Entity Documentation - minecraft:behavior.look_at_player

Compels an entity to look at the player by rotating the head bone pose within a set limit.

Note

In 1.26.0 the schema is stricter and rejects invalid JSON. The min_look_time and max_look_time fields are deprecated and replaced by a single look_time range (with min and max). Existing uses of min_look_time / max_look_time are upgraded automatically.

Entity Look At Player Behavior Properties

Name	Default Value	Type	Description	Example Values
angle_of_view_horizontal	360	Integer number	The angle in degrees that the mob can see rotated on the Y-axis (left-right). Value must be <= 360.	Ravager: 45
angle_of_view_vertical	360	Integer number	The angle in degrees that the mob can see rotated on the X-axis (up-down). Value must be <= 360.
control_flags	[]	Control Flags choices
look_distance	8	Decimal number	The distance in blocks from which the entity will look at the nearest entity.	Bogged: 8, Breeze: 16, Cave Spider: 6
look_time	{"max":4,"min":2}	Look Time item	Time range to look at the nearest entity.	Zombie Horse: [2,4], Campghost: [0,100]
max_look_time	not set	Decimal number		Armadillo: 80
min_look_time	not set	Decimal number		Armadillo: 40
priority	0	Integer number	As priority approaches 0, the priority is increased. The higher the priority, the sooner this behavior will be executed as a goal.	Allay: 8, Armadillo: 7, Axolotl: 10
probability	0.019999999552965164	Decimal number	The probability of looking at the target. A value of 1.00 is 100%. Value must be <= 1.	Allay: 0.02, Elder Guardian: 0.01, Enderman: 8
target_distance	not set	Decimal number		Allay: 6

Control Flags choices

Value	Title	Description
jump	Jump
look	Look
move	Move

Legacy FloatRange

Legacy FloatRange Properties

JSON path: look_time

Name	Default Value	Type	Description
max	0	Decimal number
min	0	Decimal number

Samples

Allay

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 8,
  "target_distance": 6,
  "probability": 0.02
}

Bogged

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 7,
  "look_distance": 8
}

Breeze

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 7,
  "look_distance": 16
}

Cave Spider

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 7,
  "look_distance": 6,
  "probability": 0.02
}

Armadillo

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 7,
  "target_distance": 6,
  "probability": 0.02,
  "min_look_time": 40,
  "max_look_time": 80
}

Axolotl

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 10,
  "target_distance": 6,
  "probability": 0.02
}

Camel

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 7,
  "target_distance": 6,
  "probability": 0.02
}

Cat

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 9
}

Copper Golem

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 6,
  "look_distance": 6,
  "probability": 0.02
}

Creeper

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 6,
  "look_distance": 8
}

Dolphin

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 8,
  "look_distance": 6
}

Drowned

"minecraft:behavior.look_at_player": {
  "priority": 8,
  "look_distance": 6,
  "probability": 0.02
}