Minecraft Basics 05: How to Die Quickly, Part 3
Channel: Jeremy Butler
Date: 2012-01-22

How fast can a Minecraft mob kill you? The results, from slowest to fastest, are (time-to-kill-me in seconds):

ghast failed
giant  failed
slime  53.6
blaze  49.1
skeleton 34.0
silverfish 31.3
spider 17.3 (day)
spider 16.9 (night)
cave spider 10.1
ender dragon 7.0
magma cube 6.6
zombie 6.1
wolves 5.8
enderman 5.6
zombie pigmen 3.1
creeper 1.8

In parts 1 and 2, I used spawn eggs to create monsters that are immediately aggressive. And they quickly killed me in survival multiplayer mode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gdUL6TgPGw (part 1)

In part 3 of 3 I'm killed by mobs that are not aggressive until you annoy them. Which is what I did to zombie pigmen, endermen and wolves.

Further information:

How to generate monster (and other) mobs with Spawn Eggs:

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Spawn_Egg

How to give server commands as an op (operator):

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/SMP_Server_commands

How to set up your own Minecraft server:

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tutorials/Setting_up_a_server