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All mobs in Minecraft (26.3)

Here's the complete list of all Minecraft mobs separated by type

A composite image of two Minecraft mobs: on the left is a goat in a grassland biome during the day, and on the right is a Piglin Brute in a desert biome at night.
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Guide by Ollie Toms Senior Guides Editor
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Keeping up with all of Minecraft's mobs is a herculean task in itself, one that grows even more daunting if you're trying to remember which type of mob does what. Are chickens breedable and tameable? What about horses and skeletal horses? Does it even matter?

Of course it matters. For those without Minecraft encyclopedias stuffed inside their noggins, we've put together a list of every Minecraft mob, separated by their type. The most common type is the passive mob, which encompasses pretty much anything that doesn't automatically want to kill you. There are various subtypes under "passive," though, including breedable and rideable, which we've listed in their own sections.

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All passive mobs

A Minecraft screenshot of many dozens of Axolotl of different colours crawling towards the camera.

Passive mobs are mobs that will never attack you, even if you attack them first. Most of these mobs are harmless animals that will flee if attacked or, in some cases, even if you just wander up to them unthreateningly. Passive mobs are divided into different categories, including tameable and rideable, though the list below includes the outcasts, the ones that defy categorization. Y'know, pigs and chickens. You'll get a lot of use out of these passive mobs and frequently need their produce for crafting.

  • Allay
  • Armadillo
  • Axolotl
  • Bat
  • Camel
  • Cat
  • Chicken
  • Cod
  • Copper Golem
  • Cow
  • Donkey
  • Fox
  • Frog
  • Glow Squid
  • Happy Ghast
  • Horse
  • Mooshroom
  • Mule
  • Ocelot
  • Parrot
  • Pig
  • Rabbit
  • Salmon
  • Sheep
  • Skeleton Horse
  • Sniffer
  • Snow Golem
  • Squid
  • Strider
  • Tadpole
  • Tropical Fish
  • Turtle
  • Villager
  • Wandering Trader

Breedable mobs

Breedable mobs are what they say on the label. You can pair these together and get more of them! Which is useful for farming and crafting. There's a lot of overlap between these and your standard passive mobs, though we've separated them since not every passive mob is breedable. If you put two skeleton horses together, you just have two skeleton horses.

  • Armadillo
  • Axolotl
  • Bee
  • Camel
  • Cat
  • Chicken
  • Cow
  • Donkey
  • Fox
  • Frog
  • Goat
  • Hoglin
  • Horse
  • Llama
  • Mooshroom
  • Ocelot
  • Panda
  • Pig
  • Rabbit
  • Sheep
  • Sniffer
  • Strider
  • Turtle
  • Villager
  • Wolf

Tameable mobs

Tameable mobs are the ones you can bring with you, like pets, if you kept foxes and donkeys as pets. Some of them overlap with rideable and breedable mobs, too, though not many.

Rideable mobs

If you're reading the list in order, you've probably noticed a trend: the categories gradually pull in smaller subsets. Like this one. Rideable mobs are also tameable, and some of them are breedable.

  • Camel
  • Donkey
  • Horse
  • Mule
  • Pig
  • Skeleton Horse
  • Strider

Neutral mobs

A Minecraft screenshot of three Goats at varying distances from the player.

Neutral might sound passive, but these mobs can switch between hostile or not depending on the situation. We've included mention of what makes a mob turn hostile below, just to help you avoid any accidents.

  • Bee - provoked if attacked or beehive broken, attacks only once
  • Cave Spider - hostile if in low light level
  • Dolphin - provoked if attacked
  • Drowned - hostile at night to players touching water
  • Enderman - provoked if attacked or looked at
  • Goat - randomly charges nearby players
  • Iron Golem - provoked if nearby villager is attacked
  • Llama - provoked if attacked, attacks only once
  • Piglin - provoked by any player not wearing 1+ Golden Armor pieces
  • Panda - provoked if attacked, attacks only once
  • Polar Bear - provoked if attacked or if near a cub
  • Pufferfish - provoked if approached
  • Spider - hostile if in low light level
  • Spider Jockey - hostile if in low light level
  • Trader Llama - hostile to Illagers
  • Wolf - provoked if attacked
  • Zombified Piglin - provoked if attacked

Hostile mobs

A nighttime Minecraft screenshot of a zombie looking at the player, with several more zombies wandering around in the background.

Hostile mobs will always attack you if you're close enough, no matter what you do. There's just no reasoning with them, so make sure you're prepared with weapons and potions.

  • Blaze
  • Bogged
  • Breeze
  • Chicken Jockey
  • Creaking
  • Creeper
  • Elder Guardian
  • Ender Dragon
  • Endermite
  • Evoker
  • Ghast
  • Guardian
  • Hoglin
  • Hoglin Jockey
  • Husk
  • Magma Cube
  • Parched
  • Phantom
  • Piglin Brute
  • Pillager
  • Ravager
  • Ravager Jockey
  • Shulker
  • Silverfish
  • Skeleton
  • Skeleton Horseman
  • Slime
  • Spider Jockey
  • Stray
  • Vex
  • Vindicator
  • Warden
  • Witch
  • Wither
  • Wither Skeleton
  • Zoglin
  • Zombie
  • Zombie Villager

Minecraft boss mobs

A Minecraft screenshot of a Wither hovering in front of the player.

Minecraft has three boss mobs as of the time of publication. As you'd expect from the name, boss mobs are powerful creatures with their own health bars, and they're the most dangerous enemies you'll run across. Not including other players in PvP servers, of course.

  • Elder Guardian
  • Ender Dragon
  • Wither

Whether you're facing terrifying monsters like Endermen and Guardians, or simply hostile animals such as Polar Bears, you'll have to be prepared to defend yourself against Minecraft many mobs. Clad yourself in the best equipment possible with our guides on finding Diamonds and Netherite, or consult our page on brewing potions to give yourself powerful buffs while in combat.

And if you're looking to add even more mobs to your latest Minecraft world, check out our list of Minecraft mods, or change the look of existing mobs by installing the best Minecraft texture packs.

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