Minecraft Mobs List: Every Mob in the Game, Sorted by Behaviour

Minecraft's creature roster is enormous, and it grows with nearly every update. The easiest way to make sense of it is the way the game itself thinks: how does this mob react to you? Everything is either passive, neutral or hostile, with a couple of bosses sitting above the rest.

Passive Mobs

These never attack you, even if you hit them first. The pufferfish is the one partial exception, inflating and poisoning anything that bumps into it, though it does so in self-defence rather than aggression.

Neutral Mobs

Neutral mobs mind their own business until you give them a reason not to. Bees sting whoever disturbs the hive, cave spiders and spiders only turn aggressive in darkness (spiders forgive you in daylight), dolphins retaliate if struck, and endermen are peaceful until you look them in the eyes or hit them. Goats ram things for fun, iron golems defend villages unless you attack first, llamas spit at whatever hit them, pandas are placid except for the aggressive personality type, and polar bears defend their cubs. Piglins are a special case: they ignore you while you wear gold, and zombified piglins only attack as a group after one of them is hurt. Wolves fight whoever their owner fights once tamed, and whoever attacks them while wild.

Hostile Mobs

These attack on sight, so learn their homes. The overworld brings zombies, skeletons, creepers, strays, husks, drowned, slimes, phantoms after sleepless nights, witches, silverfish in strongholds and mountains, and illagers: pillagers, vindicators, evokers and their ravager mounts, plus tiny flying vexes. Mangrove swamps hide the bogged, a skeleton variant with poison arrows. Trial chambers add the breeze and extra spawner waves. Underground in the deep dark waits the warden, who you are meant to avoid rather than fight. The Nether fields ghasts, blazes, magma cubes, wither skeletons and piglin brutes. The End has shulkers guarding End cities and endermites that slip out of ender pearls. Ocean monuments are defended by guardians and three elder guardians, and the Creaking stalks the pale garden at night.

Boss Mobs

Two mobs get their own boss bars. The ender dragon rules the End and must be defeated to finish the game's main path, while the wither is an optional, player-summoned menace that drops the nether star needed for beacons. Beat both and there is not a creature in the game you cannot handle, at least one on one.