Drops

This article is about the items That drop from entities and blocks. for drops as in falls, see Fall Damage

Typical drops from a Skeleton: Experience Orbs, an Arrow, and Bones.

Drops are items which appear when mobs and some other entities die. There are three basic types of drops: normal drops, rare drops, and Experience Orbs. Only normal drops appear when a mob is killed other than by the player.

[edit] Common and uncommon drops

Common drops may occur whenever a mob dies, and appear at the location of the mob at the moment it receives the killing damage. Most mobs have particular items which it may drop when killed. There are also "uncommon drops", such as spider eyes, which don't always drop, but have a large (item-specific) chance to do so. Some uncommon and common drops don't drop at all if the mob was not "killed by the player" (same rules as for experience orbs).

For each of these items, there is a random (uniform) distribution of numbers of that item it will drop; for example, a cow will drop 0-2 leather items and 1-3 raw beef items. Since the range includes 0, it is possible for no leather to be dropped. If the mob is killed with a weapon with the Looting enchantment, then the upper limit of the range is increased by the level number of the enchantment.

If a mob is a baby animal, it will not drop anything when killed.

Note: The term "common drops" was chosen by the authors of this article. It is not known to be an official term.

[edit] Rare drops

A bow received from a rare drop with Power I

Rare drops occur in addition to the common drops. Unlike most common drops, they only occur if the monster is killed by a player. All rare drops except skulls can also be obtained by other means. Rare drops are always a single item, not multiples.

Rare drops have a 2.5% chance of occurring when a monster dies. Using a weapon with the Looting enchantment increases the chance by 0.5% per level (up to 4% with Looting III).

Each monster has a separate list of possibilities for enchanted rare drops and non-enchanted rare drops. Within each list, all items are equally likely.

Additionally to rare drops, a monster can drop equipment and armor that it's visually wearing. Each piece of equipment that monster was spawned with is dropped with 8.5% chance. Looting increases this change by 1% per level (up to 11.5% with Looting III). This means it is possible for a zombie or skeleton to drop more than one piece of equipment upon death. All items that mob picked up after spawning are always dropped, even when the monster wasn't killed by a player.

When items are enchanted, the enchantment is chosen in the same way as using an Enchantment Table with a cost of 5–15 levels on normal difficulty, and 5–35 on hard. On easy difficulty, equipment is never enchanted. It is possible to get multiple enchantments.

[edit] Experience Orbs

Main article: Experience Orb

Experience Orbs only drop if a mob dies less than three seconds after being attacked (melee, bow, snowballs, eggs) by a player or by a player's pet wolf. Their total value will always be the specific amount of experience granted by killing that mob. They are also dropped from a thrown Bottle o' Enchanting. Collected experience accumulates into levels, which can be used for enchanting.

Experience Orbs are similar to items but not the same. Unlike other drops, Experience Orbs appear at the location of the mob's corpse at the moment it disappears in a puff of smoke. Experience Orbs will move towards nearby players.

[edit] Mob drops

Mob	Exp	Common drops	Rare drops	Equipped and worn items	Notes
Animals
Bat	0	None	None	None
Chicken	1–3	0–2 Feather 1 Raw Chicken or 1 Cooked Chicken	None	None	Meat is cooked if died while on fire. Meat unaffected by looting. Also drops Egg every 5–10 minutes.
Cow	1–3	0–2 Leather 1–3 Raw Beef or 1–3 Steak	None	None	Meat is cooked if died while on fire. Gives Milk when right-clicked with an empty bucket.
Donkey Mule	1–3	0–2 Leather	None	1 Saddle if saddled 1 Chest if equipped	Also drops all of the chest's contents.
Horse	1–3	0–2 Leather	None	1 Saddle if saddled 1 Horse Armor if equipped
Mooshroom	1–3	0–2 Leather 1–3 Raw Beef or 1–3 Steak	None	None	Meat is cooked if died while on fire. Shearing drops 5 Red Mushroom, converting it to a normal cow, a process which cannot be reverted. Gives Milk when right-clicked with an empty bucket. Gives Mushroom Stew when right-clicked with an empty bowl.
Ocelot	1–3	None	None	None
Pig	1–3	1–3 Raw Porkchop or 1–3 Cooked Porkchop	None	1 Saddle if saddled	Meat is cooked if died while on fire.
Sheep	1–3	1 Wool if not sheared	None	None	Not affected by Looting. Shearing drops 1-3 Wool. Wool is colored if the sheep was spawned colored or dyed.
Skeleton Horse	1–3	0–2 Bone	None	None
Squid	1–3	1–3 Ink Sac	None	None
Wolf	1–3	None	None	None
Zombie Horse	1–3	0–2 Rotten Flesh	None	None	Rotten Flesh is an uncommon drop.
Golems
Iron Golem	0	0–2 Rose 3–5 Iron Ingot	None	None	Not affected by Looting.
Snow Golem	0	0–15 Snowball or 1 Pumpkin + 8 Snowball if spawned with at least 8 in the world.	None	None	Not affected by Looting. Pumpkin and 8 Snowballs due to 8 existing snow golems is only in Xbox 360 Edition.
Monsters
Blaze	10	0–1 Blaze Rod if killed by a player or tamed dog 0–2 Glowstone Dust if killed by a player	None	None	Glowstone Dust can only be dropped by Blazes in the Xbox 360 Edition.
Cave Spider	5	0–2 String 0–1 Spider Eye if killed by a player or tamed dog	None	None	Eye is an uncommon drop (33% chance). Looting doesn't affect number of eyes dropped, but increases probability of a drop.
Creeper	5	0–2 Gunpowder 1 Music Disc if killed by a skeleton	None	None
Ender Dragon	12,000	None	None	None	Experience is dropped in 10 drops of 1000 experience and one drop of 2000 experience. Creates a portal including removable blocks: 4 Torch 1 Dragon Egg
Enderman	5	0–1 Ender Pearl	None	None
Ghast	5	0–1 Ghast Tear 0–2 Gunpowder	None	None
Magma Cube	1, 2, or 4	0–1 Magma Cream if size > 1	None	None	Uncommon drop (25% chance).
Silverfish	5	None	None	None
Skeleton	5	0–2 Arrow 0–2 Bone	None	Bow Random Armor	Gear may be enchanted.
Slime	1, 2, or 4	0–2 Slimeball if size = 1	None	None
Spider	5	0–2 String 0–1 Spider Eye if killed by a player or tamed dog	None	None	Eye is an uncommon drop (33% chance) Looting doesn't affect number of eyes dropped, but increases probability of a drop.
Wither	50	1 Nether Star	None	None	Not affected by looting.
Wither Skeleton	5	0-1 Coal 0-2 Bone	Wither Skeleton Skull	Stone Sword	Coal is an uncommon drop (33% chance).
Zombie	5	0–2 Rotten Flesh	Iron Ingot Carrot Potato	Iron Shovel Iron Sword Random Armor	Gear may be enchanted.
Zombie Pigman	5	0–1 Rotten Flesh 0–1 Gold Nugget	Gold Ingot	Golden Sword Random Armor	Gear may be enchanted.
NPCs
Villager	0	None	None	None
Witch	5	0–6 Glass Bottle 0–6 Glowstone Dust 0–6 Gunpowder 0–6 Redstone 0–6 Spider Eye 0–6 Stick 0–6 Sugar	None	Potion of Healing Potion of Fire Resistance Potion of Swiftness	On death, witches drop 1–3 item types, each 0–2 times. The same type can be chosen multiple times, therefore it is possible to get 6 of a one item.

[edit] Entity drops

Entity	Drops	Notes
Projectiles
Bottle o' Enchanting	3–11 Experience
Egg	0–4 Baby Chicken spawned	Eggs have a 1⁄8 chance of spawning one baby chicken. If that happens, there is an additional 1⁄32 chance of the egg spawning four baby chickens instead of one.
Stationary
Ender Crystal	None	Creates an explosion when destroyed, 50% more powerful than TNT.
Item Frame	1 Item Frame	Drops itself and the item it contains.
Painting	1 Painting
Vehicles
Boat	2 Stick if crashed 3 Wood Planks if crashed 1 Boat if broken by other means
Minecart	1 Minecart
Minecart with Chest	1 Minecart 1 Chest	Also drops all of the chest's contents.
Minecart with Furnace	1 Minecart 1 Furnace
Minecart with Hopper	1 Minecart 1 Hopper	Also drops all of its contents.
Minecart with Spawner	1 Minecart
Minecart with TNT	1 Minecart 1 TNT	Drops nothing when activated or destroyed by an explosion.

[edit] Block drops

Most blocks drop themselves when broken. All special drops from blocks are listed below. "Silk Touch" column indicates, if the block can be collected using the Silk Touch enchantment.

Block	Exp	Drops	Silk Touch	Notes
Materials and building blocks
Bookshelf	-	3 Book	Yes
Clay	-	4 Clay	Yes
Double Slab T	-	2 Slab	No
Farmland	-	1 Dirt	No
Glass Glass Pane	-	None	Yes
Glowstone	-	2–4 Glowstone Dust	Yes	Fortune increases drop, capped at 4.
Grass Block Mycelium	-	1 Dirt	Yes
Gravel	-	1 Gravel or 1 Flint	Yes	Flint is dropped with 10% chance. Fortune enchantment increases this chance to 14% at Fortune I, 25% at Fortune II, and 100% at Fortune III.
Ice	-	None	Yes	If there is another (solid or liquid) block directly underneath the ice block, ice will revert back to water when broken. This doesn't work in the Nether.
Snow Block T	-	4 Snowball	Yes
Snow (cover) T	-	1–8 Snowball	No	One snowball per snow level.
Stone T	-	1 Cobblestone	Yes
Ores
Coal Ore T	0–2	1 Coal	Yes	Fortune multiplies drop.
Diamond Ore T	3–7	1 Diamond	Yes	Fortune multiplies drop.
Emerald Ore T	3–7	1 Emerald	Yes	Fortune multiplies drop.
Lapis Lazuli Ore T	2–5	4–8 Lapis Lazuli	Yes	Fortune multiplies drop.
Nether Quartz Ore T	2–5	1 Nether Quartz	Yes	Fortune multiplies drop.
Redstone Ore T	1–5	4–5 Redstone	Yes	Fortune increases drop.
Plants
Carrots	-	1 Carrot if premature 1–4 Carrot if fully grown	No	Fortune increases drop, if fully grown.
Cocoa	-	1 Cocoa Beans if premature 3 Cocoa Beans if fully grown	No
Dead Bush	-	None	No	An original block is dropped when broken using shears.
Fern Tall Grass	-	0–1 Seeds	No	An original block is dropped instead when broken using shears. Seeds are dropped with 12.5% chance. Fortune increases drop by 2 per level.
Huge Mushroom	-	0–2 Mushroom	Yes	There is 80% chance that no mushroom will be dropped, and 10% for both one and two mushrooms. On average that gives 0.3 mushrooms per block.
Leaves	-	0–1 Sapling 0–1 Apple from oak leaves	Yes	An original block is dropped instead when broken using shears. Jungle sapling is dropped with 2.5% chance; all other saplings are dropped with 5% chance. An apple is dropped with 0.5% chance. Fortune increases all drop chances.
Melon	-	3–7 Melon	Yes	Fortune increases drop, capped at 9.
Melon Stem	-	0–3 Melon Seeds	No	Every one of three possible seeds is dropped with a chance dependent on growth stage, ranging from 7% (just planted) to 53% (fully grown).
Nether Wart	-	1 Nether Wart if premature 2–4 Nether Wart if fully grown	No	Fortune increases drop, if fully grown.
Potatoes	-	1 Potato if premature 1–4 Potato if fully grown 0–1 Poisonous Potato if fully grown	No	Fortune increases potato drop, if fully grown. Poisonous potato is dropped with 2% chance.
Pumpkin Stem	-	0–3 Pumpkin Seeds	No	Every one of three possible seeds is dropped with a chance dependent on growth stage, ranging from 7% (just planted) to 53% (fully grown).
Wheat	-	1 Seeds if premature 0–3 Seeds if fully grown 1 Wheat if fully grown	No	Fortune increases seeds drop, if fully grown.
Other
Cake	-	None	No
Cobweb T	-	1 String	Yes
Ender Chest T	-	8 Obsidian	Yes	Will not drop its contents when broken.
Fire	-	None	No
Monster Egg	-	1 Silverfish spawned	Partial	When Monster Egg is destroyed by a tool with Silk Touch enchantment, it drops the type of block that the Monster Egg is disguised as (i.e. Stone, Cobblestone, or Stone Brick). This doesn't stop Silverfish from spawning.
Monster Spawner T	15–43	None	No

Notes:

• Blocks marked with "T" need to be broken with a specific tool to drop anything (including experience). The Silk Touch enchantment doesn't remove this requirement.
• Where noted, Fortune can increase the number of dropped items or multiply it. Increase simply gives 0–lvl extra items. Multiplication happen with the following chances:
  • Fortune I: 33% * 2 (33% more on average)
  • Fortune II: 25% * 2, 25% * 3 (75% more on average)
  • Fortune III: 20% * 2, 20% * 3, 20% * 4 (120% more on average)
• Container blocks (brewing stand, chest, dispenser, dropper, flower pot, furnace, hopper, and jukebox) drop themselves when broken along with their content.
• All blocks not listed in the table above drop themselves when broken. Fortune doesn't affect their drop.

[edit] History

[edit] Trivia

• Dropped weapons, tools, and armor from mobs will have at least 25 durability remaining, which is also the most common. Less-damaged items are increasingly rare. Except for gold swords and tools, items will always have at least 26 points of damage taken.
• Due to Zombies and Skeletons rarely spawning with random armor, and having a 5% chance of dropping one article of said worn armor on death, it is finally possible to legitimately acquire chainmail armor without trading with villagers.
• While skeletons will drop bows of differing enchantments, the most common seems to be "Power I." (tested using a naturally generated spawner converted to an experience farm)

[edit] See also

• Item (entity)

[edit] References