Phantom

Phantom

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Health points	20HP × 10
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Undead, Monster
Attack strength	In Java Edition: Easy & Normal: 2HP Hard: 3HP In Bedrock Edition: Easy: 4HP Normal: 6HP Hard: 9HP
Hitbox size	Height: 0.5 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks
Speed	0.7
Spawn	In the Overworld at nighttime or during thunderstorms, when player has not entered a bed or died for 3+ ingame days

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Phantoms are flying undead hostile mobs that spawn in the night sky when the player has not laid in a bed or died for three or more in-game days. They attack by diving at the player from the sky to bite them.

Spawning

Phantoms spawn unless the game rule doInsomnia is set to false. The spawning mechanics differ between Java and Bedrock editions. In both editions, they spawn in the Overworld above the player if the "Time Since Last Rest" statistic is at least 1 hour (72000 ticks or 3 in-game days). This statistic is reset when the player dies or enters a bed. This does not require skipping the night. Phantoms may still spawn in multiplayer if there are any players who have not slept for 3 in-game days. Furthermore, the player must not have a block overhead that blocks light in any way; for example, leaves prevent phantoms from spawning as they have a light opacity of 2, but glass does not, as its light opacity is 0. Phantoms do not spawn in Spectator mode, but they do spawn in Creative mode.^[1]

Bedrock Edition

Phantom spawning is similar to other monsters spawning: the spawn location must have a light level of 7 or less, and spawns are limited by the monster population cap. Phantoms are also subject to a density cap of 5. Phantom spawn attempts are made on surface blocks throughout the same spawn radius as other monsters. However, when a phantom spawn attempt succeeds, the phantom appears somewhere in a 21×15×21 cube centered 28 blocks above the player instead of at the block where the spawn attempt occurred.

This means Phantoms can also spawn during daytime as long as there are suitable blocks around players who are directly below the sky. The number of phantoms spawned is 1-2 in Easy difficulty, 1-3 in Normal, and 1-4 in Hard. Blocks that can spawn Phantoms needs to count as surface, that is, they have to be the highest spawnable block having no solid blocks directly above them. A solid floor under a roof of leaves, with at least 8 air blocks in between, meets this criteria.

Java Edition

Phantoms attempt to spawn every 1–2 minutes. They spawn only if it is night or a thunderstorm is happening, the player is above sea level (y=64) with sky visible directly above, and the local difficulty is greater than a randomly chosen value between 0.0 and 3.0. The formula ^x−72000⁄_x represents the chance of a successful spawn, where x is the number of ticks since the player last entered a bed or died. This roughly comes to a ¹⁄₄ (25.0%) chance on day 4, a ²⁄₅ (40.0%) chance on day 5, a ³⁄₆ (¹⁄₂) (50.0%) chance on day 6, ⁴⁄₇ (about 57.1%) chance on day 7, and so on.

If all conditions are met, a group of phantoms attempts to spawn 20–34 blocks above the player, and off to the side by a Chebyshev distance of up to 10 blocks. The number of phantoms spawned is 1-2 in Easy difficulty, 1-3 in Normal, and 1-4 in Hard. Phantoms can spawn inside buildings, if the player is outside and the building is both near enough and the building has a large enough cavity for them to spawn inside.

Phantoms count toward the hostile mob cap, but they do not adhere to it when spawning.^[2] Their spawning mechanic is based on the location of players in the world rather than by chance, unlike regular mob spawning. Phantom spawning is completely independent of biome, meaning they can spawn in biomes that normally prevent hostile mob spawning such as mushroom fields^[3] and the void.^[4] The number of phantoms which spawn indirectly increase in number every consecutive night a player has not entered a bed, as there is a higher chance that phantoms spawn every time there is a spawn attempt. They then stop spawning when the player lies down in bed.

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Phantom Membrane[A]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	75.00%	1.00	0–3	87.50%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Phantom Membrane[A]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	3⁄4	1	0–3	7⁄8	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Phantom Membrane[A]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	3⁄8 (37.50%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Phantom Membrane[A]	0.50	1.00	1.50	2.00

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Phantom Membrane[A]	0–1	50.00%	0.50	0–2	50.00%	0.75	0–3	50.00%	1.00	0–4	50.00%	1.25

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Phantom Membrane[A]	0–1	1⁄2	1⁄2	0–2	1⁄2	3⁄4	0–3	1⁄2	1	0–4	1⁄2	5⁄4

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Phantom Membrane[A]	0	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄2 (50.00%)
		1	1⁄2 (50.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		2	0	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	0	1⁄8 (12.50%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		4	0	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)
		Average	1⁄2 (0.50)	3⁄4 (0.75)	1 (1.00)	5⁄4 (1.25)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Phantom Membrane[A]	0.50	0.75	1.00	1.25

• 5XP when killed by the player or a tamed wolf.

Behavior

When idle, phantoms fly around in a roughly circular pattern within 15 to 25 blocks of a player horizontally and within 24 to 35 blocks of a player vertically. They leave a trail of gray smoke while they fly. Their movement speed is one of the fastest of any mob, up to 20 blocks per second. They have a large search radius, targeting and following players from 64 blocks away. Once every 10-20 seconds‌ or every 8-12 seconds‌, they swoop in to attack. If stopped or hurt during this action, the phantom retreats back to its original elevation with sky visibility. When a path to its original elevation is obstructed by a block, the phantom continues attempting to return to its original elevation until it either attacks or moves out from under the block. In the case of spawning under a high glass ceiling, phantoms will spawn, immediately attack, and then fly up to the glass (even despawning in the process if they get far enough). Phantoms do not begin new attacks on an exposed player sleeping in a bed, nor will they attack players in creative mode, however phantoms having engaged their swooping attack at players entering beds will not break off their attack. Phantoms will switch targets if a player has spawned them but another player qualifies to be attacked, however they are neutralized if the spawning or targeted player resets their timer.

Phantoms can move through water at their normal speed. In Bedrock Edition, a phantom underwater attempts to fly to the surface, and dies from drowning after 20 seconds if trapped underwater. Phantoms do not drown in Java Edition.

A phantom's body disappears when under the Invisibility effect, but its eyes and smoke particles are still visible.

Cats hiss at phantoms that are currently attacking players, and phantoms try to stay at least 16 blocks away from them. (This is true even if the cat is inside a building.) In Bedrock Edition, phantoms also avoid ocelots in the same manner.

Being an undead mob, they are:

• damaged by the status effect Instant Health and healed by the status effect Instant Damage.
• unaffected by the status effects Regeneration and Poison.
• ignored by the wither.
• affected by the Smite enchantment.
• unable to swim in water, but do not drown‌.
• a threat to armadillos, causing them to hide in their shell.

Like zombies and skeletons, phantoms burn in sunlight. They burn even when equipped with helmets through commands.^[5]

Detailed pathing behavior

Observation in Bedrock Edition v1.20: It seems that the circling is better described as targeting a certain location. This location starts out as the ground block that they logically spawned from. This means that they can circle even *below* the player. After swooping a player (even unsuccessfully), a new target location is designated, and thus a new circling height.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Phantoms use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Phantom	phantom	can_breathe_under_water fall_damage_immune ignores_poison_and_regen inverted_healing_and_harm undead wither_friends	entity.minecraft.phantom

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Phantom	phantom	58	entity.phantom.name

Entity data

Phantoms have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider.	15	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Giant Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Illusioner Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 37 mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 37 mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	Two Birds, One Arrow	Kill two Phantoms with a piercing Arrow	Use a crossbow enchanted with Piercing to kill two with a single arrow shot.

History

November 1, 2017							Phantoms are first shown on YouTube (back then known only as Mob B and The Monster of the Night Skies) the colored version later appeared after it won the vote.
November 14, 2017							The article about the phantom was published, which introduced a community vote option for the phantom at MINECON Earth 2017.
November 18, 2017							The phantom wins the vote at MINECON Earth. It is the second of mobs that were added as a result of the community voting for it.
December 13, 2017							a newer version of the model is shown by jeb. Adrian Östergård jokingly refers to it as a Raybow.
December 13, 2017							another version of the model is shown by jeb later that day with another model and a missing texture.
Unknown date
							at some point in development the phantoms model and texture resembled the final design.
Unknown date
							A texture almost identical to the final design with a red color.
Java Edition
1.13			18w07a				Added phantoms with a placeholder drop of 1-4 leather.
			18w09a				Phantoms no longer spawn in the End.
							Phantoms now despawn at daytime.
			18w10a				The phantom's model and texture have been changed.
			18w10c				Phantoms are now considered undead.
			18w10d				Phantoms now burn in sunlight like most undead mobs.
							Phantoms no longer despawn at daytime.
			18w14a				Phantoms now drop 0-1 phantom membrane, instead of leather.
			18w19a				The phantom's animation has been changed to have the wings flap quicker and smoother.
							Phantoms now drop experience.[6]
			pre1				Phantoms now have new flapping sounds.
1.14			18w44a				Phantoms are now afraid of cats.
			pre3				The damage of phantoms has been reduced from 6HP to 2HP.[7]
1.15			19w36a				Phantom spawning can now be toggled with the game rule doInsomnia.
Bedrock Edition
1.6.0			beta 1.6.0.1				Added phantoms with the health of 10HP, with a placeholder drop of 1-4 leather.
			beta 1.6.0.5				Phantoms now drop phantom membranes.
							The phantom's health has been increased from 10HP to 20HP × 10.
							Phantoms now burn in direct sunlight.
							Phantoms are now able to drown.
1.8.0			beta 1.8.0.8				Phantoms are now afraid of cats.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added phantoms.
							Phantoms only have 10 health.
							The maximum number of phantoms in a world is 5.
			1.83				Phantoms are now afraid of cats.

Data History

Issues

Issues relating to "Phantom" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• At one point before the release of 18w10a, the phantom texture was made red, but it was decided that it appeared too much like a Nether mob.^[8]
• The phantom was originally going to have a mouth, like the drawing shown during MINECON Earth, but it was eventually scrapped because "it looked so much like a muppet".^[8] Earlier designs can be seen on Minecraft's Instagram account.^[9]
• The sounds of the phantom were taken from Samuel Åberg's baby son screaming.^[10][11]
• Despite that they are flying mobs, phantoms can destroy turtle eggs when on top of them.^[12]

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A phantom under the Invisibility effect.
• 
  Phantoms exposed to sunlight and taking fire damage.
• 
  The particles produced by the phantom's wings can be clearly seen.
• 
  A phantom swooping down at a player at night leaving a trail of gray smoke.
• 
  A phantom stuck in a player's boat, caught in the daylight.
• 
  Noor riding a phantom.

Mojang images

• 
  A player avoiding a phantom by using the Invisibility effect.
• 
  A swarm of phantoms.
• 
  Another swarm of phantoms.
• 
  A phantom on fire.

Development images

• 
  A phantom with a model template texture.
• 
  A phantom with no texture.
• 
  Phantoms flying overhead.
• 
  A phantom flying high in the air, using its model and texture from 18w07a. The smoke particles beside each of its wings can be seen.
• 
  A phantom flying high in the air, using its model and texture from 18w07a. The smoke particles beside each of its wings can be seen.
• 
  The phantom's poses.

Concept artwork

• 
  Mob B alongside the other mobs.
• 
  Mob B finally wins in Minecon Earth Mob Vote.
• 
  All the revisions of the phantom design, except for the red revision.
• 
  The red phantom revision.
• 
  Concept sketches.

Textures

• 
  Phantom texture file.
• 
  old Texture before 18w10a

In other media

• 
  Artwork of a phantom.
• 
  LEGO Minecraft Phantom.
• 
  "Phantoms and Witches and Ghasts, Oh My," an officially licensed T-Shirt.
• 
  Phantom Plush.
• 
  A demotivational poster of a phantom.
• 
  World Kindness Day artwork.

References

External links

• Meet the Phantom – Minecraft.net on March 12, 2018

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