Mob

Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile".

General behavior

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, etc.). Some mobs may be resistant or immune to certain hazards, such as Nether mobs which are immune to fire. Mobs can ride minecarts and other mobs, and can climb up ladders. When mobs are killed, they drop items which may be useful resources. Most mobs have an advanced pathfinding system that allows them to traverse complex mazes to get to the player.

Each type of mob in Minecraft has a certain AI (Artificial Intelligence) system with different behaviors and mechanics. Mobs will ordinarily wander around at random if there is a player nearby and usually avoid walking off blocks high enough to cause falling damage. Passive mobs will flee in random directions after being hurt, while hostile mobs will face and chase/attack the Player as soon as they come close. Neutral mobs will remain neutral until a player or mob attacks it, at which point the neutral mob will turn hostile toward and attack the entity that hit it.

Mobs come to exist by spawning in various ways. They naturally spawn in groups with mobs of the same variety. Players can spawn most mobs by using spawn eggs in creative mode. Most mobs are aware of players within 16 blocks of them, but some can see farther. Mobs will not spawn on transparent blocks, in water (except for squid and guardians), in lava, or on half blocks (slabs, stairs). The exception is monster spawners, from which they can spawn on any block including air. Mobs can not see through semi-transparent blocks such as ice, glass, or glass panes.

List of mobs

Mobs are listed and classified by their nature below. For more details on a particular mob, click and view their individual page.

Note: The list below is categorized according to the PC edition. May vary between different platforms.

Passive mobs

Bat	Chicken	Cow	Mooshroom	Pig	Rabbit	Sheep	Squid	Villager

Neutral mobs

Cave Spider	Enderman	Spider	Zombie Pigman

Hostile mobs

Blaze	Chicken Jockey	Creeper	Elder Guardian	Endermite	Ghast	Guardian	Killer Bunny

Magma Cube	Silverfish	Skeleton	Slime	Spider Jockey	Witch	Wither Skeleton	Zombie	Zombie Villager

Tamable mobs

Donkey	Horse	Mule	Ocelot	Wolf

Utility mobs

Iron Golem	Snow Golem

Boss mobs

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Ender Dragon	Wither

Unused or removed mobs

Unused mobs are found in the source code, but are not being used at this time. It is still possible to spawn them with the /summon command, but they will have no AI. Removed mobs are no longer in the PC version's game code, and can be found only in certain older versions.

Unused mobs

Giant	Skeleton Horse	Undead Horse

Removed mobs

Beast Boy	Black Steve	Generic Villager	Human	Rana	Steve

Availability in each platform

Mob	Computer Edition	Console Edition	Pocket Edition
Bat	Yes	Yes	Yes
Blaze	Yes	Yes	No
Cave Spider	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chicken	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chicken Jockey	Yes	No	Yes
Cow	Yes	Yes	Yes
Creeper	Yes	Yes	Yes
Donkey	Yes	Yes	No
Elder Guardian	Yes	No	No
Ender Dragon	Yes	Yes	No
Enderman	Yes	Yes	Yes
Endermite	Yes	No	No
Ghast	Yes	Yes	Partial
Guardian	Yes	No	No
Horse	Yes	Yes	No
Iron Golem	Yes	Yes	No
Killer Bunny	Yes	No	No
Magma Cube	Yes	Yes	Partial
Mooshroom	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mule	Yes	Yes	No
Ocelot	Yes	Yes	No
Pig	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rabbit	Yes	No	No
Sheep	Yes	Yes	Yes
Silverfish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Skeleton	Yes	Yes	Yes
Slime	Yes	Yes	Yes
Snow Golem	Yes	Yes	No
Spider	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spider Jockey	Yes	Yes	Yes
Squid	Yes	Yes	Yes
Villager	Yes	Yes	Yes
Witch	Yes	Yes	No
Wither	Yes	Yes	No
Wither Skeleton	Yes	Yes	No
Wolf	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zombie	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zombie Pigman	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zombie Villager	Yes	Yes	No

Common NBT data

Main article: Mobs/ED

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Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy 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
		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

Videos

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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.

Trivia

A pig emitting smoke upon death.

An excessive amount of Ender Dragons and Withers spawned using the /summon command.

• Renaming a mob "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" using spawn eggs or name tags will flip them upside down.
• When mobs die, they emit puffs of white smoke.
• Mobs can be heard up to 16 blocks away.
• Players can approach a hostile mob without being detected if they ensure that there are solid blocks between them and the mob.
• Players can hide from hostile mob that pursuing the player in 2 blocks tall non-solid block (i.e. sugar cane) even if the mob saw the player going in it (this will not work on spiders).
• After killing a player, or if a player dies while hostile mobs are pursuing the player, the hostile mobs will gather around the player's deathplace, attempting to attack the player. This is because the player has been made invisible and non-solid, but still exists in that position. (evident by the "You Died!" screen still remaining in that position).
• If a hostile mob is tracking a player, the player can separate him or herself and the mob through a wall, relog, and the mob will no longer be tracking the player.
• Mobs will not walk on top of rails unless pushed on to the rails by another mob.
• Mobs can be spawned with armor using the /summon command. The armor does not appear on the body of all mobs, but will still work.
• Baby mobs will still have the same size head as the adult version, but the body is smaller.
• Naming a sheep "jeb_" (must have underscore) using a name tag or a renamed spawn egg will cause it to appear to constantly fade through all colors.
• When Ryan Holtz was developing rabbits, user xyZenTV asked him to make a skin that would look like his girlfriend's lost rabbit, Toast. Now, naming a rabbit with a name tag or a rabbit spawn egg called "Toast" will spawn/switch the rabbit's skin to look like Toast as a memorial.

References

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