Creeper

Hostile Mob

Health Points: 20

Attack Strength: Regular: Easy: 22

                                              Normal: 43

                                              Hard: 64

                              Charged: Easy: 43.5

                                               Normal: 85

                                               Hard: 127.5

Creepers are found spawning in all Overworld biomes (except Mushroom Fields and the Deep Dark) at light levels of 0. They will silently sneak up on the player, and once they within three blocks they will start hissing, exploding 1.5 seconds later. The explosion can be avoided if the player manages to quickly get out of the blast radius. When killed, a creeper will drop 0-2 gunpowder, and 5 experience if they were killed by a player or a tamed wolf. They will also drop a music disc if they are killed by a skeleton, or a creeper head if they are killed by a charged creeper.

Creepers will flee from cats and ocelots, and will be attacked by goats. Using a flint and steel on a creeper will force an explosion.

Creeper Variants

A charged creeper appears when lightning strikes within four blocks of a regular creeper. The charged creeper's explosion is twice as powerful as the regular creeper's. If a zombie, skeleton, creeper, piglin, or wither skeleton is killed by a charged creeper's explosion, they will drop a mob head. In Java Edition, if a charged creeper's explosion kills more than one mob, only one of them will drop a head. In Bedrock Edition, if a charged creeper's explosion kills more than one mob, all of them will drop a head.