Behavior
Iron golems are 2.7 blocks tall and 1.4 blocks wide.
Iron golems will wander around a village in a patrol-like fashion, staying close to the edges of buildings and other structures. Like villagers, iron golems will not wander away from a village, regardless of how they were spawned. Iron golems will sometimes face a villager, as if they are speaking to each other. Iron golems are able to spawn poppies in their hands and offer them to villagers, symbolizing the friendly relationship between the villagers and golems. Be that as it may, they won`t spawn and offer poppies to other iron golems.
If not within a village, iron golems will slowly wander aimlessly.
Iron golems can walk up a full block height without jumping and walk over a 1 block wide hole without falling in. They will avoid water, lava, fire and cacti. Iron golems are immune to both drowning and fall damage. When in water, they will sink, immobilize, and become passive, but will still be pushed by flowing water.
Like all utility mobs, iron golems can be leashed.
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“ | ... There`s at least one giant reason not to mess with villagers. Their loyal defenders that can`t drown, suffer pain from falling or even be knocked back. Sentient statues that deal huge damage with just a single swing of their mighty arms. We pity you if you`re caught attacking villagers – we really do – because then you`ve just made an enemy of the Iron Golem. Don`t be surprised if that`s the last thing you ever do – they`re one of the hardest hitting mobs in the Overworld. | „ | |
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Iron golems are large, strong utility mobs "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of that defend villagers Villager Health points 20 () Size Adult: Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks Spawn Village When a zombie villager is cured First appearances See History Drops None Experience .
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Trivia
- The iron golem`s holding out flowers to villagers, and their being covered in vines, are references to the ancient robots in Hayao Miyazaki`s animated film Laputa: Castle in the Sky.
- When villager children notice the poppy in its hand, they will slowly approach, and take the flower eventually. Iron golems do not actually pick up poppies; they spawn them in their hands.
- Tamed wolves will continue to attack iron golems even after the iron golems have turned passive towards the player.
- If a player throws an ender pearl at an iron golem, it will become hostile.
- Even with a poppy in its hands, an iron golem can still hit a hostile mob.
- If an iron golem is in a boat, no other entities except for a player can ride as a passenger or control the boat.
Villages
Golems will spawn in a 16ℂₗ6ℂₗ16 area, centered vertically and horizontally between the bases of the 21 or more valid doors in a village if it has at least 10 villagers. The chance of spawning is 1 in 7000 per game tick Nearly all video games (including Minecraft) are driven by one big program loop. Just as every gear in a clock is synchronized with the pendulum, every task involved in advancing a game simulation is synchronized , which averages around one every six minutes. Iron golems can spawn provided the blocks it spawns in are transparent and the block it spawns on top of has a solid surface. The maximum number of golems that can be in a single village is one-tenth the number of villagers in that village, provided that the door requirement is met.
Creation
The golem can also be constructed by placing blocks in a similar fashion to snow golems Snow Golem Health points 4 () Attack strength 0 () (only pushes mobs back) 3 () to Blaze Size Height: 1.9 Blocks Width: 0.7 Blocks Spawn Where created by the player First appearances See History and withers Wither Health points 300 ( × 150) 600 ( × 300) Pocket edition only] Armor points 4 () Attack strength Easy: 5 () Normal: 8 () Hard: 12 () Size Height: 3.5 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Spawn . It is created by placing four blocks of iron Block of Iron Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 30 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 42 hex: 2A bin: 101010 Name iron_block See the solid Blocks of in a T shape (as shown in the image), and then placing a pumpkin or jack o`lantern Jack o Lantern Transparency Partial (blocks light) Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 91 hex: 5B bin: 1011011 Name lit_pumpkin “ Jack-o -lanterns: great looks, super powers. on top of the center upper block. The pumpkin may be placed by the player, by a dispenser or by a pumpkin stem, but it must be placed last.
The block arrangement can be placed upright, lying down, or upside-down. The four empty spaces in the diagram (above and below each of the arms) must be air blocks. Any non-air block (including blocks such as snow, tall grass, and water) present in any of the empty spaces will prevent the golem from spawning.
Like other constructed mobs, iron golems always spawn facing south. Their large size may cause them to take suffocation damage from nearby solid blocks at the level of their head.
Drops
- See also: Tutorials/Iron golem farming
Iron golems drop 3⃢₀ₓ5 iron ingots and 0⃢₀ₓ2 poppies upon death.
The Looting enchantment is ineffective against iron golems as it does not give any extra iron ingots or poppies when killed.
Attacking
When provoked, an iron golem will move quickly toward its target and once in range will swing its arms up violently to attack, dealing 7 () to 21 ( ⃗ 10.5) damage and flinging the target into the air. This attack is potentially the 3rd strongest Overworld attack in the game, beaten only by the explosion of a creeper or charged creeper. Iron golems have a comparatively large attack range, allowing them to attack through a solid 1 block thick wall, even without a line of sight to the target.
Iron golems have a chance of accidentally hitting another mob while attacking a hostile mob. Additionally, it is possible for multiple golems to simultaneously hit the same target. The height to which the victim is sent flying is relative to the number of golems that attack it.
Iron golems will attack any hostile or neutral mob within 16 blocks of them with some exceptions.
Prerequisite for attack | Mobs |
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Iron golems always attack | |
Iron golems never attack |
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Iron golems attack only in retaliation |
- ↑ The iron golem doesn`t attack the chicken on purpose, but it occasionally is hit when the golem is hitting the baby zombie.
- ↑ An iron golem will try to attack the dragon, but can never reach it. Once the dragon flies far enough the golem loses its interest.
- ↑ Naturally spawned iron golems will attack the player if the player attacks them first, but will give up if the player moves out of their search radius. The iron golem will also attack the player if they attack a nearby villager, and does not have to directly see the player to become hostile. They will automatically attack any players with a popularity of -15 or lower. Any iron golems built by the player will never attack players under any circumstances, but will still protect villagers from zombies.
Being attacked
Zombies, skeletons, spiders, cave spiders, slimes, and magma cubes will naturally attack iron golems on sight, and may cause major damage, especially if the mobs attack in groups. If an iron golem is attacked by multiple mobs, it will retaliate in the order it was attacked.
Iron golems have 100% knockback resistance.Javaedition only
Data values
- See also: Chunk format
Iron golems have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is villager_golem
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Entity data- Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
- Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
PlayerCreated: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if this golem was created by a player. If true, the golem will never attack the player.
Achievements
Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Availability | Xbox points earned | Trophy type (PS) | |||
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Xbox | PS | Wii U | |||||||
Body Guard | Create an Iron Golem. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 20G | Bronze |
Advancements
Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Internal ID |
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Hired Help | Summon an Iron Golem to help defend a village | What a Deal! | Summon an iron golem. | minecraft:adventure/summon_iron_golem |
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History
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1.2.1 | 12w08a | Added iron golems, one may spawn in a village for every 16 villagers Villager Health points 20 () Size Adult: Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks Spawn Village When a zombie villager is cured First appearances See History Drops None Experience . | |||
“This was made by me and Jon K⃥gstrm. We were thinking about how to get the Villagers to defend themselves, since they don’t have arms. The design was inspired very much by the Japanese Studio Ghibli movie with the giant The Castle in the Sky. It also has this flower. When I was making the model, I realised it was much harder to draw a texture for it – the larger it is, it gets more detailed. But it’s become quite iconic – it’s very emblematic of Minecraft now. We made it look like the Villagers, because obviously the Villagers would create a golem which would resemble themselves.” – Jeb | |||||
1.2-pre | Added mechanical and stomping sounds for the iron golem. | ||||
1.4.2 | 12w32a | Iron golems will now attack slimes and magma cubes | |||
1.4.2 | One golem can now spawn for every 10 villagers in a village. | ||||
1.7.2 | 13w36a | As roses were replaced with poppies, the iron golem`s drop was therefore changed. | |||
1.8 | 14w03a | Now only drop iron when killed by the player, either through combat, potions, or player-activated mechanisms such as manually lit TNT. If killed without player intervention, only drop poppies. | |||
14w04a | The previous change was reverted; iron golems always drop iron ingots again. | ||||
Iron golems can now be spawned by dispensing a pumpkin. | |||||
14w25a | Iron golems can now be built sideways and upside-down instead of just upright. | ||||
14w26c | Jack o`lanterns can no longer be used to build iron golems. | ||||
14w33a | Zombies, skeletons, creepers, spiders, cave spiders, slimes, magma cubes and blazes now attack iron golems without provocation. | ||||
1.8.1 | 1.8.1-pre1 | Jack o`lanterns can be used to build iron golems again. | |||
Creepers no longer attack iron golems. | |||||
1.9 | 15w39a | Iron golems are slightly shorter (2.7 blocks tall rather than 2.9). | |||
15w46a | Iron golems now spawn with 100% knockback resistance. | ||||
1.11 | 16w32a | The entity ID is changed from VillagerGolem to villager_golem . | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
0.12.1 | build 1 | Added iron golems. | |||
0.16.0 | build 4 | Will now damage player in peaceful difficulty. | |||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.0 | ? | Iron golems no longer attack player in peaceful difficulty. | |||
1.1 | build 1 | The entity ID is changed from irongolem to iron_golem . | |||
Console Edition | |||||
TU12 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added iron golems. |
Issues
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Publicity
- The iron golem is a purchasable avatar item on the Xbox 360 Marketplace.
Gallery
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An iron golem attacking a spider by throwing it into the air.