Endermites are the smallest hostile mobs in Minecraft.
Spawning
Using an ender pearl has a 5% chance of spawning an endermite.
Drops
Endermites drop 3 experience when killed by a player or tamed wolf.
Behavior
Their movement and appearance is almost identical to that of silverfish, but they will not enter blocks.
Endermites will attack players within 16 blocks of them.
Endermites despawn within 2 minutes, regardless of the player's distance from the endermite, except for when they have been named with a name tag.
Endermites will take damage if walking on soul sand, due to its small hitbox.
Endermites will spawn two portal particles around them.
If a mob attacks an endermite, any endermites in the area will become hostile towards that mob.[Java Edition only]
Endermites can attack endermen when spawned with a spawn egg.[Bedrock Edition only]
Endermites, being arthropods, are weak against weapons with the Bane of Arthropods enchantment.
Endermen
Endermen will attempt to kill endermites, provided they were spawned from ender pearls and there is no nearby player in Survival or Adventure mode. If the player is close enough to an endermite, endermen focus on the player instead of the endermite.
Data values
Endermites have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is endermite.
- Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
- Lifetime: How long the endermite has existed in ticks. Disappears when this reaches around 2400.
Video
- Note: This video states that endermites can spawn when endermen teleport; this is outdated, as this can no longer occur as of 14w28a.
Endermite/video
History
| release | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 14w11a | File:Old Endermite.pngAdded endermites. Endermen are hostile to them, and they have a 15% chance to spawn when an enderman teleports (with that chance decreasing by 1 percentage point per endermite spawn) and a 5% chance to spawn when a player uses an ender pearl. | |||
| 14w11b | Endermites no longer despawn when named with a name tag. | ||||
| 14w17a | File:Endermite 14w17a.png Endermites now have a unique model. | ||||
| Endermen are no longer hostile to non-pearl-spawned endermites. | |||||
| 14w28a | Endermites no longer spawn from endermen. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | Changed entity ID from Endermite to endermite. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0 | build 1 | Added endermites. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Added endermites. | |
Issues
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