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Minecraft mobs list - all new and existing monsters

All Minecraft mobs, hostile, friendly or otherwise, that you might come across in your sandbox adventure, from axolotls to zombies.

Minecraft mobs are living entities in Minecraft. Short for mobile, these sometimes adorable, sometimes aggressive creatures roam the many biomes of the blocky universe. They will interact and respond to you, other players, and other mobs, whether that's a zombie literally knocking at your door or the chickens in your backyard coop.

Many aspects make Minecraft mods, here's every Minecraft mob available in the vanilla game right now – and announced for the future.

 

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Minecraft mobs

In the Dried Ghasts can be found wallowing in the warmth of the hellscape, but bring them overground and smother them in water and they'll soon be as happy as, well, a Happy Ghast!

New Minecraft mobs

New mobs are added to Minecraft all the time, with some arriving with new annual content updates and others voted in by fans during the Minecraft Live mob votes. Following Minecraft 1.21.5, the mobs list is now longer than ever.

Minecraft mobs: An adult and a baby warm cow variant stand side-by-side.

Mob variants

Okay, technically not new mobs, but we thought it was worth giving a shout out to new ive mob variants for cow, pigs, and chickens. Adding some regional flair as you journey from biome to biome, fluffy pigs, horned cows, and spotted chickens can all now be found on your adventures. The classic colors are now 'temperate' mobs, and are found in temperate biomes. Meanwhile, new cold and warm variants can be found in their own respective biomes, similar to frogs before them.

The Minecraft mob The Creaking blends into a Pal Garden, only seen by his resin-colored eyes.

The Creaking

1.21.4 newcomer Creaking is a spooky treant that is actually invincible. Well, sort of. Spawned predominantly from a creaking heart hidden within a pale oak in the pale garden, finding and destroying the heart is the only way you can take one of these hostile ent-ities down. The good news is that hitting a Creaking creates a trail of orange particles between it and the heart, so it doesn't take long to track its source.

Minecraft mobs: A black Minecraft sheep walks towards the player, with a white and blue sheep behind it.

ive Minecraft mobs

Minecraft ive mobs will not attack you and flee when attacked. They can breed, so you'll see baby animals in the same area. Most ive mobs, such as horses in Minecraft, can be tamed if they're not already. Then there are the inhabitants of Minecraft villages, like traders and villagers. Other farmyard friends can provide resources, including wool from sheep or milk from cows.

  • Sheep
  • Cow
  • Fox
  • Bat
  • Chicken
  • Cod
  • Ocelot
  • Pig
  • Baby Piglin
  • Baby polar bear
  • Snow golem
  • Rabbit
  • Salmon
  • Mooshroom
  • Squid
  • Strider
  • Tropical fish
  • Turtle
  • Villager
  • Wandering trader
  • Pufferfish
  • Axolotl
  • Glow Squid
  • Frog
  • Sniffer
  • Camel
  • Armadillo

Minecraft mobs: A skeleton horse stands in front of two trader's llamas

Minecraft tameable ive mobs

  • Donkey
  • Horse
  • Cat
  • Parrot
  • Mule
  • Skeleton horse
  • Allay

Minecraft mobs: Two dolphins, a Minecraft neutral mobs, swim among colourful coral blocks

Neutral Minecraft mobs

If provoked, neutral mobs in Minecraft will attack you, which may be useful if you're after item drops or XP. Some neutral mobs, such as wolves, will attack other mobs like rabbits or sheep, and llamas are aggressive towards untamed wolves. Minecraft bees can be found in flower forests and plains, or beehives you can make using wood planks and honeycomb.

  • Dolphin
  • Polar bear
  • Trader llama
  • Llama
  • Panda
  • Wolf
  • Bee
  • Iron Golem
  • Goat

Minecraft neutral monsters

Some Minecraft monsters in this category behave slightly differently, with spiders and cave spiders becoming hostile if the light level falls below ten.

  • Spider
  • Cave Spider
  • Enderman
  • Zombie Pigman
  • Piglin
  • Zombified Piglin

Minecraft mobs: Three phantoms fly in the night's sky

Hostile Minecraft mobs

Hostile mobs in Minecraft are dangerous and aggressive and attack you within a certain range, usually 16 blocks, as long as there's no obstruction and you are within their line of sight. However, some mobs are capable of detecting you from 100 blocks away. Flying mobs, like a Minecraft Wither.

  • Bogged
  • Breeze
  • Evoker
  • Vindicator
  • Pillager
  • Ravager
  • Ravager Jockey
  • Vex
  • Chicken Jockey
  • Endermite
  • Guardian
  • Elder Guardian
  • Shulker
  • Skeleton Horseman
  • Husk
  • Stray
  • Phantom
  • Blaze
  • Creeper
  • Ghast
  • Magma Cube
  • Silverfish
  • Skeleton
  • Minecraft slime
  • Spider Jockey
  • Zombie
  • Zombie Villager
  • Drowned
  • Wither Skeleton
  • Witch
  • Hoglin
  • Zoglin
  • Piglin Brute
  • Minecraft Warden

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Additional contributions by Danielle Rose.