The odds of a witch dropping the maximum amount of items possible without a Looting enchantment are 1 in 81 (1.2%).Įach level of Looting increases the maximum items dropped by one for each of the one to three drops, leading to a maximum of five items per drop and a maximum of fifteen items total. The likelihood of a witch to drop sticks is 25%, while the remaining items have a probability of 12.5%.

A witch may drop sticks, glass bottles, glowstone dust, redstone dust, spider eyes, gunpowder or sugar. Witches have the largest loot table of any mob, making one to three drops of zero to two items each, for a maximum of six items total. In raids found in villages, it is more worthwhile to simply build an illager farm and deal with witches as they spawn.Ī witch drops 5 experience orbs when killed by a player or tamed wolf. Witch huts generate in swamp biomes sometimes, but the witch-exclusiveness depends on the entire hut being inside a swamp biome. A hut can support a maximum of three spawning platforms. These huts are the best place to farm witches, but they require spawning platforms and light levels of 0. Witches are a source of potion ingredients and are the only mobs that are able to spawn in the small area around a swamp hut. Shows the side of a swamp hut, also shows the scale of it and proper height. The spawn area matches the roof, plus the porch. The rooftop and scale of a swamp hut, as well as the spawning zone. This witch attacks the player with its potions even if the player traded with it before. The witch transformed from a villager does not despawn and cannot be changed back into a villager. A villager transforms into a witch when lightning strikes within four blocks. Some witches always spawn as part of raids starting from wave 4 in Bedrock Edition or wave 3 or 4 in Java Edition depending on the world difficulty. This is the size of the roof and one block over the porch, from one level below the floor of the hut to two blocks above the roof. Otherwise, only witches spawn in the 7×7×9 volume that is the hut.

Every swamp hut spawns a witch and a cat inside during world generation both which never despawn. The witch may spawn in the Overworld above opaque blocks at a light level of 0, in all biomes except mushroom fields and deep dark.

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