Phantom Summon Command Generator

• Category: hostile
• Baby variant: no
• Entity id: minecraft:phantom

Phantoms are vanilla's punishment for skipped sleep: after three in-game days without a bed or a death, they materialize in the night sky and dive at whoever kept the insomnia statistic ticking. As the only flying undead, they mix aerial pathing with the whole undead rulebook — sunlight ignition, Smite vulnerability, and healing potions that hurt instead of help.

Summoning them directly skips the insomnia bookkeeping and puts a swooping attacker exactly where an encounter needs one. Pad customHealth to turn a 20-health nuisance into a proper night miniboss, add glowing so players can track dives against a black sky, or combine no_ai with no_gravity to hang a frozen specimen over a haunted build — without the gravity trait, a disabled phantom simply drops out of the air.

Example commands

/summon minecraft:phantom ~ ~ ~ {PersistenceRequired:1b,Glowing:1b,CustomName:"Night Terror",CustomNameVisible:1b,Health:60f,attributes:[{id:"minecraft:max_health",base:60}]}

/summon minecraft:phantom ~ ~ ~ {NoAI:1b,NoGravity:1b,Silent:1b}

/summon minecraft:phantom ~ ~ ~ {Fire:-32768s,PersistenceRequired:1b}

/summon minecraft:phantom ~ ~ ~ {Passengers:[{id:"minecraft:skeleton"}]}

Worth knowing

• Phantoms only spawn naturally over players who have gone at least three in-game days without sleeping or dying, tracked by the time-since-rest statistic.
• They are undead: sunlight sets them on fire, Smite adds bonus damage, Instant Health harms them, and Instant Damage heals them.
• Phantoms deliberately avoid cats and keep roughly 16 blocks clear of them, which is why a cat on the roof works as a passive deterrent.
• They attack in swooping passes — circling high, diving for one strike, then climbing again — rather than applying sustained melee pressure.
• Phantom membranes from their drops brew Slow Falling potions and are the only material that repairs elytra at an anvil.

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