Blaze

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A blaze is a fiery hostile mob found in Nether fortresses and is the only source of blaze rods. A blaze attacks by floating upward and shooting fireballs at its target in volleys of three at a time. It can also attack its target in melee range with its spinning rods.

Blazes may spawn naturally in Nether fortresses in groups of 2 or 3‌^{[JE only]} and from 1 to 3‌^{[BE only]} at a light level of 11 or less.

Blazes may also spawn from monster spawners in Nether fortresses. Two spawners generate in every Nether fortress and are located on small platforms surrounded by Nether brick fences with a three-block staircase leading up to it.

Spawning conditions for blazes:

• In the structure bounding box of any single piece of the Nether fortress, they can spawn on any block
• In the larger area bounding box of the entire Nether fortress, they can spawn exclusively on Nether bricks

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

10XP experience orbs are dropped if killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Blazes can fly and are immune to damage from fire and lava. When not attacking, they stay on the ground or slowly sink through the air. When idle, blazes attempt to swim upward in lava or water in Bedrock Edition but sink in Java Edition. Despite taking damage from water, blazes make no attempt to protect themselves if pushed or dropped into water. Their pathfinding does not avoid fire or lava but does avoid water.

Blazes take 5HP👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
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freezing damage from powder snow.

Blazes take 3HP👁 ❤️
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damage when hit by a snowball and 1HP👁 💔
damage when hit by a splash water bottle.

Like endermen, blazes are damaged by rain by 1HP👁 💔
every half second.

The entire blaze texture appears brighter in Bedrock Edition, similar to the drowned's eyes. With Vibrant Visuals, blazes and their fire are actually emissive and glowing, with the side-effect that the environment around a blaze darkens when looking at it.

Blazes target players within 48 blocks. If a blaze is damaged by a player or another mob, it alerts other blazes within 48 blocks to target the attacker. A blaze flies when it acquires a target, slowly approaching while attempting to remain from 0.5 to 3.5 blocks above the target.

A blaze's normal attack is a trio of small fireballs, shot from up to 48 blocks. Unlike with the ghast or breeze, a blaze's projectiles cannot be deflected, but can be blocked with a shield. A blaze shoots only when it has a clear line of sight to its target. If line of sight is broken in the middle of its volley, the blaze suspends the remainder of its volley until line of sight returns. When using this attack, the blaze burns with fire for 3 seconds, shoots 3 small fireballs over the course of 0.9 seconds, then extinguishes its flames and waits for 5 seconds before attacking again. A blaze shoots its small fireballs with roughly the same lack of accuracy as a dispenser; however, the blaze's shots maintain the same speed all the way to the target, unlike the dispenser's, which start slow and accelerate. If a neutral or hostile mob is accidentally hit by a fireball, the mob will retaliate against the blaze.

A blaze that touches its target performs a melee attack once per second that does 4HP👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
damage on Easy difficulty, 6HP👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
on Normal, and 9HP👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
👁 💔
on Hard. This attack is not considered fire damage and does not ignite the target, and as such cannot be prevented by the Fire Resistance status effect.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Blazes have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Issues relating to "Blaze" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• When throwing a potion of Invisibility on a blaze, the smoke remains visible.
• According to Jens Bergensten, blazes look the way they do because all mobs in Minecraft are cuboid-shape, so to make them flame-like and magical, he created them as a core surrounded by rotating rods.^[5]
• Blazes originally didn't have eyes when Jens Bergensten was first creating them and "just looked like a yellow rock". Eyes were added to give it more personality.^[6]
• Despite not having visible feet, blazes are still capable of making footstep sounds.^[7]
• According to Minecraft's "Visit the Nether!" blazes are sentient beings made of pure lava. The article theorizes they were created by the original inhabitants of Nether fortresses to serve as guards, but their creators lost control over the blazes and were subsequently destroyed by them.^[8]

• On the official T-shirt "Alchemy" by JINX, the blaze is in the form of the Vitruvian Man and the text uses the Standard Galactic Alphabet. The words on the outside of the ring translate to: "nigredo", "albedo", "citrinitas", and "rubedo",^{[note 1]} which are all relating to magnum opus. The words on the ring translate to (starting from the top): "B * Crowmer", "poison * speed", "strength * resist" [sic], "vision * heal", and "regeneration" relating to potions and probably the artist's name. On the connecting lines the words translate to: "potln of thickness" [sic], "potln of awkward" [sic], "weakness potion" and "mundane potion" relating to base potions.
• As part of an official collaboration, blazes are included as monsters in a free add-on for the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons.^[9] In the game, they are "Elementals" and have the alignment "Typically Neutral Evil."
• In Minecraft: Mobspotter's Encyclopedia, blazes are depicted using the smoke particles used for campfires instead of their traditional ones.

• 👁 A blaze without particles.
  
  A blaze without particles.
• 👁 Animated version
  
  Animated version
• 👁 A blaze spawner platform with blazes.
  
  A blaze spawner platform with blazes.
• 👁 Blaze spawner
  
  Blaze spawner

• 👁 A close up look at a blaze spawner in a Nether fortress.
  
  A close up look at a blaze spawner in a Nether fortress.
• 👁 Zoomed out view of the blaze spawner, showing the spawner area and a spawned blaze.
  
  Zoomed out view of the blaze spawner, showing the spawner area and a spawned blaze.
• 👁 Multiple blazes shooting small fireballs at the player as they hover around their spawner.
  
  Multiple blazes shooting small fireballs at the player as they hover around their spawner.
• 👁 A Blaze that was spawned in the Overworld is taking damage from rainy weather.
  
  A Blaze that was spawned in the Overworld is taking damage from rainy weather.
• 👁 Disabling a blaze spawner with 9 glowstone blocks. Glowstone can be replaced with other light sources of light level 15.
  
  Disabling a blaze spawner with 9 glowstone blocks. Glowstone can be replaced with other light sources of light level 15.
• 👁 A triggered blaze preparing to attack who still hasn't flown.
  
  A triggered blaze preparing to attack who still hasn't flown.
• 👁 A triggered blaze preparing to attack with fire around it, floating on the wall of a Nether fortress.
  
  A triggered blaze preparing to attack with fire around it, floating on the wall of a Nether fortress.
• 👁 A blaze and a wither skeleton idling in a Nether fortress.
  
  A blaze and a wither skeleton idling in a Nether fortress.
• 👁 Two blazes spawned near a blaze spawner and a wither skeleton.
  
  Two blazes spawned near a blaze spawner and a wither skeleton.
• 👁 Blazes spawned by a spawner.
  
  Blazes spawned by a spawner.
• 👁 A comparison of a blaze and a breeze.
  
  A comparison of a blaze and a breeze.

• 👁 "Kai fighting off Blazes in a Basalt Delta, aiming their shield up toward a Blaze to block their projectile."[10]
  
  "Kai fighting off Blazes in a Basalt Delta, aiming their shield up toward a Blaze to block their projectile."^[10]
• 👁 Screenshot of blazes.
  
  Screenshot of blazes.

• 👁 Blaze texture file.
  
  Blaze texture file.

• 👁 A blaze with hidden pixels revealed by disabling the alpha channel.[verify]
  
  A blaze with hidden pixels revealed by disabling the alpha channel.^[verify]
• 👁 The old texture if the hidden pixels are revealed by disabling the alpha channel
  
  The old texture if the hidden pixels are revealed by disabling the alpha channel

• 👁 Artwork of a blaze
  
  Artwork of a blaze
• 👁 Blaze Parkour, an attraction set on a giant blaze in Realms Celebration.
  
  Blaze Parkour, an attraction set on a giant blaze in Realms Celebration.
• 👁 An official blaze action figure.
  
  An official blaze action figure.
• 👁 Official LEGO Blaze minifigure.
  
  Official LEGO Blaze minifigure.
• 👁 Official T-shirt artwork "Alchemy" featuring a blaze. Made by JINX.
  
  Official T-shirt artwork "Alchemy" featuring a blaze. Made by JINX.
• 👁 Official blaze statistics for D&D.
  
  Official blaze statistics for D&D.
• 👁 A Blaze Head for the Xbox 360 avatar.
  
  A Blaze Head for the Xbox 360 avatar.

• "Meet the Blaze" by Marsh Davies – Minecraft.net, December 20, 2016.
• "Mob Menagerie: Blaze" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, March 6, 2025.