Silverfish

Silverfish are small hostile mobs found hiding in stone-like blocks in mountains, strongholds, igloo basements and woodland mansions.

Spawning
Silverfish spawn from broken infested blocks, which generate in strongholds, underground in mountains biomes, igloo basements and woodland mansion false portal rooms. Silverfish do not appear if the block is broken with the Silk Touch enchantment.

Silverfish spawners naturally generate in end portal rooms in strongholds. They can spawn only in light level 11 or lower from spawners and cannot spawn within a 5 block distance of any player. This is the only renewable source of silverfish and infested blocks.

Drops
Silverfish have no drops other than experience points when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior
Silverfish attack players, iron golems, snow golems and call other silverfish in the area upon being hit. The silverfish sees through walls and pathfind towards the player.

When they suffer poison damage or damage inflicted by the player and survive, they cause other silverfish within a 21×11×21 area to break out of their infested blocks. The player can prevent other silverfish from appearing by killing them in one shot.

Silverfish, being arthropods, take more damage from the Bane of Arthropods enchantment.

When idle, silverfish enter a nearby deepslate, stone, cobblestone, stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, cracked stone bricks or chiseled stone bricks block, transforming it into the respective infested block if  is set to , as per default. They cannot infest mossy cobblestone, despite being capable of infesting both mossy blocks and cobblestone, and they also cannot infest slab and stairs of these blocks. They are also unable to infest andesite, diorite, granite or smooth stone.

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Entity data
Silverfish have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Trivia

 * In real life, silverfish are small and wingless insects that are often found in dark areas in buildings and the wooden pilings of seaside piers and trees. They are infamous for damaging paper-based products.
 * Silverfish appeared in the April Fools 2.0 update as the redstone bug.