Eye of Ender

Eye of Ender

Type	Items
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Internal ID	JE: 15 BE: 70
Network ID	JE: 72
Entity ID	See Data values
First appearances	See History
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 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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

ID

Java Edition:

Eye of Ender	ID Name
Item	ender_eye
Entity	eye_of_ender

Bedrock Edition:

Eye of Ender	ID Name	Numeral 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 which define various properties of the entity.

• 
  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

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. 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			build 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

Issues relating to "Eye of Ender" are maintained on the bug 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.
• You cannot throw eyes of ender in the Nether, the End, Customized and Superflat worlds that does not have strongholds selected.

Gallery

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

References

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