Hitbox

A hitbox defines the physical "boundaries" (or an approximation thereof) of a block or entity. Hitboxes are utilised in the calculations of collisions and targeting.

Unlike with block models, all hitboxes' sizes are hard-coded and cannot be changed independently without modification. However, it can be scaled via minecraft:scale attribute.

Entities' hitboxes are color-coded, and can be seen through the F3 + B debug hotkey.

Entity hitboxes[edit | edit source]

Bounding box[edit | edit source]

The bounding box manages an entity's collision with other entities and blocks. It is also used for detecting hits and interactions from players, villagers, arrows, and other entities.

The bounding box is shown as a white color-coded hitbox around the entities.‌^{[Java Edition only]} It moves with the entity but maintains a static orientation without rotating.

An entity's bounding box can transform into different shapes depending on the situation. For instance, a pufferfish when approached by players gradually expands its shape, from unpuffed, to semi-puffed, then to fully puffed. It instantly shrinks its shape back to normal once it cools down. Players can also change their bounding box by sneaking, crawling, swimming, gliding, or any other means.

Eye height[edit | edit source]

The eye height shows an entity's eyes placement. It is used for detecting when an entity is submerged in a water or phasing through a solid block. In this state, the game usually times the entity running out of air or suffocate.

The eye height is also used to determine if two entities can see and follow each other by their eye contact.^[1]

The eye height is shown as flat red lines typically appearing on entities' eyes or head.

A long blue tint placed in-line with the eye height hitbox shows which direction entities are looking.

Passenger attachment point[edit | edit source]

The passenger attachment point shows the point where an entity passenger is attached on a mountable entity.

The passenger attachment point is shown as a small green hitbox. This hitbox appears on a mountable entity when it is mounted by another entity.

When an entity mounts another entity, the passenger's bounding box aligns precisely with the bottom side of the passenger attachment point hitbox.

Block hitboxes[edit | edit source]

Collision box[edit | edit source]

The collision box manages block collision with entities. The collision boxes for blocks are usually shaped in cubes, but some may have different shapes, like slabs, lecterns, fences, and stairs.

A collision box may not be present for all blocks, like non-solid blocks such as grass, sign, button, lever and torch have no collision box. Some blocks may have custom collision box that make them semi-solid, like scaffolding and hanging sign.

While most blocks have their collision box identical to their interaction box, some may have different collision box compared to their interaction box counterpart. For instances, the lecterns' collision box do not extend into the upper part of their interaction box, and the fences' collision box are a bit taller than their interaction box.

Interaction box[edit | edit source]

The interaction box manages block interactions with entities, such as block placement, destruction, right-click, and other interactions. The interaction box is shown in black outlines around the block's edges when looking at the given block; this is especially visible in the barrier block.

The interaction boxes for blocks are usually contained within its own 1×1×1 cube space, but some blocks are capable of extending outside of this space.^[2] There are several instances where this can be seen:

• The arm of an extended piston – specifically the part that protrudes into the piston's block space.^[2][3]
• The extended top of an opened shulker box.^[2]
• The very top part of a lectern's head.^[2] This is especially obvious when a block is placed above the lectern, making lectern's outline overlap with the block.

This behavior is caused by the ray-casting that usually detect the interaction box precense to never collide with it, even though it should.^[2]

Miscellaneous hitboxes[edit | edit source]

Third-person view camera collision box[edit | edit source]

The third-person view camera has a collision box that collides with solid blocks, but doesn't collide with transparent blocks, such as glasses and glass panes, and non-solid blocks. However, the third-person view camera does collide with the barrier block.

Smoke particles collision box[edit | edit source]

Smoke particles have a collision box that collides with solid blocks. Smoke particles come from the campfire, and have collision unlike other particles, which usually phase through blocks and entities. Likewise, smoke particles do not collide with transparent blocks and non-solid blocks, but collide with the barrier block.

List of entities' hitboxes[edit | edit source]

Most entities' bounding boxes are shaped in cuboids, and do not always overlap with the models of the entities. For example, the witch's bounding box does not include the upper part of its hat, and the wither's bounding box does not include the two heads on its sides. Because most bounding boxes are cuboids, it is standard to measure them by their width and height, with both being measured in blocks tall.

Not all entities have a single cuboid bounding box, some entities like the ender dragon have multiple distinct hitboxes. The list mainly shows the sizes of an entity's bounding box or similar. Other hitboxes may be include in the notes.

Java Edition hitboxes are shown first, unless stated otherwise.

Living Entities

Entity	Height	Width	Height (Baby)	Width (Baby)	Note
Allay	0.6	0.35
Armadillo	0.65	0.7	0.39	0.42
Armor Stand	0.5	1.975	0.25	0.9875
Axolotl	0.42	0.75	0.21	0.375
Bat	0.9	0.5
Bee	0.6	0.7	0.3	0.35
Blaze	1.8	0.6
Bogged	1.99‌[JE only] 1.9‌[BE only]	0.6
Breeze	1.77	0.6
Camel	2.375	1.7	1.1875	0.85	Adult (sitting): Height: 0.945 blocks Width: 1.7 blocks Baby (sitting): Height: 0.4725 blocks Width: 0.85 blocks
Cat	0.7	0.6	0.35	0.3
Cave Spider	0.5	0.7
Chicken	0.7	0.4	0.35	0.2
Cod	0.3	0.5
Cow	1.4	0.9	0.7	0.45
Creaking ​[upcoming Drop]	2.7	0.9
Creeper	1.7	0.6
Dolphin	0.6	0.9	0.39‌[BE only]	0.585‌[BE only]
Donkey	1.5	1.3965	0.75	0.6982
Drowned	1.95	0.6	0.975	0.3
Elder Guardian	1.9975	1.9975
Ender Dragon	8	16			Bounding box only. Green hitboxes are not counted.
Enderman	2.9	0.6			Angry: Height: 3.25 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks
Endermite	0.3	0.4
Evoker	1.95	0.6
Fox	0.7	0.6	0.35	0.3
Frog	0.5	0.5
Ghast	4.0	4.0
Giant‌[JE only]	12	3.6
Glow Squid	0.8	0.8
Goat	1.3	0.9	0.65	0.45	Adult (jumping): Height: 0.91 blocks Width: 0.63 blocks Baby (jumping): Height: 0.455 blocks Width: 0.315 blocks
Guardian	0.85	0.85
Hoglin	1.4	1.3965	0.7	0.6982
Horse	1.6	1.3965	0.8	0.6982
Husk	1.95	0.6	0.975	0.3
Illusioner‌[JE only]	N/A	N/A
Iron Golem	2.7	1.4
Llama	1.87	0.9	0.935	0.45
Magma Cube	Varies	Varies			Big: Height: 2.08 blocks Width: 2.0808 blocks Medium: Height: 1.04 blocks Width: 1.0404 blocks Small: Height: 0.52 blocks Width: 0.5202 blocks
Mooshroom	1.4	0.9	0.7	0.45
Mule	1.6	1.3965	0.8	0.6982
Ocelot	0.7	0.6	0.35	0.3
Panda	1.25	1.3	0.625	0.65
Parrot	0.9	0.5
Phantom	0.5	0.5
Pig	0.9	0.9	0.45	0.45
Piglin	1.95	0.6
Piglin Brute	1.95	0.6
Pillager	1.95	0.6
Player	1.8	0.6			Sneaking: Height: 1.5 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks Gliding/swimming: Height: 0.6 blocks Width: 0.6 blocks Sleeping: Height: 0.2 blocks Width: 0.2 blocks
Polar Bear	1.4	1.4	0.7	0.7
Pufferfish	Varies	Varies			Unpuffed: Height: 0.35 blocks Width: 0.35 blocks Semi-puffed: Height: 0.49 blocks Width: 0.49 blocks Fully Puffed: Height: 0.7 blocks Width: 0.7 blocks
Rabbit	0.5‌[JE only] 0.402‌[BE only]	0.4‌[JE only] 0.402‌[BE only]	0.25‌[JE only] 0.268‌[BE only]	0.2‌[JE only] 0.268‌[BE only]
Ravager	2.2	1.95
Salmon	0.4	0.7			Bedrock Edition has small, medium, and large variants. Small Salmon: Height: 0.25 blocks Width: 0.25 blocks Medium Salmon: Height: 0.5 blocks Width: 0.5 blocks Large Salmon: Height: 0.75 blocks Width: 0.75 blocks
Sheep	1.3	0.9	0.65	0.45
Shulker	Varies	1			Closed: Height: 1 block Width: 1 block Peeking: Height: 1.2 blocks Width: 1 block Open: Height: 2 blocks Width: 1 block
Silverfish	0.3	0.4
Skeleton	1.99	0.6
Skeleton Horse	1.6	1.3965	0.8	0.6982
Slime	Varies	Varies			Big: Height: 2.08 blocks Width: 2.0808 blocks Medium: Height: 1.04 blocks Width: 1.0404 blocks Small: Height: 0.52 blocks Width: 0.5202 blocks [needs testing in Bedrock Edition]
Sniffer	1.75	1.9	0.875‌[JE only] 0.7875‌[BE only]	0.95‌[JE only] 0.855‌[BE only]
Snow Golem	1.9	0.7
Spider	0.9	1.4
Squid	0.8	0.8
Stray	1.99	0.6
Strider	1.7	0.9	0.85	0.45
Tadpole	0.3	0.4
Tropical Fish	0.4	0.5
Turtle	0.4	1.2	0.12	0.36
Vex	0.8	0.4
Villager	1.95	0.6	0.975	0.3
Vindicator	1.95	0.6
Wandering Trader	1.95	0.6
Warden	2.9	0.9			While digging/emerging:[needs testing in Bedrock Edition] Height: 1 block Width: 0.9 blocks
Witch	1.95	0.6
Wither	3.5	0.9
Wither Skeleton	2.4	0.7
Wolf	0.85‌[JE only] 0.8‌[BE only]	0.6	0.425‌[JE only] 0.4‌[BE only]	0.3
Zoglin	1.4	1.3965	0.7	0.6982
Zombie	1.95	0.6	0.975	0.3
Zombie Horse	1.6	1.3965	0.8	0.6982
Zombie Villager	1.95	0.6	0.975	0.3
Zombified Piglin	1.95	0.6	0.975	0.3

Miscellaneous

Entity	Height	Width
Area Effect Cloud	0.5	Varies
End Crystal	2	2
Evoker Fangs	0.8	0.5
Fishing Bobber	0.25	0.25
Glow Item Frame	N/A	N/A
Item Frame	N/A	N/A
Leash Knot	0.5	0.375
Interaction‌[JE only]	Varies	Varies
Marker‌[JE only]	None	None
Block Display‌[JE only]	None	None
Text Display‌[JE only]	None	None
Item Display‌[JE only]	None	None
Painting	N/A	N/A

Projectiles

Entity	Height	Width	Note
Arrow and Tipped Arrow	0.5	0.5	Eye Height: 0.13 blocks
Bottle o' Enchanting	0.25	0.25
Dragon Fireball	1	1
Egg	0.25	0.25
Ender Pearl	0.25	0.25
Eye of Ender	0.25	0.25
Fireball	1‌[JE only] 0.31‌[BE only]	1‌[JE only] 0.31‌[BE only]
Firework Rocket	0.25	0.25
Llama Spit	0.25	0.25
Shulker bullet	0.3125	0.3125
Small Fireball	0.3125	0.3125
Snowball	0.25	0.25
Spectral Arrow	0.5	0.5
Thrown Lingering Potion	0.25	0.25
Trident	0.5	0.5
Wind Charge	0.3125	0.3125
Wither Skull	0.3125	0.3125

Vehicles

Entity	Height	Width
Boat	0.5625	1.375
Boat with Chest	0.5625	1.375
Minecart	0.7	0.98
Minecart with Chest	0.7	0.98
Minecart with Command Block	0.7	0.98
Minecart with Furnace	0.7	0.98
Minecart with Hopper	0.7	0.98
Minecart with Monster Spawner	0.7	0.98
Minecart with TNT	0.7	0.98

Items

Entity	Height	Width
Experience Orb	0.5‌[JE only] 0.25‌[BE only]	0.5‌[JE only] 0.25‌[BE only]
Item	0.25	0.25

Blocks

Entity	Height	Width
Falling Block	0.98	0.98
Primed TNT	0.98	0.98

Ender dragon[edit | edit source]

The ender dragon has nine distinct hitboxes, consisting of a single massive white hitbox with eight small green hitboxes inside. These green hitboxes move as the ender dragon flies, but do not rotate. Players can damage the ender dragon by hitting one of their green hitboxes.

Variable hitbox sizes[edit | edit source]

The size of an entity's hitbox is not necessarily static and may change depending on certain situations. For instance, a player's hitbox gets smaller while crouching, and the hitbox of a pufferfish changes while its puffed. Below is the list of entities whose hitbox can change sizes given specific situations.

Enderman	Normal	Angry
Height	2.9	3.25
Width	0.6	0.6

Player	Normal	Sneaking	Gliding/swimming	Sleeping
Height	1.8	1.5	0.6	0.2
Width	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.2

Pufferfish	Unpuffed	Semi-puffed	Fully Puffed
Height	0.35	0.49	0.7
Width	0.35	0.49	0.7

Shulker	Closed	Peeking	Open
Height	1	1.2	2
Width	1	1	1

History[edit | edit source]

Block hitboxes[edit | edit source]

This section needs cleanup to comply with the style guide. ^[discuss]

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Reason: all information on the list need to be placed on the history table

• The hitboxes of pointed dripstone in Java Edition 20w48a could sometimes also randomly extend into adjacent blocks, allowing this to be seen.^[4] Fixed in Java Edition 20w49a.
• The hitboxes of melon stems and pumpkin stems with ages 8^[verify] and over could visually extend into the block space above them while they existed (from Beta 1.8 Pre-release up to the removal of the last four in 14w10a and the remaining four in 14w25a).
• The hitboxes of cakes with 8^[verify] or more bites could extend into the adjacent block space while these existed (from Beta 1.2 up to their removal in 14w26a).
• The hitboxes of cakes and cacti at far distances could previously (from Beta 1.2 and Alpha v1.0.11 respectively up to their fixing, although it became unobservable for cake from 15w38a onward due to MC-106300 — resolved as "Fixed".) also become greater than a full block, allowing this to be seen.

Collision box[edit | edit source]

Interaction box[edit | edit source]

Entity hitboxes[edit | edit source]

Issues[edit | edit source]

Issues relating to "Hitbox" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

Screenshots[edit | edit source]

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  Ender dragon has nine distinct hitboxes.

• 

  Wither heads don't have a hitbox of its own.

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  Players' small hitbox while gliding using an eytra.

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  Sheep has the same hitboxes despite being upside down.

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  Netherite, diamond, and emerald have entity hitboxes.

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  Pseudo-blocks like item frame and painting have entity hitboxes.

References[edit | edit source]

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