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• Can only be spawned by placing 4 blocks of soul sand in a T shape, and putting 3 wither skeleton skulls on top of the three upper blocks (see image below).

• Nether Star (1)
• 50 (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

• Three-headed flying player-created boss mob shooting projectiles at any mob (that isn't undead) and players
• After spawning, it flashes blue, builds up health, grows slightly and is invincible for a few seconds - Then it explodes and starts attacking players and mobs
• Each head can fire projectiles, so-called wither skulls, at different targets
  • Shoots two kinds of projectiles - a blue one from the little heads, targeting mobs and a dark one from the big head targeting players
  • When hit by projectiles, players get the wither II effect, which acts like a slower Poison effect that can kill and turns affected players' health bars' hearts black
• Constantly regenerates health
• Gains 'wither armor' when taken down to half health, making it immune to arrows
• Darkens the sky when spawned in the Overworld

• Nether Fortress

• Coal (0–1)
• Bone (0–2)

5, plus 1–3 per equipment piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

Rare Drops

• Wither Skeleton Skull

Spawned Equipment

• Stone Sword

• Give players wither effect when hitting them
• Will rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools
  • Items that are picked up will have a 100% chance of dropping after dying
• More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players

• Anywhere in the overworld where the light level is 7 or less

• Rotten Flesh (100% chance)
• Iron Ingot (2.5% chance)
• Carrot (2.5% chance)
• Potato (2.5% chance)
• 5, plus 1–3 per equipment piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

• Have a 5% chance of spawning instead of a normal zombie.
• Have a chance of spawning when a villager is killed by a zombie (0% chance in easy, 50% chance in normal, 100% chance in hard).
• Can be cured into a villager using a golden apple and a splash potion of weakness.
• Have the same bodies as normal zombies, only the head is different.

• Anywhere in the overworld where the light level is 7 or less

• Rotten Flesh (100% chance)
• Iron Ingot (2.5% chance)
• Carrot (2.5% chance)
• Potato (2.5% chance)
• 12, plus 1–3 per equipment piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

• Smaller and faster than normal zombies.

• Swamp
• Witch Hut

• Glass Bottle (12.5% chance)
• Glowstone Dust (12.5% chance)
• Gunpowder (12.5% chance)
• Redstone (12.5% chance)
• Spider Eye (12.5% chance)
• Sugar (12.5% chance)
• Stick (25% chance)
• 5 (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

They make 1–3 drops of 0–2 items each, for a maximum of 6 items total.

• Throws splash potions of poison, slowness, weakness, and instant damage at players

• Spawn in groups of two in the Overworld at a light level of 3 or less on opaque blocks below layer 63.
  • Between October 20 and November 3, they only require a light level of 6 or less to spawn.
  • On Superflat worlds, bats spawn below the top non-air layer, ignoring the usual layer-63 limitation.

• Hang on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near
• Sleep during the day
• Don't trigger pressure plates or tripwire

• Only obtainable using /give <playername> 137

• Cannot be broken in Survival mode nor without operator permissions

• Runs editable commands when triggered by redstone
• Intended for adventure maps
• Can only be edited by operators in Creative mode, as long as enable-command-block in server.properties is enabled

• Any
  • It will always take exactly 4.5 seconds to break it, regardless of tool used

• Continuously glows and gives a selected status effect to players within a set amount of blocks while beaming a beacon of light directly upwards
• Activated by building a solid pyramid of iron/gold/emerald/diamond blocks underneath (can be used interchangeably) and selecting an effect
  • The cheapest configuration requires 9 blocks (one layer), while the best configuration requires 164 blocks (four layers)
• Unlockable effects, with increasing amounts of required layers of blocks
• When all 4 layers of blocks underneath are built correctly, a second status effect can be chosen

• Pickaxe

• Used for repairing and combining enchanted items as well as for renaming any block or item at the cost of experience levels
  • Tools can also be repaired using one piece of their material
  • Enchantments that are the same are upgraded by one level as long as they are both the same level and the higher level exists
    • Conflicting enchantments will be removed and only the first one will be kept
• Becomes damaged from using and dropping it
  • Damage persists in the inventory and splits up into 3 categories: Anvil, Slightly Damaged Anvil & Very Damaged Anvil

• Any

• Lets players plant all kinds of saplings, mushrooms, flowers, cacti, dead shrubs and ferns
  • Right-click it with something to plant it, hit it to get both back

• Pickaxe

• Available in cobblestone and mossy cobblestone variants
• Behave like fences - Connect to each other, to other blocks and to fence gates & have a 1.5 blocks high collision box
• Have a different, higher shape in corners and when blocks are placed on them

• Wither skeletons have a 2.5% chance of dropping a wither skeleton skull when killed by a player or tamed wolf
  • All other heads are only obtainable from the creative inventory

• Any
  • If a player head has a custom skin, the skin will be preserved when broken.

• Can be put on the ground in 16 orientations and hung on walls
• Can be worn

• Axe

• Unlike stone buttons, can be activated by arrows
• When pressed, will stay activated longer that stone buttons

• Created by planting carrots and potatoes on farmland.

• Any

• Drop multiple carrots or potatoes when fully grown.

• Pickaxe

• Can be used as a building block
• Added in 1.4.6

• When the computer's clock is set to a date between December 24 and 26, Chests and Ender Chests^[verify] become retextured to look like presents.
• Added in 1.4.6.

• Potatoes can be obtained by farming, as drops (from zombies and zombie villagers), or from chest loot^[verify]
• Poisonous potatoes rarely drop when farming potatoes

• Potatoes can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 1-4 potatoes when fully grown
  • Can be grown instantly using bone meal
• Poisonous potatoes have a 60% chance to poison the player when eaten
• Potatoes restore 1 () hunger and 0.6 saturation
• Poisonous potatoes restore 2 () hunger and 1.2 saturation
• Baked potatoes restore 6 () hunger and 6 saturation

• Carrots can be obtained by farming, as drops (from zombies, husks, and zombie villagers), or from chest loot

• Carrots can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 2-4 carrots when fully grown
  • Can be grown instantly using bone meal
• Carrots restore 4 () hunger and 3.6 saturation
• Golden carrots restore 6 () hunger and 14.4 saturation

• Used to control pigs
  • When held, it dictates the direction pigs players are riding will head in
• Nearby pigs flock towards players holding it
• Pigs start slow but end up going about 5 blocks per second
• Slowly loses durability when riding pigs
• The pigs 'eat' the carrot eventually, leaving the player a fishing rod and will require another carrot to continue riding
• Can be used to give the pig a short speed boost
  • This takes up a chunk of the durability

• Restores 8 () hunger and 4.8 saturation

• Drops from the new wither

• Used to craft the new beacon
• Glows like an enchanted item
• When dropped, it cannot be destroyed by explosions and will take more than twice as long to despawn than other items
  • However, it can still be destroyed by fire, lava, and cacti

• Has a chance to drop when a skeleton kills a creeper.

• Plays the song "Wait" by C418.
• Added in 1.4.4.

• Created by enchanting a book using an Enchanting Table.

• Used to apply enchantments to items using an Anvil.
• Added in 1.4.6.

• Projectiles which can be launched into the air and explode.
• added in 1.4.6.

• Used to determine the color and shape of firework explosions.
• Added in 1.4.6.

• Available in the creative inventory.

• Can be used to spawn the respective mob.

• Can now drop from creepers killed by skeletons like other music discs.

• Night Vision

• Invisibility

• Item Frame (and any item in it)

• All items and blocks can be framed
• Clocks, compasses and maps function
  • Maps show only one marker, the frame itself
  • Mounted maps are marked on copies of the map

• Added a new painting depicting the creation of the Wither.
• This is the only painting not based on a real painting by Kristoffer Zetterstrand, and is also the only painting to have been added in a post-release version so far.

• Generates in Swamp biomes

• None

• Witch

• The witch hut is a structure, which is the only place where witches spawn naturally. The structure consists mainly of spruce planks and oak logs, and has a cauldron and a crafting table inside it

• Damages attackers.

• Added sounds

• Added sounds for placing blocks

• Added sounds for walking on the block

• Added sounds for curing, infecting, and a remedy sound

• Added sounds for setting things on fire

• Added sounds for shearing sheep

• Added sounds for climbing ladders

• Added sounds for riding minecarts

• Added a sound for leveling up, which is played every five levels

• Added constant noise to liquids