Endermite

Endermite

Health points	8
Behavior	Hostile
Attack strength	Easy: 2 Normal: 2 Hard: 3
Size	Height: 0.3 Blocks Width: 0.4 Blocks
Spawn	5% chance when an ender pearl lands
Internal ID*	JE: 67 BE: 55
Namespaced ID*	endermite

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.

Behavior

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.

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

Endermen

Endermen attempt to kill endermites that spawn from ender pearls and spawn eggs.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	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

See also: Chunk format

Endermites have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob.

• 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

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 25 mobs. ‌In Java Edition 1.16, elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, hoglins, piglins, vexes, withers, and zoglins can also be killed for this advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement.	adventure/kill_a_mob
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 25 mobs. ‌In Java Edition 1.16, elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, hoglins, piglins, vexes, withers and zoglins are also required for the advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for the advancement.	adventure/kill_all_mobs

Video

Note: This video is outdated; Endermites can no longer spawn when endermen teleport as of 14w28a and don't suffocate in soul sand as of 1.15 Pre-release 3.

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 now no longer hostile to non-pearl-spawned endermites.
		14w28a			Endermites no longer spawn from endermen.
1.11		16w32a			The endermite's entity ID has now 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
• Shulker
• Ender Dragon

Entities

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