Blaze

For other uses, see Blaze (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Breeze.

Blaze

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Health points	20HP × 10
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Monster
Attack strength	Small Fireball: Easy: 3.5HP × 1.75 Normal: 5HP Hard: 7.5HP × 3.75 Fire: 1HP per sec for 5 sec (HP) Contact: Easy: 4HP Normal: 6HP Hard: 9HP
Hitbox size	Height: 1.8 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks
Spawn	Nether Fortress: Light level of 11 or less. From monster spawners.
Can be leashed	No
Can ride boats	Yes
Can ride minecarts	Yes

A blaze is a fiery hostile mob found in Nether fortresses and is the only source of blaze rods. It attacks by shooting volleys of three small fireballs or by performing melee attacks at close range, and it often floats upward while targeting a player.

Spawning

Blazes always require a light level of 11 or less to spawn.

They may spawn naturally in Nether fortresses in groups of 2 or 3‌^{[JE only]} or from 1 to 3.‌^{[BE only]}

Blazes may also spawn from monster spawners. A Nether fortress can generate up to two blaze spawner platforms, each surrounded by Nether brick fences and reachable via a three-block staircase.

Spawning conditions for blazes:

• In the structure bounding box of any single piece of the Nether fortress, they can spawn on any block
• In the larger area bounding box of the entire Nether fortress, they can spawn exclusively on Nether bricks

Blaze spawns in:

Category: Monster	Java Edition			Bedrock Edition
Spawn area	Spawn weight	Spawn chance	Group size	Spawn weight	Group size
Nether Fortress	10⁄28	35.71%	2–3	10	1–2

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Blaze Rod[A]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	75.00%	1.00	0–3	87.50%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Blaze Rod[A]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	3⁄4	1	0–3	7⁄8	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Blaze Rod[A]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Blaze Rod[A]	0.50	1.00	1.50	2.00

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Blaze Rod[A]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	50.00%	0.75	0–3	50.00%	1.00	0–4	50.00%	1.25

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Blaze Rod[A]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	1⁄2	3⁄4	0–3	1⁄2	1	0–4	1⁄2	5⁄4

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Blaze Rod[A]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	3⁄4 (0.75)	1 (1.00)	5⁄4 (1.25)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Blaze Rod[A]	0.50	0.75	1.00	1.25

10XP experience orbs are dropped if killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

Each blaze has its own follow range of approximately 42.5 to 53.5 blocks, determined when it spawns.^{[note 1]}

Movement

When a blaze has no target, it wanders randomly over the ground, with a small bias toward lower light levels. Gravity pulls a blaze downward, but while descending it loses 40% of its speed each game tick, causing its downward speed to settle at about 2.283 blocks per second. Blazes attempt to swim upward in lava or water in Bedrock Edition, but sink in Java Edition. Their pathfinding treats water as untraversable, gives lava a high cost, and does not avoid fire.

When a blaze has a target, with or without line of sight, it changes its threshold height for upward movement every 5 seconds. This threshold ranges between 6.4 blocks below and 7.4 blocks above the blaze's eyes.^{[note 2]} While the target's eyes are above that chosen threshold, the blaze accelerates upward, approaching a vertical speed of about 2.237 blocks per second.

While its combat behavior is active, a blaze does not wander randomly.

Targeting

A blaze acquires a player as a target when the player is within its follow range and in its line of sight, though a player who is sneaking or invisible must be closer (see Invisibility). After losing sight of the player, the blaze continues targeting them for 3 seconds, provided they remain within its follow range.

If a blaze is hurt by a living entity, its retaliation behavior begins by targeting the attacker without requiring line of sight.^{[note 3]} Without sight of the attacker, this behavior continues for 15 seconds, provided the attacker remains within the blaze's follow range. Seeing the attacker resets this timer.

When this retaliation behavior begins, the damaged blaze alerts every targetless blaze already within an area around it.^{[note 4]} Alerted blazes target the attacker without requiring line of sight.

An alerted blaze can indefinitely keep as its target an attacker it does not see. It loses the target if they change dimensions or die. If it sees the attacker, the usual 3-second limit applies upon losing sight of them again.

Attacking

Melee and ranged attacks require line of sight.

Ranged attack

A blaze begins its ranged attack when it can see a target at least 2 blocks away and closer than its follow range. This distance is measured in a straight line between their feet positions. The blaze charges for 3 seconds, then fires three small fireballs at intervals of 0.3 seconds. The charge ends 0.3 seconds after the third shot, and the blaze waits 5 seconds before charging again.

Breaking line of sight interrupts the attack. It resumes if the line of sight returns while the blaze still has the same target. Each fireball is shot in the target's general direction, with some horizontal randomness.^{[note 5]}

Small fireballs

In air, a small fireball fired by a blaze starts at a low speed and accelerates as it travels, approaching 38 blocks per second. In water, it accelerates more slowly and approaches 8 blocks per second.^{[note 6]} Small fireballs fired by dispensers follow the same motion.

On a successful entity hit, a small fireball deals 5HP base damage and sets the target on fire for 5 seconds. Against a player, the direct damage is 3.5HP × 1.75 on Easy, 5HP on Normal, and 7.5HP × 3.75 on Hard. A shield blocks both the direct damage and the ignition.

A player cannot deflect a small fireball by attacking it, but a breeze deflects one that collides with it. On block impact, a blaze-fired small fireball can place fire on an adjacent block if /gamerule mob_griefing is set to true.

Melee attack

A blaze performs a melee attack once per second when it has line of sight on its target and their feet positions are less than 2 blocks apart. The attack deals 4HP damage to a player on Easy difficulty, 6HP on Normal, and 9HP on Hard. It is not fire damage, does not ignite the target, and is not prevented by Fire Resistance.

Damage

Blazes take damage from the following interactions:

Interaction	Damage taken
Fire, lava, or falling	No damage
Contact with rain or water	1HP damage every 0.5 seconds
Snowball	3HP damage
Water bottle	1HP damage when thrown within 4 blocks of the blaze
Fully frozen in powder snow	5HP freezing damage every 2 seconds[note 7]

Java Edition blazes have no specific movement behavior while in water.

Appearance

A blaze emits two large smoke particles each tick. Its model is rendered at maximum block-light brightness but does not emit block light. Its twelve rods rotate continuously, and its charged state is displayed as fire during a ranged attack.

The entire blaze texture appears brighter in Bedrock Edition, similar to the drowned's eyes. With Vibrant Visuals, blazes and their fire are actually emissive and glowing, with the side effect that the environment around a blaze darkens when looking at it.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Blaze	blaze	fall_damage_immune freeze_hurts_extra_types	entity.minecraft.blaze

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Family	Translation key
Blaze	blaze	43	blaze mob monster	entity.blaze.name

Entity data

Java Edition:

Blazes have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill one of these 41 monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this achievement.	15	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this achievement.	10	Bronze
		Into Fire	Relieve a Blaze of its rod.	Pick up a blaze rod from the ground.	20	Bronze

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
		Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor stands and players also count for this achievement as they are technically mobs.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Not Today, Thank You	Deflect a projectile with a Shield	Block any projectile with a shield.
	Into Fire	Relieve a Blaze of its rod	Have a blaze rod in the inventory.
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 41​[until: Fourth Drop 2026]/42​[upcoming] monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Frostbite​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026] Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 41​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026]/42​[upcoming] monsters: Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Husk Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Frostbite​[upcoming: Fourth Drop 2026] Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Parched Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Nautilus Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.

History

For information specifically pertaining to small fireballs, see Small Fireball § History.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease				Added blazes.
							Blazes shoot small fireballs when attacking the player.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Blazes now drop items only when they aren't on fire (about to attack); this has since been fixed, and they now have a chance to drop blaze rods any time they are killed.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5				Blazes now drop a blaze rod only when killed by the player.
			RC1				Sounds specific to blazes have been added. They make "breath" sounds and make metallic clunks when hurt.
1.4.2			12w36a				Due to the addition of wither skeletons, blazes now spawn less often in Nether fortresses (the chance has been decreased from 43.5% to 35.7%).
1.7.2			1.7				Blazes are no longer provoked when attacked by the player in Creative mode.
1.8			14w06a				The blaze's AI has been altered. Blazes now attempt to attack the player even if there are blocks between them.
							A blaze now alerts other blazes in a staggering 50 block radius around itself of the player's presence upon being hit, causing all blazes within the wide radius to swarm the player, if they have a clear path.
							Blazes now have a decreased firing distance: previously, blazes would shoot at the player from about 32 blocks away once angered, but they now shoot from only 16 blocks. When the player moves out of their radius, they slowly "walk" over to the player, flying over obstructions in the way. When within melee range, the blaze now actively rushes toward the player and attempts to hit the player out of melee range, and shoots small fireballs once the player is out.
							Blazes no longer attempt to swim in water or lava, instead sinking to the bottom.
1.11			16w35a				Blazes are now dealt 1HP damage by splash water bottles.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of blazes has been changed.
1.14.3			pre3				Blazes now take knockback from damage from splash water bottles and lingering water bottles, which is applied away from the player.
							Blazes now drop experience when killed by splash or lingering water bottles thrown by players.[1]
1.16			20w06a				Blazes no longer take damage from snowy weather.[2]
1.17			21w13a				Blazes now take extra damage when freezing.
1.19.4			pre2				Blazes now have a weakness to freezing damage for the /damage command.
1.21.2			24w34a				The texture for the bottom face of a blaze's rods were changed from to .

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1			build 1				Added blazes.
			build 12				Blazes are now neutral in Creative mode.
							Blazes now have sounds.
v0.13.0			build 1				Blazes are now passive in Creative mode.
v0.14.0			build 1				The blaze texture now glows.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Blazes are now dealt 1HP damage by splash water bottles.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of blazes has been changed.
1.17.0			beta 1.16.230.54				Blazes now take extra damage from powder snow.
1.18.30			beta 1.18.20.25				Blazes no longer take damage from cauldrons filled with lava.[3]
1.21.80			Preview 1.21.80.20				Blazes are now imitated by parrots.
1.21.90			Preview 1.21.90.21				Increased blaze attack sound distance to 32 to match Java Edition.
							Blaze's attack distance has been increased from 16 to 48 blocks to match its target detection range.[4]

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU7	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added blazes.
TU8							Blazes now drop 0–2 glowstone dust when killed.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Blazes no longer drop 0-2 glowstone dust when killed.
TU48	CU38	1.41	1.41	1.41	Patch 17		Blazes drop 0-2 glowstone dust when killed again.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Blazes are now dealt 1HP damage by splash water bottles.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added blazes.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Blaze" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• When throwing a potion of Invisibility on a blaze, the smoke remains visible.
• According to Jens Bergensten, blazes look the way they do because all mobs in Minecraft are cuboid-shape, so to make them flame-like and magical, he created them as a core surrounded by rotating rods.^[5]
• Blazes originally didn't have eyes when Jens Bergensten was first creating them and "just looked like a yellow rock". Eyes were added to give it more personality.^[6]
• Despite not having visible feet, blazes are still capable of making footstep sounds.^[7]
• According to Minecraft's "Visit the Nether!" blazes are sentient beings made of pure lava. The article theorizes they were created by the original inhabitants of Nether fortresses to serve as guards, but their creators lost control over the blazes and were subsequently destroyed by them.^[8]

Publicity

• On the official T-shirt "Alchemy" by JINX, the blaze is in the form of the Vitruvian Man and the text uses the Standard Galactic Alphabet. The words on the outside of the ring translate to: "nigredo", "albedo", "citrinitas", and "rubedo",^{[note 8]} which are all relating to magnum opus. The words on the ring translate to (starting from the top): "B * Crowmer", "poison * speed", "strength * resist" [sic], "vision * heal", and "regeneration" relating to potions and probably the artist's name. On the connecting lines the words translate to: "potln of thickness" [sic], "potln of awkward" [sic], "weakness potion" and "mundane potion" relating to base potions.
• As part of an official collaboration, blazes are included as monsters in a free add-on for the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons.^[9] In the game, they are "Elementals" and have the alignment "Typically Neutral Evil."
• In Minecraft: Mobspotter's Encyclopedia, blazes are depicted using the smoke particles used for campfires instead of their traditional ones.

Gallery

Renders

• 
  A blaze without particles
• 
  Animated blaze
• 
  A blaze spawner platform with blazes
• 
  Blaze spawner

Screenshots

• 
  A close up look at a blaze spawner in a Nether fortress
• 
  Zoomed out view of the blaze spawner, showing the spawner area and a spawned blaze
• 
  Multiple blazes shooting small fireballs at the player as they hover around their spawner
• 
  A blaze that was spawned in the Overworld is taking damage from rainy weather.
• 
  Disabling a blaze spawner with 9 glowstone blocks; glowstone can be replaced with other light sources of light level 15
• 
  A triggered blaze preparing to attack who still hasn't flown
• 
  A triggered blaze preparing to attack with fire around it, floating on the wall of a Nether fortress
• 
  A blaze and a wither skeleton idling in a Nether fortress
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  Two blazes spawned near a blaze spawner and a wither skeleton
• 
  Blazes spawned by a spawner
• 
  A comparison of a blaze and a breeze

Mojang images

• 
  "Kai fighting off Blazes in a Basalt Delta, aiming their shield up toward a Blaze to block their projectile."^[10]
• 
  Screenshot of blazes

Textures

• 
  Blaze texture file

Other

• 
  A blaze with hidden pixels revealed by disabling the alpha channel
• 
  The old texture if the hidden pixels are revealed by disabling the alpha channel

In other media

• 
  Artwork of a blaze
• 
  Blaze Parkour, an attraction set on a giant blaze in Realms Celebration
• 
  An official blaze action figure
• 
  Official LEGO Blaze minifigure
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  Official T-shirt artwork "Alchemy" featuring a blaze. Made by JINX.
• 
  Official blaze statistics for D&D.
• 
  A Blaze Head for the Xbox 360 avatar
• 
  A blaze as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons

Notes

References

External links

• "Meet the Blaze" by Marsh Davies – Minecraft.net, December 20, 2016.
• "Mob Menagerie: Blaze" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, March 6, 2025.