Vex

Vex

Health points	14 ()
Attack strength	Easy: 5 () Normal: 9 () Hard: 13 ()
Size	Height: 0.8 Blocks Width: 0.4 Blocks
Spawn	Summoned by evokers
Drops	See Drops
Experience	3
Internal ID	JE: 35 BE: 105
Entity ID	vex

	“	We started talking about making more hostile mobs, so we started drawing a lot of doodles on paper and then I kind of liked just having a small humanoid shape with wings. It essentially looked like a little nasty angel or devil.	„
		—Jeb about the Vex, July 17, 2017

A vex is a flying hostile mob that is summoned in small groups by the evoker, another hostile mob, during combat.

Spawning

Vexes spawn naturally only as part of an evoker's summoning attack; the evoker signals this attack by producing off-white smoke and a high-pitched horn-like sound. Exactly 3 vexes will appear near the evoker. The evoker will summon vexes even if there are some still left alive from the last summoning.

Drops

The iron sword they hold normally has a 0% chance of dropping, because their main hand's HandDropChances is 0. However, this chance increases by 1 percentage point per level of Looting. The sword is badly damaged and never enchanted.^{[Java Edition only]}

Behavior

A vex attacking.

Vexes are hostile mobs that will naturally attack players, as well as villagers, iron golems and any other target as commanded by their summoning evoker. They are capable of flying through the air, and will pass through any block, including water, unharmed and uninhibited. When they are attacking, they glow red and lunge at their target. They are immune to fire and lava damage, similar to Nether mobs.

Vexes summoned by an evoker will start to take damage after 30 to 119 seconds, and will eventually die. This does not apply if the vex is summoned by a spawn egg or by the /summon command.

When idle, vexes will wander within a 15×11×15 cuboid range centered on their evoker's position.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Vexes have entity data associated with them that contains the various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is vex.

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  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
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     BoundX: When a vex is idle, it wanders, selecting air blocks from within a 15×11×15 cuboid range centered at X,Y,Z = BoundX, BoundY, BoundZ. This central spot is the location of the evoker when it summoned the vex, or if an evoker was not involved, it is the location the vex first attempted to idly wander.
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     BoundY: See BoundX
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     BoundZ: See BoundX
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     LifeTicks: Ticks of life remaining, decreasing by 1 per tick. When it reaches zero, the vex will take damage and LifeTicks is set to 20.

History

Official release
1.11			16w39a		Added vexes.
			16w42a		Vexes have been buffed - their attack damage has been increased from 3 () to 5 () on Easy, from 4 () to 9 () on Normal, and from 6 () to 13 () on Hard.
			16w43a		Vexes can now cross Nether and End portals and move in water.
					Vexes are now able to draw from their own loot tables.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Vexes added.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	Patch 4	Vexes added.

Issues

Issues relating to "Vex" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  An evoker summoning vexes.

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  Two angry vexes flying towards their target, as their master looks on.

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  Two vexes attack while their master summons fangs.

References

Entities

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