Minecraft:Endermite

Template:Dungeons hatnote Template:Infobox entity Endermites are small Minecraft:hostile Minecraft:arthropods that have a 5% chance to spawn when a Minecraft:player throws an Minecraft:ender pearl. They attack by biting, and Minecraft:Endermen are hostile toward them.

Spawning

Endermites have a 5% chance to spawn when a player-thrown ender pearl lands. They spawn at the player's original position when the pearl lands,Template:Only or at the pearl's landing site.Template:Only

An endermite despawns within 2 minutes, regardless of the player's distance, unless it has been named with a Minecraft:name tag. This applies even when it is in a Minecraft:minecart, Minecraft:boat, or Minecraft:boat with chest.

Drops

On death

Endermites drop Template:Xp experience orbs when killed by a player or Minecraft:tamed wolf.

Behavior

Template:See also Endermites attack players within 16 Minecraft:blocks.

Template:IN, endermites become hostile toward any mob that attacks another endermite. Endermites Template:In on the other hand do not become hostile toward any mob that attacks it.

Endermen attack endermites in line of sight within 64 blocks. Endermites attack endermen Template:In.

As Minecraft:arthropods, endermites are affected by the Minecraft:Bane of Arthropods enchantment.

Like endermen, the eye of an endermite is emissive with Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals.

Sounds

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Data values

ID

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Entity data

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

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<section begin="entity data" />

• Template:Nbt Entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit/entity
  • Template:Nbt inherit/mob
  • Template:Nbt: How long the endermite has existed in ticks. Disappears when this reaches around 2400.

<section end="entity data" />

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See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Achievements that apply to all mobs: Template:Collapse

Advancements

Advancements that apply to all mobs: Template:Collapse

History

Trivia

• Endermites are the smallest hostile mob by hitbox size.
• Endermites are said to come from an "in-between" dimension, and are left behind by endermen as they teleport through.<ref>Template:YouTube link</ref>
  • In a 2025 Minecraft:Minecraft.net article, the dimension that endermites come from was referred to as a terrifying and "scary in-betweeny dimension". It is explained that endermites attack players and endermen because they don’t like "being dragged between dimensions".<ref name="mcnet">Template:Mcnet</ref>
    • According to the same article, endermites are "Lil fuzzy wuzzy killers".<ref name="mcnet" />
• Minecraft:Dinnerbone once mentioned an "ultimate plan" for endermites involving the Minecraft:dragon egg, though this never came to fruition.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
  • In response to a question asking if the ultimate plan was an evil plan,<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> Dinnerbone stated that "everything is an evil plan to somebody".<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
    • When the person who asked the initial question stated they liked evil plans,<ref>Template:Tweet</ref> Dinnerbone cryptically stated that he liked "evil plants".<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

Gallery

Screenshots

• A haunting of endermen losing to a horde of endermites
  A haunting of endermen losing to a horde of endermites
• Endermites being killed by endermen
  Endermites being killed by endermen

Textures

• Endermite texture file
  Endermite texture file

In other media

• A figure of the endermite.
  A figure of the endermite.
• An Template:MCD as it appears in Template:MCD
  An Template:MCD as it appears in Template:MCD
• A Template:MCD as it appears in Template:MCD
  A Template:MCD as it appears in Template:MCD
• An Template:MCSM as it appears in Template:MCSM, which uses the pre-Minecraft:14w17a appearance.
  An Template:MCSM as it appears in Template:MCSM, which uses the pre-Minecraft:14w17a appearance.

See also

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