Creeper
An explosive threat rather than a conventional melee attacker. Getting close starts a visible fuse.
New season rules · 0.168.0-season.11 · Not yet released on the live server
A separate city-siege use is live; see below.
- Base health
- 12 (6 hearts)
- Base melee damage
- 0
- Base movement
- 2.1 blocks/s
- Melee reach
- 0 blocks
- Attack interval
- —
- Melee wind-up
- —
- XP coefficient
- 5
- Body (W × H)
- 0.6 × 1.7 blocks
Season levels and rewards#
Health and all attack-damage values are species bases, not final damage. Health scales by 1.065^(level−1) and damage by 1.05^(level−1), also modified by server strength. Season elites multiply health by 2.5 and damage by 1.3 before additional elite abilities. Base kill XP is the coefficient × (2 + 0.4 × monster level), then modified by elites, server rates, damage contribution, level-gap reduction and weakness. Summoned helpers award no season XP.
Spawning & habitat#
| Rule | Details |
|---|---|
| Location | Surface and caves |
| Time | Light-based; dark caves can qualify day or night |
| Pack size | 4 |
| Y restriction | No species-specific Y band |
Surface biomes: Beach · Snowy Beach · Stony Shore · Plains · Sunflower Plains · Meadow · Cherry Grove · Forest · Flower Forest · Birch Forest · Old Growth Birch Forest · Dark Forest · Swamp · Taiga · Old Growth Taiga · Snowy Plains · Ice Spikes · Snowy Taiga · Grove · Snowy Slopes · Jagged Peaks · Frozen Peaks · Stony Peaks · Windswept Hills · Savanna · Jungle · Sparse Jungle · Bamboo Jungle · Desert · Badlands · Wooded Badlands
Underground generation bypasses surface biome filters, so suitable caves beneath other biomes can qualify. Y restrictions, lighting and space requirements still apply.
Spawning, light and season monsters — light, protection, player distance and population can still prevent a spawn.
Behaviour & abilities#
- Fuse starts within 3 blocks, runs for 1.5 s, explosion radius 4 blocks and 14 base damage. Cancellation distance: 7 blocks.
Drops#
| Item | Quantity | Entry roll | At least 1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gunpowder | 0–2 | 100% | 66.67% |
These are unscaled base rolls. A quantity of zero yields nothing. Elite/area modifiers, bag space and applicable material limits affect the result; a kill is not a guaranteed drop.
Eligible natural hostile kills also roll 3% for a seed, uniformly selected from ten types. Recipe rules: Cooking levels and costs
Strategy#
Retreat decisively when the fuse starts: leaving the trigger radius alone is not enough; use the larger cancellation distance below.
City siege vs wilderness#
This creature (or its summoned/split form) can also appear in the live city siege. The figures above are wilderness base definitions; siege strength, targets and loot use separate rules.
Version & sources#
Current test worktree 0.168.0-season.11, rules fingerprint 82befbc7bf99; not a committed release or a production launch. Images retain original render revision d7ffb19, not new screenshots. Server settings can change values.
Reference files: shared/mobs.js · server/wilds-mobs.js · server/wilds-play.js · shared/siege.js