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Everything You Need To Know About SKELETONS In Minecraft!

Step 3: Zombie / Zombie Villagers / Chicken Jockey

Facts about Zombies:

Will spawn in the dark and, unlike a Creeper, will light on fire in daylight

Most common hostile mob in the game

Fights by hitting you

Have variations including a Zombie Villager and Baby Zombie

Can spawn using weapons and wearing armor

Zombie Villagers can be cured with a potion

When killed, can drop the following; Most likely: Rotten Flesh; Rarely: Carrots, Potatoes, and Iron Ingots

Can pick up items you drop

Facts about Baby Zombies:

Will create a Chicken Jockey if it rides a chicken

Runs faster than normal Zombies

Wont burn in sunlight like normal Zombies

Can fit through 1 by 1 gaps

Fighting a Zombie:

Can be fought with any weapon. If attacking with a sword, you can stand one block above it and this will make it less likely that the zombie will be able to hit you as long as you continuously attack him until he is killed.

Step 13: Magma Cube

Facts about Magma Cube:

Found in the Nether

Appears as a cube and when confronted, separates into 8 layers

When killed, can drop: Magma Cream

When killed, will release 2 to 4 smaller versions of itself

Is not burned by fire or lava

Fighting Magma Cubes:

The large Magma Cube is difficult to kill with just a sword, it is best to use a bow from a distance. Once it is broken up into smaller cubes you can more easily kill them with melee attacks.

With the usage of a shield, skeletons can be killed easily. When they are drawing their bow, quickly attack it, preferably with an axe, as it deals more damage per hit than a sword. It is best not to use a sword with knockback enchantment, as the skeleton will have more chances to shoot.

If caught in the water when fighting a skeleton, it is best to retreat or use a bow instead of attempting to swim to it, as the constant barrage of arrows is more difficult to avoid while swimming and can easily knock a player back. An exception to this is when a player has boots with depth strider on, as this will allow the player to get close enough to the skeleton to strike with a sword. This works best if the player dives underwater. They will be mostly insulated from the skeletons arrows by the water, allowing them to hit the skeleton from underwater.

Like zombies, skeletons spawn in the darkness and have a chance of spawning with armor. They also burn in sunlight and take fire damage unless in the shade, water, or wearing a helmet. Skeletons seek shade when exposed to the Sun so that they dont burn in the daylight. When a skeletons arrow hits another hostile mob (except creepers and with the aid of a player to distract the skeleton), the other mob may attack the skeleton, and, if provoked, neither mob will attack a player until one of them dies. Skeletons themselves will also turn on any other hostile mobs that hit them, including other skeletons. Unlike most other mobs, skeletons are able to spawn naturally in both the Overworld and in the Nether, where they can spawn in Nether Fortresses in place of wither skeletons 20% of the time.

Wither skeletons spawn exclusively in the Nether fortresses located in the Nether, alongside with blazes. Wither skeletons spawn holding a stone sword, immune to fire damage, tall and black, as well as inflicting the wither effect. They are the only mob that can drop its head without the use of a charged creeper, though it is very rare. Like skeletons, they can also ride spiders making a Wither skeleton jockey.

Dig a 4×4 area 1 block deep hole with no corners. Fill the holes with sticky pistons. Then, go inside to the center of the hole and place down pressure plates inside the trap, then put dirt blocks on top of the sticky pistons and make a 3×3 roof 3 blocks above the ground inside it so the skeletons will go inside when its day. Wait until a skeleton spawns. When the sun rises itll go inside, and when they step on the pressure plates the sticky piston activates, trapping them inside. The skeleton will jump up and hit their heads until they die. (Note: You may need to break one of the pressure plates when getting the loot so you dont get trapped inside)

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