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Witch

Mobs & entity

The Witch is a hostile mob that spawns naturally across 55 biomes, including Badlands, Bamboo Jungle, Beach, Birch Forest, and Cherry Grove. A spawn egg for it also exists.

Players defeat Witches for the items they drop: Glowstone Dust, Sugar, Spider Eyes, Glass Bottles, Gunpowder, and Sticks.

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

Animations

5 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.

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

Sounds

6 sound events for this mob, 22 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
ambientWitch gigglesentity.witch.ambientsubtitles.entity.witch.ambient10.9–116
celebrateWitch cheersentity.witch.celebratesubtitles.entity.witch.celebrate1116
deathWitch diesentity.witch.deathsubtitles.entity.witch.death1116
drinkWitch drinksentity.witch.drinksubtitles.entity.witch.drink1116
hurtWitch hurtsentity.witch.hurtsubtitles.entity.witch.hurt1116
throwWitch throwsentity.witch.throwsubtitles.entity.witch.throw1116

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 points26
Movement speed0.25
Hitbox size0.6 blocks wide, 1.9 blocks tall
Mob typewitch, monster, mob

Advancements

Advancements whose own criteria name this entry. Recipe-unlock entries are left out — they never appear on the player’s Advancements screen.

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.

Registry entry

Identifierminecraft:witch
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also