Endermite

Endermite

Health points	8
Behavior	Hostile
Attack strength	Easy: 2 Normal: 2 Hard: 3
Hitbox size	Height: 0.3 Blocks Width: 0.4 Blocks
Spawn	5% chance when an ender pearl lands

Endermites are the smallest hostile mobs in Minecraft.

Spawning

Endermites have a 5% chance to spawn when an ender pearl lands.

Drops

Endermites drop 3 when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behaviors

Endermites attack players (and iron golems‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}) within 16 blocks of them. If a mob attacks an endermite, any endermites in the area become hostile toward that mob. They can attack endermen when spawned with a spawn egg.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Endermites despawn within 2 minutes, regardless of the player's distance from the endermite, except for when they have been named with a name tag.

Endermites spawn two portal particles around them.

Due to being arthropods, they are weak against weapons with the Bane of Arthropods enchantment.

Endermen

Endermen attempt to kill endermites that spawn from ender pearls, or endermites that are spawned from spawn eggs.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} In Java Edition 1.17‌^[upcoming], Endermen attack all endermites

Endermen can target an endermite from up to 64 blocks away.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Endermite scuttles	?	?	entity.endermite.ambient	subtitles.entity.endermite.ambient	?	?	16
	Endermite dies	?	?	entity.endermite.death	subtitles.entity.endermite.death	?	?	16
	Endermite hurts	?	?	entity.endermite.hurt	subtitles.entity.endermite.hurt	?	?	16
	Footsteps	?	?	entity.endermite.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	?	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Endermite	endermite	entity.minecraft.endermite

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Endermite	endermite	55	entity.endermite.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Endermites have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  •  Lifetime: How long the endermite has existed in ticks. Disappears when this reaches around 2400.
  •  PlayerSpawned: Endermen attack the endermite if this value is 1.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 34 mobs. Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_a_mob
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 34 mobs. Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_all_mobs

History

Java Edition
1.8		14w11a			Added endermites.
					Endermen are hostile to endermites.
					Endermites have a 15% chance of spawning when an enderman teleports (with that chance decreasing by 1 percentage point per endermite spawn) and a 5% chance to spawn when a player uses an ender pearl.
					Endermites have a texture of a purple silverfish.
		14w11b			Endermites no longer despawn when named with a name tag.
		14w17a			Endermites now have a unique model.
					Endermen are no longer hostile to non-pearl-spawned endermites.
		14w28a			Endermites no longer spawn from endermen.
1.11		16w32a			The endermite's entity ID has been changed from Endermite to endermite.
1.15		Pre-Release 3			Endermites no longer suffocate in soul sand.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Added endermites.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added endermites.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10					Added endermites.

Issues

Issues relating to "Endermite" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

See also

• The End
• Enderman
• Ender pearl
• Spawn Egg
• Tutorial: Endermite Lure Trap

Entities

View at: Template:Entities/content [edit]