Endermite

Endermite

Health points	8 ()
Attack strength	Easy: 2 () Normal: 2 () Hard: 3 ()
Size	Height: 0.3 Blocks Width: 0.4 Blocks
Spawn	Occasionally when an ender pearl lands
First appearances	See history
Drops	None
Experience	3
Sounds	Idle Hurt Death
Internal ID	JE: 67 BE: 55
Entity ID	endermite

Endermites are the smallest hostile mobs in Minecraft.

Spawning

Using an ender pearl has a 5% chance of spawning an endermite.

Drops

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

Behavior

Endermites will attack players within 16 blocks of them.

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. If a mob attacks an endermite, any endermites in the area will become hostile towards that mob.^{[Java Edition only]}

Endermites can attack endermen when spawned with a spawn egg.^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Endermites, being arthropods, are weak against weapons with the Bane of Arthropods enchantment.

Endermites will take suffocation damage if standing on soul sand, because their height is less than that of a slab.

Endermites will spawn two portal particles around them.

They will attack iron golems.^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

The endermite is based on the silverfish, so they will sometimes try to enter blocks when idle, but can't.

Endermen

Endermen will attempt to kill endermites, provided they were spawned from ender pearls.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Endermites have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is endermite.

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

Video

Note: This video is outdated; Endermites can no longer spawn when endermen teleport as of 14w28a.

History

Official release
1.8			14w11a		Added endermites. Endermen are hostile to them, and they have a 15% chance to spawn 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. At that time, endermites had 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		Changed entity ID from Endermite to endermite.
Pocket Edition
1.0			build 1		Added endermites.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added endermites.

Issues

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

See also

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