Minecraft difficulty levels explained

For the feature in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Difficulty.

This article is about the gameplay mechanic. For the command, see Commands/difficulty.

Difficulty is an option in Minecraft that has a direct impact on the ease of gameplay, allowing the game's challenges to be tailored to the player's skill level.

World settings[]

There are four difficulty levels in the game: Peaceful, Easy, Normal and Hard. These can be changed when creating a world, in the settings, as well as with the command.

While the difficulty settings modify the challenge in Survival mode, they also affect hostile mobs in Creative mode the same as in Survival; for example:^[verify]

• Hostile Overworld mobs cannot spawn naturally in Creative Peaceful.
• Zombies have the same difficulty-dependent chances as in Survival to convert villagers into zombie villagers (0% in Creative Easy, 50% in Creative Normal, 100% in Creative Hard).
• Hostile mobs killed by mob grinders in farms drop higher-value items in Creative Hard.

Survival mode is affected by difficulty as described in the

easy mode minecraft command

easy mode minecraft hunger