Glow Squid

The glow squid is an aquatic passive mob found in dark underwater areas, typically in ocean depths, ravines and underground lakes. The glow squid is a variety of squid. It has an aqua luminescent texture. They were ported to vanilla Minecraft from Minecraft Earth.

Spawning[]

In Java Edition, schools of 2 to 4 glow squid spawn in water in complete darkness in the Overworld (except deep dark biome) below layer 30. Unlike most other aquatic mobs, they require no water or waterlogged blocks above or below their spawning space.

In Bedrock Edition, glow squid spawn anywhere where there's water underground, in schools of 2 to 4 (below a solid roof categorized as cave spawn, while squids are surface spawns) anywhere below Y=30. Glow squid have a 5% chance of spawning as babies.

Drops[]

• 1 to 3 glow ink sacs. The maximum amount is increased by one per level of Looting, for a maximum of 1 to 6 with Looting III.
• 1–3 experience points when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
• As with all other baby animals, killing a baby glow squid from Bedrock Edition yields no items or experience.

Behavior[]

Glow squid wander around aimlessly in three dimensions as long as they are in the water, opening and closing their tentacles, which gives them the appearance of pushing themselves leisurely forward.

Glow squid suffocate when out of water, dying after 15 seconds (300 game ticks). While on land, they remain stationary until they suffocate. They can take fall damage and burn like any other land mob, but they cannot drown. When out of the water, glow squid are resistant to knockback.

Glow squid are passive toward the player. They are not attracted to light and do not deliberately interact with the player. Glow squid sometimes beach themselves and suffocate on the banks of rivers and occasionally on ocean beaches. These behaviors are shared with traditional squid.

Glow squid appear to glow, but do not produce light. They stop glowing for 5 seconds (100 game ticks) when harmed.

Glow squid cannot swim in lava, even if inflicted with Fire Resistance. They simply pass through the lava and behave as if on land.

Unlike land-based mobs, glow squid can swim against a current and not get pushed by it.‌‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Guardians and elder guardians attack glow squid in the same manner as they attack a player or regular squid. Axolotls also attack glow squid.

Because glow squid are aquatic mobs they are affected by the Impaling enchantment.‌^{[Java Edition only]}‌^{[until JE Combat Tests]}

Glow squid constantly produce crystalline particles around them. When attacked, they emit a cloud of turquoise ink particles and swim away. The particles and the ink remain remain visible when the glow squid has the Invisibility status effect.

If the player is in spectator mode or is far away from glow squid (often when they are in unloaded chunks), they remain stationary. When attacked in this state, glow squid cannot flee.

Although glow squid have a baby variant in Bedrock Edition, there is currently no way to breed adult glow squid.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Glow squids use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Monster Hunter	Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Axolotl Bee Blaze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Chicken Jockey Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Skeleton Horseman Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Spider Jockey Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst

Entity data[]

Glow squid have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

History[]

September 27, 2020					The glow squid, moobloom, and iceologer are announced as the mobs in the Minecraft Live 2020 mob vote, which consists of mobs from Minecraft's spin-off games, Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Earth.
October 3, 2020					The glow squid wins the mob vote. The glow squid is the first mob from a spin-off game to be included in the base game.
Java Edition
1.17		21w03a			Added the glow squid, but without the glow texture animation found in the Minecraft Earth version.
		21w13a			Glow squid now spawn in underground water sources.
		21w19a			Glow squid can now be leashed.[1]
		Pre-release 3			Glow squid now spawn only in total darkness and where there's a block with base_stone_overworld tag less than 5 blocks below the spawning space.
1.18		21w40a			Glow squid now spawn below y=30 rather than below y=63, and ignore any prior light level or natural stone requirements.
1.18.2		22w07a			By fixing MC-238977, glow squid now also require complete darkness to spawn, as was previously the case from 1.17-pre3 to 21w39a.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.0		beta 1.16.210.59			Added the glow squid behind the "Caves and Cliffs" experimental toggle. Ink particles are currently black as normal squid, unlike Java Edition. The glow texture is not animated, unlike the original Minecraft Earth version.
		beta 1.16.210.60			The glow squid has been temporarily removed due to a crash.
		beta 1.16.220.50			Re-added glow squids.
					Glow Squid now squirt the same coloured particles when hit as on Java Edition.
		beta 1.17.0.52			Now spawn in any biome and up to Y-63 instead of Y-30.
					Glow squid are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
		beta 1.17.0.54			Added a sound when glow squids shoot out ink.
1.17.30		beta 1.17.20.22			Glow squid can now spawn below Y=0 to Y=-64 if the Caves & Cliffs experimental gameplay toggle is enabled.
1.18.0		beta 1.18.0.21			Glow squid now spawn below y=30 rather than below y=63.

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  Glow Squid during development in Java Edition.

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  Glow Squid during development in Java Edition.

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  Glow Squid in Bedrock Edition beta 1.16.210.59.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Glow Squid" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• The glow squid won the Minecraft Live 2020 mob vote, beating the iceologer (from Minecraft Dungeons) and moobloom.

Gallery[]

Screenshots[]

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  Multiple glow squid.

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  Three axolotls attacking a glow squid underwater.

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  A deep lukewarm ocean with several glow squid clearly visible.

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  Glow squids underwater.

In other media[]

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  A screenshot of the mob vote 2020 featuring the glow squid.

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  Glow squid won the Mob Vote 2020.

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  Animation of glow squid winning in mob vote 2020.

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  Glow squid from Minecraft Plus!.

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  A glow squid in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update (1.17 game version).

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  A Glow Squid in promotional artwork for Mobile, Multiplayer & More.

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  Lego Minecraft Glow Squid.

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  A T-Shirt featuring a glow squid design.

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  A glow in the dark Glow Squid shirt.

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  "Survive, Explore, Create" a sticker design plastered on a laptop.

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  The same design, now on a water bottle.

See also[]

• Squid
• Glow Squid (Minecraft Earth)
• Glow Squid (Minecraft Dungeons)
• Glow Squid Armor

References[]