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By Jayly · Posted: 2025/03/08

Minecraft Terminator

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Download links for the add-on is located at the bottom of the page.

Introducing Terminator to your Minecraft world! This is a powerful mob that has the ability to follow entities, destroy blocks and build blocks when the terminator thinks it's necessary, pick up melee and ranged weapons such as swords and bows to attack entities, and wear armors such as chestplates to protect itself from being damaged.

Build and Destroy Blocks

This terminator can build blocks to reach its target and break blocks that stops the terminator from reaching the target.

terminator-building

terminator-can-build

Entities Attack

terminator-attack

The terminator can attack the following types of mobs. Please note that Terminator will attack a selected mob when the terminator and it's target met the right conditions (which you can check the table below the list):

Terminator Entity Attack Requirement

Target Entity TypeRequirements for Target EntityRequirements for TerminatorCan See Through BlocksMaximum Distance
PlayerNo invisibilityYes1024 blocks
Iron GolemsNo invisibility

Must wear the following:

  • Netherite Helmet
  • Netherite Boots

Must wear the following:

  • Netherite Helmet
  • Netherite Boots

Needs to hold one of the following weapons:

  • Netherite Sword
  • Diamond Sword
  • Iron Sword
  • Golden Sword
  • Stone Sword
  • Wooden Sword
No24 blocks
Wolf
  • Must be tamed
  • No invisibility
No16 blocks
Passive mobs listed aboveNo invisibilityNo16 blocks

Note

Terminator can only attack mobs and players, when difficulty levels in the game is set to Easy, Normal, or Hard.

Combat

The Terminator Combat is a major update released for Terminator Combat Update (add-on version 1.3).

In order for the terminator to use different kinds of combat, they need to pick up the weapon in order to switch combat mechanic.

combat

Showcase video:

Melee Attack

Melee attack is activated when the terminator is spawned and is holding a melee weapon (trident is excluded from this category).

Features:

Bow

Bow combat is activated when the terminator is holding a bow.

Note

  • Terminator will wait 1 to 3 seconds after an attack before launching another.
  • Terminator shoots normal arrows (It will not shoot different effects of arrows even if terminator receives it.)

Crossbow

Crossbow combat is activated when the terminator is holding a crossbow.

Note

  • Terminator will wait 1 second after an attack before launching another
  • Terminator shoots normal arrows (It will not shoot different effects of arrows even if terminator receives it.)
  • Movement speed multiplier of terminator is 100%

Trident

Trident combat is activated when the terminator is holding a trident.

Switching combat:

Snowball

Snowball combat activates when the terminator holds a snowball.

Features:

Showcase Video - Terminator Snowball Ranged Attack

Shield

Shield is activated when the terminator is holding a shield in main hand or off hand.

Respawn Event

When the terminator dies for the first time, the terminator will trigger a respawn event which will respawn itself.

The terminator will have the ability to respawn itself for the second time until terminator dies for the third time.

The following image is taken after the terminator dies:

stage 1

stage 2

When the terminator respawns, a customized death message appears.

death message

Shown here is a list of death messages for Terminator's first death (and many more).

Feeding the Terminator

feed

Method: You feed the terminator as you feed a horse.

You can feed the terminator food that players can eat.

The amount of health the terminator gains when fed one of the food is the same as the amount of food points player gets when eat one of the food. For more infomation about food points and items players can eat check out Minecraft Wiki.

Difference about food points for players and health points for terminators:

More infomation about food points: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Food#Foods

Skins and Models

Terminator now has different skins!

Christmas skins only display in Minecraft from December 1st to December 25th. The add-on will change their skin back to normal afterwards.

terminator skins

This feature includes the introduction of skin models:

terminator skin models

Differences

The difference here are the steve's model arm's are 4 pixels wide and the alex's model arm's are 3 pixels wide, like what you see when choosing your own custom skin.

terminator skin models

Changing Terminator Skins

Players may not like the Minecraft skins Terminator entity wears. Currently the only way to change its textures is to modify the resource pack files.

  1. Extract the Add-On
  2. In the extracted folder, navigate to resource_pack/textures/entity folder, where you would see a bunch of image files.
  3. Modify the steve.png or the alex.png file
  4. Save the changes, then import the Add-On with modified changes to Minecraft
  5. Run /function terminator command to bring the 'Spawn Terminator' form
  6. In the Skin Model dropdown, select either 'Custom (Steve Model)' or 'Custom (Alex Model)' selection

Capes

Terminator can now equip all the capes obtainable in Bedrock Edition, and Migrator cape as a bonus. When they equip the cape it also change the appearance of a worn elytra. Capes are purely decorational, and do not alter the wearers' capabilities in any way.

terminator with cape

Terminators can equip the following cape, which they can be spawned using the 'Spawn Terminator' form:

Spawn a Terminator

You have seen the cool features the Terminator add-on offers. There are multiple ways to spawn a terminator in your Minecraft world:

  1. You can obtain the terminator spawn egg in the creative inventory

    creative inventory

  2. Use the /summon command to spawn the terminator

    summon command

  3. Craft the terminator spawn egg using a crafting table, here is the recipe:

    recipe

    Thanks May5Flames for the terminator crafting recipe!

  4. Spawn Terminator command

    /function terminator
    

    This function command will lead you to the 'Spawn Terminator' form, allowing you to spawn your own Terminator entity.

List of settings in Spawn Terminator form

In the 'Spawn Terminator' form, there are multiple properties that can be customized when spawning a new Terminator entity. This can be accessed through the /function terminator command mentioned above.

The following is a list of settings available in the form.

SettingDescriptionDefault ValueType
Name TagSets Terminator's name when spawned.TerminatorString
Spawn CoordinatesThe location at which to spawn the Terminator entity.~ ~ ~x y z
Skin ModelSets the skin model for the Terminator entity.SteveOne of the following:
  • Steve
  • Alex
  • Custom (Steve)
  • Custom (Alex)
Enable Custom SkinFalseBool
Enable BossbarDisplay Terminator's health as a bossbar at the top of the screen.FalseBool
Enable Immunitywhen enabled, any damage will not apply to the specific terminator.FalseBool
Enable Death EventEnables the death event when the terminator dies.TrueBool
Enable PhysicsDetermines if the terminator entity is affected by gravity or if it collides with objects.TrueBool
Enable RegenerationWhether or not the terminator entity heals itself when having a low health bar.TrueBool
Enable RespawnWhether or not the terminator entity is allowed to respawn 3 times before dying permanently.TrueBool
Enable BreedabilityAllows the entity to procreate.FalseBool
CapeEquip capes for terminator entity.NoneCapes

Still stuck at spawning a terminator?

Don't worry. When you spawn into the world with the Add-On loaded for the first time, a Terminator guide book will appear in your inventory.

guide book

Right click and scroll down to the bottom, a button that says "Spawn Terminator" will redirect you to this form:

Spawn Terminator form 1

Spawn Terminator form 2

By pressing the 'Submit' button, the game will spawn a terminator with changes applied based on options available in the 'Spawn Terminator' form.

Function commands

The terminator add-on also provides ways to activate advanced features via /function commands.

Experimental Features

Caution

The following features are being experimented. It may change or it may be removed in future releases.

Traveling Through Overworld and Nether

Terminator is now able to travel between the overworld and the nether dimension. The following video demostrates this feature:

This event triggers when the terminator is in a dimension where there are zero players with survival or adventure gamemode. The terminator will attempt to build a nether portal to go to the other dimension attempts to find players to kill.

Please leave your feedback in the Discord Server!

Changelog

A complete release history for Terminator Add-On is available here.

Installation

After downloading the add-on below and import the add-on to Minecraft, make sure both resource pack and behavior pack are imported so you do not have the error related to incompatibility when applying the add-on.

Join my Discord server or report to Terminator GitHub Repository if there are any issues, questions and feedbacks regarding to the add-on's installation or the gameplay.

Terminator entity can cause massive destruction. Please save a copy of your world before activating this add-on!

You are allowed to repost this add-on to other websites or make a YouTube video for commercial purposes, provided that you must put the link this post or the MCPEDL post in the description of the video or a webpage and must not have any other direct-download links.

This add-on is compatible with Minecraft Bedrock v1.21.0 or above.

Downloads

Click the link below and choose a version to download.