How to summon the Wither

After exploring the world of Minecraft far and wide and stumbling upon tons of adventures, you thought it’s time to tackle more challenging challenges. You’ve heard of the Wither, a very powerful creature that requires skill and alertness from the player to be defeated, and you’ve searched the internet for information to figure out how to find it.

This is how things are, am I right? Then you will be happy to know that you have come to the right place at the right time. In today’s guide, in fact, I will show you how to summon the Wither in Minecraft, indicating the resources to be collected to perform this operation and providing you with some useful tips that can help you face the battle with this creature. Finally, I will explain step by step how to carry out the procedure to summon it.

If you can’t wait to consult the tips I wrote for you in this guide, what you have to do is dedicate only a few minutes of your free time. Come on, sit down comfortably, pay close attention to all the advice you will find in the next chapters and try to put them into practice. Are you ready? Fine, then let’s get started! I just have to wish you a good read and, above all, a good time!

Index

• Preliminary operations
  • Gather the necessary materials
  • Prepare the equipment
• How to summon the Wither in Minecraft

Preliminary operations

Before I talk to you about how to summon the Wither in Minecraft, I want to show you the resources you will need to do this. In addition, I will give you some tips to prepare you for the confrontation with this creature.

Gather the necessary materials

To summon a Wither, you must necessarily go to the Nether. Don’t you know what it is? I’ll explain it to you right away: it is a parallel dimension to the world of Minecraft, characterized by a desert and dark biome, illuminated only by rivers and magma cascades. It is also an inhospitable territory, populated by aggressive creatures that attack the player on sight.

Having made this brief introduction, if you want to reach the Nether, you will have to build a portal that connects the two dimensions. You can do this by following the advice I gave you in my guide on how to make the Nether portal.

Once you reach this place, begin your exploration, paying attention to the countless dangers that lie around every corner, and locate the sand blocks of the souls – these are a vital resource for summoning a Wither. There is no specific place to find the blocks because they are generated naturally and randomly in small quantities or in large clusters.

You can recognize them because they have a gray-colored texture, compared to the predominant color of the Nether biome. After locating the sand blocks of the souls, use your bare hands or a shovel to collect this resource.

Additionally, you must recover the skulls from the Wither skeletons, which you can find as a rare reward by defeating these creatures. You can find Wither skeletons around the Nether Fortresses.

After you have obtained the sand blocks of the souls and the skulls of the Wither skeletons, you can move on to summoning a Wither. First, however, I advise you to read the next chapter, in which I will explain how to best prepare for the battle you will have to face with this creature.

Prepare the equipment

The Wither is a very powerful creature and requires good preparation to be able to defeat it. The difficulty can be compared to that required to defeat the End Dragon, which I told you about in this guide of mine.

First of all, I advise you to create diamond swords, on which you will have to apply the Anathema enchantment, useful because it allows you to increase the damage of the weapon towards undead creatures, such as the Wither.

Also, since this creature performs explosive attacks, using a ranged approach with a bow might be a good choice. I recommend that you enchant the latter with the Power and Infinity spell, in order to increase its damage and shoot unlimited arrows.

As for the defense, however, it is useful to dress the avatar with diamond armor, which you will have to enchant with Protection, which increases the absorption of damage received, and Protection from explosions, useful for defending against the explosive attacks of the Wither.

If you want to know more about how to create spells to use on your equipment, I suggest you read my guide dedicated to the subject.

Finally, I recommend that you bring some golden apples with you, which will allow you to restore a lot of health points in case you take damage, as well as increase your stamina. I told you about this food in my guide on how to eat in Minecraft.

Since the fight will be difficult, any other help will increase the chances of success in the enterprise. Therefore, bring with you any object that can help you during the fight, such as Ender’s pearls, useful for teleporting and avoiding critical situations.

How to summon the Wither in Minecraft

Now that you have all the necessary resources to summon the Wither and have brought all the equipment you can with you to face the fight, it’s time to get to the heart of this guide of mine.

First, position 1 of sand block of souls on the ground and then add a row in the horizontal other three blocks of the latter, so as to form a T. At this point, equip the skulls of the Wither skeletons and place three on the row of soul sand blocks.

As soon as you place the last skull, the newly created puppet will animate, becoming a Wither. After his summoning, he will be invulnerable and, after a few moments, will cause an explosion around him. Therefore, I advise you to leave immediately and wait for it to come out of this phase, to start attacking it.

Once defeated, you will get the Nether star, which allows you to create the Lighthouse, an object that gives upgrades to the avatar within a certain range of its position.