Only workerbees have stingers and the barb on their stingers doesnt necessarily catch, However the stinger is also a result of an incomplete development of the female bee's reproductive system, and the Queen bee spawns thousands of servant females. The very attack response for the stinger is a result of the Genetic Imperative to continue the dynasty.
If a creeper is an animate seedpod for something in minecraft, then that would explain why they crunch like paper or dry leaves, and why the explode, which is because a plant figured out how to actually weaponize the will to survive.
Someone already did steve as a class named "The Minecraftian"