Eye of Ender

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Size	Height: 0.25 Blocks Width: 0.25 Blocks
Network ID	JE: 72

An eye of ender is a craftable item used to locate strongholds and activate the end portals within them.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Blaze Powder + Ender Pearl

Usage

Locating strongholds

An animation of an eye of ender shattering.

To locate strongholds (and the end portals they house):

Pressing use while holding an eye of ender causes it to fly approximately 12 blocks in the direction of the nearest stronghold, traveling through any blocks necessary, and leave a trail of purple particles, the same particle effect used for endermen and ender chests.
- The eye leads to the chunk where a spiral staircase, the first room generated in the stronghold, is located.
- The center of this entrance staircase is always exactly at the chunk coordinates 4, ~, 4, although the eyes of ender leads to chunk coordinates 8, ~, 8 (the center of the chunk).
While over 12 blocks away from the center of the staircase chunk, the eye will travel upward to offer an easily-visible indication of the horizontal direction the player must travel.
When closer than 12 blocks from the center of the staircase chunk, the eye will travel downward, to indicate the player is above a stronghold and must mine downward.
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 expected number of throws until an eye shatters is five throws.
The eye of ender's flying function works only in the Overworld. It does nothing in the Nether, the End, custom dimensions^[verify], or in worlds with no strongholds.

Activating end portals

An End Portal activated with eyes of ender.

Once an end portal is found, the eyes of ender are required 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. Due to the fact that there is a 10% chance of each individual end portal frame having an eye in it, there is a one out of one trillion chance of every frame having an eye in it thereby activating the portal even if the player doesn't have any eyes of ender.

End Portal Pre-Filled Eyes
Eyes	0	1	2	3	4	5-12
Exactly	28%	38%	23%	9%	2%	<1%
Or More	100%	72%	34%	11%	3%	<1%

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
End Crystal	Glass + Eye of Ender + Ghast Tear
Ender Chest	Obsidian + Eye of Ender

Sounds

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Eye of Ender falls	Friendly Creatures	The entity drops or breaks	`entity.ender_eye.death`	?	?	?	16
	Eye of Ender shoots	Friendly Creatures	The entity is thrown	`entity.ender_eye.launch`	`subtitles.entity.ender_eye.launch`	?	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Item	Resource location	Form	Translation key
Eye of Ender	`ender_eye`	Item	`item.minecraft.ender_eye`

Entity	Resource location	Translation key
Eye of Ender	`eye_of_ender`	`entity.minecraft.eye_of_ender`

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Resource location	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Eye of Ender	`ender_eye`	`381`	Item	`item.ender_eye.name`

Entity	Resource location	Numeric ID	Translation key
Eye of Ender	`eye_of_ender_signal`	`70`	`entity.eye_of_ender_signal.name`

Entity data

The purple particles left by ender eyes have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

Java Edition:

Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Item: The item to render as, may be absent.
  - Tags common to all items

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Eye Spy	Follow an Ender Eye	We Need to Go Deeper	Enter a stronghold.	`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 eyes of ender.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3		Eyes of ender can be used on a portal block to repair them, but repairing them does nothing.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4		Each eye can now be placed in a portal block or used to hone in on a stronghold. Jeb demonstrated the new uses for an eye in his livestream.^[1] An End portal within a stronghold could be seen in the stream with two eyes inserted into blocks.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4		In older worlds with chunks generated before Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3, the eyes may mislead the player 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 the player saved the coordinates the eye traveled to in an old world and generated a new world with the same seed, the player could travel to those same coordinates and find a stronghold.
		RC1		The throwing sound of eyes of ender has been changed.
1.3.1		12w21a		Eyes of ender can now be used to craft ender chests.
		12w21a		Priest villagers would buy 2–3 eyes of ender for one emerald.
		12w22a		Priest villagers no longer buy eyes of ender, instead selling 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.
?				Eyes of Ender now lead to the entrance of a stronghold instead of the portal room.
1.8		14w02a		With changes that have been made to villagers and the trading system, cleric villagers now 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.
1.9		15w44b		An eye of ender is now used to craft an end crystal.
1.11		16w32a		The entity ID has been changed from `EyeOfEnderSignal` to `eye_of_ender_signal`.
1.12		17w17a		A new pop sound has been added when a thrown eye of ender bursts.
1.13		17w47a		Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 381.
1.13		pre5		The entity ID has been changed to `eye_of_ender`.
1.14		18w43a		The texture of eyes of ender has been changed.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1		Added eyes of ender.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3		The texture of eyes of ender has been changed.
1.16.0		beta 1.15.0.51		The particles of eyes of ender have been changed to match Java Edition.
Legacy Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	Added eyes of ender.
		1.90		The texture of eyes of ender has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10				Added eyes of ender.

Issues

Issues relating to "Eye of Ender" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

When thrown in third-person view, the eyes of ender fly out from the player's feet instead of their hand.
Before Java Edition 1.9, eyes of ender can be purchased from cleric villagers, which means players can find a stronghold and go to the End without accessing the Nether at all.
In Bedrock Edition if the player travels beyond a certain radius (roughly 740,000 blocks), eyes of ender always point to a stronghold near spawn, even though strongholds continue to generate past this limit. If one travels to this limit, they can see eyes of ender suddenly switching direction. A similar phenomenon occurs with the /locate command.

Gallery

The eye of ender used to appear large in third-person view.
The eye of ender in Programmer Art.

External links

References

↑ http://www.twitch.tv/jebox/b/297000418

Items

Entities

[1] ttp://www.twitch.tv/jebox/b/297000418

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