is it possible to spawn wither skeletons using commands?

Question

The annoying thing about wither skeletons is: There is no way I know of to spawn them in the overworld!

I have determined that there is no way to spawn wither skeletons in the overworld without commands. So that is what I am looking into.

I want to know if there is a command that summons wither skeletons so then I can play around with it a bit and possibly even convert it so I get a wither skeleton spawner.

Also, I already know that if you spawn a skeleton in the nether it has an 80% chance to spawn as a wither skeleton.

Answer 1

You can summon wither skeletons with the following command:

/summon Skeleton ~ ~ ~ {SkeletonType:1}

Wither skeleton spawner can be created at the block where your feet are with this command:

/setblock ~ ~ ~ mob_spawner 0 replace {EntityId:Skeleton,SpawnData:{SkeletonType:1}}

Answer 2

You could make a nether portal, use a spawn egg for skeleton, spawn a skeleton, push it through the nether portal, go through the portal, push the skeleton back into overworld.

Answer 3

Now in the 1.11 update, you can also use the wither skeleton spawn egg.

Answer 4

Just go to the nether and go to nether fortress and use skeleton spawn eggs and 95% you will get wither skeleton! Works for me 1.7.4+

Answer 5

Use the /tellraw command to summon it whenever you throw/fire items!

Answer 6

If you're playing multiplayer with the correct plugins, you can run this command:

/spawnmob skeleton:wither