The Smallest Slime In The World

Slimes
are bouncy, cube-shaped hostile mobs that spawn deep underground in detail chunks, or at night in swamp biomes.

Spawning

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Slimes spawn in the Overworld in specific “slime chunks” below layer twoscore, regardless of light levels. They tin can also spawn in swamp biomes between layers 51 and 69 (inclusive) in light levels of 7 or less, with these layers tending to exist nigh the surface.

Only sizes 1, two, and 4 (NBT
Size
tag values 0, 1 and 3 respectively) spawn naturally. With utilise of
/summon, slimes tin potentially range from size 1 to 256 (NBT
Size
tag 0–255)/1 to 128 (NBT
Size
tag 0-127)

Like most other hostile mobs, slimes practice not spawn within 24 blocks (spherical) of whatever player, despawn over time if no player is inside 32 blocks, and despawn instantly if no player is within the despawn radius (128 blocks in
Java Edition, 44 to 128 blocks in Bedrock Edition depending on simulation altitude^[
verify
]).

A slime needs roughly a three×2.1×3 free space to spawn. The area in which the slime spawns must be articulate of solid or liquid obstructions. When a slime attempts to spawn, the game checks for the infinite requirement of a large slime, and the size is determined later. Therefore, since large slimes are slightly taller than 2 blocks, no slimes, regardless of size, are able to spawn at all in 2-block-high areas. Also, since big slimes are slightly wider than 2 blocks, and mobs spawn at the center of a block, having any block within the 3×2.1×3 expanse, even as sparse as a drinking glass pane, can prevent a slime of whatever size from spawning.

Slime size is afflicted by regional difficulty: chances range from 33% for each size at the low difficulty to xvi% small, 33% medium, and fifty% big with college difficulty.

Swamps

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In swamps and mangrove swamps, slimes may spawn at dark between the heights of 51 and 69 (inclusive) when the provided light level is 7 or less. They spawn nearly often on a full moon, and never on a new moon.

More than precisely, the game checks two factors:

1. If the low-cal level is equal to or less than a random integer (from 0 to 7)
2. If the fraction of the moon that is bright is greater than a random number (from 0 to 1)

If these atmospheric condition are met and the altitude is acceptable, there is a 50% chance of spawning a slime.

“Slime chunks”

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Slimes spawn throughout the earth (except mushroom fields and deep night biomes) below level Y=40
regardless
of lite level, but only in certain chunks;
¹⁄_ten
of all chunks.

Java Edition

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In
Java Edition, these “slime chunks” are adamant pseudo-randomly by combining their chunk coordinates with the seed of the world:

          
          import
          coffee.util.Random
          ;
          public
          class
          checkSlimechunk
          {
          public
          static
          void
          main
          (
          String
          args
          []
          )
          {
          // the seed from /seed equally a 64bit long literal
          long
          seed
          =
          12345L
          ;
          int
          xPosition
          =
          123
          ;
          int
          zPosition
          =
          456
          ;
          Random
          rnd
          =
          new
          Random
          (
          seed
          +
          (
          int
          )
          (
          xPosition
          *
          xPosition
          *
          0x4c1906
          )
          +
          (
          int
          )
          (
          xPosition
          *
          0x5ac0db
          )
          +
          (
          int
          )
          (
          zPosition
          *
          zPosition
          )
          *
          0x4307a7L
          +
          (
          int
          )
          (
          zPosition
          *
          0x5f24f
          )
          ^
          0x3ad8025fL
          );
          System
          .
          out
          .
          println
          (
          rnd
          .
          nextInt
          (
          10
          )
          ==
          0
          );
          }
          }
        

That is, using the chunk coordinates to help generate a seed, a random number betwixt 0 and 9 inclusive is generated. If that number is 0, the chunk can spawn slimes. To convert globe coordinates to chunk coordinates, dissever by 16 and round down. Note that
xPosition, and
zPosition
are 32-chip integers (ints).

Bedrock Edition

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The slime clamper algorithm in Bedrock Edition is different from in
Java Edition. The algorithm doesn’t depend on the world seed, thus the chunks that slimes tin naturally spawn in inhabit the same coordinates for every globe.^[1]

Drops

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If a slime’south size is ane, it drops 0-ii slimeballs. This can be increased past 1 per level of Looting, for a maximum of 5 slimeballs.

Slimes also drib feel points equal to their size:


iv for large slimes,


2 for medium slimes, or


i for small slimes. Because slimes split into 2-4 smaller slimes when they dice, a player can earn a possible maximum of 28 feel points from killing i large slime and all the slimes that separate from information technology.

Behavior

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Slimes move past hopping, which they do every 10 to thirty ticks (¹⁄₂
to 1^ane⁄₂
seconds), and can swim in water and climb ladders and scaffolding. Unlike other mobs, slimes keep moving when no players are nearby. Their verbal routine is as follows:

The slime searches for a player (or, failing that, an iron golem or snowfall golem) within 16 blocks (spherical) distance.

• If no target is plant, the slime waits x to 30 ticks (^one⁄_two
  to oneⁱ⁄_ii
  seconds). And so it changes direction by a random amount upward to 57.26° (ane radian) left or right, jumps forward, and repeats the procedure.
• If a target is found, the delay before jumping is
  ¹⁄_three
  as long (iii to 10 ticks), and the slime’s management is set directly toward the target earlier jumping.

A slime’southward maximum health is equal to its size squared, and its dimensions are 0.51 blocks times its size in each dimension. When a slime attacks, it deals damage equal to its size, except for size 1 (smallest) slimes, which do no damage, and practice not preclude sleeping. Because small slimes still have a hostile AI, they continuously attack the player.

A slime’southward jump altitude likewise depends on its size; a slime jumps a distance slightly further than its length. When landing, several slime particles
¹⁄₈
its size appear.

When a slime larger than 1 dies, it spawns 2-4 new slimes equivalent to its size divided by ii, rounding downwards. A slime that was named with a proper noun tag produces smaller slimes with the aforementioned name when it dies.

A slime’s attack speed is twice that of other melee-combat mobs.^[2]
This speed is noticeable when the slime has the player cornered at a wall. Mobs similar zombies and spiders attack at a charge per unit of one hit per second, while slimes attack at a charge per unit of ii hits per second. Slimes damage all players and iron golems‌^{[
JE only
]}
they collide with, different other mobs that damage but those targets they specifically attack.

Slimes in water attempt to swim to the surface if possible. If forced to stay submerged, they eventually drown, splitting into smaller slimes that drown and finally drop slimeballs.

Sounds

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Java Edition:

Slimes use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

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ID

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Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Entity data

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Slimes have entity information associated with them that contains various properties.

Coffee Edition:

Boulder Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Advancements

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Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Bodily requirements (if different)	Resources location
	Risk	Run a risk, exploration, and combat	—	Kill any entity, or be killed by any entity.	run a risk/root
	Monster Hunter	Impale any hostile monster	Take chances	Kill one of these 34 mobs: Blaze Cave Spider Creeper Drowned Elderberry Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Creature Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs, if any, may be killed, merely are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockey s and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.	take a chance/kill_a_mob
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 34 mobs: Bonfire Cavern Spider Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom 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, if any, may be killed, only are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockey s and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advocacy.	adventure/kill_all_mobs

Video

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History

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Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.11					Added slimes.
					Slimes are the fifth hostile mob added to the game.
					There are 3 sizes of slimes: small, medium, and big. Their verbal size values in comparing to modern slimes is unknown.
					If slimes are dealt more than damage than they have remaining health, they do not split or drop slimeballs.
v1.0.12					Big slimes no longer spawn in peaceful.
					Slimes at present have sound effects.
					The targeting and attacking of slimes has been fixed.
v1.0.13					The texture of slimes has been changed.
v1.0.14					Slime spawning has been reduced as they now appear in abundance.
					A miscalculation in the new limit has now caused slimes to spawn just in strange locations, then natural slime spawning has been disabled.
v1.0.17					Slimes now spawn in multiplayer.
v1.2.0					Slime spawning has been completely disabled.
Java Edition Beta
1.2_01					Slimes have been returned to the game.
					Pocket-sized slimes now drop 0 – 2 slimeballs.[3]
					Slimes are currently rare.
1.3					Slimes have now become more mutual.
1.4					A multiplayer problems has been stock-still where slimes separate were visible only to the thespian that caused them to divide and would not accept any damage.[iv] Considering these slimes were client-side, the player could remove them just by exiting and logging back into the server.
i.5					Slimes no longer spawn in peaceful difficulty and assail merely when provoked.
Java Edition
ane.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease five			Slimes now spawn on levels 0-39 rather than 0-16, making them much more common.
ane.one		11w49a			Added slime spawn egg, allowing the player to spawn slimes.
1.iii.i		12w15a			The slime spawning rate in superflat worlds has been decreased.
		12w25a			The slime spawning rate in superflat worlds has been decreased, even more.
1.4.2		12w38a			Slimes now have a new mob sound, the same every bit magma cubes, to make the sounds more realistic.
		12w40a			Slimes are now easier to discover as they spawn in swamp biomes at low light level. Since slimes can’t swim, it is quite likely that they jump in deep h2o and somewhen drown.
1.5		13w10a			Slime spawn rates in swamps now depend on the current moon phase.
ane.7.2		?			Huge slimes can now spawn while summoning with a command cake.
1.8		14w06b			Slimes can now swim as a result of the update to the new AI.
					Slimes now randomly change management every so often, reducing the chance of them getting stuck in walls or corners.
					Slimes now randomly despawn over time if no player is within a 32 cake range.
					The jumping mechanics of slimes have been changed. The distance they are able to leap corresponds to their size; they jump approximately the same distance as the length they are. They also turn and face their whole body to the role player while attacking.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID for slimes has been changed from Slime to slime.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of slimes has been changed.
1.16		20w06a			Small slimes at present brand sounds again when moving.[5]
1.17		21w10a			The maximum size of slimes has been decreased from 256 to 128.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0		build i			Added slimes and slime spawn eggs.
		build 2			Slimes now have sounds.
					Slimes at present spawn naturally.
v0.10.0		build 1			Slimes now have billowy animations.
v0.12.i		build 1			Slimes now accept particles when jumping.
					Slimes now drop slimeballs.[ verify ]
v0.13.0		build three			The spawning of slimes has been improved.
Bedrock Edition
?					Slimes spawn commonly in flat worlds.
ane.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of slimes has been changed.
ane.16.201					The slime spawning rate in flat worlds has been decreased.[ verify ]
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	one.0	Patch ane	1.0.1	Added slimes.
TU14		i.04			The slime spawning rate in superflat worlds has been decreased.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.i.0					Added slimes.

Issues

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Problems relating to “Slime” are maintained on the problems tracker. Report issues in that location.

Trivia

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• In
  Java Edition, with commands, the size of slimes tin be customized. Sizes become from 1 up to 256; the size-256 slime is the largest of any mob in the game, bigger than the ender dragon.
• Because a slime’s movement speed is tied to its size it becomes impossible for the role player to outrun a size eight slime on flat ground without potion furnishings.
• When a slime searches for nearby targets or checks to see if information technology should despawn, it checks from a point at the middle of its hitbox on the ten and z-centrality and the bottom of its y-centrality. Therefore, a custom-size slime sufficiently huge can be right in forepart of the thespian and be completely passive, and it may even despawn if the slime is large enough.
• Green-colored Slimes are besides present in
  Minicraft, a 2D
  Minecraft-inspired game too created past Notch.
• If a histrion walks inside a slime, they tin see the slime itself within of a slime block.
• if the player looks at the corner of a glass block, the slime inside the slime cake disappears, looking like the slime block is alive.

Gallery

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Screenshots

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  Small: 0.6 block cube.

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  Medium: ane.2 block cube.

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  Big: 2.iv block cube.

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  A grouping of slimes inside a village.

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  An edited slime changed to size 127.

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  A size 10 slime.

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  Slimes in a cave.

• 

  3 Slimes led out of a cave to the surface.

In other media

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See as well

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• 
  
  Magma Cube
  
  – A similar mob that spawns but in the Nether and drops magma cream
• 
  
  Tropical Slime
  
  – A variant that is found in Minecraft Earth

References

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