Minecraft mobs are truly at the heart of the sandbox game. After all, what fun would building and mining be if there were no cute farm animals to raise or deadly Creepers ready to scare you at any moment. Even peaceful mode keeps hostile mobs around, making them passive mobs instead of removing them entirely.
While said Creeper may be the face of Minecraft, and one of the game's very first mobs, there are now over 180 mobs in Minecraft, from cute critters to terrifying enemies and even powerful bosses. If you can't keep up with them all, well, I can't blame you, so I've compiled a list of every Minecraft mob you can find.
New Minecraft mobs
Technically, there are no new mobs being added in the next Minecraft update, 26.1, but the whole update is based on mobs. When the so-called Tiny Takeover update arrives, every single one of the game's baby mobs is getting a whole new texture. From that point, they'll each look more like an actual baby mob, and not just like miniature versions of their adult counterparts. Squishier, chubbier, cuter - what could be better?!
We'll hear more about any future mobs when the next Minecraft Live broadcast takes place, and I'll be right back here to update things when that happens.
All passive Minecraft mobs
Passive Minecraft mobs are those which don't attack the player, even when provoked. A cow, for example, will never do damage to any other entity, player or otherwise. A Minecraft axolotl, meanwhile, never hurts the player, but does attack fish. These are all the passive Minecraft mobs available in the vanilla game right now:
- Sheep
- Cow
- Mooshroom
- Pig
- Chicken
- Fox
- Wolf
- Cat
- Ocelot
- Rabbit
- Horse
- Donkey
- Mule
- Cod
- Salmon
- Parrot
- Allay
- Glow Squid
- Squid
- Dolphin
- Panda
- Tropical fish
- Turtle
- Villager
- Axolotl
- Frog
- Nautilus
- Armadillo
- Bat
- Copper Golem
- Skeleton horse
- Snow golem
- Happy Ghast
- Strider
- Wandering trader
- Sniffer
- Camel
- Zombie horse
- Camel Husk
- Baby Piglin
Many of these passive Mineccraft mobs can be tamed, bred, and, for want of a better word, farmed. For more information, we've got guides on taming Minecraft foxes, frogs, and allays.
All neutral Minecraft mobs
Neutral mobs are perhaps those I can relate to most - they attack, but only when provoked. Wolves and llamas, for example, attack when you attack first, while piglins turn on you when you try and steal their stuff. Oh, and when you're not wearing at least one piece of gold armor. That part I don't relate with so much. Here's every neutral mob in Minecraft, and their criteria for attacking:
- Spider - attacks in low light levels
- Enderman - becomes hostile when looked in the eye or attacked
- Bee - attacks when its hive is broken
- Goat - can ram the player at random
- Pufferfish - defends itself when an entity gets too close
- Polar bear - defends its cubs when an entity gets too close
- Llama - becomes hostile when attacked
- Trader llama - becomes hostile when attacked
- Iron Golem - becomes hostile when attacked, or when a nearby villager is attacked
- Piglin - attacks players not wearing at least one piece of gold armor, when a player opens a nearby chest, or when a player mines Nether gold ore
- Zombified Piglin - retaliates when they or a nearby Zombie Piglin is attacked
All hostile Minecraft mobs
Hostile Minecraft mobs are those that are immediately hostile to the player without any provocation, and they will attack upon sight. With the classic Creepers, skeletons, and zombies falling into this category, you're already familiar with these enemies, but there are a surprisingly large number of hostile mobs to be found now. They are:
- Creeper
- Spider
- Skeleton
- Zombie
- Zombie Villager
- Pillager
- Drowned
- Husk
- Parched
- Bogged
- Breeze
- Stray
- Guardian
- Elder Guardian
- Phantom
- Minecraft slime
- Witch
- The Creaking
- Bogged
- Minecraft slime
- Minecraft Warden
- Cave spider
- Wither Skeleton
- Blaze
- Ghast
- Magma Cube
- Hoglin
- Zoglin
- Piglin Brute
- Ender Dragon
- Endermite
- Shulker
- Evoker
- Vindicator
- Ravager
- Ravager Jockey
- Vex
- Chicken Jockey
- Spider Jockey
- Skeleton Horseman
- Silverfish
- Wither
Special Minecraft mobs
Interestingly, there are some very special mob variants that you can come across in survival or creative mode using nametags.
First off, there's a very pretty rainbow sheep named after Mojang chief creative officer Jens Bergensten, or rather his nickname, Jeb. Pop a jeb_ name tag on any sheep, and watch it turn into a magical color-changing sheep whose wool cycles through all 16 Minecraft dye colors. If you shear the sheep, though, it does only drop its original color, so be sure to dye it your required color first.
It's not just sheep that get this treatment, as you can also spawn a special bunny skin using the nametag Toast. Toast was a Minecraft fan's real black-and-white bunny who sadly went missing, and a Reddit plea to incorporate him into the game got picked up by then Mojang employee Ryan Holtz. While the Toast-inspired rabbit colorway isn't available in the random spawn table, you can name a bunny Toast to make it look like the real thing.
If that's still not enough for you, then there's always the iconic Dinnerbone nametag, which turns any mob on its head. Literally.
Finally, horror fans out there will appreciate the The Shining reference that you can implement by naming a Vindicator Johnny, also using a name tag. Paying homage to the Stephen King character, this axe-wielding enemy will become instantly hostile towards all nearby entities. Just be warned that getting close enough to a vindicator to name them is no easy feat.
Staying on the killer theme, there's one more special mob, the killer bunny, but sadly this one isn't available in survival mode without cheats. If you do want to spawn the hostile rabbit, though, you can toggle Minecraft cheats on, then enter /summon rabbit ~ ~ ~ {RabbitType:99} into the text channel.
If this massive list of Minecraft mobs isn't enough for you, there are tons of cool Minecraft mods that add even more, from real-life creatures to mythical beasts.
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