Mutant Creeper

Mutant Creeper is a mob added by Mutant Creatures. The most destructive mob from Mutant Creatures, it heavily resembles the vanilla Creeper.

Attacks/Special abilities
The Mutant Creeper has five attack behaviors:


 * Direct attack: Its most common and weakest attack is to simply charge towards a player and slam its head into them, which inflicts about HP. The knockback is roughly the same as a sword enchanted with Knockback II. Players can nullify the attack by blocking with their shield.
 * Jump attack: The Mutant Creeper jumps around 15 blocks into the air, and when it lands, generates a larger and more powerful explosion than TNT to injure other entities around it, including other Mutant Creepers. Surviving mobs will retaliate against it.
 * Spawning minions: The Mutant Creeper can spawn little Creepers that will attack the player like normal ones. If the Mutant Creeper is charged, they will be charged as well.
 * Charge: The Mutant Creeper turns white, remains immobile for up to 8 seconds, flashing 6 times. Once it finishes, it regains HP and resumes combat. The process can be interrupted by attacking it, but it is likely to retaliate with a jump attack.
 * Lightning attack: Every time the Mutant Creeper charges itself, there is an 80% chance that it will strike itself with lightning if it is being attacked at close range by players. Not only will this do lightning damage to the player, it becomes charged, all its explosive attacks have twice the explosion radius, and any minions summoned by a charged mutant creeper will be charged as well.

Healing
Any source of explosion damage done to the Mutant Creeper will heal it by the amount of damage the explosion did, except from other Mutant Creeper explosions.

Death
When the Mutant Creeper dies, it sucks all mobs and entities in a 16 block radius (larger if charged) towards it and after 8 seconds, creates an explosion similar in radius to the Wither's initial explosion. Directly adjacent mobs take up to damage, and  to elsewhere in the blast zone. Charged Mutant Creepers deal 50% extra damage and have a larger radius. The explosion is often enough to finish the player in a single blow, but can be escaped if they sprint as far as they can. If the death explosion kills other mutant creepers it can cause a chain reaction of explosions. It drops an egg that will eventually hatch into a mutant creeper minion.

Drops
The Mutant Creeper drops an egg at the center of the crater when killed. The egg hatches in 4 in-game days and becomes a Mutant Creeper minion that is under your control. It acts like a tamed wolf, but still has Creeper properties. It can be healed with Gunpowder and its maximum health can be increased by using Gunpowder on it when its health is full. Using TNT on it will prevent it from dying when exploding and increase the blast radius.

If the egg is destroyed before it hatches, it will either drop 5-10 Gunpowder, or, more rarely, it will drop a Creeper Shard. Creeper Shards deal points of damage when used to attack, but can also make explosions when right-clicked. The radius is determined by the Shard's durability. Hitting mobs with it increases its durability and knocks mobs away. At full durability, the explosion from the shard is similar to the Mutant Creeper's death explosion. These explosions do not harm the player. HoThe Shard can poison the player.