How strong is breeze compared to other hostile mobs in Minecraft

One of the most unexpected, but welcomed, changes arriving with Minecraft 1.21 is the addition of the breeze. This new mob is strikingly similar to the game's pre-existing blaze enemy found throughout the Nether. However, rather than being an extra-dimensional being, the breeze is instead found in the overworld, tucked safely within rare underground trial chambers.

These enemies are very unique in a lot of ways, from how they move to the ways they attack players to the types of items they drop. This article lists all the ways that the upcoming breeze is different from the existing mobs in Minecraft.

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How Minecraft's new breeze stacks up to other mobs

Breeze Health

Their health means killing breeze is often harder than anything else in trial chambers (Image via Mojang)

1.21's upcoming breeze mob has a total of 30 health, which equates to 15 in-game hearts. This gives them 50% more health than the player or any of Minecraft's other mobs, which use the 10 heart base health. There are a surprising number of mobs with 10 hearts of health, including striders, allays, villagers, zombie piglins, blaze, creepers, drowned, husks, zombies, wither skeletons, skeletons, and annoying phantoms.

This makes them one of the toughest hostile mobs in the game that players will regularly run into. This makes sense, given their low damage, making them more of a tanky inconvenience than a glass cannon threat.

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Wind Charge Damage

Wind charges thankfully deal very little damage (Image via Mojang)

Breeze aren't intended to kill players through direct damage. Instead, they normally knock players around dangerous Minecraft trial chambers, causing extra spawners to activate. This is where their threat really comes from: they remove the player's ability to traverse freely, which can cause a bad situation to very quickly become worse.

Difficulty	Wind Charge Damage	Damage in Hearts
Easy	1	0.5
Normal	1	0.5
Hard	1.5	0.75

terms of raw damage, this makes the breeze one of the weakest mobs in Minecraft- even weaker than endermites and only as strong as silverfish. However, their increased health and utility make them a much bigger threat. Similar to ghast fireballs, wind charges launched by breeze can be struck and redirected.

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Drops

Breeze rods are affected by looting, for players that need a lot of them (Image via Mojang)

The breeze is similar to the deadly blaze in that it drops a themed rod. Blaze drop blaze rods while breeze drop breeze rods. This is another sign that the two Minecraft mobs might point towards future content, as there very well could be two new elementals to go along with these two. In fact, a water and earth elemental would complete the traditional set of four elements.

Breeze rods are a very useful drop, especially compared to some other drops such as rotten flesh, which is generally considered useless. Breeze rods can either be combined with a heavy core to make Minecraft's new mace weapon, or broken down into wind charges that the player can use.

These wind charges act similarly to those shot by breeze, traveling a distance before exploding into a burst of wind upon contact with an object. This burst can knock around entities, mobs, and even the player included, although they deal the same paltry damage as the breeze's wind charges. They can also activate certain components like doors, trapdoors, pressure plates, buttons, and levers.

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Misc.

An "invisible" breeze (Image via Mojang)

Breeze also have a super unique way of moving when compared to other mobs. Rather than walking or running, breeeze will instead compress themselves like springs and launch forward. When moving in this way, they can travel five blocks vertically and 15 blocks horizontally.

This is most similar to how slimes and magma cubes move, which is easy to see in Minecraft slime farms, but they are able to move farther and faster than these cuboid enemies.

Breeze also have a unique means of protection. Since they are physically made of rushing winds, no projectiles are able to strike them. Instead, they are pushed away, redirected by the gale. These projectiles can even strike and damage other entities.

Interestingly, Minecraft's breeze are also effectively immune to the invisibility status effect. While the effect does work, it doesn't get rid of the outer wind or their eyebrows. This ends up making invisibility not very effective against them, even if it is not technically an immunity.