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Minecraft Tier List Maker
Rank Minecraft mobs, from Creepers and Endermen to Axolotls and the Warden. Sort them by cuteness, danger or usefulness.
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Meet every mob (35)
These 35 mobs load into the maker above. Each write-up covers what the mob is and what to weigh when you rank it. Facts were last checked on .
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Creeper
A common hostile mob that quietly approaches the player, hisses, and explodes if they stay near. The explosions destroy blocks and deal massive damage, which makes it the series' most recognizable monster.
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Zombie
A common undead hostile mob that deals melee damage and drops rotten flesh on death. It spawns in the dark in the Overworld, often in groups, so it is many players' first night-time threat.
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Skeleton
A common undead hostile mob that shoots arrows with a bow from a distance. It is an important source of bones and arrows, and appears at night or in dark places.
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Enderman
A neutral mob found in all three dimensions that can drop ender pearls. It turns hostile if you damage it or look directly at its face, teleports erratically and sometimes moves blocks.
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Spider
A neutral wall-climbing arachnid that attacks players on sight in dark areas by jumping and biting them. It drops string and spider eyes, and is a staple of cave and night-time encounters.
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Pig
A passive mob found in most grassy biomes and a source of porkchops. Adult pigs can be ridden using a saddle and a carrot on a stick, and come in three variants based on biome temperature.
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Cow
A passive mob found in most grassy biomes, valued as a source of leather, beef and milk. Like pigs and chickens, cows have three variants based on the temperature of their biome.
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Sheep
A common passive mob that supplies wool and raw mutton. Its color is determined by the biome it spawns in, and wool is one of the most useful building materials in the game.
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Chicken
A passive mob found in most grassy biomes and the main source of raw chicken, feathers and eggs. It has three variants based on the temperature of the biome it spawns in.
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Villager
A humanoid passive mob that inhabits villages, works at a profession, breeds and interacts with others. Players can trade with them using emeralds, and prices are affected by reputation.
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Iron Golem
A buildable neutral mob that attacks monsters with its arms, knocking them into the air. Villagers spawn them to patrol and protect villages, and they retaliate against players who attack them.
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Wolf
A neutral mob that can be tamed using bones. Tamed wolves defend their owners against attackers and can assist in combat, and they can also be equipped with wolf armor once tamed.
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Cat
A passive mob found in villages and swamp huts that can be tamed. Creepers and phantoms are afraid of cats, which gives them a practical use beyond being pets.
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Axolotl
A passive aquatic mob found in lush caves that hunts most other aquatic mobs and can assist players in aquatic combat. It can be carried around in a bucket and comes in several colors.
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Ender Dragon
The flying hostile boss mob that spawns on the central island of the End when the player first enters. It is the largest naturally spawning mob, and defeating it activates the exit portal.
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Wither
An undead boss mob that you spawn yourself by building a structure of soul sand or soul soil and three wither skeleton skulls. It is the only source of Nether stars, which are needed for beacons.
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Warden
A hostile mob summoned by sculk shriekers in the deep dark. It is completely blind and relies on vibrations and smell, striking rapidly with its arms or firing sonic beams.
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Blaze
A fiery hostile mob found in Nether fortresses and the only source of blaze rods. It shoots volleys of three small fireballs, or attacks in melee at close range, and often floats upward.
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Ghast
A large, floating, ghost-like hostile mob found in the Nether and the only source of ghast tears. It shoots explosive fireballs that you can hit back to kill it instantly.
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Piglin
A neutral mob found in the Nether that is hostile to players unless they wear at least one piece of golden armor. It can be given gold ingots to barter for various items.
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Witch
A hostile mob that uses potions in combat, with splash potions for offense and drinkable ones for defense. Witches always spawn individually and spawn in dark areas of the Overworld.
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Slime
A cube-shaped hostile mob that spawns deep underground in particular chunks or aboveground in swamps. Larger slimes split into smaller ones on death, and they are the major source of slimeballs.
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Phantom
A flying undead hostile mob that spawns in the night sky when the player has not slept for at least three in-game days. It attacks by diving at the player from above to bite them.
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Drowned
A common neutral underwater zombie variant that spawns in oceans, rivers and dripstone caves, or when zombies drown. It attacks in melee, but may also spawn armed with tridents that it throws.
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Allay
A small flying passive mob that follows a player who has given it an item and collects matching dropped items. It drops them near the player or the note block it is following.
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Frog
A passive mob found in swamps and mangrove swamps that performs large jumps, swims and uses its long tongue to eat small slimes. Froglights are made when frogs eat magma cubes.
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Camel
A large passive mob found in deserts and desert villages that can be saddled and ridden by up to two players at once. Riders are tall enough to be out of reach of most melee mobs.
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Sniffer
An ancient passive mob that only spawns by hatching from sniffer eggs, which can be found in suspicious sand. It digs up torchflower and pitcher plant seeds in dirt, grass and moss.
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Armadillo
A passive mob found in badlands and savannas that rolls up when hurt or near undead mobs, taking less damage in that state. It is the only source of armadillo scutes.
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Bee
A flying neutral mob that lives in a bee nest or beehive and fills it with harvestable honey using nectar from flowers. Attacking a bee makes nearby bees attack, and a bee that stings eventually dies.
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Horse
A passive mob that can be ridden when tamed and saddled and can wear horse armor. Different horses have different running speeds, jump heights and health, and breeding can improve them.
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Parrot
A tamable passive mob that spawns in jungle biomes. Parrots imitate the sounds of nearby monsters, can perch on the player's shoulders, and unlike most passive mobs cannot be bred.
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Panda
A rare neutral mob that lives in jungles, where aspects of its behavior and appearance vary with a randomized personality. It is more common in bamboo jungles and can spawn as a baby.
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Fox
A trusting neutral mob found in taigas and similar biomes that hunts small animals and carries items in its mouth. It trusts and defends a player it was bred by, but flees from others.
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Llama
A tameable neutral mob that can be equipped with a chest to carry items and can wear carpets for decoration. If attacked, it retaliates by spitting at the attacker.
Minecraft tier list questions
Do mobs behave the same in Java and Bedrock?
Mostly, but spawn rates, groups and some behaviors differ between editions and change with updates. The write-ups stick to long-standing behavior, and the Minecraft Wiki lists edition differences.
Are boss mobs included in this list?
Yes. The Ender Dragon, Wither and Warden are on the list, since fans often rank them next to everyday mobs such as the Creeper, Zombie and Pig.
How should I rank Minecraft mobs?
Common criteria include design, usefulness, danger, personality and how much you like or hate meeting them. Many players rank passive, neutral and hostile mobs separately.
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