Vex

Vex

Health points	14 × 7
Behavior	Hostile
Attack strength	Easy: 5 Normal: 9 Hard: 13 × 6.5 Peaceful: 0 ‌[BE only]
Size	Height: 0.8 Blocks Width: 0.4 Blocks
Spawn	Summoned by evokers
Natural equipment	Iron Sword
Internal ID	JE: 35 BE: 105
Namespaced ID	vex

Vexes are flying hostile mobs summoned in small groups by the spell-casting evoker.

Spawning

Vexes spawn 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. When summoned, exactly three vexes appear near the evoker. An evoker can summon additional vexes even if some still remain alive from the last summoning.

Drops

The vex's iron sword has a 0% chance of dropping, because its main hand's HandDropChances is 0. This chance increases by 1 percentage point per level of Looting. 5 is also dropped on player kills.

Behavior

A vex attacking.

	“	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.	„
		— Jens Bergensten

Vexes attack players, villagers‌^{[JE only]} or adult villagers‌^{[BE only]}, iron golems, wandering traders, snow golems,‌^{[BE only]} if an evoker summoned them, and any other target as commanded by their summoning evoker. They will still attack these mobs even when they do not have a weapon. They are capable of flying through the air, and can freely pass through any block, including water and lava, without taking damage. While attacking, they glow red and lunge at their target. If any mob attacks a vex, any vexes in the area become hostile toward it.

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

When idle, vexes wander within a 15×11×15 cuboid range centered on their evoker's position, unless summoned by a spawn egg or by the /summon command.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Vex vexes	?	?	entity.vex.ambient	subtitles.entity.vex.ambient	?	?	16
	Vex shrieks	?	?	entity.vex.charge	subtitles.entity.vex.charge	?	?	16
	Vex dies	?	?	entity.vex.death	subtitles.entity.vex.death	?	?	16
	Vex hurts	?	?	entity.vex.hurt	subtitles.entity.vex.hurt	?	?	16

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Vexes have entity data associated with them that contains the various properties of the mob.

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  •  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.
  •  BoundY: See BoundX
  •  BoundZ: See BoundX
  •  LifeTicks: Ticks of life remaining, decreasing by 1 per tick. When it reaches zero, the vex starts taking damage and LifeTicks is set to 20.

Advancements

Main article: Advancement

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 25 mobs. ‌In Java Edition 1.16‌[upcoming], elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, hoglins, piglins, vexes, withers, and zoglins can also be killed for this advancement. Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_a_mob
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 25 mobs. ‌In Java Edition 1.16‌[upcoming], elder guardians, ender dragons, endermites, hoglins, piglins, vexes, withers and zoglins are also required for the advancement. Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_all_mobs

History

Java Edition
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 × 6.5 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.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of vexes have been changed.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added vexes.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of vexes have been changed.
					Vexes are now hostile toward wandering traders.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Vexes are no longer hostile toward baby villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added vexes.
		1.90			The textures of vexes have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added vexes.

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 toward their target, as their master looks on.

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  Two vexes attack while their master summons fangs. A wing of a third vex can be seen on the left.

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  A dying vex.

References

Entities

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