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PASSIVE Added in 1.19

Allay mob in Minecraft

The Allay is a small blue flying spirit that collects items for you. Give it an item and it gathers every matching item lying on the ground nearby, then brings them back to you or to a note block it heard. You free one from a Pillager Outpost or a Woodland Mansion, and you can duplicate it with music and an amethyst shard.

Health: 2010 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Found in: Woodland Mansion+1 more

Allay stats

Health: 20 10 hearts
Behavior: Passive
Spawns in: —
Size: 0.35 × 0.6 blocks
XP when killed: None
Speed: 0.1
Flying speed: 0.1
Detection range: 16 blocks

// Experience drops only when a player kills it. Speeds are the game’s internal values, not blocks per second.

Where to find Allay

Doesn’t spawn naturally in a biome: it comes from a structure, a spawner, a block or an event.

Structures

With the structureWoodland Mansion

With the structurePillager Outpost

Allay drops

Nothing from its loot table.

Carried items and gearDropped on death, outside the loot table (game code)

The item it is holding and the items it collectedAlways dropped100%

Health compared

Health vs other passive mobshealth points

Mule15–30

Turtle30

Zombie Horse25

Allay20

Happy Ghast20

Strider20

Villager20

Traits

Properties set in the game files.

No fall damageTakes no damage from falling.

What you can do with Allay

Items to use on it and what happens.

Give an itemCookieHand it any item: it collects matching items nearby and brings them to you.

DuplicateAmethyst ShardGive an Amethyst Shard to an allay dancing near a playing jukebox: a second allay appears.

Advancements with Allay

Advancements whose criteria involve this mob, from the game files.

Birthday SongHave an Allay drop a Cake at a Note Block You've Got a Friend in MeHave an Allay deliver items to you

Command

Summon an Allay/summon →

/summon minecraft:allay ~ ~ ~

Where to find an Allay

Allays do not spawn in the open. They are held prisoner by illagers:

At a Pillager Outpost, in small wooden cages near the tower.
In a Woodland Mansion, locked in the prison cells.

Clear the guards first, then break the cage or the bars. A freed Allay does not leave and never despawns. You can also lead it with a lead to bring it home.

How an Allay collects items

Use any item on an Allay and it takes it in its hands. From then on, it looks for the same item lying on the ground around it, picks it up and flies it back to you. To get your item back, use the Allay with an empty hand.

If an Allay hears a note block being played, it treats that block as its drop-off point for a while and brings the items there instead of to you. This is how collection systems work: play the note block regularly with redstone, and put a hopper next to it to catch what the Allay drops.

Uses that actually help

Cleaning up after a farm or a fight. Hand it the item you want, such as bones, string or cobblestone, and let it gather what is lying around.
Sorting a mob farm. One Allay per item type, each around a note block and a hopper, pulls a single kind of drop out of the pile.
Harvesting crops broken by water or pistons, without picking them up one by one.

Dancing and duplication

Allays love music. Near a jukebox playing a disc, they start to dance. Give a dancing Allay an amethyst shard and it splits into two Allays. Each one has to wait a few minutes before it can duplicate again, so plan a small "allay nursery" with a jukebox and a stock of shards if you want many.

Good to know

An Allay heals slowly over time, takes no fall damage and, when killed, drops only the item it was carrying. It is not related to the Vex, the grey hostile spirit of the Evoker, even if both are found in mansions.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026