Eye of Ender
| Type |
Manufactured items |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Internal ID | |
| Network ID |
JE: 72 |
| Entity ID |
See § Data values |
| First appearances |
See § History |
| Sounds |
|
| Data value |
dec: 381 hex: 17D bin: 101111101 |
| Name |
See § Data values |
An eye of ender (or ender eye) is a craftable item used to locate strongholds and activate the end portals within them.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Crafting[edit]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Blaze Powder + Ender Pearl |
Usage[edit]
Locating strongholds[edit]
To locate strongholds (and the end portals they house):
- Pressing use while holding an eye of ender will cause 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 will lead near the spiral staircase that was the first room generated in the stronghold.
- In Bedrock Edition, eye of ender signal will lead to 5 crossing room that was the second room generated in stronghold.
- In the Legacy 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 stronghold, 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 stronghold 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.
Also, see minecraft-stronghold-locator, a web tool which can help you locate strongholds by visualizing what the eyes of ender are telling you for the Java Edition. View the project Readme on GitHub for usage instructions.
Activating end portals[edit]
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. Due to the fact that there is a 10% chance of each individual End portal frame having an Eye in it, there is about a 1 in one trillion chance of every frame having an Eye in it thereby activating the portal even if you have no eyes of ender.
Crafting ingredient[edit]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| End Crystal | Glass + Eye of Ender + Ghast Tear |
|
| Ender Chest | Obsidian + Eye of Ender |
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Eye of Ender | Name ID |
|---|---|
| Item | ender_eye
|
| Entity | eye_of_ender
|
| Eye of Ender | Name ID | Numeric ID |
|---|---|---|
| Item | ender_eye
|
381 |
| Entity | eye_of_ender_signal
|
70 |
Entity data[edit]
The purple particles left by ender eyes have entity data which 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[edit]
| 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[edit]
History[edit]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Added eye of ender, which had no use. | |||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | 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.[1] 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 you 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 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 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 2–3 eyes of ender for one emerald. | |||||
| 12w22a | Priest villagers would no longer buy eyes of ender, and would instead sell 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 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. | |||
| 1.12 | 17w17a | New Pop-sound when a thrown eye of ender bursts. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 381. | |||
| pre5 | Entity ID changed to eye_of_ender. | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Added eyes of ender. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added eyes of ender. | |
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 1.7.10 | Added Eye of Ender. | ||||
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Eye of Ender" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- When 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[edit]
The Eye of Ender used to appear large in third person view.
External links[edit]
- A super-easy stronghold triangulation tool
- JSFiddle Eye of Ender triangulator - can guess location of other 2 strongholds in 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[edit]
