Creeper Mob – Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains all about creepers with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about creepers in Minecraft.
Background
The following is a picture of what a creeper looks like in Minecraft:
| Hostility Level | Hostile Mob |
|---|---|
| Health Points | 20 health points x 10 |
| Where to Find | In the Overworld in light levels of 7 or less |
| Weapon |  TNT |
| Attack Method | Moves toward you, ignites its TNT and explodes |
| Drops |  0-2 Gunpowder Music Disc (if killed by skeleton) |
| Experience Points | 5 experience points |
Hostility Level (Hostile)
A creeper is a hostile mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, endermen, and creepers. Because a creeper is a hostile mob, it will attack you in Survival mode but not Creative mode.
Health Points
In Minecraft, a creeper has 10 hearts for health. This gives a creeper 20 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a creeper, you need to inflict 20 points of damage to the creeper.
Weapon
A creeper uses TNT as a weapon.
Attack Method
When a creeper attacks, it will ignite its TNT fuse, move towards you and then explode. The explosion will destroy nearby blocks. If you are close to the explosion, you will take damage too or even die.
Where to Find Creepers
In Minecraft, you can find creepers in most Overworld biomes in light levels of 7 or less. Creepers will spawn in the dark, usually at night. Once a creeper has spawned in the dark, it can survive in the daylight.
If you do not light your house, a creeper can spawn inside your house. So it is a good idea, to place torches inside your house so that creepers do not spawn there.
If you are having trouble finding a creeper, you can summon a creeper using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.
Drops
When you kill a creeper in Minecraft, it will drop gunpowder.
Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear. They are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.
TIP: If a skeleton kills a creeper, the creeper will drop a music disc.
Experience Points
As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.
These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a creeper, you will gain 5 experience points.
Charged Creeper
When a creeper is struck by lightning in Minecraft, the creeper is transformed into a charged creeper.
Creeper
Charged Creeper
Learn how to make a charged creeper in Minecraft.
Spawn Egg for Creeper
You can spawn a creeper using the following spawn egg:
Creeper Spawn Egg
Creeper Spawn EggThings to Do with Creepers
Here are some activities that you can do with creepers in Minecraft:
Command Examples
Here are some game command examples for a creeper in Minecraft:
NBT Tags for Creeper (Java Edition)
Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a creeper in Java Edition:
Spawn Events for Creeper (Bedrock/Education)
Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a creeper in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:
Creeper Seeds
You can use a seed to create a world where you spawn near a biome with creepers:
Other Mobs
Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:
Allay
Axolotl
Bat
Bee
Blaze
Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
Chicken
Cod
Cow
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
Ender Dragon
Enderman
Endermite
Evoker
Fox
Frog
Ghast
Giant
Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
Horse
Husk
Illusioner
Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
Llama
Magma Cube
Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
Parrot
Phantom
Pig
Piglin
Piglin Brute
Pillager
Polar Bear
Pufferfish
Rabbit
Ravager
Salmon
Sheep
Shulker
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
Snow Golem
Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
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