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Copper Golem

Mobs & entity

The Copper Golem is an entity in Minecraft. When it is killed, it drops a copper ingot. A spawn egg for the Copper Golem also exists.

Contents (8)
  1. Animations
  2. Gallery
  3. Sounds
  4. Stats
  5. History
  6. Registry entry
  7. Related items
  8. See also

Animations

4 of these were recorded inside the running game, so the movement is the animation Mojang shipped rather than an imitation of it. Transparent background, free to download.

Copper Golem, walking
WalkingDownload
Copper Golem, running
RunningDownload
Copper Golem, idle
IdleDownload
Copper Golem, taking damage
Taking damageDownload
Copper Golem, death
DeathDownload

4 variants of this mob, each animated. Rendered here from the game’s own model and textures.

Copper Golem, exposed
Exposed
Copper Golem, flower
Flower
Copper Golem, oxidized
Oxidized
Copper Golem, weathered
Weathered

Sounds

10 sound events for this mob, 27 files in all. Where an event lists more than one file the game picks one at random. Volume, pitch and attenuation are the values the game declares in its own sounds.json.

EventSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
deathCopper Golem diesentity.copper_golem.deathsubtitles.entity.copper_golem.death1116
hurtCopper Golem hurtsentity.copper_golem.hurtsubtitles.entity.copper_golem.hurt1116
item dropCopper Golem is placing an itementity.copper_golem.item_dropsubtitles.entity.copper_golem.item_drop1112
item no dropCopper Golem can't place itementity.copper_golem.item_no_dropsubtitles.entity.copper_golem.item_no_drop1112
no item getCopper Golem is picking up an itementity.copper_golem.no_item_getsubtitles.entity.copper_golem.no_item_get1112
no item no getCopper Golem can't pick up an itementity.copper_golem.no_item_no_getsubtitles.entity.copper_golem.no_item_no_get1112
shearShears clickentity.copper_golem.shearsubtitles.item.shears.shear1116
spawnCopper Golem appearsentity.copper_golem.spawnsubtitles.entity.copper_golem.spawn1116
spinCopper Golem's head spinsentity.copper_golem.spinsubtitles.entity.copper_golem.spin1112
stepFootstepsentity.copper_golem.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps1112

Stats

Mojang publishes these numbers in the Bedrock behaviour pack (bedrock-samples); the Java edition keeps them in code, not in any data file. Most values match across editions, but not all — treat them as the Bedrock figures.

Health points12
Attack strength2
Movement speed0.2
Hitbox size0.6 blocks wide, 0.98 blocks tall
Mob typecopper golem, mob

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
25w31a29 July 2025Added.

Registry entry

Identifierminecraft:copper_golem
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also