Eye of Ender

Eye of Ender

Rarity	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Size	Height: 0.25 Blocks Width: 0.25 Blocks
Internal ID	JE: 15 BE: 70
Network ID	JE: 72
Data value	dec: 381 hex: 17D bin: 101111101

An eye of ender is a craftable item used to locate strongholds and activate the end portals within them.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Blaze Powder + Ender Pearl

Usage

Locating strongholds

An animation of an eye of ender shattering.

To locate strongholds (and the end portals they house):

• Pressing use while holding an eye of ender causes it to fly approximately 12 meters in the direction of the nearest stronghold, traveling through any blocks necessary, and leave a trail of purple particles in its wake, the same particle effect used for ender chests.
  • In Java Edition, the eye leads to near the spiral staircase that was the first room generated in the stronghold.
  • In Bedrock Edition, the eye of ender signal leads to a five-way crossing room that was the second room generated in the stronghold.
• While far away from an end portal, the ender eye always travels upward to offer an easily-visible indication of the horizontal direction the player must travel.
• When the player gets close to the stronghold, the eye floats in a more precise direction that takes the y-axis into account. This often means the eye travels downward, to indicate the player is above a stronghold and must mine downward.
• After two or three seconds of travel, the eye floats in the air briefly, then either falls (becoming collectable again) or shatters in mid-air. The eye has a 20% chance of shattering. The player can throw the eye an average of five times before it shatters.
• The eye of ender's flying function works only in the Overworld. It does nothing in the Nether, the End, or in worlds with no strongholds.

Activating end portals

An End Portal activated with eyes of ender.

Once an end portal is found, the eyes of ender are required to activate it. End portals require a total of 12 eyes of ender in order to activate, though each individual frame-block has a 10% chance of containing an eye of ender when generated. Eyes can be placed in empty End portal frames by pressing use on them until the entire ring of 12 is filled, thereby activating the portal. Due to the fact that there is a 10% chance of each individual end portal frame having an eye in it, there is a one out of one trillion chance of every frame having an eye in it thereby activating the portal even if the player doesn't have any eyes of ender.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	None[needs in-game testing]	Friendly Creatures	Plays upon destruction	entity.ender_eye.death	?	?	?	16
	Eye of Ender shoots	Friendly Creatures	?	entity.ender_eye.launch	subtitles.entity.ender_eye.launch	?	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Eye of Ender	Namespaced ID
Item	ender_eye
Entity	eye_of_ender

Bedrock Edition:

Eye of Ender	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Item	ender_eye	381
Entity	eye_of_ender_signal	70

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

The purple particles left by ender eyes have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  •  Item: The item to render as, may be absent.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot/template

Advancements

Main article: Advancement

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Eye Spy	Follow an Eye of Ender	We Need to Go Deeper	Enter a stronghold.	story/follow_ender_eye

Video

Note: This video does not mention that eyes of ender can be used to craft ender chests or end crystals.

History

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Added eyes of ender.
					Eyes of ender can be used on a portal block to repair them, but repairing them does nothing.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4			Each eye can now be placed in a portal block or used to hone in on a stronghold. Jeb demonstrated the new uses for an eye in his livestream. An End portal within a stronghold could be seen in the stream with two eyes inserted into blocks.
					In older worlds with chunks generated before Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3, the eyes may mislead the player to a place where there isn't a stronghold at all. This happens because the eyes lead to where a stronghold should be based on the world seed in the current version, but before Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 strongholds generated differently based on the seed. Therefore, if the player saved the coordinates the eye traveled to in an old world and generated a new world with the same seed, the player could travel to those same coordinates and find a stronghold.
		Beta Sound Update			The throwing sound of eyes of ender has been changed.
1.3.1		12w21a			Eyes of ender can now be used to craft ender chests.
					Priest villagers would buy 2–3 eyes of ender for one emerald.
		12w22a			Priest villagers no longer buy eyes of ender, instead selling them for 7–10 emeralds.
1.6.4		1.6.3-pre			Eyes of ender now lead to strongholds based on the structure data saved in the world file instead of calculating their approximate location via the world seed. Therefore, strongholds generated in old versions can still be found even if the distribution of strongholds is changed.
1.8		14w02a			With changes that have been made to villagers and the trading system, cleric villagers now sell eyes of ender for 7–11 emeralds, as one of their tier III trades.
1.9		15w41a			Eyes of ender are no longer sold by cleric villagers.
		15w44b			An eye of ender is now used to craft an end crystal.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID has been changed from EyeOfEnderSignal to eye_of_ender_signal.
1.12		17w17a			A new pop sound has been added when a thrown eye of ender bursts.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 381.
		pre5			The entity ID has been changed to eye_of_ender.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of eyes of ender has been changed.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Added eyes of ender.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of eyes of ender has been changed.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.16.0		beta 1.15.0.51			The particles of eyes of ender have been changed to match Java Edition.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added eyes of ender.
		1.90			The texture of eyes of ender has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10					Added eyes of ender.

Issues

Issues relating to "Eye of Ender" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• When thrown in third-person view, the eyes of ender fly out from the player's feet instead of their hand.
• The player cannot throw eyes of ender in the Nether, the End, or Customized and Superflat worlds that do not have stronghold generation selected.

Gallery

• 

  The eye of ender used to appear large in third-person view.

• 

  The eye of ender in Programmer Art.

External links

• A super-easy stronghold triangulation tool
• JSFiddle Eye of Ender triangulator - can guess the location of other 2 strongholds in the first ring
• Minecraft Stronghold Locator Eye of Ender throw plotting visualizer - zoomable to show all possible stronghold rings
• Python Eye of Ender throw plotting tool
• HTML Eye of Ender throw plotting visualizer (not updated after 1.9 stronghold placement changes)
• Chunkbase Stronghold Finder (seed-based)
• Amidst - File-based world visualizer
• Find strongholds by analyzing stronghold.dat file

References

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