Eye of Ender

Eye of Ender

Type	Items
Durability	N/A
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Internal ID	PC: 15 PE: 70
Network ID	PC: 72
Entity ID	eye_of_ender_signal
First appearances	See History
Data value	dec: 381 hex: 17D bin: 101111101
Name	ender_eye

An eye of ender (or ender eye) is a craftable item used to locate and activate end portals within strongholds.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Blaze Powder + Ender Pearl

Usage

Locating strongholds

To locate end portals (and the strongholds that house them):

• Pressing use while holding an eye of ender will cause it to fly 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 the PC edition, the eye will lead to the portal room when the stronghold is first generated in the world. If the world is exited and reloaded, the eye will instead lead to the spiral staircase that was the first room generated.
  • In the Console Editions, a thrown eye will lead to a stronghold, but not exactly to an end portal.
• While far away from an end portal, the ender eye always travels upwards to offer an easily-visible indication of the horizontal direction the player must travel.
• When the player gets close to the end portal's horizontal coordinates, the eye floats in a more precise direction that takes the y-axis into account. This often means the eye will travel downwards, to indicate the player is above a Portal and must mine downwards.
• 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 Eye of Ender's flying function only works 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, eyes of ender will also be required in order 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.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

The purple particles left by ender eyes have entity data which define various properties of the entity. Their entity ID is eye_of_ender_signal.

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  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	Eye Spy	Follow an Ender Eye	We Need to Go Deeper	Enter a stronghold.	minecraft: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

Official release
1.0.0			Beta 1.9-pre3		Added eye of ender, which had no use.
					In older worlds, generated before 1.9-pre3, the eyes may mislead you to a place where there isn't a stronghold at all. This is most likely because the eyes lead to where a Stronghold should be based on the seed, and seeds generate worlds differently in older versions. Therefore, if you saved the coordinates the eye traveled to in an old world and generated a new world with the same seed, you could travel to those same coordinates and find a stronghold.
			Beta 1.9-pre4		Each eye could now be placed in a portal block or used to home 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.
			Beta Sound Update		Throwing sound was changed.
1.3.1			12w21a		Eyes of ender can now be used to craft ender chests.
					Priest villagers would buy eyes of ender.
			12w22a		Priest villagers would no longer buy eyes of ender, and would instead sell them for 7–10 emeralds.
1.8			14w02a		With changes made to villagers and the trading system, cleric villagers would at this time 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 is changed from EyeOfEnderSignal to eye_of_ender_signal.
Pocket Edition
1.0			build 1		Added eyes of ender.
Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added eyes of ender.

Issues

Issues relating to “Eye of Ender” are maintained on the issue tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• When in 3rd person view, the eyes of ender fly out from the player's feet instead of their hand.

Gallery

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  The Eye of Ender used to appear large in third person view.

References

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