Creepers naturally spawn in the Overworld on top of solid blocks with a light level of 7 or less.
Creepers drop 0-2 gunpowder, and a music disc if killed by a skeleton arrow. In addition they drop a creeper head if killed by a billed creeper’s explosion. They drop 5 experience when killed by a new player or tamed wolf.
Creepers can chase after any player, as long as it is within a 16 block (±5%) radius and ±4 blocks vertically. The detection range of creepers is decreased to half of their regular range (8 blocks) when the participant is wearing a creeper mob mind.
Creepers may climb ladders and vines like any other mob, but do not do so intentionally.
When within three blocks of a player, a creeper will stop moving, hiss loudly, start flashing and inflating, and explode after 1.5 seconds. A creeper’s detonation can be halted if the player gets out of the blast radius (7 blocks), including by knocking back the creeper or killing it. Creepers could be forced to explode by using a flint and steel.
Creepers can flee from ocelots and cats if one is too close, until they are approximately 16 blocks from the feline(s).
A creeper’s explosion includes a power of 3 (but see an exception below).
If a creeper is inflicted with a status impact, its explosion will generate an area impact cloud of the effect.
Creepers should never be targeted by any mobs, apart from the wither, the snow golem, and the vindicator named “Johnny.” If they’re strike by a stray projectile, they will only retaliate if they are not already chasing a player.
A charged creeper is established only once lightning strikes within 3-4 blocks of a standard creeper, which significantly boosts its explosive power. Charged creepers are distinguished from regular creepers by the blue aura encircling them.
Their countdown timers will be the same as normal creepers, both when it comes to range and time. With a power of 6, an explosion the effect of a charged creeper is usually twice as powerful as the explosion the effect of a regular creeper (observe picture). How close the creeper was to the lightning strike will not affect the size of the explosion.
Charged creepers possess the same entity ID because normal creepers. The only difference can be that the worthiness of the boolean “driven” tag is defined to “1” (true).
Charged creeper explosions may cause a zombie, skeleton, wither skeleton, or other creeper to drop the corresponding mob head, one per explosion. However, they’ll not drop their own head.