How much health does a Slime have?

A Slime has 1 to 16 health points, which is 0.5 to 8 hearts on its health bar. That is not a fixed figure: each one rolls its own maximum the moment it spawns.

What does a Slime drop?

When killed, a Slime drops 0 to 2 Slimeballs in specific situations, along with 1 to 4 experience.

How do you defeat a Slime?

To defeat a Slime, target its weaknesses, it is vulnerable to Fire and Fall damage, while dealing with its 1 to 16 health (0.5 to 8 hearts).

How much damage does a Slime deal?

A Slime deals 3 damage on Easy, 4 on Normal and 6 on Hard difficulty.

How much XP does a Slime drop?

A Slime drops 1 to 4 experience points when killed.

How do you summon a Slime in Minecraft?

With cheats on, /summon minecraft:slime puts a Slime on the block you are standing on. /give @p minecraft:slime_spawn_egg hands you the slime spawn egg instead, so you can place slimes where you want them.

What sound does a Slime make in Minecraft?

Switch subtitles on and the game names every slime sound itself: "Slime hurts", "Slime dies", and "Slime attacks", and 1 more. The first of those plays with /playsound minecraft:entity.slime.hurt master @p.

Which advancements need a Slime?

Monster Hunter and Monsters Hunted ask for a slime. Monster Hunter wants you to kill any hostile monster.

Slime

Q: Where do Slimes spawn in Minecraft?

Slimes spawn in Swamp and Slime Chunks (below Y=40). In swamps: spawns at light level 7 or less between Y=51-69. In slime chunks: spawns below Y=40 at any light level.

Q: Can you farm slimes in Minecraft?

Yes, and the spawn rule decides the shape of it. In swamps: spawns at light level 7 or less between Y=51-69. In slime chunks: spawns below Y=40 at any light level. Every slime is worth up to 2 slimeballs, or 5 with Looting III, so the size follows the number you need.

hostile

Read 55 biome entries, 2 drop rows the game rolls on death, attributes from the game's own entry for it against Java 26.2.

Ours, not the game's own: how a slime behaves. Same on Bedrock v1.26.40.05 for weight. Checked 2026-08-22, and here is how we check.

Health

1 to 16

0.5 to 8 hearts

Damage

normal difficulty

XP Drop

1 to 4

experience

Added In

Alpha v1.0.11

version

Overview

In Minecraft, the Slime is classified as a hostile mob: it will attack players on sight whenever it is able to reach them.

Slimes make their home in the Overworld, turning up in Swamp and Slime Chunks (below Y=40).

Its defining trait is simple: bounces toward players.

It carries 1 to 16 health points, 0.5 to 8 hearts, rolled fresh when it spawns, and yields 1 to 4 experience when it dies.

The Slime has been part of the game since version Alpha v1.0.11.

One thing worth knowing: Swamp spawning increases during full moons.

Knowing how the Slime behaves is mostly about survival: recognising it early and reacting correctly is what keeps a night-time excursion from ending in a respawn.

Damage by Difficulty

Easy

Normal

Hard

Spawning

Slimes spawn in Swamp and Slime Chunks (below Y=40).

Because it appears across 53 different biomes, it is one of the easier mobs to track down, and heading to any of them should turn one up before long.

In swamps: spawns at light level 7 or less between Y=51-69. In slime chunks: spawns below Y=40 at any light level.

Height matters too: these spawns are tied to between Y=51 and Y=69, so the vertical slice you build or explore at directly affects how many you encounter.

If you want to farm slimes, build the spawning platform inside one of these biomes and keep the surrounding area dark.

Where the Slime spawns

Badlands, Beach, Birch Forest and Cherry Grove are where it stands strongest: weight 100 on the monster list and 19.4% of it, arriving 1 to 4 at a time. There it shares the list with Creeper at 100, Skeleton at 100, Spider at 100, Zombie at 95 and Enderman at 10 and 2 more, 515 weight together, of which 100 is slime. The other 15 biomes on its list run from 19.3% down to 8%.

Biome	Weight	Share	Group
Badlands	100	19.4%	4
Beach	100	19.4%	4
Birch Forest	100	19.4%	4
Cherry Grove	100	19.4%	4
Dark Forest	100	19.4%	4
Desert	100	19.4%	4
Eroded Badlands	100	19.4%	4
Flower Forest	100	19.4%	4
Forest	100	19.4%	4
Frozen Peaks	100	19.4%	4
Frozen River	100	19.4%	4
Grove	100	19.4%	4
Ice Spikes	100	19.4%	4
Jagged Peaks	100	19.4%	4
Lush Caves	100	19.4%	4
Mangrove Swamp	100	19.4%	4
Meadow	100	19.4%	4
Old Growth Birch Forest	100	19.4%	4
Old Growth Spruce Taiga	100	19.4%	4
Pale Garden	100	19.4%	4
Plains	100	19.4%	4
Savanna	100	19.4%	4
Savanna Plateau	100	19.4%	4
Snowy Beach	100	19.4%	4
Snowy Plains	100	19.4%	4
Snowy Slopes	100	19.4%	4
Snowy Taiga	100	19.4%	4
Sparse Jungle	100	19.4%	4
Stony Peaks	100	19.4%	4
Stony Shore	100	19.4%	4
Sunflower Plains	100	19.4%	4
Swamp	100	19.4%	4
Taiga	100	19.4%	4
Windswept Forest	100	19.4%	4
Windswept Gravelly Hills	100	19.4%	4
Windswept Hills	100	19.4%	4
Windswept Savanna	100	19.4%	4
Wooded Badlands	100	19.4%	4
Bamboo Jungle	100	19.3%	4
Jungle	100	19.3%	4
Cold Ocean	100	19.2%	4
Deep Cold Ocean	100	19.2%	4
Deep Frozen Ocean	100	19.2%	4
Deep Lukewarm Ocean	100	19.2%	4
Deep Ocean	100	19.2%	4
Frozen Ocean	100	19.2%	4
Lukewarm Ocean	100	19.2%	4
Ocean	100	19.2%	4
Warm Ocean	100	19.2%	4
Old Growth Pine Taiga	100	18.5%	4
Dripstone Caves	100	16.4%	4
River	100	16.3%	4
Sulfur Caves	25	8%	1
Mangrove Swamp	1	0.2%	1
Swamp	1	0.2%	1

Drops

Killing a Slime produces the following loot:

Nothing here is guaranteed: a kill can give you 0 to 2 Slimeballs only in specific situations.

In terms of experience, each kill is worth 1 to 4 XP orbs.

Farming slimes is the standard way to stockpile slimeballs in quantity.

The Looting enchantment on your sword raises the quantity and, for many of these items, the drop chance of the rarer rolls, so it is well worth using when you grind this mob.

With nothing guaranteed, output is swingy: over many kills the averages hold, but any single Slime may give you little, so farm in volume rather than expecting a jackpot each time.

Item	Count	Chance	Conditions
Slimeball	0 to 2	situational	Looting III up to 5

The same Slimeball comes off .

Slime attributes

Attribute	Value
Health	1 to 16 points
Size	0.52 x 0.52 blocks
Eye height	0.325 blocks
Tracking range	10 chunks
Follow range	16 blocks
Experience	1 to 4

Its health is not fixed: health is the size multiplied by itself, and a slime spawns at size 1, 2 or 4.

Experience: the experience equals the size it was killed at, so 1, 2 or 4.

Slime: 15.28% of its category, rank 4 of 52

On 53 of the 66 biome lists (55 spawn entries in total), and 15.28% of every spawn the game puts in its monster group is a slime.

Full swings to kill a slime, at its top roll of 16 health.
Weapon	Attack damage	Full swings
golden sword,wooden sword	4	4
stone sword	5	4
iron sword	6	3
diamond sword,golden axe,wooden axe	7	3
netherite sword	8	2
diamond axe,iron axe,stone axe	9	2
netherite axe	10	2

Attack damage per weapon, read from the Java 26.2 tool data

On the receiving end a slime takes 20% off a player's 20 health per hit, so 5 of them land the kill; that share is the slime's 4 damage on Normal. On Easy the same slime hit is 15%, on Hard 30%, so 7 hits against 4. On health, attack and what a kill yields a slime reads exactly like the magma cube. 55 spawn entries against 2 spawn entries for the magma cube is the split, how often the biome files name them, counted over the spawn lists.

Behavior & Combat

In the field, bounces toward players. Splits into 2-4 smaller slimes when killed (large > medium > small). Only small slimes drop slimeballs.

It can hit you for 3 on Easy, 4 on Normal and 6 on Hard, while its own 1 to 16 health (0.5 to 8 hearts) determines how many blows it takes to kill.

The fastest way to win is to lean on what it fears: Fire and Fall damage.

The practical takeaway is to respect its strengths, exploit the weaknesses listed above, and you will rarely lose a fight you choose to take.

Weaknesses

FireFall damage

Slime commands

Cheats have to be on in that world before the slime appears. It needs 0.52 by 0.52 blocks of space to stand in.
Command	What it does
/summon minecraft:slime	Puts a slime on the block you are standing on.
/give @p minecraft:slime_spawn_egg	Hands you the slime spawn egg, so you can place slimes where you want them.
/kill @e[type=minecraft:slime]	Removes every slime that is loaded around you.

Entity id minecraft:slime, spawn egg minecraft:slime_spawn_egg.

Slime farm

A slime farm copies the rule the game already uses for slime spawns. In swamps: spawns at light level 7 or less between Y=51-69. In slime chunks: spawns below Y=40 at any light level.

Badlands is where the slime has the biggest slice of the roll, 19.4% across the 55 lists the slime appears on, and that is the biome to build a slime farm in.

1 to 4 slimes arrive per roll, so give the slime platform width instead of stacking it.

Each kill is worth 1 to 4 experience and up to 2 slimeballs, or 5 with Looting III, so the size of the slime farm follows the number you need of that one item.

1 to 4 experience per kill

Slimeball up to 2, 5 with Looting III

Badlands at 19.4%

Slime version history

Minecraft Alpha v1.0.11 brought the slime in on 22 July 2010, 16 years of slime by now.

No other mob on this site arrived in Alpha v1.0.11, so the slime is the only page here that carries that version. Of the 88 mobs we list, 8 were in the game before the slime and 79 arrived after it.

Every slime figure on this page is read from Minecraft Java 26.2 as it stands today, not from the version above.

What Slime sounds like

Turn subtitles on and every slime sound names itself in the corner of the screen. These are the 4 lines a slime can put there, and you can play any of them yourself with /playsound minecraft:entity.slime.hurt master @p.

Subtitle lines for the slime, as the game writes them.
Sound	What you hear
entity.slime.hurt	Slime hurts
entity.slime.death	Slime dies
entity.slime.attack	Slime attacks
entity.slime.squish	Slime squishes

Advancements that need Slime

2 advancements ask for slime by name, and each of them counts other mobs too.

Monster HunterKill any hostile monster
Monsters HuntedKill one of every hostile monster

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