Mobs

Mobs are entities which make use of an AI to move around the world.

1. Listing
2. Metadata
   1. Creeper
   2. Pig
   3. Sheep
   4. Wolf

Listing

A comprehensive list of all mobs.

Value	Name
50	Creeper
51	Skeleton
52	Spider
53	Giant Zombie
54	Zombie
55	Slime
56	Ghast
57	Zombie Pigman
90	Pig
91	Sheep
92	Cow
93	Chicken
94	Squid
95	Wolf

Metadata

Some entities sent metadata when they are spawned. Its sent in a format that is very much unlike NBT, but it makes use of the same data types as everything else. The format for entity metadata is simple, just a byte indicating the type of the following value.

Header	Expected data type
0	Byte
1	Short
2	Integer
3	Float
4	String16
5	Item (Short (id), Byte (amount), Short (damage))
6	X,Y,Z (Integer, Integer, Integer)

The metadata is terminated by 127/0x7F.

Creeper

Type	Values	Description
Byte	-1 - 1	Max damage (?)

Pig

Type	Values	Description
Byte	0/1	Saddled if 1

Sheep

Type	Values	Description
Byte	0x00 - 0x1F	Lower 4-Bits for wool color, Bit 0x10 if shorn

Wolf

Tamed wolves have more health than wilf ones.

Type	Values	Description
Byte	0x00-0x7	State
String16	-	Username of the player who tamed the wolf
Integer	0-8/0-20	Health of the Wolf

Bit	State
0x01	Sitting down
0x02	Agressive
0x04	Tamed