My son has built a mob 'generator' which relies on this principle to draw the mobs to the surface where they die and deposit their goodies for him to collect. As you are typing, you will see the command appear in the lower left corner of the game window. When mobs enter water they swim to the surface. In this example, we will summon a skeleton in Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.14 with the following command: /summon skeleton. Here's a snapshot of a small one I built beside my house, with a crossing point for players. These gates can be traversed by players using minecarts on tracks placed over the Soul Sand. Non-Drowned undead mobs will stay at the bottom of water and will be unable to escape.Ī long Soul Sand gate can be built along the shoreline, which will prevent mobs from crossing it. No mobs can swim up waterfalls though, so you can keep them all down using running water. Since most mobs swim to the surface of standing water, they can get to the top of a sheer edge and exit from there.

Drowned mobs spawn at the bottom of oceans, rivers or swamps.

Guardians/Elder Guardians spawn in and near Ocean Monuments This was CRAZYI coded it so that whenever a mob spawns, it spawns with a random amount of itself stacked on its h.

Fish spawn in various places underwater.

Dolphins spawn in non-frozen ocean biomes Most mobs swim to the surface, even if youre submerged beneath them.

Squids can spawn in any body of water, as far as 18 blocks below sea level.

Also note that Skeleton arrows can and will pierce water.

Phantoms, which will sometimes dive into water and then quickly die.

Other undead mobs, which sink and move along the bottom, but cannot swim.

Drowned mobs, which swim and attack the player underwater.

Husks turn into Zombies which turn into Drowned.

Guardians/Elder Guardians, which swim after and attack the player underwater.

Most mobs swim to the surface, even if you're submerged beneath them.

Minecraft will mobs spawn in water