Mobs

                                                                             Mobs


Mobs are living, moving game entities, such as animals, monsters, bugs and others (such as Snow Golems and Villagers). Generally, mobs are affected by the environment in the same ways as the player—they are subject to physics, they can be hurt by catching on fire, falling, drowning, or suffocating, and they can even ride minecarts.
Mobs come to exist by spawning in various ways. As of version 1.1, players can spawn all mobs (except for Enderdragon, Snow Golems, Cats, Giants and Spider Jockeys) using Spawn Eggs in Creative mode.
Mobs are aware of players within 16 blocks of them, except for Ghast, which can see up to 100 blocks away and Endermen, which can see up to 64 blocks away.^[1]
The term "mob" is short for "mobile"^[2] and has been used as a general term referring to any moving entities in games since the first MUDs surfaced.


Utility
Utility mobs are created by and serve the player. They will never attack the player.

Snow Golem

Passive
Passive mobs will never attack the player.
All passive mobs require land to spawn on, except for Squid which spawn in water blocks.

Chicken	Cow	Mooshroom	Pig	Sheep	Squid	Villager

Neutral
Neutral mobs will not attack the player unless provoked. The act of provoking Neutral mobs varies between mobs.

Enderman	Wolf	Zombie Pigman

Hostile
Hostile mobs will attack the player when in range.
Cave Spiders, Creepers, Skeletons, Spiders, Spider Jockeys and Zombies require a light level of 7 or less to spawn.
All mobs' hostility levels are based on how they are spawned by default. Spiders may become neutral, but they do not spawn neutral.

Blaze

Cave Spider

Creeper

Ghast

Magma Cube

Silverfish

Skeleton

Slime

Blaze

Cave Spider

Creeper

Bosses
Boss mobs have more complicated attack patterns, movements and will also attack the player as well as very high health. Boss mobs only spawn once per world.

Ender Dragon

Planned, Unused, Removed, and Potential Mobs

Planned
Planned mobs are speculated to be added in a future version of Minecraft.

Cat	Fish	Ocelot	Pigman	Red Dragon

Unused
Unused mobs are found in the source, but are not being used at this time. Through hacking, it is still possible to spawn them.

Giant

Removed
Removed mobs have been removed from the game and can only be found in previous versions.

Beast Boy	Black Steve	Human	Rana	Steve