Blaze

Blaze
Type:	Hostile
Drops:	0-1 Blaze rods, 0-3 Glowstone dust and 0-2 Charcoal.
Identifier:	blaze

The blaze is a hostile levitating creature that appears in the nether dimension.

This mob has 20 ( × 10) health and will drop blaze rod when killed.

Spawning

The blaze can spawn anywhere in the nether, on netherrack.

Commands

A Blaze can be spawned in another way besides its respective spawn egg, with the command /summon blaze you can spawn it.

In addition to that you can add data tags to customize the blaze. examples:

• /summon blaze 1 ~ ~ {name:"blaze powder", defaultDrops:0, drops:[{item:{id:"blaze_powder"}, quantity:3, onFire:1}]}

• /summon blaze 1 ~ ~ {name:"blaze quantum", health:60, defaultDrops:false, drops:[{item:{id:"ender_pearl"}, quantity:1}]}

Drops

The blaze drops experience points when it dies.

When a blaze dies, it will drop 0-1 blaze rods, 0-3 glowstone dust and 0-2 charcoal.

Crafting

Crafting with the blaze drop:

Blaze Powder	Brewing Stand	Glowstone	Torch
2			4

Behavior

Blazes can fly and randomly float around, aimlessly, giving off smoke particles. However, when they come into proximity of the player, their head will catch on fire, and they will start shooting fireballs at the player, which causing small explosions that do no damage to blocks, only entities (fireballs deal 7 () damage). They also have a melee attack, dealing half 2 () heart of damage a second.

Tasks

Number	Icon[ng]	Name	Newgrounds name	Description [ng]	Objective	Points[ng]	Requirements
20		Slay a blaze	Kill a Blaze	They will shoot fireballs at you like crazy!	Kill a blaze	5

History

Version	Date	Changes
1.23	Oct 31, 2012	Added the blaze. Drop blaze rods. Blaze powder.
1.27	Nov 13, 2015	Blazes now drop charcoal instead of bedrock. Blaze fireballs no longer hurt the blaze that shot it.
1.28	Oct 8, 2016	Fixed blaze fireballs
1.30.3b	Nov 21, 2021	Fixed blazes now drop glowstone dust instead of bedrock

Bugs

• 1.30: Blaze can drop Bedrock upon death, but cannot be picked up by the player.

Trivia

• The rods you get from killing a blaze are the rods that fly around it.
• The closer a blaze fires at you, the more damage the fireballs will do.

Gallery

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  A blaze shooting at a player.

See Also

• Mobs
• Blaze rod
• Nether