The Hostile Mobs, or also known as Monsters, or Enemies, are the main antagonists of the game Minecraft franchise, mainly in the game's default or modded Survival/Hardcore mode.
They are a group of evil mobs that are commonly only found in the game during nighttime in which they are trying to hunt and kill any players they see (Survival mode). Hostile mobs are the mobs in the game that are mean, genocidal, dark, murderous, and evil. Because of these encounters, the players are forced to fight them back in the middle of the night in order to protect themselves and their own house. They also oppose every innocent mobs in the game, either by killing them by homicide, genocide, and even through suicide (creepers).
The sound effects for them were provided by Daniel Rosenfeld in the 2009 video game.
Background[]
The Hostile Mobs are the player's main obstacles in the game's Survival Mode, commonly threatening them and invading their space. As night time progresses, these mobs will hunt down and kill the player on sight whenever they see one, and will cause destruction in their shelter. The player must have a secure shelter to protect themselves from the hostile mobs. The hostile mobs also attacks animals if the player is a nearby target to them. Zombies kill villagers too at nighttime, commonly known as a siege. When the sun rises, all of the undead hostile mobs will burn to death and creepers, spiders, etc. will despawn around the surface. As the player progresses in the game, they can also meet the hostile mobs while mining through caves, which makes it so hard to mine at caves. Some hostile mobs also spawn through dungeons.
In the Nether, new variety of hostile mobs can be seen, like zombie pigmen, ghasts, wither skeletons, piglins, hoglins, and magma cubes. Most of them are extremely hostile to the player if the player comes close.
In the End, Hostile mobs that can be seen are the Ender Dragon and Endermen, as the player fights the dragon, some endermen will also attack the player if the player mistakenly saw them in the eye. After the dragon was slained, the player finally 'beats' the game, and collect the dragon egg as a reward from their accomplishments. Once the player steps down the portal, the ending and the credits will finally scroll down.
Personality[]
Hostile mobs are often portrayed as the mean, genocidal, rude, cruel, sadistic, evil, villainous, murderous, dimwitted, weak, offensive, antagonistic, destructive and ruthless entities that the players always find during nighttime or even sometimes daytime. They will always find a way to make the players suffer miserably and will repeatedly make their lives difficult in Survival mode non-stop. They also sometimes work as a team so that they can bring the player together much more easily, and also they will also help the Illagers in raids, being much more of a challenge to all players.
Weaknesses[]
The Hostile Mobs have weaknesses as well, allowing the player to defeat them strategically.
- Sunlight: Zombies, Zombie Villagers, Drowned, Skeletons, Strays and Phantoms will burn when they are caught by sunlight and Creepers, Spiders, Witches and other overworld hostile mobs will despawn from the surface afterwards.
- Water: Endermen and Blazes hate water and take damage from it. When water touches them, Endermen will teleport and Blaze will try to escape.
- Waterless Environment: Some Underwater Mobs will suffocate when they can't swim underwater. Dolphins have this weakness.
- Drowning: Most Hostile Mobs will drown when they stay underwater (except Iron Golems, Undead Mobs, Guardians and Elder Guardians). Dolphins will drown if they stay underwater more than four minutes.
- Fire/Lava: Most Hostile Mobs will burn when they exposed are to it except some Hostile Mobs (Blazes, Wither Skeletons, Magma Cubes, Zombie Pigmen, Ghasts).
- Radiation: Piglins and Hoglins cannot survive in the overworld, and they'll become Zombified Piglins and Zoglins respectively after several seconds.
Trivia[]
- They are the darkest and most evilest enemies of the entire franchise, having more deadly and heinous crimes than every single Minecraft antagonists, despite being easy to defeat, they can also be strategic at times. They can even outsmart the player at times, and will not stop until they are totally finished. Their existence also played an important role why all humanity had banished before the main game's premise, making the Minecraft world feel more threatened, and even most passive, or neutral mobs, fear them (mostly villagers).cats can be hostile in real life.