Tutorial:Gathering resources on Peaceful difficulty

This tutorial is about how to gather resources that are usually dropped from either hostile or neutral mobs.

Because most hostile or neutral mobs do not spawn in Peaceful, sometimes it is hard to gather these resources. Also, this page may be helpful when playing any Survival world, if you do not like to fight monsters, but want to get the items that they drop. Another use of this page would be if you want to play Minecraft without any data packs, as this will disable mob drops. However, it will also disable loot in chests, so trading with villagers is one of the few ways you can acquire these items.

Achievable In Peaceful

These materials are usually mob drops, but can be achieved by other means when a world is on Peaceful difficulty.

Bones

Bones are commonly dropped from skeletons. Being hostile, however, skeletons cannot spawn in Peaceful. Still, there are other methods of achieving bones.

Bones can be found naturally occurring in the chests of desert pyramids, jungle temples, dungeons, ancient cities, and woodland mansions. Unless you happen to have a jungle near your spawnpoint, or if you're very lucky a dark forest with a woodland mansion in it, your best bet would be to find a desert or a dungeon. It's best to find a dungeon in caves, but if you don't have many caves nearby, you can just mine underground. Unfortunately, monster spawners can't spawn mobs on Peaceful difficulty, so in Peaceful, you can't listen to the sounds of zombies, skeletons, or spiders to find dungeons. To find a desert pyramid, you will need to find a desert first, and then explore around the desert. The advantage of desert pyramids is they can be seen from a long way away. However, when finding structures with chests that could potentially hold bones, remember that a desert pyramid chest does not always have a bone in it.

There are 2 more ways to find bones. One of them is through fishing. If you fish with a fishing rod without a Luck of the Sea enchantment, you will have a 1.1% chance of getting a bone. However, the disadvantages of this method are that a fishing rod requires string, which is most commonly obtained from spiders, which don't spawn in Peaceful, and that you will only have a small chance of getting a bone when fishing.

In Bedrock Edition, all fish mobs have a 25% chance of dropping 1–2 bone. As at least one fish variety can spawn in every single type of ocean, and salmon spawn in rivers as well. This actually makes bones quite easy to obtain.

Bone Meal

A common way to obtain bone meal is by crafting it from bones, but there are several ways to obtain it without using bones.

The first method is by finding fossils, which contain bone blocks. This will be useful if you need a massive amount of bone meal. The advantage of this method is that 1 bone block = 9 bone meal, and fossils usually have many bone blocks within them. However, fossils are rare, and only generate in deserts and swamp biomes. The best way to find bone blocks is to first find a swamp or desert, and then either find caves or ravines, or try using this method. Remember, fossils generate around 15–24 blocks under surface (around altitude 40–49), so if you are on desert hills or swamp hills, fossils generate higher. Another way to find a massive amount of bone blocks in 1.16 and above is to find a soul sand valley where small fossils generate very commonly, and due to being in Peaceful mode, you will not need to worry about the ghasts and skeletons.

In Bedrock Edition, you can buy 3 bone meal for one emerald from the wandering trader, but wandering traders do not always offer bone meal.

In Java Edition, all 4 types of fish mob have a 5% chance to drop bone meal. Salmon is especially convenient because it can be found in rivers, and rivers are one of the most common biomes in the game, so you don't need to go to the ocean.

The easiest way to get bone meal is by using a composter, usually using items from a farm. For example, if you have too much cactus from a cactus farm, or excess seeds from a wheat farm, just put them into the composter and you will get bone meal after composting it several times. This is the best way to get bone meal without traveling to the Nether, as you just need a composter to transform plant-related items or blocks into bone meal. Although not very efficient, the composter can be used in conjunction with roses dropped from iron golems to automatically create bonemeal from an iron farm.

Ender Pearls

Although endermen don't spawn on Peaceful, ender pearls can be obtained by 3 other means. Ender pearls can be found in the chests of strongholds and woodland mansions. Both of these structures are very rare, but woodland mansions can be found using a woodland explorer map, although the nearest woodland mansion could be very far away. Two ender pearls always generate in the fake end portal room chest, but not every woodland mansion generates a fake end portal room. You can also get ender pearls by giving a cleric villager 5 emeralds. If you have a farmer and a large wheat, beetroot, potato, or carrot farm, you can gain lots of emeralds by trading these items with the farmer, and thus gain lots of ender pearls. You can also get ender pearls by bartering with piglins. Despite the fact that ender pearls can't be used to make eyes of ender because of the lack of blaze rods, ender pearls can be used to teleport, which can be very useful at times.

Gunpowder

Gunpowder is most easily achieved as a drop from creepers, and is also a drop from ghasts or witches. However, none of the 3 mobs spawn on Peaceful difficulty, so alternative ways of achieving gunpowder are important.

Gunpowder, can be found in desert pyramid chests, dungeon chests, woodland mansion chests and shipwreck chests. See the previous section, "Bones," for how to find these structures. Gunpowder can be found in shipwrecks which can generate in any ocean biome, but rarely you can also find one on land.

Gunpowder can also be obtained by trading with a wandering trader for one emerald.

Gunpowder is not necessary for completing anything major, but it is fun and in many circumstances, helpful to use, as it can be used to create fireworks and TNT. Also, gunpowder can be used to make splash potions. However, no potions can be made on Peaceful because brewing requires blaze powder as fuel, which is not achievable as blazes don't spawn.

If you want to use the gunpowder to make TNT, you can also acquire TNT in a desert pyramid trap and a trap in a woodland mansion secret room. Be careful, though; they are called traps for a reason! Also, TNT can be found in shipwreck chests and buried treasure chests. Buried treasure can be located using treasure maps.

Magma Cream

Magma cream can either be obtained as a drop from magma cubes, by crafting a slimeball and a blaze powder, or by looting bastion remnant chests. In Peaceful, magma cream can only be obtained from the latter of the three options. However, magma cream is almost practically useless in Peaceful mode, as their only use is to craft magma blocks, which can be commonly found within the Nether. It can't be used as a brewing ingredient, as blaze powder and blaze rods are unobtainable.

Prismarine Crystals

Prismarine crystals can either be achieved as a drop from guardians and elder guardians, by breaking a sea lantern, or by finding buried treasure chests. In Peaceful, the latter two are the only ways to obtain them on Peaceful. Sea lanterns can be found in ocean monuments and ocean ruins. However, prismarine crystals are useless in this difficulty, as their only use is to make a sea lantern, which also requires prismarine shards, which are unobtainable in Peaceful. The only way to obtain a sea lantern while on Peaceful difficulty is by using a Silk Touch pickaxe.

Rotten Flesh

Fortunately, rotten flesh is not very useful – you will be fine if you never acquire it in a Minecraft world. However, if you do have a certain purpose for rotten flesh, such as to trade with cleric villagers, it can be obtained in a few ways without killing any hostile monster. Like bones, rotten flesh can be found in desert pyramid chests, jungle temple chests, dungeon chests, and woodland mansion chests. Rotten flesh can also be obtained from igloo basement chests, which is useful if you have a snowy tundra or snowy taiga biome near spawn. Unfortunately, not all igloos have basements, so you may have to go through many igloos to find rotten flesh, or try to find a desert, jungle, or a dungeon. Rotten flesh can also be found in shipwreck supply chests, but again, not every shipwreck generates a supply room (this part is usually broken). Rotten flesh can also be found in village temples, but only the desert village temple has a chest, so it's better to look for desert villages than other villages. Lastly, rotten flesh can also be found in underwater ruins chests. Rotten flesh also has a 1.2% chance of being obtained when fishing. However, like for bones, a fishing rod requires string, which is rather expensive when on Peaceful difficulty. However, most of the places where you can find rotten flesh, you can find string as well. Rotten flesh is also given by a tamed cat as a gift, with a 16.13% chance. You can find stray cats in villages, and tame them using any raw fish.

A jungle temple, with the passageway to the hidden chest open. You can see the sticky piston facing a cobblestone block in the middle of the picture.

Slimeballs

Slimeballs are usually obtained by killing tiny slimes. However, slimes don't spawn in Peaceful difficulty. Slimeballs are also obtainable from trading with a wandering trader and can be dropped by baby pandas when they sneeze.

One of the most important crafting products for slimeballs are sticky pistons. Three sticky pistons spawn naturally in jungle temples. However, jungle temples are very rare, so make sure that when you're looting a jungle temple in Peaceful difficulty, grab all 3 sticky pistons. You will find that they are very useful in redstone contraptions. Sticky pistons also generate in ancient cities.

Spider Eyes

Spider eyes are usually obtained by killing spiders or witches. With these mobs unable to spawn, spider eyes are rather difficult to obtain. The only place they can be found is in the chests of desert pyramids. Although desert pyramid chests only have a 29% chance of having spider eyes, desert pyramids have 4 chests in them, so it is likely that one of them will have some number of spider eyes. However, spider eyes are practically useless on Peaceful difficulty, because they can only be used to breed armadillos, be eaten, or used as a potion ingredient, which the latter two are impossible in Peaceful.

String

This is a screenshot of rotten flesh, gunpowder, string, and bones in a desert pyramids. Desert pyramids are one of the few places you can find these items on Peaceful difficulty.

String has many uses in Survival mode – it can be used to make a bow, scaffolding, crossbow, fishing rod, lead, loom, candles, wool, or be used in a tripwire circuit. Although having no spiders makes it harder to acquire string, there are still many ways to get some. String can be obtained by breaking cobwebs with a sword. In Bedrock Edition, cobwebs can also be crafted to produce 9 strings, so that would make it better to break cobweb using shears. if you have a mineshaft, stronghold library, zombie village, or woodland mansion with a spawner room near spawn, this would probably be the easiest way to acquire string. String can also be gifted by a cat, and is dropped by them upon death. You can also obtain string from bartering with piglins and killing striders.

Also, string generates as part of tripwire traps in jungle temples, generating a total of 5 string per jungle temple. In addition, like rotten flesh, gunpowder and bones, string can be found in the chests of desert pyramids, dungeons, woodland mansions, and pillager outposts. Finally, string has a 0.6% chance of being obtained through fishing. The next paragraph shows how to acquire string recipes without string:

All of the crafting recipes of string can be obtained in some other way besides getting string. Wool, of course, can be obtained by killing or shearing sheep. Leads are dropped by wandering traders or found in woodland mansions, dungeons, ancient cities, or buried treasure chests. Looms can be found in village shepherd houses. Both unenchanted and enchanted bows can be bought from fletcher villagers for 2 emeralds and 8‌ or 17–22‌ emeralds respectively, as part of their trades at apprentice and expert-level, while crossbows can be found in pillager outposts or bought enchanted or unenchanted from a fletcher villager for 3 emeralds and 8‌ or 7–22‌. A bow by itself isn't extremely useful when in Peaceful, but it can be used to make a dispenser which can be used for many purposes. Also, 2 dispensers naturally generate in every jungle temple. Finally, an enchanted fishing rod can be bought from Fishermen villagers for 6 emeralds, as part of their trades at journeyman level. Enchanted fishing rods can also be found in underwater ruins, which you can find more easily by following dolphin fed by raw cod. The primary use of fishing rods is to fish. Actual fish aren't useful on Peaceful difficulty (other than for trading to fisherman villagers), unless you want to tame a cat or feed dolphins, but fishing has a chance of giving the player an enchanted book, saddle, name tag, lily pad, bone, rotten flesh, string, leather, and more. In addition, fishing can even give you an enchanted bow, or another fishing rod.

Tridents

Drowned can spawn holding tridents, which they have a chance to drop on death. These can be used as both a melee and a ranged weapon. Unfortunately, drowned don't spawn on Peaceful, leaving trial chambers as the only means to obtain them.

Not Achievable in Peaceful

These materials, sadly, can only be obtained as hostile monster drops. However, sometimes some of their crafting recipes may be able to be obtained by other means.

Blaze Rods

Blaze rods can only be obtained by killing blazes, which is impossible on Peaceful difficulty. Unfortunately, blaze rods are essential to going to the End, because there is only a 1 in a trillion chance that an end portal will generate with all eyes of ender in it, and eyes of ender require blaze powder. However, brewing stands, which usually need a blaze rod to craft, can be found in igloo basements and village temples, but no potions can be brewed because they require blaze powder as fuel. Even though the player may not be able to go to the End on Peaceful difficulty, there are plenty of other things available to do in the Minecraft world.

This is one side of an igloo basement. The brewing stand can be seen in plain view. A brewing stand is the only item crafted with blaze rods that can be achieved by other means than crafting.

Breeze Rods

Breeze rods can be used to craft wind charges, which can be used as a ranged weapon. Unfortunately, breezes don't spawn on Peaceful, making breeze rods unobtainable and wind charges non-renewable. Wind charges can also be obtained from vaults, but the regular trial key is non-renewable, while the ominous trial key is unobtainable in Peaceful mode. The only other way to obtain the wind charge is from looting chests and decorated pots.

End Crystals

End crystals are not obtainable if the End is inaccessible and cannot be obtained in item form (via crafting), but, there is a very, very small chance (one in every 128/1,000,000,000,000 worlds, which contains an already-lit end portal) (see #Ender Dragon) that it is. 10 of them generate as soon as the player enters the End. By respawning the ender dragon using 4 end crystals, they become renewable as 10 more end crystals and End Stone surrounding the portal generate every time the dragon is respawned. Via pistons, it is theoretically possible (although incredibly difficult) to move the crystals from the pillars and onto the bedrock portal. Unfortunately, if there are ever fewer than 4 end crystals in a Peaceful difficulty world, they, as well as end stone, become non-renewable.

Froglights

Froglights drop when tiny magma cubes are eaten by frogs. Unfortunately, magma cubes don't spawn on Peaceful and they are the only way to obtain froglights.

Ghast Tears

Ghast tears, which drop from ghasts, are used to make potions of Regeneration and end crystals. Although both of these are helpful in Minecraft, neither of them could be made even if ghast tears could be obtained in some other way. This is because potions of Regeneration require blaze powder to make, and end crystals require eyes of ender, both of which can't be obtained on Peaceful difficulty because of the lack of blazes. However, if the End is accessible, End Crystals can still generate on the obsidian pillars.

Prismarine Shards

Prismarine shards, unfortunately, can only be obtained by killing guardians or elder guardians. However, all of the crafting recipes with prismarine shards: prismarine, dark prismarine, prismarine bricks, and sea lanterns, make up entire ocean monuments, and prismarine and sea lantern also generate in underwater ruins. If you are planning on getting a sea lantern, make sure you mine it with a Silk Touch pickaxe, because otherwise, it will drop only prismarine crystals.

Shulker Shells

Shulkers have a 50% chance of dropping a shulker shell upon death. Despite the fact that shulkers actually do spawn on Peaceful difficulty, unlike most other mobs, the End can only in ridiculously rare cases (1 in a trillion worlds) (see #Ender Dragon) be accessed in Peaceful; therefore, shulker shells cannot be obtained on Peaceful. Shulker shells can be used to make a shulker box, which, although it isn't necessary for anything in Minecraft, can be very helpful at times. However, even though the End may be accessible, shulkers will not attack the player, preventing the generation of more shulkers and the renewability of shulker shells.

Wither Skeleton Skulls

Wither skeletons, when killed, rarely drop a wither skeleton skull, which can be used to make the wither boss. Unfortunately, wither skeletons don't spawn on Peaceful, and they are the only way to obtain wither skeleton skulls. The only use of wither skeleton skulls is to create the wither (the wither cannot spawn in Peaceful anyway so there would be no point), to be used to produce wither skeleton sounds when placed atop a note block, or worn as a helmet. The wither drops a nether star, which can be crafted into a beacon. This means that beacons are one of the items that cannot be obtained on Peaceful difficulty. However, conduits, a similar block, are obtainable and constructive on Peaceful. A conduit requires a heart of the sea from buried treasure and 8 nautilus shells from fishing or bought from wandering traders, as well as prismarine block variants or sea lanterns to active it.

Spawnable on Peaceful

These mobs are the few neutral/hostile mobs that can spawn on Peaceful difficulty. However, none of them, with the exception of evokers‌, foxes, goats, llamas‌, wolves‌, and piglins, can deal damage to the player.

Bee

Bees are the only arthropod mobs that don't despawn in Peaceful. Bees only drop experience when killed, so it's better to use them to produce honeycombs or honey bottles. These items can be used as food (honey bottles also remove poison), to craft honeycomb blocks, sugar, honey blocks (a sticky block similar to slime block but stickier), or to craft beehives.

Dolphin

Dolphins are neutral mobs that spawn in oceans and are passive on Peaceful. They only drop experience when killed, but can be fed raw cod to lead players to nearby shipwrecks and ocean ruins.

Ender Dragon

The ender dragon is the boss mob of the End dimension. It will drop tons of experience and a dragon egg upon death. Dragon eggs cannot be used to craft anything, but they serve as a trophy, showing that the ender dragon has been defeated. Though the End is normally inaccessible in Peaceful difficulty since eyes of ender require blaze powder to craft, which is unobtainable, there is a 1 in 128/1,000,000,000,000 (1 in a trillion) chance a stronghold portal has all end portal frames already filled; this way, they can access the End in Peaceful.

When you enter the End, the ender dragon will spawn. It cannot do damage to you but it will still knock you back, so the only things that are dangerous are that the dragon may push you into the void, or inflict falling damage when you are destroying end crystals. Apart from that, the fight should be easy. You can also use the end gateway portal and you will be able to access the End as much as you want. Although it is tedious, you can respawn the ender dragon by using the previously generated end crystals on the obsidian pillars if you did not destroy those already.

Evoker‌

Evokers spawn in woodland mansions, which are very rare. Due to their ability to summon vexes and their fang attack, they are very dangerous in Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulties. However, they do not attack players on Peaceful difficulty (although the player may still incidentally receive damage from an evoker fang if an evoker is trying to attack a villager). Evokers drop very rare items upon death: 0–1 emeralds, and even more useful, a totem of undying. If the player dies while holding a totem of undying, that player will not die, but instead gain 1HP, and quickly regenerate to full health.

Fox

Foxes spawn in taigas and snowy taigas and are passive to players under normal conditions in all difficulties. When a player breeds two foxes, the offspring will trust the player and attack any mob or player that attacks the trusted owner. Thus, this mob is neutral on all difficulties in multiplayer.

Goat

Goats are a unique neutral mob that spawns in various mountainous biomes. Though in all difficulties they will run away when attacked, they will occasionally ram into motionless players, mobs, and armor stands, making this mob neutral.

Hoglin

Hoglins naturally spawn in the Nether, specifically in crimson forests on all difficulties. They become passive in Peaceful mode and won't attack the player. They drop raw porkchops and leather upon death, though killing pigs and cows is a much easier alternative.

Llama

Llamas are tamable mobs, but they are also neutral mobs. However, Llamas are passive in Peaceful difficulty‌ and only drop leather and equipment upon death. Llamas can be equipped with a chest for storage, and they can be equipped with a carpet for decoration. Llamas will only spawn in savanna and mountains biomes. Trader llamas also spawn anywhere with wandering traders, even underground or in mushroom fields biomes.

Panda

Pandas are normally neutral, but all types of pandas are passive on Peaceful. They only drop bamboo when killed, which can be found abundantly in the biomes they spawn in.‌

Piglin

Piglins naturally spawn in the Nether, specifically in crimson forests and Nether wastes in all difficulties. They become passive in Peaceful mode and won't attack the player, though they'll still hunt hoglins occasionally (thus, they may accidentally hit the player if they use a crossbow to hunt hoglins). While piglins drop nothing upon death (except equipment), they can be bartered with, which can be used to obtain several normally unobtainable things in Peaceful or in the Nether such as fire charges.

Polar Bear

Polar bears are neutral mobs that spawn on Peaceful difficulty. However, polar bears will not attack the player on Peaceful. Polar bears drop raw cod and raw salmon when killed, as well as experience. These can be nice if you happen to have a snow biome nearby, but otherwise, you can obtain fish by fishing or by killing nearly any type of fish mob.

Shulker

Shulkers spawn in the End on all difficulties, which can be accessed only by a chance of 128/1,000,000,000,000 (1 in a trillion) (see #Ender Dragon), but will not shoot shulker bullets on Peaceful difficulty. Shulkers will drop shulker shells upon death, which can be useful because of the fact that they can be made into shulker boxes.

Vindicator‌

Vindicators spawn in woodland mansions. On high difficulty levels, they deal the second most melee damage of any mob‌(first being iron golem). However, like evokers, they do not attack players when on Peaceful difficulty, but they will still be hostile towards villagers, just like they are on other difficulties. Vindicators have a high chance of dropping an emerald upon death, and they also have a lesser chance of dropping their iron axe which can be enchanted.

Wolf

Wolves usually just ignore the player, unless attacked, in which all wolves in the vicinity will become hostile towards whoever attacked them. On Peaceful difficulty, they will not attack players‌. Wolves only drop experience upon death, but they can also be tamed with bones. Tamed wolves will follow the player unless told to sit, and will attack any mobs that attack the player, or if the player attacks them, with the exception of tamed mobs of the same owner.

See also

• Chest loot
• Difficulty
• Drops
• Structure
• Survival
• Tutorial:Beginner's guide

• Tutorial:Survival with no enabled data packs