This I have to say is the worst and the best mob at times. It kind of depends on what it decides to do. The creeper looks like a camouflage it kind of looks like leaves. It has 4 small legs in the front and in the back. It has a no eyes and has a weird smile. The creeper will spawn at night in an area of level 7 light or less. It does not spawn on transparent blocks. It is the easiest obtainable source of gunpowder. Otherwise you would have to kill a ghast. They also drop music discs if they get killed by a skeleton. Charged creepers also drop music disks. Creepers are very common and will follow a player if they are 16 blocks or less away from it. They will try to go through many obstacles to reach you. If you are 1 block away from a creeper, it will start hissing and getting bigger. After 1.5 seconds of that it will blow up. Creepers will stop detonation if you knock it back and run. You should repeat this in order to kill it. Creepers will flee from cats. HOWEVER they are still not safe. If you still get to close to one it will still detonate. On hard difficulty with full diamond armor, he will cause 2 hearts of damage. A charged creeper will cause twice that and will cause 50% more damage than TNT. If a creeper explodes in water it will not damage the environment. However he can still damage you. A charged creeper (lightning creeper or electric creeper) is a creeper that has been struck by lightning and it basically increases everything bad about them. They however take damage from the lighting bolt. They can burn to death when they get struck also. If you plan to fight a creeper, using a bow and arrow is the best way to do so. You can still fight them with a sword but it is very risky. You will likely die if you try to fight one with a sword on hard difficulty. If you use a sword attack and retreat. Continue this strategy until the creeper is dead. You can also use lava or sand to kill it but it will not give you any xp. Use lava and it will obviously burn to death. You can use sand to suffocate it. If you don't want one to spawn, light up the area you don't want one to spawn in really good. Don't use pressure plates on the outside of a door on the outside of a house because as you probably know, all mobs can step on them and get in your house and the last thing you want to face in your house is a creeper. Especially not a charged creeper. Creepers will not cause any elemental damage if they explode in water or lava. But they can still cause damage to a player. Cats will make creepers stay away from a certain area around the cat so it is recommended that you have cats stationed around your house. This should protect your house from any bad explosions. You could also reinforce buildings with better blocks like stone. Normal Creeper = Right Lightning Creeper = Left
