Other entities

Bat

Bat is a current Java and Bedrock Edition entity with a 0.5 × 0.9 block bounding size in the primary record.

Bat — representative authorized Minecraft assetBat
Image source: Minecraft Wiki
Edition
Java & Bedrock
Java ID
minecraft:bat
Bedrock ID
minecraft:bat
Java numeric ID
10
Bedrock numeric ID
9
Entity type
ambient
Category
Other entities
Width
0.5 blocks
Height
0.9 blocks

Size and edition support

Bat is available in Java & Bedrock. Its base bounding box is approximately 0.5 blocks wide by 0.9 blocks high; poses, age variants and special states can change how an entity occupies space.

Summon command

/summon minecraft:bat ~ ~ ~
/summon
Creates an entity in the world.
minecraft:bat
The namespaced identifier for Bat.
~ ~ ~
The command executor's current X, Y and Z position.

Some technical entities require additional data, cannot persist normally, or are intended to be created only by game systems.

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