Bat Mob Wiki Guide

This Minecraft tutorial explains all about bats with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about bats in Minecraft.

Background

The following is a picture of what a bat looks like in Minecraft:

Hostility Level	Passive Mob
Health Points	6 health points  x 3
Where to Find	Spawns the Overworld within caves or caverns
Weapon	None
Attack Method	Will never attack you
Drops	None
Experience Points	0 experience points

Hostility Level (Passive)

A bat is a passive 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 bats. Because a bat is a passive mob, it will never attack you in the game (Creative or Survival mode).

Health Points

In Minecraft, a bat has 3 hearts

 for health. This gives a bat 6 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a bat, you need to inflict 6 points of damage to the bat.

Where to Find Bats

In Minecraft, you can find bats in most Overworld biomes within dark caves and caverns. Bats spawn in the dark or at night in light levels of 7 or lower. If you are having trouble finding a bat, you can summon a bat using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.

Weapon

A bat does not carry a weapon.

Attack Method

You are safe to walk near a bat and it will not attack or cause you any damage. And if you attack a bat, it will just try to fly away. It will not attack you back.

Drops

When you kill a bat in Minecraft, it will not drop anything. It is one of the few mobs that when killed, does not drop any items.

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. Unfortunately, when you kill a bat, you will not gain any experience points.

Spawn Egg for Bat

You can spawn a bat using the following spawn egg:

 Bat Spawn Egg

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a bat in Minecraft:

How to Summon a Bat

NBT Tags for Bat (Java Edition)

Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a bat in Java Edition:

NBT Tags for Bat

Bat Seeds

You can use a seed to create a world where you spawn in a biome with bats:

Bat Seeds (Java Edition)
Bat Seeds (Bedrock Edition)

Other Mobs

Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:

Allay
  Axolotl
  Bee
  Blaze
  Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
  Chicken
Cod
  Cow
  Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
  Ender Dragon
  Enderman
  Endermite
  Evoker
Fox
  Frog
  Ghast
  Giant
  Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
  Horse
  Husk
Illusioner
  Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
  Llama
Magma Cube
  Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
  Parrot
  Phantom
  Pig
  Piglin
  Piglin Brute
  Pillager
  Polar Bear
Pufferfish
  Rabbit
  Ravager
  Salmon
  Sheep
  Shulker
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
  Snow Golem
  Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Wandering Trader
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
 Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
NPC