Hostile mob
Creeper
Creeper is a hostile mob with 20 health.
20 (10 hearts)
Health
Stats and behavior
| Type | Hostile mob |
| Size | 0.6 blocks wide, 1.7 blocks tall |
| Ignition items | Fire Charge, Flint and Steel |
| Lighting by hand | Using Flint and Steel or a Fire Charge on a Creeper lights its fuse, and that fuse never stops. Flint and Steel loses 1 durability and a Fire Charge is used up. |
| Avoids cats | Keeps away from Cats and Ocelots within 6 blocks. |
| Fuse time | The fuse burns for 1.5 seconds before the Creeper explodes. A fall shortens it. |
| Fuse start | A Creeper lights its fuse when its target is less than 3 blocks away. |
| Fuse stop | The fuse runs back down if the target dies, gets more than 7 blocks away or goes out of sight. |
| Lightning charge | A lightning strike turns a Creeper into a charged Creeper. |
| Explosion power | A Creeper explodes with power 3. A charged Creeper explodes with power 6. |
| Usual spawn | Groups of 4, 19.4% of hostile spawns in 39 of its 54 biomes |
| Usual spawn biomes | Badlands, Beach, Birch Forest, Cherry Grove, Dappled Forest, Dark Forest, Desert, Eroded Badlands, Flower Forest, Forest, Frozen Peaks, Frozen River, Grove, Ice Spikes, Jagged Peaks, Lush Caves, Mangrove Swamp, Meadow, Old Growth Birch Forest, Old Growth Spruce Taiga, Pale Garden, Plains, Savanna, Savanna Plateau, Snowy Beach, Snowy Plains, Snowy Slopes, Snowy Taiga, Sparse Jungle, Stony Peaks, Stony Shore, Sunflower Plains, Swamp, Taiga, Windswept Forest, Windswept Gravelly Hills, Windswept Hills, Windswept Savanna, Wooded Badlands |
Drops
One random Music Disc of 12
1 - Killed by a Skeleton, Stray, Wither Skeleton, Skeleton Horse, Bogged or Parched - C418 - 13, C418 - cat, C418 - blocks, C418 - chirp, C418 - far, C418 - mall, C418 - mellohi, C418 - stal, C418 - strad, C418 - ward, C418 - 11 or C418 - wait
0-2 - Up to 1 more per level of Looting
1 - Killed by a charged Creeper's explosion
Spawns in
Groups of 4, 19.3% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 16.4% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.3% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 18.5% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 16.3% of hostile spawns
Groups of 2, 16.1% of hostile spawns
Groups of 4, 19.2% of hostile spawns
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