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An entity is anything in the world that isn't a block: mobs, pets, bosses, mounts and objects like statues. A custom entity from an add-on has its own 3D model, texture, animations and behaviour, and can spawn naturally or come from a spawn egg.
Addon's Studio walks you through making one. Start from a blank model or one of Minecraft's own mobs, edit it in Blockbench, then set its health, personality and abilities with simple options.
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Step by step
Choose Stationary or Alive
Tap Add item and choose Entity. Pick Stationary for statues and armour-stand-like objects, or Alive for mobs.
Pick a starting model
Start from a custom model or a vanilla mob. Blockbench opens so you can change the shape, paint the skin and animate it. Tap Save to app when you're done.
Set up animations
In Animations, choose what plays for idle, walk, run, attack and more. The app makes sure only one movement animation plays at a time.
Choose its behaviour
Pick Peaceful, Fights back or Hostile, then set health, speed, damage, size and whether it walks, flies, swims or hovers.
Add abilities
Make it tameable, rideable or breedable, or have it follow players holding its favourite food. It can also be fire-immune or burn in daylight.
Add spawning, drops and actions
Turn on natural spawning and pick biomes, add drops and XP, design the spawn egg and add actions like running a function when it dies.
Tips
- Use /summon with your mob's ID to test it quickly.
- Name the head bone head in Blockbench and it will turn to look at players automatically.
- 2 health is 1 heart, and a walk speed of 0.25 is about zombie speed.
- Mob actions run as the mob, so @s in a Dies action means the mob itself.
- Blockbench needs the internet the first time it opens.
Questions
Can I make a mob I can ride or tame?
Yes. Turn on Tameable and pick the item that tames it, or Rideable with a seat height and steering. Both are under Abilities.
Can custom mobs spawn naturally?
Yes. Turn on Spawns naturally, then choose the dimension, biomes, how common it is, group size and time of day. Your custom biomes and dimensions show up as choices too.
Do I need to know 3D modelling?
No. You can start from a vanilla mob and just repaint it. Blockbench is there when you want to change the shape or animations.
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