Sulfur Cube
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The Sulfur Cube is a hostile mob in Minecraft, which means it will attack players on sight whenever it is able to reach them.
You will normally come across sulfur cubes in the Overworld, where they appear in Sulfur Caves.
What sets it apart is its behaviour: hops after you and splits into two smaller cubes when it dies, and a cube that has already been split does not split again.
With 1 to 4 HP (0.5 to 2 hearts) on its bar, killing one rewards 0 to 2 experience.
It was first added in 26.2 and has been a fixture of Minecraft ever since.
Knowing how the Sulfur Cube 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
Spawning
Natural spawns for the Sulfur Cube occur in Sulfur Caves.
That single-biome restriction means Sulfur Caves is the only place to look; if you are not there, you will not find one, so locating the biome is the real task.
Spawns in the sulfur caves, two to four at a time.
Naturally spawned sulfur cubes will despawn over time when no player is nearby; naming one with a name tag or leading it away on a lead keeps it permanent.
A Sulfur Cube farm is built around its own spawn rule rather than around the light level, so start from what makes them appear at all.
Where the Sulfur Cube spawns
Sulfur Caves is where it stands strongest: weight 100 on the monster list and 32.2% of it, arriving 2 to 4 at a time. There it shares the list with Creeper at 50, Skeleton at 50, Zombie at 50, Slime at 25 and Cave Spider at 20 and 3 more, 311 weight together, of which 100 is sulfur cube. That is the whole list.
| Biome | Weight | Share | Group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sulfur Caves | 100 | 32.2% | 2 to 4 |
Drops
When killed, the Sulfur Cube drops no items at all; its only reward is experience.
Because there is nothing to harvest from its corpse, the reason to engage a Sulfur Cube is almost always the experience or simply clearing it out of the way, not farming a resource.
If you are after specific items, the Sulfur Cube is not your source for them; look to mobs with populated drop tables or to mining and trading instead.
You also collect 0 to 2 experience for every Sulfur Cube you defeat.
Since there is nothing to pick up, you do not need to worry about a hopper or collection system for sulfur cubes; they leave the ground exactly as they found it.
The game rolls nothing for it when it dies, so it leaves nothing behind at all.
Sulfur Cube attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
 Health | 1 to 4 points |
 Size | 0.49 x 0.49 blocks |
 Eye height | 0.175 blocks |
 Tracking range | 10 chunks |
 Experience | 0 to 2 |
| Follow range | 16 blocks |
Its health is not fixed: health is the size multiplied by itself, and a sulfur cube spawns at size 2 and leaves size 1 behind when it splits.
Experience: a small one gives nothing and a full one gives 1 or 2.
Sulfur Cube: 0.49% of its category, rank 42 of 52
On 1 of the 66 biome lists (1 spawn entry in total), and 0.49% of every spawn the game puts in its monster group is a sulfur cube.
| Weapon | Attack damage | Full swings |
|---|---|---|
 golden sword, wooden sword | 4 | 1 |
 stone sword | 5 | 1 |
 iron sword | 6 | 1 |
 diamond sword, golden axe, wooden axe | 7 | 1 |
 netherite sword | 8 | 1 |
 diamond axe, iron axe, stone axe | 9 | 1 |
 netherite axe | 10 | 1 |
On the receiving end a sulfur cube takes 15% off a player's 20 health per hit, so 7 of them land the kill; that share is the sulfur cube's 3 damage on Normal. On Easy the same sulfur cube hit is 10%, on Hard 20%, so 10 hits against 5.
Behavior & Combat
Hops after you and splits into two smaller cubes when it dies, and a cube that has already been split does not split again. Fire is the part to watch, because a lit cube goes off instead of splitting.
On the offensive it deals 2 on Easy, 3 on Normal and 4 on Hard, and you will need to chew through 1 to 4 health (0.5 to 2 hearts) to bring one down.
When fighting back, remember it is weak to Water and Being cut down to its smallest size.
The practical takeaway is to respect its strengths, exploit the weaknesses listed above, and you will rarely lose a fight you choose to take.
Sulfur Cube commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| /summon minecraft:sulfur_cube | Puts a sulfur cube on the block you are standing on. |
| /give @p minecraft:sulfur_cube_spawn_egg | Hands you the sulfur cube spawn egg, so you can place sulfur cubes where you want them. |
| /kill @e[type=minecraft:sulfur_cube] | Removes every sulfur cube that is loaded around you. |
Entity id minecraft:sulfur_cube, spawn egg minecraft:sulfur_cube_spawn_egg.
Sulfur Cube farm
Build a sulfur cube farm around the one rule the game applies to every sulfur cube. Spawns in the sulfur caves, two to four at a time.
The sulfur cube is heaviest in Sulfur Caves at 32.2%, out of the 1 biome spawn list it stands on, so a sulfur cube farm belongs there rather than in the first cave you find.
2 to 4 sulfur cubes arrive per roll, so give the sulfur cube platform width instead of stacking it.
0 to 2 experience per killSulfur Caves at 32.2%Sulfur Cube version history
The sulfur cube was added in Minecraft 26.2, which came out on 16 June 2026, so the sulfur cube has been in the game for 0 years.
No other mob on this site arrived in 26.2, so the sulfur cube is the only page here that carries that version. 87 of our 88 mobs are older than the sulfur cube, 0 are younger.
All of the sulfur cube data above is taken from Java 26.2, so it describes the sulfur cube as it is today.
What Sulfur Cube sounds like
Turn subtitles on and every sulfur cube sound names itself in the corner of the screen. These are the 9 lines a sulfur cube can put there, and you can play any of them yourself with /playsound minecraft:entity.sulfur_cube.hurt master @p.
| Sound | What you hear |
|---|---|
| entity.sulfur_cube.hurt |  Sulfur Cube hurts |
| entity.sulfur_cube.death | Sulfur Cube dies |
| entity.sulfur_cube.absorb | Sulfur Cube full |
| entity.sulfur_cube.bounce | Sulfur Cube bounces |
| entity.sulfur_cube.eject | Block removed |
| entity.sulfur_cube.hit | Sulfur Cube hit |
| entity.sulfur_cube.jump | Sulfur Cube bounces |
| entity.sulfur_cube.push | Sulfur Cube pushed |
| entity.sulfur_cube.squish | Sulfur Cube bounces |
Advancements that need Sulfur Cube
One advancement in the game asks for sulfur cube by name.
Uh OhHave a Sulfur Cube absorb a TNT block
