune to drowning (except for husks and zombies, which turn into zombies and drowned if drowning, respectively) and poison damage. Zombies, zombie villagers, drowned, skeletons, strays, and phantoms burn when under direct sunlight, unless they are touching water or wearing a helmet. Under the fire resistance effect, undead mobs still catch fire in direct sunlight but do not get hurt by the fire. All undead mobs except for drowned, phantoms, and withers sink in water. All undead mobs take extra damage from weapons enchanted with Smite, and are ignored by withers.

Most undead mobs have the ability to pick up items. Some can spawn wearing armor, or holding tools or weapons.

Aquatic mobs

This group of mobs includes axolotls, dolphins, squids, glow squids, guardians, elder guardians, turtles, cod, salmon, pufferfish, and tropical fish, but not drowned.^[5] They take extra damage from tridents enchanted with Impaling,‌^{[Java Edition only]}‌^{[until JE Combat Tests]} and, except axolotl, do not cause pufferfish to inflate nor take damage from them. All aquatic mobs except dolphins are immune to drowning, and all except guardians, elder guardians, and turtles take suffocation damage if out of water for too long. Aquatic mobs have the ability to swim, whereas other mobs simply float on water or sink. In Bedrock Edition there is no in-game classification for these mobs.

Arthropods

This group consists of mobs based on arthropods, namely bees, cave spiders, endermites, silverfish, and spiders. They take extra damage and receive the Slowness IV effect when attacked with weapons enchanted with Bane of Arthropods.

Illagers

This group includes pillagers, illusioners‌^{[JE only]}^{[unused mob]}, ravagers‌^{[BE only]}, evokers, and vindicators. They are immune to evoker fangs damage and ignored by vindicators named "Johnny" (except ravagers‌^{[Java Edition only]}). They are hostile toward villagers, wandering traders, iron golems and players in Survival or Adventure mode. Witches, and vexes may accompany them in raids. Illusioners (and witches‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}) can see players or targets through blocks.

Knockback resistance

Some non-boss mobs resist a percentage of knockback from attacks.

Mob	Knockback resistance
Drowned	0% - 5% (determined upon spawning)
Hoglin	60%
Husk	0% - 5% (determined upon spawning)
Iron Golem	100%
Squid	85% (outside water)^[verify]
Ravager	75%
Shulker	100%
Warden	100%
Zoglin	60%
Zombie	0% - 5% (determined upon spawning)
Zombie Villager	0% - 5% (determined upon spawning)
Zombified Piglin	0% - 5% (determined upon spawning)

Platform availability

Mob	Java Edition	Bedrock Edition	Education Edition
Agent	No	Only if "Education Edition" features are turned on.	Yes
Allay	Yes	Yes	No
Axolotl	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bat	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bee	Yes	Yes	Yes
Blaze	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cat	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cave Spider	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chicken	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chicken Jockey	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cod	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cow	Yes	Yes	Yes
Creeper	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dolphin	Yes	Yes	Yes
Donkey	Yes	Yes	Yes
Drowned	Yes	Yes	Yes
Elder Guardian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Elder Guardian Ghost	No	Yes	Yes
Ender Dragon	Yes	Yes	Yes
Enderman	Yes	Yes	Yes
Endermite	Yes	Yes	Yes
Evoker	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fox	Yes	Yes	Yes
Frog	Yes	Yes	No
Ghast	Yes	Yes	Yes
Giant	Yes	No	No
Glow Squid	Yes	Yes	Yes
Goat	Yes	Yes	Yes
Guardian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Horse	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hoglin	Yes	Yes	Yes
Husk	Yes	Yes	Yes
Illusioner	Yes	No	No
Iron Golem	Yes	Yes	Yes
Killer Bunny	Yes	No	No
Llama	Yes	Yes	Yes
Magma Cube	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mooshroom	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mule	Yes	Yes	Yes
NPC	No	Only if "Education Edition" features are turned on	Yes
Ocelot	Yes	Yes	Yes
Panda	Yes	Yes	Yes
Parrot	Yes	Yes	Yes
Phantom	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pig	Yes	Yes	Yes
Piglin	Yes	Yes	Yes
Piglin Brute	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pillager	Yes	Yes	Yes
Polar Bear	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pufferfish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rabbit	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ravager	Yes	Yes	Yes
Salmon	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sheep	Yes	Yes	Yes
Shulker	Yes	Yes	Yes
Silverfish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Skeleton	Yes	Yes	Yes
Skeleton Horse	Yes	Yes	Yes
Skeleton Horseman	Yes	Yes	Yes
Slime	Yes	Yes	Yes
Snow Golem	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spider	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spider Jockey	Yes	Yes	Yes
Squid	Yes	Yes	Yes
Stray	Yes	Yes	Yes
Strider	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tadpole	Yes	Yes	No
Trader Llama	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tropical Fish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Turtle	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vex	Yes	Yes	Yes
Villager	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vindicator	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wandering Trader	Yes	Yes	Yes
Warden	Yes	Yes	No
Witch	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wither	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wither Skeleton	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wolf	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zoglin	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zombie	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zombie Horse	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zombie Villager	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zombified Piglin	Yes	Yes	Yes

Damage dealt by hostile and neutral mobs

The damage mobs deal to players is affected by the difficulty of the game. The below values represent the amount of damage taken per hit.

This applies only to mobs attacking the player. Mobs attacking other mobs always deal the 'Normal' damage listed, regardless of difficulty.
Values for the creeper and ghast assume the player is directly adjacent to the explosion.
The damage of slimes and magma cubes depends on their size. Tiny-sized slimes, while hostile, are unable to do damage directly.
Mobs deal no damage to players on peaceful.

Mob	Difficulty			Status effect(s)ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ[edit]
Mob	Easy	Normal	Hard	Status effect(s)ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ[edit]
Bee	2	2	3	Poison for 10 seconds on normal difficulty and for 18 seconds on hard difficulty
Blaze (melee)	4	6	9	No
Blaze fireball	5 + Fire for 5 seconds			No
Cave Spider	2	2	3	Poison for 7 seconds on normal difficulty and for 15 seconds on hard difficulty
Chicken Jockey	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No
Creeper explosion (normal)	22.5 × 11.25	43 × 21.5	64.5 × 32.25	When exploding: No If having a potion effect when exploding, it leaves an effect cloud with the effect, like a lingering potion.
Creeper explosion (charged)	43.5 × 21.75	85 × 42.5	127.5 × 63.75
Dolphin	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No
Drowned	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No
Drowned trident (Ranged)	8			No
Drowned trident (Melee)‌^{[BE only]}	5	9	12 × 6	No
Elder Guardian (Laser)	5	8	12 × 6	Inflicts Mining Fatigue III for 5 minutes on nearby players
Elder Guardian (Spikes)	2		3	Inflicts Mining Fatigue III for 5 minutes on nearby players
Elder Guardian Ghost (Spikes)	2		3	No
Ender Dragon (Melee)	6	10	15 × 7.5	No
Ender Dragon (Wings)	3	5	7	No
Ender Dragon (Breath)	3 per second			Area effect cloud of Instant Damage
Ender Dragon Dragon Fireball	6 per second			Area effect cloud of Instant Damage
Enderman	4.5 × 2.25	7	10.5 × 5.25	No
Endermite	2		3	No
Evoker fangs	6			No
Ghast fireball (Impact)	6			No
Ghast fireball (Explosion)	7	12 × 6	22.5 × 11.25	No
Giant	26 × 13	50 × 25	75 × 37.5	No
Goat	1	2	3	No
Guardian (Laser)	4	6	9	No
Guardian (Spikes)	2		3	No
Hoglin‌^{[JE only]}	2.5 × 1.25 to 5	3 to 8	4.5 × 2.25 to 12 × 6	No
Hoglin (baby)‌^{[JE only]}	0.5 × 0.25		0.75 × 0.375	No
Hoglin‌^{[BE only]}	3	6	9	No
Husk	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	Hunger when attacking any mob for 7 × floor of RD seconds
Illusioner arrow	2 to 5	3 to 5		Throws Blindness spells on the player, if regional difficulty is 2 or greater
Iron Golem	4.75 × 2.375 to 11.75 × 5.875	7.5 × 3.75 to 21.5 × 10.75	11.25 × 5.625 to 32.25 × 16.125	No
The Killer Bunny	5	8	12 × 6	No
Llama spit	1			No
Magma Cube (big)	4	6	9	No
Magma Cube (medium)	3	4	6	No
Magma Cube (small)	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No
Panda	4	6	9	No
Phantom‌^{[JE only]}	2		3	No
Phantom‌^{[BE only]}	4	6	9	No
Piglin arrow‌^{[JE only]}	3 to 4		4	No
Piglin arrow‌^{[BE only]}	1 - 5			No
Piglin (Melee with Sword)‌^{[JE only]}	5	8	12 × 6	No
Piglin (Melee without Sword)‌^{[JE only]}	3.5 × 1.75	5	7.5 × 3.75	No
Piglin‌^{[BE only]}	5	9	13 × 6.5	No
Piglin Brute	7.5 × 3.75	13 × 6.5	19.5 × 9.75	No
Pillager arrow	3 to 4		4	No
Polar Bear	4	6	9	No
Pufferfish	2		3	Poison for 5 seconds
Ravager (Melee)	7	12 × 6	18 × 9	No
Ravager (Roar)	4	6	9	No
Shulker bullet	4			Levitation for 10 seconds
Silverfish	1			No
Skeleton arrow‌^{[JE only]}	3 to 5			No
Skeleton arrow‌^{[BE only]}	Damage varies with proximity			No
Skeleton (melee)	2		3	No
Skeleton Horseman arrow‌^{[JE only]}	3 to 5			No
Skeleton Horseman arrow‌^{[BE only]}	Damage varies with proximity			No
Slime (big)	3	4	6	No
Slime (medium)	2		3	No
Slime (small)	0			No
Spider	2		3	No, but can spawn with effects
Spider Jockey (spider)	2		3	No, but can spawn with effects
Spider Jockey arrow‌^{[JE only]}	3 to 5			No
Spider Jockey arrow‌^{[BE only]}	Damage varies with proximity			No
Stray arrow‌^{[JE only]}	3 to 5			Slowness for 30 seconds when their tipped arrow hits any mob (including another stray)
Stray arrow‌^{[BE only]}	Damage varies with proximity
Stray (melee)	2		3	No
Trader Llama spit	1			No
Vex	5.5 × 2.75	9	13.5 × 6.75	No
Vindicator	7.5 × 3.75	13 × 6.5	19.5 × 9.75	No
Warden	16 × 8	30 × 15	45 × 22.5	No
Witch	Deals damage by throwing potions			Throws splash potions of Poison, Instant Damage, Slowness, and Weakness
Wither Skeleton	5	8	12 × 6	Wither for 10 seconds
Wither (birth explosion)	35.5 × 17.75	69 × 34.5	103.5 × 51.75	No
Wither Skull	8	8		Wither II for 10 seconds on Normal difficulty and 40 seconds on Hard difficulty
Wither (dash attack) ‌^{[BE only]}	15 × 7.5			No
Wolf (hostile)	3	4	6	No
Wolf (tamed)	4			No
Zoglin	2.5 × 1.25 to 5	3 to 8	4.5 × 2.25 to 12 × 6	No
Zoglin (baby)	0.5 × 0.25		0.75 × 0.375	No
Zombie	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No
Zombified Piglin	5	8	12 × 6	No
Zombie Villager	2.5 × 1.25	3	4.5 × 2.25	No

Common NBT data

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Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other platforms	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		Monster Hunter	Attack and kill a monster.	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider.	15G	Bronze
		Cow Tipper	Harvest some leather.	Pick up leather from the ground.	15G	Bronze
		When Pigs Fly	Use a saddle to ride a pig, and then have the pig get hurt from fall damage while riding it.	Be riding a pig (e.g. using a saddle) when it hits the ground with a fall distance greater than 5.	40G	Silver
		Sniper Duel	Kill a Skeleton with an arrow from more than 50 meters.	Use a launched arrow to kill a skeleton, spider jockey, wither skeleton, or a stray from 50 or more blocks away, horizontally.	30G	Bronze
		Return to Sender	Destroy a Ghast with a fireball.	Kill a ghast using a ghast fireball.	30G	Silver
		The Beginning?	Spawn the Wither	Be within a 100.9×100.9×103.5 cuboid centered on the Wither when it is spawned.	20G	Bronze
		The Beginning.	Kill the Wither	Be within a 100.9×100.9×203.5 cuboid centered on the Wither when it drops the nether star.	40G	Silver
		Repopulation	Breed two cows with wheat.	Breed two cows or two mooshrooms.	15G	Bronze
		Leader of the Pack	Befriend five Wolves.	This does not have to be in a single game, so multiple games or reloading old saves does count toward this achievement.	20G	Bronze
		Have a Shearful Day	Use Shears to obtain wool from a sheep.	—	15G	Bronze
		Body Guard	Create an Iron Golem	—	20G	Bronze
		Zombie Doctor	Cure a zombie villager.	Throw a splash potion of weakness at a zombie villager and give it a golden apple (by facing the zombie and pressing the use key with a golden apple in your hand)	40G	Gold
		Archer	Kill a creeper with arrows.	—	10G	Bronze
		The Deep End	Defeat an Elder Guardian	—	30G	Silver
		The End... Again...	Respawn the Enderdragon [sic]	—	30G	Silver
		Great View From Up Here	Levitate up 50 blocks from the attacks of a Shulker	—	20G	Bronze
		Echolocation	Feed a dolphin fish to have it lead you to treasure	Feed a dolphin cod or salmon and have it lure you to treasure.	20G	Silver
		Where Have You Been?	Receive a gift from a tamed cat in the morning.	The gift must be picked up from the ground.	20G	Bronze
		Zoologist	Breed two pandas with bamboo.	—	40G	Gold
		Plethora of Cats	Befriend twenty stray cats.	Befriend and tame twenty stray cats found in villages. They do not all need to be tamed in a single world.	20G	Silver
		Kill the Beast!	Defeat a Ravager.	—	30G	Silver
		I've got a bad feeling about this	Kill a Pillager Captain.	—	20G	Bronze
		Bee our guest	Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Bottle without aggravating the bees.	—	15G	Bronze
		Total Beelocation	Move and place a Bee Nest, with 3 bees inside, using Silk Touch.	—	30G	Silver
		Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold	Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.	30G	Silver

Advancements

Advancements are made when a player accomplishes something that is either rare to accomplish or sometimes easy to do so (such as Adventure for killing or getting killed by an entity).

Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
Zombie Doctor	Weaken and then cure a Zombie Villager	We Need to Go Deeper	Throw a splash potion of Weakness at a zombie villager, feed it a golden apple, and wait for it to be cured. Note: In multiplayer, only the player that feeds the golden apple gets the advancement.	`story/cure_zombie_villager`
Return to Sender	Destroy a Ghast with a fireball	Nether	Kill a ghast using a ghast fireball.	`nether/return_to_sender`
Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	Nether	Give a piglin one of these 24 gold-related items in the `#piglin_loved` item tag, while not wearing any golden armor: Bell Block of Gold Block of Raw Gold Clock Enchanted Golden Apple Gilded Blackstone Glistering Melon Slice Gold Ingot Gold Ore Golden Apple Golden Axe Golden Boots Golden Carrot Golden Chestplate Golden Helmet Golden Hoe Golden Horse Armor Golden Leggings Golden Pickaxe Golden Shovel Golden Sword Light Weighted Pressure Plate Nether Gold Ore Deepslate Gold Ore Raw Gold If this advancement is attempted while the player is wearing golden armor but piglin(s) remain aggressive, the advancement does not trigger. Other gold-related items, if any, do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.	`nether/distract_piglin`
This Boat Has Legs	Ride a Strider with a Warped Fungus on a Stick	Nether	Boost^[6] a strider with a warped fungus on a stick.	`nether/ride_strider`
Uneasy Alliance	Rescue a Ghast from the Nether, bring it safely home to the Overworld... and then kill it	Return to Sender	Kill a ghast while in the Overworld.	`nether/uneasy_alliance`
Spooky Scary Skeleton	Obtain a Wither Skeleton's skull	A Terrible Fortress	Have a wither skeleton skull in your inventory.	`nether/get_wither_skull`
Into Fire	Relieve a Blaze of its rod	A Terrible Fortress	Have a blaze rod in your inventory.	`nether/obtain_blaze_rod`
Withering Heights	Summon the Wither	Spooky Scary Skeleton	—	`nether/summon_wither`
How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	A Furious Cocktail	Have all of these 27 effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Poison Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Water Breathing Weakness Wither The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects, if any, may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. Note: This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless if one or more of its child advancements have been completed.	`nether/all_effects`
Free the End	Good luck	The End	Kill the ender dragon.	`end/kill_dragon`
The End... Again...	Respawn the Ender Dragon	Free the End	Be in a certain radius from the exit portal when an ender dragon is summoned using end crystals.	`end/respawn_dragon`
You Need a Mint	Collect dragon's breath in a glass bottle	Free the End	Have a bottle of dragon's breath in your inventory.	`end/dragon_breath`
Great View From Up Here	Levitate up 50 blocks from the attacks of a Shulker	The City at the End of the Game	Move a distance of 50 blocks vertically with the Levitation effect applied, regardless of whether it is caused by the effect.	`end/levitate`
Adventure	Adventure, exploration, and combat	—	Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.	`adventure/root`
Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 34 mobs: Blaze Cave Spider Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.	`adventure/kill_a_mob`
What a Deal!	Successfully trade with a Villager	Adventure	Take an item from a villager or wandering trader's trading output slot, and put it in your inventory.	`adventure/trade`
Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 34 mobs: Blaze Cave Spider Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.	`adventure/kill_all_mobs`
Hired Help	Summon an Iron Golem to help defend a village	What a Deal!	Summon an iron golem.	`adventure/summon_iron_golem`
Who's the Pillager Now?	Give a Pillager a taste of their own medicine	Ol' Betsy	Kill a pillager with a crossbow.	`adventure/whos_the_pillager_now`
Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Ol' Betsy	Note: This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless if one or more of its child advancements have been completed.	`adventure/arbalistic`
Sniper Duel	Kill a Skeleton from at least 50 meters away	Take Aim	Be at least 50 blocks away horizontally when a skeleton is killed by an arrow after the player has attacked it once.	`adventure/sniper_duel`
Bee Our Guest	Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Bottle without aggravating the bees	Husbandry	Use a glass bottle on a beehive or bee nest while not angering the bees inside.	`husbandry/safely_harvest_honey`
The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 22 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/breed_an_animal`
Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Husbandry	Tame one of these tameable mobs: Cat Donkey Horse Llama Mule Parrot Trader Llama Wolf	`husbandry/tame_an_animal`
Total Beelocation	Move a Bee Nest, with 3 bees inside, using Silk Touch	Husbandry	—	`husbandry/silk_touch_nest`
Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed a pair of each of these 22 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/bred_all_animals`

Issues

For issues unique to specific mobs, see that mob's issues section.

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

History

Java Edition pre-Classic
rd-132328					Added humans.
Java Edition Classic
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					Added creepers, pigs, skeletons, and zombies.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST					Added spiders.
0.28					Added sheep.
Java Edition Indev
0.31		20091223-1			Added Rana.
		20100129			Added Steve and Black Steve.
		20100130			Added Beast Boy.
		20100131			Removed Steve, Black Steve and Beast Boy.
		20100205			Added giants and removed Rana.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.8					Added cows.
v1.0.11					Added slimes.
v1.0.14					Added chickens.
v1.0.17					Added spider jockeys.
v1.2.0					Added ghasts and zombie pigmen.
v1.2.0					Added pigmen textures.
Java Edition Beta
1.2					Added squid.
1.4					Added wolves.
1.6.2					Removed pigmen texture.
1.8		Pre-release			Added cave spiders, endermen, and silverfish.
1.8		Pre-release			Removed humans.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Added blazes, magma cubes, mooshrooms, snow golems, and villagers.
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4			Added the ender dragon.
1.2.1		12w04a			Added ocelots.
		12w04a			Cats were also added but was not a individual mob.
		12w08a			Added iron golems.
1.4.2		12w32a			Added zombie villagers.
		12w34a			Added the wither.
		12w36a			Added wither skeletons.
		12w38a			Added bats and witches.
1.6.1		13w16a			Added horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses, and zombie horses.
1.7.4		13w49a			Added chicken jockeys.
1.8		14w11a			Added endermites.
		14w25a			Added guardians and elder guardians.
		14w27a			Added rabbits and killer bunnies.
1.9		15w31a			Added shulkers.
1.9		15w38a			Added skeleton horsemen.
1.10		16w20a			Added husks, polar bears, and strays.
1.11		16w39a			Added llamas, vindicators, evokers, and vexes.
1.12		17w13a			Added parrots.
1.12		17w16a			Added illusioners.
1.13		18w07a			Added phantoms and turtles.
		18w08b			Added cod, salmon, and pufferfish.
		18w10a			Added tropical fish.
		18w11a			Added drowned.
		18w15a			Added dolphins.
1.14		18w43a			Added pandas, pillagers, and ravagers.
		18w44a			Added cats as a separate mob from ocelots.
		19w05a			Added trader llamas and wandering traders.
		19w07a			Added foxes.
1.15		19w34a			Added bees.
1.16		20w07a			Added hoglins and piglins.
		20w09a			Zombie pigmen have been replaced with zombified piglins.
		20w13a			Added striders.
		20w14a			Added zoglins.
1.16.2		20w27a			Added the piglin brute.
1.17		20w51a			Added axolotls.
		21w03a			Added the glow squid.
		21w13a			Added goats.
1.19		Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1			Added wardens.
		22w11a			Added frogs and tadpoles.
		22w13a			Added the allay.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0					Added sheep, pigs, and zombies.
v0.3.0					Added chickens and cows.
v0.3.3					Added creepers, skeletons, and spiders.
v0.5.0					Added zombie pigmen.
v0.9.0		build 1			Added endermen, mooshrooms, silverfish, slimes, wolves, and villagers.
v0.11.0		build 1			Added bats, cave spiders, chicken jockeys, ghasts, magma cubes, spider jockeys, and squid.
v0.12.1		build 1			Added blazes, iron golems, ocelots, snow golems, wither skeletons, and zombie villagers.
v0.12.1		build 1			Cats were also added but was not a individual mob.
v0.13.0		build 1			Added rabbits.
v0.14.0		build 1			Added witches.
v0.15.0		build 1			Added husks, strays, horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses, skeleton horsemen, and zombie horses.
v0.16.0		build 1			Added agents, NPCs, guardians, and elder guardians.
		build 2			Removed NPCs and agents.
		build 4			Added the wither.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Added endermites, polar bears, shulkers, and the ender dragon.
1.1.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Readded agents and NPCs.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added evokers, llamas, vexes, and vindicators.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Added parrots.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.13.8			Added drowned.
		beta 1.2.14.2			Added cod, salmon, pufferfish, and tropical fish.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Added dolphins.
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.4			Added turtles.
1.6.0		beta 1.6.0.1			Added phantoms.
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Added pandas.
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.8			Cats are now a seperate mob from ocelots.
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.0			Added pillagers.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Added wandering traders, trader llamas, and ravagers.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.1			Added foxes.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.4			Added the elder guardian ghost.
1.14.0		beta 1.14.0.1			Added bees.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Added hoglins and piglins.
		beta 1.16.0.51			Zombie pigmen have been renamed to zombified piglins.
		beta 1.16.0.57			Added zoglins and striders.
1.16.20		beta 1.16.20.50			Added piglin brutes.
1.16.200		beta 1.16.200.52			Added goats through experimental gameplay.
1.16.200		release			Goats are made unavailable in the full release.
1.16.210		beta 1.16.210.59			Added the glow squid through experimental gameplay.
1.16.210		beta 1.16.210.60			Removed glow squids.
1.16.220		beta 1.16.220.50			Readded the glow squid through experimental gameplay.
1.16.220		release			Glow squids are made unavailable in the full release.
1.17.0		beta 1.16.230.52			Added axolotls through experimental gameplay.
1.17.0		beta 1.17.0.52			Axolotls, glow squid, and goats are now available outside the experimental toggle.
1.18.10		beta 1.18.10.24			Added frogs and tadpoles behind experimental gameplay.
1.18.30		beta 1.18.30.22			Added the allay behind experimental gameplay.
1.18.30		beta 1.18.30.32			Added the warden behind experimental gameplay.
1.19.0		beta 1.19.0.20			All mobs mentioned above are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added all mobs from and prior to Java Edition Beta 1.4.
TU5					Added cave spiders, endermen, and silverfish.
TU7					Added blazes, magma cubes, mooshrooms, snow golems, and villagers.
TU9					Added the ender dragon.
TU12					Added ocelots and iron golems.
TU12					Cats were also added but was not a individual mob.
TU14		1.04			Added zombie villagers.
TU19	CU7	1.12			Added bats, horses, donkeys, mules, witches, wither skeletons, and the wither.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added chicken jockeys, endermites, rabbits, guardians, and elder guardians.
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13		Added polar bears.
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15		Added skeleton horses, skeleton horsemen, shulkers, strays, and husks.
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added evokers, llamas, parrots, vexes, vindicators, and zombie horses.
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added cod, dolphins, drowned, phantoms, pufferfish, salmon, tropical fish, and turtles.
		1.83			Added pandas.
		1.83			Cats are added as a separate mob from ocelots.
		1.90			Added pillagers.
		1.91			Added ravagers, trader llamas, and wandering traders.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added all mobs from and prior to Pocket Edition Alpha 0.15.0.
1.3.12					Added guardians, elder guardians, and the wither.
1.7.10					Added endermites, polar bears, shulkers, and the ender dragon.
1.9.19					Added evokers, llamas, vexes, and vindicators.
Education Edition
1.0.0					Added all mobs from and prior to Pocket Edition Alpha 0.16.0.
1.0.0					Added NPC.
1.0.1					Added endermites, polar bears, shulkers, ender dragons, evokers, llamas, vexes, vindciators, and agents.
1.0.2					Added parrots.
1.4					Added dolphins, cod, pufferfish, salmon, and tropical fish.
1.7					Added drowned, turtles, and phantoms.
1.9		1.8.0			Added panda.
1.9		1.8.0			Cats are now a separate mob from ocelots.
1.12.0					Added pillagers, wandering traders, trader llamas, and ravagers.
1.14.31		1.14.30			Added foxes, brown mooshrooms, and bees.
1.17.30		1.17.30.2			Added hoglins, and piglins, zoglins, striders, piglin brutes, goats, glow squids, and axolotls.
1.17.30		1.17.30.2			Zombie pigmen have been renamed to zombified piglin.

Videos

Trivia

Renaming a mob "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" using a spawn egg or name tag causes it to flip upside down.
Renaming a sheep "jeb_" makes its wool change color with a smooth transition between colors. Note that the sheep named "jeb_" drops only the color of wool it had when named (e.g., when a pink sheep is named "jeb_" and then sheared when its color has changed to blue, it still drops pink wool).
Renaming a vindicator "Johnny" makes it attack all nearby mobs, except other illagers.
Renaming a rabbit "Toast" gives the rabbit a new texture, as an Easter egg to xyzen420's girlfriend's missing rabbit.^[7]
Spiders, cave spiders, slimes, silverfish and illusioners are some of the few mobs that can see players behind walls.
Cats and villagers can see players with the invisibility effect.
There are many blocks in the game that do not take up a full block, such as trapdoors, and mobs actually see many of these as full blocks.
- With some blocks, mobs mistake them for air, such as carpets, snow, and string.

Gallery

Official T-shirt artwork "Animal Totem" made by JINX.
Official T-shirt artwork "Creatures" made by JINX.
Official T-shirt artwork "Lineup" featuring hostile mobs as well as a chicken. Made by JINX.
Official T-shirt artwork featuring Steve and mobs. Made by Capy.
Official T-shirt artwork "Party" featuring Steve and mobs. Made by JINX.
Official T-shirt artwork "Tight Spot" featuring Steve and hostile mobs. Made by JINX.

References

↑ Mob (gaming) or a single entity in a group when referring to Minecraft.
↑ "For the mobs that don't win we will add them in the future if we think they add lots to the game at that point. So they are not gone forever, but also not promised because we want to make sure we add what we believe adds most value at that time :)" – @_LadyAgnes (Agnes Larsson) on Twitter, October 1, 2020
↑ "Meet the Llama" – Minecraft.net, April 18, 2017
↑ "A friend is in urgent need of your help to settle this matter" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on Twitter, July 26, 2016
↑ MC-128249 - comment from cojomax99
↑ MC-183764
↑ "@xyZenTV The skin appears only when you name the rabbit Toast using a name tag, it isn't in the random pool:" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on Twitter, July 1, 2014

Entities

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[1] Mob (gaming) or a single entity in a group when referring to Minecraft.

[2] "For the mobs that don't win we will add them in the future if we think they add lots to the game at that point. So they are not gone forever, but also not promised because we want to make sure we add what we believe adds most value at that time :)" – @_LadyAgnes (Agnes Larsson) on Twitter, October 1, 2020

[3] "Meet the Llama" – Minecraft.net, April 18, 2017

[4] "A friend is in urgent need of your help to settle this matter" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on Twitter, July 26, 2016

[5] MC-128249 - comment from cojomax99

[6] MC-183764

[7] "@xyZenTV The skin appears only when you name the rabbit Toast using a name tag, it isn't in the random pool:" – @TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) on Twitter, July 1, 2014

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