Minecraft Mobs

Minecraft has more than 80 mobs – living creatures that range from chickens and cats to the Warden and the Ender Dragon. Each one is passive, neutral or hostile, and many have variants that depend on the biome they spawn in. The game drops of 2025 and 2026 added new mounts like the Happy Ghast and Nautilus, the helpful Copper Golem and the block-swallowing Sulfur Cube.

How mobs behave

The major mobs, grouped by where you meet them

All 72PassiveNeutralHostileBoss

Farm animals & mounts12Wildlife & pets15Villagers & helpers6Overworld monsters15Illagers & raids5Ocean mobs5Nether mobs8The End & bosses4Coming soon2

Farm animals & mounts

Overworld · 12 mobs

Cow

Passive · Leather, beef and milk (use a bucket) · warm and cold variants since Spring to Life

Pig

Passive · Porkchops · can be saddled and steered with a carrot on a stick · warm and cold variants

Chicken

Passive · Eggs, feathers and chicken · warm and cold variants

Sheep

Passive · Wool in 16 colours · shear for wool without killing

Rabbit

Passive · Rabbit hide and the rare rabbit's foot · several coat colours

Mooshroom

Passive · Mushroom-covered cow of the Mushroom Fields · gives mushroom stew in a bowl

Horse

Passive · Fast mount · tame by riding it repeatedly, then saddle · donkeys and mules carry chests

Camel

Passive · Desert mount for two riders · can dash and is tall enough to avoid many melee attacks

Llama

Neutral · Pack animal that carries chests and spits at attackers · the trader llama follows the wandering trader

Strider

Passive · Walks on lava in the Nether · saddle it and steer with a warped fungus on a stick

Happy Ghast

Passive · Flying mount for up to four players · grow one from a Dried Ghast in water (Chase the Skies)

Nautilus

Neutral · Tameable underwater mount that dashes and keeps its rider from drowning (Mounts of Mayhem)

Wildlife & pets

Overworld · 15 mobs

Wolf

Neutral · Tame with bones · fights at your side · nine variants by biome and craftable wolf armor

Cat

Passive · Tame with raw fish · scares creepers and phantoms away

Parrot

Passive · Jungle bird that sits on your shoulder and imitates nearby mobs

Fox

Neutral · Taiga night hunter that picks up items · can be bred to trust you

Bee

Neutral · Pollinates crops · stings if its hive is disturbed · source of honey and honeycomb

Panda

Neutral · Bamboo jungle mob with several personalities, from lazy to aggressive

Polar Bear

Neutral · Snowy biomes · attacks if you get near its cubs

Goat

Neutral · Mountain mob that rams you off cliffs · drops goat horns

Armadillo

Passive · Badlands and savannas · brush it for armadillo scutes to craft wolf armor

Frog

Passive · Three variants by biome temperature · eats small magma cubes to make froglights

Axolotl

Passive · Lush caves · helps you fight underwater mobs

Sniffer

Passive · Ancient mob hatched from eggs found in ocean ruins · digs up rare seeds

Turtle

Passive · Beaches · baby turtles drop scutes for the turtle shell helmet

Dolphin

Neutral · Swim with one for Dolphin's Grace · feed fish to be led to treasure

Bat

Passive · Harmless cave ambience

Villagers & helpers

Overworld · 6 mobs

Villager

Passive · Trades items for emeralds · job depends on its workstation block

Wandering Trader

Passive · Visits now and then with rare items · leaves after a while

Iron Golem

Neutral · Guards villages · build one from four iron blocks and a carved pumpkin

Snow Golem

Passive · Throws snowballs at hostile mobs · built from two snow blocks and a carved pumpkin

Allay

Passive · Collects items that match what you give it · found at pillager outposts and woodland mansions

Copper Golem

Passive · Sorts items from copper chests into nearby chests · oxidizes into a statue unless waxed (The Copper Age)

Overworld monsters

Overworld · 15 mobs

Zombie

Hostile · The classic night monster · burns in sunlight · variants: husk (desert), drowned (water), zombie villager

Skeleton

Hostile · Archer that burns in daylight · variants: stray (snow, Slowness arrows), bogged (swamps, Poison arrows), parched (deserts, Weakness arrows)

Creeper

Hostile · Silently walks up and explodes · cats scare it off

Spider

Neutral · Climbs walls · only hostile in the dark · cave spiders poison you

Enderman

Neutral · Teleports and attacks if you look at its face · drops ender pearls

Read our guide →

Witch

Hostile · Throws harmful potions and drinks healing ones

Slime

Hostile · Splits into smaller slimes · swamps and slime chunks · drops slimeballs

Phantom

Hostile · Swoops at players who haven't slept for three in-game nights · drops phantom membrane

Silverfish

Hostile · Hides in infested stone blocks in strongholds and mountains

Creaking

Hostile · Pale Garden at night · only moves when no one is looking · destroy its creaking heart (The Garden Awakens)

Breeze

Hostile · Trial Chambers · fires wind charges and deflects projectiles · drops breeze rods for the mace

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Warden

Hostile · Blind giant of the Deep Dark · summoned by sculk shriekers · avoid it rather than fight

Camel Husk

Passive · Undead camel that spawns in deserts at night as a hostile jockey – ridden by a spear-wielding husk and a parched · passive once its riders are gone (Mounts of Mayhem)

Zombie Nautilus

Neutral · Undead nautilus that spawns ridden by a trident-wielding drowned · acts like a normal nautilus without its rider (Mounts of Mayhem)

Sulfur Cube

Passive · Bouncy cube of the Sulfur Caves that absorbs blocks and copies their behaviour · dangerous only with magma or TNT inside (Chaos Cubed)

Illagers & raids

Overworld · 5 mobs

Pillager

Hostile · Crossbow-wielding raider · patrol captains carry a banner and drop ominous bottles

Vindicator

Hostile · Axe-wielding illager in woodland mansions and raids

Evoker

Hostile · Summons fangs and vexes · drops the Totem of Undying

Vex

Hostile · Small flying spirit summoned by evokers · passes through walls

Ravager

Hostile · Huge beast that charges in raids and tramples crops

Ocean mobs

Overworld · 5 mobs

Squid & Glow Squid

Passive · Ink sacs and glow ink sacs

Fish

Passive · Cod, salmon and thousands of tropical fish patterns · catch them in a bucket

Pufferfish

Neutral · Puffs up and poisons anything nearby

Guardian

Hostile · Laser-shooting fish around ocean monuments

Elder Guardian

Hostile · Three per ocean monument · gives Mining Fatigue · drops a wet sponge

Nether mobs

The Nether · 8 mobs

Piglin

Neutral · Ignores you if you wear gold armor · barter gold ingots for items

Piglin Brute

Hostile · Axe-wielding guard of bastion remnants · always hostile

Zombified Piglin

Neutral · Harmless until you hit one – then the whole group attacks

Hoglin

Hostile · Crimson forest beast · repelled by warped fungus · turns into a zoglin in the Overworld

Ghast

Hostile · Floating giant that shoots fireballs · hit them back to kill it

Blaze

Hostile · Nether fortresses · drops blaze rods for brewing and eyes of ender

Wither Skeleton

Hostile · Nether fortresses · causes Wither · rarely drops the skulls needed to summon the Wither

Magma Cube

Hostile · Bouncing Nether slime · drops magma cream

The End & bosses

The End · 4 mobs

Ender Dragon

Boss · The final boss of the End · destroy the end crystals first · killing it opens the End gateway

Read our guide →

Wither

Boss · Player-summoned boss built from soul sand and three wither skeleton skulls · drops a Nether Star for beacons

Shulker

Hostile · Hides in End cities · shoots bullets that cause Levitation · drops shulker shells

Read our guide →

Endermite

Hostile · Tiny pest that sometimes appears when you throw an ender pearl

Coming soon

Announced · 2 mobs

Frostbite

Hostile · Zombie variant of the Ice Caves that throws Ice Balls and inflicts Freezing · in the winter 2026 drop (26.4)

Read our guide →

Blub

Passive · Rabbit-like mob of the new Sift dimension, announced at Minecraft LIVE in September 2026 for 2027

Section images: official Minecraft trailers (Minecraft / YouTube).

Tips

The next drop brings the ice-throwing Frostbite – read our 26.4 Snapshot 3 preview. For the End's mobs, see our Elytra guide.