Entity

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An example of a dropped item, which is an entity.

Entities are objects in Minecraft which often have health points that can be reduced and can move.

List of Entities

• Solid, mobile hitboxes that can move around freely (a.k.a. Mobs).
• Dropped items, blocks, and Experience Points.
  • Has 0 health, so destroyed instantly when touching cactus, fire or lava.
• Boats
• Minecarts
• Flying projectiles (Eggs, arrows, snowballs)
  • Arrows will damage mobs and players. Eggs and snowballs will break on contact, arrows will break if it hits a mob/player. Eggs have a chance of spawning a chicken.
• Evocation Fangs
  • Summoned by evokers as one of their attack methods. The spikes(fangs) spawn in two circles if a player is close by, or in a straight line. Otherwise, the inner spikes(fangs) snap shut before the outer ones.
• Fishing rod
  • Will catch a fish in water and will pull mobs towards the player with the rod. The head of the fishing rod's name is 'Unknown'.
• Lightning
  • Damages other entities and causes fires, turns Pigs into Zombie Pigmen, Creepers into Charged Creepers and Villagers into Witches.
• Falling/no-longer supported blocks
  • An entity created when an Armor Stand, Gravel, Sand, Red Sand, Concrete Powder, a Dragon Egg, or an Anvil falls.
• TNT
  • Primed TNT. Explodes after 4 seconds. It has to be lit with Fire or with Flint and Steel.

Other entities

• Paintings, Item Frames, Armor Stands, and Ender Crystals are also entities. However, they are immobile and are aligned to the block grid.
• Doors, beds, and other objects larger than a single block are truly groups of adjacent blocks.
• Technical Blocks, sometimes called block entities, are blocks with data tags (brewing stands, command blocks, chests, etc.).