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Hostile · Melee

Minecraft Magma Cube

Magma Cube has 1–16 health points (0.5–8 hearts). Find damage, all drops and their chances, spawn biomes, and ready-to-use /summon commands for Java and Bedrock here.

Built by Florian Galz

English: Magma Cube · Data from Java 26.3 and Bedrock 1.26.50.4.

Want to test Magma Cube? Try it on your own server with cheats enabled.

Health

Hostile

1–16

Magma Cube has 1–16 health points, or 0.5–8 hearts. Attacks you as soon as it sees you.

Damage

–

no fixed value

Attack

Melee

Armor

0

Spawns in

Nether

Values by size

SizeHealthDamage
Small13
Medium44
Large166

Drops

  • Magma Cream

    +1 per Looting level · only for certain variants or sizes

    0–1 items

  • Pearlescent Froglight

    only if killed by: Frog

    1 items

  • Verdant Froglight

    only if killed by: Frog

    1 items

  • Ochre Froglight

    only if killed by: Frog

    1 items

Looting on your sword increases the quantity and chance with each level.

Spawn

Nether

In structures: Nether Fortress (Group 4)

BiomeShareGroup
Basalt Deltas71.4 %1
Nether Wastes1.2 %4

Share = this mob's weight among all mobs in the same category in the biome.

/summon command

Spawns the mob at your position. Works in chat with cheats enabled, or in the server console with coordinates instead of ~ ~ ~.

/summon minecraft:magma_cube ~ ~ ~

Discover more

More mobs: Hostile

Other mobs with the same behavior.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about Magma Cube.

In Java Edition, Magma Cube has 1–16 health points, or 0.5–8 hearts. In Bedrock, it has 1–16 health points.

When killed, Magma Cube drops no items.

In Java Edition, Magma Cube spawns in these biomes, among others: Basalt Deltas, Nether Wastes. The full list, including spawn rates and group sizes, is above.

With cheats enabled, enter /summon minecraft:magma_cube ~ ~ ~ in Java Edition. In Bedrock, the command is /summon magma_cube ~ ~ ~.

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