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Lightning Bolt

Mobs & entity

The Lightning Bolt is an entity in Minecraft.

Contents (5)
  1. Sounds
  2. Stats
  3. History
  4. Registry entry
  5. See also

Sounds

2 sound events for this mob, 7 files in all. Where an event lists more than one file the game picks one at random.

EventSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
impactLightning strikesentity.lightning_bolt.impactsubtitles.entity.lightning_bolt.impact
thunderThunder roarsentity.lightning_bolt.thundersubtitles.entity.lightning_bolt.thunder

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.

Mob typelightning

History

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

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w50a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w50a (12 December 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.
18w20a15 May 2018Display name changed from “Bolt of Lightning” to “Lightning Bolt”.

Registry entry

Identifierminecraft:lightning_bolt
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also