Vex

This article is about the hostile mob summoned by evokers. For the passive mob that collects items, see Allay. For the smithing template, see Vex Armor Trim.

For the mob in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Vex.

Vex
Health	14 × 7
Behavior	Hostile
Spawn	Summoned by evokers
Damage	Easy: 5.5 × 2.75 Normal: 9 Hard: 13.5 × 6.75
Naturalequipment	Iron Sword
Details
Size	Height: 0.8 Blocks Width: 0.4 Blocks

The vex is a small flying hostile mob. It wields an iron sword, can phase through walls, and is only summoned as one of the evoker's attacks. They attack by lunging at their targets with their sword.

Spawning

Vexes spawn as part of an evoker's summoning attack: The evoker is surrounded by white particles and makes a magical, horn-like sound. Then, a group of three vexes appears near the evoker. The evoker can summon additional vexes even if some still remain alive from the last summoning.

The vex never spawns naturally, although it can be spawned using spawn eggs or via commands.

Drops

In Java Edition, the vex's iron sword does not drop, because its main hand's HandDropChances is 0.

In Bedrock Edition, the vex can drop its iron sword with random durability. This is not affected by the Looting enchantment.

5 is dropped when a vex is killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior

Vexes attack players, adult villagers, iron golems, and wandering traders if an evoker summoned them, and any other target as commanded by their summoning evoker (any mob that attacks the evoker accidentally or purposefully, or any mob that illagers naturally attack on sight). They still attack these mobs even when they do not have a weapon. Despite this, they deal the same amount of damage.

Vexes are capable of flying through the air, and can freely pass through any solid block, including water and lava, without taking damage. This means they can also pass through bedrock, meaning it is possible for them to die in the Void. While vexes can pass through blocks easily, honey blocks slow them down like other entities. Vexes also can be bounced back when pushed by a slime block.

While attacking, vexes glow red and lunge at their target. They often fly towards the back of their targets and attack them from behind, making it difficult to block their attacks with a shield.

Vexes do not count towards the bossbar during a raid.

If any mob attacks a vex, any vexes in the area become hostile toward it. This includes vindicators named "Johnny" that attack them, despite both being allied with the illagers.

Vexes summoned by an evoker start taking damage after 30 to 119 seconds and eventually die.‌ Vexes summoned by a spawner, spawn egg or by the /summon command don't take damage this way.

A vex does not despawn if it has a custom name or if it is in a block, minecart, or boat.

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. This happens when the vexes killed the mob that their evoker commanded them to.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Vexes use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
File:Vex idle1.oggFile:Vex idle2.oggFile:Vex idle3.oggFile:Vex idle4.ogg	Vex vexes	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	entity.vex.ambient	subtitles.entity.vex.ambient	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
File:Vex charge1.oggFile:Vex charge2.oggFile:Vex charge3.ogg	Vex shrieks	Hostile Creatures	When a vex is charging at something	entity.vex.charge	subtitles.entity.vex.charge	1.0	1.0	16
File:Vex death1.oggFile:Vex death2.ogg	Vex dies	Hostile Creatures	When a vex dies	entity.vex.death	subtitles.entity.vex.death	1.0	0.8-1.2	16
File:Vex hurt1.oggFile:Vex hurt2.ogg	Vex hurts	Hostile Creatures	When a vex is damaged	entity.vex.hurt	subtitles.entity.vex.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.2	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
File:Vex idle1.oggFile:Vex idle2.oggFile:Vex idle3.oggFile:Vex idle4.ogg	Hostile Creatures	Randomly	mob.vex.ambient	1.0	0.8-1.2
File:Vex charge1.oggFile:Vex charge2.oggFile:Vex charge3.ogg	Hostile Creatures	When a vex is charging at something	mob.vex.charge	1.0	0.8-1.2
File:Vex death1.oggFile:Vex death2.ogg	Hostile Creatures	When a vex dies	mob.vex.death	1.0	0.8-1.2
File:Vex hurt1.oggFile:Vex hurt2.ogg	Hostile Creatures	When a vex is damaged	mob.vex.hurt	1.0	0.8-1.2

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Vex	vex	entity.minecraft.vex

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Vex	vex	105	entity.vex.name

Entity data

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

Java Edition:

Main article: Entity format

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities
  • Tags common to all mobs
  •  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, BoundX, BoundY and BoundZ do not exist.
  •  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.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 34 mobs: Blaze Cave Spider Creaking Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement. Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_a_mob
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Monster Hunter	Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Axolotl Bee Blaze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Chicken Jockey Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Skeleton Horseman Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Spider Jockey Squid Strider Trader Llama Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.	adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 36 mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Cave Spider Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in 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 portals 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.
1.16.2		20w30a			The attack animation of unarmed vexes has been changed.
1.19.3		22w45a			The model and textures of the vex have been updated.
					Heads equipped by vexes are no longer visible.
		Pre-release 1			File:Vex Attacking JE4 BE4.png The textures of vexes have been slightly changed.
1.19.4		23w03a			Vexes now use a separate charging animation when empty-handed.
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.
1.19.50		beta 1.19.50.24			The model and textures of the vex have been updated.
1.19.60		beta 1.19.60.22			File:Vex Attacking JE4 BE4.png The textures of vexes have been slightly changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added vexes.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added vexes.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Despite their ghostly appearances and their ability to phase through walls, vexes are not undead mobs.
• According to JAPPA, the retexturing and remodeling of vexes was a long time in the making due to being requested too much.
• Vexes are heavily implied to be Allays that have been corrupted by dark magic.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  An evoker summoning vexes.

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  A vex charging at the player.

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  Two angry vexes flying toward their target, as their master watches.

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  Two vexes attack while their master summons fangs.

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  A dying vex.

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  Comparison between the allay and vex.

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  A vex at night.

Cosmetics

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  Vex Wings, unlocked by completing Feeling Ill.

In other media

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  Vexes in promotional artwork for the Exploration Update.

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  Vexes in promotional artwork for the Village and Pillage Update.

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  A vex as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.

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  The Guardian Vex, a unique variation that appears in Minecraft Dungeons.

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  Several vexes as they appear on the cover of Minecraft: Mob Squad.

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  Ditto, on the cover of Minecraft: The Haven Trials.

Textures

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  Programmer Art

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  Texture Update

External Links

• Meet the Vex – Minecraft.net on July 17, 2017

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