Hostile mobs

Wither Skeleton

Wither Skeleton is a current Java and Bedrock Edition entity with a 0.7 × 2.4 block bounding size in the primary record.

Wither Skeleton — representative authorized Minecraft assetWither Skeleton
Image source: Minecraft Wiki
Edition
Java & Bedrock
Java ID
minecraft:wither_skeleton
Bedrock ID
minecraft:wither_skeleton
Java numeric ID
146
Bedrock numeric ID
40
Entity type
hostile
Category
Hostile mobs
Width
0.7 blocks
Height
2.4 blocks

Size and edition support

Wither Skeleton is available in Java & Bedrock. Its base bounding box is approximately 0.7 blocks wide by 2.4 blocks high; poses, age variants and special states can change how an entity occupies space.

Summon command

/summon minecraft:wither_skeleton ~ ~ ~
/summon
Creates an entity in the world.
minecraft:wither_skeleton
The namespaced identifier for Wither Skeleton.
~ ~ ~
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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