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This manta-ray–like monster is a flying creature that spawns at high altitudes. It is attracted to insomnia, and will find players who haven't slept for many days. It will swoop down in groups and bite your flesh.

Jens Bergensten[1]

Phantoms are flying common undead hostile mobs that attack players who haven't slept in over three in-game days.

Spawning

Phantoms spawn in the Overworld at night, or at any time during a thunderstorm; high above players that have not slept for at least 3 days. Phantoms will spawn more often the longer a player has gone without sleep.

For phantoms to successfully spawn, the player in question must be above sea level and not have a block above its head which blocks light in any way (for example leaves won't work as they have a light opacity of 2,[verify] but glass will work as its light opacity is 0).

Once the conditions are right, a pack of 1–4 phantoms attempts to spawn 20–34 blocks above the player, and off to the side by up to a taxicab distance of 9 blocks, every 1–2 minutes. The chance of a successful spawn is x-3x, where x is the number of nights since the player has slept, which comes to a 14 chance on day 4, a 25 chance on day 5, a 36 on day 6, and so on.

Phantoms are counted towards the hostile mob cap, but don't respect it when spawning. Their spawning mechanic is based on the location of players in the world, not by randomly choosing a block near the players like regular mob spawning.

Drops

Phantoms drop 0–1 phantom membrane when killed by the player, which can be increased with the Looting enchantment.

Behavior

File:PhantomSwoop.png

A Phantom swooping at the player.

When idle, phantoms will fly around in a circle at a constant y-elevation, leaving a trail of gray smoke while doing so. They have a quite large search radius, and will occasionally either swoop down or up quickly to attack their victim. If stopped or hurt during this action, the phantom will retreat back to its original elevation. When idle over water, the phantom will sometimes swoop into the water and will die as it is not pushed back up.

Phantoms are able to move through water at the same speed as they do normally.

When under the Invisibility effect, the phantom's body will disappear, but its eyes and smoke particles will still be visible.

Phantoms will burn in sunlight. Like other undead mobs, they are harmed by the Instant Health effect, healed by the Instant Damage effect, and immune to the Poison and Regeneration effects.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Phantoms have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is phantom.

  • Entity data
    • Tags common to all entities
    • Tags common to all mobs
    •  AX: The phantom, when not actively attacking, attempts to circle around X,Y,Z = AX, AY, AZ. Appears to reset to a point above the target player every time the phantom flies up after a swoop. Set to spawn location if not specified.
    •  AY: See AX.
    •  AZ: See AX.
    •  Size: The size of the phantom. Ranges from 0 to 64, similar to slimes. Unlike slimes, phantoms always have a constant 20♥ × 10 HP, and deal 6♥♥♥+Size damage. Naturally spawned phantoms are always size 0.

Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawAdventure
Adventure, exploration and combat Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.adventure/root
Advancement-plain-rawMonster Hunter
Kill any hostile monster AdventureKill one of these 34 mobs: Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.adventure/kill_a_mob
Advancement-fancy-rawMonsters Hunted
Kill one of every hostile monster Monster HunterKill each of these 34 mobs: Other mobs 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

History

release
November 18, 2017The Phantom (back then only known as Mob B and The Monster of the Night Skies) wins the vote at MineCon Earth.
upcoming
1.1318w07aFile:Phantom 18w07a-18w10a.pngAdded phantoms. They dropped 1-4 leather as a placeholder drop.
18w09aNo longer spawn in the End.
Will now despawn at daytime.
18w10aPhantomChanged model and texture.
18w10cNow considered undead.
18w10dNow burn in sunlight.
Will no longer despawn at daytime.
18w14aNow drops Phantom membrane, instead of leather.
18w19aAnimation changed to have the wings flap more quicker and smoother.

Issues

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

Trivia

  • Phantoms have a Size tag, which determines the size of the mob.
  • The phantom was added into the game as as result of winning the MineCon Earth mob Twitter poll as "Mob B".
  • Phantoms are currently the fastest non-boss mob in the game, traveling at speeds of up to 20.83 blocks per second.
  • At one point before the release of 18w10a, the phantom texture was made red, but it was decided that it appeared too much like a nether mob.[1]
  • The phantom was originally going to have a mouth, like the sketch shown during MineCon Earth, but it was eventually scrapped because "it looked so much like a muppet".[1]

Gallery

References

  1. a b c "Meet the Phantom" – Minecraft.net, March 12, 2018
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