Pink Wither

This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.

This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.

Pink Wither

Health points	62HP × 31
Armor points	2 ()
Behavior	Passive
Mob type	Undead Monster
Attack strength	Wither skull: Easy: 2.5HP × 1.25 Normal: 3HP Hard: 4.5HP × 2.25
Hitbox size	Height: 2.734 blocks Width: 0.9 blocks
Spawn	Built by player; 3 second spawn delay.[15w14a only]
Usable items	Lead Sugar [2.0 only]

The pink wither or friendly wither was a recurring April Fools' mob present in both Java Edition 2.0 and 15w14a.

Behavior

Pink Wither build configuration in 2.0.

2.0

In 2.0, the pink wither could be summoned by placing a potted rose on top of pink wool. The newly spawned mob has one head.

The pink wither was an undead mob that would follow players holding sugar, and feeding it sugar would cause it to grow more heads, up to a maximum of three. Unlike the normal wither, the pink wither is not able to fly. When a pink wither skull hits a block, it grows plants in a radius of 15×4×15 blocks.

15w14a

In 15w14a, the pink wither replaces the wither, firing skulls that have a bone meal effect instead of the normal Wither II effect.

When spawned, the pink wither has three heads like a normal wither. It also creates an explosion effect after spawning and has a shield after losing half of its health. The skulls fired by the pink wither firing are the same as the regular wither's, but pink instead of black. The pink wither's skulls often heal the entities, but can damage them, too. Even though the Pink Wither is passive, it still has a boss bar.

Drops

The pink wither drops 150XP and a Nether star when killed, a bit like its normal counterpart.

Data values

ID

2.0

Name	Savegame ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
entity.WitherHug.name	WitherHug	67	entity.WitherHug.name
entity.WitherLove.name	WitherLove	68	entity.WitherLove.name

15w14a

Name	Savegame ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Wither	Pink_Wither	64	entity.WitherBoss.name

Entity data

Java Edition:

History

Java Edition
2.0			preview				Added pink withers. (joke feature).
			release				Additional pink wither heads no longer revert back to one head after a relog.
15w14a							Added friendly withers (joke feature).
							Friendly withers replaced the regular wither.

Trivia

• In 15w14a, unlike TNT, the spawning explosion of the pink wither damages entities and blocks within the blast radius.

Gallery

2.0

• 
  A pink wither next to a wither
• 
  A pink wither as seen on the MindCrack server^[1]

15w14a

• 
  A pink wither in the Overworld

References