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The Nether has its own cast of mobs, and most of them are either on fire or immune to it. This page lists every Nether mob with where it spawns inside the dimension, what it drops, and how to handle it, including the piglins you can trade with and the striders you can ride across lava.

Nether mobs

  • Blaze: Learn where the blaze spawns in Minecraft, how to beat it, and how to farm blaze rods for blaze powder, brewing, and eyes of ender.
  • Ghast: Learn where the ghast spawns in Minecraft, how to kill it by deflecting its fireballs, what it drops, and what ghast tears are used for.
  • Hoglin: Learn how to find hoglins in Minecraft, what they drop, how to breed them, and why they turn into zoglins in the Overworld.
  • Magma cube: Learn where magma cubes spawn in Minecraft, how they split when hit, what magma cream they drop, and how to build a simple magma cube farm.
  • Piglin brute: What a piglin brute is in Minecraft, where it spawns in bastions, why gold won't calm it, and how to beat one without losing your loot.
  • Piglins: Learn how piglins work in Minecraft, how to barter with gold, why gold armor keeps you safe, and what turns them hostile or zombifies them.
  • Strider: Learn how the strider works in Minecraft, how to saddle and ride one across lava, breed them with warped fungus, and why they shiver on land.
  • Wither skeleton: Learn where wither skeletons spawn in Minecraft, what the wither effect does, their drops, and how to farm skulls to summon the Wither boss.
  • Zoglin: Learn what a zoglin is in Minecraft, how a hoglin turns into one outside the Nether, what it attacks, and the raw porkchops it drops when killed.
  • Zombified piglin: Learn where zombified piglins spawn in Minecraft, why hitting one angers the whole group, what they drop, and how to build a gold farm.

Nether guides

  • The Nether: Learn how to reach the Nether in Minecraft, build a portal, survive every biome, and bring home netherite, blaze rods, and nether wart.
  • Nether portal mechanics: How nether portals work in Minecraft: frame sizes, coordinate scaling, linking rules, cooldowns, and mob behavior explained.
  • Nether fortress: Learn how to find a Nether fortress in Minecraft, get blaze rods and nether wart, fight wither skeletons, and open the loot chests inside.
  • Bastion Remnant: