Blaze

Blaze

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Health points	20HP × 10
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Monster
Attack strength	Small Fireball: 5HP Fire: 1HP per sec for 5 sec (HP) Contact: Easy: 4HP Normal: 6HP Hard: 9HP
Hitbox size	In Java Edition: Height: 1.8 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks In Bedrock Edition: Height: 1.8 Blocks Width: 0.5 Blocks
Spawn	Nether Fortress: Light level of 11 or less From monster spawners.

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A blaze is a hostile mob found in nether fortresses, and the only source of blaze rods. A blaze attacks by floating upward and shooting fireballs at its target in volleys of three at a time. It can also attack its target in melee range with its spinning rods.

Spawning

Blazes may spawn naturally in nether fortresses in groups of 2 or 3 at a light level of 11 or less. Blazes may also spawn from monster spawners in nether fortresses. The spawners are located on small platforms with a three-block staircase leading up to it. 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

Drops

On death

Item		Roll Chance	Quantity (Roll Chance)
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Blaze Rod	100%	0–1	0–2	0–3	0–4

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

Behavior

Blazes can fly and are immune to damage from fire and lava. When not attacking, they stay on the ground or slowly sink through the air. When idle, blazes attempt to swim upward in lava or water in Bedrock Edition but sink in Java Edition. Despite taking damage from water, blazes make no attempt to protect themselves if pushed or dropped into water. Their pathfinding does not avoid fire or lava‌ but does avoid water.

Blazes take 5HP freezing damage from powder snow.

Blazes take 3HP damage when hit by a snowball and 1HP damage when hit by a splash water bottle.

Like endermen, blazes are damaged by rain by 1HP every half second.

Attacking

Blazes target players within 48 blocks. If a blaze is damaged by a player or other mob, it alerts other blazes within 48 blocks to target the attacker.‌ A blaze flies when it acquires a target, slowly approaching while attempting to remain from 0.5 to 3.5 blocks above the target.

A blaze's normal attack is a trio of small fireballs, shot from up to 48 blocks‌ or 16 blocks.‌ Unlike with the ghast or breeze, a blaze's fireballs cannot be deflected, but can be blocked with a shield. A blaze shoots only when it has a clear line of sight to its target. If line of sight is broken in the middle of its volley, the blaze suspends the remainder of its volley until line of sight returns. When using this attack, the blaze burns with fire for 3 seconds, shoots 3 small fireballs over the course of 0.9 seconds, then extinguishes its flames and waits for 5 seconds before attacking again. A blaze shoots its small fireballs with roughly the same lack of accuracy as a dispenser; however, the blaze's shots maintain the same speed all the way to the target, unlike the dispenser's, which start slow and accelerate.

A blaze that touches its target performs a melee attack that does 6HP damage on normal difficulty, once per second. This attack is not considered fire damage and does not ignite the target. This cannot be prevented by the Fire Resistance status effect.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Blazes use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Blaze breathes	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	entity.blaze.ambient	subtitles.entity.blaze.ambient​	1.0	0.8–1.2	16
	​Blaze crackles	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	entity.blaze.burn	subtitles.entity.blaze.burn​	1.0–2.0	0.3-1.0	32
	​Blaze dies	Hostile Creatures	When a blaze dies	entity.blaze.death	subtitles.entity.blaze.death​	1.0	0.8–1.2	16
	​Blaze hurts	Hostile Creatures	When a blaze is damaged	entity.blaze.hurt	subtitles.entity.blaze.hurt​	1.0	0.8–1.2	16
	​Blaze shoots	Hostile Creatures	When a blaze shoots a fireball	entity.blaze.shoot	subtitles.entity.blaze.shoot​	2.0	0.8–1.2	32

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	mob.blaze.breathe	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When a blaze dies	mob.blaze.death	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When a blaze is damaged	mob.blaze.hit	1.0	0.8-1.2
	Hostile Creatures	When a blaze shoots a fireball	mob.blaze.shoot	3.0	0.8-1.2

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Blaze	blaze	43	entity.blaze.name

Entity data

Java Edition:

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

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template[show]

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Into Fire	Relieve a Blaze of its rod.	Pick up a blaze rod from the ground.	20	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider.	15	Bronze
		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	—	20	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	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.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts 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.
	Into Fire	Relieve a Blaze of its rod	Have a blaze rod in the inventory.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst:[show] Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 37 mobs:[hide] Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 37 mobs:[hide] Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Not Today, Thank You	Deflect a projectile with a Shield	Block any projectile with a shield.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	–
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.

History

[hide]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.
1.16			20w06a				Blazes no longer take damage from snowy weather.
1.17			21w13a				Blazes now take extra damage when freezing.
1.19.3			1.19.4-pre2				Blazes now have a weakness to freezing damage for the /damage command.
1.21.2			24w34a				Changed the texture for the bottom face of a blaze's rods were changed from to .
[hide]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.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Blazes are now dealt 1HP damage by splash water bottles.
[hide]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.
[hide]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.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added blazes.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.11			16w32a				The entity ID of the blaze has been changed from Blaze to blaze.
			16w40a				The blaze's life tag is no longer used for anything, but still saved/read.
1.13			17w47a				Numeric IDs for entities were presumably deprecated in this version.​

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.
• 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".
• Despite not having visible feet, blazes are still capable of making footstep sounds.
• 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.
• 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", which are all relating to magnum opus. The words on the ring translate to (starting from the top): "B * Crowmer", "poison * speed", "strenth * 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. In the game, they are "Elementals" and have the alignment "Typically Neutral Evil".

Gallery

Renders

• 

  A blaze without particles.

• 

  Animated version

• 

  A blaze spawner platform with blazes.

• 

  Blaze spawner

Screenshots

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  A close up look at a blaze spawner in a Nether fortress.

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  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 snowy weather. (Before 20w06a)

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  Disabling a blaze spawner with 9 glowstone blocks. Glowstone can be replaced with other light sources of light level 15.

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  A triggered blaze preparing to attack who still hasn't flown.

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  A triggered blaze preparing to attack with fire around it, floating on the wall of a Nether fortress.

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  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.

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  Blazes spawned by a spawner.

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  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."

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  Screenshot of blazes.

Textures

• 

  Blaze texture file.

Other

• 

  A blaze with hidden pixels revealed by disabling the alpha channel.

In other media

• 

  Artwork of a blaze

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  Blaze Parkour, an attraction set on a giant blaze in Realms Celebration.

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  An official blaze action figure.

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  Official LEGO Blaze minifigure.

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  Official T-shirt artwork "Alchemy" featuring a blaze. Made by JINX.

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  Official blaze statistics for D&D.

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  A Blaze Head for the Xbox 360 avatar.

External links

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