Combat profile
Shipped defaults for Minecraft 26.3 / NeoForge. Server base stats, wave scaling and ability settings can change these values. Existing server configurations may retain older costs and theme assignments. Timings assume 20 TPS.
Behavior
Compare the Flying Creeper, which uses wall-crossing flight and special breach/stationary ignition rules.
Uses Burrower block-grid crawling over floors, walls and ceilings. It first searches for a complete supported route around, above or below an obstacle; block mining is the fallback within the existing path-search limits. Direct neighboring support is required; diagonal support is permitted only during transitions around the same block. It clears low obstacles such as snow layers and its head and segments follow smooth bends. See shared mining timing for tools, effects and environmental penalties.
In its hot form, mining speed is ×2. With Mob Griefing enabled, a mined block that is now empty is replaced with a temporary lava source. After 100 ticks (5 seconds) the source expires into flowing lava. It does not leave permanent source blocks. Its three-cube body uses a lava texture and slight snake-like motion.
A successful entity-sourced hit that it survives starts a 30-tick (1.5-second) fuse. It stops moving and then explodes with Creeper-strength radius 3. A lethal hit prevents the delayed explosion. Fire is attempted at 80% of suitable explosion positions when griefing permits; lava does not absorb the blast, while water and solid blocks retain their resistance. It uses Creeper hurt, death and priming sounds.
Water touching its head or either visible body section permanently switches it to the stone form, even during a fuse. Cooling cancels priming, disables lava trails and explosions, reduces crawling speed to ×0.25 and changes mining speed to ×1. The stone state persists after saving. Lead it into water to neutralize the explosive form; finish a hot one quickly if you trigger its fuse. Mining and block changes still respect server ability and griefing rules.
The cooled form uses its own stone texture.
Spawning & configuration
Entity ID: invmod:lava_creeper. Default themes: NETHER, UNDERGROUND, SIEGE, MIXED, RANDOM, RANDOMHELL. Use Themes and the entity configuration to change participation and costs.
The shipped wave spawn location is underground. This restricts Nexus-wave spawn points; it does not grant movement abilities or damage immunity. There is no dedicated vanilla replacement for this mob.
Use its dedicated egg from the creative inventory, or /give @s invmod:lava_creeper_spawn_egg with command permission. To summon it directly, use /summon invmod:lava_creeper. See the Spawn Egg Reference. Its vanilla Magma Cube family icon does not change the separately registered mob it spawns.
Drops
Hot form: 1–4 Magma Blocks. Stone form: 1–4 Stone blocks. Both also inherit the 25% Small Remnants roll. It does not inherit the Burrower’s Rotten Flesh/Dirt loot table.
Hot • 1–4 Magma Blocks
Cooled • 1–4 Stone
Small Remnants • 25%