Creeper
| Health | 20 |
|---|---|
| Entity ID | 50 |
A creeper is a hostile mob that walks up to a player and explodes.
Spawning
Creepers spawn in the dark in every Overworld biome, in packs of up to 4.
On Peaceful no creeper spawns, and any in the world is removed.
Drops
A creeper drops 0–2 gunpowder when it dies. A creeper that explodes drops nothing.
A creeper killed by a skeleton's arrow also drops a music disc, "13" or "cat" at even odds.
Killing one earns the Monster Hunter achievement.
Behaviour
A creeper targets the nearest player within 16 blocks, if it can see them, and walks towards them. It also attacks any mob or player that hurts it.
It walks at 3.0 blocks per second, 70% of a player's walking speed.
Within 3 blocks of a target it can see, it hisses and lights its fuse. It swells and flashes white while the fuse burns. After 30 ticks it explodes and is destroyed.
The fuse keeps burning while the target stays within 7 blocks and in sight. Otherwise it burns back down at the same rate.
Its blast is an explosion of size 3.
A creeper struck by lightning becomes charged, and its blast is size 6. The charge is permanent.
With no target it wanders, choosing darker spaces.
Gallery
- Normal
Charged
Data values
- Entity network ID:
50