Iron Golem Summon Command Generator

• Category: passive
• Baby variant: no
• Entity id: minecraft:iron_golem

An iron golem summoned by command behaves like a village-built one: it patrols, offers poppies to villagers, and swings for enormous knockback that launches hostile mobs into the air. That baseline makes /summon iron_golem the standard pick for gate guards, arena minibosses, and defense-wave events in adventure maps.

The generator layers your NBT on top. Push customHealth past the default 100 for a boss that survives a full raid, set invulnerable and no_ai to turn a golem into a plaza statue, or add glowing plus a visible name so players can track their escort through a dark fortress.

Golem cracks do the health-bar work for free: as damage accumulates the texture shows progressively heavier cracking, so a boss golem telegraphs how the fight is going without any scoreboard display.

Example commands

/summon minecraft:iron_golem ~ ~ ~ {PersistenceRequired:1b,CustomName:"Forge Warden",CustomNameVisible:1b,Health:300f,attributes:[{id:"minecraft:max_health",base:300}]}

/summon minecraft:iron_golem ~ ~ ~ {NoAI:1b,Invulnerable:1b,Silent:1b}

/summon minecraft:iron_golem ~ ~ ~ {Glowing:1b,PersistenceRequired:1b}

/summon minecraft:iron_golem ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:villager"}]}

Worth knowing

• Player-built golems (four iron blocks plus a carved pumpkin) never target their builder, but a plain summoned golem counts as naturally spawned and can retaliate if attacked.
• Using an iron ingot on a damaged iron golem restores 25 health per ingot, so players can field-repair an escort mid-mission.
• Iron golems are immune to fall damage and cannot drown, though they sink straight to the bottom instead of swimming.
• Crack overlays appear as the golem loses fractions of its maximum health, which means a customHealth boss still telegraphs how close it is to breaking.
• A golem's swing launches its target into the air, and the follow-up fall damage often finishes what the hit started.

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