page_title: Minecraft
section_title: Mobs
hierarchical_section_title: Minecraft / Gameplay / Mobs
caption_attribution_description: Otakon 2012 cosplay
context_page_description: Minecraft is a video game made by Markus "Notch" Persson. It was run by a company called Mojang, and was sold to Microsoft in 2014 for US$2.5 billion.
  Minecraft is an open world survival game where the player can play in a world made of blocks. The player can walk around and break the blocks which make up the interactive landscape. The player can then put the blocks back together to make new constructions. The player uses equipment and tools to break blocks, such as a pickaxe.
  The first version was released for PC players on May 17, 2009. After going through alpha and beta versions, the full version was released on November 18, 2011. A version for Android was released on October 7, 2011, and an iOS version was released on November 17, 2011.
  The game was released on the Xbox 360 as an Xbox Live Arcade game on May 9, 2012. It was released for the PlayStation 3 on December 17, 2013, and for the PlayStation 4 on September 4, 2013. It was available for Xbox One the next day; and for the PlayStation Vita on October 14, 2014. On December 10, 2013, a Windows Phone version was released.
context_section_description: The term "mob" is short for mobster. Mobs are different kinds of monsters, animals, or Non-Player-Characters (NPC). The different types of mobs are:
  Hostile: These will attack the player on sight. They include zombies, skeletons, wither skeletons, slimes, creepers, ghasts, the ender dragon, the wither, blazes, witches, endermen, magma cubes, guardians, endermites, shulkers, husks, strays, evokers, vexes, vindicators, drowneds, phantoms, pillagers, sliverfish and ravagers.
  Passive: These are mostly animals such as cows, pigs, ocelots, cats, red foxes, arctic foxes, bats, chickens, horses, donkeys, mules, rabbits, sheep, parrots, sea turtles, fishes, squids and mooshrooms ("mushroom cows"). They will run away when hit. They cannot hurt the player at all.
  Neutral: These will only attack the player if the player attacks them first. They are wolves, polar bears, llamas, Zombie Pigmen, Pandas, Dolphins, Bees, Spiders (only attack at night unless you hit them during the day), Endermen (attacks if you look at them in the eye), and Iron/Snow Golems.
  NPCs (non-player characters): This group so far only includes villagers which, like passive mobs, run if hit and cannot hurt the player. They are mobs that will not attack you in any way, and they might even help you.
  Bosses: These mobs have much more health than normal mobs. They are the Ender Dragon and the Wither. They have different means of fighting the player and drop unique and important items on death.
caption: A creeper.
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