| “ | The Iron Golems will protect you and the villagers from the hostile mobs. Be careful, if you did not create them, they are neutral. | „ |
| ~ Mojang's description when it was added. |
The Iron Golems are major characters from the Sandbox video game Minecraft.
They are an extremely powerful mob in the game Minecraft. They protect the villagers and players from hostile mobs. They have 50 hearts total, and can kill mobs in merely one or two swipes. Despite being a heroic guardian to all the villagers, there are some situations where they may fail to protect the Villagers from a large numbers of enemies such as an illager raid, or a zombie siege, much to the players' and villagers' dismay. They were added way back in version 1.2 in 2012, and are considered to be much more effective as bodyguards to villagers and players ever since.
However, while some Golems can be heroic in certain scenarios, they can also be antagonistic in others, whereas neutral Iron Golems will indirectly become one of the game's main antagonists (depending on the player's perspective) when the Golem unleashed its bad side to most players, that makes them even more dangerous to most players that mistakenly hit them, even by accident or on purpose, and they will not hesitate to kill the player who hits them, showing deep hatred for the player in that case.
Spawning[]
For both versions, Iron Golems can be made by placing iron blocks in a form of T and then putting a carved pumpkin at the top center. The carved pumpkin must be placed last for the creation to take effect. A jack-o-lantern can also be used in place of the carved pumpkin. In Bedrock edition, a regular pumpkin can be used for the construction.
Java Edition[]
In the PC edition of Minecraft, the Iron Golem's method of spawning is a bit different to most other mobs in the game; as most mobs require certain types of biomes and/or light levels to spawn in, Iron Golems spawn based on the actions and AI of villagers. In other words, villagers can spawn Iron Golems if the following criteria are met:
- The villager is in a state of gossiping with another villager, or panicking.
- The villager has slept in a bed in the last 20 minutes.
- The villager has not detected an Iron Golem within the last 30 minutes, which a villager's AI checks for one every 10 seconds within its own space of 16×16×16 blocks.
- The villager has not been near or part the spawning of an Iron Golem in the last 30 seconds, which must take place within a 10×10×10 space of that villager.
- There are enough participants within 10 blocks of the villager, including the villager itself; participating villagers need to fulfill the previous three conditions - five villagers if gossiping, or three when panicking.
Bedrock Edition[]
In the console and mobile versions of the game, the requirements for Iron Golems to spawn are different from the PC version. Instead of gossip and panic states dictating when a Golem spawns, the amount of villagers, beds and villagers working their respective professions dictate that. There must be 20 beds and 10 villagers in a village for a valid Iron Golem spawn to occur. Note, that this has to do with spawning Iron Golems when villages are created at world generation.
For a village to continuously spawn Iron Golems, 75% of the villagers in the village must have worked in the past day, 100% of the villagers must be linked to a bed, and a player must be within 64-128 blocks horizontal and 44-108 blocks vertical distance from the village center, depending on simulation distance. The simulation distance is the following:
Horizontal = 8 × SimulationDistance + 32
Vertical = 8 × SimulationDistance + 12
If an Iron Golem dies, one can spawn to replace it until the aforementioned conditions are met. This means the player must assist in expanding the village if they want more Iron Golems to naturally spawn. If the conditions are met, each game tick will have a 0.14% chance to spawn a Golem, which averages out to roughly one spawn every 35 seconds.
Behavior[]
Iron Golems will become aggressive against any nearby hostile or neutral mob - other than Creepers or Wolves. Their method of attacking is bashing enemies upward, so that the threats take damage from both the original strike and potential fall damage when the enemy falls back down. They will attack anything that attacks them or a villager, except a player if the Iron Golem is player-made. Player-made Iron Golems never attack the player under any circumstance, meaning that they never retaliate toward the player when they're hit, nor do they become hostile to a player attacking a villager.
A golem will only stop acting aggressively if they defeat a player or mob who attacked them, or if all players leave the game. When a villager is attacked, an Iron Golem can somehow detect the threat even if it's a substantial distance away. In other words, villagers being attacked out of an Iron Golem's view will not stop that Iron Golem from immediately coming to a villager's aid. The Golems' distance of detecting hostile mobs is larger than that of detecting hostile players.
If a player is largely unpopular at a specific village, any respective Iron Golems will immediately attack that player. If the village is near a large pool of water or the ocean, and an Iron Golem unknowingly goes in the water, it will stay in the water until it dies or is somehow forced to escape it. They may give baby villagers a poppy.
Being a giant hunk of mobile metal, they will make heavy metallic thumping sounds when walking. When attacked, being repaired with an iron ingot, or killed, they can be heard making deep, echoed and metallic whispery howls. Because they are not biological creatures like almost all the other mobs in the game, the Golems cannot breed with each other. Because of this, there are no baby Iron Golems, in the same way there are baby versions of other mobs.
The creation of Iron Golems are left up to spawning in villages (which is mentioned above, and differs depending on the version of the game) or by the players with the use of iron blocks and pumpkins. This is a deliberate design choice, as to not make Iron Golems too easy to make. Under no circumstances can multiple Iron Golems attack each other, which is also a deliberate design choice.
If a Snow Golem's snowball accidentally hits an Iron Golem or a villager, the Golem will retaliate, despite the fact that a.) snowballs fired from Snow Golems do no damage whatsoever, and b.) Snow Golems are completely friendly by nature.
Appearance[]
The Iron Golem is a very tall Minecraft mob. Like the name says their bodies are made out of iron, there are also some peculiar vines with yellow flowers around their bodies, though it can also be wires. Their faces are similar to the Villagers' faces. Their eyes are red and black.
As the Iron Golems take damage, they will appear to have cracks across their bodies. The lower their health is, the more cracks will appear. Their bodies will revert to normal if they are repaired with iron ingots. Unless the player uses name tags on them, it is impossible to visually determine the difference between a naturally-spawned Iron Golem and a player-made one; only their behavior can indiciate which is which.
Role[]
They will help the players or the villagers fight the hostile mobs and protect them from danger. Once the Iron Golem helps defeat the hostile mobs, the mobs will retreat and despawn since they are all outnumbered. It possesses a great strength and can attack entities with only 2-3 punches. Once the Iron Golem is created by the player, The Iron Golem will be respectful to their owners, but if they will spawn naturally, they will be neutral amongst the players.
Iron Golems are also useful in raids, as their strength will cause a lot of damage on the illagers or can kill them with 2-3 punches. If all iron golems or villagers are defeated in the raid, the illagers will be victorious, but if one or more iron golems or villagers survive, the illagers are mostly defeated, and the player will win the raid. They are also useful in fighting the Wither boss, as their strength will also help the player defeat the boss much more easily.
Iron golems are also entirely useful within the Ender Dragon battle, as they will distract all the endermen from killing and chasing the player, thus making the player so easy to target the Ender Dragon. They are friendly to all innocent beings in the game, except the hostile mobs, or those who can provoke and harm them. Iron Golems can be useful companions throughout gameplay, and can play a large and important role in the player's adventure if the player chooses.
Abilities[]
- Superhuman strength: The Iron Golem is a powerful mob in the game; it's able to send another mob high in the air by slamming them with its iron arms. The Iron Golem can win fights against most mobs and can kill the player with very few hits.
- Superhuman durability: The Iron Golem is made out of Iron which is a very durable resource in Minecraft, because of this, it can take a lot of damage without dying. It also has complete knockback resistance.
- Aquatic breathing: The Iron Golem, unlike other mobs, can breathe underwater and cannot die from drowning.
- Fall damage immunity: The Iron Golem can fall from great heights and survive unharmed, this makes it the only mob in the game besides chickens who are immune to fall damage.
- High amount of health: it has 50 hearts in total (which is 100 health in the game) and is made out of iron.
Weaknesses[]
- Limited Vertical range: The Iron Golem has a limited vertical range as it cannot hit anything above 3 blocks
- Water: If the Iron Golem goes into water, it will sink and become trapped.
- Fire and Lava: The Iron Golem can die quickly from fire and lava and will generally avoid them.
- Cacti: The Iron Golem is weak to Cacti and will take damage if it makes contact with one
- Certain Mobs: Certain mobs like the Ravager or the Warden can easily win against the Iron Golem and kill it.
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Trivia[]
- The Golems giving poppy flowers to baby villagers is a reference to the 1986 Japanese animated film Laputa: Castle in the Sky, where an ancient robot hands a flower to the main child characters.
- They may be based on the Stone Golems from TimeSplitters 2
- Iron Golems do not attack Creepers, with the highly likely reason being due to the Creepers' explosive nature, as provoking just one Creeper could take out a sizeable chunk of a village, and any villagers nearby.
- Strangely enough, Iron Golems can be provoked by players throwing ender pearls at them, despite the fact that ender pearls deal no damage to anything they touch.
- The T shape to construct an Iron Golem can be placed upright, upside down, sideways, or even on the ground.
- There are variants of the Iron Golem in Minecraft: Story Mode, however these are normally hostile.
- In Minecraft Earth, there are Furnace Golems, which are essentially Iron Golems that can deal fire damage.
- In Minecraft Legends, the First of Stone seems to be loosely based off the Iron Golem, judging by their nose, yellow flowers, and moss-covered body. Despite Golems having a large focus in this game, the Iron Golems aren't present at all.
External link[]
- Iron Golems on the Minecraft Wiki
- Iron Golems on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
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