Witch Mob – Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains all about witches with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about witches in Minecraft.
Background
The following is a picture of what a witch looks like in Minecraft:
| Hostility Level | Hostile Mob |
|---|---|
| Health Points | 26 health points x 13 |
| Where to Find | In the Overworld in light levels of 7 or less (usually in a Witch hut) |
| Weapon |  Splash Potion of Weakness Splash Potion of Poison Splash Potion of Harming Splash Potion of Slowness |
| Attack Method | Throws harmful Splash Potions at you |
| Drops |  0-2 Glowstone Dust 0-2 Redstone Dust 0-2 Sugar 0-2 Stickes 0-2 Spider Eyes 0-2 Gunpowder 0-2 Glass Bottles 0-1 Potion of Healing |
| Experience Points | 5-8 experience points |
Hostility Level (Hostile)
A witch is a hostile mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and witches. Because a witch is a hostile mob, it will attack you in Survival mode but not Creative mode.
Health Points
In Minecraft, a witch has 13 hearts for health. This gives a witch 26 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a witch, you need to inflict 26 points of damage to the witch.
Where to Find Witches
In Minecraft, you can find witches in most Overworld biomes in light levels of 7 or less. Witches will spawn in the dark, usually at night. Once a witch has spawned in the dark, it can survive in the daylight.
If you are having trouble finding a witch, you can summon a witch using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.
Witch Hut
If you look carefully in the Swamp biome, you will sometimes find a Witch Hut. When the world was first generated, a witch spawned inside of the Witch Hut. This is a picture of what a Witch Hut looks like in Minecraft:
Weapon
A witch is armed with splash potions such as: Splash Potion of Weakness, Splash Potion of Poison, Splash Potion of Harming and Splash Potion of Slowness.
Attack Method
In Minecraft, a witch has a special attack. It will throw harmful splash potions at you causing you damage until you die. The most common splash potions that it uses is Weakness, Poison, Harming and Slowness. You can drink milk to remove these potion effects while in battle with a witch.
Drops
When you kill a witch in Minecraft, it will drop different items each time, such as glowstone dust, redstone dust, sugar, sticks, spider eyes, gunpowder, glass bottles or Potions of Healing.
Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear. They are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.
Experience Points
As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.
These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a witch, you will gain 5-8 experience points.
Spawn Egg for Witch
You can spawn a witch using the following spawn egg:
Witch Spawn Egg
Witch Spawn EggCommand Examples
Here are some game command examples for a witch in Minecraft:
NBT Tags for Witch (Java Edition)
Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a witch in Java Edition:
Spawn Events for Witch (Bedrock/Education)
Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a witch in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:
Other Mobs
Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft: