Difficulty

Difficulty is an option in Minecraft that has a direct impact on the ease of gameplay, allowing the game's challenges to be tailored to the player's skill level.

There are four difficulty levels in the game: Easy, Normal, Hard and Peaceful. These can be changed when creating a world, in the world options, as well as with the /difficulty command.

While the difficulty settings modify the challenge in Survival mode, they also affect hostile mobs in Creative mode the same as in Survival; for example: