Minecraft Mobs FAQ - Bosses, Villagers, Raids | Artemis PvP

Question 1

How do you beat the Ender Dragon?

Accepted Answer

Destroy the End crystals on top of the obsidian pillars first - they heal the dragon - then hit it with arrows while it flies and with melee when it lands on the exit portal. It has 200 health (100 hearts).

Question 2

How do you spawn the Wither?

Accepted Answer

Place 4 soul sand or soul soil blocks in a T shape and put 3 wither skeleton skulls on the top three. The last block placed has to be a skull. The wither is the only source of Nether stars, which you need to craft a beacon. Wither skeleton skulls drop from wither skeletons, which live in Nether fortresses.

Question 3

How do you get wither skeleton skulls?

Accepted Answer

Kill wither skeletons in Nether fortresses. Each one has a 2.5% chance to drop a skull, plus 1% per level of Looting on Java (5.5% with Looting III). A wither skeleton killed by a charged creeper's explosion always drops its skull. You need three skulls to summon the Wither.

Question 4

How do you get a Nether star in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Kill the Wither: it drops a Nether star when it dies. Its main use is crafting a beacon. Explosions cannot destroy a dropped Nether star. On Java, a star dropped by the Wither despawns after 10 minutes, so pick it up quickly.

Question 5

Where do you find the Warden?

Accepted Answer

In the deep dark, usually around ancient cities. A warden is summoned when a player sets off a sculk shrieker four times. The warden is blind and finds you by vibrations and smell. If it detects nothing for 60 seconds it digs back down and despawns.

Question 6

Is there a boss in the Nether?

Accepted Answer

No boss spawns there on its own. Minecraft has two bosses - the ender dragon in the End and the wither, which you summon yourself with soul sand and wither skeleton skulls from Nether fortresses.

Question 7

What happens after you kill the Ender Dragon?

Accepted Answer

The exit portal home switches on and a new End gateway opens to the outer End islands (with End cities and elytra). Its first defeat also gives 12,000 experience. Each later kill adds another End gateway, up to 20. You can bring the dragon back by placing four End crystals around the exit portal, one on each side.

Question 8

Is the Ender Dragon a girl or a boy?

Accepted Answer

Officially, no gender: a Mojang developer has said all Minecraft mobs are genderless. Notch once referred to the dragon as "she".

Question 9

What do you get for killing the Warden?

Accepted Answer

A sculk catalyst - that is its only drop. The warden is not a boss and has no special loot; the treasure of an ancient city is in its chests.

Question 10

What's the point of killing the Wither?

Accepted Answer

The Nether star it drops - the only source of Nether stars, which you need to craft a beacon.

Question 11

How do you get the Warden to go away?

Accepted Answer

Stay still and quiet. A Warden is blind and finds you by vibrations and smell, and if it detects nothing for 60 seconds it digs back into the ground and despawns. It spawns when sculk shriekers in the deep dark go off four times, so sneak to avoid setting them off. A Warden with a name tag does not dig away.

Question 12

What is the strongest mob in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

In Java Edition, by health, the warden: it has 500 health (250 hearts), more than the wither (300) or the ender dragon (200). It is blind and tracks you by vibrations and smell.

Question 13

Why do Endermen attack when you look at them?

Accepted Answer

Looking at an enderman's head for a quarter of a second from within 64 blocks makes it hostile - that is how endermen are built. Wearing a carved pumpkin on your head lets you look safely. Water, rain and splash water bottles hurt endermen, and they teleport away from danger.

Question 14

Are there different types of piglins in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The Nether has the normal piglin, the piglin brute and the zombified piglin. Normal piglins barter for gold, brutes are always hostile, and zombified piglins only fight back when attacked. Piglin brutes carry golden axes and are placed in bastion remnants when the world is generated, so they never respawn and do not care about gold. Baby piglins exist too; they never grow up and take gold without giving anything back.

Question 15

Why do piglins keep attacking me?

Accepted Answer

Piglins are hostile to any player who wears no golden armor. Wearing at least one golden armor piece keeps them calm. They also turn on you if they see you open or break a chest, barrel or other container, break gold blocks or gold ore, or hit a piglin. Piglins up to 16 blocks away join in, even without seeing you.

Question 16

How do you befriend a piglin in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

You cannot tame piglins, but wearing one piece of golden armor stops them attacking you. Then you can throw them gold ingots to barter. Do not open containers or mine gold near them, and do not hit them, or they turn hostile again.

Question 17

How does piglin bartering work?

Accepted Answer

Drop or hand a gold ingot to an adult piglin. It looks at the ingot for about six seconds on Java (eight on Bedrock), then drops a random item in return. Baby piglins take the ingot and give nothing. Piglins also pick up gold nuggets but do not barter for them.

Question 18

How does a Minecraft creeper explode?

Accepted Answer

When a creeper gets within 3 blocks of you, it stops, hisses, swells and explodes 1.5 seconds later. Step back out of range and the countdown stops. It only explodes while it can see you the whole time. Lighting a creeper with flint and steel makes it explode at once.

Question 19

How can I survive a creeper explosion in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Raise a shield toward the creeper: a creeper blast can be fully blocked with a shield or by blocks between you and it. Otherwise, back away as soon as it hisses. Breaking line of sight also stops the fuse, because a creeper needs to see you for the full 1.5 seconds.

Question 20

How do you stop creepers from exploding?

Accepted Answer

Keep a cat or ocelot nearby, since creepers run away from them within 6 blocks. Breaking line of sight or stepping out of range also cancels a fuse that has started. Creepers also never start the fuse if they cannot see you, even when you hit them.

Question 21

What is a charged creeper?

Accepted Answer

A charged creeper is a normal creeper hit by lightning (a strike within 4 blocks). Its blast is stronger, and mobs it kills, like zombies, skeletons and creepers, drop their heads. It also makes a wither skeleton it kills drop a wither skeleton skull every time.

Question 22

How do I get slime in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Kill slimes: the smallest slimes drop slimeballs. Slimes spawn in swamps at night (Y 51 to 69, low light) and underground in slime chunks below Y 40. A large slime splits into smaller ones when it dies, and only the small ones drop slimeballs. Baby pandas can sneeze one out too.

Question 23

Why is slime so rare in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Only about 1 in 10 chunks is a slime chunk, and underground slimes spawn only in those chunks below Y 40. Swamp slimes need night-level light and are most common on a full moon, never on a new moon. On Java, which chunks are slime chunks depends on the world seed. On Bedrock they sit at the same spots in every world.

Question 24

What can you do with slimeballs in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Slimeballs craft slime blocks, sticky pistons and magma cream. They are also used to breed frogs.

Question 25

What are the types of skeletons in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Besides the normal skeleton there are strays (snowy biomes, Slowness arrows), bogged (swamps, Poison arrows), parched (deserts, Weakness arrows) and wither skeletons (Nether fortresses, Wither effect). Wither skeletons carry stone swords instead of bows and are the only source of wither skeleton skulls, which you need to summon the Wither.

Question 26

How do you make an iron golem in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Place four iron blocks in a T shape and put a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern on top of the middle block last. The golem appears straight away. A golem you build never attacks you and fights hostile mobs. Golems that villagers spawn can turn on players who hurt them or who have a bad reputation in the village.

Question 27

Is it worth killing an iron golem?

Accepted Answer

An iron golem drops 3 to 5 iron ingots. A golem that villagers spawned fights back as soon as you hit it. If you need a lot of iron, an iron farm uses the fact that villagers keep spawning golems.

Question 28

What is a ghast in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

A ghast is a large floating hostile mob in the Nether that shoots exploding fireballs. Hit a fireball back and it can kill the ghast in one hit. Ghasts are the only source of ghast tears, used for potions of Regeneration, end crystals and dried ghasts. Their passive cousin is the happy ghast.

Question 29

What is the breeze in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

The breeze is a hostile mob from trial chambers. It jumps around, fires wind charges, and bounces back every projectile except wind charges, so fight it up close. Breezes only come from trial spawners in combat rooms of trial chambers. They drop breeze rods, used for wind charges and the mace.

Question 30

Can the creaking be killed in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Not directly: a creaking linked to a creaking heart takes no damage at all. Break the creaking heart it came from and the creaking dies with it. Creakings spawn at night from creaking hearts in pale oak trees. A creaking cannot move while a player in Survival or Adventure is looking at it, and it never leaves 32 blocks around its heart.

Question 31

Why did my villager turn into a witch?

Accepted Answer

Lightning struck within four blocks of it. A villager hit that way turns into a witch for good: it cannot be changed back, and it never despawns. Witches throw splash potions such as Harming and Poison and drink potions to heal themselves. When a witch dies while drinking, it can drop that potion.

Question 32

What kills a blaze in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Snowballs: each one deals 3 damage to a blaze, and water or rain hurts it too. Blazes live in Nether fortresses, often around their own spawners. Blazes are the only source of blaze rods. A rod crafts a brewing stand or blaze powder, and blaze powder fuels brewing stands and crafts eyes of ender.

Question 33

What does a phantom do in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Phantoms are flying undead mobs that swoop down to bite you at night. They only spawn once you have gone at least 3 in-game days without sleeping (or dying). Sleep in a bed to stop them. Phantoms keep at least 16 blocks away from cats, and their membranes repair elytra.

Question 34

What are all the villager jobs in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

There are 13: armorer (blast furnace), butcher (smoker), cartographer (cartography table), cleric (brewing stand), farmer (composter), fisherman (barrel), fletcher (fletching table), leatherworker (cauldron), librarian (lectern), mason (stonecutter), shepherd (loom), toolsmith (smithing table) and weaponsmith (grindstone). A villager takes the job of the job site block it claims. Nitwits never get a job, and a villager who has already traded with you keeps its job.

Question 35

Do villagers ever forgive you in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Mostly, yes. Villagers remember what you did as gossip, and every 20 minutes that gossip fades a little. The exception is the good reputation from curing a villager, which never fades.

Question 36

Why do villagers get angry when breeding?

Accepted Answer

Breeding failed: the villagers could not find a free bed they could walk to within 48 blocks, so they show angry particles instead of making a baby.

Question 37

How do you breed villagers in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

Give villagers enough food to be willing (12 nutrition points each, for example from bread) and make sure there are free beds they can walk to. Willing villagers near each other then make a baby. Each baby needs a bed with at least two empty blocks above it. Job site blocks are not needed for breeding.

Question 38

How do you cure a zombie villager?

Accepted Answer

Give it Weakness (a splash potion of Weakness works), then use a golden apple on it while the effect lasts. After a while it turns back into a normal villager.

Question 39

How do you trade with villagers?

Accepted Answer

Use (right-click) a villager that has a job to open its trades, then swap items - mostly emeralds - for what it sells. Prices change with your reputation. Curing a zombie villager is one way to get much better prices from it.

Question 40

What does a copper golem do in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

A copper golem is a mob you build that sorts items: it takes items out of copper chests and puts them into nearby wooden chests that are empty or already hold that item. Build one by placing a block of copper and putting a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern on top last.Unless you wax it with honeycomb, it slowly oxidises and finally turns into a copper golem statue, dropping what it carries.

Question 41

What starts a raid in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

A raid starts when a player with the Raid Omen effect is in a village when the effect runs out. You get Raid Omen by entering a village with Bad Omen, which comes from drinking an ominous bottle. Ominous bottles drop from raid captains, often found at pillager outposts. Drinking milk before Raid Omen runs out cancels the raid.On Java, one villager is enough: any bed, job site block or bell claimed by a villager counts as a village for a raid.

Question 42

What happens in a Minecraft raid?

Accepted Answer

Waves of pillagers, vindicators, evokers, witches and ravagers spawn and attack the village. A horn sounds at the start of each wave; beat every wave to win and get Hero of the Village.

Question 43

Does killing a pillager start a raid?

Accepted Answer

Not a normal pillager. A raid captain - the pillager with an ominous banner, often found at pillager outposts - drops an ominous bottle; drinking it gives you Bad Omen, and walking into a village with Bad Omen leads to the raid.

Question 44

What do you get for beating a raid in Minecraft?

Accepted Answer

If you killed at least one raider and every raider in the last wave dies, you get the Hero of the Village effect: villagers give you trade discounts and like you more. On Java, villagers also throw you gifts linked to their job. Raiders drop their usual loot too, and evokers drop a totem of undying. A raid that drags on for 40 minutes expires.